$182.10 for 22nd row. Are you kidding me? What sort of price is that.?$182.10 for a seat so far back it might as well be, well, very far back. Now if it was front row I might well go for it, but 22nd? So I refreshed and went with the cheapest seat I could find and it still set me back a humongous $75 for nosebleeds to hear Aja.
Er, did I mention this is Steely Dan. Last time I saw em in August 2009, I wrote this about their Royal Scam concert here: “Like Madonna they (and by they I mean Steely Dan and by Steely dan I mean Walter and the Don) have no heart and in its place have intense pride in their technique and all EMOTIONS, all the stuff we think we’re coming to music for, is not what is here.”
So on Monday September 30th, I am gonna hear their jazziest album, Aja, nothing if not a hard sell for the hipsters but an album that should be fairly breathtaking live (I wonder if we will get Larry Carlton this time). And then, on October 8th (my birthday!) I am going back again for a Greatest Hits set, which will be not quite as awesome is my bet. I wouldn’t have minded a Pretzel Logic or, “Dr. Wu” (which I bet they play on my birthday) as the centerpiece of Katy Lied.
My math goes like this: I get to see em twice for less than what it might cost me to see em once so… you know what? Why not.
Should you go? Absolutely and to the Aja night as well -the album was released in 1977 by the way. Just mentioning in passing…Me? I’m using the Greatest Hits night as an excuse to listen to A Deade Of over and over…