![]() ![]() When that piano riff came down the scale twice and I first heard the those immortal words "Just take those old records off the shelf.". This was his "Stranger in Town" tour and I still remember the shivers that went down my spine when I heard him say, "I'd like to do a new song off of my new album called 'Old Time Rock and Roll'". I remember gesturing silently the best I could on how I was just there to get into my date's pants! Any who, the concert started and Seger blew my socks off. They turned to me and said, "Smitty, what you doing here? You like Seger?". We went inside, found our seats, sat down and much to my surprise there were 4 to 5 of my high school buddy's sitting right in front of me. I remember trying desperately trying to get into her pants out in the parking lot before the concert not having one bit of interest in Bob Seger at that point. Yes, $4.75 to sit in the bowl section, opposite end of the stage at the old Met Center in Bloomington, Minnesota. He must be a southern, black, raspy blues singer." That was the only song I had heard of his. From what I remember of the song, I thought to myself, "Yes, Bob Seger. After she rambled off a few songs, I finally settled on recognizing "Night Moves". I called her up for a date and she said, "I want to go see Bob Seger!". We talked and eventually exchange numbers. That caught the attention of a beautiful red head about my age who happed to be in the store. when I made a parrot sound "Arrhaa", whistled, and then in parrot void said "Hello". when I was sitting in a pet store talking to a parrot! Yes, a parrot. Greg from Minneapolis, MnThis is a bit of a story.Due to radio and movie overexposure, I started to hate the original, but the live version always sounded good. Barry from New York, NcThe version of this song on the NINE TONIGHT live LP is superior than the original one on STRANGER IN TOWN.By the time we got home, it was, like, 'Y'know, this was a good move' and the band wasn't angry about it anymore." And the guys kinda looked at me and said, 'Hmmm - this isn't so band after all (laughs).' So we proceeded to play it through the rest Europe, and went to France, and the Netherlands, Sweden and wherever we went and it got the same response. Let's just play it and see what happens.' And we got a huge response with it - (laughs) and they never even heard it, it wasn't even out yet. And we were in Germany, and I said, 'Let's just play that song for the heck of it. Deethewriter from Saint Petersburg, Russia FederationBecause the tune was unfamiliar to them at the time, Seger remembers catching a lot of heat from the band when he pushed to introduce it into his live set: "The band was always complainin' about it.Laura from El Paso, T圎very time I hear this song it reminds me of when Kirk Cameron and Alan Thicke sang it in a 'father / son" duet on that show "Growing Pains" in the early 90's.Esskayess from Dallas, TxGreg, you heard the voice of God say, 'You have found home!' but you clearly didn't hear it say, 'You will get into her pants!'. ![]()
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