![]() ![]() The show was opened by Norfolk’s Anthony Rosano and the Conqueroos, a large-scale showcase for the sort of blues rock performances that have made them one of the most popular bands in Hampton Roads. It deserves to stand as a bookend to 1976’s “Live Bullet,” which (with all due respect to Peter Frampton) stands up as the best live album of the ’70s. Hopefully this final tour will eventually be put together in a live recording or a video. The band played a tight 90-minute set and then returned for two encores, ending as you knew it would - with a reflective “Night Moves” and a jubilant “Rock and Roll Never Forgets.” No number rocked harder than “Her Strut,” a cult favorite from his 1980 hit album “Against the Wind.” The song celebrates a smart, strong-willed woman, but also featured a sly double entendre - a pause in the vocals that makes “they do respect her, but …” sound like “they do respect her butt.” (The song was inspired by Jane Fonda’s political activism and her worked-out derriere.) In concert these days, Seger plays it straight - the pauses goes where it is grammatically correct, and on one chorus he even replaced the “but” with a very pointed “ however.“ ![]() The set list was nicely paced, and even when he announced that he was pulling out songs that the band hadn’t played in a quarter-century they still turned out to be hits like “You’ll Accomp’ny Me” and “Shame on the Moon.” By the time he and the band kicked into a blistering version of “The Fire Down Below,” the near-sellout crowd of close to 20,000 had become part of the show, singing along on the chorus. McNelley in particular was given the opportunity to shine, staying close to the guitar leads made famous by Drew Abbott but also making them his own.ĭuring the second song, “Still the Same,” Seger looked as happy as a kid when he pointed out the full moon hanging over the lawn crowd. That lineup is augmented by top-notch session players with a country backgrounds (guitarist Rob McNelley, drummer Greg Morrow, Jim “Moose” Brown on guitar and keys) whose presence emphasizes the diverse influences that work their way into Seger’s R&B-based sound. Longtime members include Chris Campbell (bass), Craig Frost (keyboards), Mark Chatfield (guitar) and the implacably cool sax man Alto Reed, who unlike the others seems not to have aged since the Silver Bullet Band’s heyday. ![]() 1 hit from 1987 - a song that had been the rollicking theme from a pointless Eddie Murphy sequel, but which still brings a crowd to its feet when delivered by Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, featuring a full horn section and three backing vocalists. He kicked off the night with a “Shakedown,” his No. ![]() (Whoever coined the phrase “classic rock” surely understood that music lovers of my generation would never want to admit that the songs we grew up with had become oldies instead, they’re classics.)īut here is Seger, 74 and on what he says is his final tour, proving at the Veterans United Home Loans Ampthitheater in Virginia Beach on Saturday night just how vibrant and how intimate these shows can be with the right performer on stage.īob Seger brought his Silver Bullet Band to the Veterans United Home Loans amphitheater in Virginia Beach as part of his final tour.- Original Credit: Dave Polston- Original Source: Handout They were actually pretty good, and they satisfied, but that didn’t change the fact that most of them were more or less going through the motions. In that time, dozens of his contemporary act spent their summers putting together package tours with nostalgia-drenched amphitheater shows. Then, between 2006-15 he took his Silver Bullet Band out on a handful of short arena tours. The classic rock amphitheater circuit waited a long, long time for Bob Seger to arrive and display a quick mastery of the form.įor a decade starting in the late 1990s, he took a self-imposed hiatus from performing, though he never called it a retirement. ![]()
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