Mike Miller

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There are at least two artists with the name Mike Miller: an American guitarist and an Irish DJ. Mike Miller, the guitarist: Mike Miller was born in 1953 in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 1972 he moved to Colorado and played with guitarists Robben Ford, Bill Frisell, and Larry Coryell. Miller also played with the Fowler Brothers and recorded the album FLY ON as the group Air Pocket. In 1975, he moved to Los Angeles, where he worked with Shawn Phillips, Bennie Maupin, Tom Scott, Alphonso Johnson, Brand X, and others. Miller began eleven years of touring and recording with progressive pop artist Gino Vannelli in 1981. In 1986 he started the band The Outsidemen, releasing a CD titled "Band Overboard." Miller joined Chick Corea and the Elektric Band II in 1993 for the album Paint the World and the following world tour. He performed the music of Frank Zappa as a member of Banned from Utopia (with the Seattle Symphony, the Portland Symphony and the Israeli Philharmonic), and continued to work in an orchestral setting, recording Joseph Curiale's guitar concerto with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and performing as a soloist in the U.S. debut of Marc Anthony Turnage's Blood on the Floor with the L.A. Philharmonic New Music Group. Miller performed with Bette Midler in the "Divine Miss Millennium" world tour, as well as recording "Bette" with producer Don Was. Miller plays on "No Hyenas" by Steve Fowler and Ed Fowler, as well as a forthcoming Banned from Utopia recording. Mike