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Face It: Your Hero Is a Grumpy Old Man
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Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen writes a portrait of the artist as a grumpy old man.
By Seth Stevenson
Illustration by Peter Bagge
Late last summer, I noticed that Donald Fagen—one half of the 1970s fusion-rock duo Steely Dan—was playing at the Beacon Theater in New York.
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I bought a pair of tickets and invited my friend Pete. Pete had first turned me on to the delights of the Dan—the complex harmonies, the precise musicianship, the world-weary lyrics—our freshman year of high school.
Somehow, the group’s portraits of slit-eyed urban drifters struck a chord with a pair of apple-cheeked AP students. I’m pretty sure Pete and I listened to the Dan together, with great ceremony, the first time we both smoked weed.
Fagen was on tour as part of the Dukes of September Rhythm Revue—an occasi