MFSL LP 1-127: BOB SEGER & Silver Bullet Band - Against The Wind JAPAN 1983 MOFI
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Background -
Originally a hard-driving rocker in the vein of fellow Michigan garage rockers the Rationals and Mitch Ryder, Bob Seger developed into one of the most popular heartland rockers over the course of the '70s. Combining the driving charge of Ryder's Detroit Wheels with Stonesy garage rock and devotion to hard-edged soul and R&B, he crafted a distinctively American sound. While he never attained the critical respect of his contemporary Bruce Springsteen, Seger did develop a dedicated following through constant touring with his Silver Bullet Band. Following several years of missed chances and lost opportunities, Seger finally achieved a national audience in 1976 with the back-to-back release of Live Bullet and Night Moves. After the platinum success of those albums, Seger retained his popularity for the next two decades, releasing seven Top Ten, platinum-selling albums in a row.Seger began playing music in 1961 as the leader of the Detroit-based trio the Decibels; his future manager, Eddie "Punch" Andrews was also a member of the band. Moving to Ann Arbor, he played with the Town Criers before he became the keyboardist and vocalist for Doug Brown & the Omens. Billing themselves as the Beach Bums, the band released "The Ballad of the Yellow Beret," a parody of the Sgt. Barry Sadler song "The Ballad of the Green Beret." The single was withdrawn shortly after its release after Sadler threatened a lawsuit. In 1966, Seger released his first solo single, "East Side Story," which became a regional hit. Several other local hit singles followed on Cameo Records, including "Persecution Smith" and "Heavy Music," before his label folded. In 1968, he formed the Bob Seger System and signed with Capitol Records, releasing his debut album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man, in the spring of that year. The title track became a national hit, climbing to number 17, but the group's follow-up, Noah, stiffed and Seger decided to quit the music business at the end of 1969 to attend college.
By the end of the summer, Seger had returned to rock & roll with a new backing band, releasing Mongrel at the end of the year. For 1971's Brand New Morning, he disbanded his group and recorded a singer/songwriter effort. Following its release, he began performing with the duo Dave Teegarden and Skip "Van Winkle" Knape, and the duo provided support on 1972's Smokin' O.P.'s, which was the first release on Palladium Records, a label he formed with Andrews. The album failed to sell, as did Back in '72 (1973) and Seven (1974), and he moved back to Capitol Records for 1975's Beautiful Loser. For the recording of Beautiful Loser, Seger formed the Silver Bullet Band, which consisted of guitarist Drew Abbott, bassist Chris Campbell, keyboardist Robyn Robbins, saxophonist Alto Reed, and drummer Charlie Allen Martin. Seger supported Beautiful Loser with an extensive tour with the Silver Bullet Band, and while it didn't make the album a hit, it provided a widespread grassroots following across the country. The touring paid off in 1976, when Live Bullet, a double album recorded in Detroit, became a hit, spending over three years on the U.S. charts and going gold; the album would eventually go quadruple platinum.
The groundswell behind Live Bullet sent Seger's next studio album, Night Moves (1976), into the Top Ten early in 1977. Night Moves became a blockbuster, generating the hit singles "Night Moves," "Mainstreet," and "Rock & Roll Never Forgets." Stranger in Town, released in the summer of 1978, was just as successful, featuring the hits "Still the Same," "Hollywood Nights," "We've Got Tonite," and "Old Time Rock & Roll." Stranger in Town confirmed his status as one America's most popular rockers. Seger's next album, 1980's Against the Wind, became his first number one album and all of its big hits -- "Fire Lake," "Against the Wind," "You'll Accomp'ny Me" -- were ballads. The live album Nine Tonight continued his multi-platinum success in 1981, selling three million copies and peaking at number three.
Seger returned with The Distance in 1982. The Distance was the first album since Seven to be recorded with the addition of session musicians, which caused guitarist Abbott to quit the band in frustration. Over the course of the next decade, the membership of the Silver Bullet Band shifted constantly. While The Distance featured "Shame on the Moon," his biggest hit single to date, its sales plateaued at a million copies, suggesting that his popularity was beginning to level off. Seger also began to drastically reduce his recording and touring schedules -- he only released one other album, 1986's Like a Rock, during the '80s. Like a Rock and its supporting tour were both successes, paving the way for "Shakedown," a song taken from the soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop II, to become Seger's lone number one hit in 1987. Four years after its release, he returned with The Fire Inside. Although the album went platinum and reached the Top Ten, it only appealed to Seger's devoted following, as did 1995's It's a Mystery, which became his first album since Live Bullet to fail to go platinum, leveling off at gold status.
A long hiatus followed, where Seger kept his head down and spent time with his family. These quiet years were only interrupted by his 2004 induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Finally, in 2006, after an 11-year hiatus, Seger released Face the Promise, his first record since 1975's Beautiful Loser not to feature the Silver Bullet Band. Although it spawned no big hit singles -- "Wait for Me" made it into the Billboard adult contemporary Top 20 -- Face the Promise performed well, debuting at four on the Billboard charts on its way to a platinum certification. A couple archival projects followed: the 2009 compilation Early Seger, Vol. 1, which balanced previously released cuts with re-recorded old tunes, and the 2011 double-disc set Ultimate Hits: Rock & Roll Never Forgets, which was certified platinum and generated the modest adult contemporary hit cover of Tom Waits' "Downtown Train." A new album titled Ride Out appeared in October of 2014, debuting at number three on the Billboard charts. Seger next released I Knew You When, a 2017 album that was dedicated to the recently deceased Glenn Frey. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Against the Wind is the eleventh studio album by American rock singer Bob Seger and his fourth with the Silver Bullet Band. It was released in February 1980. It is Seger's only number-one album to date, spending six weeks at the top of the Billboard Top LPs chart, knocking Pink Floyd's The Wall from the top spot.
Against the Wind was an immediate commercial success, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard 200 album chart in its third week and remaining there for five weeks behind Pink Floyd's The Wall before reaching No. 1 and holding the top position for six weeks. By late 1981 the album sold 3.7 million copies in the United States and was certified 5x platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America in 2003.
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal for the album Against the Wind and Capitol Records art director Roy Kohara won the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package.
Rock critic Dave Marsh, writing for Rolling Stone, strongly criticized the album as a betrayal of Seger's longtime fans: "I'd like to say that this is not only the worst record Bob Seger has ever made, but an absolutely cowardly one as well" saying that Seger had crafted "failureproof songs that are utterly listenable and quite meaningless." Marsh had followed Seger since before Night Moves, when Seger finally gained national fame, and said in his review that Seger's long, tireless struggle to stardom is trivialized by this record. "He had to fight hard to prove there was still a place in rock & roll for a guy like him, and, with Night Moves, he won. This is the LP that makes such a victory meaningless ... It makes me sad, and it makes me angry (another emotion that's disappeared here, though it's often fueled Seger's finest work)."
Marsh did concede that on the album "Seger sings fantastically well" and called it a "carefully constructed album." A review in The Boston Phoenix echoed some of Marsh's criticisms, saying that Seger offered nothing that hadn't been heard before or equaled his best work, "only heavy-handed efforts to simulate it."
In a more positive review in the Los Angeles Times, critic Robert Hilburn said the album was "close to [Seger's] earlier works" but represented a "mastering of the form" and that the reflective ballads stood out. John Rockwell of The New York Times called it an "honest, attractive album" and a "nice return to his Night Moves form."
Seger himself said the album "is about trying to move ahead, keeping your sanity and integrity at the same time."
Though there are still some traces of the confessionals that underpinned Beautiful Loser through Stranger in Town, Against the Wind finds Bob Seger turning toward craft. Perhaps he had to, since Against the Wind arrived after three blockbuster albums and never-ending tours. Even so, this record winds up not feeling as immediate or soulful as its predecessors, especially since it begins with a tossed-off rocker called "The Horizontal Bop," possibly his most careless tune since "Noah." It's fun, but once it's done, the record really starts to kick into high gear with "You'll Accomp'ny Me," a ballad the equal of anything on its two predecessors. Throughout Against the Wind, Seger winds up performing better on the ballads than the rockers, which, while good, tend to sound a little formulaic. Still, Seger's formula is good and if "Her Strut" and "Betty Lou's Gettin' out Tonight" would have been second stringers on Stranger in Town, they offer a nice balance here, and the rest of the record alternates between similarly well-constructed rockers and introspective ballads like "Against the Wind" and "Fire Lake." Compared to its predecessors, this does feel a little weak, but compared with its peers, it's a strong, varied heartland rock album that finds Seger at a near peak. - Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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MFSL - Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Record LP item - WHITE record labels with BLACK lettering
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Record Made in JAPAN
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Pressing is in STEREO - recording is from 1980 - originally issued on the CAPITOL label
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Limited Edition LP
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Record Speed: 33 1/3 rpm
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Record Made issued in: 1983
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Record Catalog Number: MFSL 1-127
Featured on this item:
Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Title of this Audiophile LP -
Against The Wind
Track Listings -
A1. The Horizontal Bop - Guitar [Center Solo] – Drew Abbott Guitar [Intro Solo] – Bob Seger Piano – Mac "Dr. John” Rebennack Producer – Punch - 4:00A2. You'll Accomp'ny Me - Percussion – Sam Clayton Piano, Synthesizer, Organ – Bill Payne Producer – Punch - 3:58
A3. Her Strut - Guitar [Solo] – Bob Seger Producer – Bill Szymczyk - 3:52
A4. No Man's Land - Synthesizer – Doug Riley - 3:41
A5. Long Twin Silver Line - Guitar [Solo] – Pete Carr - 4:15
B1. Against The Wind - Backing Vocals – Bob Seger, Glenn Frey Piano [Solo], Organ – Paul Harris Producer – Bill Szymczyk - 5:32
B2. Good For Me - 4:01
B3. Betty Lou's Gettin' Out Tonight - Producer – Bill Szymczyk - 2:53
B4. Fire Lake - Backing Vocals – Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Timothy B. Schmit - 3:32
B5. Shinin’ Brightly - 4:25
Performed By / Credits on this LP include -
The Silver Bullet Band
• Bob Seger – guitar, vocals, background vocals
• Drew Abbott – guitar
• Alto Reed – horn, saxophone
• Chris Campbell – bass
• David Teegarden – percussion, drums
The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section
• Barry Beckett – piano, keyboard
• Randy McCormick – organ, keyboard
• Pete Carr – guitar
• Jimmy Johnson – guitar, horn
• David Hood – bass
• Roger Hawkins – percussion, drums
Additional Musicians
• Bill Payne – organ, synthesizer, piano on "You'll Accomp'ny Me"
• Dr. John – keyboard on "Horizontal Bop"
• Paul Harris – organ and piano on "Against the Wind" and piano on "Betty Lou's Getting Out Tonight"
• Doug Riley – synthesizer on "No Man's Land"
• Sam Clayton – percussion on "You'll Accomp'ny Me"
Backing harmony vocals on "Fire Lake"
• Glenn Frey
• Don Henley
• Timothy B. Schmit
Backing harmony vocals on "Against the Wind"
• Glenn Frey
• Bob Seger
Backing Vocals on "You'll Accomp'ny Me" "Good For Me" and "Shinin' Brightly"
• Ginger Blake
• Laura Creamer
• Linda Dillard • Producer – Bob Seger (tracks: A1, A2, A4, A5, B2, B4, B5) • Producer, Backing Band – Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section (tracks: A4, A5, B2, B4, B5)
Other Information -
Original Master Recording.
Audiophile Pressing (Source: the Original Stereo Master Tape).
Half-Speed Production and Re-Mastering by Original MasteringWorks.
Specially Plated and Pressed on High Definition Super Vinyl by Victor Company of Japan Ltd.
• Pressed By – Victor Company Of Japan, Ltd.
• Manufactured By – MFSL, Inc.
• Distributed By – MFSL, Inc.
• Licensed From – Capitol Records, Inc.
• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Capitol Records, Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Capitol Records, Inc.
CONDITION Details:
LP Jacket:-
The jacket is in Near MINT condition - no seam splits or corner dings!
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The jacket has NO splits of any kind - it is completely solid and intact, and shows only some very minimal shelf wear.
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It has NO drill holes or saw marks of any kind.
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There is NO writing on the front or back of the jacket.
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The cover has clean and sharp colors - see picture with this listing for more detail.
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The LP is in Near MINT condition - super glossy and appears never played!
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This is the near mint copy you want for your collection - any super picky audiophile would be happy with this one!
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As for any record, even brand new, sealed ones, we always recommend a proper record cleaning before playing!
A Short Note About LP GRADING -
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- Near Mint = Virtually flawless in every way.
- Near Mint Minus = Item has some minor imperfections, some audible.
- Excellent = Item obviously played and enjoyed with some noise.
- Very Good Plus = Many more imperfections which are noticeable and obtrusive.
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