Ahhh. Bob Seger. He rocked, didn't he?

[graywarrior]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eb2fC895kac

[L A Woman]

1. Would you believe I JUST bought his greatest hits yesterday?

I just had the urge to hear Main Street and Hollywood Nights!!!!

[graywarrior]

2. I heard him on a Vermont oldies station while I was driving around

today. I forgot how much I liked him. Maybe there's a bunch of collective buyers who will force him to do a comeback.

[Zomby Woof]

3. New album slated for September 12

Heard a new song on the radio the other day... sounded pretty decent.

I am a fan going way back. I love to push the early stuff on those only familiar with the later material extolled by the radio. "Mongrel", "Seven", "Smokin' O.P.'s", and many more that set things up for "Live Bullet". Helluva voice and quite a good writer too.

[graywarrior]

4. Get OUT!!! Musta picked up the vibe. How great is that?

[Zomby Woof]

5. Hehe

He is due, to be sure! 11 years since "It's A Mystery".

Have seen him live twice, and a great show both tours. Don't know if he will tour for this one. He has spent the past decade living the family life. :-)

The album is called "Face The Promise". Details here:

http://www.bobseger.com

[graywarrior]

6. Yeah, I heard he's been sailing and being a dad.

Thanks for the link.

[greatauntoftriplets]

7. Must dig out my CD with Night Moves on it.

Not sure where it is since the recent move. :(

[graywarrior]

8. Crank it up!

[mtowngman]

9. Oh yeah, here's a memory

1977- five hippies in a chevy van driving from N.J. to Daytona Beach. "Night Moves" was one of about four cassette tapes we had with us. "Down on Mainstreet" still moves me.

[Zomby Woof]

10. Not a bad cut on that album

"Sunburst", "The Fire Down Below", and "Come To Poppa" are my favorites from it, and yes, "Mainstreet" is a poignant number.

[graywarrior]

11. Hey you joined DU on my birthday (and no I wasn't born in 04).,

But yeah, I was living in Ipswich Ma, a stoner hippie myself, listening to Seger over and oever and over.

[mtowngman]

14. Mine's Nov.15-obviously not '04

[graywarrior]

15. Ha! 2 crazy scorpios.

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Down on Mainstreet - great! And I'll always be soft for "Turn the Page"

Love that song!

And the main song off that album that had the white horses on it.

[graywarrior]

17. Memories.....yes, the white horses.

OMG, I want to be back there....not a care in the friggin world.

[Zomby Woof]

18. Against The Wind

[Rabrrrrrr]

19. That's it! The song about fighting upstream in Rush's anal canal.

[Zomby Woof]

20. Sounds like a metaphor for TODAY

:hurts:

[mtowngman]

21. Isn't there a song called "Sunspot Baby" on that album? n/t

[Zomby Woof]

22. Yep!

Opened side two on vinyl. :-)

[SKKY]

29. "Well she packed up her bags and she took off down the road."

.."she left me here stranded with the bills she owed. She used my address and my name, and man
that was sure unkind. Sunspot Baby, she sure had a real good time." Or something like that.
Very good song.

[Zomby Woof]

30. Backed up by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section

Literally half of each "Silver Bullet" album actually featured the legendary Jimmy Johnson and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section of Muscle Shoals Studios, in Sheffield, Alabama. They backed up such classic acts in the 60's as Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, and Boz Scaggs, and produced some early Skynyrd material, among others. "Sunspot Baby" is classic Muscle Shoals R&B - funky slide guitar and shuffling rhythms. :thumbsup:

[graywarrior]

32. Man, how many times did I see Boz. Great musician.

[tuvor]

12. How the hell, exactly, does a rock "charge from the gate"???

One of the dumbest excuses for a rhyme in all of rock music history.

[Zomby Woof]

13. U.M.C. (Upper Middle Class)

I wanna be a lawyer
Doctor or professor
A member of the UMC

I want an air conditioner
Cottage on the river
And all the money I can see

I wanna drive a Lincoln
Spend my evenings drinking
The very best burgandy

I want a yacht for sailing
Private eye for tailing
My wife if she's a bit too free

I've been told ever since a boy
that's what one ought to be
A part of the UMC

I want a pool to swim in
Fancy suits to dress in
Some stock in GM and GE

An office in the city
Secretary pretty
Who'll take dictation on my knee

I want a paid vacation
Don't want to have to ration
A thing with anyone but me

And if there's war or famine
Promise I'll examine
The details if they're on TV

I'll pretend to be liberal but I'll still support the GOP,
As part of the UMC

I wanna be a lawyer
Doctor or professor
A member of the UMC

[Horse with no Name]

23. I still have a silver bullet necklace

:swoon:
And I have every album that he did.
I saw him in Dallas in the early 80's.
I really wanted to marry him when I was 17 years old...:blush:

[graywarrior]

24. Who didn't want to marry him?

God, he was sweet. From the looks of the new album, he still looks damn hot.

[Redstone]

25. Here's where we disagree. There will come a time when I go to a wedding

and hear "that old time rock and roll" once too many times, and I don't want to tell you what the result would be.

And if I EVER hear his song (mercifully, I forget the title), where he whines about how HARD and how TOUGH it is to be a rock and roll star (as opposed to, for example, carrying bricks for a living), I think I'd just go ahead and hurl.

Redstone

[graywarrior]

26. That's the fault of the crap radio station you listen to.

Wait til you get here. 5 stations. Better get digital radio.

[Zomby Woof]

27. Turn The Page

He wrote that when he was completely unknown, and when being constantly on the road, slogging it in run-down beer joints with chicken wire, caverns (literally in one case), taverns, and seedy hotels, 300 nights a year, enduring severe tedium, near-poverty, and extreme fatigue... and having done so for 7 straight years at that point because he had a determination to succeed... one earns the right to bitch. Hell, had he not broken through soon after, carrying bricks probably would have been welcomed.

[SKKY]

28. The Album "Against The Wind" shaped and formed my....

...taste in music. I think he's one of the most underrated American song writers.

[graywarrior]

31. I so agree with you. There were Springsteen fans, and then there

were Seger fans. I remember when he sold out Boston Garden.