Steve Miller Celebrates Their 30th Birthday 11/14

Steve Miller Band Peace Center‹Greenville, SC Saturday, November 14, 2009; 8:00pm $55, $65, $75, $85

Tickets: 864-467-3000 or 1-800-888-7768 or http://www.peacecenter.org/

About Steve Miller Band / Fly Like an Eagle

Fly Like An Eagle is one of the seminal rock albums of the 1970¹s and, thirty years hence, its hits are still staples at classic rock radio.

After the success of 1973¹s The Joker, the Steve Miller Band¹s first Platinum album, Miller took some time off and retreated to a home he had purchased on a remote hilltop in Marin County, outside Novato, CA, where he built a recording studio. It was there that he spent months scrupulously overdubbing Fly Like An Eagle and its successor, Book of Dreams. Originally released in May of 1976 against the backdrop of America¹s bicentennial celebration, Fly Like An Eagle proved to be a career-defining album for the Steve Miller Band.

Steve Miller had started to essay his classic sound with The Joker, but 1976's Fly Like an Eagle is where he took flight, creating his definitive slice of space blues, says allmusic.com critic Stephen Thomas Erlewine.

With over four million albums sold to date, Fly Like An Eagle is the Steve Miller Band's biggest-selling studio album. It spent nearly two years on the Billboard 200, peaking at #3 and yielding the Top 40 singles Rock 'N Me, which was the band¹s second #1 single (following 1973's 'The Joker'), the title track, which reached #2 on the pop charts and #20 on the R&B charts, and 'Take the Money and Run,' which peaked at #11.

Initially a fixture in San Francisco's "Summer of Love" scene as leader of the Steve Miller Band, the Texas-bred singer, songwriter and guitarist used his blues/rock roots to transcend the psychedelic trend and develop his own enduring sound. In the ensuing decades, Miller has toured consistently and seen his songs covered by artists as diverse as Smashing Pumpkins, Deftones, Seal, Run-D.M.C. and k.d. lang. The band¹s Greatest Hits 1974-1978 has been certified 13-times Platinum. Cumulatively, the Steve Miller Band has sold 23.5 million records total since its 1968 Capitol debut, Children of the Future.

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