The cdr MVB circulated utterly kills, not a bad track on it. Quite a shock for someone like me who assiciates this guy with "Like A Rock" etc. Frigging awesome!
Yeah, no bout adoubt it. Along with the Runaways soundtrack, it's the best hard rock 'record' I've listened to this year. If Seger had any sense he'd pay MVB a fee for artistic consulting, give him a piece per unit sold and put it in stores. Rhino Handmade couldn't have done a better job. That's assuming Seger owns all the rights now.
― Gorge, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Joining the chorus for Myonga's Bob Seger comp. Might get my P&J #1 as well!
― talrose, Tuesday, 13 April 2010 21:45 (fourteen years ago) link
damn people, give me a link!
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 21:53 (fourteen years ago) link
Damn, I was SURE I'd sent you one months ago! When i get home I'll try again. (Or for the first time, as the case may be...)
― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 23:52 (fourteen years ago) link
Fuckin Ramblin Gamblin Man Maaaaaaaaan
― in movie 2001 resurrect thread on planet jupiter (Pillbox), Saturday, 5 June 2010 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQmSvKQpUs
Metal Mike Saunders, last week:
if i may interrupt the 24/7 KE$HA unpaid fanboy promo-work for 5 secondsthis 1970 Seger regional hit 45was one of the awesomest greatest soundingg 45s EVERwhatever CCR's greatest chartalmost-topper (they had many no.2's, never a no.1 single)this motherfucker is JUST AS GOOD OR BETTER i mean holy fuckiing whoa WHAT A LEAD VOCALand killer guitar riff1966-1970 bob seger we salute you!and it's not even his greatest 45....
― xhuxk, Saturday, 5 June 2010 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
that would be (for my money, since it's a match for the orig Animals w/Eric Burdon's very greatest singles)EAST SIDE STORY by Bob Seger and the Last Heard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JL_N-Dly-Q
― xhuxk, Saturday, 5 June 2010 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Chuck, this isn't the first time you've blown my mind. Crazy, but I've never heard any early Seger like that before...wow. Awesome. Thank you!!
― VegemiteGrrrl, Saturday, 5 June 2010 05:53 (fourteen years ago) link
― by another name (amateurist), Tuesday, 13 April 2010 22:53 (5 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
^^^ could someone pls hook me up w/ this as well??
― just sayin, Wednesday, 22 September 2010 10:00 (thirteen years ago) link
Would be grateful for a link as well.
― Chris L, Friday, 24 September 2010 11:22 (thirteen years ago) link
So, I'm still not going to be alone in giving this 30 Pazz & Jop points this year, right?
― xhuxk, Friday, 24 September 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
me three.
xp
is p&j still a thang?
― Ioannis, Friday, 24 September 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
I should remember to check this thread every coupla months or whatever...anyways, I've re-upped the files again, give 'em a try!
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 16 October 2010 05:34 (thirteen years ago) link
uh...
http://www.sendspace.com/file/v9h0zm
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Saturday, 16 October 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
Grazie!
― Marco Damiani, Saturday, 16 October 2010 06:29 (thirteen years ago) link
:) thx!
― just sayin, Saturday, 16 October 2010 07:49 (thirteen years ago) link
yay!
― Ioannis, Saturday, 16 October 2010 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Cheers - got Ramblin' Gamblin' Man on vinyl last month and it's in heavy rotation at the moment.
Those early tracks on your comp are pretty damn good
― Deluxe Merseybeat Wig (Jack Battery-Pack), Saturday, 16 October 2010 12:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, great stuff on this comp. What is the preferred tracklisting? I just put it in chron order, wasn't sure (rough b/c I didn't want to put "Ballad of the Yellow Beret" first even though I think that is the earliest single). Next time around I'd be happy to u/l this, I've fully tagged it with release years, individual bands, etc. Thanks a lot for making it.
― Mark, Saturday, 16 October 2010 19:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks for the link! It's funny to think that these songs would be so surprising to people, but I guess if you didn't grow up in the Detroit area (where many of these were as ubiquitous on local radio as anything by, say, Foghat or Boston) then there's a good chance you haven't heard them yet.
― henry s, Sunday, 17 October 2010 17:12 (thirteen years ago) link
i think i've found the perfect cover photograph for this (awesome) comp. stay tuned as i get my scanner working.
― tylerw, Sunday, 17 October 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
i am still tuned tylerw
― just sayin, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:30 (thirteen years ago) link
oh right! will get that together. it's kind of an amazing photo.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Tyler- where's my cover photo?
And secondly, putting together my best of '10 list and this is one of the reissues. MVB Records the "official" label or are we crediting it differently?
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 4 December 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's how I'm listing it when I give it 30 Pazz & Jop points (hope I'm not alone in that), though I'm open to other suggestions:
Bob Seger – Never Mind the Bullets Here's Early Bob Seger (Myonga CD-R)
― xhuxk, Saturday, 4 December 2010 20:28 (thirteen years ago) link
nice piece in the Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/musicblog/2010/dec/29/bob-seger-detroit-rock
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Awesome -- I hope Michael Hann votes in Pazz & Jop! (I've never heard of him before -- does he post on ILX? If not, now I'm starting to wonder just how far and wide Myonga's Seger collection has been distributed in the past year.) I think he overstates the extent to which Seger was musically "conservative" (whatever that even means at this point), and maybe the extent to which punks rejected him any more than Petty or Springsteen (though I say that from a Detroit vantage point, of course, and Hann does go on to mention the Eddie & the Hot Rods and Thin Lizzy covers in the comments section.) I also had no idea that Face The Promise (for which I actually interviewed Seger for Billboard) sold enough to go platinum, either; but according to Wiki, at least, Hann's right.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
I mean, "Old Time Rock N Roll" has a musically conservative message by definition, I guess, but "Looking Back" is expressly a song about how nostalgia's not a good thing.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 29 December 2010 19:00 (thirteen years ago) link
OK, for completists' sake, I've uploaded a few more files, just to get those remaining Hideout recordings up there for whoever wants 'em. "Very Few" is a very uncharacteristic ballad but I like it OK. "Florida Time" features Seger on backing vocals only. "East Side Sound" is just "East Side Story"'s backing track with some indifferent lead guitar in place of vocals. And "Heavy Music Part III" is just something I made up myself for the hell of it, a stereo track consisting of Part 1 in one channel and Part 2 in the other.
― If it cannot be notated, then there is no nute. (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 9 January 2011 04:42 (thirteen years ago) link
And wrt the "album cover", here's my own attempt:
http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/5495755/bullets3.JPG.html
I know, it's pretty sloppy, garish and not too imaginative. But I'm in love with that assortment of record labels.
― If it cannot be notated, then there is no nute. (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 9 January 2011 04:50 (thirteen years ago) link
Grrr...
― If it cannot be notated, then there is no nute. (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 9 January 2011 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
That's actually fairly decent. Take it on a cd down to the local FedEx office story and have it printed out on photo paper in postcard size. It'll look great, I can pretty much guarantee it, particularly if you can redo the parts as .bmp composite. That will have greater fidelity and resolution.
― Gorge, Sunday, 9 January 2011 07:19 (thirteen years ago) link
that's nice, man.
― a special freak who falls outside of all (Ioannis), Sunday, 9 January 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
as in keen... neato...
― a special freak who falls outside of all (Ioannis), Sunday, 9 January 2011 10:38 (thirteen years ago) link
111st Place in Pazz & Jop from just five ballots (points-per-ballot average: 21), not bad!
http://www.villagevoice.com/pazznjop/albums/2010/TmV2ZXIgTWluZCB0aGUgQnVsbGV0cyBIZXJlJ3MgRWFybHkgQm9iIFNlZ2Vy/
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Er -- 111th, I meant.
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Never would've guessed Tal would be one of those voters.
― Pink Friday XIII (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 01:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.sendspace.com/file/jfniichttp://www.sendspace.com/file/3kmodnhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/8o3sflhttp://www.sendspace.com/file/d9siyk
― If it cannot be notated, then there is no nute. (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 19 January 2011 04:18 (thirteen years ago) link
J, you would have guessed it if I'd written anywhere about it, but I haven't yet. I pitched it to a couple places this year, but apparently no one was interested in a compilation confirming that Bob Seger's early work is some of the greatest rock music ever committed to tape. Their loss. I'm glad that guy from The Guardian wrote something, but I'd still like to see an epic early-Seger piece that somehow gets Bob's attention and lets him give the reins over to Myonga to release this excellent, excellent album.
― talrose, Wednesday, 19 January 2011 15:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Hi guy, I saw the #111 placement of "Never Mind the Bullets Here's Early Bob Seger" which led me here via Google. Sounds like a greeat comp. Nothing off "Brand New Morning" though? Not even "Louise"?
Anyway, I thought you guys might get a kick out of this thing I put together last year, "101 Reasons This Is the Greatest Rock and Roll Photo Ever," at least partially inspired by Darnielle's old ilxor thread about "Ignition (remix)." Seger fans need to at least check out the photo: http://www.gloriousnoise.com/articles/2010/bob_seger_system_photo.php
― Jake, Thursday, 20 January 2011 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
*Hi guys
― Jake, Thursday, 20 January 2011 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hII1PpRemlQ
― omar little, Thursday, 20 January 2011 16:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Finally was able to snag Myonga's comp off slsk (God that took long). THIS IS AMAZING!!
― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 21 January 2011 11:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Nothing off "Brand New Morning" though? Not even "Louise"?
― ilxor gets into jazz (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 23 January 2011 05:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Would it be possible to get a link for this comp (or a copy of it--will trade, pay postage etc.). Thanks.
― Don Buddin, Monday, 24 January 2011 03:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Here's the link:
― ilxor gets into jazz (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 24 January 2011 04:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Can't switch from NFL channel postagame until I see Rodgers 1 on 1 lol
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 24 January 2011 04:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Is there a tracklist somewhere that lists the sources for these tracks? I'm pretty unfamiliar with these songs and I'd like to see what original albums/singles they were from. I dled the sendspace file, but only some of the track tags are filled out.
― one pretty obvious guy in the obvious (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 24 January 2011 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Thanks Myonga.
Saw Seger live in '66! hahahahah Real Talk
― Don Buddin, Monday, 24 January 2011 05:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Good lord. How was the show?
― Mark, Monday, 24 January 2011 05:54 (thirteen years ago) link