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[texasdave]

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BOB SEGER AND THE SILVER BULLET BAND - ClassicBands.com
When Bob Seger appeared on The Late Show With David Letterman on December 15th, 2014, he told the host, "We were all arguing about what our band name should be, and I was kind of letting the band pick it themselves, and they just kept arguing and arguing". Finally, our manager sent us our paychecks with 'Bob Seger And The Silver Bullet Band' on it. He got tired of waiting for us so he made it up himself."

An interesting site for those who revel in such minutiae: https://www.classicbands.com/names.html

[Roy Tucker]

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An interesting site for those who revel in such minutiae: https://www.classicbands.com/names.html

Beat me to it re: Seger.

[RichRed]

I see that my trivia question was even less of a hit than Marc Cohn’s “29 Ways”. Now that we know the two-digit prime number in question is indeed 29, I’ll reveal the second song. It’s simply titled “29” and it’s from the Gin Blossoms, released in 1992 as part of their New Miserable Experience album. It’s easy to forget what a big deal these guys were for a few years, as the NME album went quadruple platinum. It featured hits such as “Hey Jealousy”, “Follow You Down”, and “Found Out About You”.

I saw the Gin Blossoms in concert a couple of times, since it felt like they were playing in Va. Beach or Norfolk about every other week. They were part of a steady rotation of post-grunge alternative rock acts that came through, including Toad the Wet Sprocket, Big Head Todd and the Monsters, Better Than Ezra, Blues Traveler, the Bodeans, Smithereens, and others I’m sure I’m forgetting. I was rarely sober for any of these shows. I had a friend who didn’t drink and was happy to be designated driver, so I took full advantage. Those were my Roy Tucker-lite years. Ah, the (hazy) memories.

Sadly, songwriter and guitarist Doug Hopkins committed suicide in 1993 at age 32, following a long battle with mental health issues and alcoholism. The band would go on to have a few more hits but nothing approaching the success of New Miserable Experience.



The third and final song in answer to this question was released by an all-time rock icon. Can anyone name the song and performer?

Back by unpopular demand, here’s the last of three songs released in three consecutive years in the ‘90s featuring the prime number 29 in the title. It’s “29 Palms” released in 1993 from the album Fate of Nations by a man you might have heard of: Robert Plant. Twentynine Palms is also the name of a small town in California’s Mojave Desert, which makes sense when you hear this lyric:

29 Palms
I feel the heat of your desert heart
Leading me back down the road that leads back to you

Plant has been coy about the rumors that the song was written about Alannah Myles, his one-time backup singer known for her hit song “Black Velvet”, with whom he may or may not have had an affair. It’s hard not to put two (the only even prime number!) and two together when you hear:

A fool in love
A crazy situation
Her velvet glove
Knocks me down and down and down and down

Regardless of who it’s about, I’ve always really liked this song. May you continue to rock on, Mr. Plant.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

Let me ask you music lovers a question. What artist have you come to appreciate more as time has gone on and you've gotten older. Let me give you my example. When I was in high school I wasn 't a big Bob Seger fan. Didn't hate him at all but didn't buy his records or attend his concerts. But man, now that I'm working on my seventh decade of life, Seger's music speaks to me more and more. He's the artist that I have changed my tune on the most since I was kid. As the years slip on by, Seger starts speaking to you more and more. You older guys understand what I mean, I'm sure.

[Roy Tucker]

Neil Young is that guy for me. In his early era solo and with CSN&Y, I thought he was just a whiny voiced guy and I didn’t get him at all. I had friends that loved him and I’d make fun of them. I didn’t give him a second thought for some years. But then a few years later, I bought the album Zuma on a whim and somehow it spoke to me. I about wore that album out. And with a lots of artists I didn’t “get” at first, I went back in time in their catalog and start buying up past albums. And it was Young’s ditch trilogy that hooked me (Time Fades Away, On the Beach, and Tonight's the Night). Here was a new Young, rough music that expressed hope and despair in raw and sometimes ugly terms. I was in my mid-late 20’s and was learning the hard way how to make my way in the world. Alcohol, drugs, sex, broken relationships, mistakes galore, I was running the full gamut. And Young was singing about it all and I related. His following albums like American Stars n Bars, Comes a Time, and culminating in Rust Never Sleeps made Young a regular on my turntable. I’d come home from bars drunk as **** or back from a bad date and just crank up Like a Hurricane or Hey Hey My My Into the Black at just below cracking my JBL speakers volume level. I’ll never know why my neighbors didn’t complain because it was LOUD and 2 am. Like the ELO song said “blue days, black nights”. But I found my way out and Young was the soundtrack.

[Roy Tucker]

Golly. I was searching for something and stumbled across the Be the last person to post on this thread. Took a trip down memory lane and read it for a while. A blast from the past. Not many threadies post on RZ any more.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

I wouldn't listen to AC/DC as a youngster. Now, I crank me up some AC/DC on the radio and have a blast. If you had told me when I was 17 that more than four decades later I'd be rockin' out to Bob Seger and AC/DC, I would have said you've lost your marbles. Dan Fogelberg and Elton, yes, but not AC/DC. Amazing how passage of time changes your perspective.

Funny how the night moves... especially with autumn closing in.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

177. I was eight years old when this song was climbing the Billboard chart, all the way to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached #1 on Cashbox and #2 in the UK. This song is one that actually had some drivers pullng over to the side of the road when it came on their car radios. Why? Because the song featured very realistic(apparently too realistic, for some drivers) police sirens , along with a "This is the police. You are surrounded, give yourself up" command. I remember the song well because of the police sirens and the commands.

The song was written and sung by a Canadian singer songwriter. He wrote the song after watching the film , Bonnie and Clyde. The song is written as a letter from a fugitive to his loved one after he has killed a man and is on the run from police.


To you older gentlemen, did you ever pull off the road thinking the cops were after you, only to realize it was this song playing on your radio? lol


What's the song and who sung it into the top 10 of the Billboard chart late in 1970?

[Ky Fried Redleg]

178. Back when I was seven years old, there were two songs that charted on the Billboard Hot 100 at the very same time. Both songs had the names of US states in the title and both songs alluded to the same natural phenomenon. Both songs peaked in March of the same year.

One song peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #2 on Cashbox. It marked a comeback song for the singer who hadn't had a hit song for over 10 years. This was the last of his 24 Top 40 hits.

The other song peaked at #16 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #10 on Cashbox . It was written by Eddie Rabbitt and featured Ronnie Milsap on piano. It was one of the singer's first hits of the decade, and the first of his five top 40 hits for the year in which it charted.


Can you name these two songs and the singers who recorded them?

[Roy Tucker]

177. I was eight years old when this song was climbing the Billboard chart, all the way to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached #1 on Cashbox and #2 in the UK. This song is one that actually had some drivers pullng over to the side of the road when it came on their car radios. Why? Because the song featured very realistic(apparently too realistic, for some drivers) police sirens , along with a "This is the police. You are surrounded, give yourself up" command. I remember the song well because of the police sirens and the commands.

The song was written and sung by a Canadian singer songwriter. He wrote the song after watching the film , Bonnie and Clyde. The song is written as a letter from a fugitive to his loved one after he has killed a man and is on the run from police.


To you older gentlemen, did you ever pull off the road thinking the cops were after you, only to realize it was this song playing on your radio? lol


What's the song and who sung it into the top 10 of the Billboard chart late in 1970?

Indiana Wants Me is the song but I have no idea who did it.

Driving around with my high school girlfriend, I’d hold my hands over my mouth and imitate that police part (with a static burst) when that song came on the AM radio. I thought I was so funny.

[Ky Fried Redleg]

Indiana Wants Me is the song but I have no idea who did it.

Driving around with my high school girlfriend, I’d hold my hands over my mouth and imitate that police part (with a static burst) when that song came on the AM radio. I thought I was so funny.

You weren't the only one...

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177. I was eight years old when this song was climbing the Billboard chart, all the way to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached #1 on Cashbox and #2 in the UK. This song is one that actually had some drivers pullng over to the side of the road when it came on their car radios. Why? Because the song featured very realistic(apparently too realistic, for some drivers) police sirens , along with a "This is the police. You are surrounded, give yourself up" command. I remember the song well because of the police sirens and the commands.

The song was written and sung by a Canadian singer songwriter. He wrote the song after watching the film , Bonnie and Clyde. The song is written as a letter from a fugitive to his loved one after he has killed a man and is on the run from police.


To you older gentlemen, did you ever pull off the road thinking the cops were after you, only to realize it was this song playing on your radio? lol


What's the song and who sung it into the top 10 of the Billboard chart late in 1970?

[Ky Fried Redleg]

*** TODAY IN ROCK HISTORY ****


179. On this date , MAY 9, 56 years ago , this band had their one and only US hit song. The song hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on this date in 1970 and stayed in the top spot for three weeks. It became a classic rock staple, despite facing controversy due to its lyrics during the Vietnam War. Can you name the song and the band who hit the top of the charts 56 years ago today.

Come on, GUESS WHO ?

[Ky Fried Redleg]

*** ON THIS DAY IN ROCK HISTORY***


180. On this day 32 years ago, May 9, 1994, the English band WET WET WET released a cover of a song that originally peaked at # 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 way back in 1968. The WET WET WET cover , which was featured in the movie , Four Weddings and a Funeral , set a record for a UK-based act by spending 15 consecutive weeks at #1 on the UK Singles chart. The single sold nearly 2 million copies in the UK, making it the best selling love song ever in the UK. Do you know the song and the band who originally released the song late in 1967?

[texasdave]

177. I was eight years old when this song was climbing the Billboard chart, all the way to #5 on the Billboard Hot 100. It reached #1 on Cashbox and #2 in the UK. This song is one that actually had some drivers pullng over to the side of the road when it came on their car radios. Why? Because the song featured very realistic(apparently too realistic, for some drivers) police sirens , along with a "This is the police. You are surrounded, give yourself up" command. I remember the song well because of the police sirens and the commands.

The song was written and sung by a Canadian singer songwriter. He wrote the song after watching the film , Bonnie and Clyde. The song is written as a letter from a fugitive to his loved one after he has killed a man and is on the run from police.


To you older gentlemen, did you ever pull off the road thinking the cops were after you, only to realize it was this song playing on your radio? lol


What's the song and who sung it into the top 10 of the Billboard chart late in 1970?

Indiana wants me. R. Dean Taylor.

If a man ever needed dying he did.
No one has the right to say what he did about.

Looks like i'm a day late and a dollar short on this one.

[texasdave]

*** TODAY IN ROCK HISTORY ****


179. On this date , MAY 9, 56 years ago , this band had their one and only US hit song. The song hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on this date in 1970 and stayed in the top spot for three weeks. It became a classic rock staple, despite facing controversy due to its lyrics during the Vietnam War. Can you name the song and the band who hit the top of the charts 56 years ago today.

Come on, GUESS WHO ?

American Woman by the Guess Who. Loved that group growing up. Another Canadian musical entity. Who was Albert Flasher? Nobody. Here's the story.

Albert Flasher is a character from a song written by Burton Cummings and performed by the Canadian rock band The Guess Who. The name "Albert Flasher" was inspired by an "alert flasher" lamp at a radio station where Cummings was interviewed.

The song, initially released as a B-side in 1971, reflects themes of nostalgia and youthful rebellion

My fave song by the band was not as well known.



Kinda ironic that when the band went their separate ways, that Bachman-Turner had much more success than Burton Cummings. Randy Bachman had a little fun at Cumming's expense with the song 'Hey you'.