Posted On: Friday - November 17th 2023 5:12PM MST
In Topics: Music
We're gonna have to go quiet till Monday or even Tuesday. Part of it is just taking a short internet break, but there's actual work to do too.
We try to relate the music to the posts here, but this one is just out of the blue. From his very popular Night Moves album of 1977, here is Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band with Main Street. There was so much music this great in the 1970s that people thought it would always be that way. I've been wrong before, but, man, not this bad!!
Peak Stupidity is backed up again with posts yearning to hit the site running, more on the Depopulocalypse, something on the writer extraordinaire, Lionel Shriver, the topic of China as related to the long Atlantic article, China's Age of Malaise that we just touched upon here last week. We'll have more from our road trip too. Then, the immigration invasion has not quit, and the country is going to hell and all that ...
Okay, then. Have a wonderful weekend, Peakers! Thanks for reading and writing in.
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Moderator
Monday - November 20th 2023 5:10PM MST
PS: "Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man". Thanks, Mr. Ganderson. That explains why I didn't know that song for a long time after Bob Seger's heyday in the mid '70s. The "Beautiful Loser" album from '75 is one of my favorites, though I bought in in the '90s. "Travelin' Man" and "Beautiful Loser" MUST go together. Then "Jodie Girl" is one I like, in addition to "Katmandu", "Black Night", and his cover of Tina Turner's "Nutbush City Limits".
Ganderson
Monday - November 20th 2023 4:27PM MST
PS
Not a huge Seeger guy, but I like both ”Sunspot” and “Hollywood Nights” a lot.
Seeger’s interesting in that he had a pretty big hit (Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man) in 1968; then he disappeared for a few years, re-emerging in the mid 70’s; releasing a string of albums (lots of FM play) along with a bunch of top 40 hits.
Not a huge Seeger guy, but I like both ”Sunspot” and “Hollywood Nights” a lot.
Seeger’s interesting in that he had a pretty big hit (Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man) in 1968; then he disappeared for a few years, re-emerging in the mid 70’s; releasing a string of albums (lots of FM play) along with a bunch of top 40 hits.
Moderator
Saturday - November 18th 2023 8:39AM MST
PS: Haha, Alarmist, she appreciated the 3-D glasses, huh? One of only a few times going into that sort of place, 1 of the 3 of us was told he couldn't enter without a collared shirt. "But, but, look, they don't have em!" Had to go another time.
I'm not sure Bob Seger's description makes so much sense to me either - I like the melody and the sound. Great lead guitar!
I'm not sure Bob Seger's description makes so much sense to me either - I like the melody and the sound. Great lead guitar!
The Alarmist
Saturday - November 18th 2023 4:18AM MST
PS
We didn’t have clubs with dancing girls you could see from the street through the window, but that’s probably because the ones we did have were more “gentlemen’s clubs” and not dive blues bars. I got thrown out of a nudie bar one night because I put on a pair of 3-D glasses (we saw a 3-D movie before going to the club for added kicks), which our table dancer took as a commentary on her endowment, which it was. I wish I had written a song about it à la Weird Al Yankovitch.
I got a foot massage and maintenance session today, and the station they had on in the background was stuck in the ‘80s, which I remembered being a fun music decade ... clearly not as serious or quite as artistic as the ‘70s, but certainly better than what we hear lately.
Enjoy the pre-holiday weekend, y’all.
🕉
We didn’t have clubs with dancing girls you could see from the street through the window, but that’s probably because the ones we did have were more “gentlemen’s clubs” and not dive blues bars. I got thrown out of a nudie bar one night because I put on a pair of 3-D glasses (we saw a 3-D movie before going to the club for added kicks), which our table dancer took as a commentary on her endowment, which it was. I wish I had written a song about it à la Weird Al Yankovitch.
I got a foot massage and maintenance session today, and the station they had on in the background was stuck in the ‘80s, which I remembered being a fun music decade ... clearly not as serious or quite as artistic as the ‘70s, but certainly better than what we hear lately.
Enjoy the pre-holiday weekend, y’all.
🕉