"For 10 Years"

 FOR TEN YEARS

Probably 10 years old or so when I first heard Bob Seger's album "Live" Bullet, I was immediately hooked on Bob Seger and live music. At the time the LP had probably been around for seven years or so and I was hearing it on the heals of his second live platter, Nine Tonight. As a youngster then, my love for Detroit was based entirely on the baseball team and not the city itself.

While I thought it was cool that Seger's band had recorded Bullet at Cobo Hall, the only association I had with Cobo was going there in '76 and seeing … uh, yeah, Spider–man. That was cool and all — but getting lost in the parking garage and not being able to find our car was somewhat traumatic. I still thought it was really cool when he said,

"I was reading in Rolling Stone where they said Detroit audiences are the greatest rock 'n' roll audiences in the world … I thought to myself … I've known that for 10 years."

 

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, one of the greatest Michigan bands of all time. With hit live albums in 1976 and 1981, he made the genre his. The '76 disk pushed him forward and more into the national limelight. 

It wasn't long before a new album would drop and catapult him to rock star.