Night Moves. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band. Bass cover.

Описание: Follow up to my recent Mary Lou. Band commentary on that cover.
Night Moves" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Seger. It was the lead single from his ninth studio album of the same name (1976), which was released on Capitol Records. Seger wrote the song as a coming of age tale about adolescent love and adult memory of it. It was based on Seger's own teenage love affair he experienced in the early 1960s. It took him six months to write and was recorded quickly at Nimbus Nine Studios in Toronto, Ontario, with producer Jack Richardson. As much of Seger's Silver Bullet Band had returned home by this point, the song was recorded with several local session musicians.
The phrase "night moves" has a number of meanings, which made it an intriguing song title. It could mean "putting the moves on" a girl in the back seat of a car, but Seger says it also relates to the impromptu parties he and has buddies threw in the fields of Ann Arbor, Michigan, where they would turn on the headlights and dance their "night moves." They called these gatherings "grassers."
Released as a single in December 1976, it reached number four on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Seger's first hit single since "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" from 1969. It also charted at number five in Canada and was a top 25 hit in Australia. The song was responsible for changing Seger from being a popular regional favorite into a national star. Seger was inspired by the movie American Graffiti, which was released in 1973 but set in 1962. He said, "I came out of the theater thinking, Hey, I've a story to tell too. Nobody has ever told about how it was to grow up in my neck of the woods."
"It's about this dark haired Italian girl that I went out with when I was 19, she was one year older than me," he later recalled. Seger promptly pursued a romance with the girl, but eventually her boyfriend returned and they married, leaving Seger broken-hearted. Seger later told journalist Timothy White that many of his early songs were written to impress the girl.
The song took Seger over six months to complete writing. He had recently purchased a house due to the success of his first live album, Live Bullet, and he and the band would write and practice in its large basement. The ending lyrics were written first. Seger was inspired by the example of Bruce Springsteen's "Jungleland" to include two bridges in the song.
According to Seger, he knew he had a hit after he recorded the song. Folks at his record company were also sure of it; Seger recalls the esteemed promotions man at Capitol, Bruce Wendell, telling him, "You're going to be singing this song for your entire career."
Seger revealed in a radio interview that in the line, "Started humming a song from 1962," the song he had in mind was "Be My Baby" by the Ronettes (which was actually released in 1963).
"Night Moves" was a commercial success in the United States. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the week of December 11, 1976 at number 85, gradually rising over the ensuing weeks to a peak of number four on March 12, 1977, a position it held for two weeks. "Night Moves" was Seger's first single to chart in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100. In total, it spent 21 weeks on the chart. In Canada, the song debuted on RPM's Top Singles chart at number 93 in the issue dated December 18, 1976, eventually rising over the course of twelve weeks to a peak of number five on March 12, 1977.
It also charted in Australasian territories: in Australia, it peaked at number 25 on the national charts, and in New Zealand, it reached a peak of number 39. The song did not chart in the United Kingdom until 1995, when it peaked at a position of 45 on April 30, 1995.
Seger has claimed that "Night Moves" is his favorite song he ever wrote, and that he continued to try and replicate it years afterward.
"Night Moves" was named by Rolling Stone as Best Single of the Year for 1977. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll, Seger's only such selection.
Mnay covers of this song so I tried to incorporate some of the the backing fills in the song which sounds like a bass to me. Probably guitar. The timing in the slower middle part was tough to get. I didn't quite get it precisely I know. Could be a bit louder also maybe.
Such a classic.