Steve Miller is helping to save the world.

[THDNUT]

Victor B has one of Steve's guitars, a Gibby CS Les Paul Special.

 

[shark]

I thought Steve Miller had Parkinsons too when I heard his tour was shaky

 

[VictorB]

Always a hero.

 

[Leee]

I don’t disagree with anything Steve Miller said in his assessment of the
Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame.

At least he did make some great music.
RRHOF has accomplished what, precisely?

 

[Bluesky]

Victor B has one of Steve's guitars, a Gibby CS Les Paul Special.

Really!? Was that bought from that Music Zoo collection!? Man Im jealous. His guitars were priced really reasonable IMO. I was just bare assed broke or I would have picked up something!
I meant it when I said I really dug Steve. His songs are timless 1970s radio nirvana. He did some amazing shows with Jimmy Vaughn

Hes Les Pauls god son for god sakes!
Stop embarrassing yourself son.........

Vic we need pictures bro.......

 

[Roberteaux]

RRHOF has accomplished what, precisely?

LOL At those ticket prices, I'd suspect that they've made one hell of a lot of money...

You know, I've always thought that Jann Wenner was a dork of one thousand different kinds, though this wasn't because he was a co-founder of the RnRHoF. Actually, I thought that the idea of the institution itself was pretty cool back in '83, when Wenner and Ahmet Ertegun came up with the idea and brought it into realization by rounding up the funds to achieve liftoff, while also donating their own money.

I think that the organization did end up becoming a money grab-- actually, I expected that this was the ultimate idea all along. So of course I wouldn't have been surprised if both Wenner and Ertegun made bank off the whole deal.

Then, somewhere in the late 90's, I started hearing that they had some sort of museum going, and were featuring exhibits of both a permanent and temporary variety. I wasn't surprised that you couldn't just go in there for free-- but it was telling to find that you had to purchase a ticket in advance, and provide them with your estimated time of arrival.

What that told me was that there would be sort of a mass attendance, gobs of people. Some sort of Rock and Roll Disneyworld minus the rides and the alligators.

If you go to almost any other museum I've ever heard of, yes, you almost always have to pay to get in. But they don't ask for an advance purchase, and they don't need to have your ETA because actual museums aren't generally the hottest spots one might find to wander around in. I've been to a million of 'em, and while such places are never empty, it's never what one might call "crowded", either.

So yeah: they were expecting people-- lots of people. And because the org and its holdings expanded, along with the museum itself-- and then they opened an annex in NYC-- I realized that this thing was profitable.

*Insert Shrug Here*

As time kept on slippin' into the future, however, I noticed that the acts that were being inducted weren't precisely what anybody (except RnRHoF) would call "Rock and Roll". I was also sometimes bewildered to realize that certain acts you'd expect to be inducted were either ignored, actively snubbed, or that the org itself issued some statement giving some sort of reason why they blew off some group, act, or what-have-you.

Meh. Okay, now it was more of a tourist attraction than anything else-- and now shit was getting twisted. Almighty Dollah, man.

But I still wasn't surprised, though the veil over the actual business and other tactics at hand was now threadbare. I just thought it was sort of ludicrous for being so transparently hypocritical, so obviously just another commercial enterprise, complete with corporate politics and infighting.

But hey: whatever.

I actually LOL'ed when I learned that Jann Wenner had been booted off the board of directors in 2023-- especially when I heard what the org had to say when people started asking why.

And that's when I knew that the money must have been really big... big enough to create a sort of "hostile takeover", though stockholders weren't involved. This was further confirmed (in my mind) when I saw what a perfectly enormous fuss Wenner put up in retaliation, both through Wenner Media, Inc. and Rolling Stone magazine... but also when he chose to write some sort of stupid book to gripe about how they gave him the boot.

Man, there was so much irony packed into that particular episode that it might as well have been written by O. Henry. I loved seeing that particular train wreck. An early reader of the magazine, I was never exactly a fan of Wenner's editing style. But by 1975, that which was once a fun and interesting periodical kind of curdled and I only read it when I found one sitting around in a dentist's waiting room or whatever. And it just kept getting worse!

Looking back on the whole thing, I realized that nothing Wenner has said or done since the middle Seventies has surprised me at all. I can't say I "saw it coming", but I can say "it figures".

It took from about 1970 to 2023 for the whole Jann Wenner Saga to play out. But man, when it did?

Not even one surprise in there, bro. Not. Even. One.

--R

 

[meatball]

Interpretation,,,,,,,,,, ,, I need an excuse for low ticket sales and the lack of an audience to Hear my three hits for a ninety minute set .. Steveo , if you needed a crutch to lean on , find a better one than this .. you need a Better peach crate to stand on and yell at the clouds old man

 

[VictorB]

NGD - LP Special

So after reading and drooling over @mdubya ’s Santee Claus thread... I started the search. The thread had me gassing big time. So this arrived today, a 2011 Historic Special, formerly owned by Steve Miller: String change and tone report to follow!

www.mylespaul.com

 

[Pop1655]

It's not like he's gotta work. His dad was a wealthy dentist. I'm sure there's a trust to cover basic living expenses.

Their love child might just look like Boz Scaggs

Hey! Leave Boz outta this! I'm a fan.

 

[sonar1]

It's not like he's gotta work. His dad was a wealthy dentist. I'm sure there's a trust to cover basic living expenses.

Hey! Leave Boz outta this! I'm a fan.

Me too!

 

[six-string]

Well if I remember Miller owned a large estate in Washington state that sold for $8-9 million just a few years ago. And he owned an even bigger estate in Idaho that he was selling for $15 million??
Since several of his tunes are still in regular rotation on Classic Rock radio, I doubt he will be going hungry anytime soon.

 

[TXOldRedRocker]

NGD - LP Special

So after reading and drooling over @mdubya ’s Santee Claus thread... I started the search. The thread had me gassing big time. So this arrived today, a 2011 Historic Special, formerly owned by Steve Miller: String change and tone report to follow!

www.mylespaul.com

A couple of months ago I had a chance to buy a Gretsch I really want to own that was being sold out of Randy Bachman's collection. I came close to buying, but I had just purchased a Les Paul Custom from the 90's, and just couldn't spend that much in one week and feel good about it. Now I kind of wish I had done it.

That's a really cool guitar you bought.

 

[VictorB]

A couple of months ago I had a chance to buy a Gretsch I really want to own that was being sold out of Randy Bachman's collection. I came close to buying, but I had just purchased a Les Paul Custom from the 90's, and just couldn't spend that much in one week and feel good about it. Now I kind of wish I had done it.

That's a really cool guitar you bought.

Thank you!

The neck pickup is exceptionally good. "Throaty" sounding as described by Steve himself.

 

[VictorB]

https://reverb.com/item/91172229-gibson-57-les-paul-junior-reissue-maurice-and-sadie-hawkins-steve-miller-owned-2011

 

[edro]

I had a big time paperwork session in my 'office' last night...a real mercy flusher....

It was obviously global warming what caused it.

 

[Mike I]

I’ve got one of those programs that shows people now, and what they look like when they age.

Never expected this tho!