Seger's Summer Cybelle Codish Photo Remember back before Face the Promise, when Seger made staying out of the spotlight into an art form...those years when it seemed impossible to find out what was going on? It looks like those times are back, at least for the summer. So there's no news. But I did find a new photo, or at least it's new to me. This one's from Cybelle Codish's myspace page. I don't know about you, but the album and tour spoiled me -- there was Seger news and excitement every day, it seemed. Now, it's back to mysteries and no clues: When will the live DVD be released? (Will the live DVD be released?) Is Seger switching labels? Will there be a fall tour? What happened to those four additional tracks he was going to add to Face the Promise? I've heard no word on any of those topics. It's been such a slow summer, I made a trip back to the east coast and didn't even visit The Vault. There's nothing new in it these days. Moore on Seger But even though Seger's not talking publicly, other people are talking about him. Let's start with Michael Moore, who's reaping huge publiciting about his new movie. Here's what Moore had to say about Seger in Rolling Stone recently. Rolling Stone: What was the music like in Flint in the Sixties? Michael Moore: When it came to music, the triangle between Detroit, Flint and Ann Arbor was the Liverpool of America. You had Aretha Franklin and all of Motown. You had Bob Seger and Ted Nugent, the basic rock & roll at the time. You have to remember, this is the Bob Seger who is playing at our high school dance. You have MC5, another Detroit band, playing at a union hall down the street. Then let's go over to the bar where another Detroiter, Iggy Pop is playing. So you had this incredible convergence of white and black music. RS: Did any particular song stand out for you at the time? MM: Bob Seger -- boy, he had some great songs. He had one I wish they'd re-release called "2+2." It's about being drafted, and the chorus went, "Two plus two is on my mind" -- like, "hey, I can figure this out." ...I wouldn't have been able to do what I've done if I hadn't grown up in an area that had such a vibrant and rebellious political and cultural scene." Michael Moore interview by Eric Bates, Rolling Stone, May 3, 2007. Moose Blogs Meanwhile, the closest thing to actual Seger news comes from Jim "Moose" Brown, who joined the Silver Bullet Band on guitar this past tour. Here's what Moose posted on his myspace blog on Sunday, June 24, 2007 Hello to all, I'm back in action this week after a relaxing week in Cape San Blas, Florida. I'd never been there before, it was beautiful. They allow dogs on the beach there which is really cool. No cell phone service, no internet, very secluded, not many people. It was awesome. I talked to Craig Frost this week and he is doing great. He said he just got back from Vegas where he had been doing some Grand Funk dates with Don Brewer. I was going to ride my Harley up to see him for the 4th of July, but he decided he wasn't going to have a party this year. I may ride up and see him at a later time. I also talked to Laura Creamer. I demoed a song that her and I wrote while we were on tour with Seger last winter and it came out great. I sent her the tracks and she is putting her vocal on it out in California. I also have stayed in touch with Barbara Payton and Keith Kaminski through emails. They're staying very busy around Detroit it seems. I sure do miss the whole gang and I hope I get to do some dates with them sometime down the road. No news at all from Punch or the Seger office. I hope everyone is great. Moose Thanks, Moose. I know I speak for all of us who followed the tour in wishing you a great summer. Brewer Sighting Don Brewer's keeping busy as well, performing with Grand Funk. The band played in Detroit at the GM Riverfront Plaza on June 28. Doug Pullen, writing in the Flint Journal, points out that "GFR sold more than 25 million albums, sold out Shea Stadium faster than the Beatles, survived a bitter and costly legal split from manager Terry Knight, worked with Frank Zappa and Todd Rundgren and scored three No. 1 hits, including their signature "We're an American Band" and remakes of "Some Kind of Wonderful" and "The Loco-Motion."' He also adds that "drummer Don Brewer, and [Mark] Farner have become bitter rivals." (Note to self: remember to slap forehead occasionally for getting their names confused.) In the Freep, Brian McCollum quotes Brewer thusly: "For the most part, we focus on putting on an all-hits, high-energy Grand Funk Railroad rock 'n' roll show," he said from his home in Jupiter, Fla. "We play the stuff people want to hear." Brian McCollum, June 28, 2007, Detroit Free Press, "Still an American band." Brewer and the band.   Murphy and Little Feat Shaun Murphy is also performing this summer. Little Feat is on the road with a tour schedule that extends through August. Murphy and Little Feat perform "Fatman in the Bathtub." Seger's live version of the song is traded among collectors.   The Motor City Horns The horns on Seger's Cobo version of "Nutbush" are still ringing in my ears. Trombonist John Rutherford reports that the Motor City Horns have remained busy, playing all kinds of events, including the Detroit Music Awards, now that they're no longer flying on the Seger tour plane (see below). Check out their version of the Star Spangled Banner at Tiger Stadium. Rutherford notes that the MCH were initially involved on 5 songs during the tour, but by the end they were playing on 15 -- "all of them arranged by members of the MCH, most notably Mark Byerly and Keith Kaminski." Photographer extraordinaire Cybelle Codish took this shot of the MCH onstage with Seger. There are more at the Motor City Horns web page. The Motor City Horns are John Rutherford, Keith Kaminski, Mark Byerly and Bob Jensen.   The Motor City Horns outside Air Seger. Seger at the Stadium Seger himself has been seen at the ballpark, as Michael Rosenberg reports in the Free Press, in this July 4 story. "Things were going so well that, Bob Seger participated in the wave and sang "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" from his seat near the Tigers dugout. But as Tiger fans have seen this season, it's not funny how the night moves, especially when you have so much to lose. An inning later..." Michael Rosenbury, Detroit Free Press, July 4, 2007. While I'm doing the round-up, here's one more photo from the tour -- Barb Payton and Bob backstage at Madison Square Garden. And check out "Rock Me Right" on Barb's myspace page. Bob and Barb Seger Sighting Finally, one last Seger sighting...this one from the early Sixties. The photo below is from Lyle Salamin, who also sends the following message: I came accross this picture of guys I hung with in Ann Arbor. It was taken the summer we graduated high school, 1963. You will notice who is pumping the pony in the middle. It was taken in the Ann Padget Dry Cleaners parking lot next door to the Everett's Drive In, on Stadium Blvd. All the kids hung out there. The sign "4 lb. for a $1.00" was for the drycleaners next door to Everett's. The guys in the photo don't remember the time at all, but it was in broad daylight and they were only 18 and 19 yrs old at the time. Seger's birthdays is in early May so he is only 18. The guys I have talked to that are in the picture think that it was probably left from the night before. One of those grassers we all were doing in those days. You can't believe what fun it is to recall the old stories growing up with not only a big name like Seger, but we had great time with the whole group. Thanks, Lyle Salamin Posted July 8, 2007 Hiatus Interruptus I've been offline for five weeks now. Here's a quick review of what I've missed. 1. Today (May 6) is Seger's birthday. He turned 62. 2. On April 20, Seger appeared at the State Theater in Detroit for the Detroit Music Awards ceremony, where he won three awards -- outstanding national single, album and video. More from the Detroit News here.   . Photo by John M. Galloway 3. Seger's management, Punch Enterprises, sent out a release saying Seger would issue a live ablum/DVD in the fall -- hinting that Seger might jump from Capitol to a new label for the release. The photo in the release was captioned "Will Seger Turn the Page?" Capitol was purchased by Virgin Records earlier this year and many of the old Capitol personnel are gone. "He [Seger] was definitely affected by the loss of longtime staffers when Capitol and Virgin Records merged operations earlier this year and gave onstage shoutouts to his label publicist Judi Kerr and to former sales vice president Joe McFadden, who headed Capitol's catalog division. "A Seger source said: "We don't know anybody there anymore. All the guys that got us to do that record ('Face the Promise') are gone."Gary Graff. The Oakland Press. "Bob Seger To Release Live CD/DVD." News articles speculated that Seger might follow Paul McCartney to Starbuck's Hear Music label. In any case, the rumor makes it clear that Capitol will have to put a lot on the table to keep Seger. 4. The NewsHour with Jim Lehre ran a piece on Seger and Detroit on April 4. The word hiatus was used. If you must go there, here's the link. 5. You can now buy Bob Seger t-shirts and other merchandise online at the Bob Seger Web Store. 6. The April 30 Rolling Stone lists Bob as the 10th Most Underappreciated Artist ever. (Tom Petty is also on the list. Huh? I think there's a rule at Rolling Stone that Tom Petty must be mentioned in every article. How can someone so celebrated be underappreciated? The Band's on the list too. Same question.) Thanks to everyone, by the way, who emailed and asked if I was dead or in jail. The answer, as far as I know, is neither. Actually what I'm doing is working on a fairly big (non-Seger related) project due June 1 -- so my personal hiatus may continue for a bit. And if I haven't actually answered your email, my apologies. I appreciate all of them. May 6, 2007

-- The Seger File's April 1 Post Begins here -- DVD Nixed, Cobo Shows Continue Seger rocked the house at Cobo again last night, finishing the second show with an especially energetic version of "Let It Rock," a song he recently brought out of retirement. It was the 32nd straight Cobo performance in the last 16 days with no end in sight. "We may do another 50 to 100 shows here at Cobo," Seger recently told the DetNews. "As long as folks keep coming, we'll be here." Seger and the band have been doing two shows nightly at Cobo, at 8 and 10, since mid-March. "We're the house band!" Seger laughed. "I told the Punch we'll be here till we blow the roof off. He thought I was joking. But I want to bring the house down before we leave. I mean literally bring it down. I'm starting to see some structural damage, but we've still got a ways to go." Susan Whitall, The Detroit News, April 1. "Despite court order, Seger refuses to leave Cobo." Tickets for the Cobo shows, which have not been widely publicized, are available only at the door and online, and are not being sold through Ticketmaster. The first show last night was marred by a delay when a roadie slipped and was temporarily pinned under Alto Reed's saxophone during the brief intermission. As a result, the break, which is supposed to be eight minutes long, was closer to eight and a half minutes. The 30-second hiatus drained much of the energy from the second half of the show. "When you're ready to rock, thirty seconds can be a long time to wait," wrote a reviewer from the Chicago Tribune. "You have to do something to fill the downtime, so you start texting or checking email, and the momentum is totally lost. I felt bad for the crowd." The reviewer, who noted that he has never enjoyed a concert in his life, later committed suicide. Another bit of bad news emerged in Seger's "Way Off The Record" interview with Uncle Joe Benson, which aired April 1. Near the end of the program, Seger revealed that the hoped-for live DVD is now dead in the water. "We really wanted to capture the energy of the show, so we've had a 8-man camera crew working it every night. Then I discovered these guys shot everything on 24p HD video," Seger told Uncle Joe. "We thought they were shooting film." Movies such as Superman Returns and Apocalypto have been shot in 24p video recently. Purists say the format comes close but doesn't quite offer the nuanced richness of film. "We just couldn't get it to look big enough," Seger said, "so we decided to bag it." A similar mix-up sunk Seger's ill-fated Blue Ridge album in the late 1990s. "We recorded Blue Ridge at a studio with 24-bit digital. At the time, there were only a handful of places that could do 24-bit digi, and that's what we thought we were getting," Seger said. "We laid down 23 songs over a four-month period. Overdubs, rhythm tracks, everything," Seger said. "I don't like to micromanage things, so I never asked to hear playback. Big mistake." Only when the recording was complete did Seger discover that the entire album had been recorded on a wax cylinder. "It was really just an old Dictaphone," Seger said. "I was stunned." Sound engineers at Woodland Dictaphone Studios record Seger's Blue Ridge album. "At first, the studio claimed they were just doing their bit to reduce global warming," Seger explained. "You know, computer chips are energy-intensive, carbon-based products, and all that, while wax is more earth-friendly. But Punch sued their pants off. What it came down to is the sound engineer flipped the wrong switch." When the mistake was discovered Seger immediately resolved to re-record the songs on the best equipment available, so that fans would be able to enjoy them. "Fortunately, I changed my mind. Because if I had released Blue Ridge, I might not have recorded Face the Promise. And I wouldn't have been out of the spotlight for so long, so coming back might not seemed like such a big deal. What does Guildenstern say in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead? 'There is an art to the building up of suspense.'" As a side-note, the wax cylinder Dictaphone was seized as evidence in the lawsuit and is now being used by Mike Boila to record Seger material for the Library of Congress. Meanwhile, the Cobo shows go on. "I'm thinking we'll do Cobo till they kick us out," Seger said. "It's fun being back where it started." "When we leave Cobo," Seger said, "I'm planning to play the rest of my career in reverse. We'll tour with KISS, then hit the Rock and Roll Farm and Uncle Sams and Wampler's Lake Pavilion and the Huron Bowl. Then some week-long gigs at the Roseland Inn. I'm gonna try to get Punch to reopen some Hideout Clubs. Then we'll finish with some frat parties and the junior prom at Ann Arbor Pioneer High School. It'll be great. But only if Don Brewer is available." Members of the tour are presented the Silver Innovation Award from Kohler Plumbing for improvements at Cobo Hall. The tour managment team has redesigned urinals there, equipping them with cupholders. Now concert-goers can set down their $7.50, 24-ounce plastic beer cups while attending to business during the eight-minute intermission. April 1, 2007 Live Bullet Class Action Suit Near Settlement Terms of a proposed settlement in the Live Bullet Class Action Suit were announced April 1 in a rare Sunday hearing in Oakland County Court. The class action, brought by the firm Glantz & Bignall, seeks monetary damages from Edward Andrews Jr, Robert C. Seger and Hideout Productions, alleging a Denial of Service (DOS) conspiracy against purchasers of the album Live Bullet. "It's really a very simple case," a spokesman for the plaintiff said Sunday. "More than a million people purchased copies of Mr. Seger's Live Bullet recording. Until recently, they were able to receive full enjoyment from their purchase. But Mr. Seger's current tour has made it impossible for many of them to receive the enjoyment that they purchased, to which they every reasonable expectation." Attorneys for Glantz & Bignall agreed to a defense stipulation that Live Bullet remains one of the best live collections ever issued and a "must-have" Seger album. They argued, however, that the recent live show makes Live Bullet seem tame by comparison. "As good as it is, Live Bullet is no longer satisfactory to those who have seen Mr. Seger on his curent tour," they wrote in a brief filed with the court. In a dramatic closing statement, attorney Richard Wayne Penniman strode across the courtroom waving a copy of Live Bullet high above his head. "Your honor, I listened to this album again last night and instead of getting high and having a good time, I asked myself: Where's Chatfield? Where's Brewer? If it please the court, where is Moose? And where, your honor, are the girl singers on Live Bullet??? Nowhere! This is an outrage. Whooooo." "Your honor," he continued, "this album purports to take us to Nutbush. But I ask the court: Where is John Rutherford, Mark Byerly, Keith Kaminski and Bob Jensen? How can we be expected to keep an eye out for the po-lice when the horn section is missing?!?" At that point, Penniman was seated on a throne and carried across the court by a bevy of paralegals and interns while singing "Keep an eye for the horn section! Keep an eye out for the horn section!" When order was finally restored, he asked the judge to order restitution. "I remind the court that we are here because we want the real thing. And speaking for Live Bullet vinyl, cassette, CD and eight-track owners everywhere, I respectfully submit that this is no longer the real thing." In a preliminary rulling, Judge Charles Edward Anderson Berry ordered Mr. Seger to "reach on down to his every bit of Detroit Michigan soul" and release a concert DVD of his latest tour as soon as possible. Hopefully, there will be no appeal. April 1, 2007 Write This Bridge A reminder -- April 1 is the last day for entries in Seger's "Write This Bridge" contest. If you're planning on sending in an entry, make sure your letter is postmarked today. No emails or faxes, Punch says. The "Write This Bridge" contest began at the end of the last tour, when Seger told Reuters that he was still working on an unfinished track called "Outland" -- a song he began in 1997. Seger said the song is desperately in need of a bridge section. "Worst case scenario," he says, "I'm gonna send it to somebody (like the Eagles' Don) Henley or somebody -- 'Write me a damn bridge, will you?! I've been working on this for 10 years!"' Reuters, April 1, 2007. "Seger seeks a bridge." A few days later, on American Idol, Punch and Seger announced that they were seeking entries from the public at large, and that the winner's name would almost certainly be listed on the next CD along with the photography credit, unless there was some kind of snafu. "I thought if I got out where the factories ended and the prairies began," Seger said, "I'd be able to write this thing myself. But it hasn't happened. I've gone down to the depth of my soul, but all I hear is the Burlington Northern rumbling west. Maybe somebody else can say what I mean." Contest rules are available here. Separated At Birth? Andrews Cobo Ever wonder why Seger has such an affinity for Cobo Hall? Could it be that Punch Andrews and Albert Cobo are secretly the same person? Have you ever seen them together? The Seger File's April 1 Post. More to come. For a collection of previous lies, spoofs and falsehoods from past April 1 posts, click here and here, but not here. "And To Myself Be True!!" They burned it down. They ripped it open. They took us to Nutbush and blew the roof off and kept going from there, with Bob in charge every fantastic step of the way. Now the tour's over, and as long as I live, the word "Cobo" is going to mean pleasure. All you other great shows -- all you magical Seger sets in Ann Arbor bars, that night with Dylan when the sun was going down, the Michigan Jam, Springsteen, Steve Earle, the Continental Club at South by Southwest - all you unforgetable concerts on my personal Top 10 list, you all have to move down a notch. There's a new Number One. Called Cobo. Of all the wonderful dumb things I've ever written, one of the dumbest lines was my claim, in reviewing the Cleveland concert, that it doesn't really matter where you hear Seger. Once the lights go down, the theory goes, it's just you and Bob and 15,000 screaming fans. An arena full of Seger fans is an arena full of Seger fans, or so I wrote. Well, forget that. Cobo isn't an arena. Cobo is more like some great big high school gym than an arena. The place just feels like rock and roll. Which is to say it feels like Seger. Romain Blanquart/Free Press Photo Face the Promise. Real Mean Bottle. Good for Me. Katmandu. Wreck This Heart. Rock and Roll Never Forgets -- just try to pick a highlight. Impossible. The entire set list was the hightlight. To be honest, I know some folks who think last night wasn't the hightlight of the tour -- people who've been to more shows than me, who think maybe the first Cobo show was just a little better, or maybe Toronto, or Vegas, or that moment in Chicago...well, maybe when it gets that good, it all gets mixed up and all that really matters is that you're screaming your lungs out and you just don't want it to ever ever end. And that's what it was like for me. And now it's The Day After. People who came to Detroit from Montreal or Boston or Calgary or Minnesota or Grand Rapids or Kalamazoo or, like me, from Oregon, are back on the road. It's an airplane day for me. I'm 40,000 feet in the air, but I was flying ten times higher yesterday from Roll Me Away to Rock and Roll Never Forgets. I'll post when we land. Till then, some random thoughts. 1. Is our Seger thirst satiated? Of course not. We want the DVD! I counted two cameras on jibs, plus two cameramen down front, two or three prowling the stage and two more on a platform in the back. 2. There are two sides to a Seger stage. There's the Chatfield side and the Alto side. You can't go wrong either way. Last night my seats were on the Chatfield side, and man did he rip. Plus the Chatfield side is also the Murphy/Payton/Creamer side, and what a kick it is to watch how much they add. 3. Is there some sort of niceness gene you have to have to play with Seger? Or does it just rub off from being around him? I'm just blown away again by how friendly and big-hearted everyone is. A huge, huge thank you to John Rutherford of the Motor City Horns and Jim "Moose" Brown for going out of their way to get me into the after party. And to everyone there, especially those close to Seger (not named here, but you know who you are), thank you for your courtesy and friendliness. It absolutely made my day. 4. Maybe there's a lesson there. Maybe if you have a big heart, you attract big-hearted people around you. 5. Brewer Stalking Tally: 0. In Cleveland I ran into Don Brewer twice (okay, the second time I was hanging out hoping to see him, so I could apologize for my brain-freeze at the first meeting). In Portland, I think Brewer was stalking me. He just happened to be walking past the Starbucks near my office at coffee-break time. Pretty suspicious, I'd say, especially considering he actually remembered me from Cleveland. (Tip: If you want someone to remember you, make a complete fool of yourself. It'll form a lasting impression.) Then the next day, enroute to Powell's City of Books in downtown Portland, there he was again. I guess our synchronicity is over now, though, because in Detroit I saw him not at all. Except of course, on stage, where he propelled the Silver Bullet Band and the entire arena into the stratosphere. 6. Speaking of which...why am I always complaining that Seger doesn't get nearly the due he deserves as a lyricist, as an artist, all of which is true, obviously -- but why don't I also complain that the freakin' amazing Silver Bullet Band ought to be known as the Greatest Rock and Roll Steam Roller slash Blast Furnace slash Pleasure Machine known to man. Huh? How come I don't complain more about that??? Well, from now on I will. Because they are. Brandy Baker/The Detroit News 7. But what about the show, you ask. The setlist? What did he say between songs? Oh god, all I can say is best, best, best, best, best. Ever. Screaming for more, smiling till your face hurts, dancing in the aisles best. 8. He didn't play "Night Moves." He dedicated "Still the Same" to all of us. He played "Good for Me" for the first time on the tour and dedicated it to his wife. I was hoping for a third encore. 9. Alto has zero percent body fat. My estimate. 10. Keep an eye out for the po-lice. 11. The horn section on Nutbush. The stops. The starts. Seger. The power. The fist pumping the band. And Seger, Seger, Seger. This is perfection. This is why we're screaming. Organic and raw. Please never let it end. 12. My wife is the one who insisted I go to this show. She was right. And to all the Seger File readers who stopped by to say hello, and Boston Sammy, and Mike from GR and Casey from Boston, and Dawn, and the guy whose brother-in-law knows Chris and who was at the first Cobo show, and DetroitRocker and Little Queenie and smileeseger and Stephanie and Sandy and Freespirit and all of the great Segernet folks (including Eric on the phone), and especially Andrew and Shellie, all can say is wow. It was so great seeing you all. 13. Speaking of the other Seger web sites, I introduced myself to Punch at the after-party. His face lit up and he said, "Are you Walsh?" (Kevin Walsh runs segerbob.com and was supposed to be there, but his flight from Boston was canceled.) Probably I should have said yes, because when I confessed to not being Walsh, Punch seemed to lose interest. Five thousand page-views a day, and I'm still the off-brand site. 14. To borrow a line from Warren Zevon, about all of us at Cobo: We were in the house when the house burned down. 15. And lastly, (but only for now, because I keep thinking of more and will have to add to this later), try this idea on. Take a guy, in America, in 2007. He stays true to what he believes in and to who he is. He works his butt off, year after year after year. Surrounds himself with great people. Never quits, doesn't compromise. And because he's true to himself, he ends up happy. He wins the biggest all-time prize there is and makes all the people around him happy too. In America. In 2007. As a movie pitch, that storyline would get you kicked out of Hollywood in less than 30 seconds. Unbelievable, they'd say. But it's absolutely real, and it's one hundred percent Seger. I had my eyes closed when the lyric came 'round, because sometimes when Seger sings, you just have to close your eyes and disappear into the music, but when the line in Katmandu hit me, I heard it with all my body, heard it into my soul and I just wanted to say yes, and thank you, and thank you some more. For absolutely everything. And to yourself be true. March 18, 2007 Summer Shows Or No Summer Shows? That is the question. Reuters/Billboard is circulating a widely reprinted piece that begins, "Don't sit around waiting for those rumored Bob Seger summer tour dates, because they're not going to happen, according to the Ramblin' Gamblin' Man himself." The article is dated March 20. But the quotes that follow, in which Seger says he'll take the summer off and reassess in October, are all two weeks old. They first appeared in a UPI story on March 6. I don't trust the Reuters/Billboard piece. I think it's old information and that the jury's still out on the possibility of summer shows. Seger told the Detroit papers he'd decide in three weeks, so hopefully we'll know soon. He called it a 50-50 chance. I was thrilled, however, to read this in the Reuters piece: Top of his agenda is mastering ProTools, which he's installed in the studio he keeps in another Detroit suburb. And he'll continue songwriting, hopefully to avoid another 10-year gap that preceded the "Face the Promise" album. "I've been messing a little bit ... in the dressing room," Seger notes, "'cause I've got a lot of time between soundcheck and the show. There's two songs I really like that are left over from the last bunch, and I'm trying to re-write them." Among those is a track called "Outland" which he's been working on since 1997 and, according to Seger, is desperately in need of a bridge section. "Worst case scenario," he says, "I'm gonna send it to somebody (like the Eagles' Don) Henley or somebody -- 'Write me a damn bridge, will you?! I've been working on this for 10 years!"' "Outland" is one of best unreleased Seger tracks I've heard. Ears Two would probably say it's Bob's best. Here's how E2 described it in summer 2005 after one of our Vault visits: "Seems to build on 'No Man's Land,' but with more energy." (High praise, considering that "No Man's Land" is E2's favorite Seger song.) "Should be Bob's next single." That's what I love about E2: he knows how to call 'em. But wait -- the Reuters piece says there are two tracks Seger's working on. Hey Mr. Reuters Man -- I don't suppose you could bother including the name of that other special track? Hmmm? March 20, 2007 It's Over! Check out a great fan review of the last Cobo show, here. And more photos here and here. Also, the DetNews talks to Seger about summer shows. The Detroit Free Press opens its Seger archive. Plus, check out this Detroit preview. News about the final three Detroit shows is at Seger Rocks Detroit. The past shows are on the Seger Live page. The complete tour schedule is here. A Summer Canadian Tour? Seger talks more about potential summer dates in Thursday's Free Press story by Brian McCollum: "There were a bunch of places we missed. So I floated the idea awhile back: What about a little swing through Canada? ..."We might build something around that. The Milwaukee Summerfest, Minnesota -- probably Minneapolis. ..."I've got to get some distance from this. Six dates (this summer) -- fine, that's no skin off anybody's back. I've got to decide in the next three weeks." Seger also said it was his idea to play Cobo again. Read the whole article here. Meanwhile, Seger told Doug Pullen of the Flint Journal that Saturday night could be his last show -- 50-50: "I think I'll feel some emotion Saturday night, for sure," Seger conceded, "but at this point I'm still in worker bee mode. We've got to clean up a few songs, like 'Nutbush' and some other stuff that may or may not work. It all depends on how quickly it goes together." Read the whole Flint Journal piece here. March 16, 2007 More Shows This Summer? Seger says, "maybe" in a preview piece by Susan Whitall in the DetNews. Check it here. And an article by John Sinkevics quotes Seger as saying he couldn't be more pleased with the tour. Seger also says he wanted to end the tour in Las Vegas...but was convinced to come back one more time. Check it here. March 13, 2007 See You At Cobo! If you're inside Cobo Hall next Saturday night, you'll definitely see Don Brewer and the rest of the band. And if you happen to see me wearing my Seger File shirt, come over and say hi. (Pre-show party? Yeah, if we can find a place.) (Click on the photo for the rest of the Portland show shots at flickr.) Thirty Years Ago In California