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@@kickstar1maybe side fills or something under stage? Or maybe they just had stage volume set appropriately so that everyone could hear the band really well and the drummer played with restraint.
@@kickstar1 they might also have been hanging on a truss above. that would also keep them out of the live of sight for TV. and, like WTHF said, band from the backline and only vocals in the flown monitors.
@@ronaldolaquidara64 I agree. This has a real funky edge to it that is not in the album version or the live from the Breaking Ground album in '77. I wonder if there's an audio recording available anywhere.
@@cooldebt yeah ik right I really don't know if there's actual recording of this version I'll try to call him up later 😹😂 "Hey Uncle Steve did you ever make a recording of that version you did on Midnight Special way before the version you did on your studio album?" Call me back when you can ok." 😹😂😹🤣😹
That is a Maestro Phaser, same one used by Funkadelic, Alex Lifeson of Rush, John Paul Jones on his keyboards, Little Feat's guitars were dripping in Maestro phaser. It's got a more adaptable tone than a Phase 90's subtle gloss. This is much chewier. @spacerockwizard
This live version very groovy and spacey ! Watching these midnights specials is like time traveling back to my first favorite decade the 70’s ! Space ace Ron ⚡️⚡️⚡️
@@ronaldolaquidara64 actually a friend gave me that name back in 1989! A pen pal ! We both liked kiss ! I’m a ace guy and he was a gene guy ⚡️⚡️⚡️ space ace ron
This version has sort of a more psychadelic sound, whereas later it felt more space age (for lack of a better description). Sounds more low-key groovy here. Great just the same!
Correct me if I’m wrong but I believe this super funky drummer is John King who predated the legendary Gary Mallaber in this band. King does an amazing job here. Loving The Midnight Special channel, a huge new asset to RU-vid.
That is Jack King not John on drums & though not Steve first drummer he came after tim Davis . Gary didn't play with Steve till the LP Recall The Beginning A Journey To Eden in 72. All great drummers . So nice to see a clip of Miller before he went commercial.
No paullevine .. that is John King. He lived about 30 minutes from me in Kingsport TN in the 1990s. I worked for his company India Street Percussion. He and Dickie Thompson (the keyboard player seen in this vid.) played on the joker album and left the band after a dispute over pay. John unfortunately passed around 2010.@@paullevine1813
What do you mean by mesmerized?? Wait I'm gonna go watch this again Brb.... Ok Yessss mos def 💯True!!!! It's like a completely different tuné 😹😂😹😂😹😹😹😂😹💯
As much as I love this song and played this constantly, I forgot about this live performance, it's (no words) - So fortunate to have grown up with this music 70's
I wonder how someone can sell millions of albums, get TONS of airplay in their prime and yet be criminally underrated. Maybe they are in 2023. They weren't underrated in the 70s.
@@markstevenson6635I see this term so often in YT comments and it makes sense to me. There are many highly talented and successful artists during a particular era, but in the modern day they're not remembered as much as other, less talented artists from the same era. Well that's what I think the term means.
Actually I never realized how inane the lyrics were. The solution to poverty and hunger is to fly like an Eagle to the sea?? But of course this is the guy who rhymed “Texas” with “Facts Is”
@jeffmasek9541 Yeah I’m with you there, this is one song I enjoy the instruments more than the lyrics. It’s still a funky/chill song, but S. Miller singing about poverty/hunger then flying like an eagle to the sea makes absolutely no sense, lol. I know technically it’s about letting your soul ease up and feel free (and that right there is an amazing feeling when you’re not broke on the streets fighting everyday for survival), but otherwise when I hear this tune I just open my mind to the instruments more than the lyrics!
Love this channel. I was a bit young when this one came out but live the decade with my parents, who were huge Midnight Special fans and let me stay up late on the weekends to watch.
Best quotes of Christmas tunes I've heard during live performances is the brilliant A Consouls Christmas with 'Last Christmas in Azalea Town' (Pokemon tune) and 'O Come All Ye Faithful to the Bob-Omb Battlefield' (Super Mario 64) and also Court Begins with We Three Kings (Phoenix Wright:Ace Attorney)
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I remember staying up Friday nights as a teenager, through graduation and beyond watching Midnight Special in the 70s. The quality of these live videos- pristine. Thank you from the bottom of my heart (Nancy Wilson acoustic intro on Crazy On You- AWESOME ❤ too!) Saw Steve Miller believe at DAR Constitution Hall (I believe…it was the 70s after all 😂) Oh…these memories…
Steve Miller was my very first concert, at the LA Forum in Inglewood CA. It was magical, inspired me to play drums in Jr. High school jazz band. I still play in bands...Thanks Steve Miller!
I remember watching Midnight Special and other live concerts from In Concert and Don Kirshner's Rock Concert. We would "prepare" ourselves prior to the programs. Good times 👍
I loved Anthology then all of a sudden he started having huge hits but what was cool was they were great songs. Bands like Chicago and Jefferson Airplane had hits in their later years but they were so lame it sucked. Steve Miller''s hit songs are all killer in my opinion.
Great! More of a relaxed psychedelic jam-band groove than the space-rock album cut, which is a lot more "up" and radio-friendly. Lots of quiet, subtle stuff going on here. Love it.
Love this version!!! The band's great to! I remember this was up on RU-vid for a while and it got taken down. Probably because of copyrighted bullshit. Either way, glad to see it again!! 🤘🤘
Its amazing the difference between 74 and 84 styles. If you look back 10 years ago in 2013, some things are different, but not to the extrememe as it was between the mid 70s and mid 80s...
@@victorbennett5414 Yes, that's a really good point. I've also noticed that artists who were successful in the 70s didn't fare well in the 80s at all; the jump was too big. However, some artists made the 60s - 70s transition fairly painlessly.
Eow, its great to see these performances! Thank you! Subscribed. 🎶
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I will always remember this song as it came on the radio when it was new (or just after its release) and I was driving across the Broadway Bridge over the river going North down the incline and past the downtown airport and the land yacht car just floated to the rhythm of the song as the radio peacefully blasted it out... it was such a different time in the 70s
I was lucky enough to have caught Steve Miller band at the Nassau veterans memorial coliseum on long Island new york. I have some great pictures of the group ☺️. One of the many concerts that I have been to. My first concert was the Rascals and the Jimi Hendrix Exp on 7/5/67, At the Schaefer music festival in central Park New York city 😮❤.
Es primera vez que escucho a Steve Miller y me quedé impresionado por su estilo de música en esta rola que me pareció excelente. Además veo que utiliza una camisa de la parte sur de México del Estado de Chiapas de la zona indígena de Zinacantán que está padrísima; espero no equivocarme. Suscribo que la rola está de bien alucinante! hoy es 5 de Mayo de 2024.
What?!!! Always thought this song came out in '76 or '77. Never remember hearing it before that time . . . maybe it was an FM hit before moving to AM pop radio a few years later?
This was great. Takes me right back to my high school days. Great artists! Loved the Midnight Special. Always looked forward to it each week. Thanks for sharing.
I have CHILLs 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 wow grew up with the more electronic Album Into Fly like an Eagle. Love this early version too. I was blessed to be in my young years in the 70’s.
Great memories! Before I had a car and went out getting in trouble. I would be home watching the Midnite Special and Don Kirschner’s Rock Concert! Some great shows there!! Mom would be asleep, I’d sneak out back and smoke a doob now and then! Ahhhh!
Midnight Special had quality production values with their televised concerts. A lot better than In Concert on ABC and others of the time. And the closeups of Steve Miller look almost HD from a time when that was not available.
