Frampton Comes Alive. That pretty much sums up the state of live rock and roll in the '70's. heavy metal had the shows...KISS, Ted Nugent, Angel...and pop had the hits...Eagles, Fleetwood Mac...but rock and roll had...well...Frampton Comes Alive. Sure it's a nice album. Lots of hits. But they were hits after the album came out. When those shows were taped for the album, it was just Frampton and his band playing to an audience craving great, live, rock and roll. But as this album shows, the audience should have been in the Motor City's Cobo Hall...that was where rock and roll was being played. Frampton had the pretty boy looks and the radio friendly hits...(Bob would have to wait until his next album Night Moves for those) but Bob had the voice, the strut and the Silver Bullet Band. He had been a local hero for years before this album...big in Detorit, second to Bruce everywhere else...but this album did what Springsteen refused to do...gave the mainstream a taste of Bob's secret- his live show. Side One is a perfect album...head on rock and roll giving way to aching beauty...sublte moments that most bands would be too scared to try live...especially in the bang your head heyday of the '70s. But Bob pulled it off...like a muscle car roaring from one of his hometown's factorys, the Silver Bullet Band pumped along, ready to prove themselves second to none. America has spawned few bands this powerful...Mellencamp's, The Heartbreakers, and of course the E-Street Band. Live Bullet is not Bob Seger's most famous album, and that's too bad. After slowly releasing a series of soft-rock albums, all of lesser quality than the one before, it would be nice for people to hear the power that he once held in the palm of his hand.

Imagine getting off work, jump in the Road Runner with your buds (both figurative and literal) Southbound I-75 to Cobo...
You've got to push it cause you worked till 6:00!

Park and walk toward Cobo, the crowd growing larger and larger with every step you take. You pass thru the ticket gate and enter the smoke-drenched outer arena. Stand in line for beer, walk around scoping out the babes.

The crowd begins filing into the inner arena...
the lights go out, see the shadows moving into place up on the stage, the band tunes up, the spotlight on the emcee introducing the band, stage lights come on...everyone is in place.
You are you are about to witness a performance that will DEFINE the term "concert experience" for decades to come!
The opening guitar chords, the percussion and bass line kicks in... the arena came alive...it was breathing, pulsating, crushing

Close your eyes and listen to the opening ~15 seconds of Nutbush City Limits and you will be transported back in time.

This is a 5-star album with a 1-star remastering, so I split the difference with 3 stars. Stick with the older CD version that is still available. I have no idea what happened on this remaster, but everything sounds much more distorted than on the LP or the original CD issue. Sure, Live Bullet is never going to be an audiophile album, but this Seger classic deserves much better treatment than this.

Fortunately, the Night Moves reissue released at the same time does not share these problems, and is a bit of a sonic improvement over the original CD.

What do you get if you mix,say? Ike&Tina Turner Review-J.Geils Band-Chuck Berry-James Brown-Mitch Ryder-Wilson Pickit? ONE HELL OF A GREAT SHOW! Thats what you get with LIVE BULLET! Out here in Los Angeles all we heard from Seger up to this point was,maybe. Travelin'man or Katmandu from time to time on the radio. BOB SEGER & THE SILVER BULLET BAND played with BOSTON on this tour in L.A. So it WAS a great show.(When they were trying to push disco down our throat?)The energy you feel from the audience is that of people hungry for some straight forward rock&roll! Unlike his NINE TONIGHT live disc.(where they all came to hear BOB'S hit paraders)Bob is just a great vocalist in a jamin' band on LIVE BULLET! Maybe this was not the beginning,Definitly not the end. Not the beginning of the end. But yes,you could say the end of the beginning! If your a true rock&roller,then you already have LIVE BULLET. If you want to be? Then order it now! I will always have a copy,forever! Came out in 1976.Same year as LYNYRD SKYNYRD/ONE MORE FROM THE ROAD & J.GEILS BAND/BLOW YOUR FACE OUT! Sounds like a great party! P.S.<>The SILVER BULLET BAND will go down in history as one of the greatest bands in the world!

Are you kidding? This was THE album to have blaring from your open car window in the summer of 1976, especially in Detroit where I grew up. There are moments on this album -- such as the overdriven instrumental break in "Travellin' Man" and the point where the same song segues into "Beautiful Loser," where the Silver Bullet Band quite simply epitomizes the well-oiled rock & roll machine. The brooding ballad "Jody Girl" is perfectly balanced by the frenetic pace of "Get Out Of Denver." This album should be considered an essential piece in the collection of ANYONE professing to be a rock & roll fan.