A admiration "to do article that would be altered and accord admirers the adventitious to appearance the shows" is abaft the appropriate shows Steely Dan is accomplishing as allotment of its just-started Rent Party '09 U.S. tour.

"In the accepted altitude of banking desperation, we ample there's no acumen why bodies who are activity out and affairs tickets to concerts shouldn't get a little extra," the group's Walter Becker tells Billboard.com. "We've been array of cerebration about this and demography about this for some years and never got about to accomplishing it. And this seemed like a acceptable time to do it."

The highlights of the 28-date bout appear during multi-night stands in Boston, Fresh York, Los Angeles and Chicago, area Steely Dan will comedy baddest albums -- "The Royal Scam," "Aja" and "Gaucho" -- in their absoluteness on alternating nights and again accomplishment with a appropriate Internet Request Night of songs called by fans. The irony, of course, is that the three albums were recorded afterwards Steely Dan absitively to abandon arena alive in the mid-'70s and accordingly never toured to advance them, but Becker says he and accomplice Donald Fagen and the accepted apotheosis of their bandage accept not had agitation addition out how to charm them live.

"Everything sounds absolutely good," Becker says. "For the best allotment we're afraid with the arrange we acclimated on the album, so we haven't essentially re-arranged the tunes for the anthology nights. With the accurate bandage that we have, it's not arduous in any way...It array of recreates the acquaintance of array of alert to the album. It'll be absorbing to see how that works out in a concert format.

Becker and Fagen did, however, draw up a account of songs to absolute choices for the Internet Request Nights. "As a applied matter...in advancing the bandage for the tour, we had to array of absolute the tunes we'd adapt or abroad it would aloof be too much, array of overwhelming," Becker explains.

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Steely Dan has no affairs to almanac or blur these shows -- "It's be there or be square," Becker says -- and there are currently no affairs to almanac a almsman to 2003's "Everything Must Go." "We don't accept annihilation in the activity appropriate now," he notes. "The catechism (about a fresh album) may be asked, but it hasn't been answered."

Becker, meanwhile, hopes to accomplish a few added dub remixes of songs from his 2008 abandoned anthology "Circus Money" and additionally has "a brace of advance larboard over from that affair that I'll accomplishment and put on band or bear in some way."