I have a 12" single, the b-side has "Nutbush" on it...
At one point, he 'brings it down' to say something like...
"I was readin' in Rolling Stone, how t said Detroit Audiences are the best rock and roll audiences in the world"
(Crowd cheers for 30 seconds, eventually it dies down....)
"I thought to myself SHIT I'VE KNOWN THAT FOR TEN YEARS!!!"
(Crowd cheers for the next 30 seconds, while band breaks back into the song)...
Biggest kissass to an audience ever? Dunno, but it works!
Hows the rest of it (it's track one apparently)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 11:23 (eighteen years ago)
That's not kissass Mark: That's regional pride! Elsewhere on that album, his band vamps while he introduces them all thusly: "On lead guitar, Drew Abbott - he's from Ann Arbor, Michigan...on saxophone, Alto Reed - he's from Royal Oak, Michigan..." and so on, every one of 'em from around the Detroit area or Detroit proper. In other words, pure Motor City arrogance. For him to proclaim Chicago audiences or New York audiences as the best in the world would be unthinkable.
As for the album itself, Xhuxk is probably the one to ask. Me, I think it's pretty good and fairly energetic, but can't touch his 1966-'74 work. (Some of which is covered - in inferior versions - on the live album.)
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)
it's pretty good and fairly energetic, but can't touch his 1966-'74 work. (Some of which is covered - in inferior versions - on the live album.)
OTM
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)
Still, as live albums (which I'm generally not a big apologist for) go, it's easily one of the greats.
― xhuxk, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)
That's not kissass Mark: That's regional pride! ... (etc)
Ah right. Fair enough then.
That one track seemed to be one heck of an encore piece. Amazed to find it was the first song of the night.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)
Don't own this LP anymore, but I saw him on the same '75 tour. Not yet a big star, he had the middle slot on the bill. He completely slayed, and I would not have wanted to be the band that had to follow him (which was Bachman Turner Overdrive!)
Yeah, using Nutbush as an opener was killer!
― Dan Peterson, Tuesday, 7 August 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)
Picked this up on vinyl secondhand for four quid last week. Now, if this is secondrate Seger, God only knows how good the 66-74 stuff is, because this cooks. What should I scour the secondhand stores for next?
― ithappens, Monday, 14 December 2009 17:51 (sixteen years ago)
Heh heh, you should've clicked on THIS thread last month:
Bob Seger Reissue News
CD-Rs and/or mp3s still available, email me for details, etc...
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Tuesday, 15 December 2009 02:20 (sixteen years ago)