Steve Miller Band Cancels Entire 2025 Tour Due to… Weather
by Best Classic Bands Staff
Steve Miller has cancelled the entire 2025 tour of the Steve Miller Band. Thankfully, it’s not due to a health-related issue. The 81 year-old is blaming it on the weather. In a post on his social media platforms on July 16 at around 8 p.m. ET, the classic rock legend wrote, “Always trust your instincts. The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive forest fires makes these risks for you our audience, the band and the crew unacceptable.” The tour, announced last spring, had a robust 31 dates planned, many at outdoor venues, and was scheduled to begin on August 15 and continue to November 8. Tickets were available here.
The entire message, signed by “Steve, The Band and the Crew,” reads:
Dear Steve Miller Band fans,
You make music with your instincts
You live your life by your instincts
Always trust your instincts…
The Steve Miller Band has cancelled all of our upcoming tour dates.
The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes and massive
forest fires make these risks for you our audience, the band and the crew unacceptable. So…
You can blame it on the weather…The tour is cancelled.
Don’t know where, don’t know when… We hope to see you all again.
Wishing you all Peace, Love and Happiness,
Please take care of each other.
As recently as last Friday, July 11, Miller’s social media had posted, “Who’s ready for the start of the start of the big Steve Miller Band tour? Starts next month.”
Miller was a mainstay of the San Francisco music scene that upended American culture in the late ’60s, perfecting a psychedelic blues sound that drew on the deepest sources of American roots music.
As he evolved, Miller, born October 5, 1943, crafted a stream of radio-friendly hits that scored on rock and Top 40 formats: “The Joker,” “Livin’ in the USA,” “Take the Money and Run,” “Rock’n Me,” “Fly Like an Eagle,” “Jet Airliner,” “Jungle Love,” and “Abracadabra,” among them. The band’s recordings are available here.
Watch the Steve Miller Band perform “Jet Airliner” in 2024
Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals were to be the special guest for several of the summer shows at outdoor venues.) Cavaliere, who turned 82 last November 29, has continued to showcase the Rascals great string of ’60s hits including “Groovin’,” “Good Lovin'” and “It’s a Beautiful Morning.” The latter was the title of a 2024 anthology, available here.
Steve Miller Band 2025 Tour (Tickets were available here)
Aug 15 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center For the Arts (with the Rascals)
Aug 16 – Grantville, PA – Hollywood Casino at Penn National Race Course
Aug 19 – Gilford, NH – BankNH Pavilion (with the Rascals)
Aug 21 – Syracuse, NY – New York State Fsair
Aug 22 – Atlantic City, NJ – Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena
Aug 24 – Wantagh, NY – Northwell at Jones Beach Theater (with the Rascals)
Aug 26 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts Center (with the Rascals)
Aug 28 – Saint Paul, MN – Minnesota State Fair (with the Rascals)
Aug 30 – Salamanca, NY – Seneca Allegany Resort & Casino Outdoor Venue
Aug 31 – Ledyard, CT – Premier Theater at Foxwoods Resort Casino
Sep 17 – Lincoln, NE – Pinewood Bowl Theater
Sep 19 – Memphis, TN – Radians Amphitheater
Sep 20 – Camdenton, MO – Ozarks Amphitheater
Sep 23 – Gautier, MS – The Sound Amphitheater
Sep 25 – Huntsville, AL – Orion Amphitheater
Sep 26 – Champaign, IL – State Farm Center
Sep 27 – Gary, IN – Hard Rock Live Northern Indiana
Oct 01 – Tuscaloosa, AL – Mercedes-Benz Amphitheater (with Robert Randolph and the Family Band)
Oct 02 – St. Augustine, FL – St. Augustine Amphitheatre
Oct 04 – Estero, FL – Hertz Arena
Oct 05 – Hollywood, FL – Hard Rock Live
Oct 07 – Tampa, FL – Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino
Oct 23 – Scottsdale, AZ – Talking Stick Resort
Oct 25 – Las Vegas, NV – Planet Hollywood
Oct 28 – Highland, CA – Yaamava’ Theater
Oct 30 – Saratoga, CA – The Mountain Winery
Oct 31 – Lincoln, CA – Thunder Valley Casino Resort
Nov 01 – Sparks, NV – Nugget Event Center
Nov 04 – San Diego, CA – The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park
Nov 06 – Inglewood, CA – YouTube Theater
Nov 08 – Anaheim, CA – Honda Center
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6 Comments so far
Jump into a conversationWhat a lame excuse to cancel an entire tour. The truth will come out at some point. Hopefully it’s not a serious health issue with him or one of his band mates.
Ridiculous to cancel the tour for his reasons that he stated! It is actually unbelievable …..unless he is not telling the truth!
Sorry, but that’s just weird. The weather and its unpredictability are just a fact of life now, however it came about. You can plan anything, but like everything else, you just have to take it day by day. Don’t know what these shows are like musically, but IMO all of Miller’s best music happened BEFORE his revamp into a hit machine in the later 70s. Doubt we’d hear much of that material at these shows.
U are absolutely correct, he was so much better and creative pre 1973!
Sounds like his heart wasn’t in it .. many dates were inside but he did schedule it during hurricane season.. I don’t know …could have scaled it back a bit but to cancel the whole thing due to weather problems that could occur ..??
I saw a terrific concert featuring Steve Miller with Pablo Cruise opening, followed by Eagles as headliners. Late 70s. Open air stadium. $10(!!!)
Summer time in Minneapolis. Hot, humid, chance of rain.
Biggest cheer of the night came mid way through Miller’s set, when it started pouring as the band lit into ‘Jungle Love’.
“Everything better when wet!” Yeeeaaaahhhh!!!
And baby, THAT is rock & roll.