“The Chosen One” Music Video & Bob Seger Debate

He's in the R&R HOF; the R&R HOF is far from perfect, but it's a fair starting point. Seems to me they've gotten a fair amount more right, than wrong.

And in this case, certainly, the OP has no business being mentioned with Bob Seger.

That's just @!#$!@#$ ridonkulous.

 

Just to follow up, with a nice little ribbon--(video below popped up on my feed today)--Mike Campbell talking about "the Boys of Summer" which he wrote, Tom Petty (and Jimmy Iovine) declined to take, then, at Iovine's prompting, Don Henley took up, and enjoyed great success with:




Note: at 5:08-5:20 mark, he mentions that Henley re-cut the song in a week (after it was already 'done') in a higher key, at the prompting of "some singing genius"--that "genius" happened to be Bob Seger. See:

https://wcsx.com/2023/09/19/bob-seger-told-don-henley-to-do-what/

^^^reminiscent of Eddie Van Halen popping in, and giving Michael Jackson some help with 'Beat it' (then playing the solo gratuitously on it). BTW, Seger had previously done something similar to what he did for DH/Boys of Summer, for the Eagles/Glenn Frey, with Heartache Tonight.

Fwiw.

 

Man I have always wished Petty would have done Boys Of Summer. Really great song, but he would have made it an all timer.

 

Bob Seger is a complete cheese dick but he wrote a few classics. How can you not love Night Moves? Song rules. Fight me.

 

I love Petty, but I can't see him doing any better with the tune, than what Henley did with it. The lyrics are fantastic. The song is timeless. Henley's best imo.

Woulda been lost as filler in Petty's catalog.

Jmho/fwiw.

 

Side note. I saw Henley at the 95YNF anniversary concert in 1990. One of the very first events at the Florida Suncoast Dome(Tropicana Field).

It was one of the best shows of my youth.

 

The intro is one of those, "you immediately know" intros.

 

Have you heard the new song that Campbell/Dirty Knobs just dropped with Stapleton?

Great tune.

 

I was there. I member 3 things about the show:

1. He played Hotel California;

2. Boys of Summer;

3. He got booed for talking politics.

Aside from the very brief little political detour, the show was fantastic.

 

I had not, but looked it up at your prompting. Thank you sir! It's excellent. This one (Arkansas, right?):



Stapleton is a generational talent who stands out in the dearth of talent that comprises today's rock scene (where's this gen's Springsteen, Petty, Buffett, Halen, Seger, Dylan, Beatles, Stones, Beach Boys, ACDC, Aerosmith, Skynyrd....?)--all the more so, as an old school throw back of Southern rock. Nice to see Campbell staying plugged in and relevant.

 

Well, Henley (et al) really showed it's potential--impossible to unsee in retrospect, but it could have gone a thousand different ways, most of which I believe, would have fallen well south of what Henley did with it... but who knows. Maybe Petty would written even better lyrics and polished her up to something even better than TBOS that we now know and love....

 

Working on those night moves. Trying to make some front page drive in news.....

I'm ready to fight

 

It was the Walden Pond thing. He talked about it endlessly at times. Also, the opening band got boo'd off stage as I recall.

Only fit in 14 songs due to all the talking, but every one was a hit.

That was his solo heyday. End of the innocence Tour.
I have a setlist playlist for most of the big shows I've been to on Spotify.

Here is the setlist:
Don Henley Setlist at Florida Suncoast Dome, St. Petersburg

Drivin' With Your Eyes Closed

Dirty Laundry

The End of the Innocence

If Dirt Were Dollars

Sunset Grill

New York Minute

The Heart of the Matter

Hotel California
(Eagles song)

Life in the Fast Lane
(Eagles song)

The Boys of Summer

Encore:
All She Wants to Do Is Dance

I Will Not Go Quietly

Desperado
(Eagles song)

The Last Worthless Evening

 

No. Arkansas is an older sing.

"Don't Wait Up" is their new one off of Mike's new album that releases today:
Mike Campbell Announces New Album With Chris Stapleton, Graham Nash

 

The cult of 75 million and growing.

 

A bit late to the thread but:

Seger is def an all time great. Sure, maybe he was bit mundane compared to his contemporaries, I'll give you that. His name is Bob for Christ sake... Yawn.

But the man wrote a ton of absolutely iconic Americana bangers that were delivered with an amazingly powerful, emotional voice.

Night Moves
Against the Wind
Old time R&R
Main Street
Rambling Gambling Man
Still the Same
Turn the Page
Like a Rock
We've got Tonight
Traveling Man / Beautiful Loser (my fav)
Etc

How many artists have a dozen tunes instantly recognizable to the majority of the population? Dude deserves HOF, no doubt.

 

Still the Same, huh? Zero progress in all this thread? Still got The Fire Inside ya' against Seger's Old Time Rock & Roll? Listen... I might be pissin' Against the Wind here, and certainly this ain't no Shakedown--you're free to see things as you see fit--but even a Beautiful Loser, is still a loser--which is what your take amounts to. So let this be The Famous Last Scene--let us Turn the Page on this issue, let's Get out of Denver, and head on to Katmandu.

A'ight?

 

Awesome. Thanks again. I'd remembered he played a few Eagles' songs, but couldn't remember which ones besides Hotel Cali--which was far more significant then, b/c the Eagles had broken up like a decade prior, were seeped in nostalgia, and lamented as mere memory of a by-gone era. So seeing Henley appeared to be the closest anyone would get to seeing the Eagles live at that point, and into the foreseeable future. Of course that aspect has long since evaporated given their reunions, and multiple farewell tours, but it was quite compelling at the time.

That was all bonus anyway, b/c his solo stuff was plenty worth the time and the price of the ticket--topped off with TBOS.


(....and TY yet again, for the info on Campbell's new song with Stapleton. I'll check it out).

 

Lyrical masterpiece.

I wonder how the writing went.

Breasts of her own at a high altitude

Boobies of her own elevated

Mams of her own at the top floor.

No. No! I got it boys! Lets go with the beautifully crafted:
"points of her own settin way up high"



Genius!

 

Honestly forgot Katmandu was a Seger song. Despite its vapidness of topic it is indeed a banging song.