![]() I have differences in phrasing - I have been doing them for a long time, and by now, they may have diverged from the original performances - but not in any radical way. I don’t know if it’s always successful, but he certainly has a lot of fun messing around with his tunes. I’m really envious in a way of Bob Dylan, who really is very free in the way he tries different things with different songs. But there’s some great ad-libbed solos, and a few other little knickknacks we added. I mean, they are kind of like formal compositions in a certain way. But a lot of times I have trouble coming up with anything better than Walter and I originally imagined. Some people might think it’s kind of conservative performances. Generally speaking, it was hard for me to improve on a lot of the arrangements. Is there anything you feel like you’ve actually improved on from what people remember from the original studio versions? And, yeah, I thought it came out really good. And so I picked the best Steely Dan performances from a couple shows, and most of the “Nightfly” were from one night at the Beacon Theater, but there were a few other better performances I picked for a couple of the other tunes. I loved the way it was recorded: There was a lot of separation, and there wasn’t all this reverb you hear on a lot of live albums. So I asked the front-of-house mixer if he could make a professional recording off the board, and he said, “I gotta run a few pieces of equipment, but I could do that.” And so he recorded the last 16 shows, a couple of which were “Nightfly” album shows. The band we have now has been together like four times longer than the original Steely Dan band, so we really jibe on stage. We’d been out for a couple months, and I thought it should be documented. But is there any personal satisfaction for you in putting these recordings out?įAGEN: Back in the fall of 2019, we were at the end of the tour and had 16 more shows, and the band was sounding so good. Your fans have clamored for more live albums since the only previous one, “Alive in America,” came out in 1995. ![]()
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