Shit, I’ve known that for ten years.
[“Nutbush City Limits”; Bob Seger (1976)]
On Bob Seger’s1 1976 Live Bullet album, the song “Nutbush2 City Limits” features an extended breakdown in the middle, time enough for Bob to goose up Detroit’s Cobo Hall audience a little bit. Again.
“As I told everybody last night I was reading Rolling Stone where they
said Detroit audiences are the greatest rock-n-roll audiences in the world.”
(applause, eleven second pause)
“I thought to myself, ‘Shit, I’ve known that for ten years.’”
Bob’s second (?) run-through was then temporarily immortalized on batches
of t-shirts. Spoken when confronted with the obvious.
– Jeff Stendec (July 31, 1994)
1
You know, the “Like A Rock” song guy.
2
Nutbush?