Growing old with Bob Seger

[Kaleva]

I was in grade school when he first started out in the 60's and I had a chance to see him and the Silver Bullet Band play in Marquette but didn't.

Bob Seger in the 60's

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Bob in the 70's

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1980

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2011

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[Archae]

1. Rawk!

[sarge43]

5. If this doesn't make you get up and dance around the room,

check your pulse.

[Systematic Chaos]

2. His string of hits during the late 70s into the 80s meant a lot to me...

...as a grade school kid and then a tweener.

I remember hearing 'Night Moves' and only being old enough to have a sort of ephemeral sense of why it was such a cool song. Puberty was still a couple years away.

[sarge43]

3. Funny how the night moves ... with autumn closing in

Happy Birthday Mr Seger. You always know exactly what to say.

[Enrique]

4. he was great on Full House

[OriginalGeek]

20. lol!

I know this is old but I just wanted you to know I saw it and appreciated it.

[bif]

6. I saw him at a high school sock hop

In 1070. Tickets were $1!

[pipi_k]

7. Well, there's inflation for ya...

The tickets were only 75 cents in 1066

[kwassa]

8. Was that part of the Norman Conquest?

Only four years after the battle of Hastings, in 1066! Ah, the sixties!

[Kaleva]

9. Those were the real 60's! Sex! Wine! Hacking guys heads off! Cheap Seger concert tickets!

[twogunsid]

10. Actually saw him and his band....

and I'm not sure it was the SBB, at a catholic school dance in the early '70's.

I grew up outside Ann Arbor.

[Motown_Johnny]

12. Did you travel up I-94 to see him?

I know he played at my (catholic) high school before I attended that school. We had bands every Friday night for decades.

[twogunsid]

13. No, I walked about 4 blocks...

from my house.

Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes lived in my hometown area and used to play the NG Armory about once a month. That guy is a total asshat.

[Motown_Johnny]

11. My first "real" concert was Seger in Cobo Hall Detroit, 1978... I think.

[Kaleva]

14. Here is his Bob Seger and the SBB's concert history

I could have seen him in Marquette when I was a senior in HS.

http://theconcertdatabase.com/artists/bob-seger-silver-bullet-band

[Motown_Johnny]

15. I guess it was May 23-25, 1978 Cobo Arena

Don't ask me what show... to long ago to know which one I went to.

[Kaleva]

16. Bob Seger & Bruce Springsteen "Old Time Rock & Roll" 2011

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[Trunk Monkey]

17. Against the wind

I was about 16 or so when Against the wind came out. I just thought it was a cool song I didn't get it till I was about 40. Then I thought it was even cooler

[Tuesday Afternoon]

18. I always liked Bob -- couple of my faves by him:

[BrendaBrick]

19. Growing Old with Bob Seger....

For me, the ultimate, *coming to terms with getting older* of his tunes: Like A Rock

Not only a brutally honest yet exquisite singer/songwriter - but quite the unappreciated poet, to boot!