Bob Seger & Silver Bullet Band- Live Bullet 50th Anniversary 4-13

Even now some five decades later there are some significant assumptions and misconceptions about Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band’s April 1976 release Live Bullet. First, there are some who contend that since Bob Seger followed a similar concept as Peter Frampton Comes Alive released three months earlier, that being a live “best of” double album but priced only a dollar more than single disc new studio albums, that Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band’s Live Bullet was simply copying Frampton’s formula. Not so, Bob Seger asserts. “It took us twelve years to make Live Bullet.” 

The second contention about Live Bullet is when, and why, it started selling on its way to six million (!) copies sold in the US alone. Several sources erroneously contend that Live Bullet, having been released six months before Seger’s blockbuster Night Moves, was the album which made Bob and band stars. Yet record industry bible Billboard confirms that Bob Seger’s Live Bullet never even made the Top 30 sales throughout 1976. My guest here In the Studio Bob Seger “turns the page” and sorts out the myths while playing with live ammo the week of April 13 for the golden anniversary of Live Bullet. – Redbeard