Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary

Steve Miller - Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary

Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary
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Artist: Steve Miller
Brand: Fly
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-07-18
Music Label: Capitol
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Space Intro
  2. Fly Like An Eagle
  3. Wild Mountain Honey
  4. Serenade
  5. Dance, Dance, Dance
  6. Mercury Blues
  7. Take the Money and Run
  8. Rock 'N Me
  9. You Send Me
  10. Blue Odyssey
  11. Sweet Maree
  12. The Window
  13. Fly Like An Eagle '73 (Bonus Track)
  14. Take the Money and Run (Acoustic-Bonus Track)
  15. Rockin' Me '76 Slow (Bonus Track)
Music CD 2
  1. Swingtown - DVD
  2. Fine True Love - DVD
  3. Abracadabra - DVD
  4. Dance Dance Dance - DVD
  5. Wild Mountain Honey - DVD
  6. Nature Boy - DVD
  7. Mercury Blues - DVD
  8. The Stake - DVD
  9. shu ba da du ma ma ma ma - DVD
  10. I Love The Life I Live, I Live The Life I Love-DVD
  11. Got Love If You Want It - DVD
  12. Gangster of Love - DVD
  13. All Your Love (I Miss Loving) - DVD
  14. I'm Tore Down - DVD
  15. Slow Blues - DVD
  16. Crossroads - DVD
  17. Fly Like An Eagle - DVD
  18. Take the Money and Run - DVD
  19. Rock'n Me - DVD
  20. Jungle Love - DVD
  21. The Joker - DVD
  22. Serenade - DVD

Free Music Notes for Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary

Free Music Review: Steve Miller's classic breakthrough gets a reissue treatment fit for a king!
Hit: 5 Stars

Texas bred rocker Steve Miller released his tenth album entitled Fly Like an Eagle in May of 1976.
This was Steve's first new album of all new material 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 and making seven great albums (classics like Brave New World, Sailor and Chilren of the Future for example), 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 and at the time previewing their upcoming followup to Dark Side of the Moon called Wish You Were Here on its 1975 tour (album was released in September, 1975)) and the band asked him to open up for them at Knebworth Park in England to 125,000 people. As it turned out, Steve upstaged Pink Floyd (whose set was marred by technical problems that day) and premiered the song "Rock 'n Me" which he wrote specifically as a showstopper for the show and had Doug Clifford of Creedenceon drums, Les Dudek on guitar and Lonnie Turner on bass to help Steve for the show.
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 restored by 1991) 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 inexplicably excised from 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.
For the album's 30th Anniversary in 2006, Capitol Records re-released Fly Like an Eagle as a CD and DVD combo pack. I first coaught wind of a Fly Like an Eagle re-release on In the Studio with Redbeard when Steve told Redbeard that he was re-releasing the album he made famous as a newly remastered CD with the album in 5.1 on the DVD. When I acquired in summer 2006, I was in awe on how great it turned out. The newly remastered CD is the original album superbly remastered for superior sonic quality plus three bonus tracks which were an early live recording of "Fly Like an Eagle" from 1973 and demos of "Take the Money and Run" and "Rock 'n Me". You also get a booklet on how the album was made with some rare photos. Then the DVD is a 2 plus hour affair featuring a concert from San Francisco in 2005 which had guests George Thorogood (performing "Gangster of Love") and Joe Satriani. There's also a documentary on how the album was made with new interviews with Steve from 2006. The documentary was an eye opener and learned some more new bits that were not covered on the In the Studio for Fly Like an Eagle!
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Fly Like an Eagle: 30th Anniversary Poster

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.
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

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