Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band at Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater

Bob Seger

Born in Detroit, Michigan, and raised in Ann Arbor, Michigan, vocalist/guitarist/keyboardist Bob Seger in the 1960s performed throughout the state in the Decibels, the Town Criers, Doug Brown & the Omens,  Bob Seger & the Last Heard, and finally the Bob Seger System, which gave him his first national hit in 1968. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the 'System' name and performed under his own name. In 1974, he formed Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band and in 1976 emerged beyond regional stardom to international success. Seger has sold more than 75 million records worldwide, making him one of the world's best-selling artists of all time. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame  in 1987, and Seger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2006, and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012. Seger's 18th and most current studio album is 2017's I Knew You When. Seger presently is based in Orchard Lake Village, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit.

Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band has been playing farewell tours since 1986; on September 18, 2018, Seger once again announced a final tour, the Travelin' Man tour, which tonight included the rain-soaked launching of the summer concert season at a Northwell Health at Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, Long Island. With no new music to promote, the set was a career retrospective, including songs rarely played live, like Seger's hit cover of Rodney Crowell's "Shame on the Moon." The song selections dated back as far as the Bob Seger System's "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man," but clearly hinged on the Silver Bullet Band's greatest hit peak from 1976 to 1986. Near the end of the performance, Seger's cover of Bob Dylan's "Forever Young" was accompanied by a slide show featuring portraits of many recently-dead rock artists. Although he is no longer hitting some of the notes of his youth, Seger was nevertheless in extraordinary voice, projecting a husky, raspy vocal that embodied his blue-collar, heartland compositions. The large band rolled as he rocked, with saxophonist Alto Reed's spotlighted solos bringing romantic sentiments to love ballads and punctuation to the roots rockers. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band's killer performance was a first class presentation of timeless rock and roll.

Setlist:

1. Shakedown
2. Still the Same
3. The Fire Down Below
4. Mainstreet
5. Old Time Rock & Roll
6. Downtown Train (Tom Waits cover)
7. Shame on the Moon (Rodney Crowell cover)
8. Roll Me Away
9. Come to Poppa
10. Her Strut
11. Like a Rock
12. You'll Accomp'ny Me
13. We've Got Tonight
14. Travelin' Man (Bob Seger song)
15. Beautiful Loser (Bob Seger song)
16. Turn the Page (Bob Seger song)
17. Forever Young (Bob Dylan cover)
18. Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (The Bob Seger System song)

Encore:

1. In Your Time
2. Against the Wind
3. Hollywood Nights

Encore 2:

1. Night Moves
2. Rock and Roll Never Forgets