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Posted on 07/16/2025 8:40:21 PM PDT by Macho MAGA Man
The classic rock group known as the Steve Miller Band has announced that they are canceling all remaining dates on their current tour because of the weather, or more specifically, the ‘extreme’ weather conditions brought about by climate change.
Rock and roll just isn’t what it used to be, apparently.
The group made the announcement on Twitter/X.
Variety reports:
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Best classic rockers touring are The Doobie Brothers! You see them on stage and can tell they are loving it.
AND they recently released a new album! It’s OUTSTANDING!
I have tickets for an upcoming show, they are always very entertaining.
Pack my bags…..
People keep talking about me baby
They say I’m doin’ you wrong
Well don’t you worry, don’t worry, no don’t worry mama
Cause I’m right here at home
Steve Miller Band has no CLUE about Weather or Climate
This is too stupid for The Bee.
I hate them pretty much. 😊. Miller’s peeps should “demand” a correction. But, still a lame excuse.
I saved pretty much all my concert ticket stubs. I am 62.
So, i saw a lot of the classic rock acts in their prime.
The ones I missed and wished I had gone were The Rolling Stones Tattoo You tour in 1982. They came to the Carrier Dome @ SU. I didn’t go. Regretted it later. It was kind of the end of their prime.
Others like Lynyrd Skynyrd I was too young. I was only 14. My older brother went. Mom said I was too young. I could hear it from our house in Orchard Park(Rich Stadium home of the Bills) three miles away.
Prue Prairie League(Vince Gill’s band)played at SUNY Morrisville in 1983 when I was there. Tickets were $2. General Admisssion. Back when that was still okay, prior to the stampede at the Who show in Cinncinatti.
I saw Tom Petty at the Broome County arena in Binghampton, NY. General admission too. Tickets were $8. I pushed my way to the front during the opening act. When TP and the Hearbreakers came on I was 15’ from the stage packed in there like sardines.
Then when I went to SU/SUNY ESF for my junior/senior years of college I worked in events production at the Carrier Dome. Saw the Dead, Prince, Springsteen, Bowie and others up close.
I know we all love to hate on Springsteen here on FR.
However, back then(1985) he was still a regular guy that just hit it really big with his Born In the USA album.
He played two sold out 40K shows there. I met him the night prior when he and the band came in for sound checks. He came out and shook all of our hands. Thanked us for helping set up. He was pretty impressed with the Dome because it was the biggest concert venue he had ever played up to that point.
I even literally bumped into him coming out of the locker room. I was checking out his girlfriends backside and I bumped into him. I said sorry, excuse me and kept walking.
My boss was standing about ten feet away. He said to me, hey do you now who you just bumped into? I said, no. He sad that was Bruce Springsteen. I said, that little guy?
Again this was 1985. I was 5’ 10” at the time, 175. Springsteen was 5’ 7” at best. Probably weighed 150 or less.
Black curly hair with a five day old beard.
he came out a few minutes later and said hello to all us star stuck kids.
At the time he was dating some pretty blonde woman that was on some TV show. She though she was something special and wanted nothing to do with us peasants. I think they broke up soon after.
Prince was even smaller. He came out and was wearing 6” platform shoes. He might have been 5’ tall without them. He was tiny. He was also surrounded by a half dozen big black security guys. He was very aloof. Like don’t talk to me.
We were more interested in one of his back up singers Sheila E. She had hit it big with one big hit song recently and was the opening act. She was smoking HOT.
When the Dead came Jerry wanted nothing to do with us. The rest of the band was pretty cool.
We set up the two locker rooms for them. Jerry in the home locker room all by himself. Bob and the rest of the band in the visitors room.
In Jerry’s room we put a folding table, a chair and a lamp.
Nothing else.
Typically the acts would have a list of requirements that needed to be in each locker room. Especially if the tour was sponsored by a particular liquor or something else. I can’t remember who it was but there was an act where someone had to pick through multiple bags of M&Ms and take out a particular color. Weird crap like that. There was always a list we had to provide.
Working events production was a pretty cool college job. The best $5/hour job I ever had.
Good one. You’re quite the joker.
Chris Stapleton came to Gilford, NH last year. Which is a pretty cool venue up in the lakes region of NH. Right near the big lake Winny.
It gets some pretty big name acts in its summer concert series.
I really only became a Stapleton fan in the last six months.
I've never been a country fan, but it's starting to grow on me. I enjoyed the movie Twisters II and the soundtrack was all country songs. The recent song by Blake Shelton "Texas" is catchy and funny.
Gee, I wonder if any of the crew was counting on that money from the cancelled 30 shows. Steve probably is okay.
I only started listening to Stapleton when they had his music on the TV show Yellowstone.
The last show I saw was Robert Cray at the Nashua Center for the Preforming Arts. It is a new venue that just opened a year or so ago. It seats 700. There is not a bad seat in the house.
When I saw Cray I yelled from the front row “OTIS MY MAN”. During a break when it was real quiet.
Cray was the young guy playing the guitar with Otis Day and the Knights in the movie Animal House.
He and the rest of the band thought it was pretty funny.
Not to mention the people who sell concessions at all the venues.
Plus the company that drives the staging and equipment between all the venues.
There are a lot of people that work to put on those shows.
I was one back in my college years. See my previous post.
That's how I learned who Lainey Wilson is.
I think the guy who owns the bar on the Slvester Stalone show “Tulsa” is also a country singer.
Yeah, that plus ticket sales were only about 20-25% of what they had hoped. (I don't know this for sure, just guessing.)
Dude’s over 80.
He probably has no idea what his management announced.
Everything through “Number 5” is a first rate classic.
He's playing smaller venues: Bethel Woods The maximum seating capacity at Bethel Woods Center for the Arts is 15,000. This includes 4,800 covered pavilion seats and 10,200 lawn seats, according to Kenoza Hall and Bethel Woods Center for the Arts. The venue is an outdoor amphitheater located on the grounds of the original Woodstock festival site in Bethel, NY. I suppose if the only sold a few thousand tickets, I'd cancel.
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