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Results for The Steve Miller Blues BandIn 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 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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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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11/29/2006
Well, I have to give kudos to the Vaultsters, as I believe the Electric Flag is one of the few performers that have...
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11/15/2006
Per the suggestion of someone below, I listened to the opening remarks by Chuck Berry. Oh yeah. I think Chuck was...
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11/11/2006
While we're passing out kudos, it was a classy move to include the full Devil's Kitchen concert after the individual...
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2/23/2006
I love the Vault Radio, and as a 17 year old, I can only wonder about what took place during these concerts...I would...
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