The Cranky Wisdom of Donald Fagen

It's a Friday evening during a slow week on LOB, so I thought I'd share some excerpts from a brilliant Rolling Stone interview with the typically acerbic Steely Dan front-man Donald Fagen, one of my many musical heroes. Here are some of the best bits:

On Baby Boomer Fans: "People my age aren't that interested in music, period. They're much more interested in sports or the fact that their knee hurts."

On Steely Dan shows: "We're playing county fairs now. It's hard to tell these geriatric people apart from farm animals sometimes."

On Bob Dylan: "I've been to Dylan shows where I just walked out in the middle. He has about a dozen minor-key drone tunes with three chords. I find it very tedious. He actually has songs that are more boring than some early Appalachian songs. It's amazing. He has songs with 512 verses and almost no melody. I think a psychiatrist would be more useful than a throat doctor at this point.

Enjoy the full piece in the current ish of Rolling Stone.