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  • Detroit is only 3 hours away from me in Columbus and this got good airplay in Columbus. I loved it. The next one he got released as a single was the awesome anti Vietnam war song "2+2=" which also was big down here as the anti war movement at Ohio State was getting big.

  • Never saw Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band, but it's on my Bucket List!

  • Proud to say I saw Bob perform this song in 1967 in the basement of Our Lady Gate of Heaven Church in Detroit at a teen club dance. My first concert.

  • Bob Seger, the man's initials are B.S., but his music ROCKS!!! Rock N' Roll NEVER FORGETS!

  • They played at my HS in Windsor, Vincent Massey HS when they were The Bob Seger System!

  • Watch the new Subaru car commercial it is this song without the words

  • Not heavy at all for me :D

  • A WORKING MAN'S BAND!!!

  • Ah, the good old days in a 68 Camaro cruising down Woodward!

  • I haven't heard this song since the 60's. Oh my God. It's making me ready and willing!! OMG I LOVE this. I will be playing it over and over. Oh yeah, it's a hot one alright. And so am I!! lol

  • my eight track player wore this tape out playing it over and over in 1968 Mustang. Those were the days!

  • The BESt ever from Seger !!

  • This song has got a bit of a Motown feel.

  • My favourite rocker from Bob Seger - always gets me moving! So full of energy & life, you can't sit still when this song comes on! I couldn't in the 60s and I still can't in 2011 - timeless music!

  • This song really defines Michigan music. A friend's mom was Punch Andrew's cousin and we got to visit with the band at some kid matinee at Daniel's Den in Saginaw. That was a big deal for a 13 - 14 year old.

  • This song really defines Michigan music. A friend's mom was Punch Andrew's cousin and we got to visit with the band at some kid matinee at Daniel's Den in Saginaw.  That was a big deal for a 13 - 14 year old.

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  • a timeless recording of the power of detroit rock! a fabled time of legend and wonder that only the few us who were actually there can share and understand.

  • I've driven that Strech Chevy in Front of Cobo. I drive for Entertainment Express 313*2775000

  • I've driven that Strech Chevy in Front of Cobo. I drive for Entertainment Express 313-277-5000

  • I remember following Seger from the Clawson Hideout to Silverbell and back in 66/67. From The Last Heard through the System, he was our favorite act. This was his best song, earlier period or late.

  • just for everyone's information this song was one of the 1st songs released from hideout records for Bob but there was some kind of depute so hideout release this song ( listen real close ) with my good friend Dick Fidge singing the sound track - Dick was in the group "The Sunday Funnies" which later got signed by RareEarth records under Motown - Sunday Funnies put out 2 abu, in Detroitms - 1st one was recorded at famous HitsVille recording studio on Grand Boulevard in Detroit

  • @hotstar900 Fidge did a great version. If you never heard the original you wouldn't think it could be bettered. But if you HAD heard the original ... DAMN. He had to have guts just for covering it.

  • hearing this and seeing cobo wow dansr 46 yrs old I knew and always said i should have been born when my dad was 1945

  • saw Bob at University of Windsor when he was with Teegarten and Vanwinkle. Living in Windsor, and Detroit influence, this Heavy Music has always been my favorite....remember blowing speakers out of a car with the volume and bass....touring down the road...like yesterday...will certainly be looking for his schedule with his new tours.Classic!!! Will never die

  • from the sound of this he really likes heavy music :D

  • My favorite Seger song, maybe because it was my first exposure to him. Those of us from the Ann Arbor area know where he was raised, went to school, and formed his first band, it wasn't Detroit. A fond memory I have of Bob is early but after Heavy Music, and his Tales of Lucy Blue album which we all loved. A friend and I walked in to a bar a block west of Main in downtown Ann Arbor one afternoon to grab a beer, low and behold there's Bob playing with his band, broad daylight, no cover.

  • right on! i grew up in detroit when he was playing in garage bands and basement bands playing at my brother's high school dances. i'm 54 and listening to it right now!!!!

  • I was 7years old when this song came out, real hot here in Detroit!

  • whats better then good ole detroit rock?!!!!! long live the stooges,MC5,alice cooper, the frost, the amboy dukes, frigid pink, src, the third power, and of course bob seger!!!!!!!! blue collar rock!

  • My father had this album but I can't seem to find it. I have looked online for this version of the song and cannot find it on iTunes or Amazon. I have a version of the song off his "Live Bullet" album but it is not this version. Any recommendations on where I can find a digital version of this song to download?

  • @scottekree It's on the album Tales of Lucy Blue aka Ramblin Gamblin Man in this exact version.

  • Ah yes the good ol days when Seger used to ROCK!!

    All that "Hollywood Night", "Still the Same" crap from the 80's was all Pop not Rock.

  • @455Transam I agree~~~~~~~~~~~

  • I moved to Denver in 1976 and took Live Bullet with me. When I put it on the turntable and cranked it up, the Colorado kids acted as though they had died and went to heaven. Nobody knew of Seger west of the Mississippi in 1976.

  • @TheNoteCollector I can believe it, and I bet it would be really hard to guess which song they loved best.

  • This song was a smash hit in Pittsburgh!

  • this song was a smash hit in Pittsburgh!

  • Heard this one on the Big 8 - CKLW - I believe it was credited to "The Bob Seger System" on Capital Records - Awesome vocals Bob!

  • Wow. Saw Bob at University of Detroit in 1970. Just the best.

  • This was well used in, of all things, the trailer for the great spaghetti western 'Blindman'!

  • I always thought the reason for his calculated decline was just a career move. Nobody ever lost a dollar underestimating the public tastes. That's harsh, but I always figured there must have been a reason why his music dropped in quality just as he was becoming popular. I still have a copy of Mongrel in my vehicle that sees regular rotation. Never bought his later material, though I don't find it offensive any more than elevator music.

  • This song is on a compliation from Cameo Parkway Records, 1957-1967...And on A2 Michigan Nuggets II.

  • Bob sang this at Garden City Park Friday dances in the summer!!! Baby don't ya get a kick from it!!

  • @granmapen

    yes, yes GC chicks rock!!! oh so much fun the Garden City Park dances!!! Now the ice arena is there!!

  • Seger played in the Bay City/Saginaw area several times, and I saw him when I was 18 (1973) at the Saginaw Bay Ice Arena. Styx opened for Seger and we couldn't wait for them to get off the stage so Seger could come on! Seger put on an awesome show in that venue for a couple thousand people. Very memorable!

  • @sksepulv By "Saginaw Bay Ice Arena," are you referring to Wendler Arena of the Saginaw Civic Center? I saw lots of concerts there, but I never saw Seger, unfortunately.

  • @gogomountain : No, not Wendler Arena. The ice arena I'm referring to is on Bay Rd. in Kochville Twp. out by SVSU. It is used for youth hockey leagues, primarily. Are you from Saginaw? :-)

  • the quality of this tune from the 60s merited national recongniton which Seger didn't aquire until much later

  • true

  • Why doesn't he officially release this stuff? A generation is missing out on some good stuff

  • Apparently there are issues between Bob and the guys in that band. So he refuses to release 'em and give them cash.

  • i always thought it was the label... what are they arguing over?

  • There's apparently some nastiness between Bob and the guys in the band from the time. There's some details in the Wikipedia Seger entry. AS much as I don't put 100% credence in Wikpedia...it sounds plausible to me.

  • the first time i saw him 1972 allen park civic center.5bucks,i was 13,he was cool.

  • did enyone go 2 linkin park theater back in 72 I was 13 fuck ya what a time baby

  • Yeah im56 and from Grand Rapids and use to catch Bob and Ted Nugeent Dick Wagner and the Frost and the Stooges and MC5 ...man that as a era for Michigan music for sure!

  • too bad Seger sucked after this era,IMHO...I saw the Bob Seger System at Chippewa Lake, Ohio @1968 do this song (WIXY Appreciation Day, along with 5 other bands)...MAN did they sound trashy live back then !!!

  • This song really makes me want to check ticketmaster to see if he'll be in town soon :p

  • RIP.

  • This song opened a late night "underground" radio show every night in Cleveland in 1968 and I've loved it ever since. Thanks for the post.

  • it was DOC NEMO that played this in the opener...then into Paul Butterfield/One More Heartache...EXCELLENT memories from those late night FM shows back then in Cleveland !!!

  • Seger was so great in his early days; too bad he is almost embarrassed about his early rockers, which is why most never got issued on cd. Shame.

  • 2+2, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man and Heavy Music are his three greatest songs. He made Detroit rock in the 1960's along with the Amboy Dukes, MC5, SRC, Rationals and the like. Detroit was a great place then and it is too bad that its reputation today is so poor. It was a better place then and was one of the great cities in the US.

  • Don't forget the Stooges.

  • it sure was..i was right there with you

  • Terrific! Thank you for posting. RJ

  • Great!! Like you and the music very much, you are so damn hot.

  • If I didn't know better than I'de say that the second picture in the slideshow bares a resemblence to David Gilmour.

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  • STILL is GREAT---the Detroit '60's bands were the BEST---Seger, Terry Knight, The Underdogs and their "Friday At The Hideout" song, Amboy Dukes, on and on!

  • I love Motown and Detroit has plenty of reason to be proud to be associated with all of it, but "Heavy Music" contains the distilled essence of my hometown. Nugent's from Detroit, Seger's of it.

  • Don't forget SRC, the Frost, Amboy Dukes, MC5 and all of the Detroit bands that just pounded our ears to make us the deaf old MFrs we are today. Hahaha

  • what on earth is that chinless wonder kid rock doing there!?

  • What would a late '60s weekend night have been without Gail & I at the Hideout, Silverbell, Mt. Holly, etc. rockin' & rollin' to the Heavy Music of Bob Seger and the Last Heard!!?? Wow, this brings back great memories!

  • Well, Bob rammed his way through tireless hard work and many great rock and roll nights to the top of the pops. He pushed the limits with Lucifer and returned to earth with Beautiful Loser. To Bob and his family: God bless and Thanks a bunch!!!

  • Been trying to find this one for decades. It's a shame it doesn't ever get played on the "classic rock" stations. In '67 & '68 every club band from Pittsburgh north to "CKLW land" covered this song. It really holds up well over the decades and THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting it. I don't know which Detroit band was more covered back then, Terry Knight & the Pack, or Seeger. Both great; and both bands' songs still do it for me. - writeroffthelake at geneva-on-the-lake (ohio)

  • Couldn't agree more -- Terry Knight and Bob Seger were the "creem" of the motorcity crop. I love "How Much More?" by The Pack, and "Eastside Story" by Seger. Both songs keep blowing my mind every time I listen to them.

  • Radio has had a downfall recently.

    Nowdays, MP3 players are the current way to listen to music.

    When my dad's band plays this song, they keep the lyrics unaltered. But I am proposing to alter the lyrics in cover versions of this song; I was trying to alter the lyrics to make references to MP3 players; and I also was looking for ways to abolish references to "radio" as I now believe that modern concepts have rendered radio obsolete!

  • dude radio is soooooooooooooooooooooo far from obsolete it isnt funny man! wat kinda rich boy bomb shelter have u been liveing in?! mp3 players r good yeah but radio gives u the fun of not knowin wat is next and the djs can b perty coo 2 i mean seriously radio the way to go yes i have mp3 and use it btw

  • But personally, rampant instances of reject songs have counteracted the fun of not knowing what will play next; so I don't trust other peoples' playlists anymore!

    I think those who still listen to radio obviously don't know what they are missing out on; I mean so many songs deemed to be better ones aren't even played on radio anymore; For instance on the Newgrounds audio portal I would never guarantee to hear any song from there on radio!

    Just say NO to radio, and say YES to Internet!

  • I rmeber all those High school gigs...\no one is mentioning Ted Nugent and the Amboy dukes....doing the same thing at the same time...high school.gigs....

    Later it was Glenn Frey and the eagle in Royal Oak.

  • This and Ramblin' Gamblin Man' were played loud on the juke box every day during lunch at Birmingham Groves HS in 67-68.

  • Some of the best tunes came out of the Detroit area. The rockers and Motown when it was real Motown. Good old soul music.

  • It still baffles me how this song did not become a national hit. It is to this day, smokin' hot!!!

  • Awesome!! Bob makes Kid Rock and my generation need to go back to the repractice 101 mode

  • The Beat....OMG the beat. I have never gotten it out of my head. I Love this song.....oh my head.....the beat , the beat!!!!!!!

  • I enjoyed East Side Story, Persecution Smith etc, but in 1968 I had a chance to experience The Bob Seger System at Notre Dame High School and I believe that he did most of the Tales of Lucy Blue album. I think he even did Train Man, but I definitely remember Ivory, 2 Plus 2, Tales of Lucy Blue, Ramblin Gamblin Man. I think he might have done Love Needs To be Loved(Needs To be Loved). Next gig was with Catfish Hodge & The Stooges! Thanx< Tom

  • HEAVY MUSIC and EAST SIDE STORY were the ULTIMATE BEST of Bob Seger! STILL "ROCK" to these---GREAT BEAT!!!! "Give it a 100"!!

  • OOPS---see Heavy Music 2 for "Hideout" poster!

  • LOVED the "Hideout" poster during this FABULOUS Blast to the '60's hit! Thanks, willy 3411!

  • WOW! I haven't heard this in..what seems..forever!

    I wonder if CKLW played this? I bed they did.

    To be so lucky to live in the Detroit-Windsor area back then.

  • Yes, this was his breakthrough hit.

  • Makes Bruce Springsteen look like an untalanted hack

  • Seger at his best.

  • GRAT PICTORIAL!!!!  Gotta love the Bob!!!!

  • What a hard driving, hard kicking jam! Thanks. Thia is my favorite Seger song!!

  • What a hard drivingg, hard kick jam!!! Thanks. This is my favorite Sger song!!

  • Thanks "willy" for sharing this ..... nice slide show you put together ....... Bobs first hit record .... saw him perform it many times in 68' ......

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