...All you back room schemers, small trip dreamers, better find something new to say ...'Cause you're the same old story, It's the same old crime, and you got some heavy dues to pay...
I had an argument on air with a Virgin Radio DJ over this song...I got through to the request line and asked for this song...he insisted there was no such song and played The Joker instead...I even told him which album it was on...still didn't believe me :( So I called him a hack and wrote a letter of complaint asking that they employ people who actually know a little about music as DJ's. Got an apology as well :)
John Palmer and I used to cruise all night in 69! A 64impalaSS and this steve miller tune was alway playing! We bought $2 of gas/8 gallons! Some "weed" and downtown portland!
Perhaps someone else has mentioned this over the course. Steve lifted the riff from Lady Madonna as the basis for the main driving riff on this tune. He and McCartney crossed paths back around the time Brave New World was recorded. Paul sat in and played on My Dark Hour (in which Miller and McCartney were the only musicians) which is on that album. Always liked this tune - and BNW in general - and worked it up in a band I was in at the time.