Fly Like an Eagle - Steve Miller Band | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION!
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Edit: LOL, really sorry guys for mixing the cover up with the Yes album cover from Monday’s vid in here! Our mistake! Also, we’ll make sure to give it another listen with the Space Intro!!
Hey guys was time to check out some more from The Steve Miller Band! We thought it was awesome, what’s the next track we’ve got to check out!! Cheers to you guys! 🤟🏻🔥
Excellent choice Gents! Love this song! I’m an Eagles fan and this song is one of the songs that REPRESENT us! ✌️ ☮️ (Trukin by The Grateful Dead please)
Guys...any plans for Neil Young, we're on oxygen over here! Pot favor?!
It's ok. To make up for it you can react to Yours is no Disgrace next.
NOOO!!! You didn't do the intro! too late for the video, but if you have time, go back and listen to it with Space Intro/Fly Like an Eagle. Next Steve Miller I suggest is 'Abracadabra.'
Man I cannot wait to see this reaction 😚😚 this is black light and Bong style music😋😋😋🎸🎼70s. Ahhh yes!!!🎼
In high school this song was huge with us “ Herbal” folks😄
Don't Bogart. 😜😂
This was definitely a stoner song
So was The Joker.
herbal folks? you mean Heads
The Who Baba O'Reilly Teenage Wasteland 1970s Rock On! so much great music!
"Jet Airliner" and "Take the money and run" Both Steve Miller classic bangers
Dont forget Jungle Love
Jet Airliner has my favorite misheard lyric.. "bingo jed had a light on"
@@misterkite That is pretty good. A favorite of mine - I had a friend who suddenly belted out "Dirty knees of the thunder chief". When we asked what he was singing, he said it was an AC/DC song. Turns out he meant "Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap."
"Jet Airliner" album version with the long intro "Threshold" is a song you cannot avoid singing along to in the car.
@@andynator501 Jet Airliner originally done by the most soulful Cat that ever lived, Paul Pena.
Also check "Bit of Alright".
The story is that when Steve recorder this he was running out of tape and the beeps at the end were literally on the tape to tell him the tape was ending. It was a perfect ending. It was a satellite beeping while looking down on earth and all its problems. Steve’s guitar was very subdude. Steve got it.
Absolutely, Steve got it.
"Steve Miller Greatest Hits 1974-78" was a staple album when I was a young pup along with "Eagles Greatest Hits 1971-75", and "Best of Bread".
YES!!!
Les Paul was a good friend of Steve Miller's parents; he taught Steve about guitar, and he was Steve's godfather.
And Steve ended up being a Fender guy mostly. haha I'd love to hear Steve's take on choosing the Stratocaster over the Les Paul.
Wow didn't know that. Very cool!
Kitten good on you! I was hoping to find someone else who knew that. I've noticed that 99% of comments on CZcams only mention the hits by an artist. Never any deep tracks and absolutely no back story.
MEOW
Steve's mom was a jazz singer; his dad was a pathologist by day and a sound engineer on the side. T-bone Walker, who used to record at Steve's parents' house, taught Steve how to play guitar behind his head and with his teeth.
Oh No! You left off the “Space Intro” from the album. The “Space Intro” blends right into “Fly Like An Eagle”. It’s the way it was played on FM stations in the 70’s.
When you listen to “Jet Airliner” it has an intro as well, “Threshold”.
And “Jungle Love” and “Wild Mountain Honey” are both a must hear.
Yes the Space Intro make it so much more trippy
Gotta have the intro !!!!!!
The Intro makes the Outro make more 'sense'.
AGREED. Gotta do the intro.
Lads, have to agree with Chase you slipped up by not playing Space Intro as well, really ties up the end of the track by playing the instrumental as well!
This band has SEPARATION mastered. Such crisp clarity in the drums, organ fills. Bass is just laying it down like an elephant doing jumping jacks on your ass.
Every dude doing their part, not outshining the other. It's like a chocolate chip cooking with the PEFRECT amount of chips in it.
When Steve Miller was a boy, his father was friends with LES PAUL! Yeah, he would come over for dinner. Steve learned young from the best!
and also dennis hopper
Les Paul was Steve Miller’s Godfather.
Weird he played more Fenders?
@@dicklindell948 it's funny, Steve performed on a Less Paul show and showed up with a fender, Lesd busted his balls about it lol
@@kenguarnaccia3253 He was every L.P. players Godfather!
Steve Miller Bangers: "Serenade," "Take the Money and Run'" "Winter Time," 'Jet Airliner," "Rockin Me," and "Jungle Love," etc. To name a few.
Thanks, Johnny G fine choices... Saved me from having to type it out. 😀
As long as they stay away from Abracadabra, they’ll be fine.
Winter Time made me want to take piano/synthesizer lessons.
@@dadof4813 Nothing wrong with Abracadabra. Just a meaningless line in the lyrics giving it a bad reputation, but there's some great music in there. One of my favorite guitar solos of all time.
*"The Stake"* is my #1 song for Steve Miller Band. But I like a few others you mentioned as well...
Living in the USA is a great Steve Miller Band banger. Can't recommended it hard enough.
Jason Remy would be a banger for a 4th of July reaction!
"And he takes it!!!"
You've got to hear this at 3 AM on mescaline to fully appreciate it. Speaking from experience. That's the audience he meant it for.
UncleIllya hahaha!
So true. We were such a chill group, purple dot, beer bongs, water beds and blue light. Best!! Look it, i had my camarro and my suede jacket is ALL.
I used a megadose of acid, and it was in the afternoon. Took me AWAY.
Miller was a social advocate. This was he plea to people to get involved with issues across the country, like hunger, homelessness and drugs. He conception was "If you're going to get involved, don't hold back. Fly like an Eagle and go all in". This song is that plea.
Try "Take the Money and Run" and Keep on Rocking Me"
They headed down to old El Paso 👏👏👏👏👏
"Keep On Rocking Me" drops an "F" bomb that the radio missed for years! We thought that was so cool back then!
And "jet airliner"
Totally agree with all of these recommendations! Keep digging into SMB.
G-sus you people need to get a frickin life - poppy bullshit crap.
Take the Money and Run, Jet Airliner, Swingtown, Jungle Love
Swingtown ... yes.
What Jay said
Absolutely, listen to them all
Pure pop pablum.
All Yes'. 💜💜💜 Love Steve Miller. 🦅 I'm just realizing how many songs back then had so many "sounds" like spaceships or aliens. Space time. Haha. And these days we have the first space Nation called Asgardia with a million members worldwide. And we now have Space Force, a new branch of the military. We have lived through all of this. ( By the way, the Netflix series called, "Space Force" with Steve Carell had it's 1st season this year, it was great. I binged the whole thing. Can't wait for next year. 🚀
"Jet Airliner" should be your next Steve Miller Band reaction video.
Pure pop pablum.
JetAirliner my FAVE!!!!
Swingtown and Jungle Love
Spin the whole “Fly Like An Eagle” album. Meant to be listened to start to finish.
Back when this came out, there were radio stations called
“Album Rock” stations. And they would play whole albums.
They also played a lot of unusual rock bands and music as well.
📻🙂
Another great early hit of theirs is "Space Cowboy", then you will have more context when you hear that line in "The Joker"
We should start a campaign to get "Space Cowboy" in the next Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
space cowboy is the joker. one song.
@@Dehzee Umm...no. "The Joker" and "Space Cowboy" are two different songs. Turn in your Steve Miller card.
Agreed. Space Cowboy will blow Alex and Andy's minds 😁
@@nomadicbee1728Space cowboy is the joker, and they already said they don't care for it as much. Do any of you people actually listen to these songs? :D
HIGHLY recommend Bob Seger. You guys like lyrics. He is a GREAT story teller.
If anyone likes classic rock, you HAVE to check out Seger. Being from Michigan myself, I know this first hand.
Yes! Oh how much I hope! “Night Moves” and “Turn the Page”, for appetizers!🤘🏼
KATMANDU!
Get out of Denver and Sunspot Baby are good examples.
first time I ever heard Get out of Denver was about 20 years ago, it was played on BBC radio 2 out of the 9pm news (very unusual for them) and I was driving. Got so lost in the music I suddenly realised I was doing almost 100mph...
Well my favorite Steve Miller Band song is
“ Winter time” so ethereal and chill.. a song for November or December ..
Forgot about that juicy tidbit!
“Blinded by the Light” - Manfred Mann
Blinded by the light by Bruce Springstien
@@patrickvandemotter6610 His version sucks.
That and "Father of Night", by MM &The Earth Band
@@emilyflotilla931 Road to Babylon, Spirits in the Night, literally the entire 'Watch' Album.
Good one guys..... Try jungle love and jet airliner
The long version.
Jungle Love has the coolest riff...
Vic Lagina Great Songs And add Swingtown from 5hat same album!
Shut it. Those songs are pop pablum.
Yes “Jungle Love” 🎸🎤🥁❤️
“Rock N me” “Take the money and Run” “ Jungle Love” “Swing Town” Greatest hits Lp was a staple at college and High school’s setting records for. Number of weeks in the charts.
Your awsome...I love all those songs
Jungle Love... He intentionally had no lead guitar on it. He was tired of the 'who is the best guitar player?' crap...
Steve Miller Greatest Hits, I wore this record out. I liked your three picks. I'd list them in reverse order, Jungle Love, Take the Money and Run, and Keep on Rock N Me.
So much respect for Steve Miller. Les Paul was his godfather and taught him to play guitar.
His creativity is just unbelievable.
Ah yes my grandfather never fails to make me proud
Max Miller shit dude your grandad is STEVE MILLER?!
haha
@@mostlyh2o233 Max Miller was the name of a famous British comedian from about the 1930s and 1940s whose act was very blue for its day. He was one of the people on the cover of the Beatles Sgt Pepper album.
Way cool family!!!
If he’s truly your grandfather, tell him thank you. His Greatest Hits album got me and my buddies through the final years of high school. (And I was in high school a decade after all his hits exploded). We wore the shit out of that Greatest Hits tape on a ski trip in Michigan.
While this is a definitive Steve Miller song, Jet Airliner and Take The Money and Run are personal favorites. Steve Miller was on heavy rotation on all rock radio stations in the 70’s.
still is on the classic rock stations
Check out “ Take the Money and Run” next.
Mike Jackson Great story, one of his earlier tunes!
Ouch. Please no. That song was so overplayed. I'm thoroughly sick of it.
@@gregsteele806 Why don't you skip it and let the great song be heard by those who want to hear it? Easy enough. All of the greatest songs have been played to death anyway. Maybe not frequent a reaction channel that focuses on the classic greats?
GREAT SONG! I WILL NEVER BE SICK OF TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN! THESE GUYS WOULD LIKE IT
Here's a question: when are we gonna be gettin some Three Dog Night?
I know, right? Black and White, Joy To The World, The Show Must Go On, Shambala... Such good music.
Eli's Coming is one of my personal favorites, but all of the above are great starting points.
What about never been to Spain or celebrate more great songs
when it gets really cold. lol
70's pop
I gotta admit, in a good way, I'm a little surprised you liked this so much Alex. This was the mid 70's definition of "techno" with the synth. You gentlemen continue to surprise me with your reactions to music that I cut my teeth on. It gives me hope for our future generations.
There are VERY FEW channels that I keep coming back to...yours sits on top of my list 👍
Steve Miller is a great musical innovator, especially of the 70’s. Many great songs.
Jungle love is another of his songs which has broad appeal.
I grew up on this music, in my high school days. So glad you guys are keeping it alive.
Nothing like lighting up, going for a drive, and blasting this song....taking flight
Most forget or don't even know that Steve Miller is one hell of guitarist, very blues oriented with some incredible hooks. I think you guys would absolutely love the groove found on the track Shu Ba Da Du Ma Ma Ma Ma from the album The Joker.
Just as a side note he made a great 80's jam called Abracadabra, it's got all that 80's cheese before it became moldy.
Les Paul is his godfather.
I love that track and that LP.
Back in the day, Steve Miller would be on Midnight Special or Don Kirschner's Rock Concert. Loved those shows, live performances from legendary acts. Not like today's auto tune so called "artists".
Stevie “Guitar” Miller was briefly the man before Eddie stormed on the scene.
Steve Miller is a straight up badass. Saw him in the mid-90s with The Doobie Brothers and it might have been the best concert I've ever seen as far as pure musicianship. He's incredibly skilled and soulful. Great reaction, guys. It was so much fun to watch you experience this classic song for the first time.
I also recommend you listen to "Jet Airliner", "Take the Money and Run", and "Abracadabra" from Steve Miller Band.
Abracadabra is silly. Anything off of Book of Dreams is good though
@@TimothyLafreniere The record companies practically owned bands back then.... You had to sell records and appeal to both men and women..... Thats why the hair bands got so gotchu trying to sell albums to everyone a,d trying to out do another.... Home studios in the late 80s allowed bands to not need record companies as much.... So this song has that appeal to the radio listener.... Its a radio song
Abracadabra is my LEAST FAVE by SMB.
@@theubercaste that's okay. Everyone likes something different.
@@theubercaste not my fab but it was played the shit out of on the air
you have no idea how many times we got high listening to this stuff in the 70's.
In my opinion Fly Like an Eagle really pairs well with the Space Intro as found on the Fly Like an Eagle album version. Without it I think it falls flat.
Yep. Not the same without the intro.
SO many Steve Miller tunes. I'd recommend Take the Money and Run, Jet Airliner and Jungle Love.
You guys may like the Band, a couple good songs are The Weight and The Night they drove old Dixie down.
Sean, what a great comment. Boys you absolutely should be doing some of The Bands songs. As musicians, you need to immerse yourself in this band. Probably without question the best 5 musicians in a single band. Eric Clapton broke up the super group Cream because he wanted to join these guys. Chest Fever, The Weight, the list goes on. Your subscribers need to be pushing for these guys.
And Up on Cripple Creek
Great suggestion. I'm a huge fan of The Band and actually lived next door to Levon's sister, Frances, for a little while when I lived in Delaware. I'd like to hear them do Chest Fever, Ophelia, or Cripple Creek.
Big Pink.
You guys make me jealous. You have so much great music from the 70's and 80's to discover. Seeing your generation discover the music i grew up on and getting it gives me hope.
This is right in that time when an organ was in the song as a huge part of the mix. This song was showcasing a synthesizer as a real part of the song. Bands were starting to change out classic instrumentals and adding synth. It was new to older bands.
Please try Bachman Turner Overdrive’s “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”, Badfinger’s “Baby Blue”, and Crosby, Stills and Nash’s “Southern Cross”.
Or BTO's Roll On The The Highway, Badfinger's Perfection, and CSN's Suite Judy Blue Eyes for Judy Collins. :)
The joker is one of many Steve Miller hits from the 70's. Between him, Jackson Browne and the Eagles. Tons of great songs.
Are you there? Say a prayer, ...for the pretender.
@@andyball8379 I saw him in the 90s at Universal Amphitheater. One of the best concerts I've ever been to.
@@wendymotogirl So cool. I sort of missed that era by just a tad bit. I was 17 when "Running on Empty" came out. That was the summer of Chuck Mangione, Jerry Rafferty / Baker Street, Hotel California, ... What a time.
Jackson Browne is another fine wine they might want to pop the cork on at some point. One of the great lyricists of the 70s.
@@andyball8379 The Pretender by Jackson Browne is a fantastic song pick.
Guys, oh no!!!! You've got to play the Space Intro first... the songs on that side of the album all flow into one another and the synth bookends Fly Like an Eagle. It makes the ending make sense.
"Wintertime" is my favorite Steve Miller tune.
"Jet Airliner"
"Jungle Love"
"Rockin Me"
Jet Airliner originally done by the most soulful Cat that ever lived, Paul Pena.
Also check "Bit of Alright".
Nobody gives a FF about that poppy crap !
When I was a teenager in the 80s, almost everyone in my school (except the Punk Rockers and Metal Heads) kept a cassette of Steve Miller's Greatest Hits in their car, along with AC/DC's Back In Black and Led Zeppelin IV. It was almost like the town issued them to you when you got your driver's license.
I would add Pyromania to that list for my high school, lol
I grew up with this music and this is the first time you are hearing it, wow, I'm old and didn't really realize it.
Imagine yourself as a teenager, in a carload of friends, driving along listening to this music.......What great times.
"Jungle love"
👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏
Jet Airliner or Rock 'n Me should be next.
I want to suggest for sake of your own understanding of this artist, that there is another version of this track that gave me so much insight into the mindset of what this song is that I changed my point of view on steve miller in general. I grew up knowing fly like an eagle, the version in your clip. it is such a gem of a track. a classic. it even had the resurgence when MJ embodied its spirit in the movie Space Jam. it is a super hit by a super hit maker with classic songs Ive known and loved all of my life.
but a few years back on this website, I was treated to a version of the song so different, so legitimately trans-formative in my understanding of the song that I had to go back and re-examine this band's entire catalog under the newly found way I appreciated the artist and the man, Steve Miller.
I wont say much about what the change is, so that way you can decide for yourselves if there is indeed one worth your own consideration, Ill just direct your attention to the version i listened to. It is a performance of the song done for the Midnight Special TV show. I imagine it was filmed before the hit was ever released to the public ear and it is about 7 minutes and 7 seconds in length.
hope you guys continue to find time to make the videos you make, It is one of the better react to music channels on youtube in my opinion. just 2 people, enjoying spirits and libations for some of the artists, while listening to experiencing something culturally significant in history and society... music, music made by people of the past is the focus now, but it could easily expand to encompass any time, any genre. You are the product above the music, your conveyance of your interpretation is the function people want to discern by watching the clip, do you get the same physical reaction we did when we listened to the songs ourselves. keep up the fine work gentlemen. or dont, just keep living as full of a life as you can, and i think that will be enough to let us of the older generations rest easy and know there is hope for the future still.
DG
It’s from 1976, guys, and I was 6yo then.
I’m an ambient/space/electronic/zero beat gal, so the ARP Odyssey had me begging for more. So many songs from the decade using analog synths, and that’s what I wanted to drown in, musically. Took me a while to find those artists.
Glad you enjoyed the song!
"Space Intro" leads into this, they go hand in hand. This whole album is great!
Steve Miller’s Greatest Hist album/CD is among the best selling. He has easily a dozen must-listen hits.
Les Paul used to hang with Miller’s father, and also taught Miller a few things on guitar.
Steve Miller is a phenomenon. He could write massive hit songs, but he also could never resist to do some weird things on them. Or the other way round: he was inventive and ahead of his time in a lot of ways, felt at home in many different genres and this never got in the way of his commercial success. Brilliant and underrated musician.
"Dance Dance Dance" is all Country. Steve Miller is an all round talent.
Alex bro. Your comment about the heartbeat monitor or the distress signal totally blew me away because 40 years of listening to that song I never interpreted it that way. And it is absolutely spot on if that’s what Steve Miller was trying to convey. The message of his song and that distress signal at the very end shows you that Time keeps on slipping...
To me the ending beep sounds like space communications. Like the eagle has flown beyond earth, also, the 1969 lunar lander was the Eagle.
@@susanhatcliff5349 It's the "beep" from the Sputnik satellite which Russia put into orbit in 1957 -- a sound which still would've been familiar to a lot of people in the mid-70s, and which ties nicely into the "spacey" intro and outro, and the whole "slippin' into the future" theme.
The entire "Book of Dreams" album is great. No duds. "The Stake" is a banger, MY personal favorite. "Jet Airliner", "Rock n Me", "Swingtown", "Jungle Love",and "Take the Money and Run" were hits for him too.There is a "Threshold" to Jet Airliner that most radio stations cut out along w/ about 20 seconds of acoustic guitar intro(which is one of my favorite parts of the song), so if you do it, make sure you do the album version). Great insight on this one guys.🤟⚡🔥
Love your insights. This is definitely a part of the soundtrack of my life. This album was required listening in '76 and '77. So was Frampton Comes Alive.
Great review, gents. Well done!
The whole Fly Like an Eagle album is a masterpiece. One of the best tracks on it is the final song - The Window. It's super smooth, moody, and mystical. It's kind of track you listen to on a hot summer night with a fan blowing, possibly having a drink or getting high.
Steve Miller Swingtown great song and the drummer has got it going on
When you grow up knowing Steve Miller’s whole catalogue, you don’t really compare The Joker, it’s just another cool groovy song that really ADDS to the variety of all their other songs. I don’t really rate it, I’m just glad it’s there too. I guess that’s a dynamic that just can’t be understood unless you grew up with the band. And that’s the same with a lot of bands. The closest you can come learning the music late in life, which of course isn’t your fault if you’re young, is to listen to it all, and then realize that the variety of the music is sometimes larger than thinking of each song in competition with each other. I’ve come to realize that with a lot of reaction channels. No ones fault, it’s just a life thing older people can only just tell you 🙂. If anyone knows what I mean, I feel like that could have been explained better 😀.
You explained it well. Some bands have all types of songs in their catalog. Some more than others. Different sounds, ryhthm, instruments and feel. Steve Miller has quite a few. Bands that create songs you're surprised they wrote. It's an incredible talent to diverge from your writing formula to create new and very different songs. songs. Listening to a bands catalog shows you the variety of their sounds. Is that what you mean?
Smashing Pumpkins comes to mind. If you only hear a couple of the 90's hits, you probably think they're a pretty weird band. While fair, you'd have to listen to at least 30 songs before you start to feel the meaning. Even if you can't put the meaning into words.
Yes, the first two lines of The Joker is like a trip down memory lane for Steve Miller fans.
@@Raittway Yes, like Rush! Their sound from the first album, to their last album, 40 years later, shows how dynamic that band really was. The Steve Miller Band was that type of band too, only their "dynamicosity" (I just invented a new word) was often shown in a single album!
Every Steve Miller song is worth gold stars!
"Hold your head up" by Argent.
as far as groove goes try some Traffic " Low spark of high heeled boys"
Add 9 more thumb-ups to the one I just clicked.
It'll be a long video...
Steve Winwoods "arc of a diver" has groove as well.
Long but a great song
This is essential
Jet Airliner. The long intro version.
Jet Airliner originally done by the most soulful Cat that ever lived, Paul Pena.
Also check "Bit of Alright".
1979 was my last year of high school and I used to pick up my best friend and we'd arrive to school 30-45 minutes early and sit in my car in the parking lot having breakfast listening to Steve Miller on cassette tape. I hated school with a passion but the memory of music and friendship are among the best I have from that period and it never fails to bring a smile to my face.
Just this song and "The Joker" alone show you how versatile Steve Miller is!
Definitely an A+. Other songs: Rock 'N Me, Jet Airliner, Swingtown, Jungle Love, Living In The USA , Take The Money And Run. This album pushed Steve Miller over the top. Have seen him 3 times. He always rocked the place!
@Stephen Graham All these years, and I never realized Living in the USA was by Steve Miller. Ya learn something new every day.🤨🤟
Rockin' Me is a good Steve Miller song with a good groove
Everything Steve Miller did touched gold!
the whole "Book of Dreams album was a must have in the 70s-everyone at college had this album in 77-78.
"Living in the USA" and "Space Cowboy" are Steve's best work. The '60's were his peak not his later work.
Hell yeah!
Right on! But the old stuff doesn't get airplay so the younger set has no clue it even exists. This was true on FM radio back in the middle 70s. It's like the old stuff was blacklisted or something.
My first exposure to Steve Miller band was "living in the USA" more of what these kids would call a banger than his later work.
Only if you were on acid. I made sure I missed out on that. LOL.
Rock N Me !! Steve Miller Band
Steve's parents were great classical musicians and so was Steve but he found his greatness in Rock. He taught himself to play guitar like his idol Jimi Hendrix you guess it backwards with reverse strings.
At the very end of the song. That's the reel of tape running out but Steve being Steve, he added a little echo and BAM! Its like a satellite going into orbit. Those 70s guys were the most crafty musical geniuses EVER!
Love SMB!! My fave by them is Rock 'N Me!!!❤
When this album came out, I was in college... went out and bought it on my lunch break, and couldn't wait to get home... Until I learned that the library at my school had listening stations with turntables and headphones! Holy crap, I thought, screw Physics class, I'm having a Steve Miller session! ;-]
I love this song and album, so very 70's...great time to grow up in.
I love the expression on Andy's face every time Alex decides to pipe in on just the precise moment that the music breaks down,change chords or whatever the case may be when Andy is really getting into the groove. 2:47 mark is the perfect example of this. This has happened more than once and god bless Alex he's not doing it intentionally because he doesn't know what's going to happen in a song ! 😆
recommend; Steely Dan- “Do it Again”. Yes - “Siberian Khatru”
Do It Again, such a very cool song! Love Steely Dan.
Definitely Siberian khatru!!!
Deacon Blues, Hey Nineteen!
Their next Yes song should be Siberian Khatru.
@@mariefc8504 Followed up by My Old School.
“Jungle Love” 👍🏼
The 70s were WILD man. Steve Millers Greatest Hits is sick. 70s pop and rock is the best, with 80s metal right there with it.
If I'm bored this is where I come to watch these reactions. Always fun
Jet Airliner is my all time fave! You MUST listen to it with the long into!!!! It makes the song SO much better
Brad Ballinger The radio cut of this song not only cuts out the "Threshold", but also the acoustic intro that lasts about 30 seconds or so, which is my favorite part of the song.🤟
he is The Space Cowboy"
he is Maurice
He is the gangster of love
"Space Cowboy" might be my favorite Steve Miller song, I'd love them to do that one.
I graduated from High School in '77 - our mascot was the Eagle and this was voted our school song.
OMG! S tier Others that are a must: "Rock'n me", "Take the money and run", "Jet Airliner", "Jungle love", "Swingtown", "Abracadabra"
Great analysis. Lately, I look forward to uploads from you guys more than anyone else on CZcams. One GIANT singer, songwriter, musician you have completely overlooked is Neil Young. ?
Old Man.
Hahahaha
Steve Miller is another one that doesn't have a bad song.
"If You Wanna Get to Heaven" by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils is a fun one.
Love that one. Harmonica!
A definite must hear.
You've got a bunch more Steve Miller Band to explore! Favorites: "Swingtown," "Jet Airliner," "Jungle Love" (all 3 of those off of Book of Dreams), "Take The Money and Run," and "Rockin Me" (both of those from Fly Like an Eagle).
I had clean forgotten that Steve Miller put out Living In The USA in 1968! Just listened to it again, and it's a great, great song. Go back before you go forward!
You guys HAVE to listen to Sting. Some of my personal favorites include: Desert Rose, Shape of My Heart, Englishman in New York and Sister Moon. In terms of albums, a good sampler is Nothing Like the Sun and Ten Summoners Tales
"Passively political?" Ah no, actively political: "I wanna fly-y to the REVOLUTION" Take him at his word. It'll take a revolution to feed the hungry, shoe the children and house the people in the street. "Time keeps on slippin'...into the future" If not now, when? If not you, then who?
It's been fifty years and all of that still sounds like a revolution. SMH
Amen!
Amazing how this song can be about current times some almost 50 years later.
Nailed it.
Nice try at gas lighting but at that time that wasn't the driving issues of the day.
F yeah. I remember jumping out of swings on the play ground singing fly like an eagle!!
You can't go wrong with Steve Miller...Classic genius ✌❤🎶
Steve Miller: Swingtown
Jet Airliner! Steve Miller Band