Bob Seger Live-Mainstreet

Rare Live Bob Seger Concert in Largo, Md. 1980.

[@sysprime]

I saw Bob Seger in Pine Knob Michigan with the greatest audiance in the world in the 70's. Detroit! It was a great show.

[@outspokengirl]

A classic!!! My dad was a huge Seger fan, and this was his favorite song... "I'd stand outside at closing time, just to watch her walk on past..."

[@Patrick-yh5yd]

This song screams INNOCENTS!

[@bobseger1]

Hello Outspoken! Thank you for being an amazing fan. Comments like this are priceless, Thank you, it's nice meeting you here.

[@SWIFTY5150]

Every once in a great while, a song will come along that plays out like a movie in your mind every time you listen to it. Main Street is one of those songs.

[@Ididntaskforahandleyoutube]

Well put. Cheers.

[@jennifersman7990]

Absolutely true!

[@davidapple8047]

Once in a great while, I'll listen to Seger and remember the great times my friends and I had cruising around, listening to Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band. I'll think about great friends who are no longer here, and smile. Then a tear or two will somehow escape. Then, I'll chuckle to myself and then I'm good.

[@candelise]

Bob Seger is one of the greatest singers in Rock 'n Roll. He always sounds like a survivor who's lived a tough life.

[@teresabaker4670]

Love his rough masculine voice; so real and down to earth

[@Cabaret43]

best live performer ive ever seen...no contest...and ive seen alot of the best....only man ive seen 5 times and was blown away each and every time...i hope the man realizes how many lives he has touched...i think he does even if hes too humble to admit it...mid seventies to mid eighties his music inspired me to be a better person

[@richgrose3308]

This was the first song that played in my first car in 1987.

[@RC-Heli835]

This song put me on such a cloud when I was just a little kid 6 or 7 years old and I would actually turn the radio off after it quit playing so I could go over and over it in my mind. Then I was too young to know that he was singing about a girl in a strip joint but the melody and music reached way down inside me and did something for me. We had an old radio shack cassette recorder and I got mom to help me record it from the radio and I'd listened to it to help me fall asleep every night for a long time. So here's a big thumbs up x100.

[@sandrabaker8647]

That's such a sweet story!! What a wonderful mother you had. Some parents would never even take the time to listen to their children, much less help them record a song.

[@TempoDrift1480]

Yeah this is one of those numbers that really puts you there.

[@thebadloser]

That's what music used to have the power to do my friend. Just glad we were around when it still did.

[@scottay69]

in the mid 80's he sold out 6 shows in Detroit in about 30 minutes, we loved our Bob

[@BadVatoSam]

My Warrant Officer in the Marines played with Bob in the early days. CWO4 Carl Lagassa used to tell us wild stories of the Detroit music scene before he enlisted during Nam. RIP Gunner Lagassa

[@bonnieswint6156]

R.I.P. Gunner Lagassa.....ROCK ON Bob Sever!!!

[@perrydortch2672]

Semper Fi!

[@Wolfgasm0414]

@@bonnieswint6156 Good ole Bob Sever🤣

[@dianer558]

God bless you. Rest in perfect peace Gunner Lagassa. Thank you for your service..🙏🏻

[@jennifersman7990]

Seger could write a helluva memoir, check out his interview with Bob Costas

[@maxkol4380]

Dictionary definition of rock star: Bob Segar

[@garyjohnmaidman7822]

MaxKol Funny, I thought the dictionary definition of rock star was Bob Seger, not sure who this Bob Segar guy you are talking about is.

[@maxkol4380]

He's the porototypical rock Star

[@garyjohnmaidman7822]

MaxKol Is porototypical even a word? I believe not. I believe the word you were going for is prototypical. My original point was reinforced by this..just like there is no such word as porototypical and is in fact prototypical, there is no such rock star as Bob Segar, the rock star and singer of this song is Bob Seger, there is no A in Seger.

[@maxkol4380]

Wow. Good luck man.

[@erikautremonde9881]

+MaxKol Boy - you're not kidding.

[@abra8067]

Live video of Seger is very rare. I was in the opening act on this tour. This was the only show videotaped. We were told not to look up at the video screens while we were on. I couldn't resist, and looked up just as I appeared on screen. Busted. Ah, to be 24 again.

[@HeidiSweeden]

When music was really music and not a bunch of techno sounds and beats...REAL TRUE HEART MUSIC RIGHT HERE!! One of my favorite Bob Seger songs!

[@kikerivera4758]

+Heidi Sweeden THATS RIGHT U CAN SAY THAT AGAIN!!

[@shannonsizemore6641]

That's right !

[@asherasspirit7727]

Amen!

[@kyteddy1]

WOW!!!!!!!!I remember this song from WAY back because I used to go to a club on a street in Indiana on Mainstreet and there was a waitress there that had eyes that could melt the north pole ice...She was in her 30s and me about 21 but.MMMMMMM....age did NOT make a difference....A memory i will never forget....thank you for this blast from the past:-)

[@FlockofAngels]

Soprano sax I thought that was an electric guitar in the studio version... WOW...

[@moonlightlady6126]

On the recorded version it was Pete Carr on guitar with his amazing licks, however, sometimes on the road, when Carr wasn't available, they would substitute the soprano sax...not bad, really, but doesn't hold a candle to Carr's guitar on the recording, in my view.

[@shannonlucas2980]

@@moonlightlady6126 I wholeheartedly agree. I was around 3-4 when this record came out. I vividly remember my mom playing it constantly for years. This was my favorite track. Still is.

[@levihill9052]

Moonlight Lady I’m glad you answered this for me lol. I saw him last winter in KC and when Mainstreet came on, my favorite seger song, I was a little bummed to not hear the guitar version of it. Had been a question I’ve had every since then. Thank you!

[@jimspencer5746]

@@shannonlucas2980 great story!

[@jennifersman7990]

BRAVO BOB!! That rare example of a song that sounds just as good, if not better with slightly different instrumentation. Still brings tears to my eyes, it’s that good

[@royparker1844]

The legend Bob S, thank you for posting, played this in the car earlier, so underrated, utterly timeless....

[@lewperkins4629]

Seen him in five countries over thirty years awesome

[@stephenbruce4052]

wow, impressive

[@dinocozzolino1070]

The video might be bad and a horn replaced the guitar , but the song is amazing and the guitar solo is perfect.

[@harrymoseley1969]

Alto at his best! He was a great musician;; thanks for the memories and Rest In Peace, fine sir!

[@lynnbrown1788]

Life is a Bob Segar song , thanks supernatural!

[@Cabaret43]

by far my favourite Seger tune...sax intro always gives me chills

[@victorhugozelayalopez8755]

God blessed Mr. Reed.

[@luvthatclassicrok]

that soprano sax is like insane!

[@mickschick27]

Love Seger... saw him many times beginning back in the 80s and can't wait to see him again this Friday in Boston! Awesome video, Thanks for posting!

[@ClaudiaMitchell-jn7fw]

I’ve always and will always be grateful for Bob Seger…… 🍃💐🍃❣️🍃💐🍃

[@brutus171]

When music was real....

[@allanjones3494]

I know you wrote this 5 years ago, but OH so true.

[@mickeyflowers]

So many memories.... I look at your posts and see some of you left comments 12 years ago. This song will live on and so will our love for this song, by our comments.

[@lisadiulio3753]

I know of MANY great singers of this time BUT none BETTER than this man!! He is the absolute GREASTEST! HE IS AN ALL AROUND ENTERTAINER!

[@bobseger1]

Hello Lisa! Thank you for being an amazing fan. Comments like this are priceless, Thank you, it's nice meeting you here.

[@soniajohnson3450]

thanks for posting. Saw Bob when I was 13 thanks to my sister. It was a great concert.

[@toothmaker22000]

saw bob in 77'78'and 80...........thank you bob for all the great songs and for singing my life!

[@toothmaker22000]

what a voice , what a story teller ...............theres was only one bob seger ...thanks for singing my life.....

[@mountaindewhillbilly]

BOB put on one of the best concerts I ever had the honor of being at !!

[@suckling]

I love Bob's voice its so soulful yet bluesy at the same time, this is easily my fave Bob Seger song

[@toeztocy2003]

I saw Segar 2x's in concert at the portland civic center,he was amazing.I still get taken back to my youth every time I hear that song!

[@drohegda]

i agree Bob Seger writes songs of alot of his life experiences. like Hollywood nights i understand is about leaving Michegan and going to the West Coast to entertain. i saw him twice . Bob and the Silver Bullet Band blows you away in concert. i love music! Drohegda

[@willgibson9718]

Wow this song. Is great

[@mattorourke2237]

The quality of the video adds affect to it. Reminds me of watching VHS tapes when I was a kid.

[@brianlund1619]

Best live concert I ever saw I think it was 1979

[@TheDonna1959]

Seeger you are the man!!

[@bobtad1]

Oh, the good ole days...... How this song takes me back!! I got to see him that year!

[@DeViLzzz2006]

Not sure why this song popped into my head as I woke today but what a song. Nothing more to say.

[@mercisalinas5750]

Los que vivieron esta época los felicito y los que no los vivieron los siento mucho

[@bradfordbarrettluckotheIrish]

No one better than Bob

[@stephenbruce4052]

Thank god well within reason. Parrsboro Nova Scotia. It freaked me out at first, that everyone you drove past, Waived..........I wouldn't of got this song at all, if for not...Cheers..............Bad Quality can be looked at as dreamy . Cheers...Thanks

[@petersonlafollette3521]

This, many other hits really capture Seger's song writing essence as a musical troubadour.

[@trebledamages]

Not only is your father an extremely talented musician, but he sounds like he was a great father to you. You're very lucky. I never have but hope to see Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band live in concert sooner rather than later.

[@sharonkayb]

Bob Seger is great. I saw him play at a small dance outside of Ann Arbor in 1968 before he hit it big.

[@nathanmester4585]

Love this song so much BOB SEGAR is the best.

[@asherasspirit7727]

Love this man, like Elvis they'll never be another!

[@WVatMDT]

Holy smokes, this is AWESOME!!!

[@robertmerkler2751]

Alto Reed & Bob Seger What A Pair!

[@kayahmad8573]

Love him!!! Love his voice!! Rock & Roll God!!

[@marilyndurham738]

R.I.P. Alto. You were an amazing man.

[@devonedwards013]

Diggin' the soprano work.

[@karmicselling4252]

TIMELESS!

[@anthonymilano691]

Music with heart

[@duboisdvoleur]

great ...Thank you

[@jimspencer5746]

Sooo.. Back in the late 80s... There was this rich guy with a big house that would throw awesome free parties.. Food.. Drinks.. Everything . Free.. The only rule was that.. When he played 'Mainstreet",. that meant the party was over... And everyone had to be out of his house before the song ended... No warnings, no nothing...i was like.. See it to believe it .. And sure enough at like 2:40 am.. Mainstreet comes on over the house/yard speakers.... Stampede out of the house.. Party over... I went to like three of the parties and they all ended the same!! True story from New Philadelphia Ohio!

[@gimmedatsammich]

Why are there so few-or actually, NO high or even decent quality live recordings of Bob Seger in the 70’s/80’s, you know, when he was in his prime? Plenty of other big acts of that era do. Maybe I haven’t looked long enough on KZbin, but I’ve yet to find a video I’d watch, and I love Seger.

[@beanmchne]

Mr Seger is simply amazing.

[@gymnast2890]

I have a friend looks JUST like him in these old videos :)

[@intrepidsinger]

Thanks for posting this. Although the video quality is not the greatest, one can capture the soul and spirit of Bob, Alto and the Silver Bullet Band performing my favorite Seger song (for what that's worth! LOL!) This video proves that he/they can still rock with anyone and in fact can still do it better.

[@FatherAndTeacherTV]

Such a good song!

[@tiernth]

alto's my dad! he tucked me in at night! and drove me to school!!!

[@catrashoo]

cool video,i had been looking for it for ever.

[@Cheessa]

Wonderful song!

[@rreford]

prolly my top fave guitar outro of all time

[@carrietide]

I LOOOOVE this song

[@dmetaljoe]

great song,just great!

[@dkshotwell]

wow, I can watch a video of Hendrix in 1968 in Hi-Def Hi-sound quality, and yet there is not one same quality of Seger live anywhere??

[@RikkiD46]

raw rough and ready this is how rock is meant to be.

[@Dan-vt3nk]

Awesome!

[@edwu8253]

This song stops me in my tracks when ever i hear it

[@anthonyparra8049]

I always preferred hearing Bob Seger's song in a live versions. For me the Album versions sounded a little sanitary but the live versions showed the true passion.

[@rricci]

I always wanted to make a video of this song. I ALWAYS have liked this song and always will until the day I die

[@ioriorioriorio]

i like the bass player in the jumpsuit, and the soprano dude's shades(70's show) Wow...we really looked like that!! Oh, well..it was the sweet seventies!

[@veronicaburke5450]

Love Bob Segar !! Omg !!

[@bobseger1]

Hello Burke! Thank you for being an amazing fan. Comments like this are priceless, Thank you, it's nice meeting you here.

[@georgegrund6383]

1979 main st missoula montana I got me very first apartment in east missoula and I went to main street all my friends had joined the navy and I stayed home so long ago but seemed like yesterday

[@amerocker]

xtremenorthener; It is a lead-guitar part you hear on the studio version of, "Mainstreet'. It is transposed to sax live so Alto Reed can play on it.

[@kja427]

The audio quality of this needs improvement. Now, I respect Mr. Seger. Out of Detroit, he was a man who had soul in his music. You can tell when you listen. We should be grateful to God for creating him. I do.

[@BradPittVEVO]

Angelina and I love this live performance, our black kids have no appreciation for the ol time rock and roll though

[@bobbymonetti1011]

Why isn’t this remastered? Such a beautiful song.

[@alfredoenrique4815]

Este es un clásico

[@papitojag1489]

my song

[@danielledupuis7839]

❤❤❤

[@marshallaw531]

Wow , fifty four people do not like this song ? Is their a better told story of adolescence

[@terrywalters1983]

They may simply be reacting to the poor quality of the video, Surely?

[@marcdolgow6573]

+Tj Gong Or the awful horn - the guitar is WAY better

[@mr.warmth1511]

this aint the movies fool

[@richardtofts7264]

Only ' the first time ' by Bobby Goldsboro comes close. This also reminds me of ' handbags and gladrags.'

[@jackiloff1538]

We used to stand out the shamrock on Tennessee st the topless dancers! seems we all had a street!

[@gmonster58]

great song, when and where? saw bob year ago, great time, rock on!

[@erictruluck1865]

those were the days....

[@gymnast2890]

Me too, for sure :)

[@skyy256]

Jeff Lynn from E.L.O on sax?....cool!

[@carrietide]

No.It is Alto Reed.

[@obil10]

What a nice song! can somebody write about the singers life?

[@Bowietrope]

Like others have said I absolutely love this song and he sang well, but that tenor sax replacing the opening lead guitar line just about killed it, like a smooth jazz version..like when David Bowie incorporated David Sanborn into his 74 tour...dang, we need a quality live performance of this song.

[@doodad1]

I looked up your band, Great cover art on that Barooga Bandit album! Would love to hear some tunes. Thanks for sharing!

[@stewartsanders8751]

This is from the live album 9 tonight at Detroit

[@Jody07984]

@KantianEdifice I hear ya. I listen to an oldie videos channel on FB. They play vids from the 50s, 60, and 70, and so many younger kids who watch say the same thing. Today's music just doesn't have it like the older stuff did. I feel so fortunate to have experienced Elvis, the Beatles, The Beach Boys, and even Michael Jackson from the very beginning of their careers.

[@Angela-ss4lu]

Bob has the best teeth 😍

[@austinneely5144]

I LOVE YOU

[@erikautremonde9881]

I can't believe he replaced that beautiful guitar part with that horn. Might as well use an accordion. I couldn't find the original except one that would NOT play. Will try again. Song's still great, along with his singing. Reminds me of Baltimore when I was a lonely kid ending up nowhere, with nobody. I'm glad I did the right thing, but damn, I'm sorry I lost that girl. This song makes me feel the loneliness associate with the whole thing. I'm never gonna recover from that in this world. May The Lord help me. If I've got more than a couple years or so, I'm really going to need it.