Frank Zappa is someone I always wanted to see live. He is one of my all time favorite guitarists for those long winded jazzy solos. RIP Frank Zappa and Jerry Garcia, someone else who I regret never having seen in person.

Wow. You should definitely do a book man and I think it would be a big seller. Especially us old farts would buy it and many young people are interested in the likes of Jim Morrison, Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton and a lot of bands. The music lives on. I lived in Cleveland but I met and partied with many bands that came to town. Some of them I took to get a home-cooked meal at my house since my mom was a really good cook. Just regular folks. Rock stars didn't start acting like big shots until later on. The one I remember the most is meeting Janis, but that's a long story.

About that song: In the Summer of 1969, The Steve Miller Band was getting ready to play a concert at the University of Hawaii's Andrews Ampitheater. I heard the drummer wonder aloud if the audience would be offended by the opening song, "Your Old Lady." The band began to play, the audience approved vociferously, and I later found "Living In The U.S.A." on a LP.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/it-SnryJ3ZeqcYU.html

Hahah exactly

Its a computer

Glyn was probably the most ubiquitous top non-Beatle engineer in the UK in the mid-late 1960s. He was especially valuable as a mix engineer. As an engineer he contributed producer-like ideas to some of the many (many) hit singles and albums he worked on, but he’s not credited as a producer. In fact he stopped working for his biggest client the Rolling Stones after many years when they wouldn’t give him producer’s credit circa early 70s. A similar thing happened to him when he engineered Led Zeppelin’s first album and, after contributing greatly to the drum micing/sound, asked Jimmy Page for co-producer credit. Like Mick and Keith, Jimmy wasn’t gonna share and they never worked together again. The Stones continued to use him for occasional mixing. This isn’t to say Glynn wasn’t a great producer, he was when he finally got the chance. His first producer work on the early Steve Miller stuff didn’t produce any true hit albums but his production of ‘Who’s Next’/The Who gave then (and us) their iconic album. His next major project, the first 2.5 Eagles albums, introduced the world to several of the hits that would land on the largest selling album of all time. Glyn is a legend by any definition. His hand touched many, many essential rock recordings..either as engineer or producer. His autobiography ‘Soundman’ is excellent.

Uncomp nature??

Nice shout out. He makes all those tunes great. He is excellent, he's tasteful.

I always key in on the drums on the songs you mentioned. He really has his own sound !

Clearly the announcer is just a hire who has no real knowledge of the band or the music but is just reading a script. Anyone familiar with the band, I saw him with Curly Cook, before Skaggs joined and many times thereafter, at least in the early days. I agree with your assesment of his later releases.

That literally had me laughing out loud! What the actual f**k!

The agent/manager's name is Ken Adamany, not "Academy."🙄

I didn't read your comment until I put down mine. We are on the same page brotha!

The guy who made this video must have eaten too many cheeseburgers.

Haha! Ain’t no one wanna live in Chicago on purpose now

probably Steve himself playing the harp

Sounds like a Jr. High student reading a book report his mother wrote for him on a book he never bothered to open.

@@joeprod1 you got that right.

Most people don't know it. I do. I was at the show where Gangster was recorded.

Interesting

That Fly Like an Eagle band was outstanding; easily the best thing he ever did. That bass line made the Joker interesting.

Lonnie was a great bassist and one of my earliest influences.

I agree. After the first two albums and Boz went on his way it did turn into bubble gum

Exactly right on all those...I will give you two more...Keep on Lovin You by REO in which they sold out to get top 40 plays, and Centerfold and that other J Geils tune Freezeframe which was the end of Geils

But we liked it!

Added Gibson EBO and Precision bass pickups to the Guild Starfire and the Barney Kessel which was a ridiculous idea since they would have made for an overloaded muddy sound! But people did dumb things in the sixties!

@@johnbergen9663 The pickup added to the Barney Kessel looks like it came from an 8-string steel guitar to me. It is hard to figure what they had in mind.

Indeed - that four-song side two is on the short list of my favorite album sides ever. It's the only Steve Miller album I own; just recently picked up an Argentinian CD (via Germany) of it to go along with my vinyl.

@@bedmac2 yes agree 100% second side brilliant, Steve's best stuff I'd say, though first side not bad either! I managed to get the hard-to-find cd too. N°5 is my joint favourite album of his.

I was just relieved to find out he had another neck that was ok! 😂

There's a hole in the sound which I suspect once held "vertebra in his".

Good video clips and photos, good interesting information (Les Paul? didn't know about that!), voice recording itself (levels, etc.) seem fine but your actual delivery and some choppy editing stick out as rough to me, just to be a little more direct with the criticism. new sub!

@@gcarlson Constructive criticism. Refreshing!

@@docheine That's what I would want!

Because you are such an expert……tongue firmly in cheek.

@@ericnieves9884 there you are! Just a matter of time before poopy pants has to comment. Thanks for not letting us down, hero.

No.5 is in my opinion his the best he ( SMB) album! I’ve been listening to it since it first came out! One of my favorite all time albums.

Wrong,fly like an eagle is a great song as is the album...you have no pulse if you don’t get a kick out of take the money....”sit around the house,get high and watch the tube”?! If you lived the 70’s you can relate to that!

@@jamesmack3314 Every artist is entitled to choose their own path - and everyone has the right to like what they like. That being said, Miller dropped cutting edge creative material for pop dross - which apparently you like. End result - his greatest work never gets played on any but the most progressive radio stations and you can hear "Fly" And "Take the Money" four times a day on any computer-programmed "classic rock" station. Yawn...

@@godfreydaniel6278 Well I agree with some of what you’re saying but I think his last great creative burst was the fly like an eagle album and after that it got pretty cheesy with things like abracadabra and jet airliner but I always like take the money it had a good beat and fun lyrics but you can’t expect him to just be the psychedelic 60s guy forever

@@godfreydaniel6278 Thanks for that. "Pop dross" is exactly right.

Nope just wasn’t my style ever and im 59

Calling it, "Living In The United States of America," says to me the guy making the video put this together through research and might not know a thing about Steve Miller otherwise.

It’s at the end of the video

Nope- on tour right now

They were in Central Point, Or. last weekend playing at a brew fest.