October 13, 2014, - 4:22 pm
Add Bob Seger to List of Global Warming Hypocrite-Pimps, Anti-Gun Nuts
Remember the 1980s when Bob Seger’s songs were the anthems of working-class Reagan Democrats with good values? Those days are over. You can now add Seger to the list of hypocritical global warming pimps and anti-gun nuts.
We’ve Got Tonight, Who Needs Tomorrow?: Global Warming Pimp Bob Seger’s Carbon Footprint 30,000 Square Foot Michigan Mansion
Above is an aerial view of Seger’s multi-million-dollar, 30,000-square-foot mansion on LaPlaya Lane in Michigan’s wealthiest city (by average income), Orchard Lake Village, Michigan. (I’m very familiar with Orchard Lake because when I ran for the Michigan House of Representatives, I campaigned in and won the city.) But don’t let the facts that Seger owns many cars, made millions off of licensing his songs for Chevy truck commercials, and has a carbon footprint as big as Al Gore’s get in the way of Seger’s new desperate, politically-correct attempt to stay relevant. At age 70, his latest–and probably his last–album, out Tuesday, is full of anti-gun and global warming pimpitude. Apparently, this formerly patriotic songman has spent too many “Hollywood Nights.”
Now that Seger is old and out of the car commercial biz, he apparently feels the only way to get attention is to sing songs like “The Devil’s Right Hand,” an anti-gun song, and climate-change lecture ditties on his new album, “Ride Out.” My friend, Brian McCollum, the Detroit Free Pressistan’s music critic, interviewed Seger, and the cryptkeeperish rocker wanted to make sure everyone knows about his hypocritical new politics and the message he wants to send in his new muzak offerings:
“When you’re my age, you’re very, very aware of your mortality,” says Seger, who will turn 70 in May. “You start thinking, ‘I’ve got to speak up before it’s too late and I can’t even get a record deal anymore.'” . . . Environmental matters dominate several new songs, most notably “It’s Your World” (“Say a prayer for the victims of extinction,” he sings. “Say another for the redwood trees”). It’s an ominous-toned take on climate change that Seger knows could prove divisive among fans. Here, after all, is one of the Industrial Belt’s most prominent musicians going green. He says his management team “is petrified of it.”
“People are going to be mad at me. There may be a lot of people that won’t come to the shows because of it,” he says. “But I just feel it’s something I’ve got to say.” He presses the point, brandishing a news article about the United Nations’ latest climate-change report. “There are a lot of culprits in climate change, and everybody’s responsible, myself included,” he says, voice rising. “Nobody gets a free pass on this one. We’ve got to change our ways and change them fast.”
If you listen to the sample song on the Freep site, Bob Seger should have retired long ago. Hearing Seger try to hit the high notes in bad pseudo-folk songs is like listening to a sheep being beheaded for an ISIS sacrifice on Eid Al-Adha. Bob Zimmerman called. He wants his pre-Dylan bad folk act back.
By the way, speaking of changing our ways, Seger hasn’t changed his any. Note that in the Freep interview, Seger only mentions his Clarkston, Michigan cabin, not his multi-million dollar mega-mansion. While he lectures the rest of us about “climate change,” here are some interesting details of the interior of his Orchard Lake Village estate. It contains
a reverse osmosis (water filtration) room that is almost 500 square feet, a huge exercise room, 4 laundry rooms, 8 bedrooms, 14 bathrooms, 3 kitchens, a whole bay for dumpsters and a generator that is the size of a hummer and 12 air conditioner units.
That’s not to mention the two-story closet attached to the his-and-her master suites (I guess they don’t sleep in the same bed–too much, um, human “global warming” odor?). Or the kids’ “lounge.” Does your kid have a lounge (and a suite)?
Um, if you believe in manmade global warming or “climate change,” I’m sure the 500-square-foot water filtration room, four laundry rooms, 14 bathrooms, generator the size of a hummer and 12 air conditioners contribute just a tad more to this make-believe “problem” than the energy consumption of you and me, the average Joes. But why let the facts or the hypocrisy get in the way of Bob Seger’s latest musical lecture? After all, he’s set to perform his enviro-trash on “Ellen” and “The Jimmy Kimmel Show,” later this week.
Oh, and did I mention that Seger himself owns many “Devil’s Right Hands” and is an avid hunter? Do as I say, not as I do. Soooo frickin’ typical.
Instead of the title of his new album, “Ride Out,” I have a better suggestion for him: GO. AWAY.
I’m sad that Bob Seger turned into just another lefty hypocrite. In college in the mid-to-late ’80s, I and my friends traveled to Downtown Detroit to go to one of his concerts at Joe Louis Arena. And it was a lot of fun. He was a showman who exuded American values of hard work, integrity, and decency. Now, he’s just another cheap pimp of everything that’s destroying those things. I guess with the death of much of America’s blue collar, Bob Seger is desperate to create another niche.
But it won’t work. Only a few aging baby boomers like him, struggling to hold on, will buy this album of crap. The rest of us have moved on, since Seger’s made clear that his talent died long ago (maybe at the hands of a Silver Bullet). Limousine liberalism is anathema to Bob Seger’s once-vibrant fan base. And politics is the last refuge of a scoundrel, especially in the music biz.
And that’s why I predict this last, leftist gasp by Bob Seger will sink “Like a Rock.”
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One other thing: since Bob Seger made millions licensing his songs to Chevy for auto commercials, shouldn’t he donate all of it to some enviro-nutty group that tells you to ride bicycles made of recycled Q-tips? Nah, these hypocrites never give the money back or change their ways. They just lecture you. Again, do as they say, not as they do.
Marie Antoinette Seger: Let them eat exhaust fumes.
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ERSTE!
you suck, seger.
kirche on October 13, 2014 at 4:33 pm