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Results for Steve MillerIn his long career, Steve Miller has gone from being one of the first young white West Coast blues-rockers to being one of the biggest-selling pop-rock artists of the seventies and eighties. In 1966, Miller (who was taught guitar at age five by Les Paul) moved to California and formed the Steve Miller Blues Band. The band played at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and backed up Chuck Berry at the Fillmore. They took the unusual step for a San Francisco band of traveling to London in 1968 to record their first album, Children of the Future. The band had a communal house in San Francisco and rock pro Miller was challenged by the musical scene of which he was a part. The band went on to have a number of top hits in the 1970s, including "Fly Like an Eagle," "Rock 'n Me," and "Take the Money and Run."...more
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by The Editors•May 14, 2008•
Read shared stories from Paul and other writers and editors who worked on the original Crawdaddy! (plus our own Denise Sullivan who writes quite eloquently on the Crawdaddy! spirit). As we take time this issue to pay homage to the original, as our own one-year anniversary wouldn’t even be remotely possible without it, we hope you enjoy them as they recount their insightful tales.
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by Denise Sullivan•May 7, 2008•
And yet rock would hardly be rock as we know it without the big daddy of the roll: "Rollin' Stone" by Muddy Waters, the song that launched at least one rock band
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by Denise Sullivan•April 9, 2008•
You're listening to a brand new song, and yet, you feel like you've heard those words somewhere before. Or maybe you recognize familiar song titles popping out in an otherwise original song. Or, you're simply listening, you like what you hear, and you don't even realize
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by Steve Matteo•March 5, 2008•
New Jersey is famous for being the spawning ground of two musical icons: Frank Sinatra and Bruce Springsteen. Also hailing from New Jersey is the Smithereens, a group that, while not having achieved as much notoriety or hit records as the aforementioned legends
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by Paul Williams•February 27, 2008•
But San Francisco—the Fillmore, the Avalon, the Trips Festivals, the Diggers, Owsley’s acid, Haight Street and Ashbury and Masonic and Golden Gate Park, the Straight Theater, Herb Caen, the Barb, the communication company—these have been and are and will be the environment
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4/8/2008
I just want to first say that WV is far and away the best music site on the web for us 40 something (near 50 something)...
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12/25/2007
Here are my favorite shows in no particular order, check them out if you have not already done so.
1) Chicago...
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12/17/2007
Miami Steve: Thanks for the link. That makes for some interesting reading, particularly when cross-referenced with...
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11/17/2007
The Chuck Berry show from 12.29.67 at Winterland is indeed a fine show, with excellent guitar playing from Mr. Berry....
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9/30/2007
You're welcome. I want to question that Blondie/Winterland date, though...Dec. 31, 1978 was the last night at...
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