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.
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.”
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?
Others pointed out the pure folly of Miller’s excuse.
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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