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| From | erhoek@comcast.net |
| Subject | Old Seger can be good Seger |
| Date | Sun, 22 Jan 2006 01:18:07 +0000 |
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The Bob Seger and the Last Heard and the System period stuff is very much worth checking out.
Several years back I bought a Satelliters cd from Not Lame that among other things offered up a blistering cover of 2 + 2. Great stuff indeed.
On a degrees of separation note I had a high school English teacher who regaled the class with tales of growing up with Seger as a classmate in Detroit and brought in the autographed high school yearbook to back it up .
-r
-------------- Original message ----------------------
From: Michael Bennett <mrhonorama@ameritech.net>
> I've got a ways to go and hope to have my prelimary
> tally done today. Wow, you guys and gals unleashed a
> lot of votes under the wire!
>
> Currently, I'm tallying to a bootleg I picked up a
> couple of weeks ago -- Bob Seger -- Lookin' Back.
> This is a collection of early Seger singles. The
> tunes are a melange of styles, as Seger dabbled in a
> bunch of areas -- some folk rock, one surf-type tune,
> a comic number ("The Ballad of the Yellow Berets", a
> Sgt. Barry Sadler parody), an actual ballad that makes
> stuff like "We've Got Tonight" more tolerable, and
> some smoking R & B spiked garage rock. The best songs
> on here are awesome -- the original "Heavy Music", the
> dramatic "East Side Story", the bopping "Chain
> Smokin'" and his top protest number "2 + 2 = ?". On
> some songs, his famous rasp is subdued, but when he
> gets wailing -- I know Seger is considered
> ridiculously unhip by some, but he has a great voice
> for R & B based rock -- it's a shame he can't go back
> to that.
>
> Mike Bennett
>
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>
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>
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