"The Beatles were very important to me; they really changed things in a way that nothing else did. When I first saw the Rolling Stones, I thought, "What a bunch of f---head idiots. " Steve Miller .   :shutthefuckup


The link : http://www.spinner.com/2010/09/03/steve-miller-band/ >:(

riffkeither wrote on Sep 4^th, 2010 at 3:53pm:

"The Beatles were very important to me; they really changed things in a way that nothing else did. When I first saw the Rolling Stones, I thought, "What a bunch of f---head idiots. " Steve Miller .   :shutthefuckup The link : http://www.spinner.com/2010/09/03/steve-miller-band/ >:(

his opinion and he was a spoiled kid. funny he didnt talk about backing up chuck berry on his live at the fillmore release. his first five albums still sound great after that...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

errhm ..


Yes, Steve. I can see exactly where you're coming from. Who were These Rolling Stones guys anyway? How dreadful right? I mean they were in no way, shape, or form even close to what a creative, world changing talent that The Steve Miller Band came to be...

As far as Keith looks go... was it really necessary to go there? I suppose Steve considers himself some what of a respected musician of sorts who's been around the music scene right (I guess...)? So why not piss on  someone who is sort of a living legend in that same field who was around before your fame, and after it...

*When given an a chance to restate your thoughts on The Stones by an interviewer who is a notch more well rounded than yourself never mind capping it off with something positive and saying anything about Keith Richard's talents (previous or present) or what he's done in music ... instead let's bring up how you saw him at an airport a while back and how horrid he looked...

I suppose Keith should try and model himself after Steve Miller. Maybe Keith should look and dress like Steve Miller does ...the "I used to try and be a lame rock star but now I'm even 10 steps lamer so  I go for the ..I am a yuppy Dad from Cleveland look now"...

The thing is, a "look" on an individual as this kind on Steve presents itself as the person just "may" of tamed down over the years while keeping his "scrooples" through the years in music. Possibly having a bit of class and entertainment savvy as well... but I see and read negative numbers on all three accounts...I am still befuddled on this guy??


Why do I sense a bit of Jealousy here? Does Steve still get angry his big brother had a later curfew than he did when they were growing up?



Ian

I don't know what he (Steve M.) meant when he said he didn't think The Stones were real blues, as far as I'm thinking they were more blues then anyone else in '64, more so in '65, just because Les Paul is his Godfather & he knew T.Bone Walker, he thinks he's king shit, as far as his songs goes, I never took The Joker serious, never liked Fly Like A Eagle, the other one Rock 'N' Me is allright.
He didn't like The Who at Monterey Pop either.

Well, what did he say after that? ... Maybe—I'm assuming he's not a complete f—head idiot himself—that he changed his mind somewhat in subsequent years.

Once again, the middle-class upbringing given a bad name.

Maybe he was just joking?

Steve always gives some interesting interviews:
By DARRYL STERDAN, QMI Agency


Steve Miller's new release, Bingo!, his first new studio album in 17 years, is a collection of blues covers.

Steve Miller is back in the game — and playing by his own rules as usual.

The singer-guitarist has just released Bingo!, his first new studio album in 17 years. But if you think he spent that time painstakingly crafting new material that can stand next to ’70s hits like The Joker, Jet Airliner, Rock’n Me and Take the Money and Run, think again.

“I’m 66 years old, and I don’t give a f--- about that stuff anymore,” laughs Miller from his home in Ketchum, Idaho. “I don’t even think about it.

“If I wrote new originals, you’d just go, ‘Ehh, not as good as Fly Like an Eagle.’ That’s just the nature of the game. Nobody wants to hear new originals — nobody.”

Instead, he’s banking on the belief that what his fans really want to hear are blues covers. Bingo! — the first of two discs he cut — finds Miller applying his distinctive double-tracked space-cowboy vocals and strummy guitars to classics from Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King and Jimmy Reed, along with newer fare from former Fabulous Thunderbirds axe-man and fellow Texan Jimmy Vaughan.

While gearing up to play Bingo! in Toronto and Montreal in the coming weeks, the outspoken rocker talked frankly about the death of his longtime sideman Norton Buffalo, his undying love for record executives and how time kept on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ away between CDs. Here are the highlights:


Why has it been 17 years since your last CD?

The main reason is just record companies. The last album I put out was in ‘93 with Phonogram. They were just absurd to work with. It was just such a waste of time and so annoying. We were gonna do an 18-month world tour. We got to Australia. The first gig was for 80,000 people at a racetrack — and I found out they had only 3,000 CDs for sale in the entire country. I take those kind of things personally. So I grabbed the manager of Phonogram in Australia by his necktie and pulled his head down on the table and started TALKING! TO! HIM! After that, I just went, ‘I don’t need this.’ Life was good. We were selling a million records a year because of classic-rock radio. We were touring. And it was so pleasant to just remove those guys from the equation. But I’ve been recording all along. I just go in the studio, cut a bunch of stuff, pass out a few copies, forget about it and go back to the road. I did an acoustic recording. I did a bunch of jazz tracks. But this was the first serious album I had done. I didn’t know how it would turn out. But it just kept getting better and better.

How did you pick these songs?

Well, the first thing was I hired a bunch of 13 year olds and paid them $10 an hour to load my entire CD collection into my computer. That actually went on for a couple of years. Then one day, I hit the blues button. And 6,000 songs came up. I got fascinated. The next thing I knew, it was four days later and I had culled 6,000 down to about 170 songs. I had grown up with a lot of these songs. I grew up in Texas in the ’50s, before radio became homogenized. We heard a lot of blues and R&B and country music. And these songs were big hits in the late ’50s and early ’60s in Texas.

But you never had any desire to write new material?

When people my age write their own stuff, you can smell the burning brain tissue. If I started writing songs, I wouldn’t be as optimistic as I was when I was younger. They’d be songs about politics and the IRS, and who cares? Whereas this stuff is really joyous, great music. And we put as much work into each one of these as you would put into your own songs. It wasn’t like we just sat down and knocked them out. These things have been slowly simmered over a long period of time. The effort that went into the guitar playing was just as great as the effort that would go into writing lyrics. So for me, it was really a satisfying deal.

It must be weird to go out and play without Norton (Buffalo, Miller’s longtime harmonica player, who died in October).

Yeah. We played together for 33 years — a lot longer than some marriages. He was such a partner. And it happened so fast. You hear people say that, but it’s true. We had just finished a 29-city tour. He wasn’t feeling good at the end. He called me the next day and told me he had brain cancer and lung cancer. And he was gone 60 days later. It was just so unexpected. And it’s heartbreaking to not have him there. But that’s what happens when you get old; people you love start dying. Life becomes kind of bittersweet. Tours and record projects become more important. You want to make the most of your time and you wish you had a couple of hundred more years, but you don’t.

In light of that, don’t you wish you’d put out more albums over the last 17 years?

Nah. I think my recording history is full and magnificent and has done quite well. And the fact that I didn’t have to go through all that BS with those record company people has been absolutely delightful.

I imagine at the airport when he bumped into Keith later that day Keith thinks to himself..Man that guy looks fat.....Steve Miller and his am radio tunes still make my flesh crawl......Joker indeed....

ABRACADABRA!!

Make Steve Miller DISAPPEAR!



Funny...I didn't even have to be a magician for that to happen

Okay, I read the rest of the quote. Wish I hadn't wasted my time. He apparently has bought into the Ry-Cooder-as-Keith's-secret-fairy-ghostwriter myth.

"  ...  new release, Bingo!,   "


<  ------ Bingo's avatar STILL looks stoned !!!!!!

This ain't Rock 'n Roll ?   But Jokes ...

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