Jon Herington covering ... Steely Dan. With No Static

No Static

Imagine being in a cover band and having the chance to play with one or more member from the band you're covering. We'd expect it to be pretty exciting.

And that's exactly what's happening in early April when Jon Herington, guitarist with Steely Dan since 2000, will sit in with No Static ("New England’s ultimate 10-piece Steely Dan-Lovers band")

The facts:

Regent Theatre (Arlington, MA) - Friday April 2, 8:00pm

"Jon Herington Joins No Static to Play the Music of Steely Dan"

More info here:

http://www.regenttheatre.com/events/no_static.htm

http://www.nostaticband.com/index.htm

http://jonherington.com/

And while we're on the subject of Jon Herington, here's what he wrote on his homepage after the 2009 Steely Dan tour was over:

The band has never sounded better to me, and I had a blast, needless to say.

And:

My new record has been mixed by (engineer/artist) Sham Sundra and is now in the process of being mastered, and work is about to begin on the cover art. My hope is to have it done and up for sale by sometime in January. Because of all my road work, it's been a long time coming, and I'm glad it's almost done.

So the good news is that the album is coming along and should be released before long.

Steely Dan sounds in Scotland!

Here's a chance to hear the music of Steely Dan played by a jazz orchestra in Scotland this year:

The Scottish National Jazz Orchestra will play the music of Steely Dan May 29 at the Perth Festival of the Arts. Just like they did in Glasgow last summer.

They will use the big band arrangements by Fred Sturm originally done for the Hessischer Rundfunk Big Band in Frankfurt, Germany and recorded on the CD Do It Again – hr Big Band Plays Three Decades Of Steely Dan in 2003.
A great album well worth tracking down.

Hear excerpts from the record on Fred's homepage. Just click the Featured works link.

This might be just the excuse we need to go visit Scotland this year! And if we don't make it we hope that some Steely Dan fan eventually will help us out with a review in the comments section. :)

P.S. Gina over at Mizar6 interviewed Fred Sturm a couple of years ago. Read it here.
(Wonder what Donald & Walter thought of the hr Big Band CDs that Carolyn Leonhart brought them?)

Steely Dan tribute album from Naked Lunch

It's been quite some time since we wrote anything about Steely Dan covers or tribute bands. Along comes an email from Carsten (thanks!) alerting us to the fact that Texas tribute band Naked Lunch released a CD full of Steely Dan songs December 5.

The album's titled Dark Companions and has bass player Chuck Rainey guesting on Kid Charlemagne and Roger Nichols involved in the mastering of the record!

Naked Lunch has been around for 10 years, and examples of how it sounds can be heard on the MySpace page and the video below.
http://www.nakedlunch.net/
http://www.myspace.com/nakedlunchtx

Revisiting the Stealy Band

We wrote about the Swedish Stealy Band playing Steely Dan covers a couple of weeks ago.

And now Gina from Mizar 5 has found not only a blog reviewing the band/evening, but also Stealy Band's MySpace page. Check out the bands versions of Peg, Green Earrings, Josie and Kid Charlemagne.
And by the look of things Stealy Band will play live again May 16 in Stockholm at Kungliga Musihögskolans/Royal School of Music's New Sound Made Festival. (Page in Swedish)

And since the subject is Swedish Steely Dan cover bands, a quick plug for the local 2nd Arrangement. No dates for 2008 so far, but we're hoping...

Stealy Band ... with a Steely Dan connection

Did anyone catch the Swedish Steely Dan cover band Stealy Dan at the Stockholm jazz club Fasching yesterday?

According to an article in Friday's issue of Dagens Nyheter, the band was started a year ago by bass player Kristoffer Sundström and guitarist Efraim Olofsson as a project at the school they both attend; Musikhögskolan/Royal College Of Music.
As a tutor they managed to get Georg Wadenius who played with Steely Dan in the 90's as well as on Donald Fagen's 1993 album Kamakiriad.
Stealy Band at Fasching was 13 people strong, so they should've been able to give the songs the full band treatment.

Oh, and Georg Wadenius will play Fasching in just a couple of weeks time; Febryary 8. We doubt that there will be any Steely Dan covers on the setlist.

Update January 30: Thanks to Gina over on Mizar 5 we now have a link to a review of the show as well as one to the groups MySpace page. A BIG thank you to Gina.

The Swedish Arrangement...

Time to get local. And once again push our local Steely Dan tribute band; 2nd Arrangement. The previous - and first - time we mentioned them was two months ago.

A new video from the latest gig is up. It's a six minute sweep containing a quick taste of the following songs: Lunch with Gina, Bad Sneakers, Green Earrings, Peg, Any Major Dude, Do It Again and The Second Arrangement.

They've added trumpet and saxophone and are eight people strong by now.
Looking forward to the next gig! Radio Dupree promise to be there.

Weekend music: Our local Steely Dan tribute band!

Let us introduce the six man strong 2nd Arrangement. A Steely Dan tribute band from our hometown with two gigs played and a third coming up November 1.

Here's a 10 minute clip of songs from the show they did earlier this month. You get just 40 - 60 seconds of each song. We'd like to see a couple of complete songs as they grooved along just fine that evening. We were there and enjoyed the setlist, pleasantly surprised at the inclusion of a less well-known favourite like Lunch With Gina.

http://www.2ndarrangement.com will get you to the bands MySpace-page.