A critic once said, "greatest song that Chuck Berry never wrote." Bob's one of America's best artists. One of Bob's finest works. Thanks Bob; well done!
It's been years since I heard this - pulled it up just now because I remembered the title for some reason. This is close enough to Johnny B. Goode that maybe Chuck Berry should have gotten at least a partial writing credit. Kind of like what the Beach Boys did with Surfin' USA.
@@MartinMCade Chuck Berry himself admitted that he stole the riff in "Johnny B Goode" from Carl Hogan. So maybe Hogan should have gotten at least a partial writing credit from Berry?
I saw a Bob Seger concert at a outdoor music festival in the late 70's in South Florida. It was in Fort Lauderdale, and it was one of the greatest live performances I've ever seen. Bob Seger did a fantastic performance of "Back In 72". It was Great, and I will never forget that concert. 😎
One of the greatest rock and roll songs ever written. In Britain i the mid to late seventies everybody was playing this and the song is so good, that every version was good. God bless You Bob!
Anybody ever hear of The MC5. Kinda the god parents to stuff like this. We have so many here in Mich. Alice Cooper,Ted Nugent,Grand Funk,Bob himself.and on an on.
Long Live Seger....i went through my highschool in the 80's and after that listening to this great singer, song writer. I have all is albums and I am 54 yrs old and still cranking up his music...
Lol..I started singing this at karaoke and It was awesome 👌.. The crowd went wild lol..it's not that easy to sing but everyone loves that song..have a good day everyone..
UNREAL!! For years, the only version I'd ever heard of this song was Bob doin' it with the Silver Bullet Band on the "Live Bullet!" album. This is great!!! R n R History!!, and thank you Historicus Joe for giving your time and expertise by sharing this classic with us!!
@@Bowser1948 I just did. There's a saying about driving, that you never overdrive your lights. Eddie oversang, and his band overplayed, their ability. But thanks for the chance to hear it!
No one around to answer this anyway but... One of my alltime favorites. So like any good parent I make my kids listen to music from my era. My millennial daughter listened dutifully then said - "so he left in a Caddie doing 120 then stopped for drugs, lit out in a pickup truck then at some stage got back in the Caddie and drove through a thunder shower, yes?" Sort of wrecked it for me because she seems to be right.
A true Denver classic. Great to have the lyrics. Only took me 3 days to learn to keep up. Whew. Twists my tongue. Whats up with the bass drums ?? 4 on the floor and two up high....is that what I see ?
OMG! SERIOUSLY IF THERE IS A SONG ABOUT SOMEPLACE AND ITS DEAD ON THE MONEY AND HAS BEEN FOR AT LEAST HALF A DAMN CENTURY? ID SAY THIS PLACE IS CURSED OR POSSESSED
Scotty ColoradoKid - I loved it until it got so crowded and so corrupt. I was a Denverite for 41 years. Now there's a socialist on the city council, so yeah, I saw the writing on the wall and left in 2016. I still visit, (writing from Lakewood right now), but glad to be out. It's sad. It used to be a great place. There are still things I miss, but it's not the same anymore.
@@kimberlygabaldon3260 I know....but of course nothing is the same anymore; And every major city is just crowded as hell now; I am a Littleton Liberal, but I dont lean that far left! I just still love the mountains...
Robert played my high school right after Nugent, I was blown, and followed Bob around the clubs in Ann Arbor with a fake ID until he finally began to rip Cobo Hall to shreds doing 7-9 shows back after back. He had the TIGHTEST rhythm section in the nation, period. Nugent was louder, but "The Silver Bullitt Band" FN' OWNED~
Until tonight I'd only ever heard (and saw live) Eddie & the Hot Rods' version. Great to 'pay my dues' to the originator at last. The Hot Rods' version is superb still though, if you've never heard it. The singer was so full of beans he'd jump and climb over anything available on stage. (Such a long time ago now!)
This for real BTW. I worked at a truck stop on I70 in 74 and yes our school teacher was selling blow. They made it to Loveland Pass, got turned around and ended up back in Georgetown. lol
Bob Seger from Ann Arbor, MI and made his home pretty much anywhere anyone would let him plug it in and crank it up. One of the beautiful strangers remembers... CHS 1977
@@tymesho Sorry about that, I was thinking, of course, of the first live album, where he introduces the band and then says "I'm Bob Seger and I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan." Obviously he knew as little as I...
Closing credits for things to do in Denver when you're dead.give it a name. Classic underated movie and song neit has gotten due credit for the sheer brilliance of both projects
I remember nearly driving myself insane back in the day listening to "Live Bullet" and trying to understand these lyrics. I think the longest stretch I had (but I had some others that were nearly as long) was "we told her that we needed somethin that would get us goin' she pulled out all she had and laid it on the counter showin' all I had to do was lay my money down and pick it up... blah blah blah blah...
This is a great song, makes me proud to be a Coloradoan, 4 generations! One thing is, the Colorado State Patrol are known as the Colorado State Patrol, never the Colorado State Police.
I think mr. Chuck Berry and Bob Seger will collaborate on music perfectly if the rest of the world we just let them Rock without prejudice but I mean that in a nice way namaste
Get outta Denver a slick rock and roller with heavy bass and loud lead guitar. Each album getting stronger although this one is not well known. RED WHITE AND BLUE NECK
Love both the Seger and the Dave Edmund's version of this. Great patter song and no doubt a bitch to perform live! 😉 Love the lines. A Funky baptist preachin' Southern Funky School Teacher.
@@MrJett1971 I came here after watching Eddie and the Hot Rods, I seem to recall though that the original single started with him shouting out something about "moving all those chairs" But it was over 40 years ago LOL
Harmonies are clearer on this version, but the live one from LIVE BULLET rocks harder. Heavier drums, wailing guitar, and Seger's voice at its pitch-perfect scratchiest. This one is soooo hard to sing.
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A critic once said, "greatest song that Chuck Berry never wrote." Bob's one of America's best artists. One of Bob's finest works. Thanks Bob; well done!
Good talk!
It's been years since I heard this - pulled it up just now because I remembered the title for some reason. This is close enough to Johnny B. Goode that maybe Chuck Berry should have gotten at least a partial writing credit. Kind of like what the Beach Boys did with Surfin' USA.
Arguably all music is "stolen". Can't we just embrace all of it!❤😊
@@MartinMCade Chuck Berry himself admitted that he stole the riff in "Johnny B Goode" from Carl Hogan. So maybe Hogan should have gotten at least a partial writing credit from Berry?
@MartinMCade as the great Chuck Berry once said. Ain't nothing new under the sun.
I saw a Bob Seger concert at a outdoor music festival in the late 70's in South Florida. It was in Fort Lauderdale, and it was one of the greatest live performances I've ever seen. Bob Seger did a fantastic performance of "Back In 72". It was Great, and I will never forget that concert. 😎
One of the greatest rock and roll songs ever written. In Britain i the mid to late seventies everybody was playing this and the song is so good, that every version was good. God bless You Bob!
one of the coolest things 4 me,is seeing how many ppl also enjoy the same music
That is because this music is so good it is timeless. Enjoy forever.
How and the heck can Bob Seger deliver the words so quickly and sound so good. Wow!
I’m sayin! I know all the words, and I am from Denver! This is a kick ass song, but singing is is a cluster fuck
Such an underrated musician, band leader and song writer
Not by Michiganders we Love BOB
have you heard Live Bullet?
Maybe the best pure rock n roll song ever written.
a truly great song
This and Radar Love definitely in the top 5 all time
No maybe’s about it
Anybody ever hear of The MC5. Kinda the god parents to stuff like this. We have so many here in Mich. Alice Cooper,Ted Nugent,Grand Funk,Bob himself.and on an on.
YES
This is one of the best Rock songs ever.... definitely in my top 100 of all time.
God yes....I remember this blasting out of the tape deck...going 70 down a back road in a 77 Dodge short box 4x4 pickup I had put a 440 in....
Long Live Seger....i went through my highschool in the 80's and after that listening to this great singer, song writer. I have all is albums and I am 54 yrs old and still cranking up his music...
Thanks for the lyrics. All these many years I thought he was singing, "Get out of Denver, BABY, go go!"
All of Bob Seger's songs are like having children you don't know which one you love the best
Bob deserves the praise this guyt anmd his bands are staples of ROCK
The best thing to come out of Detroit.
Lol..I started singing this at karaoke and It was awesome 👌..
The crowd went wild lol..it's not that easy to sing but everyone loves that song..have a good day everyone..
Great song especially Today!!!
UNREAL!! For years, the only version I'd ever heard of this song was Bob doin' it with the Silver Bullet Band on the "Live Bullet!" album. This is great!!! R n R History!!, and thank you Historicus Joe for giving your time and expertise by sharing this classic with us!!
Have a listen to "Eddie & The Hot Rods" version ... a wee bit manic but rocks
@@Bowser1948 I just did. There's a saying about driving, that you never overdrive your lights. Eddie oversang, and his band overplayed, their ability. But thanks for the chance to hear it!
@@davidschmidt6013 the lead singer was Barrie Masters ..."Eddie" was in fact a tailor's dummy they placed on stage on a seat
No one around to answer this anyway but...
One of my alltime favorites. So like any good parent I make my kids listen to music from my era. My millennial daughter listened dutifully then said - "so he left in a Caddie doing 120 then stopped for drugs, lit out in a pickup truck then at some stage got back in the Caddie and drove through a thunder shower, yes?" Sort of wrecked it for me because she seems to be right.
You raised your kids right!
My Favorite Bob Seger and I him seven times in concert awesome
I saw him twice
Happy Birthday Bob Seger(May 6). Cheers!
The first time I heard this song was the day I moved from Denver. Took it as sign
What a song ! Its a rocker
Bob is the best there is was ever will be.
Bob plz never leave us.
the line is...up walked a baptist preachin southern funky school teacher
Bob Seger was my getty up n go long haul truck drivin tune with a bit of baileys in a good cup of coffee and smell of 16V 92. Detroit diesel exhaust
Bob was Rock 'N heavy on this one! Chuck Berry must have been jealous when he heard it. Good stuff!
You are so right. It's one of those songs, like 'route sixty six' that you can imagine was written by Chuck Berry, but actually wasn't.
This is the man
Been a Seger fan since The mid 70's. Seems strange to see him now with short gray hair. I have some myself but not short yet,lol. Getting old sucks.
Then don’t get old silly. I avoid it. The best ting about being born in 1960 is the music.
A true Denver classic. Great to have the lyrics. Only took me 3 days to learn to keep up. Whew. Twists my tongue. Whats up with the bass drums ?? 4 on the floor and two up high....is that what I see ?
I've been to Denver. This is good advice.
I'm in Fort Collins and I avoid Denver unless it's absolutely necessary.
OMG! SERIOUSLY IF THERE IS A SONG ABOUT SOMEPLACE AND ITS DEAD ON THE MONEY AND HAS BEEN FOR AT LEAST HALF A DAMN CENTURY? ID SAY THIS PLACE IS CURSED OR POSSESSED
Ive been in Denver for 63 years and I love this city so screw you guys!
Scotty ColoradoKid - I loved it until it got so crowded and so corrupt. I was a Denverite for 41 years. Now there's a socialist on the city council, so yeah, I saw the writing on the wall and left in 2016. I still visit, (writing from Lakewood right now), but glad to be out. It's sad. It used to be a great place. There are still things I miss, but it's not the same anymore.
@@kimberlygabaldon3260 I know....but of course nothing is the same anymore; And every major city is just crowded as hell now; I am a Littleton Liberal, but I dont lean that far left! I just still love the mountains...
Rockin' Detroit Style!
Not only detroit
Awesome song one of my favorites. Blues traveler did a nice remake and did Bob seger justice with his rendition 🔥🔥👌🏼
Check out Dave Edmunds version, damn good
Ward Schofield, Can't remember where I first heard this, would've been in the eighties, LOVE IT.
Bob and Glenn Fry were great friends often singing on each others songs
I grew up in small farm town northeast of Denver very few of us had long hair and this was our anthem
The words have turned out to be prophetic in 2021
#YouLookJustLikeACommie
Robert played my high school right after Nugent, I was blown, and followed Bob around the clubs in Ann Arbor with a fake ID until he finally began to rip Cobo Hall to shreds doing 7-9 shows back after back. He had the TIGHTEST rhythm section in the nation, period. Nugent was louder, but "The Silver Bullitt Band" FN' OWNED~
Until tonight I'd only ever heard (and saw live) Eddie & the Hot Rods' version. Great to 'pay my dues' to the originator at last. The Hot Rods' version is superb still though, if you've never heard it. The singer was so full of beans he'd jump and climb over anything available on stage. (Such a long time ago now!)
I was listening to Bob when I had to stand on a stool to get the record on the turn table. He’s 1. And that was 1977.
This was awesome live back in the day.
Amazing classic.
This for real BTW. I worked at a truck stop on I70 in 74 and yes our school teacher was selling blow. They made it to Loveland Pass, got turned around and ended up back in Georgetown. lol
Bob seger is the Man with the plan
Bob Seger from Ann Arbor, MI and made his home pretty much anywhere anyone would let him plug it in and crank it up. One of the beautiful strangers remembers... CHS 1977
Probably not what i'm thinking but what does CHS stand for? If you don't mind.
I was thinking Columbine myself. Lol 86 myself. Go Rebels!
Bob was born/raised in Lincoln Park, Michigan, then moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
@@Warchief01 Clarkston High School.
@@tymesho Sorry about that, I was thinking, of course, of the first live album, where he introduces the band and then says "I'm Bob Seger and I'm from Ann Arbor, Michigan." Obviously he knew as little as I...
Fun song...born and raised in Denver...
Me too!
Been there!! Lol. Love you Detroit from Cleveland
The uh technical description of this tune it's what folks back then would call a barn burner
Burnin down the house!
Closing credits for things to do in Denver when you're dead.give it a name. Classic underated movie and song neit has gotten due credit for the sheer brilliance of both projects
This is what you call hard drivin ROCK N ROLL
a good friend of mine as a kid said seated next to God would be Jesus and Bob Seger...I think he may be right....
Man I needed to hear this today
I remember nearly driving myself insane back in the day listening to "Live Bullet" and trying to understand these lyrics. I think the longest stretch I had (but I had some others that were nearly as long) was "we told her that we needed somethin that would get us goin' she pulled out all she had and laid it on the counter showin' all I had to do was lay my money down and pick it up... blah blah blah blah...
This is the good stuff yeah🎉 hooootie hoooooo
This is a great song, makes me proud to be a Coloradoan, 4 generations! One thing is, the Colorado State Patrol are known as the Colorado State Patrol, never the Colorado State Police.
Undeniably Awesome!!
Love love this song gets moving
I think mr. Chuck Berry and Bob Seger will collaborate on music perfectly if the rest of the world we just let them Rock without prejudice but I mean that in a nice way namaste
Get outta Denver a slick rock and roller with heavy bass and loud lead guitar. Each album getting stronger although this one is not well known.
RED WHITE AND BLUE NECK
Love It!!!
Damn I love bob...................
Bob Seger Band out performed Springsteen any day
Rock and Roll.
Sooooooo goooood
Seger! Blue collar! Detroit. Hey Iggi!
substitute "baby" for every time the lyrics here say "better". Get Out of Denver, baby go.
I'm a runner and I don't how he sings this without being out of breath.
Back in the day Bob was a daily runner, to offset his chain smoking.
I have wonder if some lyrics are missing, cuz they lit out in a pick up truck yet ended up in the caddy? 50 years later and i wanna know!
❤Wow ,Go ,bby go..❤😂
Love it............................The tempo is fucking awesome. We had to pinch each other just to see if we were dreamin....
Came here trying to figure out if this song has more and faster lyrics than I've Been Everywhere. Still can't determine.
INNAGODDADAVIDA is the chords to God rest ye merry gentlemen
NOWTHERESASONGYOUDONTHEARONTHERADIOANYMORE
Getting high, Rock and Roll, Arrogant crooked cops and racing to get out of Denver.
I LOVE THIS!!!!!
This is the real Bob Seeger.
GET OUT OF DENVER SONG WOW BOB SEGER.
TH-cam is now to the point of Greed to put ads in the middle of a song .
Love both the Seger and the Dave Edmund's version of this.
Great patter song and no doubt a bitch to perform live! 😉
Love the lines.
A Funky baptist preachin' Southern Funky School Teacher.
except the line is "up walked a baptist preachin' Southern funky school teacher ;-)
Both classics
Eddie and the Hot Rods do a great live cover, as well. About 25% faster, though-it really rips!
@@MrJett1971 I came here after watching Eddie and the Hot Rods, I seem to recall though that the original single started with him shouting out something about "moving all those chairs" But it was over 40 years ago LOL
How did they get from the pickup truck to the Cadillac?
1971
This is my favorite Version for 2 reasons. The voice of Bob and The fantastic bass line. Better than Edmond one
Have you heard Eddie and The Hotrods version? th-cam.com/video/rnmNHGVC1co/w-d-xo.html
@@mikjanbubble thank you man! Didn t know it
Things to do in Denver when you're dead.
this is for Shane L. & David H.
entered Cashbox Aug 3, 1974
Harmonies are clearer on this version, but the live one from LIVE BULLET rocks harder. Heavier drums, wailing guitar, and Seger's voice at its pitch-perfect scratchiest.
This one is soooo hard to sing.
Is this picture in 1:18 do you know if its from mikatan Genesee vill?
That’s unreal
this song only went to #80 on the pop charts in 1974!!!
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I like this slower version ... Check out Eddie & The Hot Rods
Thas wassup!
Its brilliant...
Check out Blues Traveler’s cover.
I noticed that at about age 11
remember K K K Katmandu?
Chuck Berry if Chuck had been a white boy from Michigan...
I really believe he says," state policeman trooper captain, go." Then again I could be wrong ?
Could be captain or just Cat (contemporaneous slsng fordude or man or person. Ambisextrous. Is that unisex?
Bob was great. Until he got old and mellow like the rest of us. 😊Katmandu is tied with this great song as my fave. Lucifer is a close third.
threw an extra K in just to be sure no one misunderstood
9/24/22
✌️🎤🎸🎧🙏
A great song for Eric Coomer
Is this sound not as "full" or am I remembering it differently? ?
shot forshot - It might be whatever you are listening to it on. It could be digital, and if you are remembering vinyl...
Maybe you remember the Live Bullet version