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Bob Seger

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Day
17
Month
June
Year
1976
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Saginaw Civic Center
Wednesday. May 12

Bob Seger's current album. Live Bullet, was recorded in Detroit at Cobo Hall last December, but he could just as easily have recorded it at the Saginaw Civic Center in Saginaw, Michigan, May 12th -  Seger and the Silver Bullet Band were both feelin' good and ready to rock that night, and the audience couldn't have been better.

Seger appeared with REO Speedwagon, a heavy metal group from Columbia Records who will be joining Seger in the net few weeks around the midwest. REO's music was loud, piercing, and largely uninspiring. The band tried to get some audience involvement going, but for a crowd that had come to hear Seger's unique brand of hard-driving rock and roll it was hopeless.

From the minute Seger hit the stage until he finished his second long encore of the evening, it was fun all the way. Smiling and belting out "Nutbush City Limits", Michigan's own Prince of Rock and Roll had the audience moving. He did the old favorites that have made him a superstar in Michigan, "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man," "Heavy Music," "Lookin' Back," and "Back In '72." But he also did some new songs: a new arrangement of "Cross Of Gold" (from the Seven LP), his own version of "Whole Lotta Love," a song from his next (as yet unreleased) album called "Mary Lou," and three ballads.

Seger and the Silver Bullet Band play Pontiac Stadium June 26, and they're looking for a big tour on either the West or the East coast. Live Bullet is 59 with a bullet on the national charts, and is already half-way to gold with 270,000 copies sold in a little over four weeks. Now that the rest of the world is beginning to discover what we've known so long-that Bob Seger is an artist of major proportions-we can't help but crow a little. Rock on, Bob-we're with you all the way !

- Doug Cunningham