Steve Miller Band

Saw he was coming to ATL in a few weeks and was surprised that it was sold out besides a few single seats.   For me it's Sha ba da du ma ma ma and then all the rest.   

I have an old boot - maybe 75 or so and it rips. He tears it up.  

Dat shit is some Bozzzz Scagggs!

I was listening to "Tokin's" the other day.   
 

I never saw early SMB and always thought they were meh. However I was at the Norton Buffalo memorial show at Oakland Fox. SMB played their regular set then they were the backing band for Bonnie Raitt, Doobies, George Thorogood and others. I thought they were fantastic. Then that part of the show was over and SMB went back to Abracadabra. But a decent view of what they could play. 

Number 5 was probably his last good album.  Saw him twice in 70 & 73 - both shows smoked.  Sailor is an excellent record....as is Brave New World. Tim Davis was a killer drummer...Your Saving Grace.

Another talented musician that shucked it all away for pop bucks. His first albums were very good.

I agree, Mark. 1969 living in the Arcata Hotel the guy living right above us played the same Steve Miller Band album over and over. Got tired of hearing it, but not of the band.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lLB261z-7PQ&pp=ygUcdGhlIG1vdGhlciBzb25nIHN...

From Wikipedia:

In March 1968, while in England, the band recorded their debut album, Children of the Future, at Olympic studios with Glyn Johns as engineer/producer. The album did not score among the Top 100 album chart. The visit itself got off to a poor start also as the group and their entourage were arrested for 'importing drugs and possession of a dangerous firearm'. Kornspan's wife had called Johns asking if he would appear as a character witness in the magistrate's court the day after the arrest and, hopefully, stand bail for them. Johns agreed and the group was released on condition that Johns would 'stand surety for their good behavior' for the rest of their time in England. Both accusations were dropped. The 'dangerous firearm' turned out to be a non-working flare gun that was being used as a wall decoration in the house where the group was staying. The 'imported drugs' happened to be some hash that was buried in the middle of a large fruitcake that had been sent to the group by a stateside friend, totally unbeknownst to anyone in the group.[7]

The second album Sailor appeared in October 1968 and climbed the Billboard chart to No. 24. Successes included the single "Living in the USA". Brave New World (No. 22, 1969) featured the songs "Space Cowboy" and "My Dark Hour". Paul McCartney, credited as "Paul Ramon", played drums, bass and sang backing vocals on "My Dark Hour". This was followed by Your Saving Grace (No. 38, 1969) and Number 5 (No. 23, 1970). In 1971, Miller broke his neck in a car accident. Capitol Records released the album Rock Love, featuring unreleased live performances and studio material. This is one of two Steve Miller Band albums not to be reissued on CD, the other being Recall the Beginning...A Journey from Eden (both were finally released by Capitol Records in 2022 however). In 1972, the double album compilation Anthology was released, containing 16 songs from five of the band's first seven albums.

The style and personnel of the band changed radically with The Joker (No. 1, 1973), concentrating on straightforward rock and leaving the psychedelic blues side of the band behind. The title track, "The Joker", became a No. 1 single and was certified platinum, reaching over one million sales. It was awarded a gold disc by the RIAA on January 11, 1974.[8]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOypE0DHeJc

His hits are the top 500 songs I never want to hear again.

His recording studio in SW Oregon is right next to the cabin on our mining claim(s), they still have events there.  

Steve Meh-ler

Heard the SMB from the lot of Soldier Field when they opened for the GD in 92. Miller sat in on Iko, and then was joined by James Cotten for Schoolgirl, Watchtower, Lovelight and Gloria.

https://archive.org/details/gd1992-06-25.dsbd.miller.32496.sbeok.flac16

When Bill Graham first started booking Chicago blues acts (buddy guy, muddy waters, James cotton) in San Francisco, it was Steve Miller who originally talked him into it

Les Paul was his godfather

>>>>His hits are the top 500 songs I never want to hear again.

You cray. Joker is the only overplayed one. 

Not in this market.  Seems like it would be 4th/5th.  Or maybe Abracadabra just makes it feel that way.  Often.

Abracadabra rips. We just got a cat named Abby to sing it to. 

i've heard those polished turds for at least a decade longer slack. that's hearing them, 10 billion more times.

spent a night in a Brussels jail on acid with Abracadabra on a loop in my head

Reuters April 10, 2008

Rocker Steve Miller hated the Grateful Dead

By Dean Goodman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rocker Steve Miller may have honed his craft in San Francisco during the late 1960s, but don't lump him in with local bands from that time, especially the Grateful Dead.

"I couldn't stand that band," Miller said on Thursday, during a panel at a music industry symposium, recalling the Dead's interminable jams and lengthy tuning breaks between songs.

In fact, Miller said it was much more interesting to listen to frontman Jerry Garcia's stage banter than to listen to the band play its psychedelic improvisations.

The San Francisco music scene was more of a "social phenomenon," Miller said, and his eponymous band was more musical and more professional than the pack.

Miller was speaking at the "I Create Music" expo hosted by performing-rights group ASCAP. The night before, he received a lifetime achievement honor from ASCAP, and performed a half-dozen tunes, including such hits as "The Joker," "Rock 'n Me," and "Take the Money and Run."

During the panel discussion, he stressed the importance of having complete artistic control, noting that he held out for such rights when 14 labels competed to sign him after his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967. He eventually went with Capitol, which still represents him.

He recalled that he allowed the United States Postal Service to license his tune "Fly Like an Eagle" in the 1990s under an $11 million deal that gave him final approval of every aspect. But the first few television ads aired before he received the submissions in the mail, and were "awful."

Increasingly frustrated, he called the USPS and its ad agency, and told them, "You have to stop sending this stuff by Priority Mail ... Use FedEx."

"It was really bizarre working with them," he said.

>>>The San Francisco music scene was more of a "social phenomenon," Miller said, and his eponymous band was more musical and more professional than the pack.

I think that was a pretty common feeling in the music industry. I remember an interview with Brent talking about recording sessions when he was in the band Silver before joining the Midnights. He said the producer would yell at them whenever they messed up and would say "Do you want to sound like CSN or do  you want to sound like the Dead." 

See him next year on a stadium tour??    

Def Leppard and Journey have announced they’re co-headlining a stadium tour in summer 2024.  Also joining the shows on select dates will be Cheap Trick, Heart and Steve Miller Band.  The tour kicks off July 6 in St. Louis and will run through September 8, stopping in 23 cities until ending in Denver.

In a joint statement, the band members from Journey said, “No matter which city you come to this will be an amazing night of music.”  Cheap Trick is scheduled to perform on the opening and closing dates. Steve Miller Band will play multiple shows, and Heart will join for three shows.

Miller is doing 16 shows, hitting a lot same baseball venues as Dead Co's summer swings.

He's gonna need his shades.  4PM time slot 'n all.

The Steve Miller Bland