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Rock 'n' Roll Artists A-Z...Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band

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I know it's late, I know you're weary
I know your plans don't include me
Still here we are, both of us lonely
Longing for shelter from all that we see
Why should we worry, no one will care girl
Look at the stars so far away
We've got tonight, who needs tomorrow?
We've got tonight babe
Why don' you stay?

Deep in my soul, I've been so lonely
All of my hopes, fading away
I've longed for love, like everyone else does
I know I'll keep searching, even after today
So there it is girl, I've said it all now
And here we are babe, what do you say?
We've got tonight, who needs tomorrow?
We've got tonight babe
Why don't you stay?

I know it's late, I know you're weary
I know your plans don't include me
Still here we are, both of us lonely
Both of us lonely

We've got tonight, who needs tomorrow?
Let's make it last, let's find a way
Turn out the light, come take my hand now
We've got tonight babe
Why don't you stay?
Why don't you stay?

He was born in Detroit. His father was a bandleader and musician who worked in an auto plant to support his wife and two children. He was the younger of two sons, and got less attention from his father. When he was ten, his father abandoned the family completely, leaving for California, in search of success that he never achieved. The family moved to a one-room apartment. The burden of supporting the family fell more heavily on the older son. The younger son stayed up late listening to a faraway radio station. On a transistor radio and an earplug, he heard James Brown, Garnett Mimms, Little Richard, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and others.

He liked James Brown more than the Beatles. His favorite album was James Brown Live at the Apollo, Volume 1. He was a good student in high school and could run a 5:05 mile -- until he discovered rock and roll. He began staying out all night with his friends, cars circled in a farmer's field, listening to music on the car radios. He formed a band. The applause at the Junior Prom changed his life. In 11th grade he was playing bars three nights a week.

The first song he wrote was titled, "The Lonely One."

In 1996 he played for nearly a million fans across the country.

For ten years, he was a regional phenomenon.

By 1968, he had five Top Ten singles in the Detroit market. He was unheard of outside Michigan, Florida, Pennsylvania and a few other Midwest markets -- but in Detroit, his records outsold the Beatles. He was on the verge of breaking the national charts in 1967 when the record company promoting his single went bankrupt.

The first major label to offer him a contract was Motown.

He broke the Top Forty with a single in 1968, then survived seven years without a successful record. His work ethic became a local legend. He played 260 dates in 1975.

In the early '70s, he and his band drove 25 hours to Florida, played three straight nights, and then drove 25 hours back, because they couldn't afford motel rooms. He considered himself more a driver than a singer at the time. His mother taught him never to go into debt.

In June 1976, he played in front 50 people in a Chicago bar. Three days later, he played in front of 76,000 devoted fans in the Pontiac Silverdome outside Detroit.

For those of us under his spell, he posed the two greatest questions in rock 'n' roll: Doncha ever listen to the radio? and Do ya do ya wanna rock?

He wrote the first anti-war rock song of the Vietnam era.

He wrote about Lucy Blue, Chicago Green, Already Eddie and other characters long before Springsteen created Crazy Janey or Young Scott with the slingshot. His songs, he thinks, reflect a certain morality... "what happens when you do it wrong and when you do it right."

The characters in many of his songs don't find the satisfaction or fulfillment that they thought their dreams would hold. They end up "stuck in heaven," listening to the sound of something far away -- a bird on the wing, the sound of thunder. They think back on the promise of younger years, surprised at the passage of time. Only occasionally do they find renewal. More often, they try to make some moment last; they watch it slipping past. The light fades from the screen. They wake up alone. Next time, perhaps, they'll get it right. Somehow, at the same time, his music manages to be incredibly life-affirming, celebratory and uplifting. Presto! Payday!

He was born lonely down by the riverside. He went cruising on his gray snake till his dying day. He even sang the parts the instruments were playing. He knows the devil is red, but his money is green. His '60 Cadillac went cruising through Nebraska, whining. He woke one night to the sound of thunder. He wishes he didn't know now what he didn't know then. They used to call him reckless, they used to call him fast. After twenty years, he saw himself again. All the penguins are getting well done.

He's recorded 18 albums spanning nearly 30 years. He was greatly influenced by early advice from Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon, who said, "Do your best, 'cause it's only gonna last two or three years." He's a perfectionist who spends months in the studio fixing problems no one else can hear. He's a Taurus and "you can't move him with a crane." Or, he lets people walk all over him.

He's had one Number 1 single and one Number 1 album. He admires Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits and Joni Mitchell. He believes his rock and roll savagery was tempered for many years by the need to produce mainstream records. One of his most heartfelt songs became the basis of one of the most successful ad campaigns in recent history.

He's "a titan of three-chord classic rock...an unimaginative nose-to-the-grindstone artist."
He has "a voice that inspires trust."

He "exudes the brawny vocal friendliness of an American Everyman, but with a deep and special connection to soul music." He "has all the requisites of greatness: the voice, the songwriting, the performance onstage, the vision and the ambition." He's "a geezer we could do without."

He recorded ten consecutive million-selling albums between 1975 and 1995.

He's been called the nicest rock star. Sometimes he feels like knocking you down, but he could never pull that scene.
In live performances, he displays "an embracing friendliness that transcends the normal barriers between rock performer and audience."

He played in front of 923,829 fans in 1996, making him the fourth most popular touring act of the year.

He's a father. His kids, he says, "are the best thing that ever happened to me." His father left when he was ten. In "Golden Boy," a song about his son, he sings, "I'll be there for you." He still lives in Michigan.

Another Seger Bio/History

Born Robert Clark Seger, May 6, 1945, in Ann Arbor, MI; son of Stewart (an in-house medic for the Ford Motor Company and former orchestra leader) and Charlotte (a domestic) Seger; married, 1967 (divorced, 1967); married Annette (Nita) Sinclair (an actress), November 8, 1987; children: Cole, Samantha Char.

Learned to play the ukulele at the age of five; played electric guitar and keyboards in high school; performed at local parties in Ann Arbor, MI, in a three-piece band called the Decibels; later played in the Town Criers and the Omens; formed the band Last Heard, 1964, and recorded the singles "The Lonely One" and "East Side Story"; recorded single "Heavy Music" on the national Cameo- Parkway label, 1966; assembled the Bob Seger System, 1968, and released debut album Ramblin' Gamblin' Man on Capitol Records; Live Bullet double album released, 1976; Seger's bandmates--Chris Campbell (bass), Drew Abbott (guitar), Charlie Allen Martin (drums), Alto Reed (saxophone), and Rick Manasa (keyboards)--came to be known as the Silver Bullet Band.

Contributed to Urban Cowboy film soundtrack, 1980; soundtrack to Risky Business included Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll"; soundtrack to Forrest Gump included "Against the Wind"; single "Like a Rock" used as the theme song for Chevy truck commercials, 1989-94.

Bob Seger's unadorned, working-class songs and wistful, raspy vocal style reflect his Michigan roots and affection for rock and roll. Seger received national acclaim in 1976 with the album Night Moves, which was a sentimental journey back to his adolescent dating experiences. He had been touring and recording since 1963 and was already popular in his native Michigan when he met with long- awaited recognition. Between 1976 and 1984, Seger had 14 Top 40 singles in the United States and was dubbed the "Godfather" of no-frills rock music.

Seger has been credited with blazing a path for musicians like the Eagles, John Cougar Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, Jackson Browne, and Tom Petty, all of whom possessed a similar, straightforward style of rock music. People magazine's Carl Arrington described his music as "hard ... with grit, not glitter," and Seger told Newsweek in 1986: "Gritty guys like us will always be around, because we're the guys who work hardest and really care about what we do."

Seger was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on May 6, 1945, one of two sons of Stewart and Charlotte Seger. Stewart Seger, an in-house medic for the Ford Motor Company, led a 13- piece orchestra on weekends in the 1940s. He encouraged a preschool-aged Bob to learn to play the ukulele. By the time Seger had reached high school, he was playing the electric guitar and keyboards. He honed his musical skills in high school by performing at local parties in Ann Arbor in a three-piece band called the Decibels. Later, he was a member of bands called the Town Criers and the Omens. Seger's early influences included country musicians, whose songs were played on WLAC out of Nashville, and rhythm and blues artists, especially Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke, Van Morrison, Otis Redding, James Brown, and Detroit's Mitch Ryder.

Seger's father deserted his wife and sons when Seger was ten years old, leaving Seger's mother with little in the way of financial prospects. As a result, Seger's music often reflects hard-life experiences--this is particularly evident on "The Ring," "The Lonely One," "Against the Wind," and "Turn the Page"--and is fueled by an empathy for human loss, a compassion for societal problems, and a love of simple pleasures. After watching his father struggle with alcoholism, Seger vowed to avoid drug use and to impart something significant through music with honest emotion.

In 1964, at the age of nineteen, Seger formed the band Last Heard with the organ player from Del Shannon's band; they recorded the singles "The Lonely One" and "East Side Story." "East Side Story" caught the ear of a Detroit clubowner named Ed (Punch) Andrews, who owned Hideout Records. By 1965 Andrews and Seger had raised enough money to release "East Side Story," which sold 50,000 copies in the Detroit area. The pair became partners and shared a solid business relationship that has endured for over three decades.

A year later, in 1966, Seger recorded the single "Heavy Music" on the national Cameo-Parkway label, selling 66,000 copies. "Heavy Music" nearly reached the Top 100 charts in 1967, just as the Cameo-Parkway label folded. The label's demise stunted the single's burgeoning popularity, but the pulsating tune illuminated Seger as a forceful vocalist.

In 1968 Seger assembled the Bob Seger System and released his debut album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man on Capitol Records. It made the Top 20 list and included one of the first anti-Vietnam songs of the era--a powerful, hard-rock single titled "2 Plus 2=?." Capitol Records was skittish about releasing the song as a single at the time due to the nation's charged political atmosphere. Consequently, Seger and Andrews were skeptical about the label's commitment to Seger's career.

The next year, Seger released Noah, which did not fare as well as Ramblin' Gamblin' Man. In 1971 he quit playing music to go to college; he attended classes for only three weeks, then decided to leave school to pursue his musical aspirations. Later that same year, Seger teamed up with the duo Teegarden and Van Winkle--comprised of Dave Van Winkle and Skip Knape--to create the all-acoustic Brand New Morning and On Our Way, both of which met with limited acclaim. In 1972 Seger released Smokin' O.P.s on Ed Andrews's Palladium label (distributed nationally by Reprise). A strong album, it included the hit singles "If I Were a Carpenter," "Bo Diddley," and "Turn On Your Love Light." Seger released Back in '72 on Reprise Records in 1973, featuring the soulful single "Turn the Page." J. J. Cale and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section joined forces with Seger the next year for a few tracks on Seven. Traveling by car, Seger sometimes played as many as 265 one-nighters a year, often earning less than $7,000 in a good year.

When Beautiful Loser was released in 1975, Seger began to cement a formidable following. Beautiful Loser featured the rock and roll classic "Katmandu," as well as the winning title track, "Travelin' Man," and a searing rendition of "Nutbush City Limits," by R&B singer- songwriter Tina Turner. When Seger's two-disc Live Bullet album was released in 1976, the musicians who had played with Seger on Seven and Live Bullet--Chris Campbell, Drew Abbott, Charlie Allen Martin, Alto Reed, and Rick Manasa-- came to be known as the Silver Bullet Band. Live Bullet was recorded in Detroit's Cobo Hall, and the album broke through into the Top 40 album category. It remained on the charts for two years and five months and sold over a million copies.

Live Bullet was followed in 1976 by Night Moves, which reached the Top 10 album mark and included the singles "Rock and Roll Never Forgets," "The Fire Down Below," "Mary Lou," "Come to Poppa," "Main Street," and the title track. Bruce Springsteen's burgeoning popularity at this time--as well as the popularity of other rock and roll balladeers--was linked favorably to Seger, as these musicians extolled youthful yearnings and the virtues of the working class through rock.

Stranger in Town was released in 1978, with the wistful single "Still the Same" reaching the Top Five on the music charts, the up-tempo "Hollywood Nights" reaching the Number 12 slot, and the ballad "We've Got Tonight" reaching Number 13. The album was recorded with Eagles members Glenn Frey and Don Felder. Other notable singles on Stranger in Town include "Feel Like a Number" and "Old Time Rock and Roll," the latter immortalized by jockey- shorted rock wanna-be Tom Cruise in the motion picture Risky Business.

Seger's Against the Wind was released in 1980 with the Eagles on background vocals. It went to the top of the music album charts, with the title cut ranking Number Five. Seger contributed to the soundtrack of the film Urban Cowboy in 1980 with the singles "Nine Tonight" and "Tryin' to Live My Life without You." A second live, two- disc album, Nine Tonight, was released a year later.

Seger's 1982 release The Distance examines relationships, alienation, and isolation. Dave Marsh, in his book Fortunate Son, commented: "What's most amazing about The Distance is its ambition. This is Seger's first focused set of songs." Seger didn't release Like a Rock until four years later, in 1986, and the album reflects his maturity; he sings about hard-won wisdom and the lessons life had taught him over the course of 40 years. The Weather Girls provided back-up vocals for Like a Rock, and Seger shared the writing credits for the first time in his career--with former Grand Funk keyboardist Craig Frost. The single "Like a Rock" was used as the theme song for Chevy commercials from 1989 through 1994.

Seger released The Fire Inside in 1991, but the uneven album met with lukewarm response. The singer failed to tour because his mother's death coincided with the release of the album. Around the same time, Seger's wife, Nita, discovered she was pregnant. Their first child, a son, was born in 1991, and Seger felt a renewed sense of purpose as a result. His Greatest Hits album was released in 1994, featuring fourteen songs, and the album Lock and Load was slated for a 1995 release. In addition, the acclaimed 1994 film Forrest Gump included Seger's single "Against the Wind" in its soundtrack.

When Detroit Metro Times contributor Stewart Francke asked Seger what had sustained him during the long years before his breakthrough to a large audience, Seger answered: "Enough people kept saying we were good. ... We knew we had something. When I got the right group of guys ... everybody saw the light at the end of the tunnel and they worked real hard."

Band and Crew

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Discography

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Singles

http://www.geocities.com/kevsbb/SBsingles.html

Some Great Old Seger Photos

http://www.segerfile.com/visuals.html

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Awards Including Grammy

http://www.geocities.com/kevsbb/RIAAawards.html

Lyrics to 75 Bob Seger Songs

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http://www.yimpan.com/Songsite/Lyric/index.asp?aid=59

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