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

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:

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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


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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?

Still love that Seger released an album in January 1973 called Back in ‘72.

lol

I always wondered if Funkadelic did any shows with those early Detroit hard rock bands like Seger, MC5 or the Stooges.

(article idea for writers on board)...I also thought it would be a good idea if you could get Seger and George Clinton for an interview together, that could be interesting to get their feedback on Detroit in the late 60s and early 70s. Same interview would be great if you had Iggy or maybe someone like Wayne Kramer in there too.

Funkadelic def played w the MC5

Soldier Field 1970: https://theconcertdatabase.com/concerts/wcfls-big-10-summer-music-festival

As killer a lineup that might be, I'd imagine this engagement was a bit less interesting than the MC5s previous Chicago gig in '68.

One of the Funkadelic guys introduced the Stooges to heroin at a show they shared the bill on, and I bet that was it.

i saw starz/rush/bob seger at the palladium in my college days. lots of rush fans left before the headliner. their loss. he/it ruled!

https://theconcertdatabase.com/sites/theconcertdatabase.com/files/1977-03-17.jpg

i also saw that blondie/iggy show. geez those were consecutive nights.

idk, i think i have the tapes from the stooges and the mc5 at that show. wish the person who taped them had taped funkadelic as well...

Just saw an amped story about his last show of the tour/ever (in Philadelphia, BTW). It's mentioned that he hasn't ruled out a final tour overseas, something he hasn't done since 1980.

Setlist:

Simplicity
Still the Same
The Fire Down Below
Mainstreet
Old Time Rock & Roll
The Fire Inside
Shame on the Moon
Roll Me Away
Come to Poppa
Her Strut
Like a Rock
You'll Accomp'ny Me
We've Got Tonight
Travelin' Man
Beautiful Loser
Sunspot Baby
Turn the Page
Forever Young
Ramblin' Gamblin' Man

Encore
Against the Wind
Hollywood Nights

The Famous Final Scene
Night Moves
Rock and Roll Never Forgets

Looks like the setlist I got.

I think it's the same one for every show on the tour.

I'm sure. That always surprises me, since you'd think they'd want to shake it up a little, especially since his band was given not much of note to do. A couple of times Bob got to sit down and strum a barely-audible guitar, but he did play piano a little, and I thought it would have been nice if they just left him on stage for a couple of songs to play a deep cut or two. It really would have been sweet, given the context, if instead of a full-band "Night Moves" closing the set it was just Bob and the piano by himself.

He was doing "Busload of Faith" (a Lou cover from the last album) at earlier dates.

Of course, if you knock off "Simplicity" and the Dylan cover, the set is practically his greatest hits comps track-for-track.

I like how he does the same "Travelin' Man/Beautiful Loser" medley as on "Live Bullet". Talk about a pair of songs joined at the hip! Can't even begin to imagine how many times I heard that medley on the radio back in the day.

RIP Alto Reed :(

(from FB)

"It is with a heavy heart that we inform you of the passing of our lifelong friend and band mate, Alto Reed. Alto passed away this morning at his home with his family by his side after fighting a courageous battle with colon cancer.

Alto has been a part of our musical family, on and off stage, for nearly 50 years. I first starting playing with Alto in 1971. He was amazing – he could play just about anything…he was funky, could scat and play tenor sax and alto sax at the same time.

We worked with Alto often and when we booked our first headline arena gigs at Cobo Hall, we asked him to be a part of those shows. No doubt his iconic performance on Turn The Page helped lift us to another level. He has been with us on that stage virtually every show, ever since. And whether it was Turn The Page, Mainstreet, or Old Time Rock And Roll, audiences roared every time he played his part. In our band, Alto was the rock star.

Off stage, Alto had a passion for discovering and experiencing new things. He taught me how to sail on Biscayne Bay, we swam with the sharks (unintentionally!), and he often introduced us to local foods and restaurants he had discovered. I called him Captain. He was bolder than I was. I remember visiting him in the Miami area and I found him feeding the manatees in a lagoon behind his house. Most of us feed the seagulls, Alto fed the manatees!

Alto started a family and was a fabulous father. He helped raise two talented, beautiful, intelligent young ladies. Over the years, his passion for music, life and new adventures never diminished. We loved him like a brother and will miss forever."

- Bob Seger

Disappointed to learn that Alto Reed wasn't his real name.

lol same

I interviewed keyboardist Erik Deutsch once and when he told me he was married to one of Alto Reed's daughters, I demanded Bob Seger stories. (He didn't have anything really wild to share, just told me that yes, Bob Seger was at his wedding, and he was as awesome a guy as you would expect.)

Listening to Live Bullet on youtube today in memoriam. One of the records I sold pretty much as soon as punk hit, but I saw him around the time this was recorded and he was a rockin' great time. RIP Alto Reed.

I got a ton of nostalgia tied around the big 3 w/ Night Moves, Live Bullet and The Stranger. Where I grew up, Seger was the DUDE. I can remember being a kid that period in the late 70s early 80s and just knowing all those songs, they were just everywhere. At his peak, the Silver Bullet band could outsell live show tickets against anyone in Indianapolis, bigger even than Mellancamp at his peak. He sold out 3 nights at the Hoosier Dome on the Like a Rock tour to my memory, the Stones only did two. That's something like 160,000 tickets.

Live Bullet is awesome and that line on "Turn the Page" by Alto Reed is forever epic played day round on FM radio (RIP).

the tone on that Turn the Page line still gives me chills

I just watched a documentary on Muscle Shoals on Prime and fuck, does Mainstreet hit hard.

heh i have that doc in my watchlist but haven't checked it out yet. for the record, seger is an all-time balladeer.

Bob Seger’s Night Moves is an incredible song. It’s a Mid Western film noir RomCom in futile denial of the romance that it obviously ACHES for. Its proclaimed unsentimentality is ironically the source of its painful nostalgia. 10CC’s I’m Not In Love is its colder English Cousin.

— Vernon Reid (@vurnt22) April 17, 2022

He's not wrong.

otm

otm. inversely it helps explain why "summer of '69" is so cloying, at least to my ear

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I heard “Fire Down Below” for the first time in ages the other day. Had to crank it! Does it not get played much on classic rock radio anymore? This album rules, fuiud.

Have to admit it took me a long while for this guy to grow on me and I still don’t really like (not on this album) “Old Time Rock & Roll.”

Nostalgia for a web post yet to cOOOOOOOOooooooooommmmeee....