STEVE MILLER Discusses His Life, Greatest Hits; InTheStudio Audio Interview Streaming
April 28, 2016, 8 years ago
North American syndicated rock radio show and website InTheStudio with Redbeard: The Stories Behind History’s Greatest Rock Bands goes one on one with ‘70s musical icon and recent Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame inductee, Steve Miller, about his life and Greatest Hits.
From the time he was a toddler, Steve Miller was surrounded by giants of 20th century American music including Les Paul and Mary Ford, Charles Mingus, and T-Bone Walker. Not just their recorded music, but by them, in the flesh, as house guests in the Miller home in Dallas. Steve Miller’s brush with music royalty continued with a chance meeting with the Beatles that resulted in a Paul McCartney/Miller collaboration on the track “My Dark Hour”.
But by 1973 Miller needed more than six degrees of separation from rock and roll icons. Steve Miller needed a hit. Steve shares with InTheStudio host Redbeard the story behind his first # 1 single, “The Joker”.
“The Joker was the first album I produced myself... Every time I’d go to make an album, there would be this big huge fight about what to make. So finally I just cleared everything out and just went in and did it all by myself. No producer or anything. And that was my first gold single and my first platinum album! So that gave me a big boost of confidence.” - Steve Miller
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