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16  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Introduce Yourself / Re: Pink Houses on: May 25, 2015, 07:33:04 pm
"Pink Houses" - it's such a great song!



Mike
17  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Introduce Yourself / Re: Youngest Mellencamp Fan? on: May 25, 2015, 07:31:04 pm
Classic rock acts have fans of all ages.  It means the music of those classic rock acts like Bob Seger, John Mellencamp, Bruce Springsteen, etc., will live on for many more years to come thanks to fans like you Brianna.



Mike
18  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Tour Talk / Re: Toronto Review on: May 25, 2015, 07:25:39 pm
Every review I've read thus far has been positive.  The Vancouver date is getting closer and closer.  Yeah!!!




Mike
19  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / All About John / Re: New live album slated for July release ''Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood''. on: May 25, 2015, 07:21:26 pm
I'd love a live album of the "No Better Than This" tour.  Or even better a "Plain Spoken" tour live album. (official releases of course)




Mike
20  NON-JOHN DISCUSSION / Music You Like / Re: Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band concert review (Vancouver, Canada) on: May 25, 2015, 07:16:40 pm
You've got that right, Bob Seger is a legend and class act.  There was a 13 year boy with his mother at the show I went to here in Vancouver.  He also really enjoyed the show.  That is so awesome to see.




Mike
21  NON-JOHN DISCUSSION / Music You Like / Re: Bob Seger releases new album - Ride Out! on: May 25, 2015, 07:13:43 pm
It's great to see young people getting into classic rock acts.  I saw Bob Seger last year and earlier this year.  Both shows were great!  The album Ride Out is excellent!




Mike   
22  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / All About John / Re: JM's Dylan Cover at MusiCares..... on: March 16, 2015, 07:36:45 pm
When will the video be available to view?  John's version of "Allentown" (originally done by Billy Joel) is brilliant.  So I want to see (and I'm sure I'm not the only one) John's version of the Dylan classic "The Full Catastrophe". 


Mike
23  NON-JOHN DISCUSSION / Music You Like / Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band concert review (Vancouver, Canada) on: March 16, 2015, 07:29:48 pm

Bob Seger hardly seems an 'old man' at Rogers Arena

Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band walked onstage to John Fogerty's Old Man Down the Road. The tune had the nearly full Rogers Arena roaring.

If it was meant to be ironic, nicely done.

It'll be awhile before Seger is the old man. At 69, the Detroit rock & soul singer still projects with an ease vocalists 30 years his junior would be happy to have.

The 14-piece band fronted by ponytailed saxman Alto Reed is beyond seasoned. They groove any way they want and deliver a show both consummate and thoroughly entertaining.

Whether laying down the rousing opener Roll Me Away from 1972s The Distance or the cover of Otis Clay's Tryin' To Live My Life Without You that has been part of the Seger setlist since the late sixties, the group was right on.

Former Grand Funk Railroad drummer Don Brewer in particular was swinging hard. He must be happy being in a good group.

Seger knows how key the players are to his enduring success and lets them own tunes. Mainstreet from 1976's Night Moves wouldn't be anything without that saxophone riff. It defines the song as much as the sax hook in Gerry Rafferty's Baker Street did. Perhaps it's street songs from the seventies?

Fortunately, nobody Tom Cruise'd in their y-fronts for Old Time Rock and Roll. But they sure got up and shimmy-shaked themselves silly. And one of the back-up singers was killing it on a cowbell the size of her forearm.

The guy next to me thought that was awesome. He thought everything was awesome.

It was that kind of Saturday at the stadium.

For an artist who has made so much out of some painfully saccharine ballads -- sorry, but Like A Rock has always seemed so well suited for truck ads it could have been a commissioned jingle -- Seger and the Silver Bullet Band still load the performance with meat n' taters arena air punch makers. They downright burned on Willy Mitchell's Come to Poppa, Her Strut and the epic Ramblin' Gamblin' Man singalong.

Even the new Nashville-tinged material from last year's All The Roads didn't embarrass. Compared to so many of his peers, Seger comes across as still engaged in making music. Gypsy, his new Stevie Ray Vaughan dedication, was a highlight.

But, gotta say, Turn The Page may be one of my least favourite "road life" tunes of all time. I am in a minority there, I guess.

It always feels good to see a local band get to grace the opening slot and be introduced to a new crowd. Rich Hope and His Evil Doers did themselves proud warming up the crowd.

The band's blues rock may not quite be as clean as some would like, but it got heads nodding and feet tapping with some hoots and hollers when the quartet threw in a few verses of Golden Earring's Radar Love. While there was some "tsk-tsk'ing" about Hope's expletive-laced stage banter, the band proved a really good pairing.

Here's to seeing the band blasting all stylish again soon. They play the Rickshaw this month.

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24  NON-JOHN DISCUSSION / Music You Like / Re: The new Bob Seger album debuts at #3 in Canada on: November 04, 2014, 02:12:38 am
I also heard/read that it's supposed to be Seger's last album but he's a musician and musicians never stop writing music.  Just look at Springsteen, Mellencamp and Dylan.  I'm sure another album will be written and released in the next few years.  Seger is a great singer and songwriter.  I'm sure Ride Out will not be the last album from Bob.




Mike
25  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / All About John / Re: Are any of the songs from ''Plain Spoken'' getting radio airplay. on: October 30, 2014, 11:16:23 pm
Yeah, the classic rock stations really don't consider new music from an established artist.  Unless it's someone like Paul McCartney or Robert Plant.  Even then, the new music doesn't receive a whole lot of air play.  I much prefer the European classic rock stations.  They are far more open to playing a very good mix of classics and new music.




Mike
26  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / All About John / Re: Isolation Of Mister on: October 30, 2014, 11:10:34 pm
I did think it was someone other than John.  Nonetheless, a great song.  The entire album is so fantastic!  It really can't get "no better than this".  What else does John have in store for us in the years to come?  I certain that Plain Spoken is just the beginning of more great music to come from Mr. Mellencamp.   



Mike
27  NON-JOHN DISCUSSION / Music You Like / Re: The new Bob Seger album debuts at #3 in Canada on: October 30, 2014, 11:01:28 pm
I thought it was released worldwide on Oct. 14th, 2014.  That's quite surprising. I just checked and Ride Out is available through Amazon, Germany.  I'm sure you can download it from the site or order from your local record store.  Enjoy!




Mke
28  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / All About John / Isolation Of Mister on: October 27, 2014, 04:24:36 pm
The "Plain Spoken" track Isolation Of Mister is hauntingly lonely and moving.  The melody is beautiful.  It touches the soul and you can feel the emptiness in the character of the song. 

John did an amazing job on the song and the entire album.




Mike
29  NON-JOHN DISCUSSION / Music You Like / The new Bob Seger album debuts at #3 in Canada on: October 27, 2014, 04:16:26 pm
Legendary Detroit rocker (Night Moves) Bob Seger's new album "Ride Out" debuts at #3 in Canada.  It just goes to show you, we Canadians like our old time rock 'n' roll.

If you haven't heard it yet, check it out!  It's a ride worth taking.




Mike
30  MELLENCAMP DISCUSSION / Articles / Re: German Rolling Stone review on: October 25, 2014, 07:18:47 pm
John deserves a lot of praise for Plain Spoken and it looks like he's getting it. 




Mike
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