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Topic: Steve Miller 30th Fly Like and Eagle

Another one of my favorite Steve's. Steve Miller has released a 30th anniversarry edition of Fly Like an Eagle. One of the all time classic rock albums. There is included a DVD on the making of the album and a performance from 2006.

Steve is one of the guys that never forgets his roots. He always includes a blues set in his shows. This particular night George Thorogood and Joe Satriani contribute. During the DVD comments Steve shows a guitar that was pelted by a beer bottle in Oklahoma City. Nothing to be proud of but it kept Steve from returning to OKC for 9 years. He forgave us and came back last year and is returning again in August. I'll be there again. This time Buddy Guy is on the bill.

Can't wait for the blues set this year.

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Re: Steve Miller 30th Fly Like and Eagle

I always liked Steve Miller.  I have a new neighbor named Maurice...I can't speak to him without thinking of these lyrics, especially the way Maurice is emphasized in the song...He's the only person I ever met with the name.

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love  (love this line)             
Some people call me maurice
Cause I speak of the pompitous of love

I always wondered when I'd hear the US Postal commercial about Fly Like An Eagle...how much $$$ Steve made in that deal!  Shredit, you know the answer?

Funny about the beer bottle jim, looks like you can always find a rowdy crowd in OKie.  Don't feel bad, Philladelphia Eagle fans threw a snowball at Santa Claus!



jim m wrote:

Another one of my favorite Steve's. Steve Miller has released a 30th anniversarry edition of Fly Like an Eagle. One of the all time classic rock albums. There is included a DVD on the making of the album and a performance from 2006.

Steve is one of the guys that never forgets his roots. He always includes a blues set in his shows. This particular night George Thorogood and Joe Satriani contribute. During the DVD comments Steve shows a guitar that was pelted by a beer bottle in Oklahoma City. Nothing to be proud of but it kept Steve from returning to OKC for 9 years. He forgave us and came back last year and is returning again in August. I'll be there again. This time Buddy Guy is on the bill.

Can't wait for the blues set this year.

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Re: Steve Miller 30th Fly Like and Eagle

jim m wrote:

Another one of my favorite Steve's. Steve Miller has released a 30th anniversarry edition of Fly Like an Eagle. One of the all time classic rock albums. There is included a DVD on the making of the album and a performance from 2006.

Steve is one of the guys that never forgets his roots. He always includes a blues set in his shows. This particular night George Thorogood and Joe Satriani contribute. During the DVD comments Steve shows a guitar that was pelted by a beer bottle in Oklahoma City. Nothing to be proud of but it kept Steve from returning to OKC for 9 years. He forgave us and came back last year and is returning again in August. I'll be there again. This time Buddy Guy is on the bill.

Can't wait for the blues set this year.

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      She spreads her wings, And she's free
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Angela wrote:

I always liked Steve Miller.  I have a new neighbor named Maurice...I can't speak to him without thinking of these lyrics, especially the way Maurice is emphasized in the song...He's the only person I ever met with the name.

Some people call me the space cowboy, yeah
Some call me the gangster of love  (love this line)             
Some people call me maurice
Cause I speak of the pompitous of love

I always wondered when I'd hear the US Postal commercial about Fly Like An Eagle...how much $$$ Steve made in that deal!  Shredit, you know the answer?

Funny about the beer bottle jim, looks like you can always find a rowdy crowd in OKie.  Don't feel bad, Philladelphia Eagle fans threw a snowball at Santa Claus!

I love that dude, you can give me "mercury blues" any time. I guarantee they gave him some crums for his effort ( oops, sorry were not supose to say anything negative towards the company, forget what I said! ) Oh by the way, i work with a guy from Peru, his name is also Maurice. I"ll drop the " some people call me the gangsta of love" as he walks in the door, he just frowns like "wuts he talkin bout"

Shred

jim m wrote:

Another one of my favorite Steve's. Steve Miller has released a 30th anniversarry edition of Fly Like an Eagle. One of the all time classic rock albums. There is included a DVD on the making of the album and a performance from 2006.

Steve is one of the guys that never forgets his roots. He always includes a blues set in his shows. This particular night George Thorogood and Joe Satriani contribute. During the DVD comments Steve shows a guitar that was pelted by a beer bottle in Oklahoma City. Nothing to be proud of but it kept Steve from returning to OKC for 9 years. He forgave us and came back last year and is returning again in August. I'll be there again. This time Buddy Guy is on the bill.

Can't wait for the blues set this year.

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Oops screwed that post up, hope yall can figure out where I responded. Just put in a 13 hour day working on this roach i call home.

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Shredit- My neighbor Maurice is originally from Morocco, has lived in the states since he was about 10 and speaks fluent French.  I haven't dropped the song line on him yet, just getting to know him, super nice guy.

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Oops screwed that post up, hope yall can figure out where I responded. Just put in a 13 hour day working on this roach i call home.

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Re: Steve Miller 30th Fly Like and Eagle

I like the little sound clip of young Stevie Miller on the Les Paul and Friends American Made World Played CD.  He's doing little "la, la, la's," and then he says something like...."I don't like to hear my voice.. it's embarrassing."  And that goes right into "Fly Like an Eagle."  It's kinda cute! 

Saw Steve in concert 2 summers ago at the huge outdoor arena here in Indy.  What a fun show!  Everyone, from the front row of the pavilion, to the back row on the lawn, was up and dancing through the whole 2 hours.

Great musicians have a language & vocabulary that transcends the usual barriers & touches us on a more primitive , basic & yet complex level....

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Re: Steve Miller 30th Fly Like and Eagle

Steve Miller is one of my favorite artists. We saw him 2 years ago. Not only did he sing a bunch of obscure songs, he did one of my favorites, "Mercury Blues", I couldn't believe it!  He said he didn't like doing "The Joker" anymore and that if he had it his way he'd never sing it again but it's his most requested song, so he did it. You could tell his heart wasn't into it though.

He's like a fine wine, he gets better with age.

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I saw Steve Miller last summer @ Bank Boston Pavillion  w/ Eric Johnson . Awesome show and Eric jammed some blues w/ Steve . Steve Miller always gives his fans their moneys worth and gotta love Norton Buffalo on the harp        Paul

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Re: Steve Miller 30th Fly Like and Eagle

Jane, I'll have to agree his output on new material is lacking. He goes out and plays the hits for the fans that want to sing along to the anthems of their youth. On occasion he puts a few twists in some of the oldies.

I went to see McCartney a few years ago who happened to be touring in support of his new album which I hated. Best show I had seen him do other than the new stuff he smoked the oldies. Sometimes that is why you go. If the tour was his new stuff I wouldn't of been there.

The point I was making about Steve is he plays the hits for the radio fans but for the people that remember he was a progressive blues artist when he hit the scene in San Fran. Had James Cotton appear on many of his albums was a student of T-Bone Walker and Les Paul. Went to Chicago first and was tutored by Mike Bloomfield and played with all the greats in the 60's, Muddy, Buddy, and Freddy among others.

He still breaks into the blues in every show. Paying homage to his infuences. Much in the same way Eric Clapton plays the blues instead of his classic rock string of hits.

Steve Miller is so much more than The Joker, Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams. Those are why he still plays to thousands put he plays the blues too. You go see him and enjoy the hits but don't go to the bathroom during the blues.

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Having grown up in the SF Bay Area and started going to concerts in the late 60's I can't even remember how many times I've seen Stevie "Guitar" Miller. I've also known a lot of local east bay players that went on to play in Steve's band over the years. Just a few weeks back a few of them popped into Benicia to play at our Thur. night farmers market, it was good to hear Dave Denny & Jack King again. They played with Steve during his top 40 charting era. Dave wrote the Stake, but They changed it up a little from the original cause Steve thought it sounded too much like Rocky Mtn. Way. One of the most memorable Steve shows I recall was when he toured with John Lee Hooker in support of John Lee's album Full Tilt Boogie that Steve played on. This was before The Joker so it was a very blues filled night.

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Re: Steve Miller 30th Fly Like and Eagle

Steve Miller = the essence of cool. I've got a cool live cd of Chuck Berry playing with the Steve Miller Band backing him up. From the Fillmore San Francisco back in 1968. Pretty cool recording. Chuck does a good version of C.C. Rider and others. Guitar actually sounds like it's in tune. lol

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LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jungle Love, you got it Bonametal. Another old aquaintence from Walnut Creek, Ca. (where I moved to from Cleveland in '65) by the name of Greg Douglas wrote that one when he played with Steve. Greg also penned a song titled Trinidad for Eddie Money too. Those were fun times when Steve's band was made up of players who all grew up in Contra Costa Co. Steve even lived here for awhile in a little town called Canyon just over the hill from Oakland.

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I was looking around for Steve's tour schedule (can't make the show near me) and came across this on an unofficial site.
http://www.gangster-of-love.com/pompitous.html

And dazee, I like the obscure songs and the comment about the "Joker" ...I think many artists have these kinds of feelings, balancing what the fans want to hear and what personally they don't like to play anymore. There are some songs I can't listen to that I maybe once liked because radio burned it out, but I still love the artist.  Anyway, my hubby's Acoustic Guitar magazine came yesterday and The Joker is a featured song.  Looks like Joker is on the radar and my neighbor Maurice has the biggest smile I've ever seen and he's always smiling, such a pleasant guy...He's The Joker in disguise!  Next get together, I tell him! smile

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