Steely Dan Announce Tour With the Doobie Brothers
Steely Dan have announced a tour with the Doobie Brothers. The dates kick off in May in North Carolina and currently extend through July. Find Steely Dan’s itinerary at their official site. The band’s new tour dates arrive following the death of guitarist and founding member Walter Becker in September 2017. In a recent interview with Rolling Stone, Donald Fagen discussed the possibility of using the Steely Dan name after Becker’s death. “I would actually prefer to call it Donald Fagen and the Steely Dan Band or something like that,” he said. “To me, Steely Dan was just me and Walter, really—it was like a concept we had together.”
After Becker’s death, Fagen filed a lawsuit against Becker’s estate over the band name. The lawsuit referenced an agreement that allegedly stated that whenever a member of the group quits or dies, the rest of the band would purchase that member’s shares in the group. Becker’s estate responded, “We believe the agreement to which Mr. Fagen refers in his suit—drafted 45 years ago—was not in effect at the time of Walter’s death.”
This story originally appeared on Pitchfork.
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