Steely Dan - PRETZELS LIVE CD

1974 BROADCAST RECORDING FROM LONDON’S RAINBOW THEATRE
Steely Dan’s third studio album Pretzel Logic, was released in February 1974. A diverse set, it included the group's most successful single, ‘Rikki Don't Lose That Number’ and a note-for-note rendition of Duke Ellington’s ‘East St. Louis Toodle-Oo’. Pretzel Logic was the first Steely Dan album to feature Walter Becker on guitar. "Once I met [session musician] Chuck Rainey", he explained, "I felt there really was no need for me to be bringing my bass guitar to the studio anymore". A rift began growing between Becker/Fagen and Steely Dan's other members who wanted to tour. Becker and Fagen disliked constant touring and wanted to concentrate solely on writing and recording. The other members gradually left the band, discouraged by this and by their diminishing roles in the studio. Steely Dan's last tour performance during their initial run, was on July 5, 1974, a concert at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in California. Six weeks before this final concert, the Dan were in the UK, and on 26th May, they performed a quite stunning show at London’s Rainbow Theatre. Playing a good selection from the new record, plus a raft of cuts from previous records, plus the unreleased and curiously titled ‘This All Too Mobile Home.’ Previously unreleased, the show was recorded for live radio broadcast and is now available here for the first time.