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I have loved The Steve Miller Band for decades. Steve Miller's father,George, a physician known as "Sonny" who, in addition to his profession as a pathologist, was a jazz enthusiast and an accomplished amateur recording engineer . Guitar virtuoso Les Paul and his musical partner Mary Ford were regular visitors at the Miller house. The Millers were the best man and the matron of honor at the December 1949 Paul/Ford wedding. Les Paul became Steve's godfather. Great reaction. Take care.
As has been mentioned, Les Paul and Mary Ford were Steve's God Parents, Les and Steve's father were lifelong friends and Les taught Steve to play guitar
Dance Dance Dance, the long version of Fly Like an Eagle, Winter Time, Swingtown and The Stake. Saw Steve this summer. He’s 80. Played 2 hours of hits nonstop. Pretty damn amazing. And the audience had fans of all ages singing all the hits.
Steve Miller is a MASSIVELY underrated Guitar Player, Singer and Songwriter. Seen him three times over the years and he never disappoints. Many good songs in his catalog including "Living In The U.S.A.", "Fly Like An Eagle", "Jet Airliner", "Swingtown", "Mercury Blues", a cover and "The Joker". The quick hand claps in this song were taken from the song "Deep In The Heart Of Texas", an old standard. To see it in action, check out the movie "PeeWee's Big Adventure" when PeeWee is on the phone with Dottie and he gets the passer-by's to clap along with him. "The starts at night are big and bright, clap, clap, clap, clap clap, deep in the heart of Texas". LOL. RIP PeeWee, aka Paul Reubens. Steve Miller is still active.
A very young Steve Miller was a child guitar prodigy of one of the pioneers of the solid body electric guitar Les Paul, who was also his godfather. There’s a great version of his song Fly Like an Eagle with some childhood tape of Miller talking to Les Paul at the beginning on the Les Paul 90th birthday tribute album, Les Paul & Friends: American Made World Played. I always thought “Texas” rhyming with “facts is” was right up there with the “pompatus of love” on the Joker! 😂
Steve is an amazing musician and has many great tunes! Kinda like the stars aligned for this guy. His godfather was Les Paul who taught him to play. Can't think of a better mentor than the guy the guitar was named for!
