Steve Miller Band - The Joker is the PERFECT song!

[@MichaelKing-de4jz]

Steve Miller is the singer, he has written a lot of good tunes, abracadabra is a good one, fly like an eagle is another one!! Love Steve Miller band!

[@samsonjpedroza]

"TAKE THE MONEY AND RUN" , "Jet Air Liner", "Fly Like An Eagle", and "Jungle Love". ALL CLASSICS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@timothymatthews1054]

I actually just posted the SAME songs. Then read this ❤

[@margaretburnham5683]

OH YES! ALL OF THOSE ARE KICK ASS SONGS

[@andreaschmall5560]

Abracadabra for sure.

[@motleydigger]

Love take the money and run

[@margaretburnham5683]

@@motleydigger me too. He'll love Fly Like An Eagle. It's a very unique song. I hope he writes these song titles down and reacts to them

[@stephenstrudwick8095]

This great song from 1973 actually hit number one in the UK in 1990 due to its inclusion in a Levi's jeans commercial. Other classic Steve Miller band songs worth listening to include "Jet Air Liner", "Fly Like An Eagle", and "Jungle Love".

[@ricksurratt9034]

Fly like an eagle…

[@ConspiracySmurf]

Abracadabra, Fly Like An Eagle, Take The Money & Run, Rock'n Me FIND THOSE!!! Trust the Smurf always!

[@payleighsteele1540]

Rock’n Me still gets me every single time “Northern California where the girls are warm”….as a NorCal girl, the pride in that lyric :)

[@shadowfrost__]

dont forget Swingtown

[@johnthompson3522]

Fun Fact: Les Paul was Steve’s godfather and he taught him to play

[@jasonremy1627]

And yet, Steve was a Strat guy...

[@christymurphy6571]

I don't think Steve Miller has ever gotten credit for his guitar playing. He can make that guitar sing!!!

[@AJ_Flanagan]

Hence the "picking and grinning"?

[@randywissler9923]

​@@christymurphy6571 oh he's very well respected amongst his peers!!

[@berinmind]

Cool...never knew

[@julieCA58]

As a young woman of that era, a "joker", was a good hearted player. You did not put your heart on the line with these boys, because they were all the original free spirit. But they weren't users. They truly loved the women they were with, while they were with them. They really didn't want to hurt no one. You couldn't help but love them. And they were normally too cute for their own good.

[@rebeccamead4557]

My husband was a greaser era " joker ", we met, married and it lasted till he passed in a couple weeks done years ago. Great 🎵🎶 and laughter together.

[@julieCA58]

@@rebeccamead4557 Happy you found yours. He must have been fun.

[@dawnyoung8]

Known a few 🤦‍♀️

[@ZigZagBruno-racing]

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[@marknorthrup4897]

Well said lady. I appreciate your point of view. I was a free spirit that never had an evil intent in my soul. I guess that was attractive to the ladies that I had an opportunity to know. I never hurt a soul or caused a long- lasting sorrow that I know of. (more the opposite heh).

[@ga_patriot279]

Cannot go wrong with anything by Steve Miller. This is what driving music sounded like in the 70’s

[@thorzzz1z]

him and Bob Seger , they don't miss, every song hits

[@Jen-in-Texas]

Absolutely. Jungle Love is my number one driving on an open road song.

[@zippymacadoo6336]

And the 80's for some of us!

[@theodoreritola7641]

Uut standing decade 4 musicTHEM 1970s

[@Jonesatk]

I’m 26 and this is my driving music today 🤣♥️

[@chelseahaley8350]

Love this song! Steve Miller Band has a lot of great songs! U really cant go wrong with any song off of their greatest hits album, but Rock n me, Dance dance dance, Swingtown, and Wild mountain honey are a few of my favs!

[@dawnyoung8]

Rock n me , is 100% forever playlist , so is The things we do for love by 10cc Because , my still best friend and I Had a conversation of a sleep over at 9 ish And her favorite song was rock n me and mine was the things we do for love . It’s still comes straight to me head and back to that weekend everytime I hear either of them ! I have noticed time traveling with music is a lifelong thing I’ve been doing my entire life .

[@navigatingwithnana]

Hard to believe this iconic song is over 50 years old. Our generation was INCREDIBLE!!! Go Steve! 💥

[@DeborahThurmond]

My husband is the chief engineer for more than 20 radio stations here in the Shreveport area. One of his stations hosted Steve Miller in concert a few years ago. It was in the summer and an outside event. Steve was a total blast. He played non-stop for almost 4 hours. He was still smooth. It was a really fun concert!

[@roncarnes5724]

If you lived in the suburbs in the '70s/'80s, you had these albums: Steve Miller Band Greatest Hits 1974-78, Fleetwood Mac - Rumors, Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975 and Aerosmith's Greatest Hits (1980)

[@ricksurratt9034]

I happen to be a bass player and I just noticed that the bass players playing left-handed on a right handed guitar. I may have to try that.

[@RKOENT]

Fly Like An Eagle, Take The Money and Run, Rock n Me, Jet Airliner

[@jesselobo3213]

Its 1973 I jump the fence of my backyard and I land on my elementary school. I notice a ring of teenagers sitting and smoking on the baseball field and I hear "The Joker" for the first time in my life. The kids are all smoking and having a good time listening to music, specifically this song. Little did I know how much I would end up loving "Steve Miller's music and especially this song. My mind immediately goes back to that time every time I hear this song. Truly a classic song of that era and any era.

[@kimzwolinski9919]

🔥🔥🔥 Abracadabra is one of my favorites

[@l-bird]

Yeah, Steve Miller Band one of the greatest groups from my College Days. A definite rabbit hole to go down!

[@ChainedGraboid]

They're actually from the 60s 😊

[@NativeNYerChicHK]

@@ChainedGraboidSure, their first album might have been released in ‘68 but their best days and greatest hits were from ‘74-‘78. So not really a 60’s band or 80’s band, but a 70’s band 🤪

[@pjmiller5207]

This was released in 1973, not the '80's.

[@l-bird]

@@ChainedGraboid You're absolutely correct... I guess I'm just referring to the years I most listened to them, which was when I was in college 😉

[@stevenseul361]

Hey Buddy 70's the whole decade.

[@impudentdomain]

This song was absolutely played everywhere and all the time in the 1970's.

[@timothymatthews1054]

Fly Like An Eagle,,,,, Jet Airliner,,,, Take The Money & Run !! Everyone of those is a HIT !!! JUNGLE LOVE is Another. All 🔥

[@GregLangley-j3g]

This is Steve Miller's anthem, the crowd always goes nuts!

[@kimberleymurphy3512]

Stevie Miller is timeless. My 29 yr old son told me that his GO TO karaoke song is The Joker. That's mom's boy❤

[@ericsilsbee7263]

He made that word up.

[@Makai77]

The word "pompitous" or "pompatus" stems from Steve Millers mishearing of the phrase "puppetutes of love" in the 1954, Vernon Green song "The Letter" in which he used the words "puppetutes of love"... his combination of "puppets" and "prostitutes". A puppetute being a woman of your fantasies who would do.

[@russallert]

Wolfman Jack used the phrase in his guest appearance with The Guess Who on Clap For The Wolfman, which I believe is from the same year (1974) as The Joker, or pretty close.

[@ChainedGraboid]

Steve Miller Band has a lot of hits, enjoy the ride

[@cindyadams5471]

Steve Miller's godfather, Les Paul, was a pioneer of the solid-body electric guitar, which inspired him. Steve Miller Miller was a child protégé of Les Paul, who taught him guitar and gave him his first guitar. Miller has said that Paul's influence is still felt in every note he plays.

[@razorbackfan2011]

Blues Travlers, Hook.... a must for you for sure... you will love the song.

[@markvickers2411]

That's a great song!

[@razorbackfan2011]

@@markvickers2411 yeah, would love his reaction to the song

[@heartwork8318]

I was 10 when this came out in ‘73! I remember hearing it with my friends and giggling about the peaches line! 🤭 Abracadabra is a great song but one of my favorites is Take the Money and Run! More SMB please!❤️‍🔥✌🏻🫶🏻

[@tonyherrera9329]

Another Fun Fact: Steve MIller and Boz Scaggs went to high school together and started a band together. Boz was in the Steve Miller Band in the late '60's. Definitely check out Abracadabra, Jet Airliner and Fly LIke An Eagle. I am going to remind you of my suggestion to check out the Jeff Beck Group Album ('72) and the songs: "Ice Cream Cakes" and "Sugar Cane." Jeff Beck was a brilliant guitarist, from the UK, and passed away last year. Thank you for your consideration.

[@Nate-zy5ce]

This was always one of my favorite bands when I was young. Used to know every word of every song. Still do with some of them all these years later. Take The Money And Run. Rock'n Me. Dance, Dance, Dance. Ballads set to music. Words and music. Love it. 40 years later and I still sing Dance, Dance, Dance while I'm driving in my car.

[@Teresia12]

He was one of the great Southern Rock artist.

[@isabeljimenez6067]

Jet Airliner, Fly Like An Eagle, Keep On Rockin Me Baby.

[@gremlyn1439]

Research his blues background. His mother was a music teacher and his father also was into music and had a recording studio in their basement. Many old blues artists would Vista there regularly.

[@jamesgreer9366]

Steve miller!! One of the greatest guitarists ever!!

[@IvIidnight]

The bassist is playing a right-handed bass lefty, or upside down! Nice!

[@roniboyd613]

And sounded sooooo goooood!!

[@mayLibertyprevail1a]

The bass line in this song is 🔥🔥🔥

[@WhiteLightningVFL]

Just as Jimi Hendrix learned to play and continued playing left handed on a right handed guitar

[@IvIidnight]

@@WhiteLightningVFL Indeed he did!

[@taraburmeister9665]

Mooooore Steve Miller! ❤️ Take me the Money and Run! 🤘🏼

[@gogriz3591]

I grew up on Steve Miller & Bob Seger. Great time to be a teen

[@sandralybrand9425]

My 20s😂

[@timcampbell5758]

Such a deep rabbit hole to go down with the Steve Miller Band. Highly recommend Take the Money and Run, Jungle Love, Swing Town; they are three of my favourites, but there are so many. Great reaction and keep the SMB reactions coming.

[@suecoates8313]

STILL love this song….50 years later. Thanks, BP❤️

[@blindreactions9498]

70s my dsister liked country, i liked Rock..this is the Band we both enjoyed together..and45 years later we both went to their concert and got to relive our youth❤❤

[@cindyparsons6609]

This is what we were listening to in 1972. He's still touring today. He'll be in North Charleston SC next month.

[@tricialamb4944]

I went to see Steve Miller Band in concert 2 weeks ago, he is 80 years old now and can still play and sing great.

[@shannonwalker4147]

Funny story, I remeber hearing this song growing up. My 2 brothers and their friends would play it while they were "toking" in the back room of my mom and dad's house 40 years ago. Love this song. Sadly I lost my eldest brother in 1984.

[@gl15col]

One of the best songs, one of the best bands. Smooth as silk, sharp as a knife. Music to listen to while sitting in a bean bag chair, just a little messed up and real relaxed.

[@clare1061]

A song I always go back to is Fly like an eagle.

[@Prozak63]

Steve Miller "Book of Dreams" along with Billy Joel "The Stranger", Meatloaf "Bat Out of Hell", Fleetwood Mac "Rumors", Steely Dan "Asa", Boston "Boston" and Chuck Mangione " Feels So Good" were some of the albums I ordered from Columbia House back when you got 13 albums for a penny. I don't recall the others that I ordered, but 13 were in the box when it was delivered. Thinking back, I don't think I fulfilled my contract to purchase an album each month for a year at full cost... I wonder if any teenager did. I should probably send them a check...

[@mfree80286]

Post-hippie free love era, man... how short is four years? Summer of love was '69, 1973 wasn't far off even if it was worlds away. Same sentiment, different style, adapted to the new realities.

[@drunkjack5651]

When my dad worked as a session musician he got to work with Steve Miller in the early 70s

[@haydendegrow945]

Steve Miller Band is that band everyone has no idea they have heard about. You cannot go through modern pop culture without hearing this band!

[@debbers]

I have this album! I still play my albums on Saturday afternoons, my great grandchildren get involved and then it gets really fun! However they treat Grandma's albums with the respect that they deserve and a good time is had all the way around!

[@rhondahammons35]

Fly Like An Eagle Jet Air Liner Jungle Love All are great tunes!!

[@jasonremy1627]

Steve Miller Band was a vibe. Everything is cool and chill and fun.

[@emmelimcgee6907]

Jungle love in the surf and the pouring rain, everything’s better when wet

[@emmelimcgee6907]

Jungle Love, Jungle Love, Jungle Love

[@bimini1216]

That tucker is soul, depth, poetry. They built them different back then. More confident and creative

[@GrannyMetalheadTV]

I'm 55 y/o and today is the first time I've clapped eyes on Steve Miller even though I grew up listening to his music. Rock on, Kelly 🤘

[@thehorrorfanx]

Steve Miller Band: Fly like an Eagle. Another all-time great.

[@ricksloop1075]

Have to listen his “Space Cowboy” and “Gangster of Love” to get the opening of Joker. Preferably a live Gangster!! Great reaction.

[@watrandy99]

One of the most extensive catalogs of great hits; you need to go down this rabbit hole; Take the Money and Run is a great story in a song.

[@teriwilkinson7816]

Fly like an eagle is a good one also

[@timmoser3526]

That whole album is excellent

[@nickdietz4367]

This is one song that never will get old!!

[@irisburelli5028]

I love how all the singers and bands you are reacting to I have see live. I feel old❤

[@BartMcKay-q8b]

First 2 records I bought as a kid Steve Miller band greatest hits & Ac/DC BACK in Black 1982

[@darrinlindsey]

Their greatest hits album is the greatest compilation of songs, ever.

[@tomaroni6670]

..."Class of 76"...Another that I've loved since the 1st time I heard it...The Steve Miller Band is one of my All Time Top 10 Bands! Do Take the Money and Run...Fly like an Eagle...then go down the rabbit hole...

[@daveking9393]

I've been lucky enough to see these guys five times in my life and I thought they were amazing because in the same tour they would play huge venues and then much smaller ones. Just cuz they would go where their fans were and not have to make them travel hours. They really put on great shows for their fans. One of the best I've seen live for sure.

[@Madeincanada62]

This was my brother's mantra. He passed 10 years ago and we played it at his memorial service. My daughter and him used to sing it at random. Great memories!

[@AnnaMarie66]

One of the GREATEST BANDS EVER!!

[@noradeclark9283]

He has a ton of hits...yes check em all out. I had the album and every song on it is awesome. j/s. btw thanks for choosing this hit!!

[@pinkstarphoenix6182]

One of my favorites from Steve Miller is Enter Maurice. It shows a whole other side of love

[@aishahmacgill]

Like yesterday, spent so many nights vibing to Steve Miller Band on the stereo.

[@lindasalvaterra1304]

Yes this is one of the all-time great songs! It's timeless, great 70s music! So many good groups, songs!

[@captainkangaroo4301]

Saw Steve several times. Most often when he opened on tour for his Bay Rea buddies the Grateful Dead. Great times.

[@suzanneyoung8498]

This song was played at a friends funeral. It fit him to the tee. I am glad I can hear this song and not get choked up about it. Love it.

[@brianbrown2266]

I guarantee you go into any bar in the South before night is over you will hear this !!

[@MrJ-gy4mm]

Steve Miller is probably the greatest musician, that everyone could sing his songs, but could not be picked out of a lineup.

[@christianninsananda9626]

Love Steve Miller Band... he's touring now with Def Leppard and Journey.

[@vampyppandora]

💐💐💐💐💐 Great reaction and love this song.....

[@trevorkenny]

You are in for a ride with the Steve Miller band rabbit hole. Get at it. Banger after banger after banger!

[@mikebzdusek8754]

He also had all the blues greats at his house growing up

[@yelljal2764]

Yeah, well, when your godfather is f*cking Les Paul, you're already in a good position to be a great.

[@lisazaccardimeunier8378]

Their greatest hits album is one of my favorites.

[@jstorrer1]

First time I remember hearing the Steve miller band greatest hits was riding in my buddy’s brother’s Buick regal roughly 1991. I was 13

[@gunboatwillie8536]

This album is the BEST cruising album ever. Spent many a day in the 70's listening to this as we cruised around...Get into a car and pop this in, I bet you get a speeding ticket!! 😁

[@PamelaBuscemi]

Loved the Steve Miller band.

[@jayeisenhardt1337]

3:17 I just love that instrument mimicking the catcall whistle so you know it's sexy

[@IsaacDDuke]

4:55 you encapsulated that so well. That could apply to all reactions! The timelessness of excellence.

[@guystephens2881]

Living in the USA, jungle love, fly like an eagle, take the money and run. Big old jet airline.

[@kelticink]

Another GEM. Rolling a blunt right now ,as i put ur show on😊...

[@paulwhite5840]

50 years later it's still a great song!

[@marygeiger7409]

I was 19 yrs old when this song came out. I believe it hit high fast in the charts even back then.

[@Kikatebnpagan]

This song is just pure sunshine.. can you see yourself cruising in a soft top with this playing…that guitar is the sea brushing on the sand …. No can do is ace.. just off to see your faithfully reaction

[@tammycenter8757]

Oh how this takes me back to the 70's and 80's. Having field parties out in the farmlands or up in the cleared out spaces in the woods. Always on property we had permission to be on. Parties would last all weekend. We would pitch tents, drink keg beer and just have a great time. This song always got played at a field party.

[@tessab.5379]

Lawd have mercy!! I'm remembering Daytona Beach in 1981 with this playing on the radio and a little puff puff pass!! 😂😂😂 mamy years ago in my youth ❤

[@johncollins1177]

It is one of the all time greatest songs in rock history. Steve Miller meet and played with many of the best old blues guitarists. Steve Miller is a true icon….. His songs were on the radio regularly throughout the 80’s. “Take the money and run" "Fly like an Eagle" "Jet Airliner" were some big hits plus many others. It was my son who is 39yo first concert that I took him to.

[@jeremiahrose4681]

Such a great song "I'm a joker, I'm a smoker I'm a midnight toker"

[@amberburris5674]

I saw them 5 times.... great times!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@AprilJMoon]

Wow, this song was a favourite of mine when I was a kid in the 70's, and I had totally forgotten it. BP's delve into music has rekindled my desire to journey back to that era

[@ttrails1]

Steve "Guitar" Miller!! You need to dive deep here. So many good tunes! Legendary dude. My dad played bass and always had the best stereo systems. He would often go to Tower Records and bring home the latest from all of the greats, and some obscure, and we would sit on a Saturday afternoon and listen beginning to end. The late 60s and the 70s were great times in music and my dad gave me a love for music, not a genre, just music. Keep widening your horizons young man.

[@kevinm4022]

The first time i heard Steve Miller was when my brother bought tha record (yes im that old) Fly Like an Eagle. I have been a fan forever and got see him live a few years ago and was not disappointed. One of my favs is Dance, Dance, Dance.

[@mlbw1966]

LEGENDARY BAND I LOVE ALL THEIR TUNES MUSIC 🎶 🎵 GREAT PIC !!!

[@curiouscath7629]

I like your honesty...im in ✌️