Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen denies Aimee Mann was dropped from support slot due to gender

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Chris Willman Music WriterDonald Fagen has responded to Aimee Mann on the matter of her being dropped from the opening slot on Steely Dan’s summer tour, saying that it was a decision he made because he “thought it might not be the best matchup in terms of musical style.” He also apologized for making the decision after Mann had already been announced and advertised for the tour, saying he didn’t realize it had gotten that far.The Steely Dan frontman did rebuff Mann’s suggestion — which had been stated with a question mark — that she’d heard suggestions the Dan camp didn’t think a female singer-songwriter was suitable for the tour.“Well, first of all,” Fagen says in a statement provided to Variety, “the idea that I would make any decision based on the gender of a performer is ridiculous. That’s something that would never even occur to me.” Fagen continues, “There was a communication problem on our end.

Aimee Mann has claimed that she’s been dropped as the support act for Steely Dan‘s 2022 US headline tour.As Stereogum reports, Mann shared the news via a hand-drawn comic strip that she posted to her official Instagram page earlier today (March 17).The sketch depicts the singer-songwriter performing onstage. “I was supposed to open for Steely Dan this summer,” she captioned the first scene.

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Chris Willman Music WriterThere comes a day when any major dude will tell you that… you’re off the tour. Aimee Mann revealed Wednesday that she’s been dropped from a Steely Dan tour that she had been announced to join this summer.

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