![]() ![]() ![]() In 73 and early 74, before we did the Live Bullet shows, so many of the opening acts we played with were so nice to us, people like BTO and Kiss. You built your reputation opening for the likes of Bachman Turner Overdrive and Kiss. I can’t tell you how disillusioned I got and how tired I got of not making it, but I never gave up. I guess at that point I wasn’t much of a songwriter because I played all the time I didn’t have any time to write songs. We didn’t have the record company interest that we wanted. I was always a high-energy act, and we rocked, and people that liked rock’n’roll liked us. No matter where we played we never got a tepid reaction. So we were able to make a little bit of money. We were able to play 800 to 1,000-seaters and fill ’em. I had some small successes along the way, like Ramblin’ Gamblin Man, and then we had local singles that did well. ![]() You weren’t an overnight sensation, it took a good 10 years or more before you made it. It was just me, a guitar player and a drummer we had didn’t even have a bass player. When I was 15 years old I played my first gig at the junior prom. They said: “You know exactly what you want to do”, and they had no clue what they wanted to do. I remember in high school my best friends were so envious of me. When did you realise that music was the only thing you wanted to do with your life? Sitting at a makeshift table in the famed Capitol Records studio in Hollywood, in conversation Seger is a natural storyteller whose hearty and contagious laughter punctuates his compelling tales of more than 40 years of life in the rock’n’roll trenches. And proving that there’s some fire left in this 60- something, Seger is also hitting the road for his first US tour in more than a decade. ![]() The elegiac ballads Wait For Me and The Answer’s In The Question, down and dirty rockers Simplicity, Face The Promise and Between, and the Stonesy Wreck This Heart all demonstrate that Seger’s songwriting skills are undiminished. Mining a rich seam of rock, blues, country and funk, the album is an extraordinary 12-song cycle. Throughout the 80s and 90s he continued tocreatemagic in the studio with the albums Nine Tonight, The Distance, Like A Rock, The Fire Inside and It’s A Mystery.įast forward to 2006… Face The Promise, Seger’s 19th album and his first new studio album in 11 years, is a confident and impressive return to form that ranks among the his best work. Stranger In Town (1978) and Against The Wind (1980) delivered on Seger’s creative and commercialpromise, resulting in more gold and platinum records and sold-out tours. Night Moves, released in 1976, is a magnificent record that deftly illustrated Seger’s growing talents as a highly expressive and evocative songwriter par excellence, as displayed on the classic title track, the nostalgic home-town paean Mainstreet and the sweaty raver Rock & Roll Never Forgets. Not long after Live Bullet resuscitated Seger’s career from extinction came a career-defining album. In 1976 fate smiled on this ‘overnight sensation’ that was more than 10 years in the making, and Seger rocketed to national stardom with Live Bullet, an explosive tour de force showcasing the commanding power of Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet band. He forged on, unrelenting in his drive to make it at whatever cost and whatever price. Although a succession of albums – Noah, Mongrel, Brand New Morning, Smokin’ O.P.’s, Back In ’72 and Seven – attracted little national interest, Seger wasn’t about to pack it in. ![]()
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