Even though the song only reached number twenty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100, the song is played at many dance parties while describing rock and roll of yesteryear. The song may be best known for being in Tom Cruise’s film Risky Business. The song was later covered by Metallica as a popular version of “Turn The Page”. The song was written just before Seger’s long break from touring while describing life on the road as a musician. The song would be number one if it weren’t for the popularity of our #1 song. We were young and strong, we were runnin’ against the wind The song is a metaphor for running against the wind and keeping your wits about you. If youre not a Seger fan, you will be when were done. If youre a Bob Seger fan our show will blow you away. A remarkable recreation of the live performance of Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band from the 70s-80s based on the Live Bullet and Nine Tonight albums. I awoke last night to the sound of thunder NIGHT MOVES The Ultimate Bob Seger Tribute Band. The song was Seger’s first highest charting song on the Billboard Hot 100 peaking at number four. The song describes Michigan in the early 1960s. The song is featured in Chevrolet commercials describing their trucks. On Album Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band You’re high above me now, you’re wild and free, ah but The song is written for a street where Seger grew up in Michigan.Īs she made her alone down that empty street Alongside the multiplatinum Night Moves, Live Bullet made 1976 Bob Seger’s breakthrough year.
As an Amazon Associate, we earn revenue from qualifying purchases. My Wedding Songs is a reader-supported website. Seger’s popularity still holds strong today with high-selling tour ticket sales. He literally left me speechless in awe the first time I witnessed “ Turn the Page” performed live in 1975.Bob Seger released his first studio album in 1968 with Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man and he is still releasing albums in recent years. This edition of In the Studio is dedicated to longtime Silver Bullet Band sax player and crowd-pleaser Alto Reed ( born Thomas Cartmell, 1948) ) who passed away from colon cancer at the end of December 2020.
The double disc Live Bullet, recorded in Fall 1975 and released six months later, provided that precious period, and Seger and his Silver Bullet Band delivered in a major way by October 1976 with Night Moves containing “ Rock and Roll Never Forgets”,”Main Street”,”The Fire Down Below”,”Come to Poppa”, and the title song which Bob calls “…a little novelette.” We did two hundred sixty-five shows that year 1975,” says Bob Seger with a mixture of pride and amazement, as explanation on why it was so hard to find the solitary time necessary to write well-crafted songs prior to Night Moves. I like to finish everything I start, because I end up stealing from myself! (laughs). And then out of those forty, there will be about ten that are good.
My manager Punch (Andrews) will tell you that I write a ton of songs, probably a hundred a year.īob Seger: Yeah, and out of those I’ll probably finish about forty. John Lennon could write a song on the spot with great lyrics,(producer) Jimmy Iovine would see him do it ! I’m not like that, it takes me a long time. I’ve seen Henley just scratching them out (lyrics) in the recording studio, ya know? And they’re great. I’m not as lucky as people like, say, Don Henley. And then maybe, in a couple of weeks, I might get the first one that’s really special. Really to work up where I think I get the quality stuff, it takes about eight, nine, ten hours a day when you’re really at it.
#Bob seger night moves live 1980 full
“In order for me to write, I need huge chunks of time, I really do. Night Moves (Remastered), along with Live Bullet (Remastered) and Stranger In Town (Remastered), forms part of the essential Bob Seger trilogy in fact, it's hard to say which of these albums is the best, because all three are chock full of great rockers and ballads, so picking out highlights is really useless. Bob told me in this classic rock interview that still he does not write on tour.