Any Bob Seger connection?

skcin · #1 03-21-2004, 10:53 PM

Just curious - Bob Seger was big around the time that Mac was, and I was just copying his Greatest Hits Volume 2 today.

I was checking out the liner notes & saw that Waddy was on a few tunes, so was someone else (Russ Kunkel maybe?) Also, Rick Vito is the guy playing slide guitar on Like a Rock?!?! Am I the only one who does not know this?

OK, so I know that a lot of these guys did a lot of session work for a lot of people back in the day (and maybe still) but I was just wondering if there's any connection w/ Bob & Stevie/Mac? Nothing I know of, but that would be really cool.

Paula

PS - I LOVE Bob Seger!

PPS - Also noticed that Liberty DeVito (sp) was on every track on Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Vol 1&2 - never realized it til now.

#2 03-22-2004, 08:16 AM

the only connection i know of (besides Waddy and Russ etc) is that there was talk of a duet for either RAL or TWH....I can't remember which. I'm thinking it was RAL. I remember MTV reporting on it....they didn't mention what the song was or anything else except that Stevie was to be doing a duet with Bob Seger on her next album.

Obviously it never happened.

skcin · #3 03-22-2004, 09:42 AM

I think that would have been great. Too bad...

Paula

DeeGeMe · #4 03-22-2004, 01:01 PM

I can kinda link Bob with Stevie this way: Bob Seger was good friends with Glen Frey of the Eagles before Glen left Michigan for L.A. and hooked up with Don Henley & the Boys. Of course, we can link not one, but at least two Eagles with Stevie: Joe & Don, therefore, sort of, linking Stevie with Bob Seger.

darklinensuit · #5 03-22-2004, 03:06 PM

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Originally posted by DeeGeMe
I can kinda link Bob with Stevie this way: Bob Seger was good friends with Glen Frey of the Eagles before Glen left Michigan for L.A. and hooked up with Don Henley & the Boys. Of course, we can link not one, but at least two Eagles with Stevie: Joe & Don, therefore, sort of, linking Stevie with Bob Seger.

Or Bob sand We've Got Tonight (my Junior Prom theme

) which KR sang with Sheena, who worked with Prince, who worked with and inspired and wooed Stevie.

- Jake

gldstwmn · #6 03-22-2004, 07:46 PM

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Originally posted by skcin
Just curious - Bob Seger was big around the time that Mac was, and I was just copying his Greatest Hits Volume 2 today.

I was checking out the liner notes & saw that Waddy was on a few tunes, so was someone else (Russ Kunkel maybe?) Also, Rick Vito is the guy playing slide guitar on Like a Rock?!?! Am I the only one who does not know this?

OK, so I know that a lot of these guys did a lot of session work for a lot of people back in the day (and maybe still) but I was just wondering if there's any connection w/ Bob & Stevie/Mac? Nothing I know of, but that would be really cool.

Paula

PS - I LOVE Bob Seger!

PPS - Also noticed that Liberty DeVito (sp) was on every track on Billy Joel's Greatest Hits Vol 1&2 - never realized it til now.

Bob Glaub also played in Seger's band and played bass on some of the Bella Donna tracks and tour.

sarahw · #7 03-22-2004, 07:57 PM

my junior prom theme as well Jake!

darklinensuit · #8 03-23-2004, 01:11 AM

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Originally posted by sarahw
my junior prom theme as well Jake!

I KNEW you looked familiar.

- Jake

macmar71 · #9 03-23-2004, 07:24 PM

I have a pic from a magazine back in 84 of Bob and Christine McVie~They were presenters at the Grammys that year.

sarahw · #10 03-23-2004, 09:03 PM

ha ha ha ha ha Jake

...I think we are of the same generation so to speak, but mine was the kenny/sheena version.....no one at my school liked Bob's version, and at that tender age I preferred Sheena to Bob. Ahhh youth. It was THE perfect prom theme though.

skcin · #11 03-23-2004, 11:14 PM

I just caught the replay of the R&R HoF induction and wow - Bob has NOT aged well.

I've heard recently that the reason he hasn't been around lately is because of vocal problems (mostly lack of stamina to do a tour rather than put out an album) and it was apparent - he really seemed to be struggling and his voice sounds totally different.

Too bad, he's one of my faves.

Paula

darklinensuit · #12 03-24-2004, 10:47 AM

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Originally posted by sarahw
ha ha ha ha ha Jake

...I think we are of the same generation so to speak, but mine was the kenny/sheena version.....no one at my school liked Bob's version, and at that tender age I preferred Sheena to Bob. Ahhh youth. It was THE perfect prom theme though.

Compared to others, yes, it was. I went to one with the prom theme "I'll Stop The World And Melt With You". Now there's a romantic slow dance.

- Jake

sarahw · #13 03-24-2004, 07:44 PM

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Compared to others, yes, it was. I went to one with the prom theme "I'll Stop The World And Melt With You". Now there's a romantic slow dance.

dear God....how do you slow dance to that?