The nightly jams between the Steve Miller Band and Peter Frampton will form the basis of a new joint live album from the rock legends due out sometime next year. The pair of old friends, who are once again out on the road together all summer, have about a dozen live blues standards in the can culled from Frampton’s guest spot during the Miller Band’s set in which the two square off on some hard edged blues classics.
Steve Miller told Pulse that both he and Frampton were aware immediately how well the mid-show teamups have been going down: “Jamming together has turned into a real interesting thing. We’re putting a record together now, and we’re adding more tunes to our jam. And I think we’ve got 12 different tracks done now. We’re just having fun, y’know, it’s an added bonus to the tour.”
Pulse pressed Miller to give a sneak peak as to what the upcoming live set will include: “It’s pretty much everything that we’ve jammed from last year, through this year. Let’s see, we’re up to the ‘Same Old Blues’ by Freddie King right now is one that we’ve just cut — and as we go on, y’know, we’ll add more tunes. I mean, it’s just we’re going through our favorite blues tunes and playing them. This is just a really great musical combination for both bands. And so, we’ve done a bunch of Elmore James stuff, and some Muddy Waters things, and some Ray Charles things.”
