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Given that Donald Fagen and Walter Becker prided themselves on constructing catchy songs out of near-impossible feats of
The band is a labour of love for us really and to be honest we never thought we’d still be together and playing to great audiences over ten years later. We made a decision from the start that we would try and reproduce as best as we can live with an 8-piece band the original Steely Dan studio recordings.
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Reelin’…
hey’re regarded as Ireland’s finest Steely Dan tribute band,
which is something of an achievement.
musical dexterity.
Just how and why Aja came together to tackle the most challenging of bands we decided to ask founding member Ger Farrelly, who also kindly put together a list of the seven tracks that always send him to Steely Dan heaven…
I had the idea for quite a while that I’d like to put a band together with the right players and like minded musicians who were into playing the music of Steely Dan. I phoned Tommy Moore and we chatted about it and he was really into it as was Tommy’s long time musical partner, Greg Boland and that’s basically how it started. Sadly, Greg passed away over a year ago now, a terrible shock to us all and a great loss to the Irish music scene.

and wants to end the arrangement, but never will; ‘I foresee terrible trouble, but I stay here just the same‘. Steely Dan now do a very different version of it in their live shows and that’s the version we play. Although Steely Dan is all male vocals, Sinead performs this one.