A Night With the Grooviest half-Jewish Band in History: Steely Dan rocks Connecticut
There are times when a journalist has to use his “editor at large” status at the universe’s leading Jewish publication to reel in some free rock-concert tickets. If an editor at large doesn’t score himself some free tix now and again, he begins to wonder just how large he is. And nobody respects an editor at small—not the editor’s wife, not his daughters, not his dogs, least of all himself.
So when your editor at large saw that the grooviest half-Jewish band in history was playing a one-night stand at the Toyota Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford. Connecticut—the class lost to it by “Toyota” is more than recouped by the Anglo-spelling on “Theatre”—he had to throw his yarmulke in the ring for a pair of tickets. And since half-Jewish is, in America today, the new Jewish, Steely Dan is the new Simon and Garfunkel. Plus, Tablet has written about Donald Fagen before (it seems his partner, Walter Becker, is non-chosen; dissenting readers can weigh in). One might say that no Jewish publication has covered Steely Dan so assiduously. The band obviously knows as much, since their manager came through with two tickets. Not the cheap seats, either.