Jet Airliner - Steve Miller Band Guitar FC (Guitar Hero On Tour) Nintendo DS HD Gameplay
4My Thoughts On The Song/Chart: A great classic that while repetitive on the Guitar role, is one of my favorite radio hits from Steve Miller Band.
Ironically, despite this version being a cover by Wavegroup and using the single edit of the song as a basis (Cutting out "Threshould" and the first part of the songs intro entirely.) it still censors the line "funky shit goin down in the city" instead of using the radio version that censors it with "funky kicks"
Song Facts:
"Jet Airliner" is a song composed by Paul Pena in 1973 and popularized by the Steve Miller Band in 1977.
Pena wrote and recorded "Jet Airliner" in 1973 for his New Train album. However, New Train was not released until 2000, due to conflicts between him and his label.
Steve Miller heard Pena's unreleased New Train album through Ben Sidran, who produced it, and who was formerly in Miller's band. Miller recorded "Jet Airliner" in 1975 during sessions for the Fly Like an Eagle album, but the song was not released until 1977, when it was included on Miller's Book of Dreams album.
The lyrics of the Steve Miller Band version are slightly different from the Pena original. Miller's performance of the main riff also is slightly different from Pena's original, which has a funkier edge to it.
The song is also notable for helping to popularize the phrase "keep on keepin' on", previously found in John Lennon's song "Old Dirt Road" (1974) and Bob Dylan's songs "You Ain't Goin' Nowhere" (1971) and "Tangled Up in Blue" (1975). The single reached No. 8 on the Billboard chart. In Canada, the song spent two weeks at No. 3.
On classic rock radio, Miller's "Jet Airliner" is generally played in tandem with "Threshold", the all-synthesizer instrumental that precedes it on Book of Dreams and the Greatest Hits 1974–78 compilation.
The single edit of Miller's recording features a truncated version of the guitar intro. In addition, one line of the song's lyrics was altered for radio play: instead of "that I don't want to get caught up in any of that funky shit goin' down in the city," it was changed to "funky kicks." The single edit was included on the original release of Greatest Hits 1974–78, although the full album version has been used for later CD reissues of the compilation.
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