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(1968 – present)
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 “pompatus of love”, which is of course nonsense, but that didn’t stop a lot of stoned folks from spending years talking amongst themselves.
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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Abracadabra
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Fly Like An Eagle
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Take The Money And Run
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Jet Airliner
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Jungle Love
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Serenade
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Swingtown
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The Stake
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Threshold
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Space Cowboy
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True Fine Love
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Rock'n Me
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Winter Time
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Wild Mountain Honey
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RonenKohavi wrote:
Great music, although I have never been a fan of "the Joker"
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Canislupus050 wrote:
yeah
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bcerrati wrote:
lots a lovee
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FelipeVillota wrote:
"i´m joker i´m a smoker...". really good jams. Saludos desde Colombia
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Jimbop_ wrote:
Circle of love is really calming
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imagesk8r6969 wrote:
i went 4m phoenix arizona all the way 2 tacoma. philadelphia, atlanta, l.a.
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Lord_Krichian wrote:
average classic rock
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M_Marina wrote:
нравится
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neptune6hp wrote:
I dont care if they were at woodstock It's bubbllegum crap, the worst of thier time. Nothing came out of that band that would change rock ,or make me think any differebt,
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Nololob wrote:
Klasyka Rocka
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nigelsundown wrote:
No gangster just cancels shows because nobody recognized him in local record store
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Aaron132 wrote:
And if anyones the space cowboy, it'd be me. I also call midnight toker!(Theres a little "That 70's Show" reference for ya.)
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Vanilla-villa wrote:
Abra Abra-cadabra!
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heychinno wrote:
i´m th gangster of love, lo magnifico del blues, saludos de Mexico
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lowsparker wrote:
Thank you Steve, for your musical contributions, and for bringing us Boz Scaggs!
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evlstooge wrote:
king biscuit flower hour, ftw
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prairelady wrote:
Have love your music for years
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delitax wrote:
great great band
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1970scorp wrote:
just a cool tune,abracadaba...........
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GilmoursAngst wrote:
Don't just listen to their two famous albums "Fly Like An Eagle" and "Book of Dreams" give some of their older stuff a shot, it's pretty great.
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