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San Francisco, California, USA (1968 – present)
Steve Miller Band is an American rock band formed in 1967-8 in San Francisco, California, USA.
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 Boz 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 “pompatus of love”, which is of course nonsense, but that didn’t stop a lot of stoned folks from spending years talking amongst themselves.
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 Boz 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 “pompatus of love”, which is of course nonsense, but that didn’t stop a lot of stoned folks from spending years talking amongst themselves.
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DeJMoreno wrote:
The Joker is not one of the best songs ever. [2]
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ejtjjt wrote:
since they are old sogns，but in my bottom heart，awsome，always
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chump86 wrote:
just heard them on the radio. amazing!
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cp_manat wrote:
steve miller > springsteen
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Starlow13 wrote:
love them
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bryantee wrote:
Can we just pretend that Steve Miller Band never existed after 1970?
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CaseyDeAnn wrote:
The Joker is not one of the best songs ever.
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GanonG wrote:
Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future... thats my drug :)
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LoveGvn wrote:
the joker is one of the best songs ever. fuckin' truth
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Storm317 wrote:
Baseball team blared this all the time at practice!
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bradleybee wrote:
Another new CD out tomorrow ?!?!?!?!?
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RoomForSymmetry wrote:
Coming to Redrocks this summer, HELL YES!
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barryvs wrote:
BIG OL JET AIRLIIIINER
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whitecollarboy_ wrote:
Jet Airliner is my shit
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Spog_Zallagi wrote:
Yus.
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Depeche81 wrote:
just fall for this band ... great great
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Jeroen1991 wrote:
Im a joker, im a smoker
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gimp4ever1 wrote:
I'm all about mid-night toke'n! <======>~~ ;)
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zepp69 wrote:
such god dam good music!!!!!
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Phlunked wrote:
I'm not that old, but my parents bumped this shit when I was a toddler.... That's what I think of.
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- Aug 10 Steve Miller Band Filene Center at Wolf Trap, Vienna, Washington DC VA, United States
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- Oct 25 Steve Miller Band De Oosterpoort, Groningen, Netherlands
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