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Rock Legend Steve Miller Receives the Les Paul Spirit Award at the Gibson Garage in Nashville
On Monday, June 9th, 2025 - on the occasion of what would have been inventor and innovator Les Paul's 110th birthday - the Les Paul Foundation presented the Les Paul Spirit Award to rock legend Steve Miller at the Gibson Garage in Nashville, Tennessee.
Rock legend Steve Miller is honored in Nashville. For Steve Miller the recognition was personal and probably even more meaningful than his 2016 Roll Hall of Fame induction. You see, Miller - who is now 81 years old - first met the "Wizard of Waukesha" when he was just a very young man of four or five. According to Steve - Les Paul taught him his first three chords - as he demonstrated from the Gibson Garage stage. The creator of Gibson's flagship brand guitar also became the "Abracadabra" singer's godfather when his father was Les Paul's best man at his wedding to Mary Ford.
Gibson's President and CEO Cesar Gueikian welcomes guests to the Gibson Garage. Apparently, Steve Miller learned even more from Les Paul than just some fancy fretwork taking a page out of Paul's playbook by never slowing down. Miller announced that he just completed building the fifth recording studio of his career, stating that it was his best sounding one so far - even if it isn't the most chic on the inside. Still, his new award made from pieces of Les Paul's famous Mahwah workshop will be the first decoration to adorn Miller's new creative space.
Steve Miller and band played a high-flying and intimate four-song set in Music City. "This ain't no cocktail party, this is a concert," Steve Miller said at the Cummins Station venue - himself also sounding great from the Nashville stage with a pickup band that included SMB keyboardist Joseph Wooten as they ran through four songs including a 10-minute extended jam on "Fly Like An Eagle" before closing with the crowd favorite "The Joker".
Michael Braunstein, Steve Miller, Lynn Goldsmith and Cesar Gueikian in Nashville. Dignitaries were in the house including Gibson's President and Chief Executive Officer Cesar Gueikian who talked about Les Paul's continuing impact on his company's ongoing success - citing the entertainer once known as "Red Hot Red" as still being the most important connection to their brand of guitars. Michael Braunstein - the Executive Director of the Les Paul Foundation - took a few moments to outline the prestigious nature of the Award by naming past recipients including Bob Weir, The Edge, Nile Rodgers and Peter Frampton while world famous rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith looked on.
Steve Miller accepts the Les Paul Spirit Award at the Gibson Garage. The Gibson Garage was celebrating the fourth anniversary of the opening of their flagship retail store and venue space in Nashville by hosting the Les Paul Foundation and several dozen VIPs and ticketed guests for a party that concluded a big week for them in Music City that began with the always popular Gibson Garage Fest. Les Paul created the Les Paul Foundation in 1995 to extend his spirit of innovation through grants to educational organizations and institutions. The LPF seeks to inspire innovative and creative thinking by sharing the legacy of Les Paul through support of music education, recording and medical research related to hearing.
Cesar Gueikian, Beth Heidt, Michael Braunstein and Steve Miller in Nashville. Related Links: For more information on STEVE MILLER and the other organizations mentioned please visit the following links - Steve Miller Band | Steve Miller Band Flies High in Ryman Return | Les Paul Foundation | Gibson Garage | Gibson Garage Fest '25 Strikes a Chord in Nashville
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