I hear ya! I am 1 more year up on you and I got to see Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band live in Seattle on this very tour. It was great and the opening act was Georgia Satellites and they played a short set and said we know you came here to see Bob Seger so thank you and good night.
I remember my grand father telling me time goes faster the older you get. I didn't understand as a 16 year old but grandpa I do now. At 54, I find myself fighting against time but it's like holding sand in your hand. The tighter you squeeze the faster the sand runs through your fingers.
My dad died died in 84 when I was in 11th grade. I thought I was a rock. Nothing replaced him. He taught me to shine my shoes and get up each day and go to work. Thank you John Edward Malush.
I've had this discussion 1k different ways over the yrs w/ 1k different ppl bc Seger was my dad's all time fav and many my age (36) just don't seem to get it or want to..I think you've encapsulated in 2 sentences what Ive tried for years to explain. If you bother to dig a little deeper than just "old time rock & roll" you quickly learn that Seger could be a god damn American poet laureate.
Jamal---I am 74 and you are playing my life in music. Thank you. I wish I could speak to you man to man by voice. You have earned much from me; trust being so important, but respect for your universality regarding humankind is greater. That last counts most to me, but, good music is meant to bridge barriers, and I believe you have discovered that is not happening now. Your courage in commenting on 21st music, for the most part, is commendable
Bro' I'm 69!😖 When this song came out I was still playing baseball and volleyball and was in great shape with no health issues.🤗 40 years later with 3 stints in my heart, a titanium hip, a titanium plate in my neck, carpal tunnel surgery less hair and teeth, I almost cry when I hear this.😢 It hits different now.💯 The end of life is kinda scary but this song reminds me I had a hell of a good time getting here!🔥😁😂🤣❤✌
@@tomaleshire4145 I'm 26 and grew up listening to Bob Seger. I remember sitting in the back of my gran's Pontiac Sunfire. Her and my ma would drive around running errands and they always played his CD. I grew up on every song. Oh the memories.
If I may make a suggestion, how about “God” (but not in a blasphemous way) Reason why is I was working aboard a commercial fishing boat out of Chatham, MA. While we were out at sea, the Sirius radio started playing “Against the Wind”. The captain told us “Hey guys, let’s keep it down. God is singing to us right now.” A wise captain, indeed 🧐
I never noticed this before, but a lot of his songs are about the process of life. From youth to older age. It kinda makes me sad, being my age, and still feeling connected to a past when I was stronger and more hopeful about life. I miss those days ... now life is a constant kick in the gut because I let many things go by without grabbing onto them and letting them take me where they would. It's hard to see the positive side of life. I feel I've lost something somewhere along the way, but I don't know what it is.
Everybody in their twilight years that is extremely proud of productive their life has been can stand on the mountain top and wave their own flag remembering how the effort they have put forth was worth it. But also can't understand Why we just have to wear out so soon. No one ever realizes where they are and how truly great it is to be young, confident and fearless throwing caution to the wind. SOLID, LIKE A ROCK!
When this song came out I was in my prime both physically and mentally like a rock and really liked this song but now heading into my mid 60s only now can I fully understand and relate to this song , it really sums up my youth and life and where I’m at in my life now , I some times sit on my porch late at night put on the head phones light one put this song on and just reminisce and always puts a smile on my face
To me. One of the greatest lines in rock and roll. "Twenty years where did they go. Twenty years I don't know" It probably doesn't mean much when you younger. But when you get older it means a lot. Ask your parents.
I literally visualize myself 43 years ago, strong, toned, clear eyed and hot! Like a ROCK! This song means more to me today than ever. I walked away from my marriage in 2000, but it seems like yesterday. 20 years now, where'd they go? Realizing I probably won't see another 20 years on Earth. Life is fleeting. Grab every single bit of happiness that you can.
I felt the best of my life when I was 17 and playing high skool football. Played every down. Except when they carried me off a couple times. My freshman year I fell down in the hole and a running back tried to jump over me, so i did a push up, he kicked me in the face between the facemask and helmet. It turned out he'd slit my eyebrow open and blood was running down my cheek. I didn't know it was until the referee told to leave the field. I looked at him and said "I don't have to, I stay on the field " he pulls my jersey out and the whole front was covered with blood. You'd think your coach would see that and bring you out to find out where all the blood came from. I don't mean there was spot the whole jersey was red. They put gauze on it with a couple of pieces of tape. Effectively blinding my right eye. It took all of 30 feet before I threw it on the ground. I'd have to say that from 72-75 was my prime years. Football, good times, good job, fast cars, and loose women. Best days of my life but are 45 years In the past, there ain't 40 in front, if I make 10 I'll be lucky.
@@THEDUDE912 not sure if he still owned the rights at that point... maybe it was the record company they have a way of screwing artists. Either way, I know what you mean, but if it's okay with Bob it's okay with me. Maybe he really needed the money.
Robert Johnson, it said he was working for peanuts and not a dime to spare 🤣. @thedude jumping on me and I drive an F150. All I said was he helped sell Chevy. Just facts.
Bob Seger is my Favorite Singer of all time. Ive seen him in concert twice. He was Great both times. One when he was young and again just a few years ago. And although he was much older he still put on the best performance I have ever seen. I was a teen in the 70s and his music was at the height of popularity. I fell in love with that voice. And I still haven't heard anyone better. Great memories.
Flying across the state of Wyoming in my Peterbilt Semi at 2 am with only Bob on the stereo singing against the wind. A moment in my time that will last forever!
@@nullfield Um, what are you listening to that they're all the same. The guitar at the end of Like a Rock us nothing like Night Moves or Old Time Rock n Roll. The way they feature the piano, or sax, or guitar, or vocals... Understand it isn't everyone's favorite, but you're that guy that just won't admit you like it. Not even to yourself, otherwise why are you here?
True story... I was at a party with a bunch of straight punk rock kids back around 2002... Someone put Bob's greatist hits on... We sang every word for the next hour.
I don't know the name of the steel guitarist, but he brought in someone maybe a session musician from Nashville to do what because epic, because it stands out historically.
"20 years now where"d they go?" I can remember years ago people who were my age trying to get it into me how time flies and at the time I said to them and to myself "I get it" Truth is I couldn't truly get it! This goes along with "Youth is wasted on the young". It is so true! I look back at a career of 33 years, a marriage of 32 and still moving forward! God has blessed me with 5 children, a wonderful marriage and just a good life! Music can illuminate things like this. This song is one of those!
yes! This song brings me to tears...for this reason. It makes you look back and illuminates the bittersweet span of time between our youth and our future...
THIS song is blue collar America. I’m 61, was 18 seems like yesterday. Raising my right hand taking The Oath, 30 years later found myself exiting one career. Bought some land northwest of Houston, now I board, raise and train horses. Have a equine therapy practice on the property, our main focus is Veterans with P.T.S.D. On this Memorial Day weekend, pause and give thanks to those that gave the ultimate sacrifice.
Thank YOU for your service, Sir!🇺🇸❤️🤍💙 😅20 yrs. where’d they go…64 y.o. what a great life, great music,🎶 🎶🎶 great kids, wonderful granddaughter what JOY, women take some of our greatest moments to our grave…but 37 years sober…God Bless all the old rockers out there!🇺🇸☮️
Well it’s too bad he couldn’t help them. Chevy is absolute trash and stole billions from taxpayers over the years for their dogshit business practices and crappy cars.
The reason he tried to help Chevrolet was because.. ABC ...CBS and NBC all got together and started false reporting about the Chevrolet truck moving their gas tank from inside the frame to the outside saying they were exploding on broadside hits because of the gas tank was no longer protected by the frame will come to find out they couldn't get the truck to explode on demonstration by hitting it broadside so they put electrical charge on the gas tank that it would ignite it when it was hit broadside to demonstrate how it would look this was so misleading by these networks and they deliberately tried to destroy an industry when Trump talked about fake news hell fake news existed before he even thought about running for the presidency this happened back in 1980 and '81..
Actually they've used many more parts of the song in various commercials over the years: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IswbdmpjbnU.html
It's 50 years now...Where have they gone. These songs mean even so much more now than back then..and We all loved him so much back then ...even more now.Man you FEEL the music and I love your reactions. Music has the power to make me feel 21 again.💜
His voice is GOLDEN !! Will never grow old. I'm 61 yrs old and it makes me reflect back in the day where I was and what I was doing . I was carefree and full of life.
56 also... I don’t know what the hell happened. I was in my 20s and all of a sudden in my 50s. When I heard this song in my teens, I liked it but the lyrics didn’t resonate with me..l thought that they were for older guys. Now I am an older guy and look back with a bit of sadness.
I can remember being in high school...and Bob would come to town every year...he would sell out the Coliseum 3 and 4 nights in a row....people just couldn't get enough.
First time I ever heard this song I was young Immature, Rowdy, and Lazy. It changed my life I cried when I first heard this song. Listen close to the lyrics and apply them that what I did Solid every Where, and Stand a Arrow Straight , Hard Against the Wind. Changed me forever I grew up and now I am Retired because I worked hard and was Responsible. Love your reactions I could see you were holding back a tear.
It was the last chorus starting at 5:59 where he sings higher with more force that was used in the commercials. Like a rock, standing arrow straight...charging from the gate,...carrying the weight.." You can just imagine those advertising agency execs saying, Chevy's gonna love thins idea using this song. Those lyrics were almost written for these ads.
Anyone can enjoy Bob Seger cause he writes about the human experience of work, age, love, love lost in a way that is so true and raw - but a person needs to age to truly apprecriate Bob Seger.
I really love watching reaction videos from you and a handful of others because it causes me to re-listen to the songs of my youth with fresh ears. I knew the music was great, but the lyrics are so meaningful. Thanks! In this song and Bob Seger's whole catalog. I love the first verse of this one, where he sings about being 18, didn't have a care, working for peanuts, not a dime to spare and unencumbered by the weight of all the hustlers and and their schemes, I stood proud, I stood tall, High above it all, I still believed in my dreams. Oh man those were the days!
Jamel: You've played several Bob Seger songs...all of them good. Please listen to "You'll Accompany Me" and "Shame on the Moon".. Those are excellent, too.
Lol, I knew that. I appreciate you telling me though. What I meant was that I wish Jamel could react to some Eagles songs. He says he can’t cause they get blocked.
"ROLL ME AWAY" PLEASE,,,,, first time I saw Bob in concert was in May 27th 1978 at "SUMMER ROCK" held in Arrowhead Stadium (home of the KC Chiefs) one of the best show ever!!!!!!!!
I saw Bob Seger in 82 at The Omni in Atlanta and the energy that you could feel coming from the stage was electric (the original Silver Bullet Band have that "feel" of the original swampers from muscle shoals) and when Bob Seger was hitting on all 8 cylinders,no one could ever come close to him live
@@palafox2237 I saw his interview with Tom Snyder, and Bob said he'd do what he could to help the Heart of Detroit, that being the automotive workers, one of which was my dad. If that's selling out, I'm buying it.
Bruce is an incredible talent, but it never set well with me that his songs tend to have the theme "small town American life is terrible and/or I've got to become a big rich star. Bob on the other hand; his recurring theme seems to be "small town American life can be beautiful." IMHO that's why Bob seems more like the genuine article to folks.
He’s the rock in rock..... Springsteen was the white collar choice . He wasn’t gritty enough like Seeger. Seger resonates deep down in your soul ... grabs you slowly .. forever ..
@@Historian212 Springsteen appealed to blue collar people. He wasn't blue collar. The guy was literally the foundation that "Stadium Country" was built on. "Cowboys" that sing about doing hard work while wearing 3 thousand dollar boots and flying in private jets. They own a ranch for their 50 thousand dollar horse, etc. Springsteen created these people.
indeed. a little love for Tommy Bolin. follow it up with: "Shake the Devil" and "Bustin' out for Rosie" then slide into "Gypsy Soul": mind blown. THEN move on to the whole 'Teaser' album. Your life will never be the same'
He was the first, if not only to be inducted as a solo artist into The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame as a performer AND The Songwriters Hall of Fame.. I always say there's something special when anyone is performing the song they wrote. You can hear the story in the song, it means so much more. If you never saw him in concert, you don't know what you missed!!
Jamal, Bob came out of a Detroit music scene of the 1960's that was just awesome! Such crossovers of styles and talents! Glad to be from Detroit and to have grown up in that era!
I love you my brother and your reactions! It makes me so happy to watch you discovering music. I shed a tear when you did Into The Mystic - one of my favorite songs ever, as is this.
God, he is good! Hallelujah! I thought that damn commercial might take a lot away from the song, but the performance is just too powerful for that. Amazing! Everything is sublime. He has one of the best voices...ever! That guitar solo is sweet! I started looking at the comments, got choked up, then the tears came. I rarely cry, but this song just got me.
Bob, telling a story like only he can. This was one of his last big hits before he retired to raise his new born kids. And he is tellign the truth, he never slumped down with the hustlers, he never had a bad habit with dope or booze, paid his band well, never talked shit on anyone, aint no one can find any dirt on the man. He left music after his first kid was born after this hit, and did not return till all of them graduated high school. He is a one of a kind, as is his story telling, and voice and a ROCK, always dependable to his family, friends, press and fans. I can tell you love his voice and if you want to hear someone like him that you have reacted to in another form, check out Geordie - Treat Her Like a Lady. It is the singer in AC/DC band before he joined them, and believe me, when he actually sings instead of screamign like he does in AC/DC he is a soulful man with a voice just like Bob's.
Check out his cover of Tina Turner’s “Nut Bush City Limits”, but of the Live album Also , “ Get out of Denver” , “ Nine Tonight”, “ Bo Diddley” all off the Live album
Yeah 20 years where they go I've been married for 47yrs and worked 50+ where did it all go I sit and wonder where all has gone. Bob is the best seen him back in the 80s best concert I ever seen love this man's voice. This song really makes you think where has my life gone. It's been great I'm not like a rock anymore but that's ok as long as I got Bob to listen to
I’ve been listening to Bob Seger since the 70’s. 5 decades worth. Seen him a little over a year ago in Phoenix. That CAT was as good that night as he’s ever been. My all time favorite singer.
I've seen Bob Seger twice in concert. It's the only concert I've attended that gave me chills, made me tear up and cheer with complete joy (it happened at both shows). His music is timeless and pure Americana.
Unbelievable even today. Jamel, I started watching your reactions first. You don't pause much, and your reactions are so heart felt. Bob s songs can get so lowdown instrument wise. His voice is unbelievable when his voice can go from a mosquito to a bear in the same songs. So many heart tuggers
No....no....I think this about how beautiful we ALL are at 19. How everything is crystal clear and we were so strong then. Then living’ just tears you down.
