The Steve Miller Band was out at The Woodlands Pavilion last night.
He’s the man with Classic Rock’s greatest identity crisis. Some people call him the Space Cowboy and some the Gangster of Love. He’s a Joker, Smoker and a Midnight Toker. He’s even known by the seemingly benign moniker of “Maurice.”
But what Steve Miller is not is A Guy Who Phones It In. This night found the now 79-year-old’s voice sounding shockingly nearly identical to all those records all those years ago, and his guitar playing fluid and solid all night.Oh, and he seemed to be having agood time. Lots of smiles and joy. That clearly translated to an enthusiastic audience who spent much of the evening on their feet.
Steve Miller is also a People Pleaser. For while he does throw in an occasional blues cover or deep cut on the set list, he mostly sticks to the tried-and-true singalong hits that made him FM Rock Royalty for most of the 1970s . In fact, the most recent song on this set list was more than 40 years old.Many of the show’s highlights weren’t necessarily his better-known hits. A chugging “The Stake” featured an expansive guitar solo. “Wild Mountain Honey” proved a swirling psychedelic journey.
Of the hits, “Take the Money and Run” and show closer “Rock ‘n Me” crackled with energy, despite Miller having likely trotted them out hundreds of times before. And though an electric version of “Jet Airliner” got fists pumping, it was a second, slowed-down acoustic version that segued into the country party of “Dance Dance Dance” that took the familiar material and did something special and interesting with it.
More than ably backing the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was his crack band: Kenny Lee Lewis , Joseph Wooten , Jacob Petersen and Ron Wisko . Wooten in particular got to shine with spacey keyboard parts on “Fly Like an Eagle.”. But he continues to mine the vaults with the just-announced 50th anniversary box set of his breakthrough album, 1973’s.
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