Steve Miller Band

Steve Miller ( born October 5, 1943 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American rock and blues guitarist and frontman of the Steve Miller Band, are among their best known hits The Joker, Rock'n Me, Abracadabra Fly like an Eagle.

Life

Miller was born as the son of the physician George " Sonny " Miller, a jazz enthusiast and amateur producers, and his wife Bertha, a jazz -influenced singer, in Milwaukee. 1950 the family moved to Texas. His first guitar chords Miller learned at the age of five years of Les Paul, who in the House of Miller was with his wife Mary Ford regular visitors; George Miller was their best man.

On the St. Mark's School in Texas Miller formed his first band, the Marksmen. Miller showed his classmate Royce Scaggs (better known by his nickname, Boz ) some chords on the guitar so he could go into the band. Miller made ​​his secondary education in 1961 at the Woodrow Wilson High School, near Lakewood. During the 1960s, he attended the University of Wisconsin - Madison, where he founded the Ardell. The next year Scaggs joined the band. Another year later joined Ben Sidran on keyboards the band. Miller was only sixteen when he went to college, where he fell on purpose by his literature exam. Les Paul encouraged the young Miller to use his musical talent.

Before he founded the Steve Miller Band, Miller was with Barry Goldberg in a band called Goldberg -Miller Blues Band, which was founded in 1965 and a single published before Miller left the band. From this formation are subsequently released yet more songs, but one of which are sung only three of Miller. ( In the meantime, also appeared on CD is now probably out of print).

Steve Miller Band

In 1967, the Miller Steve Miller Band, joined them at the Monterey Pop Festival and contributed three songs to the soundtrack for the hippie revolution in film (as well as Quicksilver Messenger Service ). In these songs, he himself took over the vocals. In 1968, the album Children of the Future, the first of a series of albums that were deeply rooted in the psychedelic blues style that then dominated the San Francisco scene. Sailor, Brave New World, Your Saving Grace and Number Five followed. This first period of Miller's music history summarizes the bulk of the double album compilation Anthology of 1972 together. Boz Scaggs was an important member of the band, but only for the first two albums, before he launched his own solo career in the early stages.

In 1970 Steve Miller with musicians such as Dave Mason (Traffic ) some pieces for Neil Merryweather " All-Star album" Word of Mouth on. In addition, there was a short-term interaction with John Lee Hooker: Steve Miller took with him the album Endless Boogie ( 1970) on. The images were taken 10, 11 and 12 November 1970. Producers were Bill Szymczyk and Ed Michel. Steve Miller plays electric piano and guitar on some tracks.

The album The Joker marked in 1973 the beginning of a second phase of Miller's career: although still inspired by predecessors, it gave the band in the form of the title song to Number One hit in the U.S., and some other popular pieces ( Sugar Babe, Shu Ba Da Ma Ma Ma you, Something to Believe In). The Joker was newly introduced in 1990 and remained in this version longer at the top of the English singles chart after it had been used as a television advertising jingle for the jeans company Levi.

Miller was 1976 Fly like an Eagle and 1977 follow Book of Dreams. These two albums were the highlight of his career. Both reached top positions in the album charts and provided for greater hit singles, including Rock'n Me, Take the Money and Run, Jet Airliner and Jungle Love. The Steve Miller Band was the opening act of a larger stadium tour with the Eagles in the same year.

At the height of his success, Miller retired from recording and touring life, but it showed up in 1981 with the album Circle of Love (Hits: Heart like a Wheel, Circle of Love ) back on. The entire second side of the album consisted of a 18 -minute piece, a kind of experimental rap song with the lyrics Miller directed against the then U.S. policy. The sales figures, however, were rather disappointing. So he returned in 1982 he returned with another hit album to his pop formula: Abracadabra. The single of the same was the same in America, Japan and Europe No. 1 Also Goodbye Love Keeps Me Wondering Why and Give It Up, as well as the B-side of Abracadabra, Never Say No, were minor hits in some European countries. However, it was Miller's last great commercial success; a number of best -of albums, compilations and live trials, a "new", the digital age matched band style (Italian X Rays, 1984) to establish, followed sporadically.

Solo

In 1988 a first solo album: Born to Be Blue. Steve Miller wanted to prove - as he put it at the time, for example, in a television interview with Annette Hopfenmüller is - that a Blue Guitar readily lets you play over standard jazz songs. The single from the album Ya Ya, a cover of Lee Dorsey, but flopped.

Another comeback attempt in 1993 with the album Wide River failed despite acceptable sales numbers probably due to the choice of single releases and again, in comparison to previous releases, unthinkable smooth production. He also played in the same year for the Muddy Waters Tribute Album ( Muddy Water Blues ) by ex -Free singer Paul Rodgers, which also hosts other guitar legends such as Jeff Beck, Neil Schon, Richie Sambora, Trevor Rabin, Gary Moore, Slash, were allowed to Brian Setzer, David Gilmour, Brian May and Buddy Guy romp, a guitar for the blues classic I'm Your Hoochie Coochie Man. Steve Miller took since then - by his own admission because of his tarnished relationship with the music industry - not a studio album in more. However, he worked in the meantime with Paul McCartney for the 1997 nominated for the Grammy album Flaming Pie. There he is to listen to a song on the lead vocals and guitar, a late musical thanksgiving McCartney in memory of his jam session with Miller at the time of My Dark Hour (1969).

While Steve Miller had declined to almost zero in the meantime in the field of record production, he seems in 1993 to have performed with much less disruption, a very lively life on tour, but that was limited in the U.S. and Canada almost exclusively on concerts.

Was released in 2006 by Capitol Records, the original master label Miller, CD- DVD - coupling of the album Fly like an Eagle, the 30 -year anniversary of the plate. Among the included bonus material there is a concert film recording from 2005 with guest stars such as George Thorogood and Joe Satriani. Also on the Les Paul Tribute Album of 2005 ( Les Paul & Friends ) Steve is (among other prominences such as Eric Clapton, Sting, Sam Cooke, Buddy Guy, Keith Richards, Peter Frampton, Billy Gibbons, Edgar Winter, Rick Derringer, Neil Already, Richie Sambora, Joe Perry and Jeff Beck) with a reinvestigation into his socially conscious rock classic Fly like an Eagle, whose cult status underpinned by reinterpretation and re- Hitstatus early 1997, the black singer Seal further represented.

After many years of studio break was in June 2010 with Bingo! released a new album, which immediately conquered the # 1 position on the Billboard Blues Album Chart. In August 2010, also began a grand tour of Canada, the U.S. and Europe.

Discography

Albums

  • Children of the Future, May 1968
  • Sailor, October 1968
  • Brave New World, June 1969
  • Your Saving Grace, November 1969
  • Number 5, November 1970
  • Skirt Love, September 1971
  • Recall the Beginning - A Journey from Eden, March 1972
  • Anthology, October 1972
  • Living in the USA, 1973
  • The Joker, September 1973
  • Fly Like an Eagle May 1976 ( D: 20)
  • Book of Dreams May 1977 ( D: 13)
  • Greatest Hits 74-78, May 1978
  • Circle of Love, September 1981
  • Abracadabra, June 1982 (D: 1)
  • ! Live, April 1983 (D: 65)
  • Italian X Rays, October 1984
  • Living in the 20th Century, October 1986
  • Born 2B Blue, September 1988
  • The Best of 68-73, 1990
  • The Very Best of the Steve Miller Band, 1991 ( D: 38)
  • Wide River, June 1993 (D: 81)
  • Fly Like An Eagle, 1993 ( re-release of 76- he Albums of Dunhill Compact Classics [ DCC ] as remastered 24K Gold CD)
  • Box Set, June 1994
  • Live 1973-76, 2002
  • Young Hearts, September 2003
  • Live from Chicago, 2008 ( 2 DVD, 1 Audio CD)
  • ! Bingo, June 2010 (D: 68)
  • Let Your Hair Down, April 2011

Singles

  • Living in the USA, 1968
  • Your Cash Is not Nothin 'But Trash, 1974
  • The Joker, 1974 ( D: 7)
  • Shu Ba Ma Ma Ma Ma as you, 1974
  • Evil, 1975
  • Rock'n Me, 1976 ( D: 28)
  • Take the Money and Run, 1976
  • Serenade, 1976
  • Fly Like an Eagle, 1976
  • Dance, Dance, Dance, 1976
  • Wild Mountain Honey, 1976
  • Jet Airliner, 1976
  • The Stake 1976
  • Swingtown, 1977
  • Jungle Love, 1977
  • True Fine Love, 1977
  • Wintertime, 1977
  • Macho City 1981
  • Heart Like A Wheel, 1981
  • I Stole It 1982
  • Abracadabra, 1982 ( D: 2)
  • Shangri- La, 1984
  • Bongo Bongo, 1985
  • I Want to Make the World Turn Around, 1986
  • Maelstrom, 1986
  • Behind the Barn, 1986
  • Nobody But You Baby, 1987
  • Slinky, 1987
  • Caress Me Baby, 1987
  • Ya Ya, 1988
  • God Bless the Child, 1988
  • Mary Ann, 1989
  • Willow Weep for Me, 1989
  • Born 2B Blue, 1989
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