Steve Miller - C/D?

Was afraid people would consider him a "No-showing up motherfucker" in addition to a "No-playing" one, iirc.

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?")

it's funny, i remember reading that the steve miller band almost signed with Impulse originally.

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

lol

part of black keys beef too was like "he didn't even know who we are" lol

the black keys are dopes. nwa should have smoked their asses with their gats and nines and all that.

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?"

i can only imagine how much money Capitol made off of steve miller. maybe not a billion dollars but a whole lot.

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.

Steve Miller has unexpectedly become my new personal hero

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CfkPC6kXIAAuR3W.jpg

i hope the black keys get jumped by some steve miller band fans

cranky old man waves fist at industry

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)

dying

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."

The music industry has definitely fucked some artists over, but Steve Miller is not one of them.

I think Steve Miller Band's Greatest Hits is still the best selling compilation album of all time in the US (if it no longer is, it was for quite a while). He's good.

He's good (moneywise).

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

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.

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.

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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.

Oh yeah, they ended up talking about a lot of that on WTF today.

The production really is outstanding on all his stuff.

Still think this song secretly invented the Stone Roses

― Elvis Telecom,

well.

i think this brilliant 10+ minute edit by soundhog totally underlines this theory

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsSo0BMLLpI