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Steve Miller Doesn't Care About 'Corny' Rock Hall of Fame

Steve MillerSteve Miller certainly has the qualifications to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with a 30-plus-year career and a string of hit singles like 'Jet Airliner,' 'Rock'n Me,' 'The Joker' and more, not to mention a greatest hits album that still regularly sells in the millions.

Now there's even a Facebook group started by fans to get the Steve Miller Band in the Rock Hall, but Miller himself isn't concerned with that. "I never even think about it and when people bring it up it's kind of embarrassing," he tells Spinner. "I think the Hall of Fame deal is all politics anyway. If I wanted to be in the Hall of Fame, I'd be up there stroking Jann Wenner and kissing his ass, playing that game. I don't play that game. The Hall of Fame, to me, is so corny."

Still he has been invited, in a way. "I went to the Hall of Fame and they were talking to me when they were designing it," he recalls. "I was looking at the architectural plans for the Hall of Fame and they were going, 'Oh, Steve, when you're in the Hall of Fame we want all your stuff. Can we have your guitars?' And I was going, 'No, you can't have my guitars.'"

For Miller, who works with a music education group called Kids Rock Free, the future of music is far more important than the past. "The last time I was at the Hall of Fame, the computers didn't work and [they had] a bunch of capes and bad gloves and there wasn't anything in there that was of any importance -- same thing at the Experience Music Project. That's why I'm in the Kids Rock Free thing," he says. "You can build a Kids Rock Free music school for less than it costs to build a McDonalds restaurant. You build it in five months in a tilt up building and you can hire five teachers and you can have a thousand kids taking music lessons in from zero to six months. I look at the Hall of Fame and the Experience Music Project and I think, 'F---, that could have been 600 music schools around the United States. What ego wank.'"

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Jennifer

OHHH MY GOSHH!I LOVE the Steve Miller Band!! I was raised on listening to them all my entire life especially with my dad. I would love to see them in concert. Im soo excited to hear that they are being put into the ROCK N ROLL Hall of Fame!! Thats AWESOME!!!

January 06 2011 at 2:01 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
pcr

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! How does rap crap and hip hop shit get into this Rock and Roll gig? Nothing is sacred.

July 17 2010 at 1:23 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
leebeachcomber

i agree,, steve worked hard to buy his guitars,,he should get to keep them! that is kinda strange,,after 30 years,,you have to send them to a musieum,,and then worry and hope nobody steals them? i went there once,,it was nice,,but...theres no stars there,,you leave and think,,wait,,i could have seen somebody play for as much as that,,

July 16 2010 at 5:42 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Pedro

Hell yea Steve miller the rock n roll hall of fame is corny and just a terrible museum.

July 15 2010 at 5:47 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply