Smokin' O.P.'s--BOB SEGER-Ramblin' Gamblin' Man

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Cool drum kit!



Bob Seger System--Ramblin Gamblin Man...rare early video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2aBOTNGWMY

Glenn Fry was in the band on guitar for the original album cut...Glenn Fry & Penny Lawyer on background vocals.

Where do you think Glenn Fry would have ended up it he wasn't caught smoking dope
by his Mom and was able to tour with Bob Seger? --youtube TM DIVO


I have a bunch of early Bob Seger vinyl LPs...rockin' HARD



"Smokin O.P.'s"...yeah, smokin'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PO0itx-NHw

Mongrel...1970. only available on original vinyl until the recent CD release.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxz7u8sDweY





Seven...Bob Seger Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=822WRnAMHvY



Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist and pianist. As a locally successful Detroit-area artist, he performed and recorded as Bob Seger and the Last Heard and Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the "System" from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band, a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on the national level with the album Live Bullet, recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves. On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama-based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section, which appeared on several of Seger's best-selling singles and albums.

A roots rocker with a classic raspy, shouting voice, Seger wrote and recorded songs that deal with love, women and blue-collar themes and is an exemplar of heartland rock. Seger has recorded many hits, including "Night Moves", "Turn the Page", "Still the Same", "We've Got Tonight", "Against the Wind", "You'll Accomp'ny Me", "Shame on the Moon", "Like a Rock", and "Shakedown", which was written for Beverly Hills Cop II. Seger also co-wrote the Eagles' number-one hit "Heartache Tonight", and his iconic recording of "Old Time Rock and Roll" was named one of the Songs of the Century in 2001.

With a career spanning five decades, Seger continues to perform and record today. Seger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012.[1][2][3][4] Bob Seger was named Billboard's 2015 Legend of Live honoree at the 12th annual Billboard Touring Conference & Awards, held Nov. 18-19 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York.

Underrated by some...a talent that is still going strong today!



Back In '72 (1973)...full album. The only LP to contain the original studio version of "Turn The Page"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0J_bdZ ... bowAYhdFa8

[jamestkirk]

HQ...

The Bob Seger System - Ramblin' Gamblin Man (1969)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKwXHDs1R6Y

Ramblin' Gamblin' Man is the debut album by American rock band The Bob Seger System, released in 1969 (see 1969 in music). The original title was "Tales of Lucy Blue," hence the cover photo. The album is currently unavailable in any format.

[jamestkirk]

THE BIB SEGER SYSTEM
From: Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA

Noah, full LP...a very different first LP...psychdelecized
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8OeCqneTYI


Rare 45 cover

©psychedelicized,com

Bob Seger would go on to have a very successful career in the music industry, especially as a member of the Silver Bullet Band in the 1970s and 1980s. However, his early material is just as good in many ways, allowing Seger to develop himself as a musician. Born in Lincoln Park, Michigan, the Seger family moved to Ann Arbor when Bob was six years old. Bob’s dad worked as a medical technician for the Ford Motor Company, but he also played several instruments. Seger was exposed to many fights between his parents, and when he was only ten years old, his father abandoned them and moved to California. The rest of the family struggled financially as a result.

In 1961, Bob Seger would arrive on the Detroit music scene fronting a three-piece band called the Decibels. The band consisted of Seger (vocals, guitar, piano, keyboards), Pete Stanger (guitar) and H.B. Hunter (drums). The Decibels recorded a demo of a song called “The Lonely One” in Del Shannon’s studio. The song was both Seger’s first original as well as his first song to ever get played on the radio.

The Decibels soon broke up, so Seger joined the Town Criers where he was the lead vocalist. Other members were John Flis (bass), Pep Perrine (drums), and Larry Mason (guitar). The band began to gain a local following, covering well known songs such as “Louie, Louie”. Seger was showing an influence of James Brown and the Beatles on his music.

The Town Criers started to get more gigs as there following grew. Seger met Doug Brown, baked by a band known as the Omens. Seger left the Town Criers for Doug Brown & The Omens because of their presumably larger following. Lead vocals were split between Brown and Seger. This was the band in which Seger first appeared on an officially released recording, with the release of “TGIF” / “First Girl” in 1965. The record was credited to Doug Brown & The Omens, although Seger was a part of it.

Bob met with longtime manager Edward “Punch” Andrews, who was at the time partners with Dave Leone running the Hideout franchise. The Hideout franchise consisted of two clubs where local acts would play, as well as a small record label. Seger started to write and produce for some of the other acts that Punch managed, such as the Mama Cats and the Mushrooms. Seger was still a member of the Omens at this time. He and Doug Brown were approached by Punch and Leone to write a song for a band called the Underdogs. Seger wrote “East Side Story” which ended up failing for the band.

Bob Seger decided to leave the Omens, but kept Brown as a producer. He would record “East Side Story” for himself at about the same time. The song was released under the moniker Bob Seger and the Last Heard in 1966, becoming his first big Detroit hit. The single went on to sell 50,000 copies which led to a contract with Cameo-Parkway Records. The Last Heard would go on to release for more singles, the most notable being “Heavy Music” in 1967. “Heavy Music” sold even more copies than “East Side Story”, and was a potential break out song had Cameo-Parkway not suddenly gone out of business. Seger and Punch started to search for another label to sign the band. In the spring of 1968, the band signed with Capitol Records, turning down Mowtown Records who even offered more money than Capital did.



The band’s name was changed to the Bob Seger System by Capitol. During the time between labels, guitarist Carl Lagassa left, and keyboardist Bob Schultz was added. The first single by the Bob Seger System was the anti-war “2+2=?”. The song did well in Detroit and many other cities, but was still relatively unnoticed by the masses. It was the band’s second single that would give them their first national hit. “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man” reached #17 on the charts and would become the title of the band’s album in 1969. The album reached #62 on the charts. Glenn Frey, later of the Eagles, had his first studio gig on “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man” singing backing vocals. The Bob Seger System would release two more albums, neither of which did well commercially.

Seger’s career was far from over. His most formidable years lay ahead of him as a solo artist and as the front man for the Silver Bullet Band. Albums like 1976’s Night Moves went on to be very highly regarded classic rock albums, and the Silver Bullet band a great example of American rock and roll. ~ Wikipedia

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I've got a few of these albums. They're really good. By mainstream radio standards, you'd think he came onto the scene in 1975. I think he had 7 or 8 albums out by that point.