Greg Douglass (Steve Miller Band) plays Steve Miller
Greg Douglass & Band + Alan Clayson
Entry Requirements: 18+ after 7pm
Greg Douglass, guitarist with The Steve Miller Band and co-writer of their hit "Jungle Love", makes a welcome return to The Half Moon on his 2023 U.K tour .
On his last visit Greg was a member of San Francisco Nights, a supergroup of Californian musicians that included Bruce Barthol & David Bennett Cohen (founder members of Country Joe and The Fish), Roy Blumenfeld (founder member of Al Kooper's Blues Project) and Sam Andrew (founder member of Big Brother & The Holding Company), all bands that together with The Steve Miller Band played the historic Monterey Festival in 1967.
The Steve Miller Band were formed in 1966 in San Francisco, California. After becoming phenomenally successful, Greg and the rest of the band were inducted in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Columbus, Ohio, in 2016.
So far The Steve Miller Band have released 18 studio albums, 7 live albums, 7 compilation albums, and at least 29 singles. Their “Greatest Hits 1974–78“ - featuring Greg Douglass - has sold over THIRTEEN MILLION copies!
Greg was also a former member of the Jefferson Airplane offshoot Hot Tuna, Janis Joplin’s band Big Brother & The Holding Company, Van Morrison's band and many others.
As a member of The Greg Kihn Band he played on their number 1 U.S hit "Jeopardy". Greg has played on at least 60 albums and recorded with many other legendary musicians, including Bo Diddley.
This is Greg's second tour with his top class U.K band, which includes ex Pretty Things bass player Steve Browning, Matt Wheatley on drums and Rob Beckinsale on keyboards and vocals".
Support is from Alan Clayson.
Line Up
Greg Douglass & Band
CLAYSON SINGS CHANSON has been on the road since 2011, initially to tie-in with La Vie Bohème, the most recent edition of his Jacques Brel biography. Media coverage has been fulsome with phrases like ‘mesmerising’, ‘a man possessed’, ‘a performer without equal’ and ‘a wonderful evening by a master raconteur at the top of his game’.
Although much of the repertoire is from Brel's portfolio, Clayson deliver items by other chansonniers, Gallic and English, and ventures into curious but connected realms. Prior to his renown as a music historian, Alan Clayson was popular in the late 1970s as leader of the legendary Clayson and the Argonauts and has since become 'one of the more extraordinary figures to emerge from rock 'n' roll.
It is difficult to explain to the uninitiated what to expect’' (The Independent).
