The 20 people who gave a thumbs down really need a hug. How can you not love this band? Digging this in 2020. First listened to Steve and his awesome band around 1972.
no it's not. do you even understand how lucky we are to even have this footage? i guess you've never listened to many bootlegs before. this sounds 100x better. it's a soundboard recording with pro shot filming from January 1974....these recordings were supposed to never be seen by the public....you need to know your rock & roll history or the importance of these kinda documents goes right over your head@@Geezer-yf8hv
Yeah, baby. I remember a few songs by him when I was in high school, but I never heard any of this long format Chicago-blues rock thing he does and it is amazing. I’m getting addicted to it, so fun and authentic.
Saw Miller in Atlanta in the early 70's and again in N. Charleston earlier.this century. He is fabulous live! His supporting musicians are top-shelf, well-rehearsed and tight. When I was 18 I wanted to be Steve Miller!
Space Cowboy was one of the first songs I ever played in my first band with my younger brother! I was 16, and he was 12! (Very good drummer for 12, and got better as time went on!)
Saw Steve two years ago, front row. It was awesome. I was 57 yrs old. I always say I was born 12 yrs. too late. I would have loved to have been able to go to concerts in the early '70's.
Steve is always tooo coool---amazing voice and guitar, he likes to play it and sing it how he feels it at the moment--that is cool---he is not a robot. love his music. Gerald Johnson is about as good as any bass player in the outer Strato's sphere!-----Very few players can even come close to what he can do and actually become part of the instrument--his bass playing is unmatched!
This is when REAL musicians gave you a real performance with no time constraints and you got more than an hour of entertainment. They made you feel like you were apart of a jam session.
Saw the Steve Miller Band at Winterland in 72 and 73. He always played an inspired set! Miss those great Winterland shows. Keep an eye out for the Steve Miller Band on 7/1/73 at The Record Plant (Sausalito, Ca.) - it is his BEST live recording!!
Most people don't realize that he was playing Fly Like an Eagle more than 2 years before he recorded it. I saw him play it twice, in 2 different show, prior to it's release. Great stuff!
First saw Steve Miller band live at the Lions Den in San Anselmo, ca. That was in 1971. WoWI was so close. The place was small and what a show. It is now oct19,2023.
My very 1st concert was Steve Miller Band at The Tower Theatre just outside of Philly in Upper Darby in maybe 72 or 73. After what we thought was the final encore, we stayed up front hooting & hollering. After the theatre had almost cleared out, he came back onstage & played a few more songs for maybe 20 or 30 people. What a blast. To this day I'm one of the last to leave a show - just in case.
After Steve played Hampton Coliseum on this tour I was driving around the perimeter of the parking lot with my friend Lori when a convertible Camero roared up with Steve driving!He had followed us from backstage,determined to meet Lori, a Bardot lookalike! She made us refuse his offer to go to his after party,I regret to say.
The 1st time I saw Steve Miller Band was an outdoor Summer Jam! Right after Book of Dreams came out! (1977)? Warm up groups were Thin Lizzy, REO Speedwagon, (when they were still kick ass rock, and not sappy ballads), then Steve, then Foreigner!
I went to see the Steve miller band at the rainbow theatre in London in the early seventies ,Their was a power outage and the band couldn’t play ,so Steve sat on the front of the stage and sang the songs with just an acoustic guitar ,I was reaaaly pissed at the time because I was looking forward to the show ,he was a cut above the hippy dirge of a lot of the bands at the time ,
Interesting show. He had developed his signature sound of psychedelic rock (Fly) but was still leaning toward the blues on stage. This is the best version of "The Joker" I've ever heard by a country mile. Just beautiful.
What’s amazing about the Steve Miller band is that I couldn’t name two people in the band but dammit they were so awesome with so many great songs and so many hits very rare
That was awesome. Thanks for this. This is the Steve Miller I know and love. I clicked on to check it out and stayed for the whole show. Well worth it. Man that brought back great memories. It was a time. I was 16 at the time of this concert. Great times and great music like this. Thanks again for this.
late classical-era steve miller before the sell-out phase: impassioned, tasteful, with awe-inspiring musicianship from all concerned - in a word: awesome! thanks so much for posting!
ogrebattle22763 commercial sell-out phase: begins with "circle of love" (1981) at the very latest. songs like "the joker", "take the money and run" and "fly like an eagle" were clearly written with the FM radio/AOR market in mind, so some will (and have!) argued that steve miller`s sell-out began even earlier, with "the joker" (1973). I happen to disagree. of course there will be hardcore fans who argue that steve miller never had a sell-out phase in the first place - and be prepared to take his every fart as gospel - but that doesn`t concern us here, right?
No it does not concern me what fans consider his sell-out phase I know what I like & don't like as do you I'm sure & that's good enough for me... LOL... I do like "Circle Of Love" though somewhat... Anything after that I don't care for...
ogrebattle22763 well hey, then we pretty much agree after all...except maybe about the term I used which, I do admit, is arguably harsh: "steve went with the times and captured the sound of the eighties in exemplary fashion" would be another way to put it, I guess...
HA! I probably was there, I went to so many Steve Miller concerts back then at the Fillmore, Winterland. My girlfriend and a few buddies would jump into whatever car was running best, smuggle in a 1/2 pint and a few dubes and get as close to the stage as we could. I'm an old fart now but Stevie got everybody jumpin' back then. Good days!
Saw the Steve Mller Band at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco in the glorious sixties of the San Francisco Sound. Saw Cream at Winterland. As a kid, we would go to Winterland to see the Ice Follies.
Great show. In the acoustic set Steve was clearly getting a bit frustrated with sound control issues, during the softer numbers especially, but he managed to keep it mellow.
To Steve, music is art and art is music. His contract with his record company was only good if he had artistic freedom on his recordings. His early work showed that freedom but mainstream music industry kept the masses fed with their formulary studio programs. When Steve broke out with Book of Dreams and Fly like an Eagle is when he discovered the groove that rewarded his talent without compromising his art. LOVE RESPECT It’s all about the music and nothing else
So cool to see the real honest 😎 archive events that helped you and the world 🌎 to recap and live life as we should not be deprived like our so called government does music is a savior not A pass time it's our freedom
Blues with a feeling sounds like Ol Steve was digging on some Duane he was doing it right in the groove hard and nasty too.. very nice blues rippen it... I think that's the year Duane Almann Passed.. maybe he was vibbing him hey.. I never knew Steve was a blues man like I here at this live 74 concert he gets down big time even his acoustic gig was rocken it.. Great music.. very talented group..
1972, at the U PS field House.IT WS MY FIRST DATE WITH THE LOVE OF MY LIFE. i THINK ABOUT HER TO THIS DAY. Carol Hebert and all of your fmily.. You took my in to your circle, me Warren I know what you did for me... thanks & God be with
Said the same thing couple weeks ago seeing them at the Greek theater. We were blown away by the whole concert. Was really amazing. And aside from the 2 side screens enlarging the view of the stage, they had a long screen right over the band showing the neck of his guitar as he played his solos. Phew! 😍 And the keyboardist solos..my goodness🙂
Here's a link to the playlist I uploaded of some of their show. Capturing quality isn't great but I was more into watching them and enjoying the time with my grandfather. Lol. I took as many videos as I could to show my son, who plays guitar. Actually had we known it would be such an amazing concert I would have taken him :( he could've missed school the next day for it. Haha Watch "Greek Theater" on RUclips ruclips.net/p/PLKwPiks5bhkHe3RLgwdimtQdy9GosOm4q
I call 100% Bull$h!t on the "Sell Out" claim. An artist discovers himself ,writes and get breaks and after a while he writes things that millions of people get exposure to and like. Don't blame Steve Miller because a billion people bought his records because of his hits.
I wouldn't call him a "Sell Out" however IMHO his first three shinned far above the rest. The combination of Boz Skaggs, Lonnie Turner, Tim Davis, Ben Sidran and guests like Paul McCartney and producer Glyn Johns is awfully hard to beat!
Saw Steve Miller with Boz Skaggs around 1975 in Spokane Boz showed Steve up big time Boz was the true professional Steve sucked too many days on the road I guess he even admitted that big letdown was a Steve Miller fan up to that point
Yeah but they are not as good live. Steve changes the singing tune. Space Cowboy sounds nothing like the studio album. However, a great band and Steve’s guitars is excellent. I still have to listen to the whole concert.
Saw the Steve Mller Band at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco in the glorious sixties of the San Francisco Sound. Saw Cream at Winterland. As a kid, we would go to Winterland to see the Ice Follies.
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The 20 people who gave a thumbs down really need a hug. How can you not love this band? Digging this in 2020. First listened to Steve and his awesome band around 1972.
Ah god bless you
Right on****!!@ the shit man in 2022
Love the band, just a bad mix!
no it's not. do you even understand how lucky we are to even have this footage? i guess you've never listened to many bootlegs before. this sounds 100x better. it's a soundboard recording with pro shot filming from January 1974....these recordings were supposed to never be seen by the public....you need to know your rock & roll history or the importance of these kinda documents goes right over your head@@Geezer-yf8hv
It shouldn’t go unnoticed that he basically has a incredibly stellar funk rhythm section that can also play rock.
I was there. Winterland baby. Steve was amazing.
I believe I was there too. Made that drive to Winterland quite a few times back in the day..
You can Still Feel the Love in that building...all the way back in 74'.
how can any band be THIS flawless live? he is stunning! the musicianship here is really astonishing.
Musicians used to be musicians. Not computers. I love it. Awesome concert.
hell yeah!
Overlooked
Yeah, baby. I remember a few songs by him when I was in high school, but I never heard any of this long format Chicago-blues rock thing he does and it is amazing. I’m getting addicted to it, so fun and authentic.
You got it Miri you sugar baby !
Those Winterland shows were fun ! Good times
Winterland is awesome. Steve Miller is great so many others there was awesome.
Highly underated. Loved him since they started.
Loved Steve Miller! One of the last true hippies, (besides the Grateful Dead), to achieve mainstream success!!
Saw Miller in Atlanta in the early 70's and again in N. Charleston earlier.this century. He is fabulous live! His supporting musicians are top-shelf, well-rehearsed and tight. When I was 18 I wanted to be Steve Miller!
What a marvellous voice! Lovely tone, great pitch.
Space Cowboy was one of the first songs I ever played in my first band with my younger brother! I was 16, and he was 12! (Very good drummer for 12, and got better as time went on!)
Saw Steve two years ago, front row. It was awesome. I was 57 yrs old. I always say I was born 12 yrs. too late. I would have loved to have been able to go to concerts in the early '70's.
Steve is always tooo coool---amazing voice and guitar, he likes to play it and sing it how he feels it at the moment--that is cool---he is not a robot. love his music. Gerald Johnson is about as good as any bass player in the outer Strato's sphere!-----Very few players can even come close to what he can do and actually become part of the instrument--his bass playing is unmatched!
Gerry does put some FUNK in the backbone!
And that drummer!
SM can say anything he wants to R&R Hall of Fame- his music does the talking.
This is when REAL musicians gave you a real performance with no time constraints and you got more than an hour of entertainment. They made you feel like you were apart of a jam session.
Saw the Steve Miller Band at Winterland in 72 and 73. He always played an inspired set! Miss those great Winterland shows. Keep an eye out for the Steve Miller Band on 7/1/73 at The Record Plant (Sausalito, Ca.) - it is his BEST live recording!!
Thank you Mr Steve Miller 🙏 for being a hero
Most people don't realize that he was playing Fly Like an Eagle more than 2 years before he recorded it. I saw him play it twice, in 2 different show, prior to it's release. Great stuff!
First saw Steve Miller band live at the Lions Den in San Anselmo, ca. That was in 1971. WoWI was so close. The place was small and what a show. It is now oct19,2023.
Started listening to Steve in the 70 S I used to love to trip out and listen to his albums peace and love Steve
me 2! 😆
@@jessiearies1912 # 5 Album!
That light touch playing during "Fly Like an Eagle" is incredible.
Great guitarist.
Very. Nice. Concert Steve. Love me
I heard he had that accident in 74 and it took two years to recover. Thus he busted out with Fly Like an Eagle and with the space synthesizer intro.
AWESOME
My very 1st concert was Steve Miller Band at The Tower Theatre just outside of Philly in Upper Darby in maybe 72 or 73. After what we thought was the final encore, we stayed up front hooting & hollering. After the theatre had almost cleared out, he came back onstage & played a few more songs for maybe 20 or 30 people. What a blast. To this day I'm one of the last to leave a show - just in case.
Fantastic!❤
After Steve played Hampton Coliseum on this tour I was driving around the perimeter of the parking lot with my friend Lori when a convertible Camero roared up with Steve driving!He had followed us from backstage,determined to meet Lori, a Bardot lookalike! She made us refuse his offer to go to his after party,I regret to say.
Bardot look alike , you lucky bugger!
The 1st time I saw Steve Miller Band was an outdoor Summer Jam! Right after Book of Dreams came out! (1977)? Warm up groups were Thin Lizzy, REO Speedwagon, (when they were still kick ass rock, and not sappy ballads), then Steve, then Foreigner!
Huge talent!
I went to see the Steve miller band at the rainbow theatre in London in the early seventies ,Their was a power outage and the band couldn’t play ,so Steve sat on the front of the stage and sang the songs with just an acoustic guitar ,I was reaaaly pissed at the time because I was looking forward to the show ,he was a cut above the hippy dirge of a lot of the bands at the time ,
Interesting show. He had developed his signature sound of psychedelic rock (Fly) but was still leaning toward the blues on stage. This is the best version of "The Joker" I've ever heard by a country mile. Just beautiful.
Lol, has to be around the time the album came out.
This is such a great moment for Miller, just as he his finally finding his trademark sound.
God s work
saw steve miller and freddie king at auditorium in chicago, some time in early 70s, best concert ever!
What’s amazing about the Steve Miller band is that I couldn’t name two people in the band but dammit they were so awesome with so many great songs and so many hits very rare
That was awesome. Thanks for this. This is the Steve Miller I know and love. I clicked on to check it out and stayed for the whole show. Well worth it. Man that brought back great memories. It was a time. I was 16 at the time of this concert. Great times and great music like this. Thanks again for this.
late classical-era steve miller before the sell-out phase: impassioned, tasteful, with awe-inspiring musicianship from all concerned - in a word: awesome! thanks so much for posting!
Sellout phase?
ogrebattle22763 commercial sell-out phase: begins with "circle of love" (1981) at the very latest. songs like "the joker", "take the money and run" and "fly like an eagle" were clearly written with the FM radio/AOR market in mind, so some will (and have!) argued that steve miller`s sell-out began even earlier, with "the joker" (1973). I happen to disagree. of course there will be hardcore fans who argue that steve miller never had a sell-out phase in the first place - and be prepared to take his every fart as gospel - but that doesn`t concern us here, right?
No it does not concern me what fans consider his sell-out phase I know what I like & don't like as do you I'm sure & that's good enough for me... LOL... I do like "Circle Of Love" though somewhat... Anything after that I don't care for...
ogrebattle22763 well hey, then we pretty much agree after all...except maybe about the term I used which, I do admit, is arguably harsh: "steve went with the times and captured the sound of the eighties in exemplary fashion" would be another way to put it, I guess...
@@ogrebattle22763 , yup
I'm glad this is on YT, although intermittendly. I had the albums upto and including The Joker. After that, it became abracadabra to me.
Funny you would mention that. Abracadabra is easily my least-favorite song by Stevie Miller.
Abracadabra, the children of the future were gone
Thank you lots!!
Nice to watch Steve Miller play live. i have The Joker & Fly Like An Eagle albums but have neva seen him play. Thx 4 the treat! 😂
I see on the track listing that Fly Like an Eagle is on here, but this is not Fly Like an Eagle period that will not come out till 1976.
HA! I probably was there, I went to so many Steve Miller concerts back then at the Fillmore, Winterland. My girlfriend and a few buddies would jump into whatever car was running best, smuggle in a 1/2 pint and a few dubes and get as close to the stage as we could. I'm an old fart now but Stevie got everybody jumpin' back then. Good days!
No you aren`t as old as you think. You`re a witness of time
Saw the Steve Mller Band at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco in the glorious sixties of the San Francisco Sound. Saw Cream at Winterland. As a kid, we would go to Winterland to see the Ice Follies.
Great show. In the acoustic set Steve was clearly getting a bit frustrated with sound control issues, during the softer numbers especially, but he managed to keep it mellow.
To Steve, music is art and art is music. His contract with his record company was only good if he had artistic freedom on his recordings. His early work showed that freedom but mainstream music industry kept the masses fed with their formulary studio programs. When Steve broke out with Book of Dreams and Fly like an Eagle is when he discovered the groove that rewarded his talent without compromising his art. LOVE RESPECT
It’s all about the music and nothing else
he was superkiller until he sold out/cashed in for silly bubblegum tripe after Number 5
John King quoting Mitch Mitchell (I Don't Live Today) in Jackson-Kent Blues!!
Nice double cutaway Les Paul that Steve's playing
Melody maker I believe
I love this man. I do.
Love this older music more than his late 70s music
Amazing 🙏💖
I met Steve in 70 or 71...when he got up to take a leak...25 guitars and a bic, Marlboros, an ashtray, and a mattress & a sheet & a pillow...
Love Wisconsin
OMG LESTER T ROCKS!!!
So cool to see the real honest 😎 archive events that helped you and the world 🌎 to recap and live life as we should not be deprived like our so called government does music is a savior not A pass time it's our freedom
1:01:58🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 chalk dust shuffle
what a monster!
I've got the vinyl of the full eclipse of the moon 72, recording, Ben Sidran, Bill Botnick producing....awesome.
Best live band save The Beatles. Apparently good enough for Paul Ramon to play with them.
Blues with a feeling sounds like Ol Steve was digging on some Duane he was doing it right in the groove hard and nasty too.. very nice blues rippen it... I think that's the year Duane Almann Passed.. maybe he was vibbing him hey..
I never knew Steve was a blues man like I here at this live 74 concert he gets down big time even his acoustic gig was rocken it.. Great music.. very talented group..
"All you guys slobbering over your ladies better watch out because the Gangster of Love is back in town."
Gotta love how he goes back to the source on the Joker
Whooooooooooooooo!
Fly like a eagle
People take a listen/look at the Steve Miller intv with Dan Rather on AXS TV.. very cool stuff/stories/insights...
1972, at the U PS field House.IT WS MY FIRST DATE WITH THE LOVE OF MY LIFE. i THINK ABOUT HER TO THIS DAY.
Carol Hebert and all of your fmily.. You took my in to your circle, me Warren I know what you did for me... thanks & God be with
I'll be right back...
I did not know that Steve was that good on guitar ?
Said the same thing couple weeks ago seeing them at the Greek theater. We were blown away by the whole concert. Was really amazing. And aside from the 2 side screens enlarging the view of the stage, they had a long screen right over the band showing the neck of his guitar as he played his solos. Phew! 😍 And the keyboardist solos..my goodness🙂
Here's a link to the playlist I uploaded of some of their show. Capturing quality isn't great but I was more into watching them and enjoying the time with my grandfather. Lol. I took as many videos as I could to show my son, who plays guitar. Actually had we known it would be such an amazing concert I would have taken him :( he could've missed school the next day for it. Haha
Watch "Greek Theater" on RUclips
ruclips.net/p/PLKwPiks5bhkHe3RLgwdimtQdy9GosOm4q
Make sure to view this one, especially. Wow! That sitar/guitar.. amazing!
ruclips.net/video/weFsXoSE6hg/видео.html
His godfather (literally!) was Les Paul, a friend of his dad's.
he's great he's my favorite artist of all time.
Interlochen 2015 slipped in
46:56
This into is ALMOST as good as Bernard Purdie's famous welcome on "Bodhisattva."
Bernard Purdue was a drummer that played with Steely Dan later on. That intro was by their tour bus driver Jerome Aniton
Hey, thank you for clearing that up for me! Man I wish they had kept touring.
Somebody get me a cheeeeese burger
I call 100% Bull$h!t on the "Sell Out" claim. An artist discovers himself ,writes and get breaks and after a while he writes things that millions of people get exposure to and like. Don't blame Steve Miller because a billion people bought his records because of his hits.
It's "pop-blues" and if you don't like it, move on...
I wouldn't call him a "Sell Out" however IMHO his first three shinned far above the rest. The combination of Boz Skaggs, Lonnie Turner, Tim Davis, Ben Sidran and guests like Paul McCartney and producer Glyn Johns is awfully hard to beat!
Little factoid: Les Paul is his God Father.
Yep! He taught Steve his first chords, there was a great love between those two!
he was superkiller until he sold out/cashed in for silly bubblegum tripe after Number 5
The echoplex
from wgere?
Saw Steve Miller with Boz Skaggs around 1975 in Spokane Boz showed Steve up big time Boz was the true professional Steve sucked too many days on the road I guess he even admitted that big letdown was a Steve Miller fan up to that point
Punctuation
Yeah but they are not as good live. Steve changes the singing tune. Space Cowboy sounds nothing like the studio album. However, a great band and Steve’s guitars is excellent. I still have to listen to the whole concert.
If you are not listening to this without headphones, you a damn fool!
Maaa'n, I don't have da' headphones; I be a damn foo'¡☆! 😳 🤓 🥴
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A great intro, but a very bad mix! Can’t hear the guitar, which was bad for the very first song!
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Love Steve Miller but he can do the worst Live arrangements of his best songs. I prefer almost every Album version to the ones here.
Those were the worst songs of that record ive ever heard
Worse haircut for a rock star ever
Its called fuck it.
It’s a nice forehead of hair. You’re an idiot. You must be bald. lol 😂
Saw the Steve Mller Band at the Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco in the glorious sixties of the San Francisco Sound. Saw Cream at Winterland. As a kid, we would go to Winterland to see the Ice Follies.