Bob Seger
The Official YouTube Channel of Bob Seger. Bob Seger is an inductee of both the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriters Hall of Fame, The 2015 Billboard Legend of Live honoree's catalog has sold over 53 million albums and has earned 13 platinum and 8 multi-platinum RIAA Certified sales awards. Seger’s 72 date Roll Me Away Tour wrapped up in Philadelphia on November 1, 2019, playing to nearly one million fans.
Bob Seger
Happy Easter! Easter weekend, 1973 — during WDRQ Detroit's first annual Easter egg hunt on Belle Isle, performing at that time as the Borneo Band, shortly before the formation of the Silver Bullet Band. (Pictured L-R: Shaun Murphy, Marcy Levy, & Bob)
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GW: What’s “Katmandu” about?
Seger: It’s just a farce really. It’s about saying that, if I ever get out of this business, I’m going to Katmandu, which is the farthest away place I could think of, in the Himalayan mountains.
GW: Does that have anything to do with your career? And how it took you so long?
Seger: Sure, the frustration, god, I can show you articles from four or five years ago – “Seger’s on the verge, Seger’s going to make it. Seger is just about there.” And it’s been like that for about five or six years (laugh). So, it’s actually just a spoof about it. Really. I thought some of the people in the record companies and people that had known me in the industry would get a kick out of it.
-Interview with Guerin Wilkinson: Michigan Free Press September 5, 1975
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4-4-1975: performing at St. Cloud State University's Halenbeck Hall in St. Cloud, Minnesota.
📸: SCSU Archives
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"A song like 'Rock and Roll Never Forgets' is just slammin’. When we play that song live people go nuts. At that point in my life I was 31 years old. And the first 10 or 11 years in my career I was making six, eight grand a year [laughs] and just doin’ it because I loved the music.
So I’m writing for Night Moves and I just felt grateful; here I am and I’m starting to make it. You know, rock’n’roll never forgets. You build up goodwill over 10 years and you set the stage. 'Rock and Roll Never Forgets' is a grateful song. I’m grateful to all the people I played for in those small clubs, on the top of cafeteria tables, in gymnasiums and in hockey rinks. Suddenly all those people came out and bought my records and said: 'I remember him. I saw him at the high school or hockey rink.'"
📸 credit: Ken Settle, Plymouth Ice Rink, MI, 1974.
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"I always say it’s human nature that people are gonna love you sometimes and they’re gonna use you sometimes. Knowing the difference between when people are using you and when people truly care about you, that’s what ‘Against the Wind‘ is all about. The people in that song have weathered the storm, and it’s made them much better that they’ve been able to do it and maintain whatever relationship. To get through is a real victory.” - Interview with Timothy White for Rolling Stone, May 1980.
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On this day, 1/23: Feel Like A Number (Nine Tonight) hit its peak on the charts today in 1982.
"I was real proud of that one. I was an auto worker for a brief time. I worked for six months making GM transmissions in Ypsilanti, Michigan. I lasted six months there loading conveyors. Then I worked at another plant on an assembly line putting rubber around windshields. Which is not good for a guitar player [laughs], so I didn’t do that for very long. I think I only lasted a month there. But I was there long enough to get it into my head that you can become just a number, you’re just a statistic ... you’re just a cog in a very gigantic wheel. And it felt very uncomfortable to feel that way about myself. I tried to convey that in the song." - Interview with Ken Sharp, American Songwriter
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The Distance was released in December, 1982- the first single off the album, a cover of Rodney Crowell's "Shame On The Moon," became Seger's highest-charting single at the time, peaking at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. "Even Now" was released three months later and made it to #12. What are some of your favorite tracks from the album?
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11-1-2019: the 'Roll Me Away' Tour wrapped five years ago today in Philly.
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10-18-1994: Bob Seger adds his handprints to the Hollywood Rock Walk, a week before the release of the Greatest Hits album.
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This week in 1977: Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band toured Europe for the first time to promote the Night Moves album.
"when we played a gig in Paris, for three quarters of the concert they just sat there very patiently and politely applauded, but then when we played five rock and roll numbers at the end they went absolutely nuts . . . Glasgow was great – it could have been a Detroit audience that we were playing to, and although I kept worrying about the London dates, they were fantastic too. There was so much sheer energy all the way through the performance.”
Music Week, November 25, 1978
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