gudi.hasivar wrote:


I Agree!!

outstanding 

 DW4554 wrote:


I Agree on all counts!  PS: another commenter stated that fog horns don't sound like this. They DO in the NYC / Port Newark harbor!  He must live in a small fishing village!  LOL!    

 khardog145 wrote:
That's just good parenting. You should be proud, you did well :)

Absolutely love the foghorns.  I grew up on and around Boston Harbor.  My brother's father in law was a tugboat captain and harbor pilot.  I was fortunate enough to spend time at sea with him.  Yes, that's exactly what foghorns sound like.  A masterstroke by producer Glyn Johns.  

The whole Sailor album is worthy of a good listen.  Boz Scaggs made his performance and writing bones on this one.

From years ago...As a youth..living in the fog of amazing music!!!!!

Steve Miller was the luckiest guy on earth--he made himself a pop music career without significant talent and NO signing voice.  I listened to interviews of him talking about his Fly Like an Eagle-era music, and he tires to make himself sound like some musical genius.  Sorry Steve, you mixed a little talent and some Pink Floyd ripoffs into a career. 

The more I hear this tune, the more I like it!!  Thanx RP!

SUPERB!!!  ICONIC ALBUM!!!  I never heard this tune before.  Thanx RP!

 rhlrstn wrote:


I don't know where you live, but they sound realistic to me! ...NYC -Port Newark (NJ)! ...You must live in a tiny fishing village, NO HUGE SHIPS! 

 DW4554 wrote:
That's not what fog horns sound like in my harbour town.. this sounds more like someone stepping on a toad? 

 itsme_bygolly wrote:

He did something with Paul McCartney that sounded like they took 5 minutes to put it together.  

Maybe he just got lazy, or stopped taking drugs.  You would probably have to ask him.

(Too) long of an intro  

I wanna know what happened in the intervening ten years. His Pop music was awful in the 70's.

Made me log in to find out who this was...wow, interesting.  Never would have guessed.  Thanks once again RP for blowing my mind...

Love the fog horn intro.  Priceless.

 johnkovo147 wrote: 
... and meets Peter Green

Really cool and unique but the foghorns made me feel really anxious. It didn't help that I was trying to deal with something frustrating at the time. 

... nearly forgotten - thanks for bringing it back to me.

Santana meets Pink Floyd.

Can't say I've heard this before and would not have guessed Steve Miller. There's a group right there on my tongue, but cannot express who it is....jazz for sure, that sax is the trigger. Thanks Bill for playing the obscure.
Just the bomb. 

Oh thank you Bill.... I needed to bring the BP down by 30 points this afternoon.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

We always rent a boat up in Door County over 4th of July.  So last year my son has his eclectic playlist blasting and on comes "Abracadabra".  All of my grandkids start singing along to every word.  Gotta love it.  So I decided to take them to Ravinia to see Steve Miller Band.  On the way there, my grandson says "hey grandma I want to play this really cool Steve Miller song I found" and it's none other than "Song for our Ancestors".   Amazing.

 Imkirok wrote:
 
Sometimes a guy likes to be able to have a successful career, nice house, car, provide for his family, and what not. 

Miller can't be blamed for writing huge hits and becoming a household name in rock and roll for those years in the late 70's.  He likely would not still be performing now without them.   Beside, Fly Like An Eagle kicks ass.  It did then and it still does now.  Kick back, pop it on, grab your favorite beverage, turn down the lights AND turn up the volume.  Those first guitar notes still put a smile on my face 4 decades later.

...and he is STILL a great live performer.

 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
 

Don't make me "reach out and grab ya"!

need to get me some of that Paradise weed to feel this one.   

 gwolfie1959 wrote:
 
As a 'non-corporate' bean counter, I'm completely understand you're love for this track, using my heart and not my brain, and I say Long Live RP and shit that doesn't make rational sense!!

I have A Really Hard Time Understanding why "I JUST LOVE THIS SONG". It's like whales  humping or something. I'm just so drawn to it. "ART"...there's just No Formula for calculating how or why... sometimes it just gets into you...and you just can't figure out why. It will always befuddle me...which I love, because it really can't be quantified or measured on a mathematical scale...of any kind......................AND IT DRIVES BEAN COUNTERS AND CORPORATE AMERICA CRAZY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That dog farting again
A 9 from your boy

 Emwolb wrote:
His early stuff (pre-Joker & Fly Like an Eagle crapola) was so, so, so good.
   
Imkirok wrote:
 

Those are masterpieces next to Abracadabra.

Listened to this (the entire album too) often  back in my Navy days.  It's a great album and he was with Boz Scaggs in those days.  "Livin' In The USA" came out of this album.  Bueno!

I've caught a couple of Steve Miller interviews, and to hear Steve Miller interviewed is to never want to hear one of his songs again.  His ego is positively Trumpian.   

But admittedly, this isn't bad.

 Emwolb wrote: 

 hayduke2 wrote: 
dammit...tried to PSD the Dead and got The Cure instead....not a bad trade-off but i would have so preferred QMS's Fresh Air

very deep             (psd'd the lame Dead you had set up and got Quicksilver Messenger Service — Fresh Air  excellent match to Steve Miller Band imo : )

His early stuff (pre-Joker & Fly Like an Eagle crapola) was so, so, so good.

Saw him at Westbury Music Fair, in the round, too many years ago (around his Journey From Eden album) and he was introduced as the World's Greatest Guitarist and he didn't disappoint.

Smooth as silk.

This is Steve Miller??  I like it!

Glenn Gould's The Idea of North with horns. 

Yeah, I was thinking i thought I've heard everything by pink floyd!
 

skyhigh_71 wrote: 

Um... are these tug boat mating calls?

Wow, this came in a time nobody knew anything about this band here in Germany, and esp. of sounds from the US. We got to know english pop art, while at the same time bands in America were chilling and rocking the other way. I must have this LP anywhere....

It was a dark and stormy song...

One of my favorite Steve Miller Band albums.  Still had Boz Scaggs in the band.

Nice Monday Morning vibes going on Bill,  Thanks! 

Wow - had to login to RP.com and check this.

Could have sworn I was listening to early Pink Floyd.

Unbelievably similar.

In a good way :-)

Really nothing like the "pop" shit of later SMB

 bm.deavenport613 wrote: 
Too bad; it's nothing like "regular" Steve Miller music.

I've always liked experimental works, longer takes that let you dream.  Then at 40 I started listening to classical music, that requires a whole new set of skills and mindset.

Before Pink Floyd - we had The Steve Miller Band.

Well not really before but at the same time. 

This song instigated some of the most interesting comments evah!

Not a Steve Miller fan, had to pass on that offering

Far and away his best album. 

The beginning...with the blaring fog horn...is juuuuust a bit annoying...and almost long enough to make one go "next."  But if you're patient...and grit yer teeth...it ends well? 

Long time favorite.  Very creative.  And has held up well over the years..

Hello ! bang!
you sound cute, bang!
This is how it feels.
Stop sonic bombing of the ocean floor every ten second.

DoctorHooey
(/etc)

---

"... the adult male sperm whale calls to his mate in the briney deep ...

My thoughts exactly at the beginning ofthis tune.  Never heard this one from Stevie Miller.

Interesting not quite what I remember from Steve Miller Band

RP do it again-brilliant track.

 coloradojohn wrote: 
Rock On!!!  (kay-now, where's my bag of blue powder and dried shroomies... : )

Old Steve Miller Band is always a treat.

It is worth noting that this song was part of a cycle of songs on the album that were supposed to be taken as a whole, not individual parts.  It loses something standing alone, but was one of the more distictive songs on the album.  That is why best hits albums of a certain era by a specific artist lose something in translation.

It's always nice to her something you've never heard before — hippy trippin' or not... ...very relaxing — and I don't even have the proper supplements to really enjoy!

More hippy nonsense. A well deserved 2

Vinyl downstairs, unplayed in 15 years. Time to dig it out for sure. Feeling trippy now

Once again I must stop what I'm doing and just sit back and listen. Thanks Bill.

The last time you played this I went out and bought a bunch of Steve Miller stuff - been really enjoying it.

 HonduranRed wrote:



 
Wow is right. Weird beginning, big finish.

Syd is back in the band !!

Pink Floyd on Downers

Wow!!!!!!!!!!!

Steve Miller is one of those ones who really had something interesting to say and had the chops to back it up when he was coming up. Then came the commercial crap. They say hope burns eternal in the hearts of men. I'm holding out hope that Steve might find that buried vision he once posessed, just as Steve Winwood has, finally. It's gotta be in there somewhere.

I'd never heard this until now - very cool! Yes, the beginning is weird, and it does sound a bit Floyd-ish. Love the Hammond, too. Someone posted earlier that this song takes too long to start for it to be played on RP. I disagree - I think that RP is the perfect place for this kind of music.

Had the distinct pleasure of seeing Mr. Miller several times. His drummer was outstanding and when they took the stage Miller would say, "Hello I'm Stevie Guitar Miller." This album was actually required listening back in "The Day."

Thought it was my own lower intestines playing up there... Hang on, it's starting to go a bit Pink Floyd-ey...

js5280 wrote:Phew!

I was half asleep when this came on, and it really freaked me out for a bit.

For a moment, I thought Uncle Ernie over did it again with the bean dip...

That is a creepy beginning, innit? 8, overall.

WakeUpWorld wrote: ...

Creepy beginning...takes too long to get started to be on radio paradise.

GChevy410 wrote:problem is the Libertarian party has lost touch with reality almost as badly as the Dems have. The Candidates the Liberts give out are like David Duke giving tips on Welfare Reform while he was in the Repub Party. Yeah, lots of the ideas they stand for are great. But the rest of the ideas are unpalatable to anyone with half an once of common sense. A few years back, they even put forward a candidate who thought the Brady Bill and Clinton gun bans were no big deal and didn't need repealing (or as finally happened, fading into the sunset). Hello? He changed stance for election but his statements were still there. We seem to be left with The Stupid Party(republicans), The Commies(democrats who seem to forget what democracy really means), And the Nutjobs(Big "L" libertarian who seem to have some great ideas but hold several that are suicide either economically, or societally) Til they find someone who doesn't have a few too many nutjob ideas, I'll remain a small "l" libertarian who has to hold nose and vote "R" and hope for the best, because the worst thing for any freedom loving human is to let the Communistic Nannies in charge (Though Rudy and Huckabee are Nanny staters as well....dammit!)

Pyro wrote: I know what you mean, but I have also found similar sounds and phrasing in the work of other artists of the period, even as diverse as Caetano Veloso (Brazil), so I lean toward concluding that it was more a function of Time -- and new instrumentation that was on the cutting edge at that time -- rather than any copying or direct influence. One might also argue that the drugs that were in recreational use at that time might have something to do with it. Having dwelt in a place where mushrooms are an important food group, I won't presume to refute such assertions. Then again, as the temporally-bent Borges said, (and he got it from Schopenhauer, I believe): At some point in Time, every man will have done every thing... In any case, it is always and everywhere well and good to cue up Floyd's TIME! and bring The Wall on down, while we're at it! Ain't we all Space Cowboys, too? Supposedly, Roman commanders complained that when the Picts ran howling and naked and painted blue among the ranks of their men, they became most disconcerted, and suffered loss of will. Let us infer it is perhaps best not to take up arms, but rather, to take up Divine Recreation, and run naked and painted, Stoned, Immaculate!

liser wrote: Fine actually. I feel bad for uniformed residential buyers who have been weaseled into a loan they can't afford, but I work in Commercial Real Estate with a REIT that doesn't leverage too much. Sorry to disappoint you, I know you were so looking forward to "burning" me.

Misterfixit wrote: Wow! started so far apart in perceived views, and then you have to say something like that. I am firmly Libertarian, and know that it is idealistic. The main thing any empire needs to last is a population that is responsible for their actions, and we lost that around the 1950's (of course then there was also stifling conformity which is no good either). Basically everyone needs to be tolerant of each other, and take care of their own business. Have a good one Mr Fixit

GChevy410 wrote: And how IS the real estate business?

Pink Floyd had released "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in 1967, then "Saucerful of Secrets" in 1968, about the time this was recorded ('68). So did Floyd take cues from Steve Miller band for "Wish You Were Here" or even "Ummagumma"? Hmmmm.

So extraordinarily cool to hear this on RP (or anywhere outside my home stereo). I have all the early Steve Miller Band (pre-Book of Dreams) on vinyl and they've lain ignored on the shelf for years. Only recently, on the request of an old hippie friend, did I liberate them by ripping to MP3. Now that these tunes are more familiar, that fog horn was instantly recognizable. Points for obscurity, if not actual quality...

robadr wrote: Same place the $ went back then...wasted by misinformed , egocentric politicians.

GChevy410 wrote: I'm glad to see that Rush "Druggie" Limbaugh and Sean "Slant Head" Hannity are listening to Radio Paradise. Maybe it'll sway 'em.

This tune is what I love about RP. Not something I'm going to download to my sonywalkman any time soon, but it's something I haven't heard before.

Hello, This is not sucko-barfo, but it is pretty aimless and pointless, IMO = 2. Neil

nice. I didn't know this aspect of S.M. band. Worth stopping to enjoy. And contemplate...something, not sure what.

this MIGHT be good on acid...

Never heard this before and I'm certainly old enough to have been around at the time. As has been posted earlier, very Floyd-like. As for the political comments, there are threads for that, please take them there!

...very cool!.. ...man, it must suck to be you - i'm sorry...

DoctorHooey wrote: Yeah...WTF? Do I need a bong hit before this song? I don't get it.

GChevy410 wrote: Lazy Hippies? Who? Me? Not me pal .. this was the official Military Intelligence listening station which covered Washington DC like the cloak of Vlad the Impaler. We spent a year listing to every demonstration, anti-US riot, anti-war vigil, yadda yadda and so forth, with the geniuses over at the FBI trying to find some kind of "conspiracy". Like they could actually do that when they weren't even able to see up J Edgar Hoover's dress when he attended those pedophile parties with Clyde Tolson. And this job was a "reward " for me after I returned from a tour of Vietnam and a few weeks at Walter Reed Army Hospital where they managed to glue parts of me back on which had come of over there in La La land. That's where I started to realize that the entire government of the USA was a Potemkin Village. It is mostly that now with extra props from Central Casting. If you change your political views to that of the Libertarian Party you will come close to knowing what the USA needs for the next 100 years in order to survive.

Well... that was pleasantly weird. Had no idea the Steve Miller Band had records out before Fly Like An Eagle. Dunno that I could listen to it a lot before getting tired of it, though. Might fit into a playlist with Santana's Welcome album.

GChevy410 wrote: Those tax dollars are looong gone...and pretty innocuously in the overall scheme of things. Better to question where your 2007 ones are going.

GChevy410 wrote: Rats! I was busy wasting GChevy's tax dollars and I missed his post. Oh well. Back to work...I've got a pay check that needs collectin'.

AlienRelic wrote: You got that right! We bought only the finest blank cassette tapes, those chrome ones -- remember?. And sat around our Nixon Organized listening post doing nothing more than sucking up a zillion regular and pirate radio stations, the CB's that the protesters used, and the various tv channels. It was sweet. Spying on all of those long hair hippy freeks, and their puppet roader running dog collaborator commie pinko hippie weirdo doper braless barefoot hemp wearing benighted foolish flower children! Ahhh, but at the end of the day it turned out they were right and I was wrong. The worm turns, don't ya know ... Decoursey Squire my sweet, where are you now?

I cannot believe how annoying and obnoxious that foghorn crap is.

GChevy410 wrote: Amazing!!! BS on about five different levels.

Misterfixit wrote: Good to know my tax dollars are hard at work supporting lazy hippies sitting around doing nothing except listening to ambient music. This is why America is going down the shitter. A couple of wack jobs in control of everything, everyone else in the government just sitting around collecting a paycheck, while the normal harding working Americans in the real world support everyone who couldnt hack it as a capitalist.

key-wrap

some off-key stuff here - not pleasant perhaps 60s drugs

bcorcoran wrote: Maybe, but this is 10 years before Shine On You Crazy Diamond

Surf's up. Kowa Bunga.

Wow, I can't believe I've never heard this before!

I first heard this on WHFS in Bethesda, MD (102.3 for the real old folks). It came on about 0300 in the morning when I was working at the Pentagon. We, of course, had it captured to our 1/2" tape system and believe me when I tell you that we made so many cassette copies of that one song we ran out of official tax-payer purchased cassettes. It is simply awesome in it's imagery. I am so incredibly sorry that I no longer still have the 10" reel to reel of that night's music. There was a very nautical scheme to about 2 hours of the broadcast that was just simply the best radio I had ever heard. There was even a parody voice track about a sailing ship flogging and the guy crying out 'Oh Yes!" Wonderful

This is so obscure, I thought I'd never hear this again on the web or the radio. I had this tape about twenty years ago and really enjoyed it. It was such a departure from his later work. I believe this is the first or second album from Steve Miller (from 1968).

Sounds like a rip of Shine On You Crazy Diamond... a bad one. Maybe I don't "get" The Steve Miller Band, but they're a wee bit overrated to me. Edit: Wow that was utterly pointless.

Another song from the 60's that I should know but never heard of before. Or lost all memory of.....

Sunday morning coming down. Yes, more Miller please. Anything from the first 5 albums will do.

had to turn this one up! lol

"... the adult male sperm whale calls to his mate in the briney deep ..."

wow, i can't believe i'm hearing this on the radio. far out, man.