He was born lonely down by the riverside.

He went cruising on his gray snake till his dying day.

He even sang the parts the instruments were playing.

He knows the devil is red, but his money is green.

His '60 Cadillac went cruising through Nebraska, whining.

He woke one night to the sound of thunder.

He wishes he didn't know now what he didn't know then.

They used to call him reckless, they used to call him fast.

After twenty years, he saw himself again.

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If this is nine different guys, I'd have a couple of educated guesses. If it's one dude, I have no idea. :unsure:

its one chap. It was a bit late when i Posted it and I was a bit...erm...tired. Anyway, there's more clues to come if its tricky!!!

Googling is cheating, so I won´t answer this.

(You could pick any of the sentences and still get to the same webpage...)

I know - I realised that this morning. Oh well that will teach me to try to do a cut-price quiz

Jim Morrison?

good guess..and right era (ish) but no...

Dylan?

Springsteen?

If it's the latter, I want it noted for the record that this was just an educated guess and should in way be interpreted as even a passing familiarity with his work.

Nebraska[the album] = The Bruce, right?

If Bradx really knows all those things about Bruce Springsteen, or so much as gives a shit about him or his music, I will literally eat my pants in front of you.

I was thinking someone like Taj Mahal, don't ask me why...

No - not Taj mahal

and u are right - I wouldn't make a quiz or anything else about BS

Here's some more facts/ clues


He was on the verge of breaking the national charts in 1967 when the record company promoting his single went bankrupt.

The first major label to offer him a contract was Motown.

He broke the Top Forty with a single in 1968, then survived seven years without a successful record.

His work ethic became a local legend. He played 260 dates in 1975.

In the early '70s, he and his band drove 25 hours to Florida, played three straight nights, and then drove 25 hours back, because they couldn't afford motel rooms.
He considered himself more a driver than a singer at the time.

In June 1976, he played in front 50 people in a Chicago bar.
Three days later, he played in front of 76,000 devoted fans in the Pontiac Silverdome outside Detroit.

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"Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then" is a line from Bob Seger's "Night Moves".

YES :applaud: Well done !!!

Bob Seger it is. I am a BIG Seger fan...NOT the 70s Night Moves/Silver Bullet era...but the great full-throttle garage/soul crossover stuff from the late 60s. A great songwriter and a great frontman. I don't begrudge him his success at all. Good for him. He made a wonderful sequence of singles in the late 60s culminating in Heavy Music ...which would have been a massive national hit for him but his record co Cameo Parkway went bust and robbed him of his chance. Bob Seger was MASSIVE in Detroit and Michigan....but not so big elsewhere ...til the 70s.

Bob Seger file

Ooh. He's always been on my "to be avoided at all costs" list, along with chaps of the echelon of Little Miami Steve Van Zandt, Southside Johnny and other blustery mouth-harp blowing R&B types.

Maybe I've just heard the wrong stuff.

YES!! The late 60s stuff is magic. Think MC5 crossed with Martha and the Vandellas.

Bob Seger. --w-o-u-l-d-n-'t a thunk? Guess I shouldn't have had my vaccination against him and Huey Lewis and Lynard Skinnard....I was gonna say George Thorogood since my Bruce guess was so absolutely wrong....born lonely by a river....eh?

In the meantime it occurred to me that the line is actually from "Against the Wind". Anyway, not particular fond of either. Haven't heard much resp. anything of the early stuff, though.

OK...before we leave the Bob Seger thread forever... (I can see I'm on a sticky wicket trying to big-up the Segermeister to a load of folks who've only heard Night Moves...still its nice to have a quest in life) :)

If you ever get a chance to check these out...

Bob Seger & the Last Heard - East Side Story. Basically a re-write of Gloria but with great story/lyrics

Bob Seger & the Last Heard - Heavy Music pts 1 & 2. Pumping garage/soul groover w/ ace bassline and great lyrics... "dontcha ever listen to the radio when the big bad beat goes on"

The Bob Seger System - Ramblin Gamblin Man. Debut LP from 1968...contains 2+2=?...which was a brave follow-up single to his first national hit "Ramblin Gamblin Man' (also on this LP)... it was an anti Vietnam war song...good lyrics

Needless to say it wasn't a hit...and it took another 7 years before he would score again.

The Bob Seger System - Death Row. Another heavy lyric - about a condemned man. He was good at this sort of thing.

Those early albums are not that easy to get hold of, though. (Or maybe they are now, in these file sharing times.)

Jim Morrison?