10 Classic Bands Who Only Had One Classic Album
6. Steve Miller Band
Steve Miller has a rock and roll upbringing most musicians can only dream of. As he started coming up the ranks as a musician, his apprenticeship under Les Paul saw him learning from some of the greatest blues guitarists who ever lived. While Miller could have gotten by writing some of the most complex rock music ever made, his ability to write pop tunes wasn’t too shabby either.
Most people could hum a few bars of something like “The Joker,” but that was just the tip of the iceberg when it came to his star power. After embracing the large sound of the synthesizer, Miller locked himself away in a studio and wrote Fly Like An Eagle, which became one of the most essential records in the history of classic rock. From the title track to “Take the Money and Run” to “Rock’n Me,” almost every other track on here could have been a hit.
After a record like that, there also comes the unenviable task of topping it, which Miller stepped up to face. Though Book of Dreams did have a few classics on it, the afterglow of Eagle was too thick in the air for people to pay too much attention. Fly Like An Eagle has enough hooks for any other band’s career, but its star power ended up stifling the man who birthed it.