Steve Miller - C/D?

The internet says Steve Miller has $40 million. Whether that is exactly accurate or not, I think he's doing pretty well for someone whose best known song includes the line, "I really love your peaches, want to shake your tree."

he wrote and produced the songs and was the manager, so I've no trouble thinking hes a 1 percenter. In one of those Billboard books of #1 hits some guy is quoted saying he saw Miller receive the biggest royalty check he'd ever seen.

"I really love your peaches, want to shake your tree."

This lyric is lifted from "Lovey Dovey" by The Clovers btw

.. All the time..

I just heard Ella Fitzgerald sing that lyric the other day, it goes back further than the Clovers. Just googled and found discussion under Lyrics rubric here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sitting_on_Top_of_the_World

The peaches part. The "lovey dovey" part I guess Ahmet Ertegun earned his songwriting credit for that.

far be it from me to defend the black keys, but this seems like a simple matter of steve miller just kind of being an ungracious jerk in person

speaking of miles...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6vVOXztFW4

a steve miller mashup...

this is fun.

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

far be it from me to defend the black keys, but this seems like a simple matter of steve miller just kind of being an ungracious jerk in person

I agree.. but the way the black keys whined about it was.. dumb.

otm

Steve Miller Band's Greatest Hits is still the best selling compilation album of all time in the US

ahead of the Eagles? or Legend? no way

the eagles greatest hits vol 1 is the second greatest selling album of all time in the us. stever miller band's greatest hits is not #1.

same diff?

Indeed. First 5 Steve Miller Band albums-produced by Glyn Johns. Most of Eagles Their Greatest Hits-produced by Glyn Johns.

steve miller records much more entertaining to me than eagles records. it's scary to think of how many times i've heard those songs. thousands of times since the 70's.

I've heard, like, four Steve Miller songs in my life. The ones from that Greatest Hits album that got the most radio play, and "Abracadabra," which I used to like when it was on American Top 40.

OK, looking at the track listing for the Greatest Hits album, I've actually heard seven Steve Miller songs including "Abracadabra."

Yeah, me too, which is amazing, given I have never listened to him on purpose. Though "Fly Like an Eagle" is all time. Who is the drummer on that one?

Ah, Gary Mallaber! Session-rific.

eh, fuck Gary Mallaber he can pony up $10,000 to see the show like the rest of us

"Fly Like an Eagle" was really cool I remember discovering that song right when the Deion Sanders song came out

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

i've probably heard as many Black Keys songs as Steve Miller songs and none of the former has ever made an impression on me.

whether or not steve miller is rich or not is beside the point, the industry was (and is) crooked as hell, for every million he made the labels made 10, that's just facts

"I'm going to wrap you up" = tot fuckin great

the industry was (and is) crooked as hell,

remember when the internet was gonna fix this? good times.

lol no i don't. did anyone ever make that claim?

Prince did, iirc.

abracadabra is a truly creepy song

Midnight tokers ugh: https://wp.me/pzXeC-7Hg

lol christ the black keys are such enormous fucking dorks.

I want to say "do you even know what makes a song good?" but it's you. So I guess idgi. This song is a ton of fun even while it grossly offends any reasonable person's sensibilities

challops: somehow i've got a copy of the "Best of 1968–1973" and i think i like it more than the "1974–78" comp

but tbh prob bc of the latter's irritating ubiquity

STEVE MILLER: The Black Keys have two members, and they're both women!

DON: Well, yeah.

I want to say "do you even know what makes a song good?" but it's you. So I guess idgi.

- I am Larry Bird I always make the trey (rip van wanko)

I don't. Does anyone? Miller's other hits are more tolerable.

Well that's subjective and I don't personally agree. Big Ol Jet Airliner or whatever it's called is my kryptonite. Same hokey lyrical sensibility and never gets it's hooks in me

Steve Miller and I were kicked out of the same high school! #funfact

Alfred, I just don't know how you give a pass to "Take the Money and Run" — a song that rhymes taxes with Texas — over the American "Rock On".

'taxes' and 'facts is' as well.

I like how vague a story song "TTMAR" is--he sets the scene, introduces the main characters and their antagonist whom they never encounter, throw in a quickly resolved twist, and it's over.

he sets the scene, introduces the main characters and their antagonist whom they never encounter, throw in a quickly resolved twist, and it's over.

Oh right, "Pine Barrens."

a song that rhymes taxes with Texas

but the two go together!

*clap clap clap clap clap clap*

What's your opinion of this zygote?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu7FBcyyUqw

Still think this song secretly invented the Stone Roses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELcTJZLxhFU

dude likes to shout out his previously recorded tunes

/when you unthinkingly reflexively bookmark a thread, just out of habit

Don’t know if this has been posted already on another thread: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/young-musician-growing-up-with-steve-miller/

The hand claps can’t come fast enough in Take the Money

such a weird song.

The lyrics don't rhyme. The handclaps don't happen on specific bars, just when he ever makes a Texas reference. Just a mess, but worth it just for that opening drum roll.

The handclaps don't happen on specific bars, just when he ever makes a Texas reference.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ5Di_7ZpW0