Steve Miller Band Live!
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Track listing

  1. "Gangster of Love
    Gangster of Love
    "Gangster of Love" is a blues song recorded by Johnny "Guitar" Watson in 1957. When Watson re-recorded the song in 1978, it became a hit. It has been identified as "his most famous song" and has been recorded by several artists.-Original song:...

    " – 2:56
  2. "Rock 'N Me" – 4:08
  3. "Living in the U.S.A." – 3:26
  4. "Fly Like an Eagle
    Fly Like an Eagle
    - Track listing :Side one# "Space Intro"  – 1:15# "Fly Like an Eagle"  – 4:42# "Wild Mountain Honey"  – 4:51# "Serenade"  – 3:13...

    " – 3:31
  5. "Jungle Love" – 3:44
  6. "The Joker
    The Joker (song)
    "The Joker" is a song by the Steve Miller Band from their 1973 album The Joker. The song is one of two Steve Miller Band songs that feature the neologism "pompatus". The song topped the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1974. It draws heavy influence from the Allen Toussaint's song Soul Sister featured...

    " – 2:59
  7. "Mercury Blues
    Mercury Blues
    "Mercury Blues" is the title of song written by K. C. Douglas and Robert Geddins in 1949. The song, originally titled "Mercury Boogie," pays homage to the American automobile, which ended production in 2010....

    " – 5:24
  8. "Take the Money and Run
    Take the Money and Run (song)
    "Take the Money and Run" is a song recorded in 1976 by the Steve Miller Band. A song about two young bandits, it was one of the many hit singles produced by the Steve Miller Band in the 1970s and featured on Fly Like an Eagle. The song peaked at #11 on the U.S...

    " – 3:53
  9. "Abracadabra" – 3:42
  10. "Jet Airliner" – 5:05

Personnel

  • Steve Miller
    Steve Miller (musician)
    Steven H. "Steve" Miller is an American guitarist and singer-songwriter who began his career in blues and blues rock and evolved to a more popular-oriented sound which, from the mid 1970s through the early 1980s, resulted in a series of successful singles and albums.-Early years:Born in Milwaukee,...

     – vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

    , guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

  • John Massaro
    John Massaro (guitarist)
    John Massaro was a guitarist for the 1980s band Kid Lightning. He went on to play in Steve Miller Band for two years, contributing to the Abracadabra album. He is currently in Lafayette, Colorado, playing with Forty Nights.-References:...

     – guitar
  • Kenny Lee Lewis – guitar
  • Norton Buffalo
    Norton Buffalo
    Norton Buffalo was a singer-songwriter, country and blues harmonica player, record producer, bandleader and recording artist best known as a versatile exponent of the harmonica, including chromatic and diatonic....

     – harmonica
    Harmonica
    The harmonica, also called harp, French harp, blues harp, and mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used primarily in blues and American folk music, jazz, country, and rock and roll. It is played by blowing air into it or drawing air out by placing lips over individual holes or multiple holes...

  • Byron Allred – keyboards
    Keyboard instrument
    A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...

  • Gary Mallaber
    Gary Mallaber
    Gary Mallaber is a Los Angeles session drummer, percussionist and singer. He got his start playing drums in a band from Buffalo, New York, known as Raven....

     – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

    , keyboards
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