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For me the only Steve Miller song worth listening to is “Livin’ in the USA,” and I worked in record stores from 1975 to 1980.

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Nov 15Liked by Dan Epstein

I just watched the new Nicky Hopkins documentary (highly recommended) and they touched on his work with Miller during that early psychedelic period, reminding me that was some very good music, well worth checking out.

Misheard lyrics are comic gold.

With all the corruption bound to happen, Take The Money And Run could be a theme song for this god awful new "administration".

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Oooh, thanks for the reminder - I need to check out that Hopkins doc!

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It's amazing how many touchstones of that era he not only played on, but left an indelible mark on.

All while living with significant health issues.

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The SMB and VH misheard lyrics have now officially replaced the real ones in my mind.

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I am delighted to hear this. 😝

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Duuuude! I spat coffee upon reading "A Man I'll Never..." I'm on board, must add that to my deep blues/wee small hours mix.

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Hahaha! I'll have to write more about that one at a later date...

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Ha! Steve Miller Band was the second concert I ever attended. I went with my sister and brother. I don't think my mother had any idea who Steve Miller was at the time. The smell of pot was all over the stadium and toilet paper was being tossed around. Such a great time!

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Oh man — I'd actually forgotten all about the throwing of toilet paper rolls at concerts and football games back then. Thanks for the reminder!

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My favorite misheard lyric of all time - I don't hear anything but your mom's lyrics every time I hear this song now!

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I love that!

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👍Great times. AM radio reception added to the lyrical confusion, and if you didn’t have the album liner notes pre-internets, well you hear

“She’s got electric boobs…..” Benny and the Jets. I was rather scandalized driving in the car with Mom and Dad that day. 😁

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Hahaha! A good friend of mine swore that the Eagles' "Take It to the Limit" was "Naked to the Limit"...

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Your Mom had a point!

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Nov 16Liked by Dan Epstein

Funny!😊 I’ve been a fan of Miller’s since the early’70s when I got a copy of ‘Anthology’. Great collection of songs, including the one he did with McCartney, “My Dark Hour”. But it was ‘The Joker’ album that made me a huge fan, still love it to this day. On eBay I found the exact Halloween mask he wears on the cover, and I have it framed on my wall!

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This guy,Foreigner,and Frampton.What a gloriously stupid time to be alive.At least his vocals were crystal clear and enunciated.(Looking at you,Blue Oyster Cult )

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A friend turned me on to your stack. This was the post she recommended after we were discussing the name of the protagonist in my novel, Steven Miller. He's in a band in 1977 and his bandmates call him the Pompatus of Love, the Space Cowboy, etc. (The novel is called Shagduk, if you're interested.)

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Cool! Is it sci-fi?

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Billed as fantasy on account of demons, witches, and magic. The second installment just came out, Ursula of Ulm.

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I am intrigued!

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Welp, check 'em out on Goodreads and Amazon...plenty of reviews there and on YouTube. The brief synopsis is "A librarian accidentally summons a demon in 1977 Texas. Shenanigans ensue." That's a gross oversimplification, though. Cheers!

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Your partisanship is showing when you spew lies about Gabby being a Russian spy and hyperbolize that RFKjr's brain has been eaten by a worm. Be better than that.

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Miller didn't write "Jet Airliner" either.

Not much of a Grateful Dead fan, so who would I then think was the best band in San Francisco during the Haight-Ashbury era?

Why, it'd be The Steve Miller Band.

Sailor is a five star record, but each of his first five albums, from Children of the Future to Number Five, is pretty great.

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