Let's hear it for the sound guys on this show. This was all live 50 years ago. The mix is great on every clip.

@kickstar1

11 ай бұрын

what I want to know is how did they hear themselves. The monitors seem to be non existent.

@WhyTheHorseface

11 ай бұрын

@@kickstar1maybe side fills or something under stage? Or maybe they just had stage volume set appropriately so that everyone could hear the band really well and the drummer played with restraint.

@Frip36

10 ай бұрын

Dude, awesome comment. You are SO RIGHT!!!!

@swbbreps8464

10 ай бұрын

@@kickstar1 they might also have been hanging on a truss above. that would also keep them out of the live of sight for TV. and, like WTHF said, band from the backline and only vocals in the flown monitors.

@chrisccc22

9 ай бұрын

Effing Bass Player!!!!!!

This live version is about a trillion times more groovy and powerful than the studio version.

@DewayneCollins-qt2fh

3 ай бұрын

💯😎

This performance is about 2 1/2 years before the album Fly Like an Eagle came out. So cool to see this early performance!

@ronaldolaquidara64

11 ай бұрын

Awesome. Cool cool never heard this ... Think I like it better than the Version on his album....

@ranchokitty1

9 ай бұрын

yep I have this album tied with the nation's Bicentennial, silk screening tee shirts with the radio playing all that summer.

@fixxxer3456

9 ай бұрын

I always liked the pre album version of Fly Like An Eagle, felt like a jam song. Loved the feel of it

@cooldebt

9 ай бұрын

@@ronaldolaquidara64 I agree. This has a real funky edge to it that is not in the album version or the live from the Breaking Ground album in '77. I wonder if there's an audio recording available anywhere.

@ronaldolaquidara64

9 ай бұрын

@@cooldebt yeah ik right I really don't know if there's actual recording of this version I'll try to call him up later 😹😂 "Hey Uncle Steve did you ever make a recording of that version you did on Midnight Special way before the version you did on your studio album?" Call me back when you can ok." 😹😂😹🤣😹

when I see a new video from The Midnight Special uploaded, I can’t click fast enough

@whiteninja9481

11 ай бұрын

I'm with you on THAT. :)

@hinjurock70

11 ай бұрын

Same here.

@gregoryduncan3067

11 ай бұрын

It's important to have something to look forward to in life.

@ceciliaohman185

10 ай бұрын

Same

@ceciliaohman185

10 ай бұрын

@@gregoryduncan3067😅 truth

The drummer and bassist make this song soar while absolutely grounded.

@homunculusSZN

9 ай бұрын

I would say it makes this song “fly like an Eagle”

@cooldebt

9 ай бұрын

@@homunculusSZN I see what you did there 😉

Wow, love this version… raw, funky, bluesy.

@cooldebt

9 ай бұрын

💯 And that sick drum beat sounds like it was used in Fresh 4 + Liz E's Wishing on a Star (90's) which was a hip-house track

Steve Miller is so underrated it’s ridiculous, I know he gets played endlessly on classic rock radio but damn that album is a masterpiece.

@Enfurarious

Ай бұрын

That doesn’t sound underrated

Massive bass work. Great version of this song.

@peterfangiullo2064

9 ай бұрын

I think that's Gerald Johnson

Steve's echoplex use here is legendary!!! Made this version my favorite!!!

@spacerockwizard

3 ай бұрын

I had no idea and I thought I knew all the great Echoplex users! His Don Kirshner Rock Concert performance of this is great too.

@spacerockwizard

3 ай бұрын

Is that an MXR Phase 90 in there?

@LSUOdyssey

27 күн бұрын

That is a Maestro Phaser, same one used by Funkadelic, Alex Lifeson of Rush, John Paul Jones on his keyboards, Little Feat's guitars were dripping in Maestro phaser. It's got a more adaptable tone than a Phase 90's subtle gloss. This is much chewier. ​@spacerockwizard

This live version very groovy and spacey ! Watching these midnights specials is like time traveling back to my first favorite decade the 70’s ! Space ace Ron ⚡️⚡️⚡️

@ronaldolaquidara64

11 ай бұрын

Hey Space Ron Why's you steal me name??🤔 😹😂😹😂😹😂 Jus kidding!! Ronnie Times keeps on Slipping Slipping Slipping Into the future.. 😹😂😹😂😹😂😹😹😂😹😹😹

@ronnieparker4311

11 ай бұрын

@@ronaldolaquidara64 actually a friend gave me that name back in 1989! A pen pal ! We both liked kiss ! I’m a ace guy and he was a gene guy ⚡️⚡️⚡️ space ace ron

The genesis of an all-time classic.

This is a great early version of the song released as a single in '76. I like it!

This version has sort of a more psychadelic sound, whereas later it felt more space age (for lack of a better description). Sounds more low-key groovy here. Great just the same!

As much as I love this song and played this constantly, I forgot about this live performance, it's (no words) - So fortunate to have grown up with this music 70's

15 in 1975 Steve had a few songs on the radio back then. Thanks for memory.

@cynthiakoerner296

6 ай бұрын

Same, fifteen in ‘75. Great year.

@jdenino6022

Ай бұрын

@@cynthiakoerner296 same.

Steve's music was so groovy and psychedelic back then man! A great guitarist too. 👍 Awesome to be able to see this after so many decades. 🤗🙂

Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe this super funky drummer is John King who predated the legendary Gary Mallaber in this band. King does an amazing job here. Loving The Midnight Special channel, a huge new asset to KZread.

@neighborbruce

11 ай бұрын

​@CautionJetblast you can edit your comment if you'd like!

@CautionJetblast

11 ай бұрын

@@neighborbruceDone, thanks, I guess I just needed to open the app to do that.

@paullevine1813

11 ай бұрын

That is Jack King not John on drums & though not Steve first drummer he came after tim Davis . Gary didn't play with Steve till the LP Recall The Beginning A Journey To Eden in 72. All great drummers . So nice to see a clip of Miller before he went commercial.

@kickstar1

11 ай бұрын

@@paullevine1813 So are they playing the song here before it was recorded with mallaber?

@chrissimmons4822

9 ай бұрын

No paullevine .. that is John King. He lived about 30 minutes from me in Kingsport TN in the 1990s. I worked for his company India Street Percussion. He and Dickie Thompson (the keyboard player seen in this vid.) played on the joker album and left the band after a dispute over pay. John unfortunately passed around 2010.@@paullevine1813

So much literally priceless and invaluable footage from "The Midnight Special". An absolute time capsule.

Those people in the audience are mesmerized !😳 I can't say I wouldn't be either. Happy Wednesday... thank you for sharing! 💖

@markydo7

11 ай бұрын

Happy Wednesday to you too 👍❤️, love your screen name!!

@that70sgirl90

11 ай бұрын

@@markydo7 Thank you! 😊

@ronaldolaquidara64

11 ай бұрын

What do you mean by mesmerized?? Wait I'm gonna go watch this again Brb.... Ok Yessss mos def 💯True!!!! It's like a completely different tuné 😹😂😹😂😹😹😹😂😹💯

@colinlobo474

11 ай бұрын

They are all Stoned !☘

I gotta believe Steve still has that guitar stowed away somewhere.

Criminally underrated band and yeah I've always liked this version better ❤

@ronaldolaquidara64

11 ай бұрын

Never heard this version before....hmm....🤔

@markstevenson6635

9 ай бұрын

I wonder how someone can sell millions of albums, get TONS of airplay in their prime and yet be criminally underrated. Maybe they are in 2023. They weren't underrated in the 70s.

@KittyGrizGriz

9 ай бұрын

Was waiting for someone to use the overrated term ‘underrated’. Gosh I get sick of reading it, here’s your 🏆

@toomuchinformation

Ай бұрын

​@@markstevenson6635I see this term so often in YT comments and it makes sense to me. There are many highly talented and successful artists during a particular era, but in the modern day they're not remembered as much as other, less talented artists from the same era. Well that's what I think the term means.

@kneerobe8409

15 күн бұрын

​@@ronaldolaquidara64 Shula-DEBRAH To Merystreep1949

This song was a huge part of my childhood. I still, at 56, crank this often

Thank you for the nice song from the 70s !

The progression in the chorus is just so good. Makes you wanna just go with the flow and drown in the stream of the music.

Man, that Double Cutaway Bout Gibson Les Paul with those single Coil P-90 Pickups gave Awesome Special Affects and Futuristic Sounds! Man "The Gibson Guitar Company is the Greatest Electric Guitar Craftsman not only as Luther's or Making and Designers of the Classic Archtop L4's, L5's, Classic 400 Archtop to the Semi-Hollow Body Guitars like "The World Famous ES 335 and "The Ultimate World Famous Do It All Solid Body Guitar of All Times " The Gibson Les Paul"! Buy The Gibson Les Paul and you will Never need another Guitar! What Work of Art, Creativity of Unique Sound Quality Reproductive Affects offered in many Styles!

Love this channel. I was a bit young when this one came out but live the decade with my parents, who were huge Midnight Special fans and let me stay up late on the weekends to watch.

Pure GOLD. When live meant LIVE!!!

Masterclass on improv and jammin!

When I tell you this performance is life

I absolutely love watching these! Can't wait for Todd Rundgren's performances on the show

Timeless sentiment.

@jeffmasek9541

11 ай бұрын

Actually I never realized how inane the lyrics were. The solution to poverty and hunger is to fly like an Eagle to the sea?? But of course this is the guy who rhymed “Texas” with “Facts Is”

@GiveMeYourNachosButthead

11 ай бұрын

@jeffmasek9541 Yeah I’m with you there, this is one song I enjoy the instruments more than the lyrics. It’s still a funky/chill song, but S. Miller singing about poverty/hunger then flying like an eagle to the sea makes absolutely no sense, lol. I know technically it’s about letting your soul ease up and feel free (and that right there is an amazing feeling when you’re not broke on the streets fighting everyday for survival), but otherwise when I hear this tune I just open my mind to the instruments more than the lyrics!

@ardiris2715

11 ай бұрын

3 years of acid and the pompetus of love does that to a man. (:

@markydo7

11 ай бұрын

​@@ardiris2715😂❤😂

Kind of a funky version. I like it.

I detect a bit of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen in the opening chords. This is awesome. Cheers! ✌️

@leiferickson5069

11 ай бұрын

He had quoted this previously in “Good Morning” off the Number Five album (1970)

@ericminch

10 ай бұрын

Which Iron Butterfly also did in Inna Gadda Da Vida's organ solo. In 1968.

@cooldebt

9 ай бұрын

Best quotes of Christmas tunes I've heard during live performances is the brilliant A Consouls Christmas with 'Last Christmas in Azalea Town' (Pokemon tune) and 'O Come All Ye Faithful to the Bob-Omb Battlefield' (Super Mario 64) and also Court Begins with We Three Kings (Phoenix Wright:Ace Attorney)

One of the first times they ever performed this song. It wouldn't be a hit until 2 years later.

Mesmerizing live performance, total funk.

The Midnight Special make me fly... like an eagle.

I used to watch The Midnight Special religiously back in the 70s. How did I miss this performance by SMB? Amazing! He’s the man!

Steve Miller was my very first concert, at the LA Forum in Inglewood CA. It was magical, inspired me to play drums in Jr. High school jazz band. I still play in bands...Thanks Steve Miller!

Steve Miller , Miller Music ,Miller Man , great sound at their best !👍🏼

I remember staying up Friday nights as a teenager, through graduation and beyond watching Midnight Special in the 70s. The quality of these live videos- pristine. Thank you from the bottom of my heart (Nancy Wilson acoustic intro on Crazy On You- AWESOME ❤ too!) Saw Steve Miller believe at DAR Constitution Hall (I believe…it was the 70s after all 😂) Oh…these memories…

Steve was really into the psychedelic stuff before he became a hit machine.

@joequeer3385

10 ай бұрын

I loved Anthology then all of a sudden he started having huge hits but what was cool was they were great songs. Bands like Chicago and Jefferson Airplane had hits in their later years but they were so lame it sucked. Steve Miller''s hit songs are all killer in my opinion.

Awesome band to grace the stage of the Midnight Special 🎉🎉

And the lyrics are beautiful too

Steve Miller... happy soon-to-be birthday on 5 October. Legend.

Dang.... this is pretty amazing!!!!

I remember watching Midnight Special and other live concerts from In Concert and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. We would "prepare" ourselves prior to the programs. Good times 👍

Psychedelic funk....Excellent!

I humbly bow my head before the creators of this channel and pray that it will never disappear from KZread. Can’t thank you enough MS!

Perfect... cant get better !!!!!! Love IT

what a sound....so great !

What an absolute treat!! Thanks!!

Whoa. Phenomenal version. 😮❤CAA

This is amazing what a guitarist

Insanely good, thanks The Midnight Special.

I have these performances on DVD. These were released by Time Life Music years ago. Great stuff!!!

Its amazing the difference between 74 and 84 styles. If you look back 10 years ago in 2013, some things are different, but not to the extrememe as it was between the mid 70s and mid 80s...

@toomuchinformation

Ай бұрын

Would you say the same between 50 + 60s and 60s+70s?

@victorbennett5414

Ай бұрын

@@toomuchinformation To some degree, yes, but you see more of a gradual evolution. 70s to 80s is much more abrupt in my mind.

@toomuchinformation

Ай бұрын

@@victorbennett5414 Yes, that's a really good point. I've also noticed that artists who were successful in the 70s didn't fare well in the 80s at all; the jump was too big. However, some artists made the 60s - 70s transition fairly painlessly.

Love this live version!

Great! More of a relaxed psychedelic jam-band groove than the space-rock album cut, which is a lot more "up" and radio-friendly. Lots of quiet, subtle stuff going on here. Love it.

That was awesome man i really miss the 70s 😬😁😬😁

@DennisScott-vo9ex

2 ай бұрын

Thank you friend music back then was live it was all real don't like today music 🎼🎼

GREAT !!!

Love this version!!! The band's great to! I remember this was up on KZread for a while and it got taken down. Probably because of copyrighted bullshit. Either way, glad to see it again!! 🤘🤘

Awesome performance!

Almost fifty years ago..... Amazing!

Who knew Steve could play a guitar like that? I have a newfound respect for the guy.

Those lyrics are even more relevant today. What a voice, love Steve Miller.

Amazing performace before de 1976.

Nine month later, this song still hasn't ended because my KZread app is waiting for the echoes to die off...........

Just lovin' these performances! 😀

Thank you for uploading this I've watched it from other people's KZread channels and was waiting on this

Bass like a FREIGHT TRAIN

I will always remember this song as it came on the radio when it was new (or just after its release) and I was driving across the Broadway Bridge over the river going North down the incline and past the downtown airport and the land yacht car just floated to the rhythm of the song as the radio peacefully blasted it out... it was such a different time in the 70s

THANK YOU! This is the video I've been waiting for and the sound is so much cleaner. Love it! Thank you for this.

Soundtrack to my young life , loved this band ..

I think the song was ahead of it's time, it's still relevant! it's time to get it together, or we failed.

Midnight Special had quality production values with their televised concerts. A lot better than In Concert on ABC and others of the time. And the closeups of Steve Miller look almost HD from a time when that was not available.

Real musicians and performers...days gone for ever...

@MissJensk1

9 ай бұрын

Maybe not forever . . . . Check out Greta Van Fleet 🎶🙂

@richieboy6825

9 ай бұрын

Oh Jeez there’s 1000 amazing creative gifted musicians out there . Fleet Foxes, Father John Misty, Bon Iver - don’t get old before you die!!!!

Wow beautiful music and his guitar is gorgeous!The whole thing is amazing. These midnight special performances are just incredible ❤😊

I was lucky enough to have caught Steve Miller band at the Nassau veterans memorial coliseum on long Island new york. I have some great pictures of the group ☺️. One of the many concerts that I have been to. My first concert was the Rascals and the Jimi Hendrix Exp on 7/5/67, At the Schaefer music festival in central Park New York city 😮❤.

Eow, its great to see these performances! Thank you! Subscribed. 🎶

Great memories! Before I had a car and went out getting in trouble. I would be home watching the Midnite Special and Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert! Some great shows there!! Mom would be asleep, I’d sneak out back and smoke a doob now and then! Ahhhh!

Thanks for the video! When Les Paul is your Godfather there’s no way you’re going to fail in the music business!

This tune is the very defintion of chillax. Masterpiece.

Glad TMS finally made to KZread, too much music history to keep from music lovers of all generations.

I have CHILLs 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 wow grew up with the more electronic Album Into Fly like an Eagle. Love this early version too. I was blessed to be in my young years in the 70’s.

So relevant this song. Now, as it was then.

This was great. Takes me right back to my high school days. Great artists! Loved the Midnight Special. Always looked forward to it each week. Thanks for sharing.

Trippy, man.

Miller Music !!

This version cuts deep!

One of my top 5, songs of all time! Thanks for posting this version!🤘🏽

So coool. Very jazz. Love the paint job on the guitar.

True genius if Steve Miller !

Same problems back in the 70s as we see in 2024 😢

@heimomoilanen9654

29 күн бұрын

Nothing learned indeed. How sad.

Absolutely fantastic. Thanks so much midnight. Another winner. Keep them coming

I got see Steve Miller at RFK stadium with the Grateful Dead , a long time ago, it was awesome 👌

Very nice version!!

Where can I find a bass player like that….sensational!

I’m here for this! All of it!

Book 📚 ❤😊

What?!!! Always thought this song came out in '76 or '77. Never remember hearing it before that time . . . maybe it was an FM hit before moving to AM pop radio a few years later?