So my friend and FM radio king Robert Becker from WJAA 96.3 in Seymour was playing Bob Seger tunes three mornings ago. It was to celebrate Bob Seger’s 75th birthday.
Yes, that is what I said, Bob Seger is 75. In 2006, when we were needed a concert more than any one I can recall as we were caring for her grandparents, my dear wife Carrie and I saw Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band at Freedom Hall in Louisville. It was a hot show on a cold cold December night.
This photo was taken at the last Seger show we saw at the new YUM Center; could there be a more goofier name for an arena? This show was in December of 2018.
Bob Seger was always a staple in the football locker room when I was kid growing up in Brownstown. The mono 8 track player on the training table in front of the showers in the bowels of the now demolished original James T. Blevins Stadium at Brownstown Central was a place where I got a music education. LIVE BULLET was played a great deal.
That night in 2006 at the first Bob Seger concert Carrie and I attended, I took this picture and I thought this was so interesting in contrast to the old album cover.
In 2013 Carrie and I went to The Palace in Auburn Hills, Michigan to see a concert by their native son, Bob Seger.
This poster is in our living room. We went to the April 13th show. The Palace at Auburn Hills was more a dump than a palace. It is no longer there. But this was sure a good time. Joe Walsh opened the show with seven songs that, along with Bob Seger, represented a great part of the soundtrack of my life.
Bob Seger 75? I can believe that. I am 52 and I walked six and half miles today and my right hip hurts. Oh well. We are not here to have a bad time!
Two days ago I took this picture while I was walking.
It was lovely walk. Humidity low. Temperature was great. I did not want to stop walking. I got in six miles on this day too.
This weekend nine years ago Carrie and I went to see The Moody Blues play a concert at Red Rocks Amphitheater outside of Denver, Colorado.
I don’t think The Moodies will play another concert. In 2014 they were scheduled to play at Red Rocks in May again. Well, it is Denver. There was a snowstorm and the show was moved to an indoor venue in Denver. I am certain Carrie and I can say we saw The Moody Blues play their last concert at Red Rocks where they made the Live at Red Rocks album and video when they played with an orchestra for the first time in September of 1992.
That spawned Orchestra shows all over the globe for the next eight years. I was fortunate enough to catch thirteen of those orchestra shows.
Liner Notes.
It is no secret that I enjoy writing a word or two.
Recently I took a handful of CDs off my shelf at random and inspected them. I didn’t listen to them. I read them. Being interested in words, I read what we call liner notes. That is what refers to the words the music artist puts on the cd packaging to acknowledge “something”.
It made me think about the liner notes I have written on the three CDs I have produced.
Words I wrote for my friend and musical partner Jeff Carpenter resonate. How could they not? Without Jefferson I don’t record a song. He is the man.
On my 2006 CD The Best Thing You Did Yesterday, I wrapped up the liner notes with this… “I still miss the Corner King. And I am quite certain that Josey is still on a vacation far away.”
I hope you all are doing well. This is a tough time. I told Carrie today that speaking the rights is tough these days.
Speaking the rights…
Danny Johnson