Steve Miller performs on stage

Steve Miller signature guitar, Museum of Making Music C. F. Martin 00-37KSM Engelmann over Koa Steve Miller Signature model ... 68 built with Spruce top. They built another 68 with Koa top. — CraigHPorter, 2010-07-09

Steve Miller Band performing a solo set Farm Bureau Live in Virginia Beach, VA

Echoplex Used by Steve Miller Echoplex EP-3 (ca.1971, serial no. 9503) by Mike Battle, with Roland SH-2000 (ca.1973) - Steve Miller - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.03.53 by Eden, Janine and Jim) Echoplex EP-3 (ca.1971, serial no. 9503), Mike Battle. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.. "Title: Echoplex EP-3 (serial no. 9503) ", "Artist: Mike Battle (American, 1918–2008) ", "Artist: Steve Miller ", "Date: ca. 1971 ", "Medium: Wood, metal, plastic, magnetic tape ", "Dimensions: Height: 8 1/4 in. (21 cm.) / Width: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) / Depth: 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm.) / Weight: 18 lbs. ", "Classification: Electrophone ", "Credit Line: Courtesy of Steve Miller " SH-2000 (ca.1973), Roland Corporation, Hamamatsu, Japan. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.. "Title: SH-2000 ", "Artist: Roland Corporation, Hamamatsu, Japan ", "Artist: Steve Miller ", "Date: ca. 1973 ", "Medium: Wood, metal, plastic ", "Dimensions: Height: 5.2 in. (13.3 cm) / Width: 34 in. (86.5 cm) / Depth: 10.5 in. (26.6 cm) / Weight: 24.2 lbs. (11 kg) ", "Classification: Electrophone ", "Credit Line: Steve Miller "

Steve Miller (2006).

Photo of musician Steve Miller in 1977.

Gibson Les Paul TV Special (1961, serial no. 37330) - Steve Miller got from Leslie West in 1967 or 1968, repainted by Bob Cantrell - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.28.21 by Eden, Janine and Jim) Les Paul TV Special (1961, serial no. 37330), Gibson. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.. "Steve Miller received this guitar from Leslie West of the Vagrants and Mountain in 1967 or 1968. It was originally painted a pale yellow that Gibson developed to appear white on black-and-white television. Miller had the guitar repainted with intricate psychedelic designs by surfboard artist Bob Cantrell and changed the pickup covers, tuners, and controls to match the new color scheme. He used it extensively in recordings and live performances through the 1970s, including on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert in 1973 and The Midnight Special in 1974. ", "Technical Description: Mahogany body and neck, rosewood fingerboard; 24¾ in. scale; intricate psychedelic painting on front and back of body; set neck with dot inlays and off-white binding; inlaid mother-of-pearl Gibson logo on headstock, truss rod cover with Les Paul signature; two P-90 soapbar pickups, three-way selector switch, two volume and two tone controls; nickel wrap-around tailpiece and Kluson tuners, clear and gold plastic knobs; original mahogany or cherry red finish stripped and repainted with custom psychedelic design, pickup covers, tuners, and knobs replaced to match finish ", "Object Details ", "Title: Les Paul TV Special (serial no. 37330) ", "Artist: Gibson (American, founded Kalamazoo, Michigan 1902) ", "Artist: Bob Cantrell ", "Artist: Steve Miller ", "Date: 1961 ", "Medium: Mahogany, rosewood, metal, plastic ", "Dimensions: Length: 39 1/8 in. (99.4 cm) / Width: 13 in. (33 cm) / Depth: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) / Weight: ~7-8 lbs. ", "Classification: Electrophone ", "Credit Line: Promised Gift of Steve Miller, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary ", "Provenance: Given to Steve Miller by Leslie West in 1967 "

Gibson Les Paul TV Special (1961, serial no. 37330) - Steve Miller got from Leslie West in 1967 or 1968, repainted by Bob Cantrell - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.28.27 by Eden, Janine and Jim) Les Paul TV Special (1961, serial no. 37330), Gibson. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.. "Steve Miller received this guitar from Leslie West of the Vagrants and Mountain in 1967 or 1968. It was originally painted a pale yellow that Gibson developed to appear white on black-and-white television. Miller had the guitar repainted with intricate psychedelic designs by surfboard artist Bob Cantrell and changed the pickup covers, tuners, and controls to match the new color scheme. He used it extensively in recordings and live performances through the 1970s, including on Don Kirshner’s Rock Concert in 1973 and The Midnight Special in 1974. ", "Technical Description: Mahogany body and neck, rosewood fingerboard; 24¾ in. scale; intricate psychedelic painting on front and back of body; set neck with dot inlays and off-white binding; inlaid mother-of-pearl Gibson logo on headstock, truss rod cover with Les Paul signature; two P-90 soapbar pickups, three-way selector switch, two volume and two tone controls; nickel wrap-around tailpiece and Kluson tuners, clear and gold plastic knobs; original mahogany or cherry red finish stripped and repainted with custom psychedelic design, pickup covers, tuners, and knobs replaced to match finish ", "Object Details ", "Title: Les Paul TV Special (serial no. 37330) ", "Artist: Gibson (American, founded Kalamazoo, Michigan 1902) ", "Artist: Bob Cantrell ", "Artist: Steve Miller ", "Date: 1961 ", "Medium: Mahogany, rosewood, metal, plastic ", "Dimensions: Length: 39 1/8 in. (99.4 cm) / Width: 13 in. (33 cm) / Depth: 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm) / Weight: ~7-8 lbs. ", "Classification: Electrophone ", "Credit Line: Promised Gift of Steve Miller, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary ", "Provenance: Given to Steve Miller by Leslie West in 1967 "

Ravi Shankar Sitar Alongside an electric sitar guitar played by Steve Miller. Steve Miller's ca.1967 Coral Sitar, Model 3S19, Ravi Shankar's ca.1960 Sitar by Rikhi Ram Music Instrument Manufacturing - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.06.34 by Eden, Janine and Jim) Coral Sitar, Model 3S19 (ca.1967), Danelectro Company. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.. "The sitar became a popular sound in the late 1960s, especially after it was used by George Harrison on the Beatles’ "Norwegian Wood" and by Brian Jones on the Rolling Stones’ "Paint It, Black." Working for Danelectro’s Coral line, New York studio musician Vincent Bell developed a guitar with an elongated bridge that creates a buzzy, sitarlike tone without requiring guitarists to learn another instrument. Steve Miller has used this example in recordings and live performances of his song "Wild Mountain Honey" since the 1970s. ", "Technical Description: Mahogany body and neck, rosewood fingerboard; 25½ in. scale; "textured Bombay red" crackle finish; bolt-on neck with pearloid dot inlays; raised plastic Coral logo and “Sitar” silkscreened on headstock; six playing strings with two single coil pickups, two volume and two tone controls, Sitarmatic buzz bridge; thirteen drone strings on separate bridge with single coil pickup, volume and tone controls; metal tailpiece, clear plastic pickguard reading “Vincent Bell Signature Design Electric Sitar,” chrome lipstick tube pickup housings, nickel tuners ", "Object Details ", "Title: Coral Sitar, Model 3S19 ", "Artist: Danelectro Company ", "Artist: Steve Miller ", "Date: ca. 1967 ", "Medium: Mahogany, rosewood, plastic, metal ", "Dimensions: Length: 39 3/8 in. (100 cm.) / Width: 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm.) / Depth: 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm.) / Weight: 7-9 lbs. ", "Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ", "Credit Line: Courtesy of Steve Miller " Sitar (ca.1960), Rikhi Ram Music Instrument Manufacturing. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art.. "Ravi Shankar’s performances of Hindustani classical sitar music in the West had a profound influence on musicians from John and Alice Coltrane to violinist Yehudi Menuhin to George Harrison and the Beatles. His appearances at the Monterrey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969 added fuel to the craze for sitar sounds in psychedelic rock. Shankar owned and played this sitar and gave it to Mercury Records executive Shelby Singleton as a gift on a trip to America in the early 1960s. It has since been displayed at the Musicians Hall of Fame and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. ", "Technical Description: Toon and/or teak wood, metal, plastic, gourd; five melody strings, three drone strings, thirteen sympathetic strings ", "Object Details ", "Title: Sitar ", "Artist: Rikhi Ram Music Instrument Manufacturing (Indian, est. 1920) ", "Artist: Ravi Shankar ", "Date: ca. 1960 ", "Medium: Toon and/or teak wood, gourd, metal, plastic ", "Dimensions: Length: 48 in. (121.9 cm) / Width: 14 in. (35.6 cm) / Depth (max): 13 in. (33 cm) / Weight: ~6-9 lbs. ", "Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ", "Credit Line: Sukanya Shankar and the Ravi Shankar Foundation ", "Provenance: Acquired by Ravi Shankar ca. 1960s; brought to USA, given to producer Shelby Singleton of Mercury Records as a gift; donated to Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum by Singleton "

Steve Miller John Entwistle Steve Miller's ca.1983 Modulus Monocoque Flight 6, John Entwistle (The Who)'s ca.1976 Alembic 8-String Custom Explorer (serial no. MINE) - Play It Loud. MET (2019-05-13 19.32.43 by Eden, Janine and Jim) Steve Miller's ca.1983 Modulus Monocoque Flight 6 Monocoque Flight 6 (ca.1983), Modulus. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art. "This experimental headless guitar, owned and played by Steve Miller, features a “monocoque” body and neck made from a hollow one-piece carbon-fiber and graphite shell. Modulus founder Geoff Gould, inspired by his background in aerospace engineering, designed this instrument, of which only about twenty were produced in guitar (Flight 6) and bass (Flight 4) versions. Gould also adapted carbon fiber and graphite to more conventional instruments, building basses and guitars with carbon-fiber-reinforced necks for artists like Flea. ", "Technical Description: Hollow one-piece carbon fiber and graphite body and neck; 25 in. scale; graphite grey; headless integral neck with mother-of-pearl dot inlays; two humbucking Seymour Duncan pickups, three-way selector switch, volume and tone controls, adjustable brass bridge with tuners mounted on lower body, Modulus Graphite logo decal on lower treble bout ", "Object Details ", "Title: Monocoque Flight 6 ", "Artist: Modulus ", "Artist: Steve Miller ", "Date: ca. 1983 ", "Medium: Carbon fiber, graphite, brass, metal, plastic ", "Dimensions: Length: ~32 in. (81.3 cm) / Width: ~7-8 in. (17.8-20.3 cm) / Depth: ~1 1/2 (3.8 cm) / Weight: 4-6 lbs. ", "Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ", "Credit Line: Courtesy of Steve Miller " John Entwistle (The Who)'s ca.1976 Alembic 8-String Custom Explorer (serial no. MINE) 8-String Custom Explorer (ca.1976, serial no. MINE), Alembic Inc.. Play It Loud: Instruments of Rock & Roll. Metropolitan Museum of Art. "John Entwistle of the Who designed this Explorer-style bass with Alembic. It features eight strings, which doubles each of the standard four bass strings an octave higher. It was one of three instruments he ordered from Alembic that took two years to build. The bass features the company’s signature figured maple and walnut woods in a laminated construction, and the spiderweb body inlays reference the song “Boris the Spider” from the Who’s A Quick One (1966). Entwistle played this instrument on “Trick of the Light” from Who Are You (1978) and “You” from Face Dances (1981). At live performances, this bass was so loud that the band and road crew would move away from his side of the stage. The LED lights on the neck illuminated the frets when the stage was dark. ", "Technical Description: Bird’s eye maple top and back, walnut core, seven-piece maple and walnut neck through body, ebony fingerboard; 34 in. scale; natural finish with sterling silver spider’s web inlays; mother-of-pearl note inlays to fingerboard with LED side dots, double truss rods; arrow-shaped headstock with purpleheart and zebrawood veneers, raw brass Alembic logo, five-ply maple and walnut binding; three active pickups (one a dummy for hum cancelling), two volume and two tone controls, two master volume controls with preset switch and rotary pickup selector on upper treble horn, two-way coil tap and phase switches, low-pass filters, five-pin DIN and standard ¼ in. jacks for stereo output; brass adjustable bridge and tailpiece, chrome and nickel tuners, black plastic knobs ", "Object Details ", "Title: 8-String Custom Explorer (serial no. MINE) ", "Artist: Alembic Inc. ", "Artist: John Entwistle ", "Date: ca. 1976 ", "Medium: Bird's-eye maple, walnut, ebony, purpleheart, zebrawood, brass, nickel, chrome, silver, plastic ", "Dimensions: Length: 48 1/2 in. (123.2 cm) / Width: 14 3/4 in. (37.5 cm) / Depth: 1 9/16 - 1 3/4 in. (3.9-4.4 cm) / Weight: approx. 13-15 lbs. ", "Classification: Chordophone-Lute-plucked-fretted ", "Credit Line: Collection of David Swartz ", "Provenance: Custom built for John Entwistle, ca. 1976; Sold at Sotheby's auction of the John Entwistle Collection, 13 May 2003 "