Goodbye "Steely"
Dan Rinehart
Champaign-Urbana,
IL. Dec. 23, 1999.
Those of you at the 1996 Chicago area shows will remember "Steely"
Dan Rinehart. He and his wife, Suzanne, had the huge white Montero sport
ute that we had a Danvention out of at Alpine on Aug. 3, 1996. Donald
and Walter were kind enough to meet with us, including Dan and Suzanne,
at the "Midwestern" World Theatre on Aug. 2, 1996.
Suzanne
emailed that Dan passed away overnight at a St. Louis hospital of leukemia.
Suzanne plans to bury him wearing the SD T-shirt D + W autographed for
him back stage at the World Theatre in 1996.
Maggi
tells me that she has already been enjoying the bejeezus out of Two
Against Nature up there--I'm sure Dan is experiencing the same ecstasy.
You can
email your thoughts, memories and condolences to Dan's Wife Suzanne
at srinehar@uiuc.edu I am certain
that she would appreciate them.
Dan will
definitely be missed, especially during this upcoming 2000 tour season.
The
following is from the Official Steely
Dan Web Site, Aug. 1996, courtesy of Steely Dan:
s
Hoops
and the troops, backstage at the midwestern "World," Aug.
2, 1996.
L to R: D.F.. Maggi McCoy, Suzanne Rinehart, W.B., Dan Rinehart, Jim
"hoops" McKay, Kurt Kessler.
The
following are recollections of the Chicago-Area Shows which appeared
in the Dandom Digest in 1996:
The
Rineharts' Recollections of the Shows
Hoops'
Recollections of the Shows
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