Bob Seger Reissue News

man i feel bad i missed on the action. dl'ing now (thx myonga for sharing)

only own ramblin' gamblin' man which i love, i feel like this is gonna be epic.

the "album art" studio shot is just amazing.

man east side story is getting things off with a bang!

btw what's the protocol for sharing this on the internet? or is it kinda an ilx only thing?

i put it on my blog, been seeing it around elsewhere too.

cool.

persecution smith is amazing! it's the best dylan ripoff this side of "a public execution" off the nuggets box

vagrant winter! goddamn!

tyler where is your blog, i sent myonga an email but i got a delivery status notification failure

here you go
http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/
seger thing is one post down

http://themoderatevoice.com/wordpress-engine/files/2007-october/namaste.JPG

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9069/nancyseger.jpg

ahaha ... was hoping that seger pic would become an internet sensation. it begins here!

omg that is awesome

man he looks like james hetfield in that pic

yeah totally
http://hetfield.tarsierjungle.net/pageimages/pi_ga_closeup.jpg
is ... is seger hetfield's real daddy?

bob seger daddy issues would explain a lot of late period metallica lyrics

lol yeah. Bob Seger Daddy Issues might make a good band name, too.

"Turn The Page" = grounds for disinheritance

ballad of the yellow berets is a real piece of shit, glad this was at the end

On my copy, which Myonga sent me the Christmas before last, "Sock It to Me Santa" and "Ballad of the Yellow Berets" are tracks 6 and 7. The track order is otherwise the same as the one sleeve posted upthread.

I don't want to screw with Myonga's original tracklisting too badly, and endorse it over all others, but the version I made for myself has "Ballad of the Yellow Berets" and "Noah" out, with "UMC" coming before "Cross of Gold," and the whole thing ending with "20 Years From Now," which I love and prefer as a closer to this comp. But since this is—and correct me if I'm wrong—a more or less strict listing of Seger's singles in chronological order, that doesn't make much sense. And Myonga is the originator of this whole thing, so I defer judgment to his tracklisting. I also would love to see "Need Ya" in there, but it might have to be excised due to running time.

Feel free to mess with the tracklisting! I did so myself after sending the first few copies out (moved "Yellow Berets" to the end, just for m@tt!), and again after uploading it for the second or third time. And the version I play at home is different as well - I excised "Get Out Of Denver", which I've never really been crazy about.

i realize i sounded ungrateful by talking bad about yellow berets...that's the only song i don't like or love...overall this is fucking great, so thanks again sir :)

"Yellow Berets" fascinates me in a way...is this the first song to use the term "gay" as homosexual? First one I know of anyways...

Yeah. I really like it just as a flip side to the protest songs of the time...historically, at least to me, its pretty intriguing

if this were a CD comp it'd best be a hidden bonus track. you can't really do without it, but you don't want it front and center, you know what i mean? best to begin with 'east side story'.

incidentally "my" version of the CD comp is as follows

1. east side story
2. sock it to me santa
3. florida time
4. persecution smith
5. heavy music pt. 1
6. 2 + 2 = ?
7. ramblin' gamblin' man
8. ivory
9. noah
10. lucifer
11. highway child
12. teachin' blues
13. lookin' back
14. bo diddley/who do you love
15. midnight rider
16. so i wrote you a song
17. rosalie
18. turn the page
19. back in '72
20. 20 years from now
21. long song comin'
22. u.m.c. (upper middle class) -- i don't actually like this one much, but i didn't think i could fairly leave it out
23. get out of dener
[24. the ballad of the yellow beret]

btw that beautiful morning lp or whatever the acoustic one is called is HORRIBLE.

Just got this and dug it. Thanks, Myonga!

I found lossless (flac) versions of all of Seger's early albums. It's amazing how they remain out of print. The versions sound really good -- I can't tell if they were ripped from vinyl or not. I like 'em in this order:

1970 Mongrel
1973 Back In '72
1974 Seven
1968 Ramblin' Gamblin' Man
1975 Beautiful Loser
1972 Smokin' O.P.'s
1969 Noah
1971 Brand New Morning

Did you find them on a blog or via torrent? If on a blog, please share!

uh yeah, share please.

though brand new morning would suck in any format.

btw i think beautiful loser and smokin OPs are still in print.

Not blog nor torrent. I still use s...k.

smokin' o.p.'s is p easy to find on vinyl...so is ramblni' gamblin, hardly ever see mongrel which i want now

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEALED-Bob-Seger-System-Mongrel-LP-NICE-COPY-/220737471795?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3364fa8533#ht_587wt_1141

I love Mongrel, was excited to find a used copy of that, don't see it often.

early seger bootleg: http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f90/bob-seger-system-1970-a-110160.html

effin' awesome!!! ty tylerw

Seger says he's retiring, passing on the torch to the young'uns:

"I've been blessed. But it's time to go away and let the younger people take over, the Eminems and Kid Rocks of the world."

http://www.freep.com/article/20110323/ENT04/103240430/1318/SPORTS02/Will-Bob-Seger-retire-after-tour-He-contemplates-going-out-top?odyssey=mod|lateststories

I advise Bob to close his final show with a 45-minute long version of 2+2=??, followed by a scorching Ramblin Gamblin Man/Lucifer/Night Moves medley.

...in a caveman vest

wearing a necklace made of the shrunken skulls of berry gordy, ron asheton, rob tyner and sonic smith

Actually, Kid Rock is already older than Al Kaline was when he retired (if the age in that article is right.) And Eminem turns 40 next year, so he's Kaline's retirement age now. I still love how, outside of Sinatra, Seger's reference points in that article are all Detroit guys.

I just got this book in the Borders clearance:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51EvsZ%2By2jL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

It's pretty neat. Lots of pix & stories from the early days. Makes you wish there were a set of shiny reissues to go with it.

note to self: go to Borders

I thought this would have been revived to post this, v. nice piece on the early stuff the Never Mind the Bullets:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/bob-seeger-bootleg-compilation/Content?oid=3770583

awesome piece. does he post here? probably under some name like flopsy topsy or something. i'd never know who he was.

T@l's a terrific guy and a good writer. Another former Stylus alum.

haaaa, that's awesome. tal had gotten in touch with me about the photo, and we were able to solve the mystery. hilarious that the pic is DURING bob's set! just takin' a break.

cranking this now. it really is great!

Great article, thanks for linking it, Mark! (And, obviously for WRITING it, if you're there, Talrose!)

I saw that Seger appeared in the most recent Rolling Stone, and had mad unrealistic hopes that either Bob or the writer would have been aware of Bullets and made mention of it, but no dice. Too bad - I would've bought five copies for my mother!

dudes can we still has this comp file i would like to hear

so now i know where kid koala got the riff for the opening track, 100% on his recent rock-n-roll based cut-n-paste mixtape the slew album.

[spoiler : tis a lift from the main riff from down home]

this a f*cking great compilation