SANTA BARBARA BOWL
July 3, 2012 – Dukes of September Rhythm Revue
“It’s my opinion that the best pre-punk thing that ever happened to 1970s pop was Steely Dan. During that low-backlash age when lite jazz, soft rock, and eventually disco kept supplanting the psychedelic spirit, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker somehow managed to use every strand of bad radio rock swirling around them, turning it all into intelligent riff-rich pleasures. “
