Steve Miller Band Cancels US Tour Due to Climate Change-Induced Weather Risks
“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.”
Abracadabra! Just like that, the Steve Miller Band canceled its entire 2025 North American tour.
Variety reported:
The band has canceled all 31 scheduled dates of its American tour, which was slated to begin Aug. 15 in Bethel, NY and traverse the entire country before concluding in Anaheim, Calif. on Nov. 8.
The band made the announcement in a straightforward tone familiar to fans of the 81-year-old veteran singer, songwriter and guitarist and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member, whose career stretches back to the mid-1960s and has released such classic rock anthems as “The Joker,” “Fly Like an Eagle,” “Jet Airliner,” “Take the Money and Run” and many more.
Fans needn’t worry that the 81-year-old is suddenly facing health issues. He called off the tour due to the unacceptable risks to his audience, the band, and the crew, posed by climate change-induced extreme weather events. Here’s what Miller told fans in his announcement on X:
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.
— Steve Miller Band (@SMBofficial) July 17, 2025
As one of the flimsiest excuses ever offered for canceling a tour, the announcement sparked immediate backlash on X, with users skewering the decision through sarcastic nods to his old hits.
Professor Jacobson reminded readers of Miller’s fondness for jet travel before climate activists made us aware of the vast amounts of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that airplanes emit.
One reader responded, “The joker no longer flies like an eagle.”
https://t.co/rn0D2Qsj05 pic.twitter.com/TFxbP7nXtY
— William A. Jacobson (@wajacobson) July 17, 2025
Oh, but they were fine with that big ol’ jet airliner before?!? Now they’re worried about climate change?
— Uneducated Trollop (@RagingValkyrie) July 17, 2025
So if it’s too hot, they can’t dance dance dance all day long
— Ed Lopez (@epl1000) July 17, 2025
Shows cancelled:
Phoenix, Arizona
Tacoma
Philadelphia
Atlanta
L.A.
Northern California where the girls are warm— Rick Aaron (@RickAaron) July 17, 2025
Well, you really are The Joker. What a bunch of crap. Climate change Uranus. I’m so disgusted we won’t even ask for our money back. Won’t be the first time we have donated to a sad sack. NCSWIC.
— Ghost In The Machine💎🍊⭐️⭐️⭐️🍊💎 (@HaveYeNotRead) July 17, 2025
Others didn’t mince words: the real reason for the cancellation, they claimed, was likely poor ticket sales. The midnight toker’s career began in the late ’60s and arguably peaked in the early ’80s. How many people in their 70s are still lining up to see the Steve Miller Band live?
Sounds like an excuse to cover up for poor tickets sales.
— Covid Thoughts… (@ThoughtsCovid) July 17, 2025
Look, we get it. They can’t fill venues anymore and needed a scapegoat.
— Ryan Petty (@rpetty) July 17, 2025
Others pointed out the pure folly of Miller’s excuse.
Woodstock took place in the middle of the Hong Kong flu epidemic.
— Woolfolk (@BrewPubMike) July 17, 2025
Weather related disasters have happened every year since we began recording them. While every disaster is terrible and some more heart wrenching than others, this year is not special in the global sense. For the people affected directly, it’s the worst.
All of these things were…— Chris Loesch 𝕏 (@ChrisLoesch) July 17, 2025
One has to wonder what Miller was thinking when he offered such a lame excuse for canceling his tour. Did he really expect fans to applaud him for slipping in a nod to climate activists? Or worse, is he so deluded he actually believed that extreme weather alone was enough to call the whole thing off? It’s hard to imagine he thought this would land well with anyone.
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Probably lives in a Leftist bubble so all were in agreement. Their loss, not mine
You’d think the Space Cowboy could figure out a solution. Maybe Maurice knows the answer?
Sounds as though Steve Miller has let the pompatus of pomp get to his head.
If I want to hear them I have the vinyl.
If you don’t want to hear them, you still have the vinyl.
It’s certainly his right to give that bat**** crazy excuse. I grew up on his music and still listen to it. I wouldn’t go see him in concert, though. I’m too old and he’s too old.
So, he joined John Cougar, Neil Young and many others in thinking fans of their music care about their politics. Such a shame. I’d say ‘shut up and sing’ but it’s been decades since they put out any good quality stuff, so, just shut up.
Neil Young
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as far as young is concerned “philadelphia”, the song he wrote and performed for the film of the same name
made the ending of an incredible film simply epic–visceral, haunting–lord, just beautiful–a true masterpiece
the only song could remember from miller is “the joker”–sort of mid-level lounge music–didn’t even know they had a tour to cancel
I saw 86-year-old Judy Collins in concert last week before a crowd of 300-350 silver hairs (including me). While she’s lost her fastball as a singer, she has a future as a comedian. I did wonder what her motivation could be to trek to the backwoods of MA just to pick up a couple grand. Seems doubtful she needs the money–perhaps just love of performing.
My wife and I took our mothers to see Tom Jones in concert. I think this was in 2019, so Jones would have been 79 or 80. While I can’t say I’m a Tom Jones fan, the guy sounded unbelievable for a 30-year old much less an octogenarian. I have no idea what he was doing to stay youthful. But, his voice was still incredibly strong. A freak of nature.
Did you throw your mother’s underwear at him?
Just wondering
She’s probably broke. I used be a CPA in the music industry. Lots of really popular musicians with #1 hits in the 1960s and 1970s ended up close to flat broke by the 1990s. I had multiple entertainers that had at multiple #1 songs and were doing stuff like loading UPS trucks for a living while still trying to make comebacks. Now these are out-of-date, but it gives you an idea how hard they fall:
Kim Carnes books at $25K
The B-52s were down to $50K two decades ago, have no idea if they do anything now.
Tony Vincent was one of my clients and he’s at| $15K.
Jethro Tull was just $40K.
Garbage (the great punk band) $25K
It’s just the way it is. Some things will never change. And one of them is that entertainers, no matter how much they think otherwise, will almost certainly crash to a margianal ‘has been’ status. Very few retain value over the long run.
I’m willing to bet that Steve Miller still makes a ton in residuals. His songs are still played all over the place for ads and movies and all sorts of things.
Residuals aren’t as big as you think they are. I had a client who had three #1 songs in the 1970s. He was the one who was loading UPS trucks.
Who?
I guess Europe would be out too.
Well
Abra abra cadraba
the joker has flown like an eagle
Very disappointed in my fellow Dallasite. He needs to take a page from Huey Lewis (and the News). When asked why he is doing county fairs instead of arenas Lewis replied “we can’t sell out arenas anymore.”
He was honest, humble, and funny. He didn’t try to make up some sh!t like “we like the smaller crowds and more intimate spaces.”
*Fun fact; Steve Miller and Boz Skaggs were in the same band during high school and a little after
*more notable Dallas musicians of the time; Stevie Ray; Rev Horon Heat; Seals brothers (England Dan and John Ford Coley and Seals and Croft); B.W. Stevenson (My Maria) and Michael Nesmith of the Monkees (real musician).
Ray Wylie Hubbard. Just saw him perform last week. Got tickets to see Boz in November.
Perhaps Steve Miller can share a nursing room with Joe Biden, and they can work on a new album with Frank Sinatra.
Sinatra hung on FAR to long. Much of his later work is embarrassing. Cringe-making.
Steve Miller’s malignant narcissism is more of a threat to the American public than any potential weather event.
It’s sad to find musicians you once admired are so gullible and stupid.
I didn’t even know that Steve Miller was still alive … but I find out, instead, that he’s an incredible d-bag. What a moron.
LOL. It barely gets more retarded than this. It sounds like Steve Miller lives in hell. Me … it was mid 80s and sunny, today. Beautiful.
Fly like
an Eagle… a Dodo.Climate change my backside. Much like Diana Ross, he cancelled because they were too ambitious in the venue sizes, couldn’t sell enough tickets and needed an excuse. Moving to smaller venues is nothing to be ashamed of when the stadium days are over. Every band gets there eventually with very few exceptions.
Who really cares.?? You couldn’t PAY me to see them, and that was before his little leftie hissy fit.
I might have been a little less disgusted had they said something like “the carbon footprint of an undertaking like a US concert tour is too large to justify the benefit to our incomes. We cannot, in good conscience, contribute to global warming in this manner.”
At least that would be taking some responsibility.
Instead they completely ignore their past contributions to the climate weirding which cause these horrible weather phenomena.
I suppose the takeaway is that climate change is their fan’s fault for throwing money at them for all those years to contribute a small country’s worth of carbon to the environment.
Just canceling concerts on full-moon nights because of werewolves wasn’t enough?
I believe ticket sales were soft. That might be the more significant reason. But the band can’t admit that.
What they should have said is they are not going to put their audience members through the unacceptable risks of driving to the venues with all those illegal aliens on the road without drivers licensed driving drunk, having to walk past germ-ridden homeless camps or sidestepping human excrement.
They really are that stupid. The year of record highs for the states starting-with-A-and-running-through-L (about half of them):
Alabama – 1925
Alaska – 1915
Arizona – 1994
Arkansas – 1936
California – 1913
Colorado – 2019
Connecticut – 1995
Delaware – 1930
Florida – 1931
Georgia – 1983
Hawaii – 1931
Idaho – 1934
Illinois – 1954
Indiana – 1936
Iowa – 1934
Kansas – 1936
Kentucky – 1930
Louisiana – 1936
Not quite half of them. Just the first half of the alphabet. Should have counted them before I posted. Point remains the same. Things are not always what we are told by the Environmental-Catastrophe Advocacy Industry.
I finally had the pleasure of seeing one of my classic rock heroes, The Steve Miller Band, in Vegas, about 10 years ago… at a private function — I mean, it was huge, 25k attendees to an international packaging convention; maybe 5-10k attendees to the mixer / cocktail party with musical guest Steve Miller and co.
I’m glad I got to see and enjoy it. I would not have if my wife’s employer had not paid for it all.
I joined the chorus of pejorative comments on various social media posts yesterday when I heard.
Not the way I’d have gone out were I a rock legend. But… whatevs!
So, he thinks climate change is his saving grace. More like cancel culture committing suicide. 😂
“My brain overheats.”
I’m betting that advanced sales were poor, and they cancelled with this climate change nonsense to save face.