The "I love the Steve Miller Band" thread

[LynneSin]

because I believe a counterpoint thread is needed to combat the negative surrounding one of the best college party CDs known to mankind:



Their simplistic stylings always entertained me and I've seen them in concert FIVE TIMES!!! (I've only seen Robert Plant more times). I mean, how many concerts can you attend where everyone is united in a giant "Sing along with Steve Miller"

It's amazing.

[Phillycat]

1. I totally dig Steve Miller Band

Especially "Take the Money and Run". I dare you to play that song on the jukebox anywhere in State College - everyone stops what they're doing and claps along with the hand claps.

[Richardo]

7. Oh, jane, not you too....

[Phillycat]

13. I'm sorry!

I can't help it! :cry:

[Squeech]

2. Nonsense

He was way better in the '60s. Back then he had Boz Scaggs and Ben Sidran in his band, and he did terrific songs like "Living in the USA," "Space Cowboy" and "My Dark Hour" (that last with Paul McCartney backing him up).

[LynneSin]

3. Of course he was, but the 70's Steve Miller was Party Time

I can't tell you how many college parties I went to (and this was mid-80s) where someone had Steve Miller cranking

[Squeech]

4. Different perspective

The college parties I remember most fondly, I was playing in the band.

Or I was way too baked to notice what was playing-- which, for a hardcore music snob such as myself, is veritably burnt to a crisp.

Or both! Ask me about that remarkable mushroom event sometime :evilgrin:

On edit: now I see the other thread, and some of the other old farts made the same points I did...

[Archae]

5. Even "Rockin' Me Baby?"

:puke:

[jus_the_facts]

6. Industrial Military Complex Hex.....

Feel like I'm livin' under some kind of hex
Livin' in here in this industrial military complex
Doesn't really help when I read time magazine
Cause they only distort the scene
The sky is so hazy I can't even see the sun
Livin' here is like livin' under a gun
I really do wonder bout the united nations
Why don't they face the situations

I'm a troubadour
Lookin' for a dream
I'm a troubadour
Lookin' for some dream

Lord, I'm so tired of payin all of these dues
From sunday to sunday all I hear is bad news
Tired of the war and those industrial fools
Got to make it better cause I've got nothin' to lose

Ain't too clear to pay my income taxes
specially when I know it goes to kill the masses
Love to hear the president make it perfectly clear
How the donkeys and the elephants are police up here

I'm a troubadour
Lookin' for a dream
I'm a troubadour
Lookin' for some dream

Lord, I'm so tired of payin' all of these dues
From sunday to sunday all I hear is bad news
Tired of the war and those industrial fools
I've got to make it better cause I've got nothin' to lose
Won't somebody help me cause I've gotten in my shoes
Those industrial military complex blues

[benny05]

8. Saw them in concert in 1978

Along with Bob Welch and Fleetwood Mac at the Cotton Bowl. I will never forget when they were singing "Jet Airliner", an airplane went over the stadium; it was coincidental, but uncanny nonetheless..and cool. :party:

[Zomby Woof]

9. I can only tolerate one song

"Fly Like An Eagle". That's it. Even his much-heralded 60's work is too hokey and contrived, perfectly paving the way to achieving white-bread pablum pop stardom in the 70's. His voice grates on me. It's just so...white and soulless. He may very well be my least favorite vocalist of all time, alongside Phil Collins.

And the only reason I tolerate "Fly Like An Eagle" is nostalgia-driven. Otherwise, if he comes on the radio, I have to pop in a CD. which I should have done in the first place.

So there's my positive contribution: I can halfway enjoy one song by Steve Miller. :P

[LynneSin]

10. And to think I thought you were a man of eclectic musical tastes

after you're contribution to my Molly Hatchet thread

[Zomby Woof]

11. Hehehehe!

:D

I am having much more fun laying it down in the Pink Floyd thread. :bounce:

[LynneSin]

15. I posted my favs already in the Pink Floyd thread

Meddle - I can listen to that album 24hrs a day and I'm notorious for repeating Fearless a few times in a row

[Zomby Woof]

17. I love "Meddle"!

Here's my "Meddle" story... Back in the fall of '85, I was living in Virginia Beach, and commuted to college in Norfolk. My daily commute took me by the belly of the beast, Pat Robertson's CBN compound. I had 'Echoes' pulsating from my tape player, and I was stopped at the light in front of CBN, with a heavy but slow rain pounding my car. Even after that stop, the commute was slow and plodding... it was a very surreal commute. :-)

Later that morning, I got to my first class, and a buddy of mine was commenting on the stormy weather brewing. He said, "Whatever you do, don't listen to Pink Floyd's "Meddle" in this kind of weather!"

:wow:

I blurted out, "HOW DID YOU KNOW? I was playing that EXACT ALBUM in my car this morning!" He grinned as if this was a normal occurrence. To this day, I consider that one of the strangest music-related coincidences I have ever experienced. I listened to dozens of different tapes in my car every week, and of all the Floyd he singled out, he mentioned that one - we had never even discussed "Meddle" before... I just had to laugh. :D

[Jokerman]

12. "I'm a Joker, I'm a smoker, I'm a midnight toker."

My DU name would have been Joker if it hadn't already been taken.

[Zomby Woof]

14. I thought you were named after the Dylan song

:-)

[Jokerman]

16. Yes, but that was my second choice.

I've used both as user names to various sites over the years.

I've never seen anyone here actually posting as Joker but the name was taken when I signed up back in the early days of DU.

[GalleryGod]

18. The 1998 Tour Stop at Tweeter

was a blast..took the kids!


Drama loves Steve!

[Blue_In_AK]

19. I loved his first two albums,

Children of the Future and that one with "quicksilver girl" on it - Sailor, I think it was called. I haven't paid too much attention since, although I will say that he gave a great concert up here in the '80s. He was still carrying on after almost three hours of playing when we had to leave.