Steve Miller Band

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Steve Miller (born 5 October 1943) is a blues and rock and roll guitarist and performer. He was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin but attended high school in Dallas. While at St. Mark’s School of Texas, he formed his first band, The Marksmen. Miller taught one of his classmates, Royce Scaggs, a few guitar chords so that he could join the band; Scaggs became better known by his nickname, Boz. Miller attended the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the 1960s, where he formed The Ardells. Scaggs joined the Ardells the next year. Ben Sidran was added to the Ardells as a keyboardist the following year.

In 1968, Miller formed the Steve Miller Band, with Scaggs handling vocals, and released an album, Children of the Future, the first in a series of discs rooted solidly in the psychedelic blues style that dominated the San Francisco music scene at the time. Scaggs would leave the band after a couple of albums with vocal chores taken over by drummer Tim Davis; Miller himself would begin singing occasional lead on 1969’s Brave New World. These albums performed respectably on the album charts but failed to yield a hit.

In the 1970’s Steve had some hits that became classics over the years - “Jet Airliner”, with some evocative lyrics that brought home the loss of life on the road; and The Joker which includes the famous line about the “pompodous of love”, which is, of course nonsense, but didn’t stop a lot of stoned folks from spending years talking amongst themselves. Fly like an Eagle was pretty cool too… only knock on Steve was his tendency to crib his stuff a bit too closely from the top tier of the day, if ya dig.

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Top Tracks

1	The Joker full track	2,627
2	Fly Like an Eagle full track	1,213
3	Abracadabra full track	1,185
4	Take the Money and Run full track	1,077
5	Jet Airliner full track	825
6	Jungle Love full track	699
7	Serenade full track	660
8	Swingtown full track	588
9	Space Cowboy full track	382
10	The Stake full track	332
11	Rock'n Me full track	310
12	Wild Mountain Honey full track	307
13	Dance, Dance, Dance full track	298
14	Threshold full track	293
15	True Fine Love full track	267

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anubis679 wrote:
last month

its amazing how similar the Steve Miller band and Thin Lizzy sounded.

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etupuoli wrote:
last month

<3

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kevincoyne wrote:
last month

i like Steve Miller.. did not know he was djing in Cleveland. Somewhat related but Mojo Nixon is djing in Cincinnati..

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eli_pwnd wrote:
August 2008

If there is any rockstar that should be complaining about how they got ripped off, it would be Steve Miller. He made awesome music for twenty plus years, touring constantly only to land a job as a disc jockey at a nameless Cleveland radio station. A shame indeed.

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h3adl3ss wrote:
August 2008

A mighty band. Easy listening yet ingenious music.

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bryantee wrote:
August 2008

Don't care too much for their 70's work but I love the liner notes in Number 5. He instructs the listener to pass the copy along to a friend once they've "gotten the message." Would a record label even allow an artist to say something like that today? A true musician's musician.

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ElectricSoul921 wrote:
August 2008

A genius.

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meatbess wrote:
August 2008

STEVE MILLER FOR PRESIDENT

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maxi_d wrote:
August 2008

the joker, ultimate get high track

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peachxringsx17 wrote:
August 2008

SO classic.

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Dieternel wrote:
August 2008

Das Pop has an excellent (live) cover of Abracadabra. Figered out that a few songs I liked all came from this one band.

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andersonjoelho wrote:
August 2008

Fly Like An Eagle...

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gangoso wrote:
July 2008

legend

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Ariues wrote:
July 2008

i've actually heared that Like an Eagle song cuz its a classic. but i didnt know the band. i mighta heared of em on VH1:))

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JoBrodie wrote:
June 2008

Ah... where's "Macho City"? Lovely bit at the end which I probably wouldn't have heard anyway in a 30 second snippet.

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mcassie wrote:
June 2008

ledgenary !!!

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higginst wrote:
June 2008

I have no idea who they are. (I'm 18 but that's no excuse really)

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VolkerLee wrote:
May 2008

Yes, They're Good.

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wildhoneyypie wrote:
May 2008

simply amazing

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ATKtrains wrote:
May 2008

Just picked up a copy of his '1974-1978' greatest hits set. Fantastic songs on there! =)

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