PERFORMANCE/TOUR: Steely Dan at the Gibson Amphitheatre

A few minutes before Steely Dan took the stage to play the entirety of its 1977 album Aja, a man wandered the Gibson Amphitheatre dressed as Jesus wavy, honey-colored hair, a shapeless sackcloth and a benevolent gaze for every sinner who cheered him on. It was a fitting image for a band that has been both worshiped as melody masters and reviled as purveyors of buttery jazz-rock. The split reputation still dogs the band to this day, among the revivalist hipsters who bitterly argue Steely Dans ...

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