What kind of women does he like to go out with? ''All kinds. They were so used to being independent that you couldn`t pin them down or get close to them.'' The ones that weren`t taken were a little strange by that I mean that they were difficult to get to know. ''And what I`ve found is that the good ones are already taken. ''It`s like I`ve been starring in `The Dating Wars,` '' Seger jokes. I`ve gone out with about 15 or 16 girls in the last six months. But that`s because I`ve been looking (for someone with whom to establish a steady relationship). ''When I was younger I was girl-crazy, and in the last six months I`ve been girl-crazy. it`s like they want to get everything that moves.'' Seger laughs. I`m 180 degrees away from the typical male rock star mentality when it comes to women. ''But it was a little frightening at first. Now that I`ve been on my own for awhile, I`m a little more self-sufficient. and I still believe in relationships.''ĭoes he really feel that he needs a woman around in order to be happy? ''But my values haven`t changed that much over the years. She was there alone except for the dog, and he`s not exactly ferocious.'' Seger laughs. I used to worry a lot about my girlfriend when I was out on the road. ''I live, I hate to say it, behind gates,'' he says. Suburb of Detroit that`s also home to Aretha Franklin and Lee Iacocca. The kid who once considered himself lucky to have a roof over his head moved into a house in what he describes as a ''posh''
''Stranger in Town,'' ''Against the Wind,'' ''Nine Tonight'' and ''The Distance'' followed suit. The album by the same name sold more than a million copies, and all of Seger`s subsequent albums Then came ''Night Moves,'' the 1977 hit single that looked back at young love and turned Seger into a major mainstream success. ''But we kept on making records, even though we didn`t really make any money off of them until around 1975 or `76.'' ''My manager (Punch Andrews) didn`t even take commissions,'' he recalls. In those years, Seger says, he was lucky to clear between $6,000 and $8,000 annually. From the late 1960s until the middle 1970s his basic, populist rock and roll-sometimes growling and gritty, sometimes lovely and lyrical-garnered him a fervent following throughout the Midwest (1968`s ''Ramblin` Gamblin` Man'' was a regional hit), but mass success eluded him. My goal always was to be well-thought-of rather than to be wildly successful.''įor years, it looked as if Seger would get his wish. ''Maybe I thought about being the best,'' he adds. ''Making it big to me would have been making enough to buy a new car. I was from a lower middle-class background,'' explains the singer and songwriter, whose late father, an alcoholic, deserted the family when Seger was 10 and his older brother was 14. I don`t think I thought that much about becoming gigantic. ''Like Bob Dylan was quality, like James Brown was quality.
More than 20 years ago, when a teenaged Seger began his musical career playing fraternity parties in and around Detroit, his ambition was ''not so much to make it big as to be `quality.` I guess I want to leave something behind.'' I`m at the peak of my powers, and that`s a driving force in me, the fact that I think I can do good work and I hate to quit. I do it because I think that I`m better now than I ever have been. ''Well, that`s not true-I do know why I do it. I don`t even know why I do this any more. I don`t want to suddenly be 50 and find out I`ve missed something. I don`t know if I want to keep on going out on the road for another 10 years. At least, that`s what I think that I want. ''I see friends of mine who are married with kids, leading a quiet life.
''Probably the hardest thing I`m trying to come to terms with right now is that I`ve lived this (rock and roll) life for 20 years, and I wonder if I`m missing something,'' says Seger. and after that broke up I met another woman and we dated for six months and lived together for a year after that until it fell apart. Maybe if we had gotten married and had kids we would still be together. Basically, I think she wanted me to quit going out on the road. ''I don`t know exactly what happened even now. Before that, I was with one woman for 11 years. ''It was the first time in 13 years that I didn`t have a steady relationship going, and it was really something new for me. Says the singer with a glance at Boris, his longtime mixed-breed companion who is dozing in a corner. ''For the past six months, I`ve been living here alone with the dog,'' ''I hadn`t had so much emotional turmoil in years, and it really slowed me down.
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