Overall Rating
4.3
By Nerak54
Frampton and Steve Miller ~ Rocked!
Very happy to have gone to this event! Frampton ~ 68 and Miller ~ 74...out did them selves and proved age is just a number. They are great artists and we were happy to have seen both perform!
By E207
Peter Frampton & Steve Miller Show ... Excellent
Peter Frampton is part of my summer every year. I try and get to at least two shows a year. This show was great as usual. I have only been to the Bangor venue twice. Last time I was in lawn seats and disliked it. This time we were midway in section 2. Great seats and nice clear view of the stage! The show started on time and was a good show.
By Anonymous
So much talking - not enough singing
Of all the concerts I’ve been to this is the first one where I didn’t stay for the entire concert. Horrible! Mostly all instrumental songs and only two good songs they sung. They had so many hits and they decided to play all of their songs that no one knew! I would never recommend to a friend to see Steve Miller band in concert!
By BillyBoyBL
Classic!!
How can you go wrong with both the Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton on the same stage. Amazing show, great songs.
By MNewc
Peter Frampton/Steve Miller
Both Peter Frampton and Steve Miller were excellent. First time for me at the MGM Casino Theater at National Harbor. Great acoustics. Cozy setting. Not too large. Ushers and other staff were polite and helpful.
By Dirty24
Steve Miller still rockin' me baby!
Excellent show! Enjoy the good music while it's still here.
By TheOlsons
Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton still great!
The Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton are fantastic after all these years. They are high energy, take time to talk to the crowd, and played a long time. Worth seeing!
By BigMouthLawyer
Old rockers still can play
Very enjoyable show but why is it every time I go to a show, someone next to me is way too intoxicated dancing with a full can of beer while I get an alcohol shower. I'm all in favor of having a good time but their good time ruins my good time.
By JH1OHIO
A fun night
Steve Miller's hits bring back memories and glad i saw him again. My 3 grown kids also enjoyed the concert.
By MBBRINSON
Peter Frampton-Very talented Steve Miller-Grt Shw!
Peter Frampton is just amazing on the guitar. My husband and I thoroughly enjoyed his talent! Steve Miller blended several different genre's which made the show great! We enjoyed the gentleman who sang a few songs with the Steve Miller Band as well as his dancing! He was quite entertaining! There was a little bit of something for everyone and as we were leaving, we kicked ourselved for not bringing our 12 year old daughter so she could experience a truly talented group of gentleman from both bands! I would see it again and again! Please come back to Atlanta!
Steve Miller has been an enlivening presence on the American music scene for more than half a century - and, in the course of that era, his releases have sold tens of millions of records and been streamed several billion times. Miller's Greatest Hits 1974-78 received the RIAA Diamond Award with sales of more than fifteen million copies. It is among the 25 best-selling albums of all time.
At the start of his career, Miller soon became a mainstay of the San Francisco music scene that upended American culture in the late '60s. With albums like Children of the Future, Sailor and Brave New World, Miller perfected a psychedelic blues sound that drew on the deepest sources of American roots music and simultaneously articulated a compelling vision of what music - and, indeed, society - could be in the years to come.
Then, in the '70s, Miller crafted a brand of pure pop that was smart, polished, exciting and irresistible - and that dominated radio in a way that few artists have ever managed. Hit followed hit in what seemed like an endless flow: "The Joker," "Take the Money and Run," "Rock'n Me," "Fly Like an Eagle," "Jet Airliner," "Jungle Love," "Swingtown" and "Abracadabra," among them. To this day, those songs are instantly recognizable when they crop up online or on the radio - and impossible not to sing along with. Their hooks are the very definition of indelible.
Running through Miller's distinctive catalog is a combination of virtuosity and song craft. And that's no accident. His parents were jazz aficionados - not to mention close friends of Les Paul and Mary Ford - so, as a budding guitarist, Miller absorbed valuable lessons from that musical tradition. When the family moved to Texas, Miller deepened his education in the blues, eventually relocating to Chicago, where he played with Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Buddy Guy and Paul Butterfield. That range of sources informs his music to this day.
In recent years, Miller has fully immersed himself in the blues and its many byways. As he has always done, he continues to find creative outlets for the full panoply of his musical passions. On his successful tours with the Steve Miller Band, he complements the commercial peaks of his extensive catalogue with lesser-known songs that expand his fans' awareness of the range of his work. As a member of the Board of Directors at Jazz at Lincoln Center, he has curated and headlined a series of shows that explore themes like the bridge from blues to jazz in the music of guitar great T-Bone Walker; the distinctive sounds of the blues triangle of Memphis, Texas and Chicago; the resonances between the singular musical creations of Ma Rainey and Miles Davis; the deep American roots music of Appalachia; and Cannonball Adderley and the Blues. In addition, at the request of Wynton Marsalis, he is defining a blues pedagogy for Jazz at Lincoln Center. He is also a member of the visiting committee of the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Indeed, five of his guitars were displayed in "Play It Loud: The Instruments of Rock and Roll," a groundbreaking exhibition at the Met that ran for six months in 2019. Miller was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 and has been elected for induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2022. He has recently begun to open his vaults for the first time, releasing the acclaimed Welcome to the Vault box set in 2019 and Breaking Ground Live! August 3, 1977 in 2021.
With each listen the beauty and immediacy of Miller's work, whether at its most playful or most serious, is palpable. As always, whether he was riding the top of the charts or traveling the endless blue highways of American music, you can hear him playing and singing with conviction and precision, passion and eloquence, making music that is at once immediately accessible, thrillingly alive in the present, respectful of the past, and more than able to stand the test of time. - Anthony DeCurtis