Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band - Like a Rock
#131/1296
April 1 1986
Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
Like a Rock
Genre: Rock
3.25 out of 5
Highlights:
American Storm
Like a Rock
Remember the movie American Pop? My friends and I were so excited for that Bakshi flick. We were fans of Wizards. One of us had a poster of Peace, the red assassin turned protector that was the icon from that movie. We had also been massively disappointed in The Lord of the Rings with all the regurgitated rotoscoped images and semi-coherent story. Also, it was half the story and such a box office failure that they didn’t make the sequel.
American Pop was something different. It was Bakshi veering away from fantasy and into something that I was hoping would speak to me. For me. I was 15. Music was the most important thing that I would never be a part of, having no patience to practice guitar, no ability to figure out the left hand on piano. It would take another 20 years before I would get that chance.
Why am I talking about this?
Well, American Pop wasn’t great. And it would only intermittently be seen after 1981 because of music licensing.
But that last section of the movie…when the (anti)hero gets his chance to show his wares and prove his musical worth he does it to…Bob Seger’s “Night Moves”. It’s a great song. And I totally get why Bakshi would want to use it there. It’s iconic and majestic and altogether & wholly American.
Because what is Bob Seger if not the sound of America at it’s most truck driving, dust bowl, beer & bbq festival best?
The scene wasn’t great. The movie wasn’t great. And I never returned to Bob Seger.
Seger finally came around to letting his music stream. Now I can hear what he was all about.
He aight. He repeats himself. “The Ring” sounds like a hybrid of “Like a Rock” and “Against the Wind”. And that’s his lane. You like those tunes? You like Seger. And a couple of those tracks are all ya need. Cuz he wrote 4 songs. And then rewrote them over and over and overandoverandover….
