Coming up… Steve Miller's career was on the ropes before it even started… he had 7 consecutive albums that flopped… If his next one wasn’t a hit the label was gonna get rid of him and his career would likely be over. Miller was desperate for a hit. A short time later he would write a song that he thought was just ok… The Joker. But it was hilariously unique in its lingo… with words and phrases that we still sing today, and a guitar effect that truly set it apart. Steve Miller thought The Joker would be a decent album track, whereas the suits from his label were predicting it would be a smash… It went to #1 and had a lyric that Miller has sung incorrectly for decades because he took it from another song. But he misheard it and then 16 years after it was #1 it went to the top spot again after being used in a Levi’s commercial… It's the story of The Joker, the song that gave Steve Miller his first gold record which he put above his washing machine! Find out why next on Professor of Rock.
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Today we are going to break down an all-time classic that saved a budding career as the record label was ready to drop this artist and to stave off elimination he wrote a song that has become part of the rock and roll pop culture vernacular… let’s go back to the classic rock 70s and break down the ultra classic The Joker by Steve Miller Band…
Steve Miller was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1943. Steve’s parents loved Jazz music. His mother was what Steve called an “exceptional jazz influenced singer,” while his father worked as a pathologist and an amateur recording engineer. Steve’s godfather was none other than the legendary Les Paul, who along with Paul’s wife, Mary Ford, were close friends of the Millers. How’s that for serendipity.
In 1950 the Millers moved to Dallas, and Steve began learning to play the guitar, with invaluable tutelage from Texas greats like Charlie Mingus, Tal Farlow, and T-Bone Walker, who taught young Steve how to play the guitar behind his back, and even how to play with his teeth.
By the time he was 12, Steve had a band- called the Marksmen combo, and he was playing frat houses and sororities, churches and synagogues. Another iconic musician was a backup vocalist in the band. It was None other than mr. lowdown himself. Boz Skaggs. Miller and Skaggs attended the University of Wisconsin, They fronted a group called the Fabulous Night Trains that tore up the frat circuit with its hard driving music. After college, Miller went to Chicago and joined forced with Barry Goldberg to form the Goldberg Miller Blues band. Later, Enchanted by the ‘hippie movement’ of the 60s, Steve drove the VW bus that his Dad gave him to San Francisco, and formed the Steve Miller Blues Band in ’66- later shortened to The Steve Miller Band.
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