Last year, Kansas City welcomed one half of Steely Dan, when Donald Fagen stopped in with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald as part of the Monsters of Yacht Tour, as it was called (by me). Thursday, we get the real deal: Fagen, his partner in crime Walter Becker, and probably about eight of the most technically accomplished touring musicians on the planet, burning through hit after immaculately produced hit on a late-summer Starlight stage. Sometimes when I'm in a bad mood, I think about how I’m going to this show, and then I feel better.
— David Hudnall