From Blues to Psychedelic Rock
One of those buddies was Boz Scaggs, who joined and then left the Steve Miller Blues Band in 1968 to go solo. Miller and his band were playing pure Chicago blues for a while, until 1966 when they moved to San Francisco. The timing proved to be just right. In San Francisco, the Steve Miller Blues Band became wilder – a more psychedelic version of themselves.
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They immersed themselves in the developing psychedelic scene and, soon enough, their own sound morphed into this mind-bending music that fit right into the city. Between 1968 and 1972, the band released seven psychedelic blues-rock albums with avant garde tunes. And those years weren’t their successful ones.