Frontman Cavan had reached his mid-thirties having never performed in public. An inadvertent volunteer part in his children’s primary school play (as the Sheriff of Nottingham if you need to know) changed all that : ” in a nutshell I discovered then that there is joy to be had grabbing people’s attention with wild gesticulation, flamboyant posturing, and bombastic over-acting…..oh, and frightening small children”
In performance he can be be chaotic, confounding even, but always charismatic. A perfect complement to the polished, precise, produced music for which Steely Dan are renowned: ”Stanley Dee sing and play with such confidence and relish for the material, it’s easy for me to get swept up into the heart of each song where we all get to live for a few minutes….it’s a real pleasure”
”Please take me along when you slide on down……”