steve miller band
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Topic: steve miller band
Posted By: The Lost Chord
Subject: steve miller band
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 21:49
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i love the song "i love you", but it is on my anthology album my dad gtave me....is alot of millers early stuff like this? I think the song is EPIC, i want more, any reccomendation!?!! PLEASE!! -------------  "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: The Lost Chord
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 21:51
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going to the country is awesome also ------------- "Only the sun knew why"
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Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 23:11
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Yeah his music may be good, I used to like Jet Airliner, but what in hell are they doing on the Prog' Lounge? Iván ------------- 
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Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 23:18
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His album, 'Fly Like An Eagle', can at least be considered prog lite. Lots of
good music on that one. |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 23:58
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No please, Steve Miller not, he may be considered Southern Rock, Country Rock, White Blues, Rockabilly, etc, but never Prog Rock, there's not a single element of Prog' in his music. The next thing will be that some lunatic (No offence intended) will try to include them as Prog' related and that would be too much. Iván -------------
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Cinema wrote:Posted By: Cinema
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 01:45
I agree with you: Steve Miller shouldn't find his way into ProgArchives. As for 'lunatic,' well maybe just a little. 
That said, don't you think Fly Like An Eagle (the entire album) sports from prog tendencies? Maybe just a little? I do. Like I said, it's kind of like prog lite. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 05:25
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At the start of his career: Sailor - psychedelia with a lot of British pop/rock influence - is this the one Paul McCartney plays drums under a non de plume? Much later in his career after the fame and fortune: Born 2B Blue; very nice easy to digest , laid back, jazz rock with a tint of blue. |
Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 05:28
| And now I've woken up a touch more, I should have said I'm talking the Texan Steve Miller, rather than the late, Canterbury Steve Miller, who worked with a lot of lesser known Canterbury bands, and folks like Lol Coxhill |
Posted By: Ivan_Melgar_M
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 14:23
No offence intended, we're all lunatics, but in a healthy way Iván -------------
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Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 16:14
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No, the one which Paul McCartney is on is called 'Brave New World'- he plays drums on a song called 'My Dark Hour' under the name Paul Ramon. Years later, Miller returned the favour, appearing on Paul's excellent 'Flaming Pie' album on one track. I have 'Fly Like An Eagle' and agree that it has some prog moments, but I'd just say it was an influence rather than call it flat out prog. I also recently got his 'Best of 1968-73' for a £1 on CD, and it's really enjoyable bluesy, psych tinged rock. |
Posted By: RoyalJelly
Date Posted: October 16 2005 at 06:42
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I love the story in Miles Davis' autobiography, when Bill
Graham had Miles' band as the OPENING act for the Steve Miller Band at the Fillmore. Miles refused to be opening act for someone he called "that jive-ass no-playin' fool", and showed up late both nights, took the stage afterwards and blew Miller away. I would have to second Miles, and blame Miller along with the Eagles for the dreadful MOR sound that lulled everybody to sleep in the latter half of the Seventies, and put an end to the creative musical decade that had preceded them. |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: October 16 2005 at 18:21
| I liked Steve up until The Joker album which I think is his best. But Prog? You've got to be kidding! King Crimson in the BluesArchives.com anybody? |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 03:53
Actually Steve Miller Band was formed in San Francisco and should not be considered Southern Rock. But both Miller and Boz Scaggs were Chicago natives if memory serves me well> Their first four late-60's albums are classic psych-west coast rock with a British Twist (Glyns John was producing) , than they sank into oblivion in the early 70's , before coming back with Joker and Jet Airliner etc..... Neat pop with progressive overtones but should not be included ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: marktheshark
Date Posted: October 18 2005 at 16:49
Actually Sean, I think Steve is from Texas. But still not Southern Rock though. |