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Friday night's concert was at The Chicago Theatre, an amazing 88-year-old venue in the Loop. Go there.
Here's the setlist, in order of where the tracks appeared on Steely Dan's albums (here is a link to someone else's version of the setlist; I was not smart enough to write it down during the show):
Can't Buy A Thrill: Do It Again, Dirty Work, Reelin' In The Years (encore) Countdown To Ecstasy: Bodhisattva Pretzel Logic: Rikki Don't Lose That Number, Any Major Dude Will Tell You, Parker's Band Katy Lied: Black Friday (open), Doctor Wu The Royal Scam: Kid Charlemagne, Don't Take Me Alive Aja: Black Cow, Aja, Peg, Home At Last, I Got The News, Josie Gaucho: Babylon Sisters, Hey Nineteen
As you can see, it was an Aja-heavy show, and nothing post-1980 (no Two Against Nature or Everything Must Go).
The set was also structured to give Donald Fagen breaks. Standing, walking, and playing the harmonica, he looks fine; at the keyboard, he looks like he's about to have a seizure. He pours a tremendous amount of energy into the show, and it clearly drains him. He also clearly loves performing for the fans, because otherwise he wouldn't put himself through that. (He also noted that this was the last show in Chicago on the current tour, but that they would be back, which means they plan to tour again -- and come to Chicago again.)
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