[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Who'd thunk Steve was a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist?

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

BUMP

[wolfpat]

These record company execs don't get it. The reason sales are down is that the music is not worth listening to. Kids in bands don't know how to play their own instruments. There are kids in recording studios who can't even tune their guitars.
On a different note, (pun intended) whenever I hear the line in "Fly Like An Eagle" that says "House the people...Living in the streets" I always say, "They's fine. How's you?"

[Drew68]

Who'd thunk Steve was a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist?

Miller tours nearly every summer and plays to sold out crowds at several-thousand seat venues. He hasn't had a hit song since the early 1980s. He draws crowds by concentrating on his library of hits from the 1970s played the way they sounded on record. This is what his fans want to hear and it has been a recipe for success that has served him well over the years.

Many of yesterday's rockstars sobered up and came to the unhappy realization that they squandered their wealth on worthless indulgences: mountains of cocaine, $1000/night hotel rooms, sycophant entourages, shady business managers and poor licensing of their music. A few have been able to recoup some losses on "nostalgia" tours but one would be surprised at how many of yesterday's rock giants are today living very meager lives, wishing they had better grasped the business side of the industry back during their heyday.

[ScreamingFist]

Who'd thunk Steve was a dyed-in-the-wool capitalist?

I’m a hard working man

I’m a son of a gun

I’ve been working all week in the noon day sun

The wood’s in the kitchen

And the cow’s in the barn

I’m all cleaned up and my chores are all done

Take my hand, come along

Let’s go out and have some fun

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

How could anyone have missed the Free Republic sentiments in "Take the Money and Run"?:

Billy Mack is a detective down in Texas
You know he knows just exactly what the facts is
He ain't gonna let those two escape justice
He makes his livin' off of the people's taxes

Sounds very Republican to me, recognizing the responsibility of public servants due to public funding. ;-)

As an aside, this has to be one of the worst-rhymed songs ever put to paper. In addition to the above couplets of "facts is/taxes" and "Texas/Justice", Miller also gives us the immortal "El Paso/big hassle" combo. I have to believe that the talented and intelligent Miller laughed his keister off when he wrote that stuff.

[nothingnew]

Steve Miller was one of my first experiences in what was then "alternative" music (1969) along with Jorma Koukanen(sp?)and Jimi Hendrix.

Millers' use of extended bass lines and echo-chamber was hypnotic...(see: Motherless Children),and having Nicky Hopkins on piano in "Baby's House", which fit in with drug-induced stonedism. His early stuff was a great. His later stuff proves his capitalistic ideas, which I do not begrudge. His music when he decided to go that route went down in my estimation....but that's just MVHO.

FMCDH(BITS)

[FlJoePa]

I've always been a Steve Miller fan. Always will be. As the one poster notes, he recognizes that his fans pack his shows because they want to hear (basically) his Greatest Hits album played live.

[jordan8]

I remember when the big bands wouldn't appear on TV (diluted the mystique) and watching crappy shows like Don Kirshner's Rock Concert or Midnight Special in the (usually vain) hopes they might feature a video from one of the rock gods.

[Tribune7]

Somebody get him a cheeseburger.

[Dan from Michigan]

One of my favorite lines from Jet Airliner, then a shot at disco, now works for most modern crap.

"...that I don't want to get caught up in all that - funky shit goin' down in the city"

[humblegunner]

"It all depends on how you approach it."

Wimmins are like that too.