Band #175 on Amazon Music. I can't imagine 174 bands are better than the Steve Miller Band. I don't like listing musicians or bands like that. It's anti Art. Art is what YOU prefer, a list tells you what you prefer.
The song hadn’t even been structured yet! 😊😊. So great. When they eventually recorded it they put a great version together! Steve Miller, a road paver in music.
Miller was peaking with creativity at this time. He recorded two brilliant albums back to back! Fly like an Eagle and Book of Dreams. Which are the basis of his Greatest Hits CD. Great Songs! Classic Rock!
Steve Miller was a favorite when I first got into music! Fly, and Book of Dreams were favorites! Also liked his older stuff from the Anthology album, even added Space Cowboy to our our own band set list!
If Steve Miller said he was going to play Fly Like an Eagle today, the crowd would go Crazy. Those people hardly reacted because they hadn't heard the song yet. What a Treat.
The reaction of the girls in the crowd shows that this song was well on its way to becoming a major success. Trimming the excess and some tightening of some other parts made this song into an anthem for the decade and well beyond. Such a great performance of an untested song with great results. ❤
I was 7 years old when this came on. My parents would let me stay up to watch it. I remember putting my shoebox tape recorder in front of the TV speaker to record all of the songs. Would take it to school and me and other kids would listen to these jams on the playground. Sadly my tape is gone but I have some Midnight Special dvds.
This song is so relevant even more today. The Steve Miller Band is a musical force that deserves much praise for all their great work and it still continues.
Yeah, everybody is a communist now. France elected an Antifa spokesperson into office. So, I guess you can see how well that will turn out. The head Rabbi has already told the Jewish people they have "no future" in France.
Steve Miller knew what time it was back in the early seventies, Time keeps on slipping into the future and not back to the past Feed the Children with no shoes on their feet , housed the people living in the streets .❤💙👍🦅.
I can't even imagine being hearing this for the first time. Time keeps on slipping, just slipping away. They are not even following any type of sheet music for a while just feeling it and going with what they feel.
Well it’s true they don’t have sheet music, but only a few parts are “improvised”… the song was rehearsed into a structured form. But it went through several different forms before it was recorded and became the smooth classic we all know today
I really enjoyed seeing this band at the Carousel ballroom in SF. 6or 7 years later I was at work and a patient came in that said he was a roady for the Steve Miller band. I AM SURE GLAD I took the very best of care of this person. I even gave him a ride back to the airport Hilton. Later I received a call " Nancy nurse, come on to our concert we'll get you in back5
And now I know , I always thought I heard this song before it was released as a single .In 73' I was 16 and watched every episode I could of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert Thanks for the memories !
The best live version was before Book Of Dreams. It was real trippy with all the sound effects. Steve's voice was raspy on that version. There is no released version of it. I wish there was.
Actually 47 years. What a shame time machines aren’t available. I feel no one’s kool anymore, in various ways. Our Western/American culture is frivolous & shallow today. No depth. Make society kool again. MSKA! Lol
@@jacknick429 Cool! I guess I see why-hippies get stoned, and this is the perfect song to which _to_ get stoned. Maybe *you’re* a hippie. Doesn’t hurt to guess or imagine!
@@perfectfan2006 Yes, Miss Miller, you were a part of the rock-n-roll/fusion experience. Strange, the artist is Steve Miller, and your last name is Miller? Are you and Steve Miller related? Steve Miller and the band were 1 of the few groups that were given the green light to record whatever they wanted by the record company. EVERYONE RESPECT'S HIM!
Vinyl albums from mid 70’s I continue to love - and Fly Like an Eagle being the best of the best: Led Zep - Song Remains the Same, Eagles - Hotel California, Bad Co - Straight Shooter, Queen - Night at the Opera, Rush - 2112, Bob Seger - Night Moves, Rod Stewart - Night on the Town
Love how it's the raw original version and they had not recorded it yet! All the over the top delay guitar and improvising, It's just awesome!! It's almost more the Allman Brothers and Santana .
Amazing how Steve had a broken neck from a car accident as well as developing hepatitis just a couple of years before this. Just shows you can come back from great adversity.
Don Kirshner Rock Concert and the comedy of Saturday Night Live. What GREAT talents came alive. Trying to leave all the pain of the 60's behind and Heal if only for awhile.
Simply amazing! I saw Stevie “ Guitar “ Miller when Book of Dreams came out! Opened with Jet Airliner but this song was the highlight! What a great what a great time to be alive! Never forget it!
@@jm12green31 I can tell that you are surprised. Well, I don’t often reply to comments on RU-vid due to my busy schedules so I think it’d be great to keep In touch with you on Google chat. Are you on Google chat?
So, cool! Raw, and newly imagined... .. ... Song fully developed in the next year, with the 1974 studio recording, all over the radio airwaves (still, my favorite). Message with lyrics, musicality, etc., still relevant today, in 2022. .. ... 🤘🏾
YEAH DIG STEVE MILLER PRETTY MUCH SAYS IT ALL WHAT A MUSICAL GENIUS STEVE WE LOVE YOU AND THE MUSIC YOU GAVE US! THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK AND DEDICATION TO YOUR CRAFT!!🎸🎤⭐💜✨🌟🎶🎵🌈💕🎆
It was so cool back in the late 60’s and early 70’s when bands would play songs live they had written during sound checks and rehearsals before they were even recorded and released. The music industry truly screwed its own pooch over the years, didn’t it? I love live music - to this day even in my 60’s we still go to concerts to hear great bands - including Steve Miller just a few years ago.
Great song. I heard it all the time in the 1970s never heard it live. I wondered its meaning all the time and imagined it was an out of body experience floating through time. Anothe Trippy song like this was "Nights in White Satin" by The Moody blues.
Saw Steve Miller...Day other Green '76. The line up was Atlanta Rythem Section, Steve Miller, Heart and then The Eagles!!! Steve blew them all away!!!!!
Steve Miller looks just like my friends father. My friend's father is a Carpenter and always has a pencil perched behind his ear and drives a pickup truck with ladder racks. Nice guy
Same experience hear from an 18 year old. Grew up on this. Old music, no matter the genre, has new school beat on so many levels, and they have to. Nothing to touch up voices back then. Nobody to coach the greats of all genres. They are the pioneers. Too many old artists to name, but this band, lynyrd skynyrd (Jax native, gotta mention em) and then rap artists like nas, Tupac, and even into the 90s with Joey badass and early 2000s with Mac miller’s upcoming. Old music will always hold a place in my head and my ears for years to come.
*meant early 2000s with Joey badass but as a 17 year old, he dropped the album 1999 which has some of the best beat selections and wordplay I’ve ever heard... from a 17 year old. I believe it dropped in like 2010-2012. Somewhere in there
Groovy outasight I'm digging it man I was born in 1963 so you know I'm not joking around I just heard this song on the radio went to Google I never saw this early live show before yeah I think I'll watch it again and yeah I'm digging it man
