Posted on 07/25/2022 6:45:51 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
He went to HS with Boz Scaggs as well.
I have to laugh when I see that Motley Crue is still touring. I wonder if they are going to play “Too Young To Fall In Love”, LOL!
65 is the new 30.
Seen this band so many times I’ve lost count...
Though admitted the last time was probably more than 10 years ago now...
Musically they were still able to play well... but his voice is long gone, even back then.
Still a great show, but if you are expecting it to hear vocals anywhere near the recordings, you wont.
I saw Foo Fighters, too. But it was a ‘free concert in the park’ that my teens wanted to go to. They were OK. My kids always liked them.
One time my kid came up to me all excited for me to listen to this most AWESOME song he’d just heard. It was a remake of ‘Last Kiss’ from 1961 by Pearl Jam!
Red Hot Chili Peppers & Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds got a lot of airtime in our house, too. All in all, tolerable.
None could play instruments, but they decided their ‘Garage Band’ name was going to be ‘Poop Shovel,’ LOL!
SPAC is something special. I saw Elton John there in the 80s. I think it was 1987. Four and a half hours, no opening act. Guy is/was amazing.
What a beautiful place for a show.
I think Miller is a highly talented student of guitar as opposed to natural born virtuoso's.
The park it sits in is awesome. What's amazing about the venue is the lawn not only has a great view of the stage, unlike Tanglewood, but the sound is actually better on the lower parts of the lawn than inside.
SPAC is a marvel from any perspective you choose to examine it. Upstate NY is also something else. Magical.
Never heard that version before. Thanks!
The bass line was awesome.
Good album, BTW.
All too true. Simpleton— “cheeseburger in paradise” bubble gum rock.
Time has passed by the great rockers, and the great pop rockers... for example, The Atlanta Rhythm Section.
Real pro players, writers, and performers.
And, we should not forget... Little Feat. As in:
“RocknRoll Doctor”— Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3LNhZ7msI4
“Two degrees in Be Bop a PHD in swing He’s a Natural Rhythm, He’s a RocknRoll King....!” He’s the man to MEET!
“One time my kid came up to me all excited for me to listen to this most AWESOME song he’d just heard. It was a remake of ‘Last Kiss’ from 1961 by Pearl Jam!”
High school friend was was piano player for J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers when they released “Last Kiss” back in 1963. We are both now 80 plus and still good friends and he is still active in the music world as a performer.
“Abracadabra”
Simpleton rock on steroids.
Need is one thing, want is another.
My late father interned at a hospital in Dallas at the same time Steve Miller Sr. practiced there. He told me Dr Miller used to complain all the time that all his son wanted to do was “ play that g d guitars all the time”. LOL.
Well he should have expected it, I think Les Paul was his best man, or something to that effect and they were always at their house.
Sammy Hagar ... 74 and still rockin'!
Steve Miller changed the music industry. All musicians can thank him for the royalties they make when their music is played. He also become one of the first rock artists to earn a sizable cash advance on an album from his record company and among the first to negotiate for complete artistic control from the label.
That dude is smart.
An adventurous cover of the Steve Miller Band song ‘Abracadabra’ by:
Arnel Pineda - vocals
Joel Hoekstra - guitar
Billy Sheehan - bass
Van Romaine - drums
Ollie Marland - keys/b-vox
Lenny Castro - percussion
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=As4DLqpOtjA
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