In an interview with Rolling Stone, Black Keys frontman Dan Auerbach says that he and bandmate Pat Carney regret inducting Steve Miller into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week.

During his acceptance speech, Miller called out the rock hall by saying, "I encourage you to keep expanding your vision, to be more inclusive to women…and more transparent to the public." When he was later asked in the press room to expand on that thought, Miller took the opportunity to say what a lot of people are thinking:

Steve Miller just ranted beautifully in the #rockhall2016 press room pic.twitter.com/vpmAC5AtPe

— Joe Coscarelli (@joecoscarelli) April 9, 2016

They say you should never meet your heroes and that may be advice Auerbach should have taken. The rocker says that he grew up a huge fan of Miller's music but now he may be having a change of heart, "The whole process was unpleasant. And for Pat and I, honestly, the most unpleasant part was being around him."

The Akron, Ohio rockers left in the middle of Miller's performance at the ceremony in Brooklyn's Barclays Center and never returned.

In the Rolling Stone interview, Auerbach claims that Miller didn't even bother to learn about the people that were inducting him into the hall of fame:

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. And he made no effort to even [laughs uncomfortably] — he didn’t even figure out who we were. I don’t live in New York City. This is like three days out of my life flying from Nashville and leaving my kids at home.

Auerbach agrees that there are some issues with the music industry, but he feels Miller was a bit too critical:

Of course there are problems in the music industry. Of course. But we were there, unpaid, on our own free will, to come celebrate his achievements and spread the joy of rock & roll. To inspire kids to pick up guitars. To play music. And it felt like we were doing the opposite.

While Auerbach acknowledges that Miller is free to say what he likes, he does think he is a bit hypocritical:

Listen, I just want people to know that he's allowed to say whatever he wants, of course. But he does not speak for me. He does not speak for Pat. And some of the things he said is just [pauses, sighs] I don't know. I really don't know. It's weird. He called the whole thing "a boys' club." The Steve Miller band has had 35 members and no women. It was just very disappointing. And I'm not looking for anything, really. I just wanted people to just know how Pat and I felt. That's all.

Below, watch Miller's induction speech and performance from the ceremony.

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