That didn’t take long.
In an interview with Billboard, Steve Miller reacted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame drama that he was a part of and as you can imagine he had a lot of interesting things to say:
On whether he stands by his statements that he made regarding the ceremony:
“Of course I do, yeah. I spoke the truth as I experienced it, and as I have experienced it over the years. Basically, as everybody that has had a taste of the record business knows, they are gangsters and crooks…I was pretty naïve when I started and, over the years, my record companies have grossed over $1 billion from my work, and I've spent 50 years auditing them to force them to pay me what my contracts call for. I caught them illegally selling hundreds of thousands of my records in markets worldwide. They've broken their contracts, they've broken their word. They have built-in theft in all their accounting. I've had to threaten to use the RICO statutes against them. It's a business with built-in theft and cheating, that's just considered normal, and I'm just not the kind of guy who tolerates that, I don't go for that. If it's not fair, and if it's not clean and clear, then I'm going to work to make it that way.”
On the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame audience:
“Well, the audience that I saw was just a bunch of people at tables. I looked out there and I didn't really see any friendly faces -- I basically saw people I had been suing and auditing for years.”
On the Black Keys inducting them:
“I wanted to ask Elton John to induct me, because Elton knows my music and loves my music and we’re friends, and I thought he would probably have a good historical perspective. But they said, “no, the Black Keys are going to do it,” and I said, “well, OK,” and they said “there’s no negotiation on any of it, that’s the way we do it, that’s the way we’ve always done it, that’s the way it’s gonna be. It’s all gonna be a surprise; you’re not gonna know what they’re gonna say, you’re not going to know anything about that.
I think their experience was as bad as mine. It shouldn't have happened, and if the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame would have had good enough manners to at least introduce us, we'd probably be friends. We have a lot in common, and I think they've been played pretty good by Rolling Stone. I don't know them, and I don't have any bad feelings about them at all. I feel badly for them, because they've got to think, "welcome to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, kid, here's how it works."
Maybe next week we won’t have a dramatic revelation of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony.
Steve Miller Fires Back
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17 Apr
2016
2016
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