Winter is not here yet, but it has definitely RSVP'd this past week. Summer had finally shown up after slumming somewhere down south but only hung out for a couple of weeks before autumn served it its eviction notice. I know that in a few months we'll be longing for temperatures in the 50s, but right now it feels cold as hell out there.
Fortunately, it was hot inside the Chicago Theater last night, once everyone thronging the sidewalks stopped taking pictures of the marquee and squeezed themselves through the doors. As part of their Rent Party '09 tour, Steely Dan is playing complete albums in a few cities. Chicago is fortunate enough to have gotten Aja last night, and gets Gaucho tonight and The Royal Scam on Thursday. I wish I could go every night, but █████ and I could choose only one, so we agreed on Aja.
It was a fantastic show, with an incredible cross-section of great songs. I won't be posting a full review, but I do want to note a couple of things. First, this was the first show we've been to in a long time, with the possible exception of AC/DC, where the majority of the crowd appeared to be older than we. (Definitely not the case at, say, The Dead Weather a few weeks back.) Second, having listened to it countless times over the past 32 years, I can't quite put my finger on why "Deacon Blues" made me all teary last night. Maybe I, I want a name when I lose.
Setlist (Aja tracks in bold):
- Black Cow
- Aja
- Deacon Blues
- Peg
- Home at Last
- I Got the News
- Josie
- Black Friday
- Time Out of Mind
- Daddy Don't Live in That NYC No More
- Bodhisattva
- Babylon Sisters
- Showbiz Kids
- Hey Nineteen
- Dirty Work
- Do It Again
- Don't Take Me Alive
- My Old School
- Kid Charlemagne
