Steve Miller Band cancel tour citing weather: ‘Trust your instincts’

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The Steve Miller Band announced Wednesday that they cancel all their future tour, citing the possibility of extreme weather conditions.

“You make music with your instincts / You live your life by your instincts / always trust your instinct,” the group said in a press release on social networks. “The Steve Miller Band has canceled all our dates of tour to come. The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable floods, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires makes these risks for you our audience, the group and the unacceptable crew. So … you can blame it on the weather … The visit is canceled.”

The group left the door open for future performance, writing: “I don’t know where, I don’t know when … we hope to see you all again.”

A representative of the Steve Miller group refused Weekly entertainmentrequest for additional comments.

Steve Miller Band was to play dozens of shows across the United States this year, starting the tour in Bethel, NY, on August 15.

Several members of the Steve Miller group reacted to the news of their personal pages on social networks and expressed their appreciation for the artistic talent and Miller’s friendship while stressing that the cancellation of the tour was ultimately the singer’s decision “Fly like a Eagle”.

“We had a very nice conversation yesterday on the phone and I can hear that Steve’s very difficult decision to cancel this year’s tour is the right one,” wrote guitarist Jacob Petersen on Facebook. “He is 82 years old in a few months, he must reflect and understand what he wants, in recent years to play to look like … He cannot waste him and / or risk his health. If he decides to keep a form of tour, it must be the right way.”

Petersen suggested that it is possible that Miller will undertake “Spring / Fall Short Tours where he can control the places and the concerts he likes to play” or “A Farewell Tour”, but also has hypothesized that the singer “Rockin ‘me” can opt to “stay at home, record what he likes just for his love for music”.

Petersen suspects, however, that Miller still has “a lot there to share with everyone” despite his age.

“He is perhaps in the final phase, aged 81 years … but like his godfather Les Paul and the man of the blues that he is, I personally do not see him stop,” he wrote. “Blues men do not do this when they always play at such a high level and are always in great demand.”

Meanwhile, the group’s bass player, Kenny Lee Lewis, wrote a strongly bodily response to the criticism Miller received from the musical critic Bob Lefsetz.

“You have not seen Steve Miller hang a balustrade after our first outdoor stadium show open in the sun for Journey and Def Leopard in Atlanta by trying to push the exhaustion of heat. I was really worried about him,” wrote the musician on Facebook. “The next outside couple shows that the crew had to organize air coolers with flexible conduits on him because they also wore frozen gel bags on his neck and shoulders. He looked like the Michelin man! And he almost passed out.”

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Lewis pointed out that the cancellation has “nothing to do with bad ticket sales” and that Miller only “forced” agreed to take outstanding places on this tour.

“The Joker has always relied on the instincts and in this case, he rolls this pair of dice again,” he wrote. “It is too hot for an 81 -year -old child to go out on this stage, because the temperatures continue to beat records even if you are the closest that the sun sets. As for its interior emissions which were canceled during this tour, I cannot comment. I am sure that the logistics of the fragmentation of the dates and the modification of the routing and the days of leave would have been a nightmare.

The group’s keyboardist Joseph Wooten published a video suggesting that the news of the cancellation surprised him, but that he nevertheless appreciated Miller.

“I received a phone call earlier in Steve Miller’s day, and he let me know that he cancels the tour of Steve Miller 2025 and perhaps leaving on tour,” said Wooten in the video. “I did not expect this. I have been in the group for 32 years, more than half of my life. I have met a lot of great people in many big cities. I had friendships for life with my group comrades, excellent musicians. It was a big race and a big story, and like any great story, the end of a chapter is the beginning of another.”