{"id":807192,"date":"2020-05-07T08:51:11","date_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=995345"},"modified":"2020-05-07T08:51:11","modified_gmt":"2020-05-07T14:51:11","slug":"flashback-bob-seger-performs-a-moving-against-the-wind-in-1980","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/flashback-bob-seger-performs-a-moving-against-the-wind-in-1980\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback: Bob Seger Performs a Moving \u2018Against the Wind\u2019 in 1980"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bob Seger<\/a> turned 75 on Wednesday, but in his typical low-key style he didn\u2019t commemorate the landmark birthday with a social-media post or a public declaration of any sort. He\u2019s basically been living off the grid since the conclusion of his farewell tour on November 1st, 2019, which turned out to be excellent timing since COVID-19 was months away from forcing him (and everyone else) into an indefinite break from the road anyway.<\/p>\n

Farewell tours are almost always little more than an elaborate ruse. They\u2019re a means for acts that are seeing diminishing ticket sales (often thanks to a show that hasn\u2019t changed much in decades) to triple their ticket prices and cajole ambivalent fans into shelling out one last time for fear they\u2019ll never get another chance. Most of us know we\u2019re being conned, but we go along with it because there\u2019s always a tiny chance it truly is the last go-round.<\/p>\n

Seger\u2019s Roll Me Away: The Final Tour felt like a very different situation. He didn\u2019t pull a M\u00f6tley Cr\u00fce and sign a \u201cCessation of Touring Agreement\u201d or even grant any in-depth interviews talking about his decision to step off the road, but his advanced age and honest nature made it feel like the real deal. He sang his 1978 deep cut \u201cThe Famous Final Scene\u201d at several of the shows and it felt like he meant every word of it.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s sad to think that he\u2019ll likely never tour again because Seger truly is one of the great performers of the rock era. Check out this video of him performing \u201cAgainst the Wind\u201d at Landover, Maryland\u2019s Capital Center on October 1st, 1980. The album was released earlier that year and he was in peak form.<\/p>\n

Key members of the Silver Bullet Band like guitarist Drew Abbott left the fold since that tour and Seger\u2019s voice did lose some of its range, but his live show was stellar right up to the very last night of the Roll Me Away tour. Let\u2019s all hope he\u2019s enjoying his retirement and having a nice quarantine. Maybe it\u2019s finally giving him the time to remaster his early albums and get them back into print. He\u2019s finally run out of excuses to keep them hidden away.<\/p>\n

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Bob Seger turned 75 on Wednesday, but in his typical low-key style he didn\u2019t commemorate the landmark birthday with a social-media post or a public declaration of any sort. He\u2019s basically been living off the grid since the conclusion of his farewell tour on November 1st, 2019, which turned out to be excellent timing since […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-807192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 20:12:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}