― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:06 (twenty years ago) link
As it turned out, I was expecting it to be the song "Space Cowboy" by the Jonzon Crew that I heard on the R&B station earlier that week.
(am i dating myself or what?)
― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:08 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:10 (twenty years ago) link
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:12 (twenty years ago) link
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:15 (twenty years ago) link
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Mark M, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:29 (twenty years ago) link
But he did Savoy Brown better. This year's been awatershed for stealth Savoy Brown references.
― George Smith, Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:35 (twenty years ago) link
Not only is there that new Atlanta Pop thing, but there is also that Stonybrook 2cd from a couple months back on their own mail-order label, which has an 11 minute "Blue Sky"! drool. I still need to get them both, but they're on the list. It's a motherlode of archival Allmans!
― Broheems (diamond), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 04:53 (twenty years ago) link
― persecution smith (laticsmon), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 10:52 (twenty years ago) link
And Living in the USA - I still think is a great song.
― dave225 (Dave225), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 13:00 (twenty years ago) link
― Colin Meeder (Mert), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 13:17 (twenty years ago) link
― Chris Hungus (Chris V), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 13:20 (twenty years ago) link
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 14:00 (twenty years ago) link
Too bad it's not really Steve Miller.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 18:23 (twenty years ago) link
CLassic beyond belief ... doesn't get more classic
silly stoner who "got it" w/r/t/ blues music. good for him. most did not. His first eight albums are right there for the pot smokers. Then everybody else got on board.......
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 21 March 2010 09:19 (fourteen years ago) link
love him so much
'Rock Love' is the all time LP
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 9 May 2011 04:50 (twelve years ago) link
ok, the 'sailor' album is rather ace.
a perfect example of late 60s west coast psych excess.
love it.
i take it that this release was a one off for steve miller, or, should i dig in further for more ...
― mark e, Thursday, 19 September 2013 22:39 (ten years ago) link
i'd check out 'children of the future' and 'brave new world' as well.
― brimstead, Thursday, 19 September 2013 22:49 (ten years ago) link
I'll have to give the catalog another close listen, but I would assume some dance aficionados partake of Steve Miller.
― Sweetfrosti (I M Losted), Friday, 20 September 2013 14:53 (ten years ago) link
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/steve-miller-this-whole-industry-is-f--kin-gangsters-and-crooks-20160411
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 17:37 (eight years ago) link
Do you think about recording any new albums?No. I don't think about it at all. There is no record business. I record a lot of things. There is no record business. There's no reason for me to spend any money producing stuff that a record company... All the people that were sitting in the front row tonight, like the guy that came from my record company, I wanted to pull him by his necktie and kick him in the nuts.Really?Yeah. He's made a billion dollars off my work over the last 50 years and the motherfucker just came over and introduced himself tonight. That cheery little thing. You know he won't do any contract work, he won't clean anything up, he won't get anything done.This whole industry fucking sucks and this little get-together you guys have here is like a private boys' club and it's a bunch of jackasses and jerks and fucking gangsters and crooks who've fucking stolen everything from a fucking artist. Telling the artist to come out here and tap dance.I came out here for my fans. I came out for the people who take it seriously. And if the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wants to be taken seriously, they need to put their books out in the public. They need to fucking become transparent. They need to stop lying. They need to stop all the bullshit and they need to clean it up and they need to expand it. They need to include a lot more people. And the most important thing is the fucking board of this organization really needs to enlarge their gene pool. I think you understand.
Really?Yeah. He's made a billion dollars off my work over the last 50 years and the motherfucker just came over and introduced himself tonight. That cheery little thing. You know he won't do any contract work, he won't clean anything up, he won't get anything done.
This whole industry fucking sucks and this little get-together you guys have here is like a private boys' club and it's a bunch of jackasses and jerks and fucking gangsters and crooks who've fucking stolen everything from a fucking artist. Telling the artist to come out here and tap dance.
I came out here for my fans. I came out for the people who take it seriously. And if the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame wants to be taken seriously, they need to put their books out in the public. They need to fucking become transparent. They need to stop lying. They need to stop all the bullshit and they need to clean it up and they need to expand it. They need to include a lot more people. And the most important thing is the fucking board of this organization really needs to enlarge their gene pool. I think you understand.
― F♯ A♯ (∞), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 17:40 (eight years ago) link
Expect something similar when Ian MacKaye gets inducted.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 17:50 (eight years ago) link
Right on, Steve Miller!
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 18:20 (eight years ago) link
eh fuck this guy
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 12 April 2016 18:22 (eight years ago) link
You don't agree with what he said?
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 18:39 (eight years ago) link
damn, no new steve miller albums ...
― tylerw, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link
i did actually love this write-up of "macho city" from a few months back: http://daily.redbullmusicacademy.com/2015/09/steve-miller-band-macho-city-key-tracks
― tylerw, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 19:08 (eight years ago) link
tbh I've kinda grown into appreciating his omnipresent hits recently
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 19:32 (eight years ago) link
Made Black Keys uncomfortable
RS: Was there anything he said to us or backstage that rang true?Listen, I just want people to know that he's allowed to say whatever he wants, of course. But he does not speak for me. He does not speak for Pat. And some of the things he said is just [pauses, sighs] I don't know. I really don't know. It's weird. He called the whole thing "a boys' club." The Steve Miller band has had 35 members and no women. It was just very disappointing. And I'm not looking for anything, really. I just wanted people to just know how Pat and I felt. That's all
"35 Members and no women" is like 99% of the groups that are inducted, dude.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:10 (eight years ago) link
... and with that, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame closed its doors ... forever.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:17 (eight years ago) link
They should have arrived to the ceremony late so Steve would have to go on first, and then when the Black Keys got there, they could've smoked the motherfucking place and have everybody dig it, including Bill Graham.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:23 (eight years ago) link
long story short, the black keys believe in the positive power of music and the idea of a rock canon that should be officially canonized, and they're real shook after a dude stood up, looked around, and was all "ugh fuck this noise"
― μpright mammal (mh), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:26 (eight years ago) link
The Black Keys are the new Mike Myers
― Blowout Coombes (President Keyes), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:30 (eight years ago) link
not really sure why steve miller bothered to show up though
― akm, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:34 (eight years ago) link
Was afraid people would consider him a "No-showing up motherfucker" in addition to a "No-playing" one, iirc.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:52 (eight years ago) link
haha
Seriously, has anyone asked him about the Miles autobio? It seems odd that no interviewer has tried to get his perspective on that. (but I dunno how you'd bring it up..."Steve, none other than Miles Davis called you a 'non-playing motherfucker'...your thoughts?")
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:55 (eight years ago) link
it's funny, i remember reading that the steve miller band almost signed with Impulse originally.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 19:56 (eight years ago) link
black keys perpetually having low-stakes beef w/ other musicians i give even less of a shit about than i give about the black keys
― dc, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:04 (eight years ago) link
lol
― marcos, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:09 (eight years ago) link
part of black keys beef too was like "he didn't even know who we are" lol
― marcos, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:10 (eight years ago) link
the black keys are dopes. nwa should have smoked their asses with their gats and nines and all that.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:13 (eight years ago) link
black keys are gonna get into the RNRHOF i bet. in on the Foos clause, "well they're certainly a rock band and they sell some records and we don't have many of those left do we?"
― nomar, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:14 (eight years ago) link
i can only imagine how much money Capitol made off of steve miller. maybe not a billion dollars but a whole lot.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:17 (eight years ago) link
I was in a private karaoke room a few Friday nights ago (happy birthday, jaymc) and wondered how much someone like Steve Miller or Capitol gets in karaoke royalties any given year.
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 20:31 (eight years ago) link
Steve Miller has unexpectedly become my new personal hero
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 22:06 (eight years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfkPC6kXIAAuR3W.jpg
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 13 April 2016 22:35 (eight years ago) link
i hope the black keys get jumped by some steve miller band fans
― lute bro (brimstead), Thursday, 14 April 2016 00:49 (eight years ago) link
cranky old man waves fist at industry
― μpright mammal (mh), Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:11 (eight years ago) link
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat)
dying
― balls, Thursday, 14 April 2016 02:35 (eight years ago) link
Ah, Gary Mallaber! Session-rific.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 14 April 2016 18:28 (eight years ago) link
eh, fuck Gary Mallaber he can pony up $10,000 to see the show like the rest of us
― sheesh, Thursday, 14 April 2016 19:59 (eight years ago) link
"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
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 April 2016 21:47 (eight years ago) link
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.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 14 April 2016 21:49 (eight years ago) link
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
― rockpalast '82 (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 14 April 2016 21:56 (eight years ago) link
"I'm going to wrap you up" = tot fuckin great
― we can be heroes just for about 3.6 seconds (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 April 2016 20:38 (eight years ago) link
the industry was (and is) crooked as hell,
remember when the internet was gonna fix this? good times.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 April 2016 20:53 (eight years ago) link
lol no i don't. did anyone ever make that claim?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 15 April 2016 21:20 (eight years ago) link
Prince did, iirc.
― Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 April 2016 21:24 (eight years ago) link
abracadabra is a truly creepy song
― Week of Wonders (Ross), Saturday, 22 July 2017 00:18 (six years ago) link
Midnight tokers ugh: https://wp.me/pzXeC-7Hg
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 May 2018 05:50 (five years ago) link
lol christ the black keys are such enormous fucking dorks.
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:00 (five years ago) link
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
― I am Larry Bird I always make the trey (rip van wanko), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:22 (five years ago) link
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
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:23 (five years ago) link
STEVE MILLER: The Black Keys have two members, and they're both women!
DON: Well, yeah.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
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.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 May 2018 16:58 (five years ago) link
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
― I am Larry Bird I always make the trey (rip van wanko), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
Steve Miller and I were kicked out of the same high school! #funfact
― I am Larry Bird I always make the trey (rip van wanko), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:14 (five years ago) link
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".
― pplains, Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:19 (five years ago) link
'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.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
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."
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:53 (five years ago) link
a song that rhymes taxes with Texas
but the two go together!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:58 (five years ago) link
*clap clap clap clap clap clap*
― pplains, Saturday, 5 May 2018 19:05 (five years ago) link
What's your opinion of this zygote?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu7FBcyyUqw
― pplains, Saturday, 5 May 2018 19:06 (five years ago) link
Still think this song secretly invented the Stone Roseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELcTJZLxhFU
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 May 2018 19:50 (five years ago) link
dude likes to shout out his previously recorded tunes
― constitutional crises they fly at u face (will), Saturday, 5 May 2018 20:56 (five years ago) link
/when you unthinkingly reflexively bookmark a thread, just out of habit
― DACA Flocka Flame (Hadrian VIII), Sunday, 6 May 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
Don’t know if this has been posted already on another thread: https://www.texasmonthly.com/articles/young-musician-growing-up-with-steve-miller/
― And Nobody POLLS Like Me (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 9 June 2018 01:47 (five years ago) link
The hand claps can’t come fast enough in Take the Money
― calstars, Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:33 (three years ago) link
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.
― pplains, Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:49 (three years ago) link
The handclaps don't happen on specific bars, just when he ever makes a Texas reference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ5Di_7ZpW0
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Sunday, 20 December 2020 05:54 (three years ago) link
Still think this song secretly invented the Stone Roses
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, May 5, 2018 3:50 PM (two years ago) bookmarkflaglink
Nah, it probably invented Smash Mouth tho
― Adoration of the Mogwai (Deflatormouse), Sunday, 20 December 2020 07:43 (three years ago) link
That opening bass line and tone does have that thing Smash Mouth kinda captured in their big hit. Could be a bit of both bands though as Steve Miller band was a SF psych blues/pop band, first gen.
― earlnash, Sunday, 20 December 2020 15:23 (three years ago) link
I know fuck all about Steve Miller beyond what I know from classic rock radio, and that my first exposure to him was the song "Abracadabra," which sucks, but he's Monday's guest on WTF so I'm brushing up on the real early stuff and...it's good?? Okay then.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 May 2021 03:18 (two years ago) link
Yeah! First five albums are all sick!
― brimstead, Monday, 10 May 2021 04:57 (two years ago) link
I'm not the biggest Steve Miller fan, but those first two albums are excellent, the only two I listen to from start-to-finish. Beyond that, Anthology (covering the early stuff except, strangely enough, the debut, possibly because it's tough to break up into individual tracks) and the mega-selling Greatest Hits 1974-1978 are all the Steve Miller I'd ever need and then some.
― birdistheword, Monday, 10 May 2021 13:40 (two years ago) link
Recently came across his Wikipedia page...had no idea about any of this:
Born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Miller received his first exposure to music from his mother, Bertha, whom he described as a remarkable jazz-influenced singer, and his physician father, George, known as "Sonny" who, in addition to his profession as a pathologist, was a jazz enthusiast and an accomplished amateur recording engineer. Guitar virtuoso Les Paul and his musical partner Mary Ford were regular visitors at the Miller house. The Millers were best man and matron of honor at the December 1949 Paul/Ford wedding. Paul became Steve's godfather.[4] Les Paul heard Steve, who was six, on a wire recording made by Dr. Miller, "banging away" on a guitar given to him by his uncle, Dr. K. Dale Atterbury.[5] Paul encouraged Miller to continue with his interest in the guitar... and "perhaps he will be something one day."In 1950, the family relocated to Dallas, Texas. Many distinguished musicians came to the house to record, and Steve absorbed much from "greats" such as T-Bone Walker, Charles Mingus, and Tal Farlow. ...Upon his return to the United States, Miller moved to Chicago where he immersed himself in the city's blues scene. During his time there, he worked with harmonica player Paul Butterfield and jammed with blues greats Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Buddy Guy, all of whom encouraged the young guitarist to pursue music.
In 1950, the family relocated to Dallas, Texas. Many distinguished musicians came to the house to record, and Steve absorbed much from "greats" such as T-Bone Walker, Charles Mingus, and Tal Farlow.
...
Upon his return to the United States, Miller moved to Chicago where he immersed himself in the city's blues scene. During his time there, he worked with harmonica player Paul Butterfield and jammed with blues greats Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Buddy Guy, all of whom encouraged the young guitarist to pursue music.
― Indexed, Monday, 10 May 2021 18:32 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, they ended up talking about a lot of that on WTF today.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 10 May 2021 18:38 (two years ago) link
The production really is outstanding on all his stuff.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 10 May 2021 20:06 (two years ago) link
― Elvis Telecom,
well.
i think this brilliant 10+ minute edit by soundhog totally underlines this theory
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSo0BMLLpI
― mark e, Saturday, 15 May 2021 19:47 (two years ago) link