You think time can`t change a person`s situation in life? We recently came across a 1972 record-company biography of a certain performer. See if you can identify, some 14 years later, the performer discussed in these excerpts from the biography:
”There is a great American songwriter living in Detroit, Mich. He has been called such things as `the Fogerty of the Midwest,` although that`s not really fair because he grew into his style and voice at the same time as Fogerty, with neither of them really having much knowledge of the other. He is like Fogerty in that his music is an expression both of his cultural roots and his feelings about growing up and living in America. . . .
”He has not, up until now, had much influence outside of the Midwest, although he has been one of the major shaping forces of the Midwestern rock
`n` roll scene and has had national hits. He has had 10 Top 10 records in Detroit in seven years, three of which have sold over 50,000 copies. . . .”
The not-so-influential-outside-the-Midwest performer is Bob Seger, and the biography was prepared in conjunction with one of his early albums,
”Smokin` O.P.`s.” Seger will play Poplar Creek Friday, and what a difference time can make. He is now one of the major acts on the national rock scene. His last eight albums, beginning with ”Live Bullet” in 1976, have gone platinum (at least 1 million copies sold), and his current album, ”Like a Rock,” is on the verge of going double-platinum (2 million copies sold).
And it is probably safe to say that few comparisons to John Fogerty will be made during the course of the evening at Poplar Creek.
