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Loose Goose Wine Festival 2006 Uncorks Good Times
... The festival grounds were densely populated by 7 Friday night; the evening turned into the "Night of the Expanding Hand" as soon as the Doctor Wu Band took the main stage to perform their tribute to Steely Dan and other classy classic rockers. Sporting a snappy four-piece horn section and lively female backing vocalists, the group won over the festival crowd soon into the first of their three 45-minute sets that evening. Dr. Wu's repertoire included
pretty darn faithful replications of a couple dozen Steely Dan
classics, among them "Bodhisatva," "F.M.,
"Deacon Blues," "Bad Sneakers," "Peg"
and "Josie," with a few Beatles songs thrown in to make
lead singer Tony Egan, a transplanted Liverpudlian, feel at home. "I'm the original singer, and Paul Chernin, the drummer, is a co-founder," Egan said. "Steve Bias, the bass player, and Gil Ayan, the guitar player, have been together five or six years. Mark Harrison on keyboards is also the musical director. He's also an Englishman. The horn section and backing singers rotate somewhat, depending on who's available -- they all sight-read so they all get it right away." Egan admits he wasn't a huge Steely Dan fan when he joined the band."Steely Dan had a few chart hits in England, but when I came to this band I really didn't know any of their music at all, so it was a big learning curve for me," he said. "Singing with this band is great. Anything they do is fabulous. We can pretty much do any kind of music we choose -- Sinatra, standards, Beatles, funk. But we're primarily a Steely Dan tribute band."
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