Slow, lazy and droning, just like Bob.

Nice cowbell.

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It's just a television movie or two away. Well done, guys.

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First time I hear the word "woody" used in a song that
wasn't a surf tune. LMFAO!

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Not to be too generic, we thank you and Mr. Seger thanks
you.

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After hearing me sing it repeatadly while washing the
dishes, my kids are even singing it now. My son says
'Seeger Beep'. My daughter says 'Secret Beat'. It's a
hit. Fortunately, neither of them know who Bob Seger
even is yet. But they know Dead End.

But besides that, this song is a great example of your
talent for 'matter of fact rock'. It seems like you guys
are finally getting noticed for the 'Depressed Scotia
Sound Genius' you have been posting here for
months. It's been shamefully ignored, so I hope the
people who liked this will go check out your other
stuff too and give it some props. Production is not
the big strength here, it's creativity and fearless-
ness. You aren't afraid to take a risk, and I can hear
that.

Glad to see people are finally noticing. Keep it up.
I'm an End Head.

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considering I've always loathed Bob Seger, this is the only song associated with him that I like. you guys have some really cool songs...keep it up

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you actually wrote about the segar beat thats awesome

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This is going to be in my head all night. I love your sound.

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Every morning I stand on my porch with my dog Woody and sing "morning Woody" to him!!! He just looks at me in the most bewildered way... whatevah!!!!

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this is another dead end classic.
have been listening to dead end for the last 2 days.

digging all your stuff.

cheers

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I gotta say I never recall seeing Seger wear plaid. He and the great Silver Bullet Band were always wearing great outfits, mainly because they were sucessful. They had some great balads as Troy tried to point out. Then again the songs Katmandu, Let it Rock, and Travelin Man live were probably some of the most rockin songs I've ever heard. A place in the Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame isn't too bad either for a Rock n' Roll singers resume!

He's sold over 50 million records. I'm sure you give a copy to your mothers for them allowing you to still live at home at age 30, so that's about 49,999,997 albums more than you Bob Seger has sold!

p.s. Seger has been happily married for some years now, with kids too! And I'm not sure if he has a dog...

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Thanks for the sour persimmons, cousin. Now it's our turn.

Ross, we're Seger fans. It's all in good fun. We didn't know you were the
head of the Bob Seger defamation league. We never claimed to be his equals
or put down his talent. Truth is none of us on this site are in his league.
We simply wrote a fictional song and incorporated Seger's style.
By the way, I have in fact seen 1 picture
of him wearing plaid. Almost everyone has had a plaid shirt in their lifetime.
Where were you for grunge? Probably in Massachusetts, I'll get to that later.

"Seger beat" is undeniable, it's real and it's moving. I believe we managed
to harness it's power with this track. Something you couldn't do on your best
day. More on that later.
So within this fictional account there's a tribute repeated in chorus.
Then again, what should we expect from you, Ross. You're Massachusetts
folk. You win 1 world series and it's anarchy.

So we may not sell many albums, but I'm sure we've sold more than you.
One song and you think you know us, well we haven't heard a song from you
yet. I can already bet it's not as good as Man in Plaid.

Oh, and Ross, mentioning our mothers. Ah, that's comedy gold, fucker.
How would you know about Seger's dog? Oh, that's right she's your biological
mother. We understand it's a sore subject for you.
You're out of you're depth here, dude. Thanks again, now that you're put
back in your proper place. Beneath us. It's time for you to get used to it.

Dead End



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"Nothing's real, it's all a conspiracy."

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Aren't you guys a bit over the line? We were talking music up until now and your are bringing family relations in (and no, it doesn't do to use a joke about giving your records as an excuse). Let's tone it down a bit, okay?

I am a Seger fan myself and, simply, your song didn't struck me neither as good nor as a tribute to him. You think you can accept this without slinging mud?

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Mudslinging? Hey we didn't start anything of the sort. However, if people
bring it, it's their own fault.
Yeah Seger's great. We're fans. It is what it is. God damn.


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so you guys are Yankees fans? Then you have already contridicted yourself when you said I'm below you. I never made mention of my beloved Red Sox, but while we're at it, nothing was sweeter than seeing you guys lose it 4 straight!

As for the mother joke: in the book of insults, it is worse to say you still live with your mom, than it is to say my mom is Seger's dog.

Why do I know so much about Seger. It plain and simple, he's the best, and I like laughing at miserable losers like yourselves going nowhere, writing garbage available on free websites like this!

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so if we're losers writing garbage on a free website,what does that make
you?you don't even have any songs,poems,or anything on here. so do you
just come on to write garbage on a free website? basically you are a waste of
sperm and not worth the time, so get lost idiot.
p.s. we are not even baseball fans we just think it's funny that the red sox can
only win one pennant a life time.


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"Nothing's real, it's all a conspiracy."

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by the way,i should mention this since you have a thing for us living at home.
i'm 27 have a fiancee,2 kids and my own house. unlike you i don't sit around
with my parents having circle jerk sessions while watching a stupid baseball
game. thanks for all your feedback, and don't open your mouth anymore.

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I would hardly call Charlie Martin, David Teegarden, Don Brewer, and Kenny Arnoff lame drummers that lay down simple beats.

Stoners like yourselves have wet dreams about drummers like that playing for you guys.

...that is if you've reached puberty yet and know what wet dreams are.

so what do you do for work? Certinly not a musician are you. I'll also have you know that I have enough money to own a one of a kind custom made guitar! I bet I could make your fiancee leave you in a heartbeat!

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Wow, a couple of Johnny "cum" latelys have graced us with their presence.
No songs, nothing, oogots. Hey, but at least you've got a custom guitar,
bravo. Maybe you'd have some songs, if you ever woke up from your
sleepwalking wet dream.

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Hey guys...i'm not sure just how old everyone is who has been posting here these last few times but I have to say I'm really shocked at how childish you ALL have been with your responses.

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Yeah, I think it's time everybody takes a deep breath and a step back. Even more so if we are all Seger fans.

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I'm done!

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As one particular musician once put it: there's only good and bad music out there. I admire anyone writing good lyrics and playing good music. But this song just ain't good.

So, you are trying to mess around a bit with Seger's midtempo era from 1976 to 1991...but...there's no reference AT ALL to it, neither to Seger's music nor to Seger in private. The beat in this song is simple, right, but not effective and it doesn't represent the Seger sound. You just can't hear it out. Being a longtime Seger fan I have always been amused by good Seger "imitations" where you could immediately hear out the Seger sound and thought 'hey, the did a good job on this, they hit the nail on the head.' But this particular song brainwashes non Seger fans who actually know nothing about the man and his music career (having lasted 40 years so far, btw). Seger in plaid? Just another foolish joke. Not even funny.

I am trying not to be too negative here. I don't feel offended but it should be clear that your song doesn't represent Seger. Which means it is quite a lame attempt by your band. I don't see any irony here. If I wanna hear a good imitation, if I wanna have a good laugh about somebody messing around with the style of a musician, I'd rather go with "Weird Al" Yankovic.

Btw, try out Seger before he went to stardom, 1965 to 1975.

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Man In Plaid: State of The Union Address

To the BSDL (Bob Seger Defamation League):
This just in: Man in Plaid is fictional.
We are fans, he's awesome and none of us are in his league.

That being said, this song was made up on the spot.
It started like most of our tunes. We were hanging out with some friends
talking music and watching TV. Then we just started riffing and writing the
chorus: Seger beat, move you feet to the seger beat.
We were all singing along and it was all in good fun. It seems some folks
don't see it as "good fun." Whatever, lighten up.
Did we mention that we are fans of Mr. Seger? Thought so.
Anyhow, we had this catchy melody line as the chorus and built a fictional
story around it. Fictional means fake for those scoring at home. I can't help
but believe that had we not included "Mr. Seger" you'd all admit that the hook
was solid. Hell, we sing about looping and pooping and it's cool, right?
Well if not then you're lying and we know it. Seriously.
I guess we probably shouldn't mention that opening line is Cash-esque, huh.
For the record we're also Cash fans. God help us if we ever make a song
about him, ha.

To the music experts on this site who've weighed in on this track:
We didn't realize this would be such a debacle.
Some of you guys take yourselves way too seriously. We normally take
criticism well, recording/performing aspects etc.
However, earlier in this thread we responded accordingly to the various
"artists" talking smack. We use the term artist loosely. It is in fact
interchangeable with the word jackoffs.
These very same artists have no songs, no poems, nothing posted.
Can't wait. Just for the record we're not bombers. So fear not, artists.

To be fair, not all were total attacks on our song or us as a band.
Some were polite. If you call "ain't good" and "lame" to name a few, as polite.
We've read a lot of comments about other people's songs on here. Hey, we've
heard some bad songs here at Macjams but we've never seen anything close
to the crap we've gotten over this. I guess we subscribe to the old positive
feedback adage.

Now for the song itself, for the record:
The guitar lines are very Seger like, right down to the effects.
Also the whole rhythm and tempo of the song is "Seger beat" down to the last
drum fill. Another note is the lack of a ride.
The styling of the composition is patterned after our extensive study of
Seger's songs. My father and I listened exclusively to Seger on road trips.
Then there's the changes and the piano parts featuring cowbell.
It's not a typical verse chorus verse approach.
Then there's the "Spoken bridge" with sparse instrumentation.
We never said the "Seger beat" was simple. It's danceable and fun.
Hence, the moving of feet.

About the plaid: There is a picture of him in plaid, I've seen it.
Everyone's had a plaid shirt at one point, bought or borrowed.

We've never claimed to be polished band or good musicians.
Although I will say this for us now: We record what we want, when we want.
Isn't that what it's all about? It's freedom. If you don't like it, don't listen.
It is what it is. We hope you like our music, if not that's ok.
We'll get over it but not really. We'll still play our tunes anyhow.
Actually, I believe that we are accomplished lyricists and decent performers.
The monkey holds his own, ha literally and on the drums.
By god, we can make anything a hook. That's the gospel truth.
Shameless self promotion. That's right, that's right.

"We don't think it's funny, you laughing. The monkey gets the crazy idea
you're laughing at him. Now if you just apologize, like we know you're going
to. I might be able to convince him that you really didn't mean it."

Dead End


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AMEN,AMEN, brother!!! V, you hit the nail on the head and if you were running
for president I'D actually VOTE! but seriously just to back up, IT IS ABOUT
FREEDOM and WRITING what you want. So as previously stated , listen or don't.
it's not like we're getting paid for this, so we don't care if you listen or not. but
if you do, CONSTRUCTIVE criticism is ok but don't be a douche. SOME PEOPLE
do not have any kind of music or poetry or anything on this sight, and
proceed to blast US out of the water! To all of you that have blasted us over a
stupid song and don't have anything out here, please let us know when your
cd is out i'd like to hear it. or even when you have some stuff on this sight.
Again, well said vince keep fighting for our freedom even though you
shouldn't have to. -J-

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as for none of us having a CD, I would really shut up about that as you could really be put in your spot with that.



p.s. I have never seen Seger in plaid. Never!

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Ross, let it go... Shut the fuck up.

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