Squeech
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Wed Dec-06-06 03:45 PM
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Steve Miller: not just for breakfast any more |
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Hey LynneSin, I found a reason not to hate Steve Miller!
"Jet Airliner" wasn't written by Miller, but by an obscure bluesman named Paul Pena. It appeared on a record that was recorded in the early '70s, which Steve Miller Band members Ben Sidran (keyboards) and Gary Malabar (drums) performed on-- except that the record didn't come out, because of the usual crapola runaround artists get from record companies. They played the tapes for Miller, however, and he was impressed enough with "Jet Airliner" to record his own version, and the rest is history. And there were times that the royalty checks for that song were the only thing keeping Pena alive.
And ultimately even that wasn't enough; Pena ultimately succumbed to complications of pancreatitis-- since proper health care is conspicuously not one of the primary benefits of a career in blues.
The record is now available, but the coolest documentation of Pena is the movie "Genghis Blues," wherein Pena goes to Tuva, performs at the national throat-singing festival, and wins that year's award for world's foremost practitioner of the throat-singing form called "kargyraa" in his composition "Kargyraa Moan."
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LynneSin
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Fri Dec-08-06 12:54 AM
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1. There's never a reason to hate Steve Miller Band |
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Now there's just more of a reason to love him!
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