Steve Miller Band-Fly Like An Eagle (1976)

 


Artist: Steve Miller Band

Title: Fly Like An Eagle

Label: Capitol

roFormat: LP

Catalog Number: ST-11497

Year of Release: 1976

Country and Year of Edition: US 1976 Winchester Pressing

Sell Price: $5.06

Sell Date: 8/27/26

Condition: VG+/VG+

Discogs Last Sold: 8/23/26 VG+/VG $4.99

Low: $1.99 10/20/24 VG/VG

Median: $5.00

Average: $5.37

High: $15.00 VG+/VG+ 7/15/25

Current low price: $6.75 VG+/VG+

Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 7

Have/Want: 178/81

Where Sold: Cumming, GA

Time It Took To Sell: 2 years

Where and When Bought: Whatnot auction lot

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A-

Sad To See It Go: No

Fly Like An Eagle, the AOR twin tower along with Book Of Dreams are the Steve Miller Band's biggest releases commercially.  Chock full of hits rehashed on the 74-78 best of which sold even more as a catalog piece sitting at a redonkulous 16 million sold in the US alone.  Fly Like A Eagle the album sold a mere 4 million copies here in comparison.

Quality-wise it holds up.  This was a Rolling Stone "canon" record being the lone one to achieve the 5-star level in the books.  Of course the title track, "Rock 'n Me," "Take The Money and Run," "Serenade" and  "Dance Dance Dance" were the codified Greatest Hits AOR Rock mainstays forever heard.  The rest of it is mostly A level or close.  He has a nice Sam Cooke "You Send Me" cover and Steve really wasn't that far removed from the psychedelic records that brought him here as the "Space Intro" that kicks off "Fly Like An Eagle" and well as "Blue Odyssey" which segueways into the more trad Blues of "Sweet Maree."

A lot of people who lived out this music in real time hated it because it was jammed down their throats.  As the 80's progressed and the segregation of classic rock from mainstream classic rock radio began, the repetition, like the sales quadupled over time.  The was a bit of a Deadhead Steve Miller fan contingent in keeping with their mutual San Francisco home town and 60's roots.  Steve Miller suffered a little bit more from "hip" rock fans much the way Bob Seger did with overplay of a specific mid to late part of their catalogs that were commercial prime.  

The baby was thrown out with the bathwater.

FOR FURTHER REVIEW:

The Joker (1973)

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