My absolute favorite concert experience was seeing Seger in Nashville in 2006 with my Dad. I had grown up listening to Dad play "Live Bullet" and other great Seger albums in our house and the concert tickets were my Christmas gift to the "old man". He wasn't old, but his juvenile diabetes was beginning to take its toll on him. We had amazing seats, yeah I scoped them out in the days before Stub Hub, and it was worth every penny. Dad got an extra large Miller Lite draft that night and had me calculate out his appropriate insulin dose for the beer, something he loved and hadn't indulged in for years, but he wanted to sip on a brew that night while listening to Seger...he even made me promise not to tell mom, like I'd ever rat him out! The following summer Dad's kidneys would begin to fail. By spring of 2008, he was gone. This song, "Shame on the Moon" was one of many Seger songs that I played for him through my iPod, a modern marvel that blew my dad away, while he was in hospice. "Turn the Page" was the next to last song my father heard..."Blackbird" by the Beatles was the last.
I'm sorry Randy for my overly emotional rant. I'm just really appreciative of the song, and the memories it evoked. Thanks for indulging my musical catharsis!
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