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Old 04-13-2006, 12:18 PM
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Anybody know anything about Bob Seger's bassist?

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I know this is off the wall, but I've been thinking about Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band. Namely, the song "Get out of Denver"...the bassist really kicks ass on this song, IMO. Straight ahead 12 bar rock & roll for sure.

Anybody know who this guy is, and/or anything about him?

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Old 04-13-2006, 12:42 PM
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Bob Seeger...Didn't he have something to do with Alan Lomax who discovered Leadbelly? (oh yeah - GREAT bassllines in some of Leadbelly's stuff, even if they ARE all done on guitar...)
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Old 04-13-2006, 01:09 PM
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Anybody know who this guy is, and/or anything about him?

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The bassist of the SB band was, and is Chris Campbell. He's been with Bob a long time (since the early '70's).
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Old 04-13-2006, 01:24 PM
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Chris Campbell is part of the Silver Bullet Band, Bob's live band, but did not play on all the studio recordings. My wife's a big fan, we have just about all his CD's.
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Old 04-13-2006, 01:44 PM
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Chris Campbell is part of the Silver Bullet Band, Bob's live band, but did not play on all the studio recordings. My wife's a big fan, we have just about all his CD's.
Quite true, but he played on Seven, where Get Out Of Denver comes from, along with Tommy Cogbill.

And according to Seger (from The Bob Seger File)

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Seger: "On...Seven, we went to Nashville and used Kenny Buttrey and Tommy Cogbill on drums and bass, as well as some other fantastic Nashville players like pianist Bobby Woods. On this same album I also started to use the Silver Bullet Band. By now we were opening for big acts like BTO and we needed screamers, so you can begin to hear both styles: "Need Ya" and "Get Out of Denver" rock hard, while "20 Years From Now" features the great Nashville country-rock flavor that those guys have..."
And of course, that's Campbell on Live Bullet, from which more people might have heard the tune on the radio.
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Old 04-14-2006, 08:53 AM
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Seger's formula for a long time was to use his own band on the rockers but studio guys (from Nashville and Muscle Shoals) on the ballads.
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