Rick Vito in Segar's Shakedown video

[Macfan4life]

I was reading an article today how Bob Seger landed the task of recording the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop 2. The song Shakedown was Bob Seger's only #1 song but Bob thought it landed a bit out of style for him and never included it on his first Greatest Hits album even though it was his only #1. Glen Frey recorded The Heat Is On for Beverely Hills Cop and was also #1 and a huge hit. Because of that success they went back to Glen for part 2. The song was all ready to be recorded but Glen got laryngitis and could not sing. Glen thought his buddy Bob Segar could do the song justice. When Bob got the song he thought there were too many lyrics about working undercover and changed much of the lyrics. It was recorded by Bob and the song rocketed to #1 and was a huge MTV hit with one of the biggest movies of 1987. I was watching the video today and saw Rick Vito on stage with his Tango In The Night suit on. The song has some wild guitar parts and never knew Rick played on the song. I know he is famous for his slide guitar on Like A Rock and has played with Bob for years. However Rick Vito does not play on the song. He is just in the video. They brought in Billy Idol's guitar player to do guitar parts and another guitarist was used as the main guitarist. But here he is in early 1987 just as Tango was about to be released on MTV in one of the biggest music videos that year.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8hL...&start_radio=1