
It was 1976 when the Steve Miller Band played the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium on the Fly Like An E agle tour. A thin-framed, long-haired apparition, with no discernible instrument, stepped to the forefront, pulled out a mouth harp and blew a hypnotic soulful rendition of "Mercury Blues." It wasn't Steve Miller that hooked me on the Steve Miller Band – it was Norton Buffalo . Steve Miller called him his "Partner in Harmony." Buffalo's talent was bigger than one band, even though he remained a Steve [...]