Recorded live at Detroit's legendary Cobo Hall in 1976, this is Bob Seger and his Silver Bullet Band at the peak of their powers. Six months later, Seger and the boys in the band would drop Night Moves and they would become worldwide SUPERSTARS. Seger was already a hometown legend in Detroit but found difficulty gaining a toehold outside of the area. There's a story about them playing Detroit's huge Silverdome one night to nearly eighty thousand people and then the next night 300 miles away in Chicago, barely a thousand people show up to see him. Beyond all of that, Live Bullet is just a sensational live album, wonderfully recorded before a fully appreciative crowd and though it was overshadowed by Frampton Comes Alive! that year, I maintain it is the superior album. It remains one of the handful of live albums ever released that I will listen to, top to bottom. It's a great album to listen to on road trips which is where I heard it in it's entirety for the first time in 1985. I ordered it as soon as I got home and four weeks later it was on my doorstep.
(Like the rest of his catalog, Live Bullet is unavailable on Spotify. Although Seger is on record as saying he'd like to have his music available to anyone at anytime, he says his long-time manager Punch Andrews and Capitol Records made an agreement years ago on "new media" that the label has failed to honor.)
Live Bullet - Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Not on the Vinyl Wall any longer.
Day 96, the penultimate entry here on A Vinyl Odyssey, will be December 23rd.
One of the greatest live sets of all time!
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