Steve Miller: ‘I’m investigating Hall of Fame money and management’

Guitar great Steve Miller is planning to launch an investigation into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame leadership after feeling disrespected at the museum’s recent induction ceremony.
Calling the organisation a “private boys’ club” full of “f**king gangsters and crooks”, the 2016 inductee is out to “get these guys” for the way they treat veteran musicians.
Miller took aim at the management from the stage at this year’s (Apr16) gala and has been vocal about his experience ever since, and now he tells shock jock Howard Stern, “It’s gonna get better. I’m gonna get these guys. They’re gonna be sorry that they treated all these people this way.
“I’m planning to keep it (story) in the news. I wanna see where they’re spending the money. I wanna see who’s being paid. I wanna check it all out… The funding they raise is actually gonna be used for music education before I’m done.”
During his chat with Stern, Miller also addressed his new war of words with the Black Keys, who inducted him in to the Hall of Fame.
The Joker singer previously revealed he asked Hall of Fame bosses if he could ask Sir Elton John to induct him, but they nixed the idea and explained they had already booked the members of the Black Keys, who Miller didn’t know.
The 72-year-old adds, “I never was introduced to the Black Keys. I didn’t know who they were personally. I walked in through security, and there’s this guy (Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach) looking at me… I walk up to him, and I go, ‘What are you doing tonight?’ And he says, ‘I’m reading your speech’. I say, ‘Oh, great. I can’t wait to get the f**k out of here.’ And I didn’t know who he was!
“If we had been introduced, I’m sure we would have gotten along because we like the same kind of music and they’re working musicians and stuff.”
Auerbach has since told Rolling Stone the band regrets inducting Miller, stating, “He had no idea who we were. No idea. The first thing he told us was, ‘I can’t wait to get out of here’. He knew that we signed up to do this speech for him.”