Features Seger Makes Good Case for ‘Old Time Rock and Roll’ by Debra Taylor Stood Three Female Singers All Dressed in Red Staff Writer Against the Black Background
Thursday, March 17, 1983 P ag e 4 The Pendulum features Seger makes good case for ‘old time rock and roll’ by Debra Taylor stood three female singers all dressed in red Staff Writer against the black background. The sold-out crowd was beginning to get Seger, with his hair cut a lot shorter than restless. It was 9:10 p.m. last Friday night. usual, but still with his mustache and Five minutes later, the lights in the beard, played five songs off of his new Greensboro Coliseum went out, and the album, “TTie Distance.” His hit single crowd became alive. The coliseum began to “ Shame on the Moon,” along with “ Roll tremble, and Bob Seger and the Silver Me Away,” “ Boomtown Blues,” “ Even Bullet Band appeared on stage. The crowd Now,” and “ Making Thunderbirds” were that once sat in their seats, waiting all big crowd pleasers. impatiently, were now on their feet, With his hands in his jeans pockets, whistling and yelling at the top of their griiming at the crowd, Seger joked around with the crowd about how hot it was on Concert review stage. He often pulled at his drenched, sticky shirt. But he did not seem to mind at lungs. And it was only the beginning. all. It looked as if he enjoyed putting on The grinning Bob Seger, dressed casually the show just as much as the crowd enjoyed in a pair of jeans, a black shirt and white watching it. canvas shoes, started off what was to be a Seger also sang many of his older songs, 22-song show with his hit “ Feel Like a such as “ Old-Time Rock and Roll,” “ Still Number.” The Same,” “Her Strut,” and “We’ve Got The Silver Bullet Band, with its two new Tonight.” After singing his hit band members — drummer Don Brewer “ Katmandu,” he and the Silver Bullet previously in Grand Funk Railroad, and a Band, left the stage, only to return a few new guitarist who looked all of the age of minutes later to screaming fans to sing 17 — did an equally fantastic job.
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