BOB SEGER: THE CREEM INTERVIEW

“Y’know that new song by Bob Seger, ‘Like A Rock?,’” asked the 50-yearold accountant, mother of three grown children herself. “That’s me.”

The person in the street can relate to Robert Clark Seger’s radio anthems, because the 41-year-old Ann Arbor native is one of them, a regular guy. He’s come a long way from his days playing fraternity hops and mixers on the University of Michigan campus, through his status as a regional hero to a national treasure. Even overlooking the fact Seger and CREEM share a common birthplace, the man deserves our respect for having done it his way. This one-time ramblin’, gamblin’ man has more than paid his dues and earned the right to his heartland rock, even if he begins to sound more and more like all the rest of the working class poets, a Springsteencougarbrownepetty clone. Just remember who came first.