Members Woody_in_MN Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 So he is mainstream. So what. Always good tone. Good sraight ahead Rock. Also wrote some touching love songs. "Living in the USA" always makes me turn up the volume. His only sin might be over-play on classic rock stations. Thanks Steve. jyV41-tFPcQ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 I dim him. He actually has a solid blues background. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Woody_in_MN Posted June 4, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 I realize I don't have much of him on CD/MP3. Had some vinyl. I think I'll do some amazon ordering today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members scolfax Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 In! Appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members vintage clubber Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Crossroads episode with him and Kenny Chesney was awesome. I haven't picked up his last cd yet. I'm waiting until I can find it used or at a bargain price since it only has like 10 tracks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members xStonr Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Somebody give me a cheeseburger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members smorgdonkey Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 I saw him back in about 1991 or so...great show at an outdoor gig...the line up was: -Sloan-Sass Jordan-Extreme-Steve Miller Band-Brian Adams 60,000 people. It was an excellent time and the only outdoor show that I have been to that was a completely positive experience. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Woody_in_MN Posted June 4, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Somebody give me a cheeseburger Exactly. Personal trivia. The drummer in the early band was from my home town. SM has roots in both Texas and Wisconsin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kulardenu Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 I loved the Born to be Blue tribute album to his Dad & Les Paul... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cbh5150 Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Some great hooks, some heavenly-sounding albums, and one of the worst lyricists ever. Still, overall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members fu2jobu Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 I like some of Millers stuff but Living In The USA doesn't do it for me at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hubert Stumblin Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Steve Miller is with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Karma1 Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 and one of the worst lyricists ever. Are you kidding? He speaks of the pompatus of love! But seriously, I liked some of his earlier stuff the best - like the first album, Sailor, and Children Of The Future. I recently saw a concert of him in Chicago on PBS. They opened with a very extended version of Fly Like An Eagle that I enjoyed. When I used to play in a cover band, we did that song and it always got the crowd grooving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bsman Posted June 4, 2011 Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Some great hooks, some heavenly-sounding albums, and one of the worst lyricists ever. Still, overall Word. To wit: "Really like your peaches wanna shake your tree". Or how about: "Feed the babies Who don't have enough to eat Shoe the children With no shoes on their feet House the people Livin' in the street Oh, oh, there's a solution I want to fly like an eagle..." Some solution, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Woody_in_MN Posted June 4, 2011 Author Members Share Posted June 4, 2011 Are you kidding? He speaks of the pompatus of love! But seriously, I liked some of his earlier stuff the best - like the first album, Sailor, and Children Of The Future. I recently saw a concert of him in Chicago on PBS. They opened with a very extended version of Fly Like An Eagle that I enjoyed. When I used to play in a cover band, we did that song and it always got the crowd grooving. I like his early stuff too. Up through "Your Saving Grace". "Little Girl" is just great kinda Blues/Funk stuff. 7qnNGoZ2LCY BTW - There are bad lyricists out there. I don't count SM as one. Gotta cut him some slack. He was churning out albums pretty quickly for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members curseoftruth Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 I sold my wireless unit to his second guitarist from the early days just about a year ago. Cool dude with some cool stories. I've been a long time fan, he has Dallas roots so we always considered him one of us. First album I ever bought - Books of Dreams (and Aerosmith's Toys in the Attic the same day). Love me some Steve Miller. One of the few artists I'm a huge fan of but have never seen live - he plays the local House of Blues about once a year now, I need to go next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Stackabones Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 My dad's band at Jesuit (or maybe Bryan Adams) played similar gigs as Miller's band (the Marksmen) at St Marks in Dallas back in the day. Those Jesuit and St Marks are Catholic College Prep schools. Everyone played tons of Jimmy Reed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allthumz Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 I saw him back in about 1991 or so...great show at an outdoor gig...the line up was:-Sloan-Sass Jordan-Extreme-Steve Miller Band-Brian Adams60,000 people. It was an excellent time and the only outdoor show that I have been to that was a completely positive experience. I saw him in 1973(?) All-Campus Week-End. NC State. I also remember:J. Geils BandRare Earth There were others I can't remember. He was great. J. Geils was phenomenal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Hubert Stumblin Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 Word. To wit: "Really like your peaches wanna shake your tree". Or how about: "Feed the babies Who don't have enough to eat Shoe the children With no shoes on their feet House the people Livin' in the street Oh, oh, there's a solution I want to fly like an eagle..." Some solution, eh? Er...I don't think he was poetically or in any other sense proposing that as the solution. Just a song, ya know? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bob411 Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 Word. To wit: "Really like your peaches wanna shake your tree". Or how about: "Feed the babies Who don't have enough to eat Shoe the children With no shoes on their feet House the people Livin' in the street Oh, oh, there's a solution I want to fly like an eagle..." Some solution, eh? I think THOSE lyrics, are actually quite profound. I don't think of SM as habitually bad lyrics, but he is famous for: Billy mack is a detective down in texas You know he knows just exactly what the facts is He aint gonna let those two escape justice He makes his livin off of the peoples taxes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aenemated Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 when i think of "incredibly boring rock," i think of steve miller. that said, i was once in a band that did like 3 steve miller covers. god help me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Heartstring Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 [video=youtube;C8hSNbB1X9k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8hSNbB1X9k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Emory Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 I drove down from Eugene to Santa Clara for the 2nd annual Northern Cal folk rock festival in May of 69 to see him (2 of my fave albums were Children of the Future and Sailor). Unfortunately Boz was gone by then and Steve had gone to a trio. What the hell, last time Experience played together for finale.Then in March of 70 saw in Corvallis at Gil Coliseum. So crowed had to sit on stage. Odd to light up a joint with 15,000 people looking your way. Steve was last act, after Youngbloods, Country Joe and the Fish, and Paul Butterfield. He only played 20-30 minutes (I'd lay down on my side on the stage about 8' from him). I don't think he could have played longer, would have had a heart attack. Most intense driven set I've seen. GF got a pick from him after the show.So for me there were the superior early albums, the middle era with some good stuff, but the later era was just too bubble gummish for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members benzem Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 Word. To wit: "Really like your peaches wanna shake your tree". Or how about: "Feed the babies Who don't have enough to eat Shoe the children With no shoes on their feet House the people Livin' in the street Oh, oh, there's a solution I want to fly like an eagle..." Some solution, eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BlueJames Posted June 5, 2011 Members Share Posted June 5, 2011 One of rock's biggest plagarists. Listen to "Alright Now" and then listen to his "Rockin' me Baby", then listen to "Rocky Mountain Way" and his "Nobody Loves you Like the Way I Do", not only did he steal the riff on that one, but also uses a talkbox, to add insult to injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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