{"id":491742,"date":"2019-10-31T08:59:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T14:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=906169"},"modified":"2019-10-31T08:59:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-31T14:59:36","slug":"flashback-bob-seger-performs-turn-the-page-with-jason-aldean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/flashback-bob-seger-performs-turn-the-page-with-jason-aldean\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bob Seger Performs \u2018Turn the Page\u2019 With Jason Aldean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Seger<\/a> is just one day away from wrapping up the 2019 leg of his Roll Me Away<\/em> farewell tour, which has been billed as the final series of shows he\u2019ll ever play in North America. The Detroit icon is 74 and had to cut his 2017 tour short to undergo major spinal surgery, but it was clearly a success because he\u2019s played 63 arena gigs this year and, judging by his incredible show at Madison Square Garden on Wednesday night, he remains in stellar shape.<\/p>\n

The set list changes a bit from night to night, but he never leaves the stage without playing his 1973 classic \u201cTurn the Page.\u201d The song was written at at time when Seger\u2019s career had cooled off significantly after he found early success with the garage-rock classics \u201cRamblin\u2019 Gamblin\u2019 Man\u201d and \u201cHeavy Music.\u201d He booked a series of endless tours as he tried to rebuild his audience, and the lyrics to the \u201cTurn the Page\u201d reflect his severe exhaustion with life on the road.<\/p>\n

Seger originally recorded the song without a sax part, but just two weeks after saxophonist Alto Reed joined his group, they revisited the song in the studio. \u201cBob said to me, \u2018I hear sax on this song,’\u201d Reed told Rolling Stone<\/em> in 2011. \u201cI said, \u2018I hear it too.\u2019 Tom Weschler, the assistant manager at the time, said to me, \u2018Picture that it\u2019s late at night. It\u2019s a black and white movie, like the [1955 film noir] The Man with the Golden Arm<\/em>. There\u2019s some rain coming down in the ally. You\u2019re standing by a street lamp and there\u2019s a light mist off in the distance and you hear this plaintive wail. What does that sound like?’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Reed then picked up his alto sax and created one of the most famous sax parts in the history of rock & roll, though not many heard it when the song first appeared on Seger\u2019s 1973 LP Back in \u201972.<\/em> But three years later, the song was re-released on the concert LP Live Bullet<\/em> and radio stations began playing it. As the years went by, it became one of Seger\u2019s most beloved tunes.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s video of Seger playing the song with Jason Aldean<\/a> at a CMT Crossroads concert in 2014. Alto Reed is still in the Silver Bullet Band today and he recreates his iconic sax solo from the original recording every night. All these years later, one note of it causes everyone in the crowd to stand up and start cheering.<\/p>\n

Seger\u2019s plans after the tour wraps up at Philadelphia\u2019s Wells Fargo Center on November 1st are unclear. He left the door open for future shows just a crack by saying that this was merely the end of the North American tour, but he hasn\u2019t played outside of the continent since 1980 and he simply doesn\u2019t have a huge following in Europe or anywhere outside of America. Whatever happens, the people in Philadelphia will certainly see a particularly intense version of \u201cTurn the Page\u201d on November 1st. It may be the last time Seger ever plays it.<\/p>\n

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