Steve Miller Reveals How He Made Up "Pompatus"
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- Steve Miller talks about his five-decade-spanning box set, Welcome to the Vault, sharing some trivia about how his hit "The Joker" came to be and the origin of the word "pompatus."
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Steve Miller is a national treasure and still underappreciated.
I agree. My dad got me into him when I was younger and love his stuff. It’s like listening to Bob Marley and Simon and Garfunkel; you can’t help but be put into a good mood.
Maybe them peaches are but that music nah.
@@way2sh0rt07grad Yeah nothing's more uplifting then S & G "The Sounds of Silence"!!!
You got that right!
you aren't underappreciated when you sell as many albums as he has.
Steve Miller is a proof that you can’t judge a book by its cover.
If you saw him boarding a plane you wouldn’t look at him and say “THAT guy is for sure a top 100 all time guitarist.” #Legend
Legendary post!
about 20 years ago, he was doing this charity event in our city and he was playing in this banquet hall I am part of. he was doing sound check and they were jamming to fly like an eagle. we were trying to have a meeting but all you could here was the music and we went to go watch. It was amazing how effortlessly they play. Then Steve came into the bar area and sitting there having a few beers and we were giving him some Italian style spirits and he was having a good time. Like you said, he was one of he most ordinary guys there but super nice!
Steve Miller is the real deal, a real musician, a real human being
And Jimmy Fallon is so so fake.
yeah it's like 2 opposites right next to eachother.@@stingygunner
You gotta respect a man who refuses to be inducted into the Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame because they wouldn't induct his band.
Steve Miller remembers that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is - like "Rolling Stone" magazine - the result of Jann Wenner's imagination - and ego. I admire him - and Eddie Vedder - for telling it like it is, right to their faces. I have to admit that Rolling Stone magazine has made a difference, a few times, but it(and it's influence) is overblown. And the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a lot like the circus. Clowns, exotic animals, and freaks - and awards for non-musicians.
Uh...… forgive me if I missed the joke.... but you Know Steve Miller WAS inducted into the RnR HOF, right? I know, I was there (to see Cheap Trick get inducted really, Miller was a bonus). Yes, he gave them a raft of shit for being the pompous asses they are, but he showed up and accepted the induction. He was there, he performed.
doninwv: Are you sure they weren’t “pompatus” asses?
@@rayray8687Today... You win the internet :D
Cj Murray: Hey thanks! I always wanted an internet.
Steve Miller's Greatest Hits album is one of the pure joys in rock and roll. Like, 15 songs in a row that you just can't deny.
Nah... most of those are pure crap. In fact, anything after the Number 5 album should be flushed far away.
@@telosxian No.
Steve's so genuinely cool. A rock and roll gentleman.
A true: Gangster of Love.
I could listen to his stories all day. Doesn’t take himself too seriously, loves music, kind.
Steve Miller is really a down to earth kind of a guy. You would never think that he was a guitarist/rock star. Love his music!!
Steve Miller, the man that is heard, but rarely ever seen! Musical genious for sure.
One of the few singers whose speaking voice sounds like their singing voice.
@@granthutchins2016 Odds are she didn't own black panties with an angels face. Love that song ✌
jkanclark I thought the same!
thinking the same thing!
He has written so many legendary songs.
Jet airliner Take the Money and Run abracadabra and of all his music that anybody knows
JET AIRLINER is NOT written by Steve Miller. Rather it was written by Mr Paul Pena. The checks from Steve to Paul over the years kept him alive according to the liner notes in Paul New Train album finally released in 2000. The Paul Pena version of JET AIRLINER is featured on this album. He also played it on this show which can be searched on TH-cam. IMO Paul's is very much the superior version.
@@cold02rex Genghis Blues is a fascinating movie.
Just saw Steve Miller in concert and he still is as phenomenal as ever! 👍
Some of us lived daily life to this man's music. He was our guy.
Weird how the world changes.
Did you stop listening to him?
@@fatkitty4207 Yes. You didn't see that in the OP?
He looks like an old Russel Crowe
checked the comments to see if anyone was gonna say it. beat me to it haha!
@@MrDeeJayzee I also checked 1st and was surprised nobody mentioned that
f i g h t i n
Literally checked the comments too, if that fails... totallylookslike.com usually has it loool 😂
Clicked just to say this lmfaoo
Steve has always been one of the truly underrated guitarists of the classic rock era. Great musician, songwriter, artist and human being.
When your guitar teacher as a kid is Les Paul you have a good chance being great.
He is/was his godfather too !
He's 75 years old with a full head of hair. Some guys have the best genes.
Lifestyle my ass it's in the genes
Hes a douchbag..
Always been.
Bad attitude and makes music that only he likes...
Everyone had to listen to him because his family was famous
Saw Steve with his old friend Peter Frampton 2 summers ago.....talk about two really great musicians playing at the same show!! And yeah, he’s got great hair for an old guy!!
His great hair can be attributed to all that midnight tokin' he's done most of his life.
It's in the genes. The gene for baldness comes from your Mother's Father. Look at pictures of your Maternal Grand Father. If he was bald- odds are that you will be too.
A lot of musicians should be like Steve Miller! Cool,Easy going,Willing to help, and conveying the message of music.
Kudos to Jimmy (this time). He actually let the man talk.
Jimmy is star struck.
Agree one thousand percent
@@andrewedris2800 Anyone who wouldn't be, is someone who doesn't have a clue, and/or doesn't care about great rock & roll!
He was already huge to me way before The Joker came out. Sailor,Number 5 , his early albums are as great as the later ones. When you see him live it’s mind boggling, one killer tune after another and he’s a badass guitar player to boot!
His name is Steve, but some people call him Maurice
...guessing he answers to both.. as he should.. a music legend is speaking in this video..
Why?
Andrew James, if you have to ask, then you’re not a big Steve Miller fan. Look up the lyrics to the song “Joker” and read the sentence leading up to the subject of this video.
Or the Space Cowboy
Some call him the gangster of love....
Abracadabra! It’s Steve Miller! (Not to be confused with Steven Miller)
PS I did not know “Pompatus” was a made up word like “Sussudio”. My mind is covfefed! 🤯
Also the word "Groos" in the song Don't Bring Me Down (ELO) is made up.
Doctor Thirteen : I get a laugh at some lyric sites showing “Bruce”. I know it’s “Groos” (can’t remember how many “o”) because ELO was nice enough to have lyrics in the inside sleeves of their vinyl records.
@Space-Cadet David 'Spanky Bonespurs' Dennison *Steven Miller is a Genie dripping out of a bottle of Nair and could truly be considered the Bat Out of Hell except Meat Loaf got there first.*
Space-Cadet David 'Spanky Bonespurs' Dennison : interesting. It seems “made up words” are more common than we think. Eg “corseted” Boys Light Up, Australian Crawl
..And Habawakawa from John Lennon(No. 9 Dream).
After watching this, I need to share my "Joker" story. My dad's best friend moved to Jackson Hole, WY from southern NJ in 1976. My mom and dad decided to drive out to see him in late May 1979. So off we went in my dad's 1978 Chevy pickup with a camper stuffed in the bed with the overhang over the roof. The youngest son, Quinn, and I, rode bicycles into town from his house. It was hot, so we went looking to get a drink. At 13 years old, we mistakenly ended up in a bar. The bartender said something like you can't drink beer here but you can have a soda. So we sat at the bar and guess what was blaring on the bar's speakers? The Joker by the Steve Miller Band. We thought we were so cool sitting in there for maybe 20 minutes. 40 years ago now and I will never forget that day.
Sounds like a great memory. Thanks for sharing.
"Love your peaches want to shake your tree".....Love that line from the song.
Agreed. GR8 line😎.
I once heard that when Steve Miller went to a music store to buy a synthesizer,then the latest development in music instruments, he only wanted one if it also made hissing and wind noises ...hence the birth of the songs fly like and eagle and jet airliner !
Saw Steve last Friday night---6/23/23---in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
Outstanding performance.
And woe to those who left early (in an effort to beat post-concert traffic) because his finale and encores were epic...
I play the shit out of his greatest hits album. One of my favorites.
Love that album. His version of Mercury Blues is the best version of that song ✌
Soundtrack to my youth, especially summer road trips!
That’s a great album for sure man!
Steve Miller = rock&roll
what a clever song writer
When I first heard "Phoenix, AZ all the way to Tacoma, Philadelphia, Atlanta, L.A." I had never been to any of those places. I wondered what wonders would lay in wait. Now I'm retired, and went to all those places several times over the years since then. Sort of a let down really. Nobody was there to keep on rockin' me baby. I did find her in Kansas City though. :)
What a legend. I remember when Fly like a Eagle album came out. The sound was so different it blew everyone's mind back then.
That's a great record......soundtrack of the summer of 76
I was in 6th grade in '76, and we made a slide show called "The Bionic Pencil", with Fly Like An Eagle sound. That stuff was as American as apple pie, along with Book of Dreams.
Mark Meyers
“As American as apple pie”? What exactly does that even mean?
Mark Meyers
No, “WE” didn’t define your comment. Only you did. Then you deleted it. Would I be correct in assuming you’re Caucasian? If so, that tells me plenty about what I was asking. And, that’s got nothing to do with the album.
LOL. I'm caucasian in my picture.
Steve's actually a really interesting guy to listen to and his history.
The Doo Wop song Steve is referring to is Vernon Green's "The Letter". According to an interview with Green, puppetutes was "A term I coined to mean a secret paper-doll fantasy figure [thus puppet], who would be my everything and bear my children."
A man with a band ahead of his times = Legend of Blues & Rock & Roll
Fantastical musical genius:)
I love "Space Cowboy" such a great bluesy groove.
A living LEGEND one of the GREATEST!!!! Keep on ROCK'N it STEVE 👍👏👏👏👏👏
About three years before my voice was ever heard on the radio in New York City, I went over to my friend's house one morning. It was a Saturday. He said, "you've got to listen to this," and he played Children of the Future.... and at that moment, I knew this band was going to have one heck of a career.
Steve has place up here in the San Juans. Saw him at Sicks Stadium along with Janis Joplin the last year of Janis's life. Excellent performers. Loved "Military Industrial Complex Blues" Great protest song.
That and Jackson Kent blues back to back....possibly the two greatest protest songs ever!
“I speak... to the octopus above.’
Funny!
👏🤘👏
lmao
LOL! If you like to laugh at misheard lyrics ("mondegreens"), you'll find a ton of them here! www.kissthisguy.com/ All eras, all genres represented!
I always thought it was "properties of love"???
The Steve Miller Band is the pompatus of my love! 😎💕
_The word is probably a corruption of-or imagined variation on-the word "puppetutes", which was itself a coinage, originated by Vernon Green at the age of 14. Green included the word "puppetutes" in the lyrics of doo-wop song "The Letter" (1954), as performed by him and The Medallions. "The Letter" also included another original coinage, "pismotality". Presumably in homage to the Medallions' song, Steve Miller used the nonce words "epismetology" and "pompatus" in the lyrics of two of his other songs, "Enter Maurice" and "The Conversation", one of which is, like "The Letter", in spoken-word style._
On February 7,977 my 1st true love Fae Weaver and I saw The Steve Miller Band in concert at the Arizona Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix - Today's date is September 4,2022 - Fae died 11 years ago from Hodgkin's disease - I am happy that she got married and gave birth to a daughter named Lexie - They both graduated from Northern Arizona University
" Mom, you don't understand!" HA! The only person with a legit excuse😁 Steve Miller is fantastic!
What a hitmaker
He's been on the radio in almost every town for the past 40 plus years. Not bad. Bravo Steve!
I got the chance to see him last summer in Boston. His voice has not aged!
Love Steve Miller. Would love to able to just sit down with him and hear some of his many amazing stories. At least I get to hear a few of them every time I see him & his band.
I have seen Steve Miller in concert 6 times and it is always a great rockin time.....last 2 shows i took my young daughter who loves his music as well.
Saw Steve Miller Blues Band in San Francisco in the 60s.
@@kenhoyer8601Wow!!! Who else did ya see back then??!!
@@digidrum2003 growing up if San Francisco I saw all the local bands - the Dead, the Airplane, Moby Grape half the time for free in the park. Also at the Fillmore and Avalon Ballroom. It cost 3.00 and they would do 2 sets apiece .
@@kenhoyer8601 Awesome ....did you ever see The Santana Blues Band??
@@digidrum2003 Yes, He was born in Mexico but grew up if SF. Where he got his start . They cut their first album, shortened the band name to Santana and wasn't really known until they played at Woodstock.
Grew up with Steve Miller playing in my Land Cruiser back in the 70’s drinking Miller beers of course! Loved all his music! A true rock legend! Love to meet him someday!
A truly fabulous interview. Any musician would love this. Many cool stories. I've got to buy the new collection!
I bought my first Steve Miller album 'Sailor' in the 60s' when I was at school. 50 years on its still a fantastic album. Overdrive is an absolutely killer track (Boz Scaggs I think was in the band) Rock n Me wow!! Just brilliant
Steve is one of the most interesting rockers from America in the 60s, imo
Hey all you guys that were born in the 90's... You know that song Fly Like an Eagle sung by Seal in Space Jam.... Yeah that was originally written and performed by The Steve Miller Band. Check it out
So many kids are into this music it would blow your mind. I was born in 76, my 18 year old college freshman came to me all the time about a cool old band. I would proudly blow the dust off of my CD collection and take the boy through a journey....
No kiddin
@@jk-76 - that's because pretty much all music made these days is shit.
Actually it was written by Paul Pena, a blind blues artist. Steve gave him royalties for the rights to record what was an unreleased version of the song.
Amazing box set. Can’t wait to get this set. Rock on Steve!
"Puppetuse of Love" was in a song by Vernon Green and the Medallions called "The Letter"
Steve remember the show you did on Congress Ave. in Austin tx. lance Armstrong won the tour de france and they had a welcome home party on congress ave. Street was blocked off and a stage right in the middle. I had a blast you played all your great songs of my younger years, just wanted to say thanks and keep on rockin
He was the Gangster of love at age 11.
Damn I’m old I remember 73 joker....loved Steve Miller good stuff....jet airliner.....good tunes
1975 or 76. Toronto Exhibition Satdium. My first concert: The Beach Boys. Steve Miller Band. Journey and Pablo Cruise.
Fascinating interview!! Steve Miller rocks....literally!!
Cool interview. The guy had a style that was all his own. A true American original.
I just got to see him here and Florida a little bit ago. It's hard for me to imagine that this is the first time I got to see him perform....a whole lifetime...and still amazing and fun.
Russell Crowe likes to sing too he should have him up on stage keep on a Rockin me
Absolutely love Steve Miller!!!!!👍🎸🎙❤
LOVE Steve Miller. Such a cool, amazing person. And his ENTIRE band.........even better!
My teen years was full of Steve Miller Band's music! LOve them!
Incredible. Best rendition I've seen. First live show, Chicago 1976, and now dozens of times. See you May 1st, Scottsdale.
I'm so glad that I grew up in Steve Millers day! My ears are much happier because of it!!!! 💚
He copped the term from Vernon Green. Song called “The Letter” by the Medallions. Good song
OK! I'm googling that song to find out what the word 'pompatus' really is since he misheard it.... I just did, and the song is full of nonsense words...The other two were:"pismotality" and "caremily" The singer has something of a Jamaican accent..
Thank you for shining a light on the life long mystery of me singing "the pompatus of love "every time the Joker came on the radio!
He seems very humble. Love him. I’m so glad he still plays sometimes. Watch his interviews.
I've seen him twice and he just awesome! A real down to earth guy.class act.one if my favorite performers
Omg-that was an amazing interview ! And Steve Miller looks fabulous (lucky Janice ) !
I still listen to that first album, Sailor. Always one of my favorites.
Sailor was actually his 2nd album. Children of the future was first. A lot of people make that mistake for some reason?
I didn't know that, thank you. Sailor was the first Steve Miller album that I listened to.
@@diggerthegroundhog8799
Yeah Jimmy Steve Miller will always be amazing and a legend in his own right and will always be loved and highly admired & reveard by all true rockers
So many great songs I had nearly forgotten about. Thanks Steve Miller! Somebody give that man a cheeseburger!!
I've never been a big fan of his Steve Miller Band stuff, but he's a great blues/rock musician.
Incredibly warm and wonderful human.
!SteveMiller! GREAT stories! Thank you! 💜😎
Saw him once in murfreesboro tn in 76 77 .great show .his music was a great part of my teens.a great band and Steve was a good songwriter and singer need more like him
Steve Miller and Boz Scaggs were classmates together at the St. Marks School in Dallas. Both went on to form the Steve Miller Band. So many great songs from Steve Miller. His theme song will probably always be "The Joker" and his alias, Maurice. The 1976 album, FLY LIKE AN EAGLE is superb. We are all slipping, slipping into the future. Great interview.
Fly like an Eagle and all the sound effects he came up with in this cool house in Novato way up on a hill, very inspirational for music.
So proud to be able to say he's a fellow Wisconsinite...go Buckey!!
Saw him 3-4 times back in the sixties...psychedelic blues! Always one of the best guitar players and most original lyricists.
Such a likeable guy. I don't think anybody knew what the hell he was saying back then, or what the word meant. It didn't matter either, because he sang it convincingly, as if he knew precisely what he was talking about. And that is how a number one hit is born!
What a cool interview! I loled many times. Health and long life Mr. Miller!
Steve is responsible for the greatest r&r lyric of all time "You're the cutest thing I ever did see,,,,,,, really love your peaches wanna shake your tree" ...
Followed closely by "You got the peaches, I got the cream..." 😁
STEVE! Rock Love - still one of the best albums ever. Everything pre and incuding The Joker, sublime. Steve, hope you will do a Blues Tour. Brave New World, the bomb.
Saw him at the Wynn the night before his 76th birthday. GREAT SHOW STEVE!!!
My 2nd concert. 1973 Tower theater Philly. 14 years old. Still remember his acoustic set playing Gangster of love. Come on into my kitchen
Man, oh man, I still associate his songs with hot summer days in 1979. What a summer!
Steve played at our corporate event in Las Vegas last September. Don't tell anyone, but it was the highlight of the trip, and one of the highlights of my Life!!!
Mad greek
Great 70s band and i have concert on dvd and cds.enjoyed this rock band that still to this day play his great tunes.god bless
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the fact the Eminem let us know Steve Miller is alive in 2024!... And as Mitch Hedberg (R.I.P.) once said: "I think it's funny that the guy who sings 'The Joker' is named Steve Miller and the guy who sings 'Fly Like an Eagle' is also named Steve Miller. Man, fame is weird, 'cause now everyone knows who Steve Miller is, but they still don't know what he looks like. I want to be famous like Steve Miller, but I don't want anyone to recognize me." 😂
LOVE LOVE Steve Miller ❤❤❤❤❤. Saw him several times. Always did a great show. So glad he's still around. So many gone. KEEP ROCKIN ME BABY💃💃💃💃✌✌✌
Cool dude, love “The Steve Miller band”
I underrated him for most of my life until I listened to the early albums. He is so relatable and down to earth. So different than his onstage persona.
The man is a legend.
SEEN HIM PLAY IN VEGAS FEW WEEKS AGO...STILL CAN JAM FROM DAYS...
I saw The Steve Miller Band @ The Greek last August!!!😂. They were as good as they were in the 70s!!!✌
Saw him in concert last year here in ME. Excellent
1977 San Diego Sports Arena. Great music with an awesome laser light show.
Hey, it's Maurice!
Tweeet-t'wooooo.
I believe that’s the Gangster of Love.
Enter Maurice....listen to the blackbird sadly sing
New Message wait I thought it was space cowboy?
@@robbiebarousse9063 I wasn't ready for that.