The Untold Truth Of The Steve Miller Band

Album success started in 1969, with the release of Brave New World and tunes like "My Dark Hour," with Paul McCartney sitting in as Paul Ramon, and "Space Cowboy," later referenced in an extraordinarily meta fashion in 1973's "The Joker," which gave Western Civilization the cryptic phrase "pompitous of love." (In a 2017 interview with Dan Rather on ABC Radio, Miller revealed that pioneer guitar designer Les Paul was his godfather, and that "pompitous of love" means "whatever you want it to mean." Which settles that.) All told, The Steve Miller Band has moved over 24 million albums over the years — half of those sales attributed to Greatest Hits 1974-78.

Miller does have his moments — he performs charity gigs; he donated a pretty much priceless James D'Aquisto archtop guitar to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to be "played and enjoyed." As for songwriting, Miller told Rather, "The truth of the matter is, things that feel spontaneous have a much longer life than things that have got a lot of burnt brain tissue to make them perfect." That might include the pompitous of love. If you want it to.

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