#STEVE MILLER BAND ROLL WITH IT ARCHIVE#
#STEVE MILLER BAND ROLL WITH IT TV#

A turbulent “Super Shuffle” recorded live at Steve Miller Band’s breakthrough appearance at 1967’s Monterey Pop Festival, is fast followed by such previously unreleased revelations as an early version of “Going to Mexico” (originally found on 1970’s NUMBER 5) as well as solo acoustic takes on BRAVE NEW WORLD’s “Kow Kow Calculator” and “Seasons,” recorded on the road in 1973. Faithful to the form yet undeniably visionary, the track instantly sets the pace for what is to come. WELCOME TO THE VAULT opens in 1969 with the Steve Miller Band covering Little Walter’s “Blues With a Feeling” at the Fillmore West in San Francisco, a previously unreleased 10-minute blowout unlike anything else in Miller’s official studio or live catalog. ‘We closed with it, and it killed them,’ Miller says proudly.” I needed a song to rock the whole joint.’ Miller showed ‘Rock’n Me’ to the band at practice they played it live for the first time in front of 100,000 people at Knebworth. There won’t be any lights, and I’m just chum.

The Floyd ‘were gonna put me on at sunset. “‘But I knew what was going to happen,’ Miller says.

They rehearsed for a single afternoon, working up a half-dozen R&B standards, a couple of Miller hits and a surprising debut, ‘The Window,’ an early version of which appears on WELCOME TO THE VAULT. Miller called Lonnie Turner, Les Dudek – a guitarist in Boz Scaggs’ band – and Doug Clifford, the former drummer in Creedence Clearwater Revival. He was still without a working band when the English prog-rock giants Pink Floyd asked him to be their special guest at a massive festival on July 5th, 1975 at Knebworth, England. WELCOME TO THE VAULT is heralded by today’s premiere of “Rock’n Me” (Alternate Version 1), a different take of the classic #1 hit from 1976.įricke writes in his liner notes: “Miller wrote ‘Rock’n Me’ with a different setting in mind. Steve Miller Band’s WELCOME TO THE VAULT, also available as a 52-track digital collection, arrives Friday, October 11. WELCOME TO THE VAULT is accompanied by a 100-page hardbound book of photos, memorabilia and artifacts from Miller’s personal collection, as well as an exclusive 9,000-word essay by renowned rock journalist David Fricke.

#STEVE MILLER BAND ROLL WITH IT TV#

The accompanying DVD collects 21 live performances, among them legendary rare TV appearances and concert videos. WELCOME TO THE VAULT covers Miller’s genre-blurring six-decade career over 52 audio tracks, pairing a number of greatest hits and certifiable rock ‘n roll classics with 38 previously unreleased recordings that span demos, rehearsals, outtakes, vintage concert performances and 5 newly uncovered original Steve Miller Band songs recorded in the 1960s and 1970s.

#STEVE MILLER BAND ROLL WITH IT ARCHIVE#

Renowned guitarist, multi-platinum-selling singer-songwriter, bandleader and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Miller has opened up his voluminous archive of recordings for the first time ever to present a milestone 3CD + DVD box set.

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