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I‘ve long had an enduring passion for the Steve Miller Band, especially the early records, which in the UK at least didn’t sell at all. They are a great blend of psychedelia and blues, especially Children Of The Future. Recall The Beginning … a Journey From Eden too, which is an often ignored classic, in my view. They had all the freaky psychedelia of late 60s San Francisco but the discipline of blues and a tremendous guitar player in Miller as well as a winning way with a melody. When they hit big with Fly Like An Eagle and Book Of Dreams, after years of struggle, it was well-deserved vans although the melodies shone through at the expense of the guitar solos, it was still bright and upbeat, summery music. A quick mention for The Window on … Eagle. It closes the record and is one of the best of his long illustrious career.
I have dozens of Steve Miller Band singles. These are just a few nice ones. You’ll notice two promos of Sittin In Circles, one American and one UK. It was his first release, re-released later again in 1968 in the USA, Canada and Japan.
The tracks aren't on any Steve Miller Band album, they were in the movie Revolution and are on the soundtrack, which I also own. The only ‘factory sample ’ I own is here too, of Little Girl as is a UK demo of My Dark Hour (which Paul McCartney played bass on). Capital demos in the late 60s in the UK are lovely things in green and white. A German My Dark Hour is there, it should be in a picture sleeve and several UK releases on Capitol, from the early 70s, some of which are hard to find because they sold poorly, such as Rock Love.
When you get to the middle of the decade, singles like Fly Like An Eagle and Jet Airliner and Jungle Love are widely available for pennies. Some of the 80s stuff, less so, represented here by Bongo Bongo.
There are lots of releases of Living In The USA usually backed with Quicksilver Girl or My Dark Hour. They seemed to keep putting it out but I’ve got one with Kow Kow Calculator on the b-side, a 1974 USA release, which had a different picture sleeve in most territories. Not rare but unusual.
I’ve still got loads to collect, like Steve Miller's Midnight Tango / Going To Mexico from 1970. And there’s loads of picture sleeve European releases to be had.
