Coming up…..The legendary Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band would play a brutal run of 265 live shows in a horrendous year on the road. And it would all blow up in a would-be brawl between rednecks and hippies at a truck stop spawned by an act of bigotry… Bob Seger was smack dab in the middle of it but turned the experience into one of the most distinctive and heart-stopping vocals in history in the definitive song on the subject of life on the road: Turn the Page. It’s a 70s classic that didn’t take off until Seger released a live version. Then Metallica would cover it in the 90s and blow it up all over again. Get ready for an amazing story…next on Professor of Rock.

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The music of Bob Seger is not merely hooky songs with a rousing chorus….. Not even close... His songs are masterfully narrated emotional novellas of Americana- that strike a chord for the heartbreak, the struggles, the frustrations, and the hopes & prayers that surge inside each of us. Bob Seger rarely penned songs when he was on tour. He needed to come home for a few weeks and clear his head first.

Two notable exceptions were his breakthrough nostalgic hit “Night Moves,” and the stirring portrayal of the dark side of fame called Turn the Page. Bob Seger was signed as an artist for Capitol Records in 1967. He was contracted on the strength of his riveting live performances. Seger had a few regional hits in the Midwest, and a #17 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man” in ’68.

After the Top 20 success of “Ramblin Gamblin Man,” Seger hit a dry spell. Capitol released 6 singles by Bob Seger between ’68 and ’74, and all of them stiffed. The highest climber out of the bunch was Seger’s cover of Tim Hardin’s folk song “If I Were a Carpenter” which stalled at #76 But, Seger’s notoriety wasn’t built on hit singles…. it was all about his live shows. Seger was, and still is, an electrifying performer, with a gifted soulfulness that explodes from his husky-visceral vocals.

You might say he sounds even better live than he does on a processed recording. He earned a reputation as the hardest working rock n’ roller in the business- pounding out more than 250 concerts a year. In 1973, for instance, Bob Seger & his Silver Bullet Band played an astounding 265 shows, driving more than 100,000 miles.

“Turn the Page", Seger's expose' about the other side of fame was conceived in 1972. At that point in Seger’s career, he had been touring non-stop for a good 8 or 9 years, but he felt like his career