Bob Seger Reissue News

Scott, the satisfaction of filling a hole in someone's collection (and amazement that I own something that you lack, aside from Uncle Sam's original-nude-cover "Heaven or Hollywood") is its own reward! I wouldn't know where to begin asking for something in return.

Dad A, if you've got no preference, I'll send you the Sendspace link when i get home. (Probably preferable to relying on the post office at this time of year, it just now occurs to me...)

I wouldn't mind an honourable mention in the "2009's Best Reissues" thread! (Make my mother proud)

Ha, I actually considered voting for the CD-R at the top of my Pazz & Jop ballot. Probably would have, if it had an official name and fake label or whatever. (Maybe should have anyway, but I chickened out.)

But actually, it's a very late 2009 release, right? So if Myonga gives it a proper name (on Myonga Records??), maybe I'll pencil it in for the next year's ballot. (A shoo-in for the #1 spot!)

I encourage this idea!

i'll vote for it next year!

MYONGA VON AWESOME!

I hope the P&J still exists for 2010. Because I hope there are enough bona fide critics around here to put this thing on the chart then. Because I hope that that could get his label to wake up, pay attention and disseminate this properly.

Aw, you guyz...(blushes)

Seriously, tho, Scott & dad: I need your email and/or home addresses before Tuesday, otherwise you'll have to wait 'till the new year when I return from my home away from home (on the Michigan-Ontario border y'all).

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thanks!

So Myonga, we still need an official title for your CD-R!

And in other Seger reissue news, my better half gave me that 1966-1967 CD boot (KWR-7033, "2005 Alternative Edge Productions," available afrom Midnight Records) for Xmas; I'd asked for it before Myonga made his collection, and Myonga's is definitely way more comprehensive, but I'm still glad to have both. At least 1966-1967 has a title! Plus a familiar badass alley photo of a teenage Bob on the CD cover (with totally incongruous late '70s photos of him on the other side.) And mainly, four tracks that didn't make Myonga's disc -- "Florida Time" (Beach Boys-wannabee surf-rock), "East Side Sound" (revving dragster rock instrumental version of "East Side Story"), "Very Few" (post-doo-wop), "Heavy Music (Part 2)" (15 seconds longer than the original version, and my ears say not quite as wild, a bpm or two slower and a decibel or two less loud, and Bob says "it's a brand new bag now" in the middle and adds another line or two here and there, and the deeper-and-deeper orgasmic break buildup sounds slightly less raunchy I guess -- what the story, again, of why he re-recorded it?) 12 songs total (compared to Myonga's 27, which obviously covers a much wider span of time), but here's one time I don't mind being a completist. (Oh yeah, sound quality -- you can definitely hear cracks and pops, so I get the idea it's all recorded directly from old 45s.)

Howbout we call it Never Mind the Bullets Here's Early Bob Seger :D

About those absent tracks: "East Side Sound" I don't find particularly interesting; "Florida Time" I excluded because I believe that Bob doesn't appear on it at all, aside from some backing vocals (maybe); "Heavy Music" is in fact my own edit which I should've retitled "Part 3", and which consists of Part 1, with Part 2's "N.S.U., S.R.C..." couplet grafted on top (somewhat sloppily). And yeah, in retrospect I wish I had included the Young Rascals-ish "Very Few", even though it's wildly atypical. I guess I'll just have to offer to email those absentees to whoever wants 'em (I totally empathize with completism!)

Also, did I send out a faulty copy of "UMC"? I was looking for it on my hard drive last week but could only find an incomplete version barely a minute long - the full thing's three minutes and change. If anyone didn't get the complete track, I'll re-send that one too...

I'm sorry to be a pain about it, but do you have anyway of sending out the WMA tracks as MP3s instead? I've tried to convert the WMAs to MP3s without success. If no that's cool; I understand that it's a hassle to do this.

Not a hassle at all, I've already done it. I'll send the sendspace link when I'm back from out of town after New Year's.

Never Mind the Bullets Here's Early Bob Seger

EXCELLENT title! Now let's just hope everybody remembers it, come 2010 Pazz & Jop time. (I'll do my best to keep it fresh in people's minds.)

And yeah, totally agree those 4 other cuts on 66-67 range from expendable to negligible. Not complaining about your selection at all!

How can I get a copy of this???

^^^am also interested

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anybody have a tracklist handy? i have ramblin' gamblin man and mongrel - wondering what i'm missing

(xp)^^^

east side story
persecution smith
heavy music
chain smokin'
vagrant winter
remblin' gamblin' man
down home
tales of lucy blue
2+2=?
noah
innervenous eyes
lonely man
death row
highway child
mongrel
lucifer
leanin on my dream
lookin' back
love the one you're with
rosalie
back in 72
i've been workin'
get out of denver
cross of gold
UMC (upper middle class)
ballad of the yellow berets
sock it to me santa

I'll leave it to Myonga to send files but I can reup if necessary

whoops "ramblin'"

oh, i feel like a ninny for sleeping on this the first time around....file me please (someday)!

Me three (four, five...)

I'll join the queue...

If I can also add my name to the list, then yes please.

PLEASE

Haven't heard most of this stuff in over 20 years.

That mix sounds incredible. I hear Seger's original version of Rosalie on some XM channel the other day, it's great. Love Thin Lizzy's too.I'd love to get this

also PLEASE

Vagrant Winter COOKS

Haha, haven't checked this thread in awhile! You will all be taken care of within the next few days or so, promise (including those of you who've already sent emails in the past week). I'd get started right now but I'm going out socializing for once...

...hi everybody! Some of you have gotten 'em and some have not, but I'm not sure who has or hasn't, and the reason is that I've had browser problems which resulted in my inbox totally vanishing, grr. But it appears to be straightened out for the moment, so if you'd like to give it another try, I'm still sc0ttybl✧✧✧@r0g✧✧✧.✧0m (with o's instead of zeroes, of course.) As always, leave an email address for the Sendspace link or home address for a disc.

Wow, that's ugly! I'll try again:

scottybloom

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Chrissakes!

"scottybloom at rogers dot com"!

Gotcha, Mordy, thanks xpost

Thanks a million, MVB. This stuff cooks.

Yeah, I've been loving this stuff ... is everything converted to mp3 now? I could never get those few wav files to play or convert ...

All of them were mp3.

why isn't this available on slsk?

What's the correct order for the tracks?

ILILM

A thousand thank-yous, Myonga!

Sent

mucas gracias!

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myonga rules!!!

"persecution smith" is a ridiculous dylan ripoff, sure, but it's got this bubblegummy chorus that suggests he had a monkees LP on the changer, too. maybe even some archies. it's brilliant.

still absorbing the rest.

Yeah, it's pretty great. Also: DO YOU SEE how easily the lyrics can be repurposed for laughs to be about 2010 and cr*zy t**b*gg*rs.

Has anyone detected the bowling alley sounds said to be on the early tracks? I can't, but I'm kinda deaf.

"persecution smith" is a ridiculous dylan ripoff, sure, but it's got this bubblegummy chorus that suggests he had a monkees LP on the changer, too. maybe even some archies. it's brilliant.

(I think I mentioned this in another Seger thread but) real early on, he played the cafeteria at my dad's high school, and when someone asked him (pointedly, perhaps) to play some Dylan, his response was something like "I don't play Bob Dylan. I play Bob Seger."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u5x9pdInTU

http://www.freep.com/article/20100326/ENT04/100326021/1371/Seger-surprises-with-fall-tour-plans