The Steve Miller Band plays Avo Session

Synopsis

Steve Miller's parents taught him to love jazz, his friends were hippies and he liked rock. And he wanted to bring all of that together, so he skipped his final literature exams to become a professional musician. In 1967, at the tender age of 24, Steve founded the Steve Miller Band, where he fusioned the blues, psychedelic music and rock with reverb and echo effects to pioneer a new music form that music critics labelled blues rock. Six years later, after making Texas his new home, the guitar hero put his blues sentiment in a nutshell: «Some people call me the space cowboy, some call me the gangster of love». He called the track «The Joker». He’s been filling stadiums in America ever since and he rarely finds the time to come to Europe. It’s great that Steve Miller is finally «headed down» to Switzerland and to the AVO SESSION Basel.

Additional Info

• No: 8100
• Production year: 2012
• Run time: 01:15:00
• Director: Roli Bärlocher
• Producers: Session Basel AG, SRF
• Format: HDTV 16:9