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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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! 😂
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 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.
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.
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...
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.
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!
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.
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.
@@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.
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
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.
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!
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
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.
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...
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.
There’s a double album that never gets recognized from Steve Miller called Anthology, I encourage you listen to Going to the country, Your saving grace and Kow Kow . Well worth your time
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...
As has been mentioned, Les Paul and Mary Ford were Steve's God Parents, Les and Steve's father were lifelong friends and Les taught Steve to play guitar
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" 👏👏👏👏👏
I'm with you ❤
Me too! Billy Mac is a detective down in Texas 👏👏👏👏👏
Gotta do those fast claps! Steve was a great concert to see in the 70’s!
Peace
That and the drums part to Phil Collins In The Air Tonight😂
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.
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.
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.
Anything Steve Miller!! Serenade and Space Cowboy, couple favs
always here for Steve Miller..thank you guys..
Who says crime don't pay! Steve Miller is a prolific hit-maker...
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.
yeah, he doesn't really show it all that much in his studio albums, but live the guy really can play.
Saw him live like 10 years ago. He was insane.
Steve is a certified BA. All the way
Album as a whole is excellent
I always loved that the solo in this song is just a chunk of bitchin' rhythm guitar...love that!
Fly like an eagle & Jet airliner are my favorites!
This album was a step forward in rock production value.
Outstanding sound on vinyl in 1976.
That intro is everything. I could listen to that on a loop all day. Steve Miller is awesome. Love the channel, guys.
Gary Mallaber!
That's one of his best. "Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash" is too often overlooked, and it grooves hard.
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!
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! 😂
"THE STAKE" is the best of many great tunes...!
"WILD MOUNTAIN HONEY" Is a lessor known Gem...!
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 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.
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.
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...
Steve Miller is awesome. He close to 80 n still performing. Greatness has no age.
So many great songs by Steve Miller. React to FLY LIKE AN EAGLE
Another great Bay Area band from the sixties and seventies and onward
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.
Steve Miller is one of my favorites. I bet you guys would love his song " Mercury Blues".
Great band. Mercury Blues and Your Saving Grace. Excellent reaction fellas. Appreciate you 🙏 ❤
An all time fav…
Great pick…the song has a Bonnie & Clyde vibe yet you can’t not groove to it! Banger!!!
If you have a schitty singing voice and love karaoke then Steve Miller is your go-to guy.
One of his best. Rock'n Me from this album fine too. Still going strong.
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!!
Another outstanding murder ballad!
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!
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.
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.
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 little Steve Miller never hurt anyone.
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.
Good on Steve for giving such a talented young artist an opportunity.
@@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.
whole album is a banger.....do it all
Your saving Grace is a must.
Good old rock and roll
I absolutely LOVE the Steve Miller Band! I have since I can remember
A great band, with so many hits! 🎶🎶👍
Humble rock star Steve Miller. As others may have commented, Les Paul is his godfather
Great song
Thank you both.
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
Steve Miller songs often have that tight harmony that’s fun and easy to sing along with.
Check out Fly like an Eagle, Jet Airliner, Abracadabra etc... so many hits.
Nice guy's.Old time fave of mine!!!😃🇨🇦
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.
SMB is soooooo much fun!! Saw them in the 70s with a little known artist...Norton Buffalo.
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.
WINTERTIME, THE WINDOW.
I love Steve Miller. He toured a lot in the 70’s and his show was always fire.
Definitely do more Steve Miller. A legend.
such a fun band to see live
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!
I love this ...on the radio when I was bout 6-8
The whole album is a great piece of work!!! Brings me back to my misspent teen years!!! Must do more from this one. 👍👍
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
A classic drum intro.
This song was gangsta a whole decade before gangsta rap was born. Classic!~
Smooth story telling up in that song!
FLY LIKE AN EAGLE LIVE.
Take it Laa, Take it Chee! Yeah
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.
Great straight forward rock and roll song and tells a great story, one of my favorites
That drum beat the claps the story. Perfect lil jam all around
Les Pauls Godchild
He opened for my first Grateful Dead show.
Fly Like an Eagle has one of my all-time favorite drum performances. That'd be a good one to check out.
Great album. Keep going. Then Book Of Dreams.
Such a fun band!
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...
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. 😁
Wifey's is "Wild Mountain Honey"
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.
Great driving song
Crank it up and go fast..lol
Waukesha, Wis.'s own Steve Miller. I think they made a movie from this song.
Saw these guys with the Doobie Brothers at Red Rocks (the best place ever for a concert) back in 1995! 3 hours of pure enjoyment!!
I live thirty minutes from there. And you're absolutely right.
Ooooooooo yeah!!
This is a good album to explore. I swear y'all remind me of me and my brother. Thanks, guys.
saw him at Thunder Valley casino a month ago still rockin got alot of hits
There’s a double album that never gets recognized from Steve Miller called Anthology, I encourage you listen to Going to the country, Your saving grace and Kow Kow . Well worth your time
Did the claps! Everything hangs off the bass in this song.
Dig how the drummer forwards the staccato beats of the hand claps during other parts of the song.
And yes I still clap with it
Great tune...
Stevie "Guitar" Miller. ❤
Thumbed up before I even watched. Been waiting for this one.
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...
This album & the next one were like greatest hits albums, full of great songs. Would recommend or request Mercury Blues, an old fav.
Read up on how Steve Miller felt about the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame. The dude basically told them to 🖕🏻. Absolute legend.
As has been mentioned, Les Paul and Mary Ford were Steve's God Parents, Les and Steve's father were lifelong friends and Les taught Steve to play guitar
I saw Steve Miller in 1995 and it was an awesome show. Every song in his set was a top hit.
Abracadabra, Jungle Love