OT: Night Moves
Pretty good story about a song I always loved, and will love even more now that I know that "out past the cornfields where the woods got heavy" is a reference to a place in Ann Arbor.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/creating-bob-segers-night-moves-1432056405
that song. And I'm not giving the WSJ a click.
Come to think of it, I'm not fond of Bob Seger in general.
I read the WSJ and NYT. See how much better I am than you?
before it was sold to Murdoch. It really has gone downhill.
Also, my company cut back on the number of copies they buy for us. Only SVP's get them now.
get a promotion then.
Also, note to self. Bob Seger is big around these parts.
You sure must love yourself some global banking cartel propaganda with those two publications.
is on the same floor as our PR Dept., and they put WSJ and NYT out on the conf. rm. table every day. Not sure what is meant by "global banking cartel propaganda". But I do love myself some good writing and reporting.
My mother ruined any chance of appreciating Seger. Turns out not taking his Greatest Hits album out of your car stereo for 8 years will cause those around you to lose their fucking minds.
I blame it for my parents divorce.
You can't be a Michigan fan and a Bob Seger hater. Sorry, I don't make the rules.
Bob Seger story. Bob has a place in my hometown. I'd always heard about it but never believed it until this one early morning the first Summer after I graduated high school. It's about 530 in the morning and I'm heading to work after partying all night. I'm driving by his "place" and I see a commotion going on behind the trees. Lights, screaming audible through my closed car windows, and then lots of movement. This black woman with the biggest juggs I've ever seen comes running out into the road wearing nothing but an open bathrobe. Here comes Bob after her wearing nothing but socks. I roll my passenger window down and slow down to see what's up. This lady starts screaming that snakes are coming out of the toilet trying to get to kill her and Bob sent them to do it. Anyway, I keep going and finish off the pizza from the night before I start work at the golf course.
and jugs(misspelled) in the same sentence, huh? Real nice.
Yeah, I know. I've never seen a black person. They always look like a varying degree of brown. Refer to definition 3 http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=juggs
You have to be kidding. Tell me you are kidding.
if any of this is true, it made me laugh and so I'm choosing to believe it.
I don't care if it's true. I'm entertained.
I know a guy who lived on a lake in Metro Detroit a few years back. Young guy, a little out of college. Out on the lake one day, he met his neighbor from across the way, who introduced himself as Bob. Bob started to bring his dogs over, hung out all the time, drank a few beers, all-around nice, retirement-age guy.
It wasn't until about a year (or more) of this that a friend came over when Bob was around and told him that his buddy Bob was Bob Seger. Seger never mentioned it, and never drew attention to the fact that he was Bob freaking Seger. He ended up moving a few years later, his anonymity got blown and someone stole a guitar or something, but he was just a regular guy who liked hanging out.
Hell, I've seen him out at shows in Detroit, just anonymously enjoying the music in the crowd like he was any other middle-aged dude out for the night. Seger is one of us.
stories like this about him too.
I wasn't saying that he's an asshole or anything, I just don't like his music.
on him at the Longhorn back in the day. I did not realize it was him until a co-worker pointed it out and asked him. He acknowledged that he was in fact Bob Seger and then proceeded to not want any part of discussing being Bob Seger. Real quiet guy. Apparently really likes prime rib.
I believe his main residence is in Orchard Lake, just southwest of Pontiac. Actually, he lived in Lincoln Park until he was six or seven and subsequently spent one year attending Lincoln Park High School. I had someone who worked under me a few years back whose parents lived on the same street as the Segers back in the day and knew the Tyners, as in Rob Tyner of MC5.
in the early 80's.
Lived pretty close to him, and worked for a friend of his who occasionally threw parties and once in a while Bob would show up.
He was still pretty huge then, but never had an entourage or anything. Seemed like a decent guy but we never really talked or anything.
Not surprising, I was a snotty punk who wasn't worth paying attention to.
is one of the best songs ever and Bob Seger is an all-time great. I personally like to throw on some Bob Seger while on a road trip.
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I was going to bring up Roll Me Away. Perfect song to listen to in the mountains. When _Reckless_ ends and "Roll Me Away" comes up, I still get goosebumps. Probably the only one ever, but hey, it was filmed in my dad's hometown, so that's my excuse.
Night Moves is awesome. Saw James Otto do a killer version of it.
And since the Favorite Bob Seger Song thread was so rudely deleted, here's my list after Night Moves and Roll Me Away:
3. Turn the Page
4. Fire Lake
5. Nutbush City Limits
6. Trying to Live My Life Without You (I know, it's an old Memphis song)
7. Beautiful Loser
8. Nine Tonight
9. We've Got Tonight
I could go on.
- Brave Strangers
- Beautiful Loser
- Rock-n-Roll Never Forgets
- Main Street
- Turn the Page
- Night Moves
- Old-time Rock-n-Roll
- We've Got Tonight
- Still the Same
- Hollywood Nights
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Johnny Cash's version of Hurt, and Guns N' Roses cover of Knockin' on Heaven's Door (although Dylan's original is excellent as well).
I also really like Slightly Stoopid's take on Leaving on a Jet Plane, but I'm not sure I'd say it's better. Just very well done for such a radical change of pace.
I'm only 29 but I love Seger. That is all.
I'm even younger than you, but Seger's still one of my favorites.
When they did the music video, Joey from Friends was the main character. He said that he was drunk during the whole thing after drinking tequila with Seger before ths shoot.
Though it's not mentioned in this article, the line in Night Moves "Tryin' to make some front-page drive-in news" was making reference to the old A&W drive in near the split of Maple and Stadium in Ann Arbor. When the drive-in was torn down not that many years ago, there was an article about Seger and the restaurant's role in the song's origins. I believe there's a plaque in the muffler shop that stands on the old A&W site commemorating the fact.
For my annual trek to Ann Arbor for a football game, I always bring Bob Seger along. Night Moves, Main Street, they just exude Ann Arbor and get me in the mood for the game.
We used to play "Heavy Music" in the locker room before football games in HS. Yes, I'm old.
Obligatory "GET OFF MY LAWN".
is a reference to Ann Arbor's Main Street
"Main Street" is actually about another downtown Ann Arbor street - Ann Street.
Why Ann Street?
edit: never mind. wiki. But all it said was there was a pool hall on Ann St. where "girls were dancing in the widows and R&B bands played on weekends."
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainstreet_%28song%29)
I guess that's where the strip club was.
Bet I have better Night moves than that
Thought this thread was gonna be about all the best positions and moves for night time things.
Me too..... :-(((((
Also, why is your friends mom sharing this info with him? I have no desire to know these kinds of things.
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Seger was playing a high school prom (rumor was it was for a friend's little sister and Seger did it as a favor). EVERYONE in my High School was calling everyone they knew at the other school hoping to get asked to that prom. Sadly, I was just a little freshman and didn't go. It was just before or around the time "Live Bullet" came out. Seger was HUGE where I grew up.