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I think Night Moves is one of the best songs ever. The story. The Wilson Pickett – type vocals. The instrumentation. The syncopation of the piano fills. The way it builds. The break. Everything. Recorded in Toronto but it sounds to me like it was recorded at Muscle Shoals (as Mainstreet was).
That and Turn the Page are my favorite Seger songs. Alto Reed (what a name for a sax player) was terrific and his solos would give you chills.
When nothing comes easy
Old nightmares seem real
~ Shame On The Moon
Ten Pat, that’s his stage name. You want to know his real one?
Pull up Live Bullet, from ’75, and cue up Let It Rock.
When they go easy during the tune, and Bobby is introducing the band,
listen carefully.
“T____ C______ on the saxophone, from Birmingham MI”
“And I’m Bob Seger. I’m from Ann Arbor, Michigan. Silver Bullet Band. Yeah”
Aw, it’s still Christmas, and I’ll gift it to ya friend with a link to GooTube.
If pressed for time, FF to the 4:20 mark.
But personally, I’d listen to the whole 8 minutes.
It captures when rock musicians had the most creativity in song writing, IMO.
You’re welcome buddy.
FWIW, I was at that show, and a few more, when they were in their heyday.
Invariably, Alto Reed was isolated with the spotlight, at just the right moment in a song, positioned somewhere unusual…on top of the stack of speakers, or at Pine Knob outdoor venue, hanging from the rafters of the pavilion with a harness, and just beltin’ it out…
Betcha attendees in Boston know what I’m talking about.
Seger’s other live album was recorded there.
So many good albums that year,here is Smith:
Dream On came out in 73,was reissued in 76.
First band I ever saw, in Jan. or Feb. ’75 at the Boston Garden, with paper route money, for about four bucks, plus subway tokens and bus fare. They were touring behind their third album, “Toys In The Attic”, which had yet to be released.
Joe wouldn’t look up at us, and Steven wouldn’t look away or stop shrieking and twitching. Now, they’re in their seventies (and Joey’s wife’s been vaxecuted).
Where do da time go . . .
Damn good era for music.
What a great year to be alive!
You’re a bot, or the stiffest man alive.
You’re a dick…a limp one.
You’re sex-obsessed in a shaming way. You’re a bot.
Transparently so.
We were out of Vietnam, the president seemed like a good-hearted dunce, the red, white & blue “American Freedom Train” toured the country (right behind my house) for the bi-centennial and there was no internet, so entertainment was clouds, Schwinn Stingrays and Gilligan’s Island reruns.
Live versions of 1976 toons:
The list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1976
This whole 1976 album is good:
Those are some great songs. Every one. The bass line from “I Wish” is classic (plus the horns). Stevie didn’t tell us that “nappy” isn’t taken as a term of endearment when said by a white person.
I still love this song. Such great times. We literally did not know how good we had it. Just music and people; no cell phones, no internet, no Facebook, no politics…
I had not heard that tune for decades then about 6 months ago I heard it on YouTube. I get a kick out of the live version with that ugly fucker singing and that dude in the one piece playing xylophone. Was that cool stuff back then or what? Ha ha memories
Summer of ’76 a college buddy, his brother and I headed out on a trip to Las Vegas from Tulsa with a shoe box full of 8 tracks and a radio that did not work. We made a side trip to see another friend in Tucson and by the time we got to Vegas, only Frampton Live and Starship’s Red Octopus would play.
I can still listen to Starship, but if I never hear Frampton again, it will be too soon.
The mid-70’s were really good to me, but a lot of it was kinda blurry.
I graduated High School in 1976. Was traveling around fishing and camping mostly in Wisconsin. Of course, had the 8 track with Beatles and Bob Dylan.
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I liked their 1975 album, “Free Hand”. Pleasantly eccentric, cult appeal only.
Surprised CCR not on the list: bad moon, heard it on the grape vine, proud mary.
That was way before 1976. They were good, though. They broke up in ’72.
Something magical happened in 1976. It was the best single year for any music type…jazz, country, etc.
Jazz? No way. The 70’s with fusion was spotty at best. Herbie Hancock’s 1975 “Man-Child” album was good. I’ll take mostly 1910 to 1970 or so, and plenty of individual albums after that. Ahmad Jamal’s “Rossiter Road” in 1986 was good. Plenty more, up to today, but 70’s seemed jazz generally seemed weaker to me.
Nearly the whole Blue Note catalog is on my shelves. Saw McCoy Tyner maybe ten times, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, Max Roach, Elvin Jones and his brother Hank, Ahmad Jamal, Tommy Flanagan, Rachel Nicolazzo, Javon Jackson, and a few others. No accounting for taste, right?
I still have a working quadrophonic tape deck, original speakers and a box of quad tapes, circa 1973.
Brings back lots of memories. Mid 70’s was hearing most of these tunes up in a 200 ton capacity overhead crane. Loading steel coils on to flat bed trailers . The music made the job that much better. Was truly the best time for rock. Thanks.
Asked the search engine for the biggest hits of 1976 — got 2 totally different lists … so here’s the one I like:
1 – The Eagles – Hotel California –
2 – Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way –
3 – Boston – More Than A Feeling –
6 – Blue Oyster Cult – Don’t Fear The Reaper –
17 – Kansas – Carry On My Wayward Son –
20 – Boston – Long Time –
27 – Manfred Mann’s Earth Band – Blinded By The Light –
49 – Gordon Lightfoot – The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgrald –
99 – Starland Vocal Band – Afternoon Delight –
Thanks for the list/videos.
That Boston album was a game changer. I still enjoy cranking that one up.
I am pretty mellow so Bob Seger was my favorite rocker growing up. Almost everyone I knew had the Peter Frampton double album. The 70’s were rocks heyday. 80’s were okay, I quit listening to rock after that. Pretty much listen to Blues now days.
Here’s some indispensable rock history that began in ’76:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Rose