LOL, I think you went a little too far. He wasn’t an old man, when this song came out. Just older. He would have been a bit under 40. Being adult, and having to adult, hit him. LMAO, I thought when 40 hit, i would know all the secrets of being adult. Well. The morning of the 40th birthday, was just a day, like any other.
@@stephaniefain1863 It's partly about getting old, but mostly the loss of innocence and youth. You dont necessarily have to be old to lose your youth. It just takes us a couple decades to realize its gone.
@@normcmiller point taken! LOL, just so many things about getting older caught me by surprise. Things I look back on, and realize how silly they were. The first time I said "20 years ago" scared me to death. I thought 40 was a majic age when I would become "wise". All the years of pushing to the limit, with no regard to the damage I was doing. Burning the candle at both ends. I'm not old, now, not quite 60, I should be hitting my stride. LOL, my body says I should have walked instead of run, if I wanted to stride.
@@normcmiller LOL, I went the other way. alcohol is my crutch. I drink all day, every day, and a party is the last thing I want. I like it when my company is no more than 2 people, don't get loud, and I prefer it if you don't move around too much. I used to love a crowded kitchen. now, 3 people doing the kitchen dance is just too much. They tell me its PTSD. I think I'm just tired of chaos.
You totally get it. This is probably one of the greatest video concepts interpreting a song ever. His youth on one side of the tracks, his present on the other, and the train is the time passing between the two. The amazing guitar and raspy voice just help to emphasize the meaning of the lyrics. Brilliant.
Thanks so much for the positivity here - I've grappled with the passing of time on so many occasions and this song shone a light on that better than anything I've seen. It's quite brilliant.
The train takes me back. I grew up in a small southern town. You just learned to get along with the trains coming through. We even had a train station, old and shuttered. Trains didn’t really stop in our town, not for us, anyway. 40 years ago, they were a lot longer too. Safety, I guess. It was common to get out of the car, sit on the hood, and watch the train pass. Back then, there were still cabooses, sometimes more than one, at the end. When you saw the caboose, it was time to jump back in the car. Scared the hell out of me, the first time i said “20 years ago…” when did THAT happen? It took a week to get over it. Where’d they go?
Most all of Segers music is a well told story that just draws you in and triggers your own memories. Without memories, we are just a bush. Bob Seger will be 80 years old next May. He is awesome and his songs will outlive us all...
I highly recommend Bob Seger's "Against the Wind"!! One of the best songs ever. Also "Night Moves", which takes you on a journey much like this once. Definitely should hear "Roll Me Away"! One of the best storytellers in the business! Another one that everyone feels, albeit slightly different for everyone, is "The Famous Final Scene". My Lord - I could go on for days!! 😉 Bob has a *huge* catalog of hits to choose from. 👍🏻❤
Seger sitting on one side of the tracks and the 18 year old Seger across and he is thinking back. Segers music is all storytelling, hope you continue listening to him.
From a small town. The rails ran through. You get used to it. Most cars didn’t have a/c. Back then, the trains could be really long. Several engines, several cabooses, even. Getting out of your car, to sit on the hood, was a common thing. Looking at graffiti. Visiting in a line of cars, if there was one. Everyone diving for the car, when the caboose came into sight around a curve. Maybe a half hour. Maybe more. Sometimes, the train stopped, while sitting across the road.
Good analysis! Thanks. I strongly suggest Seger's "Turn the Page." It's about the experience of being a touring musician and really gives one insight into what drives Bob Seger.
Excellent analysis Dr. Seger is one of those songwriters who grows in meaning as one grows older. After 40 years of practicing law, I'm retired. The kids are grown, the friends of my youth gone over or drifted away as the years past. Now just me and my wife and the family of our generation who still remain. We all, if we're lucky, have the memories of our springtime that remain with us as autumn turns to winter. Seger puts it very well in this song.
Funny isn’t the right word, but yeah. Getting older. Sometimes sicker. At 20, I was a skinny bad ass. “Yes I can” came naturally. The first time I heard myself say “20 years ago” it scared me so bad I had to leave the room!. How in the hell did THAT happen!! I had to go hide, and count the years on my fingers!! LMAO, almost 60 now, and I can talk about 40 years ago….
Well said, 41 myself and this hit me different than it ever has the other day….Bob was probably around our age when he made this. Not ashamed to say it teared me up a bit at the 20 years part, caught me off guard. Great song that will live forever!
Nostalgia In Greek, nostalgia means literally, the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. And it takes us to a place where we ache to go again
Surprised you've never heard Bob seger. He is in the songwriting Hall of Fame and has sold millions and millions of records. Through decades. He has a very deep catalog and is a superb storyteller. Have always enjoyed his music, but since I turned 53 this summer, and I have a very young daughter.... His songs just hit different "Twenty years now, where'd they go Twenty years ... I don't know..."
I hope you share this with your wife. Sounds like she would love reminiscing to this song as most of us do. Most of Bob Seger's music is about his struggles in the music business. Most believed he belonged in country/ folk music, but his heart and soul belonged to rock n roll. Thank goodness he didn't give in. He is one of the best story tellers in music of all time. Enjoyed your reaction.
We miss our youth. We miss our honeymoon stage. We miss our freedom and then we miss the pitter and patter and all the busyness when they're gone😢 enjoy every minute of the stage your in.
Isn’t that the truth? I prefer home. I went through a string of illness. Nothing really serious. Just consuming. I’m well now, but recovery is going to be a long road. Tonight, i went out to dinner. Stupid, really, but a big deal for me. I need a bodyguard to walk around in the wild. My daughter and son in law took me out. It was a beautiful thing for me, to hold his arm when walking across a parking lot, and him smiling down at me. My daughter, staying ahead, to catch doors and such. Laughing, and sharing food. (Food is still hard for me) , my daughter walking, holding my hand, to go to the restroom, and chattering away. A little dollar tree shopping. Goofing off, mostly. Even if I told them I was fine, they were there. I believe I will recover fully. Well, mostly. Simply put, malnutrition and dehydration. Gosh, I love my kids.
I began my career as a firefighter and paramedic when I was 21. I was injured and 16 years later I was forced to retired due to injury. Is song resonates strongly with me as I often recall how strong I was and what I did.
I’m in my 60’s and Bob Seger was huge in my teen years but I hadn’t heard him in a while. I just reheard this on TH-cam and it was very motivating. I’m an INFJ, always looking ahead, but I got stuck looking ahead and seeing me as my elderly broken mom. I know you can’t go back in time but hearing this song again was a huge motivator for me. With a bold black marker I wrote Like a Rock and put it in my face in several rooms so that first thought when I wake up or go to the refrigerator is the ‘Like a Rock’ reminder. It reminds me that here in the present I can choose which of me should have the most influence - past me or future me. I choose past me. If I don’t exercise, eat better, be more active and take care of my body I will become the future me I fear. I won’t be 16 again but I can work on standing arrow straight and putting some of that strength back into my body. That song really hit me. When I see the words Like a Rock written on paper and hanging from my DVR it speaks volumes to me in a very viceral ‘in the gut’ way. It reminds me to turn off the tv and do something positive. It is what past me would have wanted!
Preach it. Preach gratitude. There is too little of it out there. I’m not talking about”entitlements”, whatever that means. I mean look around you. I am old before my time, because i burned myself up, doing what I loved to do. It would be easy to cry and moan. But, I am blessed. Not so much with religion, but with love, family, critters. I have more than I probably deserve, and I am grateful.
Great reaction!! Im glad you touched on the idea of how Bob feels about this age, at the age he is now. You have two beautiful children. I grantee, in 20 years, you will look at today in the same maner you now look at your youth. You feel like you're just slugging through now, but what you should focus on is how you feel when you teach them something ("watching the light come on" so to speak), and when they hug you goodnight, and when they feel proud after accomplishing something. You will miss these days... enjoy them while they're here. Bob has a lot of songs that fit what you are looking for: Roll Me Away (my son's favorite Seger song) Turn The Page Night Moves Against The Wind Ship of Fools Famous Final Scene The list goes on with Bob... 50 years worth of music, and not a bad song in the lot. Also, if I may suggest something completely different, Allen Jackson has two incredible songs. He is a country music artist with a 35 - 40 year track record. The first is "Remember When", about marriage and a couple's journey through life. The second is "Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning", about the effects of 9/11 on the population. Again, great reaction Thanks.
Enjoyed your analyzes, don't worry about the time just embrace the now and the future will look after itself. Best shape of my life from 40-50 as well as many good memories. 77 now the body is shot but I have no regrets and wouldn't change anything. Good Luck
All Seger songs transport you. Try Night Moves and/or Turn the Page. Or, if younwant more most haven't heard, try American Aquarium - The Losing Side of 25.
I grew up in small town Alabama. The rails were everywhere. Trains were long back then. Sometimes even more than one caboose. We had a train station, but it was boarded up. Just slow moving freight trains, going somewhere else. Hell, sometimes they just stopped. How would I know why? It was common to get out of the car and watch the train go by. Sometimes, other folks would be behind or in front. You could wander down the line of cars, sit on hoods, visit with friends, or make new ones. A shout when the caboose came into view, and the mad dash for the drivers seat. Continue on your journey, at 25 mph. LOL, I moved to a “big city” (big to me), and people driving 40 and 50 in town scared the hell out of me. This video takes me back, every time.
interesting channel. Im eager to follow to hear your perspective on great music. however, browsing your past posts, I think I'll wait for more interesting content.
This guy is a legend, especially here in Michigan. He's such a wonderful storyteller with so many wonderful songs. Check out Night Moves!!! You will love it.
I was told many years ago that eventuallly life will take more than it gives. This song encapsulates the sentiment perfectly. You may also enjoy Harry Chapin's "Cats in the Cradle."
If you REALLY want to hear what I believe is Bob's best song that takes you back in time, "Night Moves" is not only his best song, but one of the greatest ever written.
I'm 72 and I find myself, yes wiser , but more important, I find it more important that I have lost my filters. What I mean is I will not change to keep a friend.
In my opinion he comes up to the train tracks, stops and gets out, the train represents his life starting at 18, The young people across the tracks were him and his friends when they were young. When he says 20 years now where they go, the young kids across the tracks stop and wondered what their lives will be as they get older, when the train comes to end that is where he is at in his life right now. I always get choked up when he says 20 years where they go i always wonder that it goes so fast. im 59 now and i still sit and wonder where the time went.
Not quite 60, and old before my time. Fortunately, I have a good life. As my daughter put it, “ma, what did you expect? You ran 40 years like every day was the last one. “ guilty as charged. i may not be a rolling stone, but, I’m not gathering moss yet.
You hit this dead on. I haven't seen better. For the future I recommend 500 Miles by Peter, Paul and Mary. The subtext of The Great Depression is much larger and more complex than the song itself.
You need to check out Turn the Page by Bob Seger. One of the greatest live songs ever. Another song you might want to check out is Dust in the Wind by Kansas.
Songs like this have such a different meaning to me now that I am 65. One song that really hits different is pink Floyd time from dark side of the moon. Check that one out.
The last part of the song is hopeful -- feeling like a rock "again." Whereas in the beginning he is unencumbered, at the end he is "carrying the weight," "charging from the gate." So he is like a rock again, a different rock.
I like your post. We just adjust. To me, there is not much wrong. Not WRONG, just different. A little more time. A bit more planning. Make arrangements. I need pickles for dinner? Find someone in the house to get the jar opened for me. Just different. I can do whatever I want, and be with my people. Like a rock. Just a different rock. I don’t “charge through the gate” anymore. I’m a “look before you leap” rock.
I may not be a psychology proffer, but I know that there is a difference between having moments of bitterness and becoming bitter. Yes, I'm nearing 60, but I still dream. Are they the same dreams I had as a young adult? No. I am no longer a ypung adult.
Great observations. I love this song but I would disagree on the bitterness part. You can long for the past and have good memories with a sadness without being bitter. Thanks again.
Love Bob but now that im older and a practicing stoic my logic doesn't allow me to veiw music the same. By the way happiness is cheap and fleeting. Happiness is only when things are going your way. Joy is better if you have faith.
Fun, though. All these old songs take us back, don’t they? Folks might consider my family redneck. Not in my book, just rough and tumble. Want to hang with us? Get your armor on, and thicken your skin. And we are getting old. Some of us are dead. Hair raising insults, that leave you rolling laughing. Pranks that MIGHT cause injury. Food designed to induce heart attacks. 20 of us all together is a kicked ant hill. The more “sophisticated “ members give a bunch of side eye. Not sure what we might decide to do.
This song describes one of the greatest sorrows in life. An old man remembering what it’s like to be young.
LOL, I think you went a little too far. He wasn’t an old man, when this song came out. Just older. He would have been a bit under 40. Being adult, and having to adult, hit him. LMAO, I thought when 40 hit, i would know all the secrets of being adult. Well. The morning of the 40th birthday, was just a day, like any other.
@@stephaniefain1863 It's partly about getting old, but mostly the loss of innocence and youth. You dont necessarily have to be old to lose your youth. It just takes us a couple decades to realize its gone.
@@normcmiller point taken! LOL, just so many things about getting older caught me by surprise. Things I look back on, and realize how silly they were. The first time I said "20 years ago" scared me to death. I thought 40 was a majic age when I would become "wise". All the years of pushing to the limit, with no regard to the damage I was doing. Burning the candle at both ends. I'm not old, now, not quite 60, I should be hitting my stride. LOL, my body says I should have walked instead of run, if I wanted to stride.
@@stephaniefain1863 I thought 45 was old until I hit 55. I could party up until maybe 51-52....now it's 2 beers and bed.
@@normcmiller LOL, I went the other way. alcohol is my crutch. I drink all day, every day, and a party is the last thing I want. I like it when my company is no more than 2 people, don't get loud, and I prefer it if you don't move around too much. I used to love a crowded kitchen. now, 3 people doing the kitchen dance is just too much. They tell me its PTSD. I think I'm just tired of chaos.
Bob is now 79 yrs old and one of the best storytellers ever. Such a great reaction. You'd love Bob's catalog of music, would love to see more
You totally get it. This is probably one of the greatest video concepts interpreting a song ever. His youth on one side of the tracks, his present on the other, and the train is the time passing between the two. The amazing guitar and raspy voice just help to emphasize the meaning of the lyrics. Brilliant.
Thanks so much for the positivity here - I've grappled with the passing of time on so many occasions and this song shone a light on that better than anything I've seen. It's quite brilliant.
The train takes me back. I grew up in a small southern town. You just learned to get along with the trains coming through. We even had a train station, old and shuttered. Trains didn’t really stop in our town, not for us, anyway. 40 years ago, they were a lot longer too. Safety, I guess. It was common to get out of the car, sit on the hood, and watch the train pass. Back then, there were still cabooses, sometimes more than one, at the end. When you saw the caboose, it was time to jump back in the car. Scared the hell out of me, the first time i said “20 years ago…” when did THAT happen? It took a week to get over it. Where’d they go?
Most all of Segers music is a well told story that just draws you in and triggers your own memories. Without memories, we are just a bush. Bob Seger will be 80 years old next May. He is awesome and his songs will outlive us all...
I highly recommend Bob Seger's "Against the Wind"!! One of the best songs ever. Also "Night Moves", which takes you on a journey much like this once. Definitely should hear "Roll Me Away"! One of the best storytellers in the business!
Another one that everyone feels, albeit slightly different for everyone, is "The Famous Final Scene". My Lord - I could go on for days!! 😉
Bob has a *huge* catalog of hits to choose from. 👍🏻❤
Great Reaction !! Hello from Detroit Michigan, Brother Bob is from Ann Arbor Michigan and is the Pride of Michigan ! What a Story Teller
Brother. THATS music. God bless you sir.
Seger sitting on one side of the tracks and the 18 year old Seger across and he is thinking back.
Segers music is all storytelling, hope you continue listening to him.
From a small town. The rails ran through. You get used to it. Most cars didn’t have a/c. Back then, the trains could be really long. Several engines, several cabooses, even. Getting out of your car, to sit on the hood, was a common thing. Looking at graffiti. Visiting in a line of cars, if there was one. Everyone diving for the car, when the caboose came into sight around a curve. Maybe a half hour. Maybe more. Sometimes, the train stopped, while sitting across the road.
The smile started with the first line
Good analysis! Thanks. I strongly suggest Seger's "Turn the Page." It's about the experience of being a touring musician and really gives one insight into what drives Bob Seger.
This 100%
My favorite ❤
Excellent analysis Dr. Seger is one of those songwriters who grows in meaning as one grows older. After 40 years of practicing law, I'm retired. The kids are grown, the friends of my youth gone over or drifted away as the years past. Now just me and my wife and the family of our generation who still remain. We all, if we're lucky, have the memories of our springtime that remain with us as autumn turns to winter. Seger puts it very well in this song.
Funny isn’t the right word, but yeah. Getting older. Sometimes sicker. At 20, I was a skinny bad ass. “Yes I can” came naturally. The first time I heard myself say “20 years ago” it scared me so bad I had to leave the room!. How in the hell did THAT happen!! I had to go hide, and count the years on my fingers!! LMAO, almost 60 now, and I can talk about 40 years ago….
Well said, 41 myself and this hit me different than it ever has the other day….Bob was probably around our age when he made this. Not ashamed to say it teared me up a bit at the 20 years part, caught me off guard. Great song that will live forever!
Very nice reaction. Bob writes very poignant lyrics about looking back on life. Against the Wind and Roll Me Away are great songs, as is Night Moves.
Nostalgia
In Greek, nostalgia means literally, the pain from an old wound. It’s a twinge in your heart, far more powerful than memory alone. And it takes us to a place where we ache to go again
Surprised you've never heard Bob seger. He is in the songwriting Hall of Fame and has sold millions and millions of records. Through decades.
He has a very deep catalog and is a superb storyteller. Have always enjoyed his music, but since I turned 53 this summer, and I have a very young daughter.... His songs just hit different
"Twenty years now, where'd they go
Twenty years ... I don't know..."
I hope you share this with your wife. Sounds like she would love reminiscing to this song as most of us do. Most of Bob Seger's music is about his struggles in the music business. Most believed he belonged in country/ folk music, but his heart and soul belonged to rock n roll. Thank goodness he didn't give in. He is one of the best story tellers in music of all time.
Enjoyed your reaction.
We miss our youth. We miss our honeymoon stage. We miss our freedom and then we miss the pitter and patter and all the busyness when they're gone😢 enjoy every minute of the stage your in.
Isn’t that the truth? I prefer home. I went through a string of illness. Nothing really serious. Just consuming. I’m well now, but recovery is going to be a long road. Tonight, i went out to dinner. Stupid, really, but a big deal for me. I need a bodyguard to walk around in the wild. My daughter and son in law took me out. It was a beautiful thing for me, to hold his arm when walking across a parking lot, and him smiling down at me. My daughter, staying ahead, to catch doors and such. Laughing, and sharing food. (Food is still hard for me) , my daughter walking, holding my hand, to go to the restroom, and chattering away. A little dollar tree shopping. Goofing off, mostly. Even if I told them I was fine, they were there. I believe I will recover fully. Well, mostly. Simply put, malnutrition and dehydration. Gosh, I love my kids.
I began my career as a firefighter and paramedic when I was 21. I was injured and 16 years later I was forced to retired due to injury. Is song resonates strongly with me as I often recall how strong I was and what I did.
Bob started making albums in the late1960’s! One of the best story tellers ever, he could easily put out 5 albums of greatest hits!!
I’m in my 60’s and Bob Seger was huge in my teen years but I hadn’t heard him in a while. I just reheard this on TH-cam and it was very motivating. I’m an INFJ, always looking ahead, but I got stuck looking ahead and seeing me as my elderly broken mom.
I know you can’t go back in time but hearing this song again was a huge motivator for me. With a bold black marker I wrote Like a Rock and put it in my face in several rooms so that first thought when I wake up or go to the refrigerator is the ‘Like a Rock’ reminder. It reminds me that here in the present I can choose which of me should have the most influence - past me or future me. I choose past me. If I don’t exercise, eat better, be more active and take care of my body I will become the future me I fear. I won’t be 16 again but I can work on standing arrow straight and putting some of that strength back into my body. That song really hit me. When I see the words Like a Rock written on paper and hanging from my DVR it speaks volumes to me in a very viceral ‘in the gut’ way. It reminds me to turn off the tv and do something positive. It is what past me would have wanted!
Great insight! I think you'd enjoy Seger's story of youth & the freedom to get away that comes with it in "Roll Me Away".
I look back and am SO GRATEFUL
NOT BITTER
JUST GRATEFUL
Preach it. Preach gratitude. There is too little of it out there. I’m not talking about”entitlements”, whatever that means. I mean look around you. I am old before my time, because i burned myself up, doing what I loved to do. It would be easy to cry and moan. But, I am blessed. Not so much with religion, but with love, family, critters. I have more than I probably deserve, and I am grateful.
Bitterness is a waste of time and energy
Great reaction!! Im glad you touched on the idea of how Bob feels about this age, at the age he is now. You have two beautiful children. I grantee, in 20 years, you will look at today in the same maner you now look at your youth. You feel like you're just slugging through now, but what you should focus on is how you feel when you teach them something ("watching the light come on" so to speak), and when they hug you goodnight, and when they feel proud after accomplishing something. You will miss these days... enjoy them while they're here.
Bob has a lot of songs that fit what you are looking for:
Roll Me Away (my son's favorite Seger song)
Turn The Page
Night Moves
Against The Wind
Ship of Fools
Famous Final Scene
The list goes on with Bob... 50 years worth of music, and not a bad song in the lot.
Also, if I may suggest something completely different, Allen Jackson has two incredible songs. He is a country music artist with a 35 - 40 year track record.
The first is "Remember When", about marriage and a couple's journey through life.
The second is "Where Were You When The World Stopped Turning", about the effects of 9/11 on the population.
Again, great reaction
Thanks.
You are the only reactor to this video that realized that the people on the other side of the tracks were memories.
Seger is arguably the best song writer in the music industry. His songs always make you think and feel the emotions the song is written for
Enjoyed your analyzes, don't worry about the time just embrace the now and the future will look after itself. Best shape of my life from 40-50 as well as many good memories. 77 now the body is shot but I have no regrets and wouldn't change anything. Good Luck
Fantastic job done on your reaction lads. Nice to here your comments and keep up the excellent work.
All Seger songs transport you. Try Night Moves and/or Turn the Page. Or, if younwant more most haven't heard, try American Aquarium - The Losing Side of 25.
Like so many others have said. Against the wind and Night Moves. I’d love to watch you hear them.
I grew up in small town Alabama. The rails were everywhere. Trains were long back then. Sometimes even more than one caboose. We had a train station, but it was boarded up. Just slow moving freight trains, going somewhere else. Hell, sometimes they just stopped. How would I know why? It was common to get out of the car and watch the train go by. Sometimes, other folks would be behind or in front. You could wander down the line of cars, sit on hoods, visit with friends, or make new ones. A shout when the caboose came into view, and the mad dash for the drivers seat. Continue on your journey, at 25 mph. LOL, I moved to a “big city” (big to me), and people driving 40 and 50 in town scared the hell out of me. This video takes me back, every time.
Great story teller. Nice reaction. Try "Against the Wind".
the greatest story teller there is. All his songs are like that
interesting channel. Im eager to follow to hear your perspective on great music. however, browsing your past posts, I think I'll wait for more interesting content.
Bob Seger was 41 when this song was released he is now 79
How in the SamHill can Seger be 79?!?
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He was born in 1945 that’s how lol
That song was released in 1986
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Yes 1986
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This guy is a legend, especially here in Michigan. He's such a wonderful storyteller with so many wonderful songs. Check out Night Moves!!! You will love it.
I was told many years ago that eventuallly life will take more than it gives. This song encapsulates the sentiment perfectly. You may also enjoy Harry Chapin's "Cats in the Cradle."
Always good to see you Dr Nic
If you REALLY want to hear what I believe is Bob's best song that takes you back in time, "Night Moves" is not only his best song, but one of the greatest ever written.
“Inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.” -Terry Pratchett
I'm 72 and I find myself, yes wiser , but more important, I find it more important that I have lost my filters. What I mean is I will not change to keep a friend.
My dad used to tell me, what's your rush to grow up. You will get there soon enough. And once you realize your grown-up, you're now on borrowed time.
In my opinion he comes up to the train tracks, stops and gets out, the train represents his life starting at 18, The young people across the tracks were him and his friends when they were young. When he says 20 years now where they go, the young kids across the tracks stop and wondered what their lives will be as they get older, when the train comes to end that is where he is at in his life right now. I always get choked up when he says 20 years where they go i always wonder that it goes so fast. im 59 now and i still sit and wonder where the time went.
Welcome to my world. I'm 65 and heard Bob early.
Not quite 60, and old before my time. Fortunately, I have a good life. As my daughter put it, “ma, what did you expect? You ran 40 years like every day was the last one. “ guilty as charged. i may not be a rolling stone, but, I’m not gathering moss yet.
"Night Moves", "Roll Me Away" . The list goes on. Seger was/is a prolific writer
You hit this dead on. I haven't seen better.
For the future I recommend 500 Miles by Peter, Paul and Mary. The subtext of The Great Depression is much larger and more complex than the song itself.
You need to check out Turn the Page by Bob Seger. One of the greatest live songs ever. Another song you might want to check out is Dust in the Wind by Kansas.
To sum it up in one sentence;
Bob Seger WILL TAKE YOU THERE...
2 more great Seger story telling songs....Mainstreet and Hollywood Nights. DO It.
Songs like this have such a different meaning to me now that I am 65. One song that really hits different is pink Floyd time from dark side of the moon. Check that one out.
This is the old man's anthem. Another is His Night Moves,
I grew up with Bob Seger in the 1960's with 'Ramblin Gamblin man'...
Psychology Professor should react to his song "Shame On The Moon" or "Turn the Page" both offer something psychological to think about.
It's actually titled "blame it on midnight". But yes, that tune and fire lake, night moves, main street etc...
The last part of the song is hopeful -- feeling like a rock "again." Whereas in the beginning he is unencumbered, at the end he is "carrying the weight," "charging from the gate." So he is like a rock again, a different rock.
I like your post. We just adjust. To me, there is not much wrong. Not WRONG, just different. A little more time. A bit more planning. Make arrangements. I need pickles for dinner? Find someone in the house to get the jar opened for me. Just different. I can do whatever I want, and be with my people. Like a rock. Just a different rock. I don’t “charge through the gate” anymore. I’m a “look before you leap” rock.
Listen to Night Moves..another song about life. Bob writes his songs. All tell stories
Billy Joel's Innocent Man is one of the greatest songs ever penned. Imo of course. Any way you could react to it?
I may not be a psychology proffer, but I know that there is a difference between having moments of bitterness and becoming bitter. Yes, I'm nearing 60, but I still dream. Are they the same dreams I had as a young adult? No. I am no longer a ypung adult.
Great observations. I love this song but I would disagree on the bitterness part. You can long for the past and have good memories with a sadness without being bitter. Thanks again.
Hey doc, try "roll me away"
I suggest Ian Dury Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Your audio is quiet. I can always turn down the sound if I need to but I can't turn it past the max.
Please react to "beyond the realms of death" by Judas Priest.
Love Bob but now that im older and a practicing stoic my logic doesn't allow me to veiw music the same. By the way happiness is cheap and fleeting. Happiness is only when things are going your way. Joy is better if you have faith.
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If you feel an impulse to go out and buy an American Truck, there is a reason . . . . .
Its a shame that youth is wasted on the young.
Fun, though. All these old songs take us back, don’t they? Folks might consider my family redneck. Not in my book, just rough and tumble. Want to hang with us? Get your armor on, and thicken your skin. And we are getting old. Some of us are dead. Hair raising insults, that leave you rolling laughing. Pranks that MIGHT cause injury. Food designed to induce heart attacks. 20 of us all together is a kicked ant hill. The more “sophisticated “ members give a bunch of side eye. Not sure what we might decide to do.
A Psychologist? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
You do not stop a video when there is a guitar solo. Especially one this great.