The Steve Miller Band - BBC In Concert, Freilichtbuhne Loreley, St. Goarshausen, Germany, 8-20-1983

I just posted a Joe Cocker concert on the same date and location a few minutes ago. I thought it would be fun to post different sets from the same show. The Steve Miller Band was the headlining act.

As I explained with the Cocker post, there was kind of a mini-rock festival here. Five major music acts: U2, Dave Edmunds, the Stray Cats, Joe Cocker, and the Steve Miller Band, all performed from the same stage. Curiously, the entire show was broadcast not only on the German TV show "Rockpalast," but also on a special long edition of the BBC TV Show "In Concert." I hadn't thought the Steve Miller Band ever performed any concerts for the BBC, but we get at least this one through that unusual circumstance.

It makes sense Miller was the headlining act, because he was very popular at the time. After having lots of hit songs in the 1970s, he had the biggest hit of his career in 1982 with "Abracadabra." Not only did it reach Number One in the singles chart in the U.S. and many other countries, it was one of the top ten most popular singles that year. (Note that had this concert taken place a few years later, the order certainly would have been different. Miller never had another Top Forty hit, while U2 became superstars in 1987.)

This is a lucky time for a BBC concert, since it's at the end of his really popular years. He played most of the big hits from earlier albums that you'd expect, while also emphasizing the blues with virtually all the non-hit songs. "Abracadabra" was such a massive hit that he actually performed it twice, as the first song and the last song. Most versions of this bootleg don't have the second version, probably because someone along the way decided it was unnecessary. But I found a version that did have it. The sound quality of that song is a little worse than the rest.

This album is an hour and 30 minutes long.

01 Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)
02 talk (Steve Miller Band)
03 The Joker (Steve Miller Band)
04 talk (Steve Miller Band)
05 You You You (Steve Miller Band)
06 talk (Steve Miller Band)
07 Out of the Night (Steve Miller Band)
08 Livin' in the U.S.A. (Steve Miller Band)
09 Hoodoo Hoodoo (Steve Miller Band)
10 Just a Little Bit (Steve Miller Band)
11 Buffalo's Serenade [Instrumental] (Steve Miller Band)
12 Fly like an Eagle (Steve Miller Band)
13 talk (Steve Miller Band)
14 Keeps Me Wondering Why (Steve Miller Band)
15 talk (Steve Miller Band)
16 Rock'n Me (Steve Miller Band)
17 talk (Steve Miller Band)
18 Jungle Love (Steve Miller Band)
19 Jet Airliner (Steve Miller Band)
20 Macho City (Steve Miller Band)
21 talk (Steve Miller Band)
22 Honey Hush (Steve Miller Band)
23 My Babe (Steve Miller Band)
24 You Know What I Mean (Steve Miller Band)
25 Look on Yonder Wall (Steve Miller Band)
26 Space Cowboy (Steve Miller Band)
27 Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)
28 talk (Steve Miller Band)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/f1LsgtnH

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/QmakR39GRsbCgDg/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot taken from a YouTube video.