Steve Miller Band Abruptly Cancels Its Entire 2025 Tour: 'Blame It on the Weather'
The Steve Miller Band has canceled its 2025 tour dates, stating weather-related issues
Upcoming shows are no longer listed on the band's website
'Don't know where, don't know when… We hope to see you all again,' a statement shared on social media Wednesday, July 16, readThe Steve Miller Band has canceled all tour dates for 2025.
On Wednesday, July 16, the rock band, led by Steve Miller on guitar and vocals, abruptly announced that it will not proceed with any shows for the remainder of the year.
'Dear Steve Miller Band fans, You make music with your instincts, You live your life by your instincts. Always trust your instincts,' a message to the group's official Facebook and X account began.
The post then explained why the band made the sudden change.
'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,' the announcement read.
'Don't know where, don't know when… We hope to see you all again. Wishing you all Peace, Love and Happiness, Please take care of each other. Steve, The Band and the Crew,' the post concluded.
The same message was shared to the Steve Miller Band's website, with 2025 touring dates now removed.
The band — known for hits like 'Rock 'N Me' and 'Take the Money and Run,' as well as '80s songs like 'Abracadabra' — had 31 dates scheduled for its American tour, which was slated to begin Aug. 15 in Bethel, N.Y. before wrapping in Anaheim, Calif. on Nov. 8, per Variety.
Fans expressed their disappointment over the cancellation in the band's Facebook comments.
'All these things have always existed. To blame it on the weather sounds a little suspect,' one person wrote. 'Better stay in bed everyday, something bad might happen otherwise…too risky,' another said.
The rock band formed in San Francisco in 1966, with their greatest hits from 1974-78 receiving the RIAA diamond award for more than 15 million copies sold, according to its website.
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Following Miller's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction in 2016, he spoke exclusively to PEOPLE about how he fell in love with music.
'When I was 4 ½ he showed me my first chords,' he told PEOPLE in September 2017 of electric guitar pioneer Les Paul.
'I got to see him play in a nightclub because my dad was recording his show every night," Miller said. "I saw him perform a lot and right then and there I saw how much fun you could have playing guitar. He made it look like anyone could do it. I was 4 and ½ and I went, 'That's what I want to do.' '
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