Fly Like an Eagle [Gold CD]
Editorial Reviews
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Tutored at a young age by no less than guitar whiz Les Paul and blues legend T-Bone Walker, Steve Miller's life seemed destined to be dominated by music. Still, Miller's evolution from 1960s white-boy Chicago blues journeyman to '70s Top 40 hit machine was meteoric. Building on the success of his mainstream breakthrough The Joker, Miller's mastery of the indelibly catchy pop song yielded not only the radio-staple title track (since successfully revived by Seal), but an almost embarrassing wealth of other deceptively simple, hook-laden songs (including the standout "Wild Mountain Honey" as well as the hit singles "Take the Money and Run" and "Rock'n Me") to make Eagle play more like a greatest hits album than a standard collection of songs. This is Miller at his '76 pop-perfectionist peak, and one of the decade's most enduring surprises. --Jerry McCulley
Fly Like an Eagle, Music, Steve Miller, Gold Discs, Pop, Popular Music, Rock, Rock/Pop
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- AWESOME Re-realease!
- I'm flying like an eagle
- Steve Miller 5.1 DVD Audio
- Nicely done, all things considered
- Miller Time
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Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary
Steve Miller
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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- Face the Promise (CD+DVD)
- Boston
- Pink Floyd - Pulse
- Under the Skin
- John Fogerty: The Long Road Home in Concert
ASIN: B000GFRDN6
Release Date: 2006-07-18 |
Tracks:
- Space Intro
- Fly Like An Eagle
- Wild Mountain Honey
- Serenade
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Mercury Blues
- Take the Money and Run
- Rock 'N Me
- You Send Me
- Blue Odyssey
- Sweet Maree
- The Window
- Fly Like An Eagle '73 (Bonus Track)
- Take the Money and Run (Acoustic-Bonus Track)
- Rockin' Me '76 Slow (Bonus Track)
Tracks:
- Swingtown - DVD
- Fine True Love - DVD
- Abracadabra - DVD
- Dance Dance Dance - DVD
- Wild Mountain Honey - DVD
- Nature Boy - DVD
- Mercury Blues - DVD
- The Stake - DVD
- shu ba da du ma ma ma ma - DVD
- I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love-DVD
- Got Love If You Want It - DVD
- Gangster of Love - DVD
- All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - DVD
- I'm Tore Down - DVD
- Slow Blues - DVD
- Crossroads - DVD
- Fly Like An Eagle - DVD
- Take the Money and Run - DVD
- Rock'n Me - DVD
- Jungle Love - DVD
- The Joker - DVD
- Serenade - DVD
Amazon.com
This is the album that, in one eagle-sized swoop, propelled Steve Miller from a well-regarded but hardly widely known psychedelic San Francisco-based bluesman to a chart-topping, hit-single-generating pop star. Capitol Records, who helped sire that transition by keeping him on the label through years of lackluster sales, celebrates the 30th anniversary of the event with this classy expanded edition. Those with surround sound systems will enjoy a stunning 5.1 mix highlighting the space-rock tendencies that so effectively offset Fly Like an Eagle's crunchier singles. Also included in the CD/DVD set is a worthy and informative half-hour interview/documentary with Miller about the making of the project and his blues background, as well as a riveting two-hour live show from October 2005 that includes most (but not all) of the songs on the album. The concert allows Miller to explore his blues, jazz, and even world music tendencies with fiddler/harpist Carlos Reyes adding gypsy/Cajun overtones to "Dance, Dance, Dance" and "Abracadabra." George Thorogood brings his gruff presence to "Your Cast Ain't Nothing but Trash," and a relatively restrained but intense Joe Satriani joins on the last third, which includes a 20-minute version of the title track. Despite its dated synths and somewhat antiquated production, the album holds up remarkably well, primarily due to its excursions into Delta blues ("Sweet Maree"), folk-pop ("Wild Mountain Honey"), and soul (a lovely cover of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me"). Three nascent versions of songs such as "Take the Money and Run" (retrofitted to the chord changes of "The Joker") appear as bonus cuts. They show how the perfectionist Miller's tinkering helped craft them into radio-friendly hits that sound as catchy today as they did in 1976. --Hal Horowitz
More from Steve Miller
Number 5 |
Book of Dreams |
Children of the Future |
Brave New World |
The Joker |
Sailor |
Album Description
30th Anniversary Special Limited Edition CD/DVD of The Steve Miller Band's landmark album. The CD is digitally remastered and includes 3 bonus tracks. The DVD features a terrific concert performance at San Francisco's Shoreline Amphitheater in 2005 with over two hours of music in 5.1 Surround Sound. Guest musicians include George Thorogood and Joe Satriani. The DVD also features a lengthy interview with Steve Miller, archive footage, never-before-seen photographs, and early demo recordings revealing the genesis of rock classics like Take the Money And Run, Rock 'n Me, and Fly Like an Eagle. In one special segment Steve Miller plugs in his Stratocaster to demonstrate how licks learned directly from the likes of T-Bone Walker, Les Paul and Chuck Berry influenced his own music and became some of modern rock's most recognizable riffs.
Customer Reviews:
AWESOME Re-realease!.......2007-05-16
Steve Miller is timeless!!! I remember owning the 8 track (I am dating myself), the LP, the first CD - and now the re-release. Go back in time when rock was king (and not over sampled electronica). Get this CD, gather your buddies, get in the car and take off on a road trip jamming down the road (just remember you have to wear your seat belt).
I'm flying like an eagle.......2007-03-16
Wonderful, beautiful! This 30th Anniversary Edition of The Steve Miller Band is absolutely the BEST I've ever heard.
Steve Miller 5.1 DVD Audio.......2007-01-04
Excellent 5.1 mixes of this album. Once the 5.1 versions of the hit tracks like Rock n me and Fly like an Eagle and Take the Money and Run are heard at this quality level, all the other cd versions are relatively dull. Great pop album made greater by this terrific version release.
Nicely done, all things considered.......2006-12-21
There's no way you could be a white 20 year old in 1976 (which I was) and not be somehow impacted by this album. It was like aural wall paper. In those days, there were those LPs that were just everywhere. This certainly was one of them. In fact, it took me quite some time to actually purchase the album because almost all the songs were being played on the radio (this was back in the days of AOR), and it seemed that ALL my friends had it. It was actually TOO familiar. After a couple of years, I finally added it to my personal collection.
It certainly is an artifact of its time, but there is also a timelessness about the album. It's so well constructed, even synth parts that SHOULD sound dated hold up well. The simplicity of the songs and beauty of the arrangements add to the classic appeal. Also, there are no real duffers. Every song impresses in some way, and the album actually covers a lot of stylistic ground, and covers it well. At the time, I considered it perhaps too overtly "commercial" but hey, what did I know? I know I'll never purchase the 30th anniversary edition of Foreigner 4, no offense intended.
It's very nice to have the 3 bonus tracks on the CD, and the DVD has a 5.1 mix of the original 12 track album as well as a nice 30 minute documentary. As if that's not enough, it also includes a 2 hour concert filmed in 2005. The band is very good, and the renditions are spot on.
Some of the performances seem a bit flat, but it's probably hard to really get up for the 2000th performance of Rock'n'Me. The bright spots are indeed that: guest spots for Carlos Reyes, who really shines, Buffalo Norton (OK, Norton is a full-fledged band member, but he really shines on his harp solos),etc. Speaking of harp, the other kind, Reyes really opened my ears and eyes as to what can be done with the classical harp in a rock context. The other guest spots (Thorogood, Satriani) don't impress as much, but still give a boost to the proceedings. Anyway, it's nice to have a live Steve Miller concert in my library. I must add, however, that it is NOT in 5.1 surround, although your player may say that it is. My hunch is that it was recorded direct to 2-track digital, because it's absolutely stereo, even all the crowd noise is in the front speakers (and there's too much of it, IMO). Also, the 5.1 mix of the album is only in Dolby, not DTS, and is not spectacular.
That about covers it. I'm not dwelling on the negative, just mentioning it. I'm very happy to have a very good remaster of the orginal LP and happy to have the bonus tracks. The 5.1 mix may not be as great as it could be, but it's nice to have all the same, and it's really great to have ANY concert footage of Stevie, much less 2 hours of it.
Buy it and love it for what it is and what it has.
Miller Time.......2006-11-12
Excellent evenings entertainmemt. I thouroughly enjoyed hearing the music of my youth. Seeing his special guests made the video even more enetertaining. If you like Steve Miller this is a wonderful video to watch.
Average customer rating:
- Look through the window
- Was expecting more.
- Steve Miller's arguable finest hour 30 years on
- This Eagle Soars High
- One Of Steve Miller's Three Best Albums
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Fly Like an Eagle
Steve Miller Band
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
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Similar Items:
- Book of Dreams
- The Joker
- Sailor
- Children of the Future
- Steve Miller Band: The Best of 1968 - 1973
ASIN: B000002UBB
Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Space Intro
- Fly Like An Eagle
- Wild Mountain Honey
- Serenade
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Mercury Blues
- Take The Money And Run
- Rock'n Me
- You Send Me
- Blue Odyssey
- Sweet Maree
- The Window
Amazon.com
Tutored at a young age by no less than guitar whiz Les Paul and blues legend T-Bone Walker, Steve Miller's life seemed destined to be dominated by music. Still, Miller's evolution from 1960s white-boy Chicago blues journeyman to '70s Top 40 hit machine was meteoric. Building on the success of his mainstream breakthrough The Joker, Miller's mastery of the indelibly catchy pop song yielded not only the radio-staple title track (since successfully revived by Seal), but an almost embarrassing wealth of other deceptively simple, hook-laden songs (including the standout "Wild Mountain Honey" as well as the hit singles "Take the Money and Run" and "Rock'n Me") to make Eagle play more like a greatest hits album than a standard collection of songs. This is Miller at his '76 pop-perfectionist peak, and one of the decade's most enduring surprises. --Jerry McCulley
Customer Reviews:
Look through the window.......2007-02-01
The breakthrough to the rock world "besides the SMB diehards" still holds up after 30 years. Part 1 of 2 releases. He recorded Fly and Book of Dreams at the same time.
Was expecting more........2006-08-27
Was expecting more.
I have a 7.1 DTS/THX surround sound system that we put in when we built our home theater room last year. All the DTS or THX and even the 5.1 movies we have show in it truly come to life with our sound system. I have even purchased a few Live concerts on DVD and they have not disappointed me. So when I saw that The Steve Miller Band's Fly Like an Eagle was released in DTS I did not hesitate to purchase it. I guess I was expecting too much. I know before ordering it that it was not recorded in 5.1 but that it was remastered in to 5.1 surround sound. Most good 5.1 and 7.1 home theater receivers these days will take a CD and simulate it into 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound. My Onkyo will even do it with a good strong FM radio signal. It surprised the heck out of me the first few times I tired it.
The Steve Miller Band's Fly Like an Eagle DTS sounded no better then my CD of The Steve Miller Band's Greatest hits I got years ago when I joined the record/CD club.
In short, If you have a good DTS/THX home theater surround sound system and it brings your old CD's to life by simulating 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound, save your money and only purchase music recorded in true 5.1 DTS and not the remastered stuff.
Steve Miller's arguable finest hour 30 years on.......2006-08-20
Steve Miller released his tenth album Fly Like an Eagle in May of 1976.
This was Steve's first new album since the 1973 album The Joker put him on the map thanks to that album's title cut becoming a hit.
However, after almost eight years of being on the road, Steve burned himself out and he retired and bought a farm in Medford, Oregon and didn't record for almost two years. Then in spring of 1975, whilst writing songs and demoing, Steve got a call from Pink Floyd(one of rock's greatest bands) asking him to open up for them at Knebworth Park in England to 125,000 people. Steve upstaged Pink Floyd(whose set was marred by technical problems that day) and premiered the song Rock 'n Me which he wrote as a showstopper and a hit.
With the momentum going from his concert with Pink Floyd, he went in the recording studio with bass player lonnie Turner and drummer Gary Mallaber and recorded 20 plus tracks in 12 days. That could have made a double album but Steve played it safe and put out Fly Like an Eagle and then Book of Dreams(see review) a year later.
Would this album be a classic or redundant, read on and find out(as I did when I got the album in June, 1991 on cassette(with original vinyl track listing) and later CD).
We begin the album with winds ala echo-plex and the synthesizer laced Space Intro which was a great intro. Then the echo-plexed winds segue into the album's title cut which was a Top 5 hit in early 1977. The song developed from when it was called In the Ghetto in the early 1970s. The song has a great riff, great vocals and superb synthesizer effects which go throughout the track and the synthesizer echoed ending was superb and the beeps at the end were from the master tape. Next is Wild Mountain Honey which is a nice relaxing number which doesn't change key during the song but doesn't bore one. Next is the rocker Serenade which is a great rocker and had Steve singing all of the harmonies and just rocks. We then have the country-ish Dance Dance Dance which is country to the core and features some great acoustic work from Steve and dobro from John McFee. This track was not on the mid-1980s reissued LP or cassette for some reason but appeared on the original album, cassette(and the 1991 cassette reissue), 8-track and CD(remastered CD version as well). Next is a rockified version of Mercury Blues which is a great rocking version of the blues standard about the car and Steve made the track his own.
The album's second half starts with the rocking first single Take The Money And Run which was a Top 10 hit in the Summer of 1976. The song was a story of a man and woman trying to rob some cash and the song was chosen as a single after kids at an elementary school liked what they heard. The #1 hit Rock 'n Me follows and is a great rocker(see early in review for song's creation). Next is the remake of the late Sam Cooke's ballad You Send Me. This remake is superb with excellent electric guitar playing and harmonies all from Steve. This track, like Dance Dance Dance, was not on the mid-1980s reissued LP or cassette version for some reason but appeared on the original album, cassette(and the 1991 cassette reissue), 8-track and CD(and remastered CD) versions. The second of two instrumentals Blue Odyssey is next and is called a poor man's Space Intro but with great synthesizer work and the synthesizer used was ironically an ARP Odyssey synthesizer, hence the name. Then the echoplexed induced wind segues into the bluesy Sweet Maree which featured the legendary James Cotton on harmonica and staccato acoustic guitar with limited lyrics from Miller and is a showcase for Cotton's harmonica and Miller's bluesy electric guitar soloing. The album ends with the spacey ballad The Window which has a great synthesizer riff, excellent vocals and ends like the album began with a collage of echoplexed synthesizer and wind effects.
Fly Like an Eagle went all the way to #3 on the Billboard chart and sold 4.5 million copies, went Platinum right when released.
RECOMMENDED!
This Eagle Soars High.......2006-05-17
This album provides an outstanding variety of music styles by a multi-talented artist, and is likely one high point of his career. Many of the items on this selection are recognized as being among his greatest hits.
An organ instrumental "Space Intro" serves as a connecting lead into the second track "Fly Like An Eagle", perhaps the best-known composition in all of Steve Miller's career. This album-oriented song is marked by organ accompaniment to his mellow plea for fulfillment of people's basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter. Throughout the song, the organ seems to increase its volume and in the end, climbs the scales repeatedly, then tails off and connects into the following track, "Wild Mountain Honey". In this song, organ frills and light drum tapping serve as a backdrop to Steve's vocals. These first three tracks are sort of a trilogy beginning of this album.
The subsequent songs reveal the diversity in styles of this singer. Folk guitar can be heard in the rapid strumming of "Serenade" and in "Take The Money And Run", a story of a man and woman trying to rob some cash. Another folk song is the remake of the late Sam Cooke's love ballad "You Send Me". One rock 'n' roll number is "Rock N Me", a memorable piece with a hint of southern blues similar to Roy Orbison or Creedence Clearwater Revival. Then, there is the country-sounding "Dance Dance Dance", a good choice for down-to-earth, backyard parties.
The most prominent of this artist's talents is his hand for blues. The second of two instrumentals, "Blue Oddessy", with smooth organ that is soon joined by a harmonica and staccato guitar, leads into a blues ballad "Sweet Maree". Although limited in lyrics, the harmonica and guitar provide the focal point here. The other blues number is the well-known "Mercury Blues", a poetic wish about a special car. This song was so popular, it was later remade by another artist using a different style.
The record ends with the gentle track "The Window", the third song that contains fancy organ accompaniment, a style seemingly unique to this artist. This song serves as a finale to this album, with a winding down of volume and tempo.
One Of Steve Miller's Three Best Albums.......2006-01-30
FLY LIKE AN EAGLE, along with GREATEST HITS 1974-1978 and BOOK OF DREAMS, is one of Steve Miller's three best albums ever. The songs are great, the playing is skilled without sounding slick, and the production is quite polished. This is the album that reestablished him with critics after he fell from grace with ROCK LOVE. The fact that Miller, like most other 70s rockers, believes that the young Australian tourist jailed in Indonesia on drug-smuggling charges was unjustly convicted, as well as his advocacy of increased funding for community policing, makes this CD/cassette an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.
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Fly Like an Eagle(30th Anniversary Edition)
Steve Miller Band
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
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| Pop
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Blues Rock
| Rock
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Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
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Arena Rock
| Classic Rock
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Similar Items:
- Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary
- Pink Floyd - Pulse
- There Is A Season
- Face the Promise (CD+DVD)
- Boston
ASIN: B000FNNHUM |
Amazon.com
This is the album that, in one eagle-sized swoop, propelled Steve Miller from a well-regarded but hardly widely known psychedelic San Francisco-based bluesman to a chart-topping, hit-single-generating pop star. Capitol Records, who helped sire that transition by keeping him on the label through years of lackluster sales, celebrates the 30th anniversary of the event with this classy expanded edition. Those with surround sound systems will enjoy a stunning 5.1 mix highlighting the space-rock tendencies that so effectively offset Fly Like an Eagle's crunchier singles. Also included in the CD/DVD set is a worthy and informative half-hour interview/documentary with Miller about the making of the project and his blues background, as well as a riveting two-hour live show from October 2005 that includes most (but not all) of the songs on the album. The concert allows Miller to explore his blues, jazz, and even world music tendencies with fiddler/harpist Carlos Reyes adding gypsy/Cajun overtones to "Dance, Dance, Dance" and "Abracadabra." George Thorogood brings his gruff presence to "Your Cast Ain't Nothing but Trash," and a relatively restrained but intense Joe Satriani joins on the last third, which includes a 20-minute version of the title track. Despite its dated synths and somewhat antiquated production, the album holds up remarkably well, primarily due to its excursions into Delta blues ("Sweet Maree"), folk-pop ("Wild Mountain Honey"), and soul (a lovely cover of Sam Cooke's "You Send Me"). Three nascent versions of songs such as "Take the Money and Run" (retrofitted to the chord changes of "The Joker") appear as bonus cuts. They show how the perfectionist Miller's tinkering helped craft them into radio-friendly hits that sound as catchy today as they did in 1976. --Hal Horowitz
More from Steve Miller
Number 5 |
Book of Dreams |
Children of the Future |
Brave New World |
The Joker |
Sailor |
Album Description
30th Anniversary Special Limited Edition CD/DVD of The Steve Miller Band's landmark album. The CD is digitally remastered and includes 3 bonus tracks. The DVD features a terrific concert performance at San Francisco's Shoreline Amphitheater in 2005 with over two hours of music in 5.1 Surround Sound. Guest musicians include George Thorogood and Joe Satriani. The DVD also features a lengthy interview with Steve Miller, archive footage, never-before-seen photographs, and early demo recordings revealing the genesis of rock classics like Take the Money And Run, Rock 'n Me, and Fly Like an Eagle. In one special segment Steve Miller plugs in his Stratocaster to demonstrate how licks learned directly from the likes of T-Bone Walker, Les Paul and Chuck Berry influenced his own music and became some of modern rock's most recognizable riffs.
Average customer rating:
- Look through the window
- Was expecting more.
- Steve Miller's arguable finest hour 30 years on
- This Eagle Soars High
- One Of Steve Miller's Three Best Albums
|
Fly Like an Eagle
Steve Miller Band
Manufacturer: Dcc Compact Classics
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Blues Rock
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
Arena Rock
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
Similar Items:
- Book of Dreams
- The Joker
- Sailor
- Children of the Future
- Steve Miller Band: The Best of 1968 - 1973
ASIN: B00000016U
Release Date: 1993-02-10 |
Tracks:
- Space Intro
- Fly Like An Eagle
- Wild Mountain Honey
- Serenade
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Mercury Blues
- Take The Money And Run
- Rock'n Me
- You Send Me
- Blue Odyssey
- Sweet Maree
- The Window - Steve Miller Band
Amazon.com
Tutored at a young age by no less than guitar whiz Les Paul and blues legend T-Bone Walker, Steve Miller's life seemed destined to be dominated by music. Still, Miller's evolution from 1960s white-boy Chicago blues journeyman to '70s Top 40 hit machine was meteoric. Building on the success of his mainstream breakthrough The Joker, Miller's mastery of the indelibly catchy pop song yielded not only the radio-staple title track (since successfully revived by Seal), but an almost embarrassing wealth of other deceptively simple, hook-laden songs (including the standout "Wild Mountain Honey" as well as the hit singles "Take the Money and Run" and "Rock'n Me") to make Eagle play more like a greatest hits album than a standard collection of songs. This is Miller at his '76 pop-perfectionist peak, and one of the decade's most enduring surprises. --Jerry McCulley
Customer Reviews:
Look through the window.......2007-02-01
The breakthrough to the rock world "besides the SMB diehards" still holds up after 30 years. Part 1 of 2 releases. He recorded Fly and Book of Dreams at the same time.
Was expecting more........2006-08-27
Was expecting more.
I have a 7.1 DTS/THX surround sound system that we put in when we built our home theater room last year. All the DTS or THX and even the 5.1 movies we have show in it truly come to life with our sound system. I have even purchased a few Live concerts on DVD and they have not disappointed me. So when I saw that The Steve Miller Band's Fly Like an Eagle was released in DTS I did not hesitate to purchase it. I guess I was expecting too much. I know before ordering it that it was not recorded in 5.1 but that it was remastered in to 5.1 surround sound. Most good 5.1 and 7.1 home theater receivers these days will take a CD and simulate it into 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound. My Onkyo will even do it with a good strong FM radio signal. It surprised the heck out of me the first few times I tired it.
The Steve Miller Band's Fly Like an Eagle DTS sounded no better then my CD of The Steve Miller Band's Greatest hits I got years ago when I joined the record/CD club.
In short, If you have a good DTS/THX home theater surround sound system and it brings your old CD's to life by simulating 5.1 or 7.1 surround sound, save your money and only purchase music recorded in true 5.1 DTS and not the remastered stuff.
Steve Miller's arguable finest hour 30 years on.......2006-08-20
Steve Miller released his tenth album Fly Like an Eagle in May of 1976.
This was Steve's first new album since the 1973 album The Joker put him on the map thanks to that album's title cut becoming a hit.
However, after almost eight years of being on the road, Steve burned himself out and he retired and bought a farm in Medford, Oregon and didn't record for almost two years. Then in spring of 1975, whilst writing songs and demoing, Steve got a call from Pink Floyd(one of rock's greatest bands) asking him to open up for them at Knebworth Park in England to 125,000 people. Steve upstaged Pink Floyd(whose set was marred by technical problems that day) and premiered the song Rock 'n Me which he wrote as a showstopper and a hit.
With the momentum going from his concert with Pink Floyd, he went in the recording studio with bass player lonnie Turner and drummer Gary Mallaber and recorded 20 plus tracks in 12 days. That could have made a double album but Steve played it safe and put out Fly Like an Eagle and then Book of Dreams(see review) a year later.
Would this album be a classic or redundant, read on and find out(as I did when I got the album in June, 1991 on cassette(with original vinyl track listing) and later CD).
We begin the album with winds ala echo-plex and the synthesizer laced Space Intro which was a great intro. Then the echo-plexed winds segue into the album's title cut which was a Top 5 hit in early 1977. The song developed from when it was called In the Ghetto in the early 1970s. The song has a great riff, great vocals and superb synthesizer effects which go throughout the track and the synthesizer echoed ending was superb and the beeps at the end were from the master tape. Next is Wild Mountain Honey which is a nice relaxing number which doesn't change key during the song but doesn't bore one. Next is the rocker Serenade which is a great rocker and had Steve singing all of the harmonies and just rocks. We then have the country-ish Dance Dance Dance which is country to the core and features some great acoustic work from Steve and dobro from John McFee. This track was not on the mid-1980s reissued LP or cassette for some reason but appeared on the original album, cassette(and the 1991 cassette reissue), 8-track and CD(remastered CD version as well). Next is a rockified version of Mercury Blues which is a great rocking version of the blues standard about the car and Steve made the track his own.
The album's second half starts with the rocking first single Take The Money And Run which was a Top 10 hit in the Summer of 1976. The song was a story of a man and woman trying to rob some cash and the song was chosen as a single after kids at an elementary school liked what they heard. The #1 hit Rock 'n Me follows and is a great rocker(see early in review for song's creation). Next is the remake of the late Sam Cooke's ballad You Send Me. This remake is superb with excellent electric guitar playing and harmonies all from Steve. This track, like Dance Dance Dance, was not on the mid-1980s reissued LP or cassette version for some reason but appeared on the original album, cassette(and the 1991 cassette reissue), 8-track and CD(and remastered CD) versions. The second of two instrumentals Blue Odyssey is next and is called a poor man's Space Intro but with great synthesizer work and the synthesizer used was ironically an ARP Odyssey synthesizer, hence the name. Then the echoplexed induced wind segues into the bluesy Sweet Maree which featured the legendary James Cotton on harmonica and staccato acoustic guitar with limited lyrics from Miller and is a showcase for Cotton's harmonica and Miller's bluesy electric guitar soloing. The album ends with the spacey ballad The Window which has a great synthesizer riff, excellent vocals and ends like the album began with a collage of echoplexed synthesizer and wind effects.
Fly Like an Eagle went all the way to #3 on the Billboard chart and sold 4.5 million copies, went Platinum right when released.
RECOMMENDED!
This Eagle Soars High.......2006-05-17
This album provides an outstanding variety of music styles by a multi-talented artist, and is likely one high point of his career. Many of the items on this selection are recognized as being among his greatest hits.
An organ instrumental "Space Intro" serves as a connecting lead into the second track "Fly Like An Eagle", perhaps the best-known composition in all of Steve Miller's career. This album-oriented song is marked by organ accompaniment to his mellow plea for fulfillment of people's basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter. Throughout the song, the organ seems to increase its volume and in the end, climbs the scales repeatedly, then tails off and connects into the following track, "Wild Mountain Honey". In this song, organ frills and light drum tapping serve as a backdrop to Steve's vocals. These first three tracks are sort of a trilogy beginning of this album.
The subsequent songs reveal the diversity in styles of this singer. Folk guitar can be heard in the rapid strumming of "Serenade" and in "Take The Money And Run", a story of a man and woman trying to rob some cash. Another folk song is the remake of the late Sam Cooke's love ballad "You Send Me". One rock 'n' roll number is "Rock N Me", a memorable piece with a hint of southern blues similar to Roy Orbison or Creedence Clearwater Revival. Then, there is the country-sounding "Dance Dance Dance", a good choice for down-to-earth, backyard parties.
The most prominent of this artist's talents is his hand for blues. The second of two instrumentals, "Blue Oddessy", with smooth organ that is soon joined by a harmonica and staccato guitar, leads into a blues ballad "Sweet Maree". Although limited in lyrics, the harmonica and guitar provide the focal point here. The other blues number is the well-known "Mercury Blues", a poetic wish about a special car. This song was so popular, it was later remade by another artist using a different style.
The record ends with the gentle track "The Window", the third song that contains fancy organ accompaniment, a style seemingly unique to this artist. This song serves as a finale to this album, with a winding down of volume and tempo.
One Of Steve Miller's Three Best Albums.......2006-01-30
FLY LIKE AN EAGLE, along with GREATEST HITS 1974-1978 and BOOK OF DREAMS, is one of Steve Miller's three best albums ever. The songs are great, the playing is skilled without sounding slick, and the production is quite polished. This is the album that reestablished him with critics after he fell from grace with ROCK LOVE. The fact that Miller, like most other 70s rockers, believes that the young Australian tourist jailed in Indonesia on drug-smuggling charges was unjustly convicted, as well as his advocacy of increased funding for community policing, makes this CD/cassette an essential purchase for both your ears AND your conscience.
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Fly Like an Eagle
Steve Miller Band
Manufacturer: Capitol
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Blues Rock
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
Arena Rock
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
ASIN: B00001R3GT
Release Date: 1999-10-05 |
Tracks:
- Space Intro
- Fly Like An Eagle
- Wild Mountain Honey
- Serenade
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Mercury Blues
- Take The Money And Run
- Rock 'N me
- You Send Me
- Blue Odyssey
- Sweet Maree
- The Window
Amazon.com
Tutored at a young age by no less than guitar whiz Les Paul and blues legend T-Bone Walker, Steve Miller's life seemed destined to be dominated by music. Still, Miller's evolution from 1960s white-boy Chicago blues journeyman to '70s Top 40 hit machine was meteoric. Building on the success of his mainstream breakthrough The Joker, Miller's mastery of the indelibly catchy pop song yielded not only the radio-staple title track (since successfully revived by Seal), but an almost embarrassing wealth of other deceptively simple, hook-laden songs (including the standout "Wild Mountain Honey" as well as the hit singles "Take the Money and Run" and "Rock'n Me") to make Eagle play more like a greatest hits album than a standard collection of songs. This is Miller at his '76 pop-perfectionist peak, and one of the decade's most enduring surprises. --Jerry McCulley
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Fly Me Like the Wind
Don Potter , Leonard Jones , Matthew Donovan , and Suzy Wills
Manufacturer: Eagle Star
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B000IV114U |
Product Description
This album was recorded live at our dynamic Worship and Warfare III and IV conferences in Charlotte, North Carolina and in Jacksonville Florida. Somewhat different from our other MorningStar albums, it is a unique blend of Celtic worship and an upbeat anointed contemporary style. Unlike many other worship albums 'Fly Me Like the Wind' is laced with anointed times of spontaneous worship which have become a trademark of MorningStar worship. Our goal is for every album we produce to hit a new level and we believe that this one did.
'For as many times as the statement 'this is the best one yet,' has been made, I believe that it must be said yet again. After thinking for a moment about the unending, creative power of God, I realize that it is impossible to exhaust His resources.
The reason Christian musicians practice their instruments is so that when the Holy Spirit decides to use them, there is less resistance. Practicing the presence of God will bring the same results. I believe we have only begun to hear, 'this is the best one yet!''
-Don Potter
TRACKS:
1. King's Kids
2. Come Let Us Go Up To the Mountain
3. Fly Me Like The Wind
4. Not Guilty
5. Testimony of Grace
6. I Have a Light
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Ghost
American Film Orchestra
Manufacturer: Intersound Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
Meditation
| New Age
| Styles
| Music
Movie Soundtracks
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soundtracks
| Styles
| Music
General
| Soundtracks
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B00006EXI6
Release Date: 2002-08-06 |
Tracks:
- Ghost: Unchained Melody
- Robin Hood: (Everything I Do) I Do It For You
- Beaches: Wind Beneath My Wings
- Dances With Wolves: Main Theme
- Waiting To Exhale: Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
- Free Willy: Will You Be There?
- Space Jam: Fly Like An Eagle
- Phenomenon: Change The World
- Titanic: An Ocean Of Memories
- The Piano: The Promise
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Fly Like an Eagle
Steve Miller Band
Manufacturer: Eagle
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
General
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Styles
| Music
General
| Rock
| Styles
| Music
Album-Oriented Rock (AOR)
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
General
| Classic Rock
| Styles
| Music
Pop Rock
| Pop
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
Classic Rock
| Rock
| Indie Music
| Stores
| Music
Classic Rock
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
Rock
| Imports
| Stores
| Music
ASIN: B00000890Q
Release Date: 2004-01-06 |
Tracks:
- Space Intro.
- Fly Like An Eagle
- Wild Mountain Honey
- Serenade
- Dance, Dance, Dance
- Mercury Blues
- Take The Money And Run
- Rock 'N Me
- You Send Me
- Blue Odyssey
- Sweet Maree
- The Window
Amazon.com
Tutored at a young age by no less than guitar whiz Les Paul and blues legend T-Bone Walker, Steve Miller's life seemed destined to be dominated by music. Still, Miller's evolution from 1960s white-boy Chicago blues journeyman to '70s Top 40 hit machine was meteoric. Building on the success of his mainstream breakthrough The Joker, Miller's mastery of the indelibly catchy pop song yielded not only the radio-staple title track (since successfully revived by Seal), but an almost embarrassing wealth of other deceptively simple, hook-laden songs (including the standout "Wild Mountain Honey" as well as the hit singles "Take the Money and Run" and "Rock'n Me") to make Eagle play more like a greatest hits album than a standard collection of songs. This is Miller at his '76 pop-perfectionist peak, and one of the decade's most enduring surprises. --Jerry McCulley
Album Description
24 bit digitally remastered 1998 reissue on Eagle of theirsmash album that reached #3 when first released on Capitolin 1976. Contains the original cover art, new sleeve notes &all 12 tracks, including the #1 hit 'Rock'n Me', the #2 'FlyLike An Eagle' and
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- nana-is awsome i highly recomend this album :)
- Nana kicks!
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I Wanna Fly (Like an Eagle)
Nana
Manufacturer: Edel
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B00003WGG3
Release Date: 1999-11-15 |
Customer Reviews:
nana-is awsome i highly recomend this album :).......2002-12-23
nana brokwa :) is so amazingly awsome,
his sounds, his music, is so wonderful,
and it speaks truth, i think its tight :)
The first time i heard it, my boy friend played it for me
and ever sence then i just love his music. :)
sincerly kristel roos
Aka angel
I LOVE YOU HUNNY!
Nana kicks!.......2000-10-31
The typical Nana sound, a little different than before, but it still kicks! Keep on kickin'!
Best regards,
Jesper
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- CD HAS 5 TRACKS - HARD TO FIND
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Fly Like An Eagle
Seal
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0002XNEMQ |
Album Description
Taken from the 'Spacejam' soundtrack, this is his top 10cover of Steve Miller's 1977 smash hit. Features five mixesof 'Fly Like An Eagle': Radio Edit, CJ's Cosmack 12', CJ'sCosmack Dub, CJ's Cosmack Instrumental and Album Version.Slimline jewel case. 1997 ZTT release.
Customer Reviews:
CD HAS 5 TRACKS - HARD TO FIND.......2006-09-05
Very limited German Import remix CD:
1. Radio edit - 3:41
2. CJ's Cosmack 12" - 7:15
3. CJ's Cosmack Dub - 8:13
4. CJ's Cosmack Instrumental - 7:15
5. Album Version - 4:14
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