OT: SK, Another One Bites The Dust!

[Choctaw_fan]

You know you're getting old when all the musicians you listened to in your youth are either retiring or dying. That's life! He will always be my favorite and his music is great to listen to while I ride my bike for exercise. Thank you Bob Seger for 56 great years!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life...-final-tour-concert-dates-tickets/1343589002/

 

[Silver King]

I met him in 1987 at a gig my boss held for famous Michiganders up in Drummond Island.

I was giving him a tour of our yachts - he was really interested in a 1947 classic 82-foot 1947 Luders we restored, gorgeous yacht (black hull, sea mist green cabin tops and varnished mahogany topsides).

Then the group was called up for an event just as I was just getting ready to ask about how he came up with the line in Beautiful Loser: "He wants his home and his family, he wants to live like a sailor at sea."

It was timely for me, because I had my first kid, and was starting to realize being a semi-nomadic sea gypsy wasn't going to make momma very happy long term, even though the pay checks were short term. We worked in two more babies in the next 4 years before it worked out like it was supposed to...