Bob Seger Rules

[mostlymeat]

Seger: "Her Strut was written about Jane Fonda...at the time she was going to some congressional hearings with her husband, Tom Hayden, talking about the Campaign for Economic Democracies...I was quite proud of her for doing that. I admired her crust...for going in there and having the strength to speak her mind, so I kind of wrote 'Her Strut' for an eighties woman...you know, it was the dawn of the eighties, and I wanted to write a song about how women have become so confident and stepped out so much, and I thought Jane was a great role model." Radio Interview: In the Studio with Redbeard for Against the Wind.

Critic Dave Marsh objected to "Her Strut" as sexist, a charge Seger disputes.

"Saying 'I love to watch her strut' is almost an automatic sexist thing. I really struggled with that. But I loved the hardness of the word 'strut' in the song. And I worked real hard on the verses to try to put across the idea that this is not a sexist theme, that what I'm trying to say here is that at the bottom line it's human nature, that men are still gonna love women for being sexual in spite of all this other stuff...I didn't want to look like I was some sort of sexist monster, and I'm not." Dave DiMartino, September 1980, Creem. "Safe At Home Or Against The Wind: Bob Seger Bops Horizontally"

[cavorting with nudists]

Wow, he sounds like a cool dude!

[Hugman 3.0]

Seger: "Her Strut was written about Jane Fonda...at the time she was going to some congressional hearings with her husband, Tom Hayden, talking about the Campaign for Economic Democracies...I was quite proud of her for doing that. I admired her crust...for going in there and having the strength to speak her mind, so I kind of wrote 'Her Strut' for an eighties woman...you know, it was the dawn of the eighties, and I wanted to write a song about how women have become so confident and stepped out so much, and I thought Jane was a great role model." Radio Interview: In the Studio with Redbeard for Against the Wind.

Critic Dave Marsh objected to "Her Strut" as sexist, a charge Seger disputes.

"Saying 'I love to watch her strut' is almost an automatic sexist thing. I really struggled with that. But I loved the hardness of the word 'strut' in the song. And I worked real hard on the verses to try to put across the idea that this is not a sexist theme, that what I'm trying to say here is that at the bottom line it's human nature, that men are still gonna love women for being sexual in spite of all this other stuff...I didn't want to look like I was some sort of sexist monster, and I'm not." Dave DiMartino, September 1980, Creem. "Safe At Home Or Against The Wind: Bob Seger Bops Horizontally"

AWESOME info.  Besides, what's sexier than a woman kicking ass?  Especially 80's Jane Fonda, dere.

[masterofsparks]

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All of these sound like quotes from someone who absolutely loves Bob Seger.

[Chris L]

Seger: "Her Strut was written about Jane Fonda...at the time she was going to some congressional hearings with her husband, Tom Hayden, talking about the Campaign for Economic Democracies...I was quite proud of her for doing that. I admired her crust...for going in there and having the strength to speak her mind, so I kind of wrote 'Her Strut' for an eighties woman...you know, it was the dawn of the eighties, and I wanted to write a song about how women have become so confident and stepped out so much, and I thought Jane was a great role model." Radio Interview: In the Studio with Redbeard for Against the Wind.

Critic Dave Marsh objected to "Her Strut" as sexist, a charge Seger disputes.

"Saying 'I love to watch her strut' is almost an automatic sexist thing. I really struggled with that. But I loved the hardness of the word 'strut' in the song. And I worked real hard on the verses to try to put across the idea that this is not a sexist theme, that what I'm trying to say here is that at the bottom line it's human nature, that men are still gonna love women for being sexual in spite of all this other stuff...I didn't want to look like I was some sort of sexist monster, and I'm not." Dave DiMartino, September 1980, Creem. "Safe At Home Or Against The Wind: Bob Seger Bops Horizontally"

If the song was really inspired by Fonda, the potential double meaning of "but/butt" becomes even more contentious, since - as already established elsewhere - Fonda ain't got a motor in the back of her Honda.

[Shaggy 2 Grote]

I admired her crust...

I really really hope the first draft of the song was called "I love to watch her crust."

[fonpr]

I admired her crust...

I really really hope the first draft of the song was called "I love to watch her crust."

That's a Cain joke.

[Kormod]

I'd like to stuff that crust.

[dave from knoxville]

I detest Bob Seger's commercial heyday. Overly earnest claptrap sung in a voice about as soulful as Michael Bolton's, with music at the level of an Eagle's knock-off band. Probably one of my five least favorite artists of alltime.  The unemployed rednecks laying around all over these hills of East Tennessee claim him as a sort of personal philosopher. A blight.

[buffcoat]

I like "Hollywood Nights."  I'm tolerant of "Katmandu" (for the longest time I thought it was sung by Peter Criss).

I like "Still the Same" and "Night Moves."  Some of his other stuff is ok.



Speaking of commercials, I despise "Like a Rock" as though it were written by Mike Kryzyzewski.

[buffcoat]

If I could have but one Best Show-related Christmas Wish this year, it would be for Samir to be forced to speak with his real American accent and not the terribly phony English one he uses when he calls.

I wonder about this too. Tom is always hassling people for using fake accents but Samir always gets a pass. Why? Maybe he saved Tom's life in the war or something.

I know!  "'Ello, 'ello, 'ow's it gahnn Tammas?  Gi' us a cuppa." 

How does he let that Panhandler get away with it?

[akaJudge]

I have such a soft spot for many Seger songs.  "Night Moves" taught me to play an F chord.

[Greggulator]

Seger's my dad's all-time favorite. I grew up being subjected to a greatest hits album I got him for his birthday one year. Every single car ride, that tape was played. I think, once, I even lip synched Old Time Rock'n'Roll at a elementary school talent show. That memory has been blocked out, however.

To tie this into rasslin' (like everything else in my life), Her Strut was used as Woman's (later known as Chris Benoit's wife who he killed) theme music when she was managing Doom. These guys were one of my favorite bad ass teams. I can't find their debut where their introduction involved paper mache skulls and dry ice. I'm sure Seger and the boys would approve of this message.

Doom vs. Jobbers WCW

[betheboy]

If I could have but one Best Show-related Christmas Wish this year, it would be for Samir to be forced to speak with his real American accent and not the terribly phony English one he uses when he calls.

I wonder about this too. Tom is always hassling people for using fake accents but Samir always gets a pass. Why? Maybe he saved Tom's life in the war or something.

I know!  "'Ello, 'ello, 'ow's it gahnn Tammas?  Gi' us a cuppa." 

How does he let that Panhandler get away with it?

Samir sounds like Leo Gorcey in person so I prefer the fake accent.

I also enjoy Bob Seger.

[daveB from Oakland]

"Feel Like a Number" is a soul-stirring anthem for all the world's hard-hats, all the Joe + Jane Lunchpails.

"Shame on the Moon" is a good song for beer drinkin' and cornball sentimentalizin' (Bob didn't write it though).

"Main Street" has a pretty guitar line.

(Okay, I just youtubed "Feel Like a Number". Maybe not as good as I remembered it).