The Joker - Steve Miller Band | The Midnight Special

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The Midnight Special

The Midnight Special

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@tepidtooth8539
@tepidtooth8539 Жыл бұрын
I don’t know who’s idea it was to create a channel dedicated to professionally releasing Midnight Special episodes and performances like this but I can’t thank you enough. Just off the few performances I’ve seen on here, I’ve held this show in high regard as the highest quality live music show ever, and now that there’s officially released high quality footage of said show, even more than I’d originally found on here it’s fantastic. Thank you.
@Fredman2410
@Fredman2410 Жыл бұрын
My understanding is that Burt Sugarman, the creator of the original show, has decided to release the master tapes and has a team cleaning them up and releasing them in YT format. Thanks Burt and team!
@MaySecond07
@MaySecond07 Жыл бұрын
@tepidtooth, AMEN!
@jennifersman7990
@jennifersman7990 Жыл бұрын
@@Fredman2410Yes, very true Sugarman smartly held onto the rights to all the performances from the show but couldn’t find the right venue to release them until KZbin came along
@abelincoln3287
@abelincoln3287 Жыл бұрын
​@jennifersman7990 Actually they were released as a set on DVD several years ago. I own the DVD set 1973-1980
@kidboeger4694
@kidboeger4694 Жыл бұрын
I could see this channel getting tons of subscribers, I feel a lot of this footage hasn’t been seen by the majority and it’s awesome that my generation has access to these 100’s of legendary performances
@scottjustscott3730
@scottjustscott3730 9 ай бұрын
I've heard every hit and then some from these guys in my fifty years and never realized how great of a vocalist Steve Miller is. Wow!
@alanc1491
@alanc1491 Ай бұрын
I'm a joker, I'm a smoker, I'ma mid-night-toker. Rubato much?
@BC99
@BC99 Жыл бұрын
Wow, totally different vibe than the record version. Shoutout to the bass player who is just killing it here.
@ericvonharding3421
@ericvonharding3421 Жыл бұрын
Thats the whole joy of seeing a song performed LIVE! and IN CONCERT!
@geoffreymason5642
@geoffreymason5642 Жыл бұрын
Is the bassist Gerald Johnson? I've always loved the talented musicians in Steve Miller Band.
@delmedeiros3570
@delmedeiros3570 Жыл бұрын
​@@geoffreymason5642yes.
@gregdolecki8530
@gregdolecki8530 Жыл бұрын
Steve Miller always had good bass players.
@brucecarpenter8640
@brucecarpenter8640 Жыл бұрын
Who knew? I will always be hearing this version every time i hear the joker now
@KittyGrizGriz
@KittyGrizGriz Жыл бұрын
Love his hunky voice & this tune; Steve was a smoke show hottie back then, song came out when I was in Jr High & our cool art teacher would let us listen to the radio. Funny I’m back in art class right now 🎉
@chrisjmiller6
@chrisjmiller6 Жыл бұрын
Funny how the mind works 🙂
@TheEmployee84
@TheEmployee84 Жыл бұрын
The look on the faces in the crowd reminds me of Back to the Future- when Marty says “you may not be ready for this, but your kids are going to love it”
@ThePwig
@ThePwig Жыл бұрын
Wow his voice is fantastic
@elizabethmead2852
@elizabethmead2852 11 ай бұрын
What a fantastic live performer. Way better than the radio version. Impressive, Steve Miller. Wish I could have been there at the time!
@StephenBryant
@StephenBryant Жыл бұрын
Side story about Steve and the guitar he is playing. He purchased two Fender guitars (one black and one white (which was stolen)) that were left at a music shop that were supposed to go to Jimmy Hindrix. Hendrix died and Steve was able to purchase these becasue he knew the owner. Nice to see it in a video. Thanks again for putting out these TMS videos. It really is a treat. A ton of great history.
@srenalwan4829
@srenalwan4829 Жыл бұрын
Well, the Black Stratocaster in the clip features a bullet-trussrod. Fender didn’t start making these until 1971. Why would Fender make two guitars for Jimi Hendrix a year after he died?
@User-gx5ke
@User-gx5ke Жыл бұрын
​@@srenalwan4829If I remember correctly, he custom ordered those Strats.
@srenalwan4829
@srenalwan4829 Жыл бұрын
@@User-gx5ke Steve Miller?
@User-gx5ke
@User-gx5ke Жыл бұрын
@@srenalwan4829 Yup.
@angelinasuazo5705
@angelinasuazo5705 2 ай бұрын
He seems like a sweet honest man. And his words make sense. (I was born too late for all the cute rock musicians of the '70's.
@janicetrimmell6897
@janicetrimmell6897 Жыл бұрын
"Some people call me Maurice..." Love his voice and the slide guitar. After all of these years, is anyone sure what "pompatus of love" means. Guess he was just messing with us. Thank TMS!
@StephanieJeanne
@StephanieJeanne Жыл бұрын
Hehe, I always wondered about that meaning.✌️
@TuckerSP2011
@TuckerSP2011 Жыл бұрын
Somehow we all know what it means 😂
@wonsworld61
@wonsworld61 Жыл бұрын
Apparently he made it up but based it on phraseology in classic literature. Steve was well read :)
@harmonium8198
@harmonium8198 Жыл бұрын
My understanding is that Miller's word "pompatus" is a variation on a nonce word heard in the 1954 recording "The Letter" by Vernon Green and the Medallions. Green speaks in that song of "the puppetutes of love." You can hear it (at the 1:50 mark) here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gIKxeHuDm5Zof5Y. Another way of saying this is that "pompatus" probably doesn't mean anything in particular!
@tomkimberly2849
@tomkimberly2849 Жыл бұрын
Properties of love?
@tommcgeethree
@tommcgeethree Жыл бұрын
I saw Steve Miller just one time back in 1973. I have all his albums ,up to the Joker. They did an excellent set. Then he came out all by himself and sat in this big red leather chair and did the Joker with an acoustic guitar and blew the crowd away. Good stuff. Oh yeah. 😎😆😁👍🍺🇺🇸
@jonstone2466
@jonstone2466 Жыл бұрын
Love the change up from the recorded version.
@mas7230
@mas7230 Жыл бұрын
No it sucks bad
@twantheunisz9281
@twantheunisz9281 8 ай бұрын
​@@mas7230no you
@julenepegher6999
@julenepegher6999 Жыл бұрын
Love Steve Miller! Ninth grade Spanish class the boy who sat in front of me would come in high every day turn around and say” you’re the cutest thing that I ever did see” 🤩
@tonyroo11
@tonyroo11 Жыл бұрын
I was lucky enough to see The Steve Miller Band who opened up for Don Henley back in the early 90s at Canandaigua performing arts. I remember it was a great concert. Always loved TSMB, it was staple music in HS in the 70s. An underappreciated musician, singer, and lyricist. Fly Like an Eagle album is in my top favs
@rebeccawagner4167
@rebeccawagner4167 4 ай бұрын
I would read the TV. Guide back in the day to see who they were having on the Midnight Special. Whenever I seen it was the Steve Miller Band I couldn't wait for the show to come on..
@GratefulZen
@GratefulZen Жыл бұрын
Saw the Steve Miller Band back in 1969 at the now defunct Sports Arena, a wrestling venue. Outstanding.! Especially love his music from Children of the Future, Sailor, and Brave New World!
@daisywrabbit
@daisywrabbit Жыл бұрын
Steve is playing a Lefty Strat, but he is playing it In a right-handed position!
@aradder
@aradder Жыл бұрын
Yeah this is like the opposite of Jimi Hendrix
@12345682900
@12345682900 Жыл бұрын
The guy @ 2:06, frozen with his mouth open, stoned out of his head, is literally the way most 1970's youths remember the decade.
@that70sgirl90
@that70sgirl90 Жыл бұрын
These great bands sounded even better live than they were on the recordings! They knew how to make music back in the 70s Happy Saturday ... thank you for sharing! 💖
@marygriffiths2950
@marygriffiths2950 Жыл бұрын
60's and 70's were the best years in music 🎶 , hence Procal Harum ( Whiter Shade of Pale, Conquistador) etc ....
@that70sgirl90
@that70sgirl90 Жыл бұрын
@marygriffiths2950 Mary, I got the word never in there. 😊
@marygriffiths2950
@marygriffiths2950 Жыл бұрын
@@that70sgirl90 ?????
@that70sgirl90
@that70sgirl90 Жыл бұрын
@marygriffiths2950 I'm so glad you said something kind to me on my post. I put the word never in front of knew. I didn't see it. You are so right! Those were the best years. Have a wonderful day! Thank you for sharing! 💖
@marygriffiths2950
@marygriffiths2950 Жыл бұрын
@@that70sgirl90 Oh, ok that's what threw me off!! 🤗💜
@bryanrussell9906
@bryanrussell9906 Жыл бұрын
Love this guy! I'll never forget being a kid and watching him do the greatest version (live!) of "Fly Like an Eagle" I have ever heard. Man that shirt and guitar! I remember begging my mom to buy me a shirt like that. The intro and just the way he put that dreamy psychedelic stamp on FLAE blew my young mind and made me a hippie forever. Don't miss Steve and his band on the MS! Bonafide classic TV. ✌️
@Stationary76
@Stationary76 Ай бұрын
I saw Steve Miller Band in Parlee Beach in New Brunswick, Canada back in the 90's. They played with Extreme, & Brian Adams. I had NO IDEA who they were. At that time I hadn't heard of any of their songs and couldn't figure out how everyone around me was singing at the top of their lungs at all of their songs. That's my Steve Miller Band story. :)
@Mikedennis7
@Mikedennis7 Жыл бұрын
This version is awesome.
@shooter7a
@shooter7a Жыл бұрын
Wow....great vibe. Love the SMB. I grew up near a ski resort in CA, and all through the 70s I practically lived on the ski hill during snow months. The resort management loved SMB...and every 10th song they played in the day lodge was SBM. I was a kid, and knew nothing about music, but I always loved those songs. It was not till years later that I learned that all those songs I loved were the SMB.....
@JohnHancotte
@JohnHancotte Жыл бұрын
He's playing the song in the key of C# or Db. It is in F on the album. I read he worked it up on a 12-string tuned down a whole step, so that his open G chord sounded like F. And yes, I love his upside down left handed guitar strung as a righty. His bassist Gerald Johnson played a right handed bass turned over and upside down. Makes for an interesting look on stage!
@lkbakken99
@lkbakken99 Жыл бұрын
Got really fascinated by the headstocks on the bass and electric guitar, all turned around. Looks so damn coordinated
@kpslinger6030
@kpslinger6030 Жыл бұрын
The "joke" is they're playing wrong-handed instruments upside down
@shackusratus
@shackusratus Жыл бұрын
It probably was coordinated. Producers and managers would often tell artists too do stuff like that just for appearances.
@kcdawg2060
@kcdawg2060 Жыл бұрын
A STANDING OVATION from me!!! What an amazing channel 👍 Thanks for bringing back tremendous memories of my youth. I was just 10 years old when this particular episode aired. I'm hoping that this will be a fantastic view into the past for a whole new group of Classic Rock fans...
@epiphoney
@epiphoney Жыл бұрын
He's so loose, I like it.
@animemanganet
@animemanganet Жыл бұрын
I've always loved Steve Miller but his voice and music is even better on this video! Thanks for uploading all this awesome music!
@Crdtgh
@Crdtgh 7 ай бұрын
This is too good. I could listen to this on a loop forever
@jerameyconners5122
@jerameyconners5122 Жыл бұрын
Can't wait to see him tonight!
@WilhelmWilder
@WilhelmWilder Ай бұрын
This feels like if Sublime covered this song, awesome
@colinborn1740
@colinborn1740 Жыл бұрын
Pompetus is not a word! God bless you Steve Miller, true Joker.
@StephanieJeanne
@StephanieJeanne Жыл бұрын
Cool! This is about a year before I saw him in concert. He's a great musician and singer!
@ilovegaga11
@ilovegaga11 10 күн бұрын
What a voice
@Jreb1865
@Jreb1865 Жыл бұрын
So damn smooth...
@TuckerSP2011
@TuckerSP2011 Жыл бұрын
He is still great! You must see him if you get an opportunity.
@bertbecker7532
@bertbecker7532 Жыл бұрын
Still playing and singing like this at the age of 78….incredible.
@markhodge7
@markhodge7 Жыл бұрын
We midnight tokers of the time would always raise a joint when this song came up.
@Paul71H
@Paul71H Жыл бұрын
Now that's something I've never seen before -- a guitarist playing a left-handed guitar, but playing it right-handed.
@sandyhanson6082
@sandyhanson6082 Жыл бұрын
Right?! First thing I noticed!...and I'm not a guitar player. But,been in enough bands to notice these things.😉
@avrahambentzvi
@avrahambentzvi Жыл бұрын
It’s strung right handed though
@sandyhanson6082
@sandyhanson6082 Жыл бұрын
@avrahambentzvi Oh totally. Just looks odd right?
@avrahambentzvi
@avrahambentzvi Жыл бұрын
@@sandyhanson6082 I’ve seen enough lefties do that so it’s not so odd per se. but , yes, a righty really has to go out of the way to find a lefty guitar and then restring it righty. I’m wondering if it’s something to do with the slide guitar playing. Especially up close to the end of the frets near the body. 🤷🏻‍♂️
@jennifersman7990
@jennifersman7990 Жыл бұрын
Joe Perry from Aerosmith has done that too, but with a lefty Strat body and righty Tele neck
@JorgeTorres-nk5gw
@JorgeTorres-nk5gw Жыл бұрын
Excelente banda con muchos éxitos en su discografía gracias por publicar
@elizabradley4797
@elizabradley4797 Жыл бұрын
Steve thought you might have had a super handsome face but you were chubby but loved your music ~ generation survived cuz of you 🎸
@catholicfaithofmine2664
@catholicfaithofmine2664 Жыл бұрын
Just want to travel back in time to this period knowing whst I know now.
@anthonyzovko3525
@anthonyzovko3525 Жыл бұрын
Love the shot of the audience towards the end. All of them engaged and watching/listening intently, living in the moment (even the girl chomping on that gum). If that was today, everyone would have had a cell phone out and Stevie would be singing to a bunch of iPhones and Samsungs.
@pamcornelius9122
@pamcornelius9122 Жыл бұрын
So true!
@williambaxter4628
@williambaxter4628 Жыл бұрын
Those of us that listened to the 60's albums as they came out aren't that fond of his 70's offerings.
@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974
@marisaelenenadiejamusiccom3974 Жыл бұрын
Lovely.
@c-dublife
@c-dublife Жыл бұрын
that left handed fender was for jimi, but unfortunately he passed and steve was able to purchase it.
@WalkerTexas
@WalkerTexas Жыл бұрын
This is amazing.
@walkersbdb
@walkersbdb Жыл бұрын
He is as handsome here as he is now!!!
@ethanjpetch
@ethanjpetch 8 ай бұрын
Hell yeah
@bukealicious9146
@bukealicious9146 10 ай бұрын
That guy at around 2:05 is SO Enthralled by the performance!
@chrisspearline767
@chrisspearline767 Жыл бұрын
Saw them live in my teens
@SunnymunnyHunnybunny
@SunnymunnyHunnybunny 6 ай бұрын
I like the line about peaches. It's always classy to compliment a woman on her selection of fruit.
@jmcrae825
@jmcrae825 Жыл бұрын
When you’re a 13 year old starstruck kid with dreams of rock n roll in the 70s this is where you went to get your fix.
@dereklwashington1132
@dereklwashington1132 Жыл бұрын
THIS is a show that couldn't be done now. These folks were true musicians
@saffi5810
@saffi5810 Ай бұрын
Sounds better than the album version! ❤
@rideon1956
@rideon1956 Жыл бұрын
More Steve Miller MS
@Ernie1978
@Ernie1978 3 ай бұрын
Way faster take on "The Joker." Steve Miller's quite the musician!
@gregoryduncan3067
@gregoryduncan3067 Жыл бұрын
I've never met anybody who doesn't like the Steve Miller band.
@jm12green31
@jm12green31 Жыл бұрын
I have and their idiots... mostly young people that prefer garbage
@hinjurock70
@hinjurock70 Жыл бұрын
His music is chill af.
@jeremyc9593
@jeremyc9593 Жыл бұрын
I'm sure your local church will be full of them
@hinjurock70
@hinjurock70 Жыл бұрын
@@jeremyc9593 Why? Lots of Christians like classic rock.
@jeremyc9593
@jeremyc9593 Жыл бұрын
@@hinjurock70 True, but it's the drug references in this song that they don't like
@Earnhogg
@Earnhogg Жыл бұрын
How often do you see a right hander playing a left handed guitar? First time for me!
@ohiowalnut
@ohiowalnut 8 ай бұрын
The Godson of LES PAUL- playin' a left handed strat!
@haldeman
@haldeman Жыл бұрын
Playing a left handed strat upside down. Like Hendrix playing a right handed strat left handed
@TschimmiCash
@TschimmiCash Жыл бұрын
Thank you! But wait: is he playing a leftie guitar tune as a rightie? Wild! :))
@starke2908
@starke2908 Жыл бұрын
when he tours he goes to karaoke bars and picks his songs....every one is amazed hoe he sounds like Steve Miller
@MCW1955
@MCW1955 Жыл бұрын
Man that was effn great, and yeah, the bass player was cooking. Wonder who he is?
@mox19380
@mox19380 Жыл бұрын
stevie guitar never disappoints. he's a musicians musician throughout. gotta a #1 hit? why not revamp. i've seen him several times, most recently about 10 years ago and he 50 years later he still hits it big time
@juanmiguelpalacioesteban5591
@juanmiguelpalacioesteban5591 Жыл бұрын
I would kill for seeing the 80,s/90,s beer spot that carried this song...(I think was "cruzcampo" beer but im.not sure
@jeblmknctmabtaldlr
@jeblmknctmabtaldlr Жыл бұрын
guitar and bass played upside down... just needed the drummer to figure it out to make a full commitment
@mikeshay6775
@mikeshay6775 Жыл бұрын
I know I saw a clip of him playing a song left-handed. But maybe they were using some kind of reverse image when they posted it.
@danielsavoie246
@danielsavoie246 4 ай бұрын
Is it possible to get this version on Spotify
@vfxtreme2023
@vfxtreme2023 Жыл бұрын
I like this dude, he was fairly prolific releasing a lot of material. However, he was no visionary as demonstrated by his Guitar Player Interview in the mid-1970s where He confessed that Guitar Playing had gone as far as it could go. A couple Years Later an ALan Holdsworth inspired Eddie Van HaLen turns the Rock-Guitar WorLd on it's Head. Of course no one saw THAT coming. Mr Miller had his moments in Rock Guitar History though.
@drn13355
@drn13355 Жыл бұрын
Yes no one ever got anything wrong. I hope people hold against me stuff I said 20 years ago.
@ricksaunders8074
@ricksaunders8074 Жыл бұрын
I did a little midnight tokening
@angelinasuazo5705
@angelinasuazo5705 3 ай бұрын
He is some kind of cute.
@angelinasuazo5705
@angelinasuazo5705 3 ай бұрын
Hey, he's flirty with that guitar!
@trondrew
@trondrew Жыл бұрын
Did anyone else notice that Miller's Guitar body is upside down, and so is the head, but it's strung normally for him to play? If a Lefty played the guitar strung that way the strings would be upside down. How.. Why.. Is it specifically for the slide in this song or? He's not playing any of the actual rhythm chords.
@SimonSheen990
@SimonSheen990 Жыл бұрын
Days when musicians compose, sing, play instruments, and most of all, perform live gigs.
@ardiris2715
@ardiris2715 Жыл бұрын
I don't think he ever sang this song the same way twice. (:
@davidnicholson6680
@davidnicholson6680 Жыл бұрын
Is he playing a lefty guitar flipped over?
@TheHuckster100
@TheHuckster100 Жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking too.
@BigSky1
@BigSky1 Жыл бұрын
Yes
@avrahambentzvi
@avrahambentzvi Жыл бұрын
That’s what righties do if they want to play like Hendrix 😂
@avrahambentzvi
@avrahambentzvi Жыл бұрын
Though as you can see from the close up it’s strung right handed.
@dansullivan3238
@dansullivan3238 Жыл бұрын
Right band Right episode Wrong song We NEED Fly Like An Eagle. Best live version ever.
@bsdgffishtuna5186
@bsdgffishtuna5186 Жыл бұрын
pompatous
@RichMansour
@RichMansour Жыл бұрын
Hes singing it way higher.
@AdrianDeVore
@AdrianDeVore Жыл бұрын
He was much younger back in '74!😂
@matthewclark9652
@matthewclark9652 Жыл бұрын
Homer Simpson did the remake in 1991 during an episode when he & Marge met in high school.
@KittyGrizGriz
@KittyGrizGriz Жыл бұрын
I buy albums @ thrift stores to listen at family cabin w/o Wi-Fi. A fantastic one I just heard for the first time over this past Labor Day was the Steve Miller Band “Your Saving Grace” was very pleasantly surprised check it out music lovers! ✊ 😉
@rosskstar
@rosskstar Жыл бұрын
Did The Black Keys ever take the knife out? They lost their man-card imo
@markrobinson8410
@markrobinson8410 Жыл бұрын
That strat looks left handed
@drn13355
@drn13355 Жыл бұрын
I guarantee that guy on keyboards could get you the best weed around.
@321gates
@321gates 8 ай бұрын
LOL. That's my uncle Dick. I don't remember him being that big of a stoner believe it or not.
@drn13355
@drn13355 8 ай бұрын
@@321gates Your uncle is 5,000 times cooler than you. You need some weed man.
@shimon1166
@shimon1166 Жыл бұрын
Russell Crowe is a great singer.
@Ibrian8888
@Ibrian8888 Жыл бұрын
He grew up next to Les Paul
@robinbolton6064
@robinbolton6064 Жыл бұрын
Looks a bit like a chubby face version of Jim Morrison 🎸
@paulceniceros5514
@paulceniceros5514 Жыл бұрын
...........got coke
@arturoalfredocevallos-garc247
@arturoalfredocevallos-garc247 Жыл бұрын
Not even a good karaoke version and this is the original singer? Worst of all, this was not 20 years after this song was released.
@mas7230
@mas7230 Жыл бұрын
Totally f ed up the song, play like the recording!
@generalbystander1631
@generalbystander1631 Жыл бұрын
Worst ever cover of a great song
@jeremyc9593
@jeremyc9593 Жыл бұрын
Cover? That's... not how that works.
@mikrophonie5633
@mikrophonie5633 Жыл бұрын
awful
@Retroearthling
@Retroearthling Жыл бұрын
he would never play the song the way he recorded it back then. AND IT WAS NEW. I would be upset lol
@vickialvarez1015
@vickialvarez1015 9 ай бұрын
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