Going To The Hollywood Bowl (Updated With Setlist)

I can't say much, right now. More to come later in the post.

We are going to see Steely Dan at the Hollywood Bowl Friday evening and we are preparing our first bowl outing, with COVID-19 in mind.

We packed a picnic basket dinner, but I think we may eat in the car, at the zoo parking lot. We shall see.

It is get-away for the Memorial Day weekend and so traffic may be a mess early. We will have to figure that into our plans.

This will be the first concert we will have attended since 2020 and as a matter of fact, this one has been delayed 2 years in a row.

Being it is outside, we will mask and I will not sing. Hopefully, all will go well. :-)

More later...

It's later and here is the setlist:

Phantom Raiders (Stanley Wilson cover) Intro

Night by night

Hey 19

Black Friday

Aja

Kid Charlemagne

Home At Last

Green Flower Street

Time Out Of Mind

Babylon Sisters

Green Earrings

FM

Dirty Work (Danettes)

Bodhisattva

Keep That Same Old Feeling (Crusaders cover) Band Intros

Peg

My Old School

Reeling In The Years (encore)

A Man Ain’t Supposed To Cry (Joe Williams cover) Outro

Quick thoughts on the concert.

Adam Rogers was a masterful choice for the second guitarist. He was doing an excellent job replacing his friend, Walter Becker. Great technique and he went places with his solos. I wasn't happy to have lost Conner Kennedy, but Adam was a great replacement.

Snarky Puppy, the opening act, were great! I really enjoyed them, but missed lyrics in songs.

Some of the extended openings and mid sections were pretty wild. Adam Rogers was a part of that, I think. Green Flower Street comes to mind.

Donald did well with the songs but seemed a bit lost when he had to speak between songs. Almost like he didn't know how to put into words the things he was feeling about being in a town he had spent a decade creating these songs in. It truly must bring up memories for him. Many of them, not good.

From the setlist I had, they ended up pulling Josie and put in FM. It was a straight up version of the song and was probably added for the LA audience.

The two year hiatus did not do the band any good and it did not do the audience any good. We have changed and they have changed. We won't get that innocence back.

They were happy to give us what they could and it was a solid show.