MFSL 1-034 LP: BOB SEGER & Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves - JAPAN 1980 NM MOFI
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Seger began playing music in 1961 as the leader of the Detroit-based trio the Decibels; his future manager, Eddie "Punch" Andrews was also a member of the band. Moving to Ann Arbor, he played with the Town Criers before he became the keyboardist and vocalist for Doug Brown & the Omens. Billing themselves as the Beach Bums, the band released "The Ballad of the Yellow Beret," a parody of the Sgt. Barry Sadler song "The Ballad of the Green Beret." The single was withdrawn shortly after its release after Sadler threatened a lawsuit. In 1966, Seger released his first solo single, "East Side Story," which became a regional hit. Several other local hit singles followed on Cameo Records, including "Persecution Smith" and "Heavy Music," before his label folded. In 1968, he formed the Bob Seger System and signed with Capitol Records, releasing his debut album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, in the spring of that year. The title track became a national hit, climbing to number 17, but the group's follow-up, Noah, stiffed and Seger decided to quit the music business at the end of 1969 to attend college.
By the end of the summer, Seger had returned to rock & roll with a new backing band, releasing Mongrel at the end of the year. For 1971's Brand New Morning, he disbanded his group and recorded a singer/songwriter effort. Following its release, he began performing with the duo Dave Teegarden and Skip "Van Winkle" Knape, and the duo provided support on 1972's Smokin' O.P.'s, which was the first release on Palladium Records, a label he formed with Andrews. The album failed to sell, as did Back in '72 (1973) and Seven (1974), and he moved back to Capitol Records for 1975's Beautiful Loser. For the recording of Beautiful Loser, Seger formed the Silver Bullet Band, which consisted of guitarist Drew Abbott, bassist Chris Campbell, keyboardist Robyn Robbins, saxophonist Alto Reed, and drummer Charlie Allen Martin. Seger supported Beautiful Loser with an extensive tour with the Silver Bullet Band, and while it didn't make the album a hit, it provided a widespread grassroots following across the country. The touring paid off in 1976, when Live Bullet, a double album recorded in Detroit, became a hit, spending over three years on the U.S. charts and going gold; the album would eventually go quadruple platinum.
The groundswell behind Live Bullet sent Seger's next studio album, Night Moves (1976), into the Top Ten early in 1977. Night Moves became a blockbuster, generating the hit singles "Night Moves," "Mainstreet," and "Rock & Roll Never Forgets." Stranger in Town, released in the summer of 1978, was just as successful, featuring the hits "Still the Same," "Hollywood Nights," "We've Got Tonite," and "Old Time Rock & Roll." Stranger in Town confirmed his status as one America's most popular rockers. Seger's next album, 1980's Against the Wind, became his first number one album and all of its big hits -- "Fire Lake," "Against the Wind," "You'll Accomp'ny Me" -- were ballads. The live album Nine Tonight continued his multi-platinum success in 1981, selling three million copies and peaking at number three.
Seger returned with The Distance in 1982. The Distance was the first album since Seven to be recorded with the addition of session musicians, which caused guitarist Abbott to quit the band in frustration. Over the course of the next decade, the membership of the Silver Bullet Band shifted constantly. While The Distance featured "Shame on the Moon," his biggest hit single to date, its sales plateaued at a million copies, suggesting that his popularity was beginning to level off. Seger also began to drastically reduce his recording and touring schedules -- he only released one other album, 1986's Like a Rock, during the '80s. Like a Rock and its supporting tour were both successes, paving the way for "Shakedown," a song taken from the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop II, to become Seger's lone number one hit in 1987. Four years after its release, he returned with The Fire Inside. Although the album went platinum and reached the Top Ten, it only appealed to Seger's devoted following, as did 1995's It's a Mystery, which became his first album since Live Bullet to fail to go platinum, leveling off at gold status.
A long hiatus followed, where Seger kept his head down and spent time with his family. These quiet years were only interrupted by his 2004 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Finally, in 2006, after an 11-year hiatus, Seger released Face the Promise, his first record since 1975's Beautiful Loser not to feature the Silver Bullet Band. Although it spawned no big hit singles -- "Wait for Me" made it into the Billboard adult contemporary Top 20 -- Face the Promise performed well, debuting at four on the Billboard charts on its way to a platinum certification. A couple archival projects followed: the 2009 compilation Early Seger, Vol. 1, which balanced previously released cuts with re-recorded old tunes, and the 2011 double-disc set Ultimate Hits: Rock & Roll Never Forgets, which was certified platinum and generated the modest adult contemporary hit cover of Tom Waits' "Downtown Train." A new album titled Ride Out appeared in October of 2014, debuting at number three on the Billboard charts. Seger next released I Knew You When, a 2017 album that was dedicated to the recently deceased Glenn Frey. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Night Moves is the ninth studio album by American rock singer-songwriter Bob Seger, and his first with the Silver Bullet Band. The album was released on October 22, 1976 by Capitol Records. Although the front cover only credits backing by the Silver Bullet Band, four of the nine songs on the album feature backing by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section.
The album was well received by critics and gave Bob Seger nationwide success. Three singles were released from the album, with two of them making the top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100. The album became Seger's second to become certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America and was his first to be certified platinum by the same association. It later achieved a certification of sextuple platinum.
Popular music critic Robert Christgau wrote that the riffs on Night Moves are classic rock and roll riffs, like those performed by Chuck Berry or the Rolling Stones, and that the album is about rock and roll for those who are no longer in their teens, like the song "Rock and Roll Never Forgets". The Rolling Stone review of the album by Kit Rachlis stated that the album is one of the best to come out of 1976-77, that Seger sounds like Rod Stewart and writes lyrics like Bruce Springsteen, and that album is classic rock and roll. The only problem that Rachlis had with the album was the production not being strong enough. A later review of the album by Stephen Thomas Erlewine for AllMusic says that the album was very similar to Beautiful Loser (1975), but Night Moves is harder than Beautiful Loser. Erlewine also feels that the album has a wide range of styles and has not lost any of its influence years later.
Bob Seger recorded the bulk of Night Moves before Live Bullet brought him his first genuine success, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that it's similar in spirit to the introspective Beautiful Loser, even if it rocks harder and longer. Throughout much of the album, he's coming to grips with being on the other side of 30 and still rocking. He floats back in time, turning in high-school memories, remembering when wandering down "Mainstreet" was the highlight of an evening, covering a rockabilly favorite in "Mary Lou." Stylistically, there's not much change since Beautiful Loser, but the difference is that Seger and his Silver Bullet Band -- who turn in their first studio album here -- sound intense and ferocious, and the songs are subtly varied. Yes, this is all hard rock, but the acoustic ballads reveal the influence of Dylan and Van Morrison, filtered through a Midwestern sensibility, and the rockers reveal more of Seger's personality than ever. Seger may have been this consistent before (on Seven, for example), but the mood had never been as successfully varied, nor had his songwriting been as consistent, intimate, and personal. Thankfully, this was delivered to a mass audience eager for Seger, and it not only became a hit, but one of the universally acknowledged high points of late-'70s rock & roll. And, because of his passion and craft, it remains a thoroughly terrific record years later. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
If there is any grace in heaven, Night Moves will give Bob Seger the national following which has long eluded him. It is simply one of the best albums of the year. As a vocalist, Seger recalls Rod Stewart; his raspy voice can both soar and attack. As a composer, he echoes Bruce Springsteen in his painful attempts to memorialize his past.
Night Moves offers rock & roll in the classic mold: bold, aggressive and grandiloquent. Seger's Silver Bullet Band and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section share the backup credit and provide support of almost operatic intensity. The arrangements use traditional devices: on the title tune, for example, tempo and volume continually shift to create climax upon climax; in "Mainstreet," a single guitar rings out the drama through the repetition of spare lines.
Seger is a romantic in search of an adolescent conception of love which has always eluded him. He can laugh at his condition ("Sunspot Baby") or try to exorcise it (his reworking of "Mary Lou"), but most of the time he rubs at it like an old wound ("Night Moves" and "Mainstreet"). All of these are songs of reminiscence, for Seger, above all, is a survivor.
If there is a flaw in the album, it is that the production is not aggressive enough. Occasionally the horns are too muted, the drums too hesitant. But these errors, like Seger's penchant for self-conscious poeticizing ("Sunburst"), are minor in an album bursting with energy and conviction. - KIT RACHLIS
MFSL - Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Record LP item - WHITE record labels with BLACK lettering
Record Made in JAPAN Pressing is in STEREO - recording is from 1976 - originally issued on the CAPITOL label
Limited Edition LP
Record Speed: 33 1/3 rpm Record Made issued in: 1980 (one of the earliest MFSL titles made)
Record Catalog Number: MFSL 1-034 Featured on this item: Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band Title of this Audiophile LP - Night Moves Track Listings - All tracks written by Bob Seger, except where noted.
Side One
1."Rock and Roll Never Forgets"3:52
2."Night Moves"5:25
3."The Fire Down Below"4:28
4."Sunburst"5:13
Side Two
5."Sunspot Baby" 4:38
6."Mainstreet" 3:43
7."Come to Poppa"Earl Randle, Willie Mitchell3:11
8."Ship of Fools" 3:24
9."Mary Lou"Young Jessie, Sam Ling2:56
• Tracks 1, 3, 4 and 9 were recorded by the Silver Bullet Band in Detroit.
• Track 2 was recorded in Toronto.
• Tracks 5 – 8 were recorded by the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section at Muscle Shoals Sound Studios in Sheffield, Alabama.
Performed By / Credits on this LP include -
• Bob Seger – vocals, guitar, production
The Silver Bullet Band:
• Drew Abbott – guitar (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 8, 9); background vocals on "Mary Lou" (track 9)
• Robyn Robbins – piano, organ (tracks 1, 3, 4, 9)
• Alto Reed – tenor saxophone, alto saxophone, baritone saxophone, flute (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 9)
• Chris Campbell – bass (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 9); background vocals on "Mary Lou" (track 9)
• Charlie Allen Martin – drums, tambourine, maracas (tracks 1, 2, 3, 4, 9); background vocals on "Mary Lou" (track 9)
Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section [2][7]
• Pete Carr – lead guitar, rhythm guitar, acoustic guitar, production (tracks 5, 6, 7, 8)
• Jimmy Johnson – rhythm guitar, production (tracks 5, 6, 7, 8)
• Barry Beckett – piano, organ, ARP synthesizer, clavinet, melodica, production (tracks 5, 6, 7, 8)
• David Hood – bass, production (tracks 5, 6, 7, 8)
• Roger Hawkins – drums, tambourine, maracas, congas, tympani drums, production (tracks 5, 6, 7, 8)
Additional musicians [2][7]
• Jerry Luck – accordion on "Ship of Fools" (track 8)
• Joe Miquelon – guitar on "Night Moves" (track 2)
• Doug Riley – piano, organ on "Night Moves" (track 2)
• Sharon Lee Williams – backing vocals on "Night Moves" (track 2)
• Rhonda Silver – backing vocals on "Night Moves" (track 2)
• Laurel Ward – backing vocals on "Night Moves" (track 2)
Production
• Punch Andrews – production (tracks 1, 3, 4, 9)
• Jack Richardson – production (track 2)
• Jim Bruzzese – recording engineer, mixing engineer
• Brian Christian – recording engineer
• Jerry Masters – recording engineer
• Steve Melton – recording engineer
• Greg Miller – recording engineer
• Wally Traugott – mastering engineer
• Tom Bert – photography
Other Information -
Original Master Recording.
Audiophile Pressing (Source: the Original Stereo Master Tape).
Half-Speed Production and Mastering by Original MasteringWorks.
Specially Plated and Pressed on High Definition Super Vinyl by Victor Company of Japan Ltd.
Mastered with the Ortofon Cutting System
Original Special Static Free-Dust Inner Sleeve. Original Special Heavy Duty Protective Packaging.
Manufactured and distributed by MFSL, Inc., under license from Capitol Records.
• Pressed By – Victor Company Of Japan, Ltd.
• Manufactured By – MFSL, Inc.
• Distributed By – MFSL, Inc. CONDITION Details: LP Jacket:
The jacket is in Near MINT condition - no seam splits, just one small corner ding! The jacket has NO splits of any kind - it is completely solid and intact, and shows only some very minimal shelf wear.
It has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind.
There is NO writing on the front or back of the jacket.
The cover has clean and sharp colors - see picture with this listing for more detail.
The LPs (vinyl) itself:
The LP is in Near MINT condition - super glossy and appears never played! This is the near mint copy you want for your collection - any super picky audiophile would be happy with this one!
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