Bob Seger's "Night Moves": C or D

I LOVE NIGHT MOVES

lol

Night moves is so dope.

― wolf kabob (ENBB), Sunday, April 15, 2012 10:43 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

The other day in the car I heard what I thought was going to be night moves but it turned out to be some bullshit and I was sad.

Not many Seger threads, but they're almost all from 2003/2004. What happened then? Anyway, from my accidentally ILE post:

I've never thought that much about Bob Seger, and never listened to anything of his on purpose (other than when it popped up on the radio), but I just saw him at Madison Square Garden and it was not bad! Totally corny, somewhere between Springsteen and Billy Joel, but he was having a blast for a 74-year old. Learned there were two songs by him that I never knew were by him ("Her Strut" and "We've Got Tonight"). Best of all I learned that his ridiculous ponytailed sax player, who never did much and rocked both sunglasses and a trench coat, actually goes by the name Alto Reed.

My step-mom won free tickets. Catch was that it was 150 miles away in Memphis.

ME: Looks like he's starting off all his shows with... "Simplicity"?

DAD: Huh. Kinda surprised that one's his opener.

ME: You know that song?

DAD: Never heard it. How does it go?

dad otm

Ha, I've actually heard it, and it sort of makes sense he'd open with it (heavy deep groove mid-tempo rocker from Face The Promise, Seger's idea of a Kid Rock song).

fine but have you heard it in a CVS

i thought bob seger had died when i saw both this thread and the one on ile bumped

XP Nope, but I have heard other things from Face The Promise in stores, pretty much all of which was when the album was new.

"Wait For Me" had retail soundscape legs for a few years.

xpost Yeah, I was worried people would think he died, sorry about that.

Does Bob Seger Choogle Y/N

I saw him at the Garden in 2007. He/it ruled.

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Not many Seger threads, but they're almost all from 2003/2004. What happened then?

The White Stripes dropped Seven Nation Army

Quick story:

I've been thinking about Bob Seger this week and knew he was on tour because he was mentioned while I was walking my daughter to school by Diane -- a 70 y/o-ish lady from the Boston 'burbs who has smoked all her life and been our neighborhood school's crossing guard for 30 years. We've always had a really fun time jabbering with one another but she's never been above telling me to stay the hell out of the road when the light's green. Anyway, out of nowhere last week, she told me that she and her brother had seen Seger dozens of times over the years, but that this week he had gone to see him without her for the first time in years because "I can't go up all those stairs anymore." She was disappointed, but, she said, her brother sent her a video so she could see some of it anyway. We joshed around for a few and I think I made a "Turn the Page" joke or something before crossing the street.

On Wednesday, I noticed Diane wasn't there at pickup after school -- that wasn't super out of the ordinary so I didn't make too much of it. But I found out later that she had died the night before, I think from a heart attack, and didn't show up for work that morning. On the way to find some last-minute Halloween costumes, I broke the news to my 9 y/o. We were both pretty sad about it so in her honor we played a bunch of Seger hits -- Still the Same, Night Moves, Turn the Page, Old Time Rock n' Roll. Like Josh said, and a lot of us I imagine, these songs were all etched in my memory from classic rock radio as a kid but ... they hold up. They're tough, heartfelt and earnest but not corny. Kind of like Diane. RIP to a really cool lady.

Aw, RIP (though lots of Seger is absolutely corny).

Also, every time I hear the piano riff in the title track to Eno’s Taking Tiger Mountain (By Strategy) I hear “Still the Same.”

^ YES.

Dad says, ahem, one of the highlights of the show was a cover of "Forever Young," featuring a slideshow of dead rock stars like Prince, Jimi, Janis, etc.

Full of snark, I asked, Oh, did he have Glenn Frey up there?

HOW DID YOU KNOW? LET ME TELL YOU WHAT HE SAID ABOUT GLEN FREY.... and then he told me.

Well, yeah.

I’ve always got time for Still the Same and Til it Shines. Not really much else though.

Working for the man on the nights every night and day

bob rules all the way through the 70’s up until the mid 80’s and then i peace out of his cataloh.

but overall i love him. i love that he’s still touring - am yet to see him live, really want to though! even if it’s a corn-fest of songs i dont particularly care for.

*catalog

The one Bob Seger song that I truly love without finding it at all corny (as opposed to the ones I love but also find corny) is Roll Me Away. I think the last verse is legit gorgeous, and I love that he takes the basic idea of a song that builds to a triumphant final line but then makes that line "Next time we'll get it right!"

Bob is pretty great but he didn’t write Willin’ or anything so

Gave Bill Payne a buncha session paydays tho.

Before he played "Night Moves" he said something like "let's move some nights!"

"Against the Wind" has a great line, like "I wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then."

xpost to Veggie, this is his farewell tour! Maybe just one more date.

Before he played "Night Moves" he said something like "let's move some nights!"

Man, I know so little about this dude, but I was just brushing up and it's *fascinating.* He released *seven* now more or less out of print albums before releasing "Beautiful Loser," which was a big hit and which he and others kind of consider his "first" album. It's not until "Night Moves" in '76 that the Silver Bullet Band (one of the most iconic American rock band names) even gets billed on the sleeves. There are all his connections to the Eagles (through Glenn Frey of course, but both other Dons make appearances on his records), but there's also that long running association with the Muscle Shoals crew. And then there's "Live Bullet" in '76, which ... is that the first of the massive, ubiquitous '70s live albums as cultural touchstone best-ofs? One of them, for sure. Frampton's "Come Alive" came out early in '76, "Budokan" a couple of years later. Hmm. Oh, Kiss "Alive!" came out in '75, did anything big come before that?

Anyway, here's a guy steeped in frat-friendly soul music that presents as better than average butt rock, but he also had a way with a ballad (and had the good sense to cover Rodney Crowell's "Shame on the Moon" in 1983, which gave Crowell his first big crossover commercial breakthrough). I guess Seger was playing to huge crowds, tens of thousands of people, in and around Detroit for years before he broke out himself. A pal was telling me at the show that apparently one of his only big markets outside of Michigan was Boston, and that for Boston's J. Geils Band one of their biggest other markets was Detroit, and that they and Seger would kind of swap cities back and forth. I was just reading interviews about it with Peter Wolf, and came across this:

"The first time we played Detroit, it was the J. Geils Band, MC5, Iggy Pop and the Stooges and Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels,'' he said.

The year was 1970 or 1971, Wolf said. And the opening act?

Bob Seger.

Now there's a bill.

And then there's "Live Bullet" in '76, which ... is that the first of the massive, ubiquitous '70s live albums as cultural touchstone best-ofs? One of them, for sure. Frampton's "Come Alive" came out early in '76, "Budokan" a couple of years later. Hmm. Oh, Kiss "Alive!" came out in '75, did anything big come before that?

Grand Funk Railroad's Live Album was 1970. So was the Who's Live at Leeds.

Ya-Ya's was '70 as well. Though maybe not a touchstone, per se, (not much radio play). "Blow Your Face Out" by Geils was '76, which got massive play (in Detroit, at least.) Same with Humble Pie "Rockin' The Fillmore", which I think was a few years earlier. I still have never heard the studio version of "I Don't Need No Doctor."

I guess those days when different regions celebrated artists that were relatively unknown elsewhere are long gone. For Seger to play Cobo Arena in Detroit one night, then some small theater in Denver a few nights later (though "Get Out of Denver" assured that he had at least a small following there), that just doesn't happen anymore. If you're big here you're pretty much big there, and vice versa.

I dunno, does anyone care about Widespread Panic outside of the south?

in my experience everytime they tour, yes; there are hoards of awful jam band hippies in my town waiting to see them

Now there's a bill.

Here's another insane bill -- I'm gonna go out on a limb and say this was probably the only time Archie Shepp and Bob Seger shared a stage:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51SUiZ4IAjL.jpg

If you're big here you're pretty much big there, and vice versa.

I don't know - when LCD Soundsystem did that big concert at Madison Square Garden that they filmed, I remember thinking that New York was the only city in America where fucking LCD Soundsystem could fill an arena. Everyplace else, they were a club- to midsized-theater act.

That's a good question. I wonder how much of it was partly driven by (phony) Last Show Ever! hype? Iirc Murphy admitted that was a ruse meant to goose ticket sales. That same tour they instantly sold out the Aragon here, which is 5000, and immediately added a second club show at the Riviera (which was just another 2500), but I bet they could have played, say, three shows at the Aragon. It's not MSG, but it would have been arena-sized numbers, 15,000 tickets.

Someone like Springsteen, though, I wonder. I think at the end of the reunion tour he played, what, 10 nights in a row at MSG? That's pretty crazy. Didn't he do a run of NY stadiums and baseball parks a few years later?

Y’all need to get a copy of our very own Myonga Von Bontee’s “Never Mind The Bullets” fan compilation covering allllll the good stufff from 66-74

though having said that, idk where the best link is fir it these days - tyler’s d00m & gl00m used to be the place

anyway It’ll change yr life especially if you are lukewarm on bob

I know virtually nothing about the BS System but i’m thinking I’d prob dig it

it’s like if you were a casual Pink Floyd observer saying well I guess I like “Another Brick in the Wall” but that “Learning To Fly” song is but naff? They seem corny.

You gotta dig!! You gotta find Bob’s ‘Meddle’, his ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ or hear his “Careful With That Ax Eugene” for the first time.

Trust me. Pink Floyd RULES just as much as Bob Seger RULES.

Early Seger stuff has a shit-ton of buried treasure type tunes. Heavy Music. 2+2=?.

thanks for the rec VG

it's on slsk fwiw

Plus, Seger in his prime had an absolute switchblade voice, and you can really hear it on those early singles.

Grade A Prime Seger


https://youtu.be/IJFVKrhKb-U

xxpost yr welcome!! <3

I saw him at the Garden in 2007. He/it ruled.

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wow, are those bob's official new pronouns?