He's an underrated guitarist because, like Gilmour, he doesn't shred. But what's good about him is more subtle than Gilmour or Frampton. It's less a distinctive style, and more like a flexible versatility. I love his delay-based rendition of Fly Like An Eagle from the Midnight Special. And that might be the most beautiful guitar ever.
How did I not know this?! Fucking awesome Edit: just did some reading, his parents were the best man and maid of honor for Les Paul and Mary Ford. Steve literally grew up with Les Paul hanging at the house with his parents. This is blowing my mind.
Loved seeing this "calm and chill" song touch Lex's soul. I can say from personal experience, 70s classic rock should be "energizing" for you, just like metal has been so far.
this guy has a bunch of classics, he was so big in the mid 70's. here's a few of his bigger hits, - fly like an eagle, - serenade, - jungle love, - take the money and run, just to name a few.
This song will always be for my little brother & his time in the Army in the 1990s. He earned the name Maurice from his fellow trainees in basic training. It was shortened to Mo which he kept forever after even when he later was part of a veteran's PTSD support group. Brother was in Bosnia/Kosovo & Somalia where he received a field promotion to Staff Sergeant. Brother died from a massive cardiac event on 1/27/21. R.I.P. Aaron Hamilton.
I love Steve Miller Band! They’ve got a deep catalog: Jungle Love, The Stake, Wild Mountain Honey, Abracadabra, Dance Dance Dance. I first heard this song at my very first job in 1992 when I worked at an amusement park. There was a ride called the Himalaya and the owner of the park only allowed the best 70s and 80s music on that ride.
@@jamessomers8808 Sorry, probably a bit obscure unless you're a Terry Pratchet fan. It's a disc world novel 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents' but I associate the name Maurice with it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Maurice_and_his_Educated_Rodents
This came out when I was in my early teens...Steve Miller was one of the better bands amidst a time when legions of great bands rocked the air waves.......
This song has been on my "chillin out in the garden with my friends having a family bbq" playlist for 30+ years. Just good vibes, smiles all around. The song thats comes after this one on my playlist is Son of a preacher by dusty springfield, check it out.
Brad even smiled after the song! Look at the big heart on Brad! Spock find your Earth half! I like your no bs approach to reactions! I watched so many different people reaction and they need to take notes from you two.
Just saw them in July of 2019! Still rockin’. He’s a great story teller. The venue only held about 1,000 people so it was super intimate. Great show! Great band! Anything you play from them will be interesting.
I have to agree. I saw him in a similar venue and thoroughly enjoyed it. You're right about the story telling and he's a very talented musician/song writer.
I started watching various reaction videos about a year ago, and since I found you guys several months ago you've become my absolute favorites. Thanks for them all.
This is probably the tenth time I watched this vid, yet it still gets me a chuckle when I hear Brad saying, "Uh, you wanna turn everything into metal".
This was favorite song of the night!! I’ve been requesting this one for weeks. I loved Brad saying the shake your tree line slaps. YES IT SURE DOES friend.
When I was 10 years old, in 1977, I had a portable suitcase record player that would play 45s 78s and 33s. The first two 45s I told my mother to buy were the Steve Miller band and Foreigner.
This was Homer Simpson's favorite song in high school. Mine too. A lot of the lyrics are references to Miller's earlier hits. Good vibes, Waukesha, Wis.'s own. A true legend. Dig deeper.
This song is the start of a style…it’s a 70’s track! Let’s be real, this could of came out in the 90’s and nobody would of thought it was out of place.
Seen Steve Miller around 40 years ago. The one thing I remember everyone in the crowd sang like 6 songs in a row Was a great concert. Fly Like a Eagle is a must.
Ha! Quote: "The pompatus/pompitous of love is a nonsense phrase, said to be about intimate things that you would tell only to a close and special person." I love it when songwriters make up words! Lex is styling in pinkish shades today... Thanx for the reaction.
Steve Miller's Book of Dreams was the first album (yes, vinyl) I ever got as a young teen, a thousand years ago. I finally got to see him live a couple years ago, and the dude's still got it.
Classic song from way back. This was a song we'd drive around drinking and toking and someone would put in the tape and everyone would start singing and screaming the lyrics to it. It was one of the few songs I think we all knew the lyrics too.
Check out Steve Miller Band "Space Cowboy" for the backstory. Also check out Steve Miller Band "Living in the U.S.A." and "Rock'n Me" for a couple more bangers.
Steve Miller goes from Living in the USA and Space Cowboy to Mercury Blues and Fly Like an Eagle. He has a lot of really good songs. I was lucky enough to see him live back in the day.
Growing up I always thought this song was from the 90s. I only found out it was from the 70s a few years ago on UA-cam. The song was way ahead of its time.
Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs ("Lowdown") both came out of Dallas at about the same time - Scaggs was in Miller's band for a while. Really fun and good music.
There was a jeans advert (in the UK, at least) in the late '80s where a cool guy come out of the elevator on his motorbike, many floors up in an office building, rides through the desk, 'rescues' his girlfriend from her boring job and rides off with her, all with this track playing behind it. The ad made the song massively popular again. At the time, I was working in an office, with a particularly nervous and impressionable girl sitting opposite me, and I rode a motorbike, so we used to wind her up about it. I'd walk past her whistling The Joker and watch her twitch, or one time, when she'd gone to the loo, she came out and walked past the elevators to see me and another guy measuring the doors with tape measures and scratching our chins...😈
Good ol' 1970's toking up some skunky green bud while drinking Boone's Farm strawberry wine in the noonday sun with your best friends type music and man, am I glad that I lived it when the living was a whole lot easier✌🏼
I can't truly believe that someone in this country has never heard this song. This song has been everywhere for decades and even though I haven't owned this album for 20 years I hear the song daily in Movies, TV, car radios, in supermarkets and stores, everywhere. This song is woven deep into generations of American culture, a constant in the background. A song that has never been considered "retro" because it has never disappeared to be rediscovered. One of a handful of songs ever to have true staying power.
Laziest man in Rock and Roll. At one time Boz Scaggs and Rick James played with Steve Miller. It was great when he went off on the Hall of Fame board. Basically told them sit down shut up listen and learn. Lol
We used to love to party in college with are Steve Miller cassettes as our own soundtrack many great songs going back to hearing him as kid on F M radio
This song came on when my dad was taking me to Canada for vacation back in the late 90s and we are both singing it and it gets to the “ I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree” my dad just stops singing and goes please don’t ever ask me what that means we both laughed and I said dad I already know hahaha
Lex always wants things turned into metal 😂. I'd recommend Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios here on UA-cam if you're looking for someone already turning everything into metal!
"Fly Like an Eagle" "Jungle Love" "Take the Money and Run" are a few good Steve Miller songs.
''Fly Like an Eagle''
Jet Airliner
All too new... You have to go back to early Steve Miller ... Living In The USA, Going To Mexico, Space Cowboy...
@@vrvaughn I guess that depends on how old a person is. I'm a 70's classic rock fan.
@@ralphfiligenzi6180 oh I get it… and I’m just old 😉🤣😂🤣😂
Fun facts about Steve Miller: Les Paul was his godfather. Steve formed his first band at age 12.
Cool. Thanks. Another one is that his use of 'pompatus' was him inventing a word, with the only purpose being to use it in that song (a nonce).
Another fun fact both of them were from Wisconsin
He's an underrated guitarist because, like Gilmour, he doesn't shred. But what's good about him is more subtle than Gilmour or Frampton. It's less a distinctive style, and more like a flexible versatility. I love his delay-based rendition of Fly Like An Eagle from the Midnight Special. And that might be the most beautiful guitar ever.
I love fun facts, Les Paul was the best man in his father's wedding. no wonder he's so good on the guitar.
And yet he played Fenders... 😂🤣😂
Lex, are you ever in a bad mood? You're always so bright and full of life!
Lex is FANTASTIC. 👍🤪
I do get hangry! Haha
Got to keep that girl Fed will meat 🍖🥓
@@justbe4481 ...Fed...
@@jazzyboy7784 got it 👍
"Take the Money and Run" and "Fly like an Eagle" should be the next songs you guys need to hear!!!
Add "Mercury Blues" to the list!
"Jungle Love"
Livin' in the USA,,,,🔥😎
Heart like a Wheel is also a good one. 👍
@@Tat2Dragons Good one! I haven't heard that one in ages!
Steve Miller's Greatest Hits is one of the best albums of all time....
One of the coolest songs ever.. If this is played out at a bar alot of people sing to it.
hahaha... hey big brother! you fans of these guys too? Love me some Brad & Lex!
@@ClassicRollPlayer Heck yeah.. Have liked for a few months now.. They are great!
My 85 year old uncle is Maurice and he adores this song...some try to call him Morris..but he corrects them and says no, I'm Maurice, I'm a joker!
I have a good friend named Maurice and I used to give him crap about this when we were younger
Jet airliner is another of their songs I think you’d like. Hell you’d could do a stream of just their songs lol
bingo jed had a light on.
Don't carry them too far away.
@@misterkite I was just going to say this. I once heard a comedian say it sounds like"bingo jet had a light on". Lol
@@misterkite to me it was "Bingo, Jed, and Lionel"
Don't forget Take the money and run
The legendary guitarist Les Paul tought Steve Miller how to play guitar. His parents were friends with Les Paul and his wife.
Wow that’s crazy never knew that
How did I not know this?! Fucking awesome
Edit: just did some reading, his parents were the best man and maid of honor for Les Paul and Mary Ford. Steve literally grew up with Les Paul hanging at the house with his parents. This is blowing my mind.
I heard Les was Steve's Godfather
Les Paul was the best man at their wedding.
The world needs more music like this its not cynical at all.
If you liked this, check out Steve Miller Band: "Take the Money and Run."
Brad’s smile said everything - Steve Miller is pure joy. This is drinking in the sunshine with your friends music.
Loved seeing this "calm and chill" song touch Lex's soul. I can say from personal experience, 70s classic rock should be "energizing" for you, just like metal has been so far.
Hellz Yeah!! Great Stuff The 70s goin into the 80s was Amazing!!
The midnight toker is too chill to be trouble. He's a tree shaker, baby.
You damn right!!!! Me all day every day no drama here.
Don't think I ever noticed but that's a pretty sick bass line in there...and of course that solo
Sick as bro
I love that bass line. So perfect.
The Steve Miller Band jams!
"Abracadabera" "Rocknme" "Jet Airliner" "Jungle Love" and "Fly Like An Eagle" are great hits. Really good band!
I think Lex would would like the guitar solo in Abracadabra. Nothing before or after really sounds like that solo, it's a unique sound.
this guy has a bunch of classics, he was so big in the mid 70's. here's a few of his bigger hits, - fly like an eagle, - serenade, - jungle love, - take the money and run, just to name a few.
Livin' in the USA,,,,🔥😎
I feel blessed to have spent all of my teenage years in the 70s we had the best music of all genres
Love Steve Miller Band Member Tour ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Gotta love the reference to her peaches….that line always makes me smile and glad it made you guys smile too!.
This song will always be for my little brother & his time in the Army in the 1990s. He earned the name Maurice from his fellow trainees in basic training. It was shortened to Mo which he kept forever after even when he later was part of a veteran's PTSD support group. Brother was in Bosnia/Kosovo & Somalia where he received a field promotion to Staff Sergeant. Brother died from a massive cardiac event on 1/27/21. R.I.P. Aaron Hamilton.
sorry for your family's loss 😔 may he rest in peace 💙
Try their "Living In The U.S.A.", "Fly like an Eagle", "Jet Airliner", "Take the money and run".
This is the first song that I can ever remember hearing on the radio as a kid.
Les Paul taught Steve Miller how to play guitar, he and his wife were family friends. I am sure he would perform with them when he was young.
Steve Miller was the first concert.I ever saw in 1982.They played for 3 hours and did 6 encores.
I love Steve Miller Band! They’ve got a deep catalog: Jungle Love, The Stake, Wild Mountain Honey, Abracadabra, Dance Dance Dance. I first heard this song at my very first job in 1992 when I worked at an amusement park. There was a ride called the Himalaya and the owner of the park only allowed the best 70s and 80s music on that ride.
Yeah ...Abracadabra
I'm definitely a midnight Toker, but no one calls me Maurice. Pity that.
I believe you need some educated rodents to be called Maurice.
I'm a mid day toker... I'm asleep at midnight!
@@speleokeir I'm not sure what that means, but I'll look into it.😝
@@retiredfirelt586 actually, I'm 52 now and I'm rarely awake after 11pm, but I do toke for several hours every night!😝😝👍
@@jamessomers8808 Sorry, probably a bit obscure unless you're a Terry Pratchet fan. It's a disc world novel 'The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents' but I associate the name Maurice with it.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Amazing_Maurice_and_his_Educated_Rodents
This came out when I was in my early teens...Steve Miller was one of the better bands amidst a time when legions of great bands rocked the air waves.......
This song is timeless, unbelievably good
This song has been on my "chillin out in the garden with my friends having a family bbq" playlist for 30+ years. Just good vibes, smiles all around. The song thats comes after this one on my playlist is Son of a preacher by dusty springfield, check it out.
Brad even smiled after the song! Look at the big heart on Brad! Spock find your Earth half! I like your no bs approach to reactions! I watched so many different people reaction and they need to take notes from you two.
look at the big brain on brad.........cool reference
Steve Miller is one of the greatest musicians (and band) in rock'n' roll history. The songs never get old and were ultra popular in the 70's.
Just saw them in July of 2019! Still rockin’. He’s a great story teller. The venue only held about 1,000 people so it was super intimate. Great show! Great band! Anything you play from them will be interesting.
I have to agree. I saw him in a similar venue and thoroughly enjoyed it. You're right about the story telling and he's a very talented musician/song writer.
I started watching various reaction videos about a year ago, and since I found you guys several months ago you've become my absolute favorites. Thanks for them all.
I wish everyone could be like you: straight to the music/movie. The reaction doesn't start until you push play. We're here for the reaction.
The bands I played with during this era always included this song cos the audience loved it. It was a cover standard.
I think Steve Miller is one of those rock stars that can walk around in public and nobody recognizes him.
Steve Miller band was 1of the great bands of the 70s words were
So easy to understand 😊😊
This is probably the tenth time I watched this vid, yet it still gets me a chuckle when I hear Brad saying, "Uh, you wanna turn everything into metal".
This song was one of my dad's favorite as a teen in the 70s. So whenever I hear this I think of him.
This was favorite song of the night!! I’ve been requesting this one for weeks. I loved Brad saying the shake your tree line slaps. YES IT SURE DOES friend.
Best feeling song I know. Flashes me back to the day all the time. Always a good feeling.....nostalgic
Love Steve Miller band, such a great vibe with their songs! thx for sharing Brad & Lex :)
When I was 10 years old, in 1977, I had a portable suitcase record player that would play 45s 78s and 33s. The first two 45s I told my mother to buy were the Steve Miller band and Foreigner.
This was Homer Simpson's favorite song in high school. Mine too. A lot of the lyrics are references to Miller's earlier hits. Good vibes, Waukesha, Wis.'s own. A true legend. Dig deeper.
This song is the start of a style…it’s a 70’s track! Let’s be real, this could of came out in the 90’s and nobody would of thought it was out of place.
Don't let his simplicity fool you. This man can PLAY. He learned from Les Paul in Wisconsin.
You can never go wrong with Steve Miller.
Seen Steve Miller around 40 years ago. The one thing I remember everyone in the crowd sang like 6 songs in a row
Was a great concert. Fly Like a Eagle is a must.
Hear "Serenade" by him.
He was neighbor from Les Paul and was learnig and playing guitar much time with him.
"Come on, into my kitchen" is another Fantastic song! Not as well known, but you'll both enjoy it.
It sounds like a song that someone sings around a campfires... I remember hearing this song in the 70s , Steve Miller band has great songs.
Oh yes! . . .Steve Miller Band. The good old days. Oh, the memories.
Joker is the Wild Card all around guy life of the party 🥳
Ha! Quote: "The pompatus/pompitous of love is a nonsense phrase, said to be about intimate things that you would tell only to a close and special person." I love it when songwriters make up words!
Lex is styling in pinkish shades today... Thanx for the reaction.
Steve Miller's Book of Dreams was the first album (yes, vinyl) I ever got as a young teen, a thousand years ago. I finally got to see him live a couple years ago, and the dude's still got it.
“Rockin me” is a MUST- also “Take the money and run”, Fly like an Eagle.” And more..💖💙🤘🏼👍
I saw this guy live like 3 times at least. He is always playing those cheap outdoor show venues, every summer. Pretty fun show.
I had the Steve Miller Band playing quite regularly when I was 16. Take the money and run, Dance Dance Dance and Abracadabra just to name a few!
Classic song from way back. This was a song we'd drive around drinking and toking and someone would put in the tape and everyone would start singing and screaming the lyrics to it. It was one of the few songs I think we all knew the lyrics too.
Yep Yep
Steve Miller Band had some hits. 🎶…keep on rock in’ me baby…..🎶 heard it mostly at hang outs or chill parties.
When I was a little child my friends Mom cleaned his ranch house in Oregon and we used to take our naps on Steve's bed.
Steve Miller Band some of the greatest hits of classic rock. You definitely need to listen to a lot more of them.
This was a staple @ every party I went to in th 80s , along w/ Eagles, AC/DC & Van Halen
Check out Steve Miller Band "Space Cowboy" for the backstory. Also check out Steve Miller Band "Living in the U.S.A." and "Rock'n Me" for a couple more bangers.
When this song came out I was in junior high school and the radio station 99X in NYC played this song what seemed like 10 times an hour for months.
Steve Miller goes from Living in the USA and Space Cowboy to Mercury Blues and Fly Like an Eagle. He has a lot of really good songs. I was lucky enough to see him live back in the day.
THE STEVE MILLER BAND "SPACE COWBOY",,."LIVING IN THE U.S.A.",, "MERCURY BLUES",, "THE WINDOW",, "TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN" & "WINTER TIME"
Yes! Steve Miller is the man. Vocal harmonies galore. Takes me to my childhood. Thx for reacting.
When I'm done boating for the day this is the song I blast when I head in. Can't help but smile to it.
Growing up I always thought this song was from the 90s. I only found out it was from the 70s a few years ago on UA-cam. The song was way ahead of its time.
Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs ("Lowdown") both came out of Dallas at about the same time - Scaggs was in Miller's band for a while. Really fun and good music.
Steve Miller, one of the classic, you can't go wrong.
I just saw Steve last night (3/26/23)... He's 79 years old and still JAMS! His guitar playing is amazing. So underrated.
I grew up , with this music in England. Can't believe you not heard this .
From a 72 year old man y’all make me so happy enjoying our music. Good luck to both of you outstanding individuals. Stay true to yourself !
There was a jeans advert (in the UK, at least) in the late '80s where a cool guy come out of the elevator on his motorbike, many floors up in an office building, rides through the desk, 'rescues' his girlfriend from her boring job and rides off with her, all with this track playing behind it. The ad made the song massively popular again. At the time, I was working in an office, with a particularly nervous and impressionable girl sitting opposite me, and I rode a motorbike, so we used to wind her up about it. I'd walk past her whistling The Joker and watch her twitch, or one time, when she'd gone to the loo, she came out and walked past the elevators to see me and another guy measuring the doors with tape measures and scratching our chins...😈
Good ol' 1970's toking up some skunky green bud while drinking Boone's Farm strawberry wine in the noonday sun with your best friends type music and man, am I glad that I lived it when the living was a whole lot easier✌🏼
"I really love your peaches, want to shake your tree."
@5:07 Brad gives Lex a sideways glance, smiles, and starts to plan on shaking her tree.
Turning 14,15, starting to smoke weed and learn about new music. This is a must listen for that period of growing up!
I can't truly believe that someone in this country has never heard this song.
This song has been everywhere for decades and even though I haven't owned this album for 20 years I hear the song daily in Movies, TV, car radios, in supermarkets and stores, everywhere.
This song is woven deep into generations of American culture, a constant in the background. A song that has never been considered "retro" because it has never disappeared to be rediscovered.
One of a handful of songs ever to have true staying power.
Saw him in concert in 2019, still good. They have so many hits. I suspect you will be listening to many more in the future.
Steve has a few fun, lighthearted songs. Try Your Cash Ain't Nothin' But Trash and Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma and Mary Lou, all from this album.
Aloha, High School '70s, Love him cause he used to come Maui every couple years...
Steve Miller Band has quite many fun, chilled, party dance tunes you will like.
Laziest man in Rock and Roll. At one time Boz Scaggs and Rick James played with Steve Miller. It was great when he went off on the Hall of Fame board. Basically told them sit down shut up listen and learn. Lol
YES! Original very different stuff. Thanks again for bringing out my smile Lex.
Lex making the sound and the end was delightful.
Stevie "Guitar" Miller has a great catalog for reactions. "Swingtown" or "Jungle Love" are 70s rock radio classics.
lex mouthing the guitar sounds!!!😄😊 and I was waiting for Brad to smile at the lady parts of the song!!😄😊😉
Sunsets midsummer nights grills with good food cooking and good people is what this song reminds me of every time. Just a good vibe
Lex...your the best...you nailed it...being on the boardwalk at the beach in the 70s...man...I lived it.
We used to love to party in college with are Steve Miller cassettes as our own soundtrack many great songs going back to hearing him as kid on F M radio
Saw this band in concert years ago at Freedom Hill in Detroit. Awesome experience!
"oh my God, you wanna turn anything into metal.." 😂
A perfect song for strutting to, on a sunny day!
More Steve Miller! He has so many hits.
This song came on when my dad was taking me to Canada for vacation back in the late 90s and we are both singing it and it gets to the “ I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree” my dad just stops singing and goes please don’t ever ask me what that means we both laughed and I said dad I already know hahaha
This was the shit at 80's highschool preparty parties
Lex always wants things turned into metal 😂. I'd recommend Leo Moracchioli of Frog Leap Studios here on UA-cam if you're looking for someone already turning everything into metal!
Specifically I like his Sultans of Swing video. It's really good, my favorite of his.
He's really talented but lacks a good voice unfortunately