Bob Seger to Hit the Road?: "We're Looking at Some Dates"

This morning Bob Seger called into Detroit disc jockey Dick Purtan's final broadcast — and casually made a huge announcement. "We're thinking about maybe a tour later this year," Seger said. "We're looking at some dates and trying to get some buildings, maybe October-November. We just started three days ago and we'll see what's available, and of course we'll play here [Detroit]... See you at the Palace [of Auburn Hills]."

Seger last hit the road in 2007, which was his first outing in over a decade. Three days ago Walmart began selling Early Seger Vol. 1, a collection of remastered Seger songs from the early 1970s.

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Song Stories

“Piano Man”

Billy Joel | 1973

Billy Joel’s first hit, “Piano Man,” was – ironically – an autobiographical lament about how his first album wasn’t a hit. When Cold Spring Harbor didn’t take off, Joel briefly became a lounge pianist in Los Angeles, and this song, about that experience, expressed his frustrations and fears at the time: “And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar/And say, ‘Man, what are you doing here?’” “It was all right,” Joel said later, about the gig. “I got free drinks and union scale, which was the first steady money I’d made in a long time.”

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