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Heavy Music
"Heavy Music" is a song first released as a single by Bob Seger & The Last Heard. Two different vocal takes of the song (using the same instrumental track) were released together on either side of the single, with the names "Heavy Music Part 1" and "Heavy Music Part 2." An eight-minute fourteen second-long live version of the song is featured on the album ''Live Bullet'' with the Silver Bullet Band.
==Writing and Production==
The song, on its most literal level, is about the specific act of listening to music and the emotions it evokes. Seger poses the questions: "Don't you ever listen to the radio when the big bad beat comes on?" and "Don't you ever feel like going insane when the drums begin to pound?" in the first and second verses, respectively. The lyric features a lot of vocal ad-libbing throughout, giving rise to a possible sexual connotation. The first words of the song are "Come on with me baby // we're gonna have a good time." Later, he says "I'm goin' in, I'm goin' in now," and other phrases to that effect. He also utters the word "deeper" throughout. Seger himself, however, denies the sexual reading of the lyric: "A lot of people really misconstrued it. That was a song about the music, but a lot of people thought it was a song about music and sex, the two together. There was nothing sexual in it, it was simply read in by a lot of program directors. The part about 'goin' deeper.'"〔Marsh, Dave. ''Creem''. "Doncha Ever Listen to the Radio...How to Remain Obscure through Better Rock 'n' Roll: Bob Seger, Best in the Midwest." May 1972.〕
At the end of "Heavy Music, Part 2," Seger sings the curious line: "NSU (as in the British psych-rock band), SRC, (another Detroit area band)], Stevie Winwood got nothing on me." However, when placed in the context of the times, the line is perfectly understandable. Bob's bands, in their various configurations, were playing at metropolitan Detroit teen nightclubs where other bands were also booked from week to week. There are Websites which show the dates and names of the acts for Something Different, the Palladium, Hideout #1, Hideout #2, Hideout #3, and the Silverbell (Hideout), which were all operated by Punch Andrews, Bob's longtime manager. These Websites show that SRC out of Ann Arbor was regularly booked, but Steve Winwood's band (a/k/a the Spencer Davis Group) out of England was booked once, or possibly twice, as well. Even Rod Stewart & the Faces made an appearance. There was an ongoing "battle of the bands" mentality, as each group strove to impress the teen audiences (and record-buying demographic) more than the rest. So, "Stevie Winwood (English, just 15 years old when he joined the Spencer Davis Group, and quite a sensation, ) ain't got nuthin' on me" would have been a perfectly logical remark for a band involved in ongoing battles to be the best.
Perhaps the most distinctive and crucial aspect of the song is the bass line, played by both a bass guitar and a piano, which producer Doug Brown created for the song after Seger had written the lyric. The tempo of "Heavy Music" (at 145 beats per minute in the "Live Bullet" version ) is strikingly similar to the tempo (147 beats per minute) of "Gimme Some Lovin'" by the Spencer Davis Group, which had been released in October, 1966 and had risen to #2 on the U.K. charts.
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