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

Grade A Prime Seger


https://youtu.be/IJFVKrhKb-U

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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

otm

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....

OTR&R is actually a great song imo, it’s just been beaten into Mustang Sally levels of tedium.

i dunno
it’s not that great compared to ~so much~ of his catalog prior to that

also my least favorite music subgenre is washed middleaged guys complaining about music

The worst thing that happened to OTR&R was Risky Business.

he had so many damn top 40 hits I don't know

“Old Time Rock ‘n’ Roll” is Seger’s 1980s “Ballad Of The Yellow Berets.” The tragic difference is that there was no 1980s “2+2=?”

Following up OTR&R by making "Fire Lake" the first single off your next album is a hell of a move.

At least it was "Old Time Rock & Roll" that got played to death, not the vastly superior "Rock & Roll Never Forgets."

Yes, that one is much better.

all the seger -- particularly betty lou's getting out tonight -- reminds me of good burgers at the landmark inn

it was an absolute dive owned by my classmate's dad and always shady as fuck. classmate, last i heard, was in prison -- but his younger brother was flying blimps over sporting events

anyway seger rules

my least favorite music subgenre is washed middleaged guys complaining about music

True, I need them to be filthy before they start their whining.

Mr. Seger if you're nasty

nostalgia often has little to do with the quality of the experiences, and a lot to do with our own shifts in feeling about ourselves. This is actually a pretty feckin wise point, and one that I don't think was ever made in song before "Night Moves."

I'd say this is the point of "People Take Pictures of Each Other" by the Kinks, written eight years earlier.