Entertainment For Lively Minds
For the lovely Ms Mossman
Posted by niallb on 10 June 2011 - 3:50pm.
Sometimes a great song about travelling, getting away to some mystical, mythical place in the distance is all I need to make me feel good about the world. Springsteen does it for me, Joe Walsh does it, John Mellencamp does it and Mr Bob Seger most definitely does it. Have a great weekend everyone. Roll me away!
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I watch this clip literally every day! Isn't it ace? Have you noticed the "pointing" he does? Genius. Singling out people at the front every few bars and making them feel special. This is the song from the end of Mask...
My passion
I've loved his music since the '70's. I would dream about driving down Highway 1 with Hollywood Nights blasting out of the stereo. Night Music is such a wonderful song, especially the full version with the almost spoken middle section:
"I woke last night to the sound of thunder
How far off I sat and wondered
Started humming a song from 1962
Ain't it funny how the night moves
When you just don't seem to have as much to lose
Strange how the night moves
With autumn closing in"
Great tune.
Almost Van like in places, especially the 'in the summertime' and 'autumn closing in' lines.
Fire Inside...
If I remember right, Peter Bogdanovich wanted to use Springsteen songs throughout the film but couldn't get the rights from the record company (the Eric Stoltz character has a Bruce poster on his bedroom wall) so they went to Seger instead. Not that there's anything wrong with that!
Anyway, this is one of my favourite Seger tracks. Love the piano playing. Despite it being Bob in the video, on the record it's Roy Bittan. Lovely.
and weirdly...
"Garage Bob" from the mid '60s!
You think he might previously...
...have heard 'Gloria' by Them and, er, this by the Troggs?
The second gig I ever went to was Bob Seger
and the Silver Bullet Band at the old Hammersmith Odeon in October 1977. For a live music beginner like myself it was simply an astonishing evening. The setlist was unimpeachable, with plenty of the concert classics from "Live Bullet" (Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, Katmandu, etc.) plus almost all of the "Night Moves" LP. Saxman Alto Reed climbed right to the top of the towering Marshall stack to play his solos, and basically Bob and the band ROCKED THE HAMMY ODEON TO ITS FOUNDATIONS that night.
I never saw Seger in concert again, because it would inevitably have been a comedown after that gig. Now, 34 years later, I don't really listen to Bob Seger or that brand of American rock any more, but I still have fond memories of that night in 1977.
Even Now...
is also brill. Youthful and upbeat in a 1982 way. Sometimes have to break into a run listening to it!
Only saw him once
And half way through the gig he announced the Lynyrd Skynyrd plane crash had just happened. 20 October 1977.
His keyboard guy Robyn Robbins...
...(or somesuch!) ran a mastering studio in the middle of Northern Ireland for a while in the early 2000s: Mid Atlantic Digital (aka MAD - no doubt deliberate). I opted to have him master an album I co-produced in 2004, Janet Holmes' 'The Road To The West' - which funnily enough I just listened to yesterday for the first time in ages (hey, we did an ace blusgrass/southern rock version of 'How Soon Is Now' - I must try and get it on youtube...).
Robyn was quite a character. I think he did okay for a while and then suddenly disappeared - no doubt rollin' him away back to those Hollywood nights etc etc...
Like a Rock
'Twenty years, where'd they go?' A question one asks oneself all too frequently these days.
remember when Mickey Rourke was sexy -
and Kathleen Turner too? Body Heat - possibly the sexiest film ever made. Here's Rourke doing his thing in the clip below. Sadly, very little Turner but some William Hurt (when he was sexy too) and in the background the sexy sound of Seger and "Feel Like A Number". It like, rocks, man.
Have you ever had a song
Have you ever had a song that just transports you back to being seventeen?
Bob sure knows how to work a stadium!
Brilliant stuff.
Talking of inspirational travelling songs, this one's always done it for me...