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Beth, this really blew me away. This is the first time I've ever heard this version of the song. It is so much different than the one played on the radio. And, I have been listening to music for 60+ years!!!
Oh Yes! Thanks for covering our homeboy! Steve Miller has been around since the Beatles and still jams to his unique, eclectic sounds. Always a pleasure listening to a fellow Wisconsinite who actually has talent 😊....Les Paul grew up probably 20 miles away from Steve...one generation older. ❤ it!
Steve Miller Band was the first concert I ever attended. I recently saw a bumper sticker that read "I may be old, but I've seen all the best bands" (and it's true)
I am' older' but missed out on seeing some I wanted to see live, like Zeppelin. I was only 8 when they last played in driving distance from where I grew up.
@@bamachine My biggest regret: Sometime around 1981 there was a new Irish rock band playing at a small club a few blocks away. I'd heard of them but hadn't listened to their album 'Boy' yet. On hearing U2's first single "I Will Follow" it was pretty clear they were going to be a big thing...
That "hooking" start : absolutely it grabs you. There are so many amazing examples of that idea of a slow build to grab interest and intrigue you to staying around - Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits is a real slow burn, Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd, the approaching steam train in Station To Station by David Bowie, the bongos with organ in Black Magic Woman by Santana, the Eldorado Overture by Electric Light Orchestra, the first 40 seconds of Take The Long Way Home by Supertramp (and the way that harmonica *cries* when it comes in).....Anyone can have a long intro, or vamp on a 4-chord structure but building a sense of anticipation and motion and making you feel the increasing tension without losing interest is a special skill and to be appreciated.
Steve Miller Band is one of the most underrated bands. So many of their songs are played in soundtracks and known in pop culture, but not always known.
Maybe but I don't think at anytime in my life I have said I would really like to hear some Steve Miller right now.Whenever I talk about great music with anyone Steve Miller never comes up.
@@stevefronczek7439 I had listened to them since my early teens in the mid-70's. They had a lot of air-time on the radio and on juke boxes. Even now when they come on the radio, I turn it up to 11. Contrary to them not winning a whole of awards (there were some) they influenced others.
Steve Miller and Boz Skaggs went to St. Mark's Academy in my hometown of Dallas, TX. They were in a band together called The Marksmen... Steve's godfather was Les Paul, the guy the guitar is named after. 🙂
I was fortunate enough to see the Steve Miller Band in the summer of 1977 during his Book of Dreams tour. Great time and great memory. Thanks for the reaction.
Wonderful reaction, Beth. I have a fond memory of this song from my childhood, albeit not of Steve Miller. My when I was in elementary school, my father had been hired by a small but growing rural Arkansas school to start a music program. He conducted both wind band and choir for the upper 6 grades. In one of the early concerts, he had the high school choir sing "Fly Like An Eagle". That memory has stuck with me for 45 years. Watching this reminded me of listening to a recent live album from Billy Strings. This was Billy and his bluegrass band, and on several tunes the band would use effects pedals to create a lots of textures such as heard here, though it was actually even richer because of more modern recording technology and several more melodic instruments. "Away From The Mire" is the one that sticks out to me. I saw Billy perform it in concert, and it's absolutely mesmerizing. If you want to see musicians at the absolutely top tier performing without any corrections of pitch or time, Billy's band is great, but all the top bluegrass musicians must be able to perform at that level. Not much to hide when everything is an acoustic instrument. Besides being a brilliant acoustic guitarist, Billy is also quite an adept electric guitarist, being one of the few people to sit in with Tool in concert, something he did twice in the past year.
I remember listening to this over and over again. The studio version is somewhat different from this live version, but both have their strengths. As another commenter wrote, this was what it was like growing up with, in my opinion, some of the best bands. Sorry I missed the premier!
Steve Miller Band's 'Fly Like an Eagle' One pf my all time favorites. Austin City Limits is my favorite version. There is a transition during the mid spacy part that I like. This looks like one of the older versions.
Got to see Steve open for the Dead at Rich stadium in Buffalo. His show was awesome, and the Dead must have been listening , because they came out rocking! Good music, good times, good memories. Glad you enjoyed the song, it's always nice to see your face light up. Even better is the perspective you bring to your reactions. We get a bit of the ingenue as well as the expert. NICE!
We saw the Steve Miller Band this summer (June 2024). The concert was excellent and he can still play the guitar brilliantly at 80. The versions were closer to the album tracks and really well done. Book of Dreams is the first album I received from Columbia House. lol
Especially the famous SFO bands really strived to keep developing their songs, even after they had “frozen them in time” on an LP. As pointed out the band formed in the mid-60’s and are still playing together. I’ve never heard this version of the song, but there are many that sound different from the LP version, the recorded live versions, and each other! Heck, this year he’s probably got a new intro! When you are exploring on UA-cams, and you see “official version,” Well…dontcha believe it!! :)
"Somebody give me a cheeseburger" from a different song but it's always the first thing I think of when I'm reminded of Stevie Guitar Miller. The line is from "Livin' in the USA". Did anyone see that Greg Kihn passed😢
@psongman9536 I actually haven't before, I was waiting for this video to release to watch it and I made that comment when this video was still showing as an upcoming live release
Genuine blues voice and one one of best rock bass players ever. Interesting choice.His other alter ego was The Gangster of Love from his cover of the Johnny Guitar Watson tune.
Great video. Thanks! I hope you cover his song "Jungle Love" a banger or more seductive "Wild Mountain Honey". The story of him buying the guitar called a "Sitar" featured in Wild Mountain Honey is pretty amazing too.
I bought the Joker album in 1973 and got to see him at the Glasgow Apollo. So many great songs that I haven't listened to in ages. Music has always been important but during Covid lockdown it was vital for mental wellbeing. Going to have to dig out some SMB tonight.
I've seen Steve four times in Oklahoma City he used to come here regularly, he just had a three hour tour, oh wait that was an old tv show, it was a short ride from Dallas, up I-35 to OKC, his guitar work always amazed me
i was there when they came out for 4 encores and the audience still wanted more - steve came back out alone with a wooden chair and an acoustic guitar, to go all the way back to his 1st album in some heavenly unplugged versions for us. this man has lived all his life to make music, not money or news. the acoustic "baby's calling me home" still rings in my head, decades later
Ahh, the memories! I had the fortune to be at the concert where they introduced this song publicly the first time-as the concert encore. Beyond awesome!
@@psongman9536 No. Their opening band was Boz Scaggs band. Boz was originally a SMB member, and his band joined Steve's onstage for a very extended version.
Days of my childhood. The sixties saw music change at a very fast pace. Recording tech was a revolution in sound possibilities. Synthesisers were starting come about (The famous Moog in the late sixties) and the dominance of the composing band replaced the singer being fed by a song writer.
There was a blind singer Paul "Earthquake" Pena who wrote the Steve Miller song, Jet Airliner. He also did Tuvan throat singing. It would be cool if you could react to Genghis Blues.
This album was not before Pink Floyd! What’s she talking about? I remember I was in middle school when fly like an eagle came out in 76’ Pink Floyd’s animals came out that year, Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams, Hotel California, Bob Seger, America’s Hat trick all in 76.
Very interesting. It's a great song, got a lot of airplay back in the day and on modern "Classic Rock" stations these days. "... chewing gum oozy feel to it that's so bluesy ...". Love it!
I am very familiar with this song. That said... I had never heard or seen THIS version. Wow... it sounds MUCH better than the original studio version in my opinion. Thanks for explaining some of Steve's background. Take care....
Steve took a passing riff from another song he had and worked it into a the main to this song. This stage work was his early molding of the song into what finally ended up on the studio album version. Steve Miller's late 60's and early 70's was raw, powerful, FM rock. By the late 70's, his music seemed to become more commercial in nature, which was better for the radio format. His songs were definitely early psychedelic jam and anti-war (Vietnam) that was profound.
When I worked concert security in St. Louis, Steve’s opening act had to cancel due to their singers illness. Steve out on a 4 hour concert without slowing down once.
Love it Beth. I don't know if I have ask but please in your spare time check out the song Baby Love by Mother's Finest on the Rock a Pulsa Ture. Forgive me for the misspelled words
My favorite performance of this tune was about a year before the album hit.... it was around the Christmas holidays and Steve was on The Midnight Special Jan. 1974 and he sang this song with a different but very cool opening for this classic song 😎🎸 This performance is on UA-cam please check it out ✌️😉
If you like this guitar sound check out 'The Storm' by Man. (Welsh rock band big on the West Coast (US) . Micky Jones; another master of those effects. Steve Miller; guitar great but usually remembered in the UK for pop songs.
The Fly Like an Eagle album from 1976 addeded a more technical layer to the Steve Miller Band's music. This version is a bit funkier, and varies from the studio version. Nice to see and hear it.
As I recall this was from The Midnight Special in about 1974. What you're hearing is a song in a formative version that is a little less structured, but more funky and you say
In fact limited means often forces creativity to figure out "How exactly am I going to be able to create that with only a limited supply and budget?" Some classic tv benefited from it. You can't rely on sfx or video edits oe cgi to act as a crutch.
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Ummmmmm.... Uhhhhhh... This sounds like they just came back from New Orleans with the little inspiration... But the studio version is unrecognizable to this fyi. Give a listen
Eh, I just looked it up and this song was not before Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd got their start in the late 1960s while some version of this song was first played in 1973 and not released on an album until 1976. Pink Floyd really hit it big with Dark Side Of The Moon which they released in 1973, but they had spacy type rock since the beginning really.
I have not thought about this song in years! Beth, you brought memories back! (I have been subscribed to your channel for a couple years or more because of YOUR talent at looking at/presenting OTHER musicians'!) * yeah, I know, I know. You stick to "BIG NAME" artists' songs because you must do so in order to build! ^ (I don't find fault with ya!) BUT, anywho! I was inspired to zip out a cover of this song because YOU seemed to love it! ua-cam.com/video/lvFF8u-IF0A/v-deo.htmlsi=Hm1dpgsDkQWJjMSr I'm a nobody! I'm OLD and haven't had a band in years! NONE of my "UA-cam numbers" are inflated (as far as I know) by bots! ...I know I'm not a "virtiouso" I'm just a real-deal rock musician from East Tennessee! and, Rock & Roll IS MY LIFE!
Never heard this version, so this is Steve Miller, just went back and listened to my album, doesn't sound like this, can you give us some info on this video, thanks!
Wow. Saying that i dislike this version is an understatement akin to saying that the Roman Empire was kind of big. Live music is almost always bad to begin with, but this is really offensive to my ears.
3:51 Mentioning Seal brought "to seal" as a word, a concept, to my mind. Steve Miller shown being sealed and concentrated, focused. Because "like an eagle" he is forced to appreciate and really understand the goodness - of the wind, sake of heaven. The wind, the "air". Which is the riff. It's such a good riff. The riff is the force, the air. It shall carry him. But he needs to obey, to bow and bend. Does he know how to bend? Yes, it's his voice he knows, likes and is willing to bend. He's so good at bending in quarters. Maybe Seal specializes in intervals and range, just another "assumption" (tentatively, let me assume that Seal does his own rhythm - easy opposed to Miller operation a guitar, atttached to his band. One step beyond: assuming Seal sets his own pauses, singing pauses, whereas Miller submits to the instrumental riff rhythm when sealing his voice, i.e. sings Not. To test this thought, I shall wonder if either Miller or Seal songs make more sense sung as stand-along singing, no strings attached). The gist: your video taught me intrinsic meaning hidden to me until today (for decades). If the riff is able to carry you like an eagle - you need not do much, if you are willing to accept the rhythm and not sing astray - you may focus on your very small inch of move you allow yourself to make, then "prey". BTW, Prey is the name of a classic Schubert singer. Cheers! Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to speak up in your place, so to say, and please forgive me for being bubbly.
Steve Miller’s dad is Glenn Miller, the famous big band leader. One of the people who taught Steve Miller how to play guitar was Lester Polfuss, the famous Les Paul, Who helped invent the Les Paul guitar at Gibson.
In the 80s I saw a tribute to Glenn Miller show called Remember Glenn Miller. The band leader was Miller's son (or claimed to be). I think he played a clarinet, not a guitar.
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Good times ⏲️ them days 😊
Beth, this really blew me away. This is the first time I've ever heard this version of the song. It is so much different than the one played on the radio. And, I have been listening to music for 60+ years!!!
Oh Yes! Thanks for covering our homeboy! Steve Miller has been around since the Beatles and still jams to his unique, eclectic sounds. Always a pleasure listening to a fellow Wisconsinite who actually has talent 😊....Les Paul grew up probably 20 miles away from Steve...one generation older. ❤ it!
Steve Miller Band was the first concert I ever attended. I recently saw a bumper sticker that read "I may be old, but I've seen all the best bands" (and it's true)
I am' older' but missed out on seeing some I wanted to see live, like Zeppelin. I was only 8 when they last played in driving distance from where I grew up.
@@bamachine My biggest regret: Sometime around 1981 there was a new Irish rock band playing at a small club a few blocks away. I'd heard of them but hadn't listened to their album 'Boy' yet. On hearing U2's first single "I Will Follow" it was pretty clear they were going to be a big thing...
Definitely a reinterpretation of the original which is very worth while listening to.
I saw the Steve Miller Band in 1978 and 1980. I was 10 and 12 years old. Thanks Dad!
Hey Beth, thank for this reaction. I'm always learning something new about music and vocals when I watch your videos.
That "hooking" start : absolutely it grabs you. There are so many amazing examples of that idea of a slow build to grab interest and intrigue you to staying around - Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits is a real slow burn, Shine On You Crazy Diamond by Pink Floyd, the approaching steam train in Station To Station by David Bowie, the bongos with organ in Black Magic Woman by Santana, the Eldorado Overture by Electric Light Orchestra, the first 40 seconds of Take The Long Way Home by Supertramp (and the way that harmonica *cries* when it comes in).....Anyone can have a long intro, or vamp on a 4-chord structure but building a sense of anticipation and motion and making you feel the increasing tension without losing interest is a special skill and to be appreciated.
Steve Miller Band is one of the most underrated bands. So many of their songs are played in soundtracks and known in pop culture, but not always known.
Maybe but I don't think at anytime in my life I have said I would really like to hear some Steve Miller right now.Whenever I talk about great music with anyone Steve Miller never comes up.
@@stevefronczek7439 I had listened to them since my early teens in the mid-70's. They had a lot of air-time on the radio and on juke boxes. Even now when they come on the radio, I turn it up to 11. Contrary to them not winning a whole of awards (there were some) they influenced others.
SMB and Kansas. Everybody knows their music, even today.
Steve Miller and Boz Skaggs went to St. Mark's Academy in my hometown of Dallas, TX. They were in a band together called The Marksmen... Steve's godfather was Les Paul, the guy the guitar is named after. 🙂
I was fortunate enough to see the Steve Miller Band in the summer of 1977 during his Book of Dreams tour. Great time and great memory. Thanks for the reaction.
Thank you for all the wonderful insights and information. I appreciate your love for the music. 🎶 🎵
This was the band of my youth (and ever since!). Good to hear your reaction to this song.
Wonderful reaction, Beth. I have a fond memory of this song from my childhood, albeit not of Steve Miller. My when I was in elementary school, my father had been hired by a small but growing rural Arkansas school to start a music program. He conducted both wind band and choir for the upper 6 grades. In one of the early concerts, he had the high school choir sing "Fly Like An Eagle". That memory has stuck with me for 45 years.
Watching this reminded me of listening to a recent live album from Billy Strings. This was Billy and his bluegrass band, and on several tunes the band would use effects pedals to create a lots of textures such as heard here, though it was actually even richer because of more modern recording technology and several more melodic instruments. "Away From The Mire" is the one that sticks out to me. I saw Billy perform it in concert, and it's absolutely mesmerizing. If you want to see musicians at the absolutely top tier performing without any corrections of pitch or time, Billy's band is great, but all the top bluegrass musicians must be able to perform at that level. Not much to hide when everything is an acoustic instrument. Besides being a brilliant acoustic guitarist, Billy is also quite an adept electric guitarist, being one of the few people to sit in with Tool in concert, something he did twice in the past year.
I remember listening to this over and over again. The studio version is somewhat different from this live version, but both have their strengths. As another commenter wrote, this was what it was like growing up with, in my opinion, some of the best bands. Sorry I missed the premier!
No worries!!
Steve Miller Band's 'Fly Like an Eagle' One pf my all time favorites. Austin City Limits is my favorite version. There is a transition during the mid spacy part that I like. This looks like one of the older versions.
Got to see Steve open for the Dead at Rich stadium in Buffalo. His show was awesome, and the Dead must have been listening , because they came out rocking! Good music, good times, good memories. Glad you enjoyed the song, it's always nice to see your face light up. Even better is the perspective you bring to your reactions. We get a bit of the ingenue as well as the expert. NICE!
Saw that tour. 😎 Two nights at Soldier Field in Chicago. Steve was awesome, of course, but essentially the same set both nights. And the Dead... 😅
We saw the Steve Miller Band this summer (June 2024). The concert was excellent and he can still play the guitar brilliantly at 80. The versions were closer to the album tracks and really well done. Book of Dreams is the first album I received from Columbia House. lol
Saw the Steve Miller Blues Band in '66 and the Steve Miller Band and Boz Scaggs in '74...great concerts...
I'll always remember an "Entertainment Tonight" from 1982 when they were asking Steve when he was going to retire, because he was about to become 40!
Shoutout to Lonnie Turner on bass. He absoultely crushed it.
This is in my top 3 songs all time. I have loved it since I was a kid. You should really check out the studio version.
Every Steve Miller hit is dramatically different from every other one. Yet they all share the same DNA.
Especially the famous SFO bands really strived to keep developing their songs, even after they had “frozen them in time” on an LP. As pointed out the band formed in the mid-60’s and are still playing together. I’ve never heard this version of the song, but there are many that sound different from the LP version, the recorded live versions, and each other! Heck, this year he’s probably got a new intro! When you are exploring on UA-cams, and you see “official version,” Well…dontcha believe it!! :)
Saw Steve Miller in the early 70's. Great concert. I feel his early music was the best.
"Somebody give me a cheeseburger" from a different song but it's always the first thing I think of when I'm reminded of Stevie Guitar Miller. The line is from "Livin' in the USA". Did anyone see that Greg Kihn passed😢
Wow, that definitely went under the radar what happened & when, always liked Greg, sad news
I really hope this includes the space intro
so, you have heard this version?
@psongman9536 I actually haven't before, I was waiting for this video to release to watch it and I made that comment when this video was still showing as an upcoming live release
“And I don’t let my friends get hurt.” Favorite Steve Miller line from “Space Cowboy.”
Genuine blues voice and one one of best rock bass players ever. Interesting choice.His other alter ego was The Gangster of Love from his cover of the Johnny Guitar Watson tune.
Great video. Thanks!
I hope you cover his song "Jungle Love" a banger or more seductive "Wild Mountain Honey". The story of him buying the guitar called a "Sitar" featured in Wild Mountain Honey is pretty amazing too.
I bought the Joker album in 1973 and got to see him at the Glasgow Apollo. So many great songs that I haven't listened to in ages. Music has always been important but during Covid lockdown it was vital for mental wellbeing. Going to have to dig out some SMB tonight.
Hearing the chorus sung with a different cadence than the album is really messing with my head. 😆
Me too, checking up on this version, right now!!!
I've seen Steve four times in Oklahoma City he used to come here regularly, he just had a three hour tour, oh wait that was an old tv show, it was a short ride from Dallas, up I-35 to OKC, his guitar work always amazed me
Check out the Neville Brother's cover of this song.... featuring Steve himself on guitar. Want funky, that's funky you can smell ;-)
Rumour has it that no one actually calls him “the gangster of love”
True, but whenever I bump into him, I call him Maurice.
i was there when they came out for 4 encores and the audience still wanted more - steve came back out alone with a wooden chair and an acoustic guitar, to go all the way back to his 1st album in some heavenly unplugged versions for us. this man has lived all his life to make music, not money or news.
the acoustic "baby's calling me home" still rings in my head, decades later
Check out Wild Mountain Honey if you really want to be impressed by his vocals, one of my favorites.
Boz Scaggs sang with Steve in Dallas as well
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A vastly underrated talent. I would suggest the Boz Skaggs/Miller song OVERDRIVE From SAILOR album as another analysis.
Ahh, the memories! I had the fortune to be at the concert where they introduced this song publicly the first time-as the concert encore. Beyond awesome!
Was this the version?
@@psongman9536 No. Their opening band was Boz Scaggs band. Boz was originally a SMB member, and his band joined Steve's onstage for a very extended version.
I enjoyed hearing your use of the word "shoogle"...reminds me of seeing one of my favourite Scottish bands, Shooglenifty...
Days of my childhood. The sixties saw music change at a very fast pace. Recording tech was a revolution in sound possibilities. Synthesisers were starting come about (The famous Moog in the late sixties) and the dominance of the composing band replaced the singer being fed by a song writer.
Music isn’t a secondary language. It’s the primary language bc it crosses borders and brings people together
He has numerous strong tracks from his career.
I had this album, "Fly Like an Eagle", on 8-track back in high school. Damn, feeling kinda old now.
There was a blind singer Paul "Earthquake" Pena who wrote the Steve Miller song, Jet Airliner. He also did Tuvan throat singing. It would be cool if you could react to Genghis Blues.
This album was not before Pink Floyd! What’s she talking about? I remember I was in middle school when fly like an eagle came out in 76’ Pink Floyd’s animals came out that year, Fleetwood Mac’s Dreams, Hotel California, Bob Seger, America’s Hat trick all in 76.
Very interesting. It's a great song, got a lot of airplay back in the day and on modern "Classic Rock" stations these days.
"... chewing gum oozy feel to it that's so bluesy ...". Love it!
Cómo decirlo esa época maravillosa solo la puedo comparar con mi amor de sirena ❤ bien señorita Beth 👏👏🍀🍀
My favorite Steve Miller song is: I Will Never Kill Another Man Just something about how he recorded it and delivered it grabbed my hard
when it came out, it did seem like a decent goal to set for your life, didnt it? vietnam raised a lot of questions to think about
The Bass is really going ham in this version..
Seal (Kiss From A Rose) covered "Fly Like An Eagle" for Space Jam
Steve Miller Band has a myriad of hits like "The Joker" and "Take The Money and Run"
Greetings from Scotland. Regards, Howard.
Left-handed bass player playing upside-down bass
I am very familiar with this song. That said... I had never heard or seen THIS version. Wow... it sounds MUCH better than the original studio version in my opinion. Thanks for explaining some of Steve's background. Take care....
This isn't the most well known recorded version that was played on the radio.
Steve took a passing riff from another song he had and worked it into a the main to this song. This stage work was his early molding of the song into what finally ended up on the studio album version. Steve Miller's late 60's and early 70's was raw, powerful, FM rock. By the late 70's, his music seemed to become more commercial in nature, which was better for the radio format. His songs were definitely early psychedelic jam and anti-war (Vietnam) that was profound.
Just a note on something you said. While Miller is influential, this is not before Pink Floyd, and some other similar bands.
Thanks for this @KaosPoet, I had to look it up 😃 Closer than I realized for both inception and debut.
I love this song but to be honest, I like the trippy studio version better than this more bluesy version. Both are good though.
When I worked concert security in St. Louis, Steve’s opening act had to cancel due to their singers illness. Steve out on a 4 hour concert without slowing down once.
Love it Beth. I don't know if I have ask but please in your spare time check out the song Baby Love by Mother's Finest on the Rock a Pulsa Ture. Forgive me for the misspelled words
My favorite performance of this tune was about a year before the album hit.... it was around the Christmas holidays and Steve was on The Midnight Special Jan. 1974 and he sang this song with a different but very cool opening for this classic song 😎🎸
This performance is on UA-cam please check it out ✌️😉
If you like this guitar sound check out 'The Storm' by Man. (Welsh rock band big on the West Coast (US) . Micky Jones; another master of those effects. Steve Miller; guitar great but usually remembered in the UK for pop songs.
If you cover another Steve Miller song, please do Serenade 🙏
In my mind's eye as a child, I thought Steve Miller was the radio D.J. on the TV show Northern Exposure. No, I don't know why.
"Chris in the Morning"!
John Corbett as Chris Stevens 👍
I think I heard his first guitar teacher was lightnin Hopkins, who was a family friend.
The Fly Like an Eagle album from 1976 addeded a more technical layer to the Steve Miller Band's music. This version is a bit funkier, and varies from the studio version. Nice to see and hear it.
As I recall this was from The Midnight Special in about 1974. What you're hearing is a song in a formative version that is a little less structured, but more funky and you say
This is great, but it's one of the few songs where I like the studio version better. Nice pick though!
Listen to Dream Weaver by Gary Wright for more "spacey" vibes.
In fact limited means often forces creativity to figure out "How exactly am I going to be able to create that with only a limited supply and budget?" Some classic tv benefited from it. You can't rely on sfx or video edits oe cgi to act as a crutch.
Space Cowboy the best and first
hello, Bety. Te acompanho desde que reagiu ao Gabriel Henrique cantando I Have Nothing da Whitney Houston. Amo sua sensibilidade e o fato de você ter propriedade para fazer as reações.
Queria muito que voltasse a reagir ao Gabriel Henrique cantando novamente. beijos aqui do Brasil ❤
The b00mers made great music
Another influential album from the 60s that blends jazz, blues, rock, electronic effects is Miles Davis' Bitches Brew.
this is definitely different than the studio version
Interesting. This was way better than I remembered it being.
You must react to "balavoine" on the next video cause he's totally incredible. pleeaaase
Saw him in 1977 in a hockey arena, before the show started the scoreboard had a message "Elvis is coming " he died a couple days later
REACT TO
GUILHERME DE SÁ - REQUIEM
ROSA DE SARON - MAIS QUE UM MERO POEMA
They were pretty much the same time
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2 songs to react to Request Thomas mac Beer by a tombstone And Eminem's somebody save me Featuring Jelly roll.
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Please analyze the song "Vida Seca" by Angra. Hugs from Brazil
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Ummmmmm.... Uhhhhhh... This sounds like they just came back from New Orleans with the little inspiration... But the studio version is unrecognizable to this fyi. Give a listen
Big old jet airliner an abracadabra
Eh, I just looked it up and this song was not before Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd got their start in the late 1960s while some version of this song was first played in 1973 and not released on an album until 1976. Pink Floyd really hit it big with Dark Side Of The Moon which they released in 1973, but they had spacy type rock since the beginning really.
I have not thought about this song in years!
Beth, you brought memories back! (I have been subscribed to your channel for a couple years or more because of YOUR talent at looking at/presenting OTHER musicians'!) * yeah, I know, I know. You stick to "BIG NAME" artists' songs because you must do so in order to build! ^
(I don't find fault with ya!) BUT, anywho!
I was inspired to zip out a cover of this song because YOU seemed to love it!
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I'm a nobody!
I'm OLD and haven't had a band in years!
NONE of my "UA-cam numbers" are inflated (as far as I know) by bots!
...I know I'm not a "virtiouso"
I'm just a real-deal rock musician from East Tennessee!
and, Rock & Roll IS MY LIFE!
Never heard this version, so this is Steve Miller, just went back and listened to my album, doesn't sound like this, can you give us some info on this video, thanks!
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this is arranged diffrent from the song on the radio
checkout the other arrangement
Not a bad version. Studio much better!
I love you Beth! Come to New York!
Wow. Saying that i dislike this version is an understatement akin to saying that the Roman Empire was kind of big. Live music is almost always bad to begin with, but this is really offensive to my ears.
3:51 Mentioning Seal brought "to seal" as a word, a concept, to my mind. Steve Miller shown being sealed and concentrated, focused. Because "like an eagle" he is forced to appreciate and really understand the goodness - of the wind, sake of heaven. The wind, the "air".
Which is the riff. It's such a good riff. The riff is the force, the air. It shall carry him. But he needs to obey, to bow and bend. Does he know how to bend? Yes, it's his voice he knows, likes and is willing to bend. He's so good at bending in quarters. Maybe Seal specializes in intervals and range, just another "assumption" (tentatively, let me assume that Seal does his own rhythm - easy opposed to Miller operation a guitar, atttached to his band. One step beyond: assuming Seal sets his own pauses, singing pauses, whereas Miller submits to the instrumental riff rhythm when sealing his voice, i.e. sings Not. To test this thought, I shall wonder if either Miller or Seal songs make more sense sung as stand-along singing, no strings attached).
The gist: your video taught me intrinsic meaning hidden to me until today (for decades). If the riff is able to carry you like an eagle - you need not do much, if you are willing to accept the rhythm and not sing astray - you may focus on your very small inch of move you allow yourself to make, then "prey". BTW, Prey is the name of a classic Schubert singer.
Cheers!
Thank you. Thank you for allowing me to speak up in your place, so to say, and please forgive me for being bubbly.
steve miller stARTed in 1966, Pink floyd start in 1965, so I do not think steve miller came before pink floyd
Steve Miller’s dad is Glenn Miller, the famous big band leader. One of the people who taught Steve Miller how to play guitar was Lester Polfuss, the famous Les Paul, Who helped invent the Les Paul guitar at Gibson.
Nope..his father was George, a Milwaukee pathologist and jazz fan. I grew up there at the same time Steve did.
Nope..George is his dad. He was a pathologist in Milwaukee....I grew up there at the same time Steve did.
Glenn Miller did have a son named Steven Miller, but he's not THIS Steven Miller.
In the 80s I saw a tribute to Glenn Miller show called Remember Glenn Miller. The band leader was Miller's son (or claimed to be). I think he played a clarinet, not a guitar.
Check out the live version of Frankenstein by The Edgar Winter Ggroup for some great synthesizer work.