Tickets On Sale Friday, May 9 at 10 a.m.
Steve Miller Band is coming to Hard Rock Live at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood Sunday, Oct. 5 at 8 p.m.
Tickets go on sale Friday, May 9 at 10 a.m. and start at $45. Fans can access the venue presale Tuesday, May 6 at 10 a.m. through Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood’s Facebook, X and Instagram. All seats are reserved. Tickets are available at www.myHRL.com. Doors open one hour before showtime. Additional fees may apply.
Steve Miller has been a monumental presence on the American music scene for more than half a century. During that era, his releases sold tens of millions of records and were streamed billions of 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 was 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, beginning 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 the moment you hear them, 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, James Cotton and Paul Butterfield. That range of sources informs his music to this day.
The year 2024 saw the Steve Miller Band play to nearly a million fans on successful tours including with Journey and Def Leppard as well as a return to the top of the charts for “Abracadabra” via its prominent feature in Eminem’s hit single “Houdini.”
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.