I can't listen to this song, EVER, without doing the claps along with it. It's imperative. "They headed down to ooh Old El Paso" 👏👏👏👏👏

@bonniethompson2019

8 ай бұрын

I'm with you ❤

@joanlooper2007

8 ай бұрын

Me too! Billy Mac is a detective down in Texas 👏👏👏👏👏

@cherrypickerguitars

8 ай бұрын

Gotta do those fast claps! Steve was a great concert to see in the 70’s! Peace

@robertreeves993

8 ай бұрын

That and the drums part to Phil Collins In The Air Tonight😂

@cheripetty1805

8 ай бұрын

You too?!!! 👏 👏 👏 👏

I have loved The Steve Miller Band for decades. Steve Miller's father,George, a physician 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 the best man and the matron of honor at the December 1949 Paul/Ford wedding. Les Paul became Steve's godfather. Great reaction. Take care.

@maryreilly5092

8 ай бұрын

Cool People Loving Music back in the 1940's! Love it!!

Dance Dance Dance, the long version of Fly Like an Eagle, Winter Time, Swingtown and The Stake. Saw Steve this summer. He’s 80. Played 2 hours of hits nonstop. Pretty damn amazing. And the audience had fans of all ages singing all the hits.

Everything on Fly Like and Eagle and Book of Dreams is Gold.

Steve Miller is awesome. He close to 80 n still performing. Greatness has no age.

That's one of his best. "Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash" is too often overlooked, and it grooves hard.

This album was a step forward in rock production value. Outstanding sound on vinyl in 1976.

I absolutely LOVE the Steve Miller Band! I have since I can remember

Steve Miller is a MASSIVELY underrated Guitar Player, Singer and Songwriter. Seen him three times over the years and he never disappoints. Many good songs in his catalog including "Living In The U.S.A.", "Fly Like An Eagle", "Jet Airliner", "Swingtown", "Mercury Blues", a cover and "The Joker". The quick hand claps in this song were taken from the song "Deep In The Heart Of Texas", an old standard. To see it in action, check out the movie "PeeWee's Big Adventure" when PeeWee is on the phone with Dottie and he gets the passer-by's to clap along with him. "The starts at night are big and bright, clap, clap, clap, clap clap, deep in the heart of Texas". LOL. RIP PeeWee, aka Paul Reubens. Steve Miller is still active.

@realitybytez

8 ай бұрын

yeah, he doesn't really show it all that much in his studio albums, but live the guy really can play.

@Ledgar64

8 ай бұрын

Saw him live like 10 years ago. He was insane.

Album as a whole is excellent

Steve is an amazing musician and has many great tunes! Kinda like the stars aligned for this guy. His godfather was Les Paul who taught him to play. Can't think of a better mentor than the guy the guitar was named for!

Love the Steve Miller Band, these are songs I grew up listening to, got to see them live at Red Rocks way back in the day...

A very young Steve Miller was a child guitar prodigy of one of the pioneers of the solid body electric guitar Les Paul, who was also his godfather. There’s a great version of his song Fly Like an Eagle with some childhood tape of Miller talking to Les Paul at the beginning on the Les Paul 90th birthday tribute album, Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played. I always thought “Texas” rhyming with “facts is” was right up there with the “pompatus of love” on the Joker! 😂

Stevie "guitar" Miller has been groovin for a long time. Caught him with Dave Mason this year. Did a lot of deep cuts like The Stake and Space Cowboy. Great show.

That intro is everything. I could listen to that on a loop all day. Steve Miller is awesome. Love the channel, guys.

@iluvj50

15 күн бұрын

Gary Mallaber!

I seen Steve Miller band in Dayton Ohio years ago. It was a great concert, no crazy antics on stage they just stood there and jam for two hours and they sound good! It was kind of like a miniature Grateful Dead show. Same kind of following.

Fly like an eagle & Jet airliner are my favorites!

Steve let Run- D.M.C. sample this tune way back in 2001. The Steve Miller Band could take any subject and bring some fun. Even shooting a man while robbing his castle. Excellent song choice, guys. Hope you play "Kow Kow Calqulator.' someday, from his 1969 "Brave New World' album. Great tune. Thanks for all the fantastic music and hard work bringing it to us with your insightful commentary.

Anything Steve Miller!! Serenade and Space Cowboy, couple favs

I always loved that the solo in this song is just a chunk of bitchin' rhythm guitar...love that!

Steve Miller's drummer, John King, grew up a couple of blocks over from me on Skyland Dr. I was 11 in '73 when he played on The Joker album. He's sometimes listed as "Jack" King from CA. He was definitely from here cause everybody cool knew him. Didn't party, very mellow. Died of cancer in 2010. My brush with greatness... A more obscure Steve Miller lp, Number 5, is just superb. All.kinds of different song tyoes...

Great band. Mercury Blues and Your Saving Grace. Excellent reaction fellas. Appreciate you 🙏 ❤

I love Steve Miller. He toured a lot in the 70’s and his show was always fire.

Quintessential 70’s. SMB’s biggest hits all came in the mid-late 70’s, but there’s a huge catalog of 60’s and 70’s stuff worth exploring too. Steve Miller learned to play guitar from the inventor of the electric guitar, Les Paul. I think Miller’s parents worked in Paul’s studio. In Waukesha, WI, about 20 miles from my house.

Steve Miller songs often have that tight harmony that’s fun and easy to sing along with.

So many great songs by Steve Miller. React to FLY LIKE AN EAGLE

Steve Miller Band has so many great songs, they were all over the radio in the 70s. Fly Like an Eagle (I'm sure you've heard at least the Seal cover), Jet Airliner, Rockin Me, Space Cowboy, Joker...goes on and on. Thanks for this one!

A great band, with so many hits! 🎶🎶👍

Just saw him couple of months ago. Still rocking at almost 80. He had Kingfish open for him and wow was he amazing as well.

@randyhein7513

8 ай бұрын

Good on Steve for giving such a talented young artist an opportunity.

@pauline7425

8 ай бұрын

@@randyhein7513 This was actually a rescheduled concert and I guess the original opening band couldn't make the new date. I don't think a lot of the crowd (old fogies lol) knew who Kingfish was but he was amazing and Steve even had him come out later and jammed out with him. It was a magical night.

One of his best. Rock'n Me from this album fine too. Still going strong.

Great pick…the song has a Bonnie & Clyde vibe yet you can’t not groove to it! Banger!!!

Steve Miller is one of my favorites. I bet you guys would love his song " Mercury Blues".

Steve was once my boss back when I worked on his ranch north of Williams OR. I worked the last two summers, just me and one older guy, before he sold it in 1986.

You guys are in for a good time with this band. So many jams and Steve is a genius in the music world. Excited for more awesome reactions in the future my guys

The whole album is a great piece of work!!! Brings me back to my misspent teen years!!! Must do more from this one. 👍👍

Who says crime don't pay! Steve Miller is a prolific hit-maker...

If you have a schitty singing voice and love karaoke then Steve Miller is your go-to guy.

whole album is a banger.....do it all

Great album bro! Was huge when I was in 7th grade! Wow! Haven't listened to this in a while! If my memory serves me right this came out in late summer 76 or fall of 76. Or maybe that's when I bought it. So much great music back in those days. Wtf happened with today's so called bands? Someone dropped the ball along the way a long time ago!

In the 70s, Steve Miller had hit after hit: "Jet Airliner," "The Joker," ... he's a great musician & singer. Don't know if anyone knows it, but he & Jimmie Vaughan did a duo of Jimmie's song, "Hey, Yeah," which, if you ain't heard it, is KILLER!

Love Steve Miller, but would love to see someone react to some of his older stuff. Songs like Your Saving Grace, Living in the USA, Kow Kow Calculator,etc. He hit a hot streak in the mid 70's and did a lot of commercial stuff, but before that there's some really special stuff, imho.

Steve is a certified BA. All the way

That drum beat the claps the story. Perfect lil jam all around

Check out Fly like an Eagle, Jet Airliner, Abracadabra etc... so many hits.

He opened for my first Grateful Dead show.

Definitely do more Steve Miller. A legend.

This song was gangsta a whole decade before gangsta rap was born. Classic!~

I love this ...on the radio when I was bout 6-8

I think sweet home Alabama came out in 1974 and take the money and run came out in 76. There was a lot of new music coming out and a lot of people playing off of other people for inspiration.

Such a fun band!

Another great Bay Area band from the sixties and seventies and onward

A classic drum intro.

SMB is soooooo much fun!! Saw them in the 70s with a little known artist...Norton Buffalo.

Fly Like an Eagle has one of my all-time favorite drum performances. That'd be a good one to check out.

Aloha gentlemen, ok...... His first album I think is Children of the future. Cool stuff. Hits . Living in the USA. Bozz Scaggs was there in the early days. Going to Mexico Gangster of Love, Space Cowboy, Your Saving Grace, Jackson Kent. Blues, Blues without Blame, Wild Mountain Honey, deep hole. Peace and Love

An all time fav…

This is a good album to explore. I swear y'all remind me of me and my brother. Thanks, guys.

You are !00% right they are very similar and yet different but you know it is southern rock style. I myself recognicedit it when i was learning to play Sweet Home Alabama and after a while tried to play Take the money and run. Sweet Home Alabama was released in 1974 and Take the Money and Run in 1976. Steve Miller has done a lot of catchy songs. Please listen to Rockn Me it is a great song among others.

"THE STAKE" is the best of many great tunes...! "WILD MOUNTAIN HONEY" Is a lessor known Gem...!

SMB! :) :) :) I love a lot of his songs, but also I like The Window which is just a wishful song (it was certainly another era) and mellow but the harmony and sound is so sweet. As winter is coming they also have another mellow song about that too called Winter Time.

Smooth story telling up in that song!

such a fun band to see live

PLEASE go down the Steve Miller Band rabbit hole guys. No disappointment till the 80’s era…tons of bangers in the early days tho.

Nice guy's.Old time fave of mine!!!😃🇨🇦

Good old rock and roll

Ooooooooo yeah!!

A little Steve Miller never hurt anyone.

I saw Steve Miller many years ago at Lake Compounce in Bristol, CT. Lake Compounce is the longest running amusement park in the U.S. If I'm not mistaken, Eric Johnson was the opener. Eric is worth checking out.

Thumbed up before I even watched. Been waiting for this one.

Watch-Out Guys... STEVE MILLER will get you band on YOU TUBE, has happened to many reactors. Try Waka-Jawaka, a fabulous Instrumental live tune by ZAPPA...

saw him at Thunder Valley casino a month ago still rockin got alot of hits

Your saving Grace is a must.

Great tune...

Thank you both.

Dig how the drummer forwards the staccato beats of the hand claps during other parts of the song.

Les Paul was his neighbor growing up. Les taught Steve how to play guitar. Please play Amazing Grace!

@fredshred5194

8 ай бұрын

Yep and he got to pick a Gibson every birthday.

Not sure there are too many 70s bands who had as many top 40 hits as SMB. Rock on y'all! You're 2 for 2!! CCR/SMB !!

@pluckinmageetar

8 ай бұрын

@@kevinlakeman5043 Yeah, I was a kid in the 70s. And in the 70s before Corporate radio fucked everything up, "top 40" reminded us weekly whose music was being requested the most. Back when top 40 was more diverse; when it had Rock, Funk, Country, RnB, Soul, even Prog, Pop, Folk, Jazz....when "popular" music truly meant what it's name suggests...what was popular in multiple genres. No "format" to abide by so ad revenue and corporate morons can play a song to death, just a compilation of the best "TOP 40" requested songs of the week, back when you had more than Rap, Hip Hop and Neu-Country crap to choose from.

Great song

Steve Millers band was extremely tight! Had several classic songs; side note my mother’s favorite song of his was “Jet Airliner” by his band. 😁

@Dr.Atomic

8 ай бұрын

Wifey's is "Wild Mountain Honey"

Great song!

WINTERTIME, THE WINDOW.

Waukesha, Wis.'s own Steve Miller. I think they made a movie from this song.

Another outstanding murder ballad!

Stevie Guitar Miller's greatness goes way back. A good retrospective on his early stuff is the Anthology album. Current greats would be The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle, Book of Dreams won't steer you wrong.

Great driving song Crank it up and go fast..lol

This album & the next one were like greatest hits albums, full of great songs. Would recommend or request Mercury Blues, an old fav.

Another high school 8-track flashback young fellas.

Did the claps! Everything hangs off the bass in this song.

Great straight forward rock and roll song and tells a great story, one of my favorites

This song would make a great movie I picture Tommy Lee Jones playing the part of Billy Mac. I always wanted to write a screen play for this song.

FLY LIKE AN EAGLE LIVE.

Great album. Keep going. Then Book Of Dreams.

always here for Steve Miller..thank you guys..

I saw Steve Miller in 1995 and it was an awesome show. Every song in his set was a top hit.

Take it Laa, Take it Chee! Yeah

And yes I still clap with it

Living in the USA, Space Cowboy, and especially Going to the Country..he's got decades of great work but he had a Very hard time adjusting to music for free on the internet, he bitched about it for years...

MUST HEAR Classics,, The Steve Miller Band "Space Cowboy",, "Living In The U.S.A.",, "Mercury Blues",, "Winter Time" & "The Window". Trust me on ALL!!

NWA sampled the drum intro for "Quiet On The Set"

He's got a great catalogue. He and Npz Scaggs go back to TX as youngins