Name: Bob Seger Reveals How The Silver Bullet Band Got Its Name | Letterman
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Bob Seger Reveals How The Silver Bullet Band Got Its Name | Letterman' from Letterman on Comedy Buff. Published 2024-02-20. Transcript available.

our next guest is a uh grammy award winner and a member of the rock and roll
hall of fame
this guy has sold over 52 million albums worldwide 52 million albums
and he's not done remember when this guy was uh all about uh chevy trucks oh
yeah like a rock
like a rock yeah oh like a damn rock remember that yeah his new album is
entitled right out and he's
currently on a north american tour uh ladies and gentlemen the great bob seger
i have uh thank you
i have so many questions for you uh i have enjoyed your music as long as you've
been making music and
when you started uh what a daunting time and daunting place for a kid to begin
a musical career
in and around detroit who were the same who were who are the guys the men and
women
in your your class of uh who are you all stevie wonder marvin gay uh temptations
the miracles uh
you had the whole motown bunch and uh mitch rider was before me and he did
really well he came to
new york here and uh and had his records produced did you get to interact with
these other musicians oh
yeah oh yeah oh yeah uh there was a canadian um uh television station and i
remember one new year's
eve it was really a thrill uh i was in a room with stevie wonder the four tops
uh diana ross and the
supremes and they're all practicing and you know singing and stevie was playing
harmonica and it was just
it was pretty heady yeah it was this uh out of like windsor ontario yes uh and
how old were you then
if you don't mind 21 21 oh my god did you ever uh work on any motown records
did you no i never did
no no i i signed with capital actually they offered me a deal but i i signed
with capital and uh uh did
you know barry gordy never met him no but i i met some of the writers down
through the years uh and uh
holland dozier holland and some of those people they were great talk about
those people before oh the
greatest so i want to want to run but talk about a run bob seeger yeah what
about bob seeger in the
last herd that was just before the silver bullet yeah yeah he was a teenager
and he had a hit record
that's right yeah what was the song you're talking about a rambling gambling
man oh that's right that's
exactly right right and that was not the silver bullet band no they weren't
they weren't quite
there yet now next year listen to this uh two days ago i was with some friends
and we were talking about
you and the silver bullet band and a friend of mine said do you know how the
name of the silver bullet
band came to be and i said i don't know and then he told us this story if you
will tell us the story
and then i'll know if my friend is lying well we were we were he's probably not
lying we were all
arguing about what our band name should be and uh and i was kind of letting the
band pick it themselves
and and uh and they just kept arguing and arguing went on and on and on and
finally my manager
sent us our paychecks with bob seeger and the silver bullet band on it he got
tired of waiting for
us so he made it up himself really yeah yeah that's where my friend's version
of this was okay that to
go to gigs you guys had a stretch limousine that was painted silver and it was
nicknamed the silver
bullet no no sorry give me an idea of the quality of friends
good information these uh now when when you uh your music is to me well of
course i you know this is
right in my wheelhouse uh but when you play live on this concert tour is it
going to be guys like me
or is it going to be all kind of all-aged kids you know it depends on the city
and it just uh but we
get all ages yeah yeah we really do and um and uh it's really a joy to play
with my band i've been with
them now basically since the same exact cast of characters since about 1980 86
right in there and
and we've been uh doing it together forever and it's just like a family i used
to play that ramblin
gambling man when i worked at a college radio station and and within a hundred
million how much did you
make from chevy honestly god i mean well we gave some to the workers fund you
know oh yeah yeah there you go
that's fantastic selling those trucks weren't we oh boy you must have got a
free truck every month
no i had to buy them i swear i did i bought them yep honest to god