Anything by Steve Miller is an instant time machine. Flashbacks to where you were, who you were with, and what you were doing. Timeless music. To this day, I firmly believe we were blessed to have grown up in this era of music. Given the play time many of the late 60's and most of the 70's music gets today, and how it connects with everyone, regardless of age is a testament to this.

Steve’s music is so unique…he blends Texas blues with San Francisco hippie rock….very talented and why I think he speaks to so many with his sound.

I had both albums, Fly Like An Eagle and Book of Dreams. Great stuff. I didn't know anyone that didn't like Steve Miller or at least have one of his albums.

Steve Miller is a revolutionary music of rock!! Long live Steve!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Been listening to Steve's music my entire life. Had no idea what he looked like until now, lol.

This album is like a time machine to me. Takes me right back to the beach when I was a kid. And this 8-Track playing from the car stereo.

Steve Miller is one of the very best live performers there is. I saw him 5 times in the 70's starting in 71 and was never disappointed. A great time was had by all!

I can remember DJ's calling him the "hit maker!" "how does he do it?!" "WHATS HIS FORMULA ?" It was simple. Stevie Guitar took control. Gambled on himself and won. Big Time ! Hats off Mr. Miller. Well played sir

My dad has been telling the same story since i was a kid he says when the 80s hit everyone said rocknroll was dead because of all the techno garbage. Then people got sick of terrible 80s songs and this record hit #1 and stayed there for weeks. I know it's a long shot but a small part of me wishes that rock would make a re appearance in the mainstream. I'm completely sick of rap music and fake thugs.

I saw him so many times in San Francisco (Winterland and Filmore) that I've lost count. Most times, it was Friday and Saturday night same venue. Not once was there even a hint that he was just phoning it in. Go see him in concert and you'll have a really good time. A REALLY good time. Whatever the price of the ticket, it's money well spent.

Saw him in “67” before I shipped out to Nam last night…he was AMAZING!

His songs always seem to come on when I need encouragement. RESPECT !

In the mid 70's i was 17 and heard for the first time ''Rock n' me'' in a Club here in Luxembourg and at the time,this was the place to be for good music and not just the Standard-Discosound.I was fascinated by this song and buyed the Album immediately and after this time i stay until today a real SteveMiller Fan.He is a fantastic Songwriter,Guitarplayer and also stay humbe and smart. Congrats to this kind of musician

What a class act. They don't make them sons of gun like they used to. Thanks for all the music and making me the musician I became.

Just saw him on Tuesday night. Never saw him before. Realized two things, He had the best sounding Strat that I have ever heard. He also has a really cool sounding voice live. Can't put my finger on it but he just sounds so great live.

@larryfried7742

7 жыл бұрын

Yep He's really good live. Actually cares about it! You forgot to mention his band. They've been with him for like 2 decades. They stayed in there and stuck it out. No Whiners or losers or divas that leave a group hanging out to dry by fucking up. And the band is really tight too and play songs they've played thousands of times like it's still the greatest song they've ever played. That's the secret!

I love your blue album my favorite songs are off that album, love your music and I support you I would love too meet you someday I love your music!

As a songwriter I've come to admire Steve if for nothing else because he is one of the few geniuses who had the presence of mind to craft pop tunes with authentic musical roots.

Ok, my cat was looking all over the place when "Intro" was playing....pretty darned funny scene!

Welcome to the R&R Hall of Fame Steve-Long Overdue!!!!! 2016

Still crank it up when take the money and run comes on 😁👍

@robertgarland805

2 жыл бұрын

Oooh oooh take the money and run

And I'm STILL speaking of the pompetous of love.

The first Steve Miller song was FLAE when it first came out and I had to buy the album. Then I wound up buying every new one as soon as it came out.

Everyone I know had that album. It was & "is" that great! The use of the synth's was a brilliant move for those intro's. Especially since most of us were doing psychedelics back then.

I seen him in concert 3 times and I will see him again as long as he is on stage he is the best artist out their keep on rocking come play at the Ironstone Amphitheatre Murphy's California again along with Peter Frampton

@kirstenvogel9620

3 жыл бұрын

I'll be there and bring my sister with me.

My mom had 2 copies of Book Of Dreams so I had my own copy in my room when I was 8. Every track is wired in my memory bank. Hard.

Steve Miller has been a huge influence In my life of Rock and Roll.In my opinion He's one of the all time greatest artist In the music Industry.

@stevemillersnumberonefan132

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@alt2584

4 жыл бұрын

Who are you?

@neilphelan145

4 жыл бұрын

Agree! Hands down, one of the absolute best live concert bands there is. 👍

@joejones9944

4 жыл бұрын

The best

"Going to the country" was a direction for my life. Thanks Steve!

I love Steve Miller Band.

I have been a fan of The Steve Miller Band when Sailor,Brave Nrw World came out.A rock n roller,roller..except he's your average guy He's made some right choices. He asked Paul McCartney once how do you write song after song and make it work.He had writers block. Sir Paul gave him some easy going advice and ran with it.I had read this in a interview with him.Keep on Rockin..baby...

Rock 'n Me is my favorite Steve Miller tune. It's cool to see how much it evolved from the early demo.

I love to sing and do some writing but when I do karaoke I always sing Steve Miller band. Everyone can relate and loves it.

My gf said this was her favorite band and I didn't believe her so I put this record on and she sat there and sang every word of every song lol....

This one put it all together...

Steve Miller always seemed kind of eccentric and out there for some reason - just because I grew up as a young man on his music in my parents station wagon and as a musician myself long before we had youtube and we just didn't "see" him like we can now and I think just the era I had him in with zappa and such (it would not have taken me 30 years to get good on guitar either had we had youtube - we were poor and I could never get lessons - I hope young musicians today appreciate what they have at their fingertips) . Anyway, my 2 cents........great little documentary I wish it was much longer though and I really see Miller as such a down to earth guy who appreciates how good music has been to him and he to it. Just cool. Nice guy who treats the host very respectfully. You can tell he still gets excited talking "music" and I find that so cool.

@Streetwalker216

9 жыл бұрын

It might take a few years to take hold but you're going to hear a slew of "super guitarist" pretty soon. if hip-hop wasn't so watered-down subject matter wise these days people would notice that the above average rapper has a borderline athletic skill level when it comes to wordplay. KZread is partly responsible for these kinds of phenomena. Soon enough you'll see many young guitarist who's skill base is rooted in blues, R&B, funk and God knows what LOL just you watch....

@kilgoretrout3966

6 жыл бұрын

sure hope you are right.

This is a great band I grew up with them. They formed in the 60s and I got listening to them in the seventies when I was in junior high school.

@YGardenRose

Жыл бұрын

Me too..jr. High school! Love him!

Damn....Does he nail that classic Fender Stratocaster sound !

Great doco. Great to hear the evolution of songs from basic ideas. Not many artists would expose themselves in this way . As a songwriter it inspires me to keep trying.

Always fun to listen to.....yeah man

one of the first bands i got into as a youngin ' growing up in Los Angeles, listening to KLOS and KMET ! Thank you for raising me up on the good stuff! joy

First album my brother got with his radio shack stereo he got for Christmas

My favorite CD and I have bought this CD 3 times and I still don't have one. My kids loved it too!!!

Joachim (Jymm) Young’s Hammond comping on the original studio version of that song is phenomenal and has never been equaled !!

My idol and childhood memories man abracadabra i have the album man heard this song while I was camping

2020 Fly like a Eagle.... my Phone Ring Tone 🦅

He’s a genius

My little sis dated his little brother and she met him and talked with him and he told her, when the money gets low, I go and write some music and sell more records so I can go and have more fun.

Steve Miller's parents were Best Man and Matron of Honor at the wedding of Les Paul and Mary Ford. Les was Steve's godfather and gave him his first guitar lessons.

@jasonnstegall

6 ай бұрын

And, Les is also the gateway to Steve’s own mastery of the multi track process. Which, like Les & Mary, he quickly learned how to do it and how not to overdo it. Which is why the vast majority of his recordings still have a timeless feel to them.

I was at this shoot and hung out with Steve for an hour or so on his property in the San Juan Islands. We actually played guitars together. He let me pick up one of his Martin's that had the nature painting finish. I started playing some blues stuff and that's all it took. Steve's a real blues enthusiast and yes...he's a megalomaniac but hey...he's Steve Miller and he puts his money where his mouth is and there's a whole lotta both! See...I grew up on Steve Miller albums so it never gets old to me. Some tracks I like better than others but basically there's very little wrong he can do in my world.

@stevemillersnumberonefan132

5 жыл бұрын

Dude amazing story

@RuminatingWizard

4 жыл бұрын

Cool story bro 🙄

this was our get high song back in the 70's maybe a blotter or two also

Similar to the career of Bob Seger, Steve was also seeking a commercial break, but, his best music was arguably, the more adventurous earlier material: “Children of the Future” and “Sailor”, especially, are masterpieces.

@Cap683

4 жыл бұрын

Cary Heuchert My roommate in the navy (1969/1970) brought Brave New World and Children of the Future back from NYC. That was good music. This stuff was made to sell. This seems to be a common story with bands that took off in the 1970s/1980s.

@cre8lite11

Жыл бұрын

Yes his best was definitely the earliest! I’ve seen him many times and one time right by the stage : they asked for a request. I yelled Quicksilver girl but they didn’t play it

Yeah! HELL. Yeah! Love ya' Steve!!

I was a Steve Miller Band fan in my early teens I played guitar since I was 8 years old and wS very sheltered playing in church groups Ironically I played rhythm guitar in a blue grass band with my older big brothers from church so when one if my 2st rock band experienced was Steve Miller smoking Bing hits in Highschool in my buddies van ditching class sort of sent my young nieve behind down a path that I was determined to find out more about I could no longer agree to fallow the family rules, I liked girls a lot and beer and weed contributed to me being happier and free, so when pops asked me after getting into trouble once again could I fallow the rules he was sincere as was I saying Dad I dint believe I can fallow the rules he tossed my ass out the front door by my hair. Needless to say boy was that a scary moment that gave me the freedom I was seeking in my young life. Yippy I was off and partying NY my own rules which I did have I experienced plenty thiscwoupd be 1976 and all kind of music opened up but Steve Miller was continuing to bring out great songs and was part of my young life's 3xperoence from the beginning as a sheltered church kid my eyes became opened to lots of fun times. Girls dancing parties e6c.. that's what I lived for at that time, being born in 1960 watching the 60's happen all around driving to church from Arvada to Diwn Town Denver, I grew up watch hippy vans lined up for miles from all over the country with pretty girls wearing halter tops as I'm heading the opposite direction at like 9 years old thinking wow those people are having lots if fun and look at those pretty girl's that was my hidden desires already developing as Sunday morning seeing this week after week just volumes if teenagers freewilling life as my choke hold got tighter and tighter freedom was the freewill in action once I bravely faced defiance at home and knew that would never be tolerated it may have been very selfish of me not aware of how it would effect my family my younger skaters one become Mrs Goody 2 shoes the other my baby sister idolized me and followed my footsteps that I have regrets about she passed away at 40 after chasing her own darkside full on no stopping that girl I miss her a great deal we were good friends and yes ai kicked many boys assets over that little trouble maker but I love her a great deal my crazy period didn't last as long as hers I went in the NAVY at 19 yea it's was just as crazy if not more and even after till the mid 80's but I was able to appear respectsbleeven while I did as ai pleased without being to obvious I have tried everything and Dine everything a young man could possible do maintained my basic moral compassion I liked nice girls which actually probably saved me more thrn anything else I mean nice girls too to this day it's my real steady reason I have maintained a certain sensibility as I do as I please ya know what I mean? Thank You Steve Miller I listen often to his music to this day I sing and play along to my favorite tunes it's awesome fly like sn Eagle is a prophetic song about the times we l8ve right now in my humble opinion never dud zi think I would see this come to pass the way it has

STEVE MILLER great music I went to his last gig in ADELAIDE SOUTH AUSTRALIA

@ChicagoBeaver

4 жыл бұрын

Very nice! I saw him on his Book of Dreams tour, Chicago 1978. He opened up for the Eagles (Hotel California tour!!). I was like 16 yrs old. His songs were all over the radio in the mid to late 70s.

When I was in high school, the audio-visual club was allowed to play popular music on the intercom system before classes started. I recall with not much fondness having to listen to Fly Like An Eagle every morning whether I wanted to or not. And then after school I always accepted a ride from a friend who had a red 1965 Mustang and I'd have to endure the song blasted at full volume with Jensen Triax speakers pointing at my head. These are the images and memories that pop into my head every time I hear the opening licks to Fly Like An Eagle. After all these years... I think I'm finally getting to like the song, maybe not so much for the melody and rhythm and the meaning of the lyrics, but just because of where it takes me back to.

@savvycha

5 жыл бұрын

Jensens!

A Marvel of a Man Steve still way cool - Rock On~!!!!

Steve Miller lived in the present like many artists reflect upon. Most will look back in time and say they should have done this or that...Miller did that in the NOW by getting artistic control and taking time off after a hit record. Nobody did this...they all felt the pressure to keep going because the record company called the shots, then burn out. Miller is very ZEN

@rev.jimjonesandthekool-aid4488

4 жыл бұрын

That pace killed Jim Morrison.

BUENISIMOS GRACIAS POR ESOS GRANDES TEMAS

I wonder what it’s like being a super cool bastard. I know they have to work at it, but these geniuses don’t seem to realise they’ve got something the rest of us don’t

Legend 👑💫

The '05 concert is great!

Omg my son is called Miller my dog is steve I have Pegasus on my arm Steve Miller he saved my life ..

👍👍👍🤘😎

Billy Joe and Bobbie Sue 4ever ❤

Billy Shears played drum's on My Dark Hour.

He was here in Alton along with Marty Stuart.

Dont make ;em like this anymore.. sad to say...

I have that same exact turntable in the beginning!! :0

@kilgoretrout3966

6 жыл бұрын

Do you have a good one as well? lol.

1968 -73.

Tic Tock Tic

He went from looking like Russell Crowe in his younger days to looking like the father from "The Waltons" now.

@b00___

7 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@catsinpajamas

4 жыл бұрын

You're just jealous that he has better hair than you.

My son is called Miller my dog is Steve .......

LOOK OUT !! The gangsters back! I'm gonna trade in my old horse for a brand new Cadillac.

RIP Norton Buffalo.

Bill Murry plays great guitar

miller killer.

@richardkelch2469

7 жыл бұрын

cosmicdrifter287 good name for album

Funny the ibanez steve miller artist guitars fetches so much money, but its hard to find any video of him using it live. What up. Mostly strats.

miller killer

Fuckin' LOVE The Eagles, man! Steve Miller is my favorite Eagles-member

rebelution played at the FILMORE

Did Steve design his own album covers?

What happened to CHILDREN OF THE FUTURE and SAILOR. Those were the best albums he ever made!!!

@MusicDude86

8 жыл бұрын

+macfilms13 Amen!!! Book of Dreams is another good one.

@l.rongardner2150

5 жыл бұрын

Boz Scaggs left, and Steve went commercial. The psychedelic vibe of Children of the Future and Sailor became the $$$ vibe of mainstream muzak, like the nauseating the Joker.

@bobburroughs6241

4 жыл бұрын

His first 5 albums were best - he's had a very chequered career. The Joker's not a good album - the best track is Shu Ba Da Du Ma etc.

@guitarman1477

3 жыл бұрын

Brave new world

Is Steve Miller actually Bill Clinton's brother? I see a passing resemblance. And he sort've talks a little bit like him too.

Rock'n me first sounds like Dave Edmunds and then it sounded like Little Feat and then it turned right into a Steve Miller song All Along. One of a kind he did the things that Eric Clapton stretched too far to do and they are contemporaries if I may say so.

He's always very much "I," in everything, never seems to credit his band.

@charmingferret5916

4 жыл бұрын

Which band? He wrote and recorded this album, Fly like Eagle", himself. He may have used a session drummer.

Well these days.........especially now SAN Francisco must be full of gothic characters.......it usto be Brandon Lee as the character of "The Crow" which these days I think series like Underworld with actor Micheal Sheen are pretty right on for these times. Songs like" Trampoline" by Shaed thats whats playing these days. Not just Post Malone.....ya he is pretty good.

Meh. The best thing to come out of this man's music is Trini Lopez's music video cover of Fly Like a Eagle, which was amazing and showed how Trini is still the man at 77.

😷😷😷😷 no fun 😭😭😭😭

The Rock& Roll hall is a disgrace.

Kind of a dud

Rubbish then, rubbish now. Crap doesn't get any better with age. Pure hindsight bias by Miller, which only adds to the BS level. Even commenting on this nonsense is as pointless as posting it. Adds to depth of meaning to the eternal question: WTF?

@aaff55jj

9 жыл бұрын

But you listened and you commented...lol

@patrickkelly5004

8 жыл бұрын

+frog0007 I thought/hoped I might find or hear something informative, and all I saw was shameless self promotion of a dated piece of musical fluff. I enjoyed (but limited enjoyment) such music then. Now it gives me a headache, and hearing someone promote something like this makes it even more painful. Just expressing my opinion on the vid. As with all comments, take it or leave it. No offense intended, but this is my reaction.

@patrickkelly5004

8 жыл бұрын

+Patrick Kelly PS: I saw Steve perform at Byron Bay Bluesfest in 2013. The audience (80k plus) went crazy, which was mildly cool, but doesn't change my opinion (my opinion!) that this is really dated stuff, and doesn't live up to the level of promotion attributed by someone obviously trying to milk the s&%t out of what he did 40 years ago.

@willheigh5818

7 жыл бұрын

Man, sometimes the obvious escapes even the most conscious individuals. It's a short video on the 30th Anniversary DVD for "Fly Like and Eagle". What did you expect, the Mormon Tubercular Choir? it's for his fan -- especially the newest ones -- who do not know any of what he says in the video. Further, it still amazes me why anyone would bother to play a video about someone they don't like. Nobody ever cares why anyone dislikes anyone else. Was it our grandmothers' generation, or the one before it, that manners dictated 'If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all'?

@MrBrynmair

Жыл бұрын

Please try to enjoy the rest of your life and leave us to enjoy Steve Miller.