2/27/2023 update: Donald Fagen 2006-03-03 Westbury, NY I was putting the final touches on this one when I heard about us sadly losing Jeff Young. Take some time to sit down and listen to his wonderful playing during one of the early shows from Donald's 2006 solo tour. Phenomenal sound quality here, and even a couple brief video clips (which are low quality, but better than nothing).

Self-promotion has never been my strongest point... 😄

Ted was my favorite of all the keyboard players that toured with SD. He had incredible touch and a beautiful sense of melody. I love that picture as well, @Moderator: D-Mod. I've made it a point to use it whenever I make a slideshow for one of my remastered concert videos featuring Ted's playing.

My goodness, these alternate versions are incredible. So much fun! I actually particularly love the instrumental version, it's a real shame Walter's vocals aren't on that one because the band sounds incredible there.

2/1/23 update: 2014-07-12 Inglewood, CA at the Forum Recording taken from an assisted listening device... I had to fix some serious reception issues, but now it sounds great outside of some static here and there in the last few songs.

1/13/23 update: I wanted to do a show featuring Ted Baker in his memory since he sadly passed away recently. 2000-07-15 Mansfield, MA at the Tweeter Center Taken from an assisted listening device, this recording has some static at times, but it doesn't ruin the whole show or anything.

I do have a recording of that show. It's just an audience recording, but a pretty good one, so I imagine I will be able to make it sound fairly nice. I have only a handful more of shows that are from soundboard or assisted listening device sources to get through first, so I should be able to get around to that show at some point in the near future.

11/29 update: 1974-03-20 Los Angeles, CA at the Record Plant Great performance, and you can really feel the energy now thanks to the improved sound quality!

11/20 update: Donald Fagen 2006-03-28 Oakland, CA at the Paramount Theatre This soundboard recording features a rarely heard performance of Maxine.

10/22 update: 1993-09-02 Houston, TX at the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion This might be the best sounding recording we have from the '93 tour, definitely worth checking out!

I watched the classic Boris Karloff version of The Mummy tonight. I couldn't help but smile when a doctor character said "medical science is helpless in a case like this." Still wild to me that it was only a bonus track and didn't make the album proper. It's so melodic and catchy and the lyrics have some of my favorite lines Walter ever wrote.

9/29 update: 2011-07-22 Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Molson Amphitheatre An excellent soundboard recording, other than the bass guitar being mixed extremely low. I did my best to repair that, so it isn't perfect, but overall the sound is fantastic on this one. Your Gold Teeth is a big highlight for me!

9/21 update: 2000-07-22 Manassas, VA at the Nissan Pavilion This one was hot! As in the recording itself was too hot and there was some distortion and clipping. I did my best to clean that up, and it ended up sounding very nice!

Matt: truly impressive video. Thank you for the explanation behind it as well, it adds some great perspective. D: Spot-on description of it! WRT the discussion about AI vs. art... I've always felt like art is not something concrete and doesn't like to be attached to hard and fast rules. Art can be anything that makes me feel something, regardless of the medium and how it was created. A particularly beautiful sunset is art created by the universe. A picture or painting of that same sunset is also art in its own way delivered through somebody trying to share their feelings about it. An AI-generated image created just from a machine's 0s and 1s doing their thing to interpret somebody's words is still art just the same when I look at it and it does something to my emotions.

Thanks as always. This is a beautiful reminder of just what we lost: a truly unique and brilliantly talented human being who was able to share his gifts with the world for so many years. Lucky for us that never even personally knew him that his music makes our lives just that little bit better every day. And lucky for those that were close to him that his memory will live on for all the best reasons.

8/22 update: 1993-09-01 St. Louis, MO at Riverport Amphitheatre This soundboard recording started off overly bright with almost no bass, and it was in mono. I've managed to bring it some much needed fullness. I was putting the finishing touches on this one the other night when I found out that Warren Bernhardt passed away. Unfortunately this recording is missing only one song from the concert, the performance of his song Tuzz's Shadow, but thankfully we get a chance to hear his wonderful playing throughout the rest of that night.

Nice job, I really like the change in vibe in the tag.

7/12 update: 2006-08-27 Mansfield, MA at the Tweeter Center Another soundboard recording from the Steelyard Sugartooth McDan tour featuring Michael McDonald. I had to clean up a lot of noise from this one, but it still sounds really nice.

I got your email and sent you a link. Enjoy!

6/17 update: Donald Fagen 2006-03-13 Toronto, Ontario, Canada at Massey Hall Pristine sound quality and a neat setlist, this one includes my favorite live version of the DF+WB song Snowbound.