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3 x DVD video |
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| 1. DVD video tartalma: |
| 1. | Fly Like an Eagle
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| 2. | Living in the USA
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| 3. | True Fine Love
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| 4. | Abracadabra
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| 5. | Mercury Blues
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| 6. | The Stake
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| 7. | Shu Ba Da du Ma Ma Ma Ma
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| 8. | Boom Bapa Boom
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| 9. | All Your Lovin'
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| 10. | Crossroads
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| 11. | Serenade
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| 12. | Dance, Dance, Dance
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| 13. | Wild Mountain Honey
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| 14. | Winter Time
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| 15. | Rock'n Me
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| 16. | Take the Money and Run
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| 17. | The Joker
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| 18. | Swingtown
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| 19. | Jungle Love
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| 20. | Jet Airliner
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| 2. DVD video tartalma: |
| 1. | Rock 'N Me
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| 2. | The Joker
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| 3. | The Stake
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| 4. | Jungle Love
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| 5. | Serenade
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| 6. | Take the Money and Run
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| 7. | Jet Airline
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| 8. | Shu Ba Da du Ma Ma Ma Ma
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| 9. | Fly Like an Eagle
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| 10. | Abracadabra
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| 11. | Winter Time
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| 12. | Wild Mountain Honey
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| 3. DVD video tartalma: |
| 1. | Documentary
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| 2. | Joel Selvin Radio Program
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Disc 1: DVD
Disc 2: CD
Disc 3: Bonus DVD
Bonus features:
* Documentary - private tour of Chicago featuring Steve Miller in a classic checker taxi cab, seeing some of the first venues he played
* Joel Selvin Radio Program (featuring Steve Miller interview)
This classy three disc (double DVD with CD) set documents a weekend of shows Steve Miller and his long time band played in Chicago, 2007. The concept emphasizes that this is a homecoming of sorts for Miller, who, as a blues obsessed young man in the mid 60s, moved from Dallas to the Windy City to delve into the music he loved. Two documentaries on the second DVD explore this time as Miller affably and fondly reminisces to writer Joel Selvin (who also pens eight pages of the booklet's notes) in a Checker Cab while they drive around the neighborhoods and old haunts where the guitarist played with his group, the World War lll Blues Band, later the Goldberg-Miller Band. This is fascinating background material, especially for those who only know Miller through either his San Francisco tinged 70s psychedelic folk-rock or the subsequent 70s/early 80s pop hits. It would resonate with more gravitas though if the concert wasn't Miller's standard set of crowd favorites, albeit spiced as usual with a few mid-show blues excursions. For a guy who cut his musical teeth playing (briefly) with Muddy Waters and Buddy Guy and was a first hand observer to the vibrant 60s Chicago blues scene, his versions of "Crossroads" and Otis Rush's "All Your Lovin'" are surprisingly bland and delivered with the slick sheen that tinges the rest of his style. A cover of Jimmie Vaughan's "Boom Bapa Boom" is a worthy addition but the majority of the set is dedicated, as you would expect, to "The Joker" era tunes that put the butts in the high priced seats and pad Miller's retirement fund. His veteran band, featuring harp man Norton Buffalo, who looks every inch the old hippie he is, plays with professional enthusiasm that belies how tired they must be of banging out the likes of "Abracadabra" and "Rock 'N Me" nightly for thirty some years. The sound is good, perhaps a bit too tweaked for a live performance, and the multiple high definition cameras catch the action effectively but, like the tunes, with a slickness that falls just short of pandering. The twelve cut CD eliminates the extraneous blues tunes to strip the set down to its basics with titles virtually duplicating 1983's official live release. A few musical detours, such as a 15 minute "Fly Like an Eagle" that includes an entirely unnecessary rap from keyboardist Joseph Wooten (brother of bassist Victor) hint at the potential that the always charming Miller doesn't fulfill for the rest of this solid yet frustratingly predictable gig. The opportunity for Miller and his talented players to color outside the lines and play a straight-ahead blues set to reinforce the musical roots the documentaries emphasize so emphatically is sadly squandered. It's a missed opportunity for many, but any fan of Miller's commercial zenith, and there are plenty of them, will enjoy this document of a typically crowd pleasing show.
----Hal Horowitz, All Music Guide
Steve Miller
Active Decades: '60s, '70s, '80s and '90s
Born: Oct 05, 1943 in Milwaukee, WI
Genre: Rock
Styles: Blues-Rock, Psychedelic, Pop/Rock, Arena Rock, Album Rock
Steve Miller's career has encompassed two distinct stages: one of the top San Francisco blues-rockers during the late '60s and early '70s, and one of the top-selling pop/rock acts of the mid- to late '70s and early '80s with hits like "The Joker," "Fly Like an Eagle," "Rock'n Me," and "Abracadabra."
Miller was turned on to music by his father, who worked as a pathologist but knew stars like Charles Mingus and Les Paul, whom he brought home as guests; Paul taught the young Miller some guitar chords and let him sit in on a session. Miller formed a blues band, the Marksmen Combo, at age 12 with friend Boz Scaggs; the two teamed up again at the University of Wisconsin in a group called the Ardells, later the Fabulous Night Trains. Miller moved to Chicago in 1964 to get involved in the local blues scene, teaming with Barry Goldberg for two years. He then moved to San Francisco and formed the first incarnation of the Steve Miller Blues Band, featuring guitarist James "Curly" Cooke, bassist Lonnie Turner, and drummer Tim Davis. The band built a local following through a series of free concerts and backed Chuck Berry in 1967 at a Fillmore date later released as a live album. Scaggs moved to San Francisco later that year and replaced Cooke in time to play the Monterey Pop Festival; it was the first of many personnel changes. Capitol signed the group as the Steve Miller Band following the festival.
The band flew to London to record Children of the Future, which was praised by critics and received some airplay on FM radio. It established Miller's early style as a blues-rocker influenced but not overpowered by psychedelia. The follow-up, Sailor, has been hailed as perhaps Miller's best early effort; it reached number 24 on the Billboard album charts and consolidated Miller's fan base. A series of high-quality albums with similar chart placements followed; while Miller remained a popular artist, pop radio failed to pick up on any of his material at this time, even though tracks like "Space Cowboy" and "Brave New World" had become FM rock staples. 1971's Rock Love broke Miller's streak with a weak band lineup and poor material, and Miller followed it with the spotty Recall the Beginning...A Journey From Eden. Things began to look even worse for Miller when he broke his neck in a car accident and subsequently developed hepatitis, which put him out of commission for most of 1972 and early 1973.
Miller spent his recuperation time reinventing himself as a blues-influenced pop-rocker, writing compact, melodic, catchy songs. This approach was introduced on his 1973 LP The Joker and was an instant success, with the album going platinum and the title track hitting number one on the pop charts. Now an established star, Miller elected to take three years off. He purchased a farm and built his own recording studio, at which he crafted the wildly successful albums Fly Like an Eagle and Book of Dreams at approximately the same time. Fly Like an Eagle was released in 1976 and eclipsed its predecessor in terms of quality and sales (over four million copies) in spite of the long downtime in between. It also gave Miller his second number one hit with "Rock'n Me," plus several other singles. Book of Dreams was almost as successful, selling over three million copies and producing several hits as well. All of the hits from Miller's first three pop-oriented albums were collected on Greatest Hits 1974-1978, which to date has sold over six million copies and remains a popular catalog item.
Miller again took some time off, not returning again until late 1981 with the disappointing Circle of Love. Just six months later, Miller rebounded with Abracadabra; the title track gave him his third number one single and proved to be his last major commercial success. None of his remaining '80s albums were consistent enough to be critically or commercially successful. A box set covering most of Miller's career was compiled by the artist himself in 1994.
---Steve Huey, All Music Guide |
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