The writer credits for Zappa’s cover of “Mary Lou” was how I found out it was NOT originally by Bob Seger. I incorrectly assumed that since Seger’s version mentions the city of Kalamazoo and since Seger oftentimes references his home state, that it must have been a Seger original.

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Heheh, “The man from Utopia meets Mary Lou”. Some other stuff on “The man from Utopia” that are pretty good imo.

The Bob Seger cover has a nice groove to it, had not heard it before (or anything by Seger) but just gave it a listen. If it had played on the radio first listen, I might have wondered if it was Foggerty/CCR for a moment. I’ll add him to my artist list.

[–] s@piefed.world 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

You’ve not heard anything by Seger before?! 🤯 He’s a classic rock radio staple here

[–] kindenough@kbin.earth 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Well I missed out on that one. Most rock music I know I got spoonfed but Seger was not in my parents or family record collections, and I used to dig in there frequently. Got some catching up to do.

[–] s@piefed.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Bob Seger, Peter Frampton, and some Allman Bros are the few artists that 9 times out of 10 I would pick the live versions of their songs over the studio version. Most of my music exposure was through the back seat of my parents’ car in the 2000’s to the 2010’s hearing their classic rock stations and then on my own digging into YouTube and Wikipedia for more of the artists and their associated acts and also playing deep cut rock radio stations for overlooked and underplayed artists and songs. I now have a broader and deeper depth of classic rock than my parents when I wasn’t even alive during that era 😅