118-523: Creem (often stylized in all caps ) is an American rock music magazine and entertainment company, founded in Detroit , whose initial print run lasted from 1969 to 1989. It was first published in March 1969 by Barry Kramer and founding editor Tony Reay. Influential critic Lester Bangs served as the magazine's editor from 1971 to 1976. It suspended production in 1989 but attained a short-lived renaissance in
236-545: A No. 4 hit on the Billboard Pop Singles chart and receiving airplay on AOR radio. The album also featured the songs " Mainstreet " (written about Ann Arbor's Ann Street), a No. 24 hit ballad that emphasized Seger's rock credibility as well as guitarist Pete Carr 's lead guitar line, and " Rock and Roll Never Forgets ", which peaked at No. 41 on the Billboard Hot 100 . Night Moves
354-640: A Rock ", and " Shakedown ", the last of which was written for the 1987 film Beverly Hills Cop II and topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart. He also co-wrote the Eagles ' number-one hit " Heartache Tonight ", and his recording of " Old Time Rock and Roll " was named one of the Songs of the Century in 2001. With a career spanning six decades, Seger has sold over 75 million records worldwide, making him one of
472-561: A Rock , emerged in the spring of 1986. The fast-paced "American Storm" was another Top-20 single aided by a popular music video featuring actress Lesley Ann Warren , and " Like a Rock " followed, reaching No. 12 on Billboard's Hot 100. Later, it would become familiar to many Americans through its association with a long-running Chevrolet ad campaign (something Seger explicitly chose to do to support struggling American automobile workers in Detroit). Seger's 1986–1987 American Storm Tour
590-981: A certain sense of humor in the rock'n'roll culture – CREEM nailed it in a way that nobody else was. It informed a lot of people's sensibilities." Publishers, editors and writers for Creem included Barry Kramer, his partner (later his wife) Connie Warren Kramer, Lester Bangs , Dave Marsh, Billy Altman, Bob Fleck, John Morthland, Ben Edmonds, Ed Ward , Richard Riegel, Ric Siegel, Robert Christgau , Richard Meltzer , Nick Tosches , Greil Marcus , Jeffrey Morgan , Richard C. Walls, Rob Tyner , Patti Smith , Peter Laughner , Cameron Crowe , Trixie A. Balm (a.k.a. Lauren Agnelli ), Laura Levine, Judy Adams, Jaan Uhelszki , Penny Valentine , Susan Whitall, John "The Mad" Peck , John Mendelsohn , Mike Gormley , Sylvie Simmons , Gregg Turner, Chuck Eddy , Mark J. Norton, Alan Niester, Robert Duncan , Alan Madlane (as Alan Madeleine), Judy Wieder, Colman Andrews , Jim Esposito, Dave DiMartino, Bill Holdship and John Kordosh. These last three edited
708-609: A classic raspy, powerful voice, Seger is known for his songs concerning love, women, and blue-collar themes, and is one of the best-known artists of the heartland rock genre. He has recorded many hits, including " Night Moves ", " Turn the Page ", " Mainstreet ", " Still the Same ", " Hollywood Nights ", " Against the Wind ", " You'll Accomp'ny Me ", " Shame on the Moon ", " Roll Me Away ", " Like
826-689: A commonly preferred alternative to all caps text is the use of small caps to emphasise key names or acronyms (for example, Text in Small Caps ), or the use of italics or (more rarely) bold . In addition, if all caps must be used it is customary to slightly widen the spacing between the letters, by around 10 per cent of the point height. This practice is known as tracking or letterspacing. Some digital fonts contain alternative spacing metrics for this purpose. Messages completely in capital letters are often equated on social media to shouting and other impolite or argumentative behaviors. This became
944-467: A compilation album titled Early Seger Vol. 1 , which contained archival material from the 1970s and 1980s, including some fully or partially re-recorded tracks from his albums Smokin' O.P.'s (1972) and Seven (1974) and some never-before-released songs. The album was initially only available for purchase at Meijer stores and then later for download at BobSeger.com. Seger contributed piano and vocals on Kid Rock's 2010 album Born Free . Seger staged
1062-483: A computer program shouting at its user. Information technology journalist Lee Hutchinson described Microsoft's using the practice as "LITERALLY TERRIBLE ... [it] doesn't so much violate OS X's design conventions as it does take them out behind the shed, pour gasoline on them, and set them on fire." In programming, writing in all caps (possibly with underscores replacing spaces ) is an identifier naming convention in many programming languages that symbolizes that
1180-555: A cover of the Lou Reed song from the 1989 album New York , as the first single taken from the album. I Knew You When was released on November 17, 2017, which would have marked the last day of Seger's Runaway Train tour. However, due to "an urgent medical issue with his vertebrae ", all concert dates starting September 30 had to be postponed. Of the 32 scheduled tour dates, Seger could complete 13 and had to postpone 19. On September 18, 2018, Seger announced his final tour. Named
1298-495: A delicate scanning of characters (from a damaged image that needs further contextual text correction). Depending on the typeface , these similarities accidentally create various duplicates (even quite briefly and without realizing it when reading). E.g. H/A, F/E or I/T by adding a bar; P/R, O/Q, even C/G from similar errors; V/U, D/O, even B/S while rounding the shape; and more deformations implying mixings. Adding digits in all caps styled texts may multiply these confusions, which
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#17327728419641416-559: A fistfight that gave Marsh a gash on his head. Eventually, the magazine was successful enough to move to editorial offices in downtown Birmingham, Michigan . In 1971, Bangs became editor, and in 1976 he left the magazine; he never wrote for it again. On January 29, 1981, Kramer died of an accidental overdose of nitrous oxide . A year later, on April 30, 1982, Bangs died in New York City of an accidental Darvon overdose. The magazine's offices were geographically separated from most of
1534-479: A five-year licensing deal with Levitt, with the option to purchase the magazine's intellectual property rights for $ 100,000. There was talk about a quarterly print publication in 2011. They launched a website and generated new content, primarily to maintain the brand. As the five-year deadline of the licensing deal approached, Matheu sought investors, and got a $ 52,500 investment from Los Angeles disk jockey Chris Carter and Barry Kramer's son J.J. Kramer. Matheu provided
1652-399: A mainstream interpretation with the advent of networked computers, from the 1980s onward. However, a similar interpretation was already evidenced by written sources that predated the computing era, in some cases by at least a century, and the textual display of shouting or emphasis was still not a settled matter by 1984. The following sources may be relevant to the history of all caps: Before
1770-792: A minor hit with a version of Tim Hardin 's " If I Were a Carpenter " (No. 76 the US), though it did feature "Someday", a new Seger original, and a re-release of "Heavy Music". The album reached 180 on the Billboard 200. After spending most of 1972 touring with Teegarden & Van Winkle, Seger left the duo to put together a new backing band, referred to as both My Band and the Borneo Band, made up of musicians from Tulsa, Oklahoma . Jamie Oldaker , Dick Sims, and Marcy Levy were all members of My Band before joining Eric Clapton 's backing band. In 1973, Seger put out Back in '72 , recorded partly with
1888-805: A new backing band. Throughout 1974–75, Seger continued to perform in local venues around his hometown while known as the Bob Seger Group including one renowned concert in Davisburg, Michigan, called the "Battle of the Bands". In 1974, Seger formed the Silver Bullet Band. Its original members were guitarist Drew Abbott , drummer and backing vocalist Charlie Allen Martin, keyboardist and backing vocalist Rick Manasa, bass guitarist Chris Campbell, and saxophonist and backing vocalist Alto Reed . With this new band sitting in occasionally, Seger released
2006-524: A new label. In the spring of 1968, Bob Seger & the Last Heard signed with major label Capitol Records , turning down Motown Records , who offered more money than Capitol. Seger felt that Capitol was more appropriate for his genre than Motown. Capitol changed the name of the band to The Bob Seger System. In the transition between labels, guitarist Carl Lagassa left the band, and keyboard player Bob Schultz joined. The System's first single with Capitol
2124-469: A particularly harsh review of the group Canned Heat . Bangs fell in love with Detroit, calling it "rock's only hope", and remained there for five years. Many of the staff members lived in the Walled Lake farmhouse, where there were occasional physical altercations between writers. One day, Marsh, who objected to Bangs' poorly housebroken dog, placed the dog's dung on Bangs' typewriter. This resulted in
2242-575: A popularity imbalance; in June 1976, he was a featured performer at the Pontiac Silverdome outside Detroit in front of nearly 80,000 fans, but one night later played to fewer than a thousand people in Chicago. Seger finally achieved his commercial breakthrough with his October 1976 album Night Moves . The title track, " Night Moves " was critically and commercially well-received, becoming
2360-562: A short period following the breakup, Seger had ambitions to be a one-man act. In 1971, he released his first solo album, the all-acoustic Brand New Morning . The album was a commercial failure and led to his departure from Capitol Records. Seger, having regained an eye for bands, began playing with the duo Teegarden & Van Winkle , who in 1970 had a hit single with "God, Love, and Rock & Roll". Together they recorded Smokin' O.P.'s (1972), released on Punch Andrews' own Palladium Records. The album mainly consisted of covers, spawning
2478-532: A slowed speed is possible – but in principle too many factors of low legibility are involved." Other critics are of the opinion that all caps letters in text are often "too tightly packed against each other". Besides the aforementioned speed of reading, all caps is can be prone to character -based ambiguities. Namely, the upper-case letters are globally simpler than their lower-case counterpart. For example, they lack ascenders and descenders . Since they are built from fewer positional and building elements (e.g.
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#17327728419642596-501: A small private setting at The Village Club, in Bloomfield Hills; they have two children. Politically, Seger has characterized himself as a centrist : "[I'm] right down the middle", he remarked. He supported Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election . He tackled antiestablishment themes in early songs such as " 2 + 2 = ? " (1968) and "U.M.C. (Upper Middle Class)" (1974), according to Brian McCollum of
2714-416: A smaller grid pertaining to minimalist digital fonts), they are more fragile to small changes. These variations, generally involuntary but sometimes induced on purpose, are caused by a misinterpretation (the information is transferred) or by a deterioration (the data is lost, in the analysis wording). They can occur horizontally and/or vertically, while misreading (without this extra effort or time), or during
2832-497: A song from George Jackson and Thomas E. Jones III that Seger substantially rewrote the lyrics for, peaked at No. 28 on the Hot 100, but achieved greater popularity after being featured in the 1983 Tom Cruise film Risky Business , in which Tom Cruise's character dances in his underwear to the song. It has since been ranked the second-most played Jukebox Single of all time, behind Patsy Cline 's " Crazy ". "Old Time Rock and Roll"
2950-660: A successful arena tour during 2011, accompanied by the release of a two-CD compilation album, Ultimate Hits: Rock and Roll Never Forgets . On May 28, 2011, Michigan Governor Rick Snyder proclaimed that date as Bob Seger Day for his more than 50 years of sharing his celebrated musical talents with fans all over the world. On December 30, 2011, before a sell-out crowd at the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas, Seger closed another tour. On October 30, 2011, he told AnnArbor.com director, Bob Needham, he
3068-424: A tabloid-sized newspaper, but then a deal was struck with a distributor. Many copies were ordered by porn shops who were confused by the faintly suggestive title, and who displayed it next to the similarly sized Screw magazine . Richard "Ric" Siegel became circulation director, Creem become a glossy color magazine sized for newsstand distribution, and within two years had secured a national distribution deal. For
3186-663: A term is conspicuous, we look at more than formatting. A term that appears in capitals can still be inconspicuous if it is hidden on the back of a contract in small type. Terms that are in capitals but also appear in hard-to-read type may flunk the conspicuousness test. A sentence in capitals, buried deep within a long paragraph in capitals will probably not be deemed conspicuous...it is entirely possible for text to be conspicuous without being in capitals. Certain musicians—such as Marina , Finneas , who are both known mononymously, and MF DOOM —as well as some bands such as Haim and Kiss —have their names stylised in all caps. Additionally, it
3304-610: A time. Regarding his early musical inspirations, Seger has stated, " Little Richard – he was the first one that really got to me. Little Richard and, of course, Elvis Presley ." " Come Go with Me " by The Del-Vikings , a hit in 1957, was the first record he bought. Bob Seger arrived on the Detroit music scene in 1961 fronting a three-piece band called the Decibels. The band included Seger on guitar, piano, keyboards, and vocals, Pete Stanger on guitar, and R.B. Hunter on drums. All of
3422-403: Is an "apparent consensus" that lower-case text is more legible, but that some editors continue to use all caps in text regardless. In his studies of all caps in headlines , he states that, "Editors who favor capitals claim that they give greater emphasis. Those who prefer lower case claim their preferences gives greater legibility." Wheildon, who informs us that "When a person reads a line of type,
3540-615: Is common for bands with vowelless names (a process colourfully known as " disemvoweling ") to use all caps, with prominent examples including STRFKR , MSTRKRFT , PWR BTTM , SBTRKT , JPNSGRLS (now known as Hotel Mira), BLK JKS , MNDR , and DWNTWN . Miles Tinker , renowned for his landmark work, Legibility of Print , performed scientific studies on the legibility and readability of all-capital print. His findings were as follows: All-capital print greatly retards speed of reading in comparison with lower-case type. Also, most readers judge all capitals to be less legible. Faster reading of
3658-435: Is less legible and readable than lower-case text. In addition, switching to all caps may make text appear hectoring and obnoxious for cultural reasons, since all-capitals is often used in transcribed speech to indicate that the speaker is shouting. All-caps text is common in comic books, as well as on older teleprinter and radio transmission systems, which often do not indicate letter case at all. In professional documents,
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3776-400: Is one aim of Leet (intentional pseudo duplicates) and can provide simple means of concealing messages (often numbers). Bob Seger Robert Clark Seger ( / ˈ s iː ɡ ər / SEE -gər ; born May 6, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and musician. As a locally successful Detroit -area artist, he performed and recorded with the groups Bob Seger and the Last Heard and
3894-566: The ASCII table , so can display both alphabets, but all caps only. Mikrosha is switchable to KOI-7N1, in this mode, it can display both caps and lower-case, but in Cyrillic only. Other Soviet computers, such as BK0010 , MK 85 , Corvette and Agat-9 , use 8-bit encoding called KOI-8R, they can display both Cyrillic and Latin in caps and lower-case. Many, but not all NES games use all caps because of tile graphics, where charset and tiles share
4012-689: The Country Music Hall of Fame in Nashville for the induction of Patty Loveless , playing her 1997 song " She Drew a Broken Heart ." Loveless sang a duet with Seger in "The Answer's The Question" in Seger's Face the Promise album in 2006. Lincoln Park declared November 17, 2017, "Bob Seger Day" in the city. Mayor Thomas Karnes called Seger the voice of the city for their generation. Seger attended school there in his youth and performed at
4130-478: The Detroit Free Press . On his 2014 album Ride Out , he addressed topics such as gun violence and wrote "It's Your World" about climate change . On the subject, he said, "There are a lot of culprits in climate change, and everybody's responsible, myself included. Nobody gets a free pass on this one. We've got to change our ways and change them fast." He has considered President Barack Obama to be
4248-519: The Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section , a renowned group of session musicians who had recorded with the likes of J. J. Cale and Aretha Franklin . According to Seger, there was a financial misunderstanding with the musicians: they offered to record him "for $ 1500 a side", which he took to mean $ 1500 per album side. When he found out that they meant $ 1500 per song, he left after recording three songs but resolved to work with them in
4366-600: The Travelin' Man tour, it included postponed dates from the 2017 tour as well as additional shows, and was scheduled to kick off on November 21 at the Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, MI . The tour ended on November 1, 2019, after which Seger retired. Silver Bullet Band saxophonist Alto Reed died one year later, on December 30, 2020, aged 72. Seger came out of retirement on October 22, 2023, to perform at
4484-643: The world's best-selling artists of all time . Seger was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004 and the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2012. Seger was named Billboard 's 2015 Legend of Live honoree at the 12th annual Billboard Touring Conference & Awards , held November 18–19 at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York. His farewell tour took place in 2018 and 2019. Seger
4602-482: The 18th Amendment in Omaha, Nebraska.) Seger took a sabbatical from the music business for about ten years to spend time with his wife and two young children. In 2001 and 2002, Seger won the prestigious Port Huron to Mackinac Boat Race aboard his 52-foot (16 m) sailboat Lightning . He subsequently sold the boat. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 15, 2004. Fellow Detroiter Kid Rock gave
4720-533: The 1965 single "TGIF" backed with "First Girl", credited to Doug Brown and The Omens. Seger later appeared on Doug Brown and The Omens' parody of Barry Sadler 's song " Ballad of the Green Berets " which was re-titled "Ballad of the Yellow Beret" and mocked draft evaders . Soon after its release, Sadler and his record label threatened Brown and his band with a lawsuit, and the recording was withdrawn from
4838-573: The 1990s, more than three-quarters of newspapers in the western world used lower-case letters in headline text. Discussion regarding the use of all caps for headlines centers on the greater emphasis offered by all caps versus the greater legibility offered by lower-case letters. Colin Wheildon conducted a scientific study with 224 readers who analyzed various headline styles and concluded that "Headlines set in capital letters are significantly less legible than those set in lower case." All caps typography
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4956-452: The 5 and 10-minute time limits, and 13.9 percent for the whole 20-minute period". Tinker concluded that, "Obviously, all-capital printing slows reading to a marked degree in comparison with Roman lower case." Tinker provides the following explanations for why all capital printing is more difficult to read: Text in all capitals covers about 35 percent more printing surface than the same material set in lower case. This would tend to increase
5074-487: The Apollo was their favorite record following its release in 1963. Seger was also influenced by the music of The Beatles , once they hit American shores in 1964. In general, he and local musician friends such as Glenn Frey (later a member of the Eagles ) bought into the premises of 1960s pop and rock radio, with its hook-driven hits; he later recalled himself and Frey thinking at the time, "You're nobody if you can't get on
5192-519: The Bob Seger System throughout the 1960s, breaking through with his first album, Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (which contained his first national hit " Ramblin' Gamblin' Man ") in 1969. By the early 1970s, he had dropped the 'System' from his recordings and continued to strive for broader success with various other bands. In 1973, he put together the Silver Bullet Band , with a group of Detroit-area musicians, with whom he became most successful on
5310-518: The Hot 100, while the title song " Against the Wind " reached No. 5 as a single and even crossed over to the Top 10 on Billboard ' s Adult Contemporary chart. " You'll Accompany Me " became the third hit single from the record, reaching No. 14. Against the Wind would also win two Grammy Awards . As of 2006, both Stranger in Town and Against the Wind had sold over 5 million copies each in
5428-531: The Last Heard, Seger released his version of the song with Hideout Records in January 1966, and it became his first big Detroit hit. The single (backed with "East Side Sound", an instrumental version of "East Side Story") sold 50,000 copies, mostly in the Detroit area, and led to a contract with Cameo-Parkway Records . Though the name "The Last Heard" originally referred to the collection of Omens and Town Criers who recorded "East Side Story" with Seger, it soon became
5546-508: The Moon ". It was the biggest hit of the Silver Bullet Band's entire career, hitting No. 1 on the Adult Contemporary chart and holding at No. 2 for four consecutive weeks – behind Patti Austin and James Ingram 's " Baby, Come to Me " and Michael Jackson 's " Billie Jean " – on the Hot 100. It also crossed over to No. 15 on Billboard 's Country Singles chart. The follow-up single, "Even Now", just missed
5664-683: The Mushrooms (with Frey). Seger and Brown were then approached by Punch and Leone to write a song for the Underdogs, another local band who recently had a hit with a song called "Man in the Glass". Seger contributed a song called " East Side Story ", which was not successful. Seger decided to record "East Side Story" and officially left the Omens (though he did retain Brown as a producer). As Bob Seger and
5782-472: The Mysterians . That same issue is sometimes credited with having originated the term "heavy metal" as well; in fact, the term had been used earlier, though Creem did help to popularize the term throughout the 1970s. In the winter of 1969, Barry Kramer owned the Detroit record store Full Circle, as well as Mixed Media, a head shop/bookstore, and was an unsuccessful concert promoter and band manager. After
5900-499: The New Yorkers, Levitt made Judy Wieder editor-in-chief of a heavy metal version of Creem , called Creem Metal , which was originally edited by DiMartino, Holdship and Kordosh and which sold well. A young female audience-targeted spinoff, Creem Rock-Shots , was also published, as were countless special editions throughout the 1980s. Former William Morris agent, musician and journalist Mark J. Petracca (aka Dusty Wright ) became
6018-719: The Promise , was released in 2006. In its first 45 days, it sold more than 400,000 copies. The album sold over 1.2 million copies, returning Seger to platinum status and staying on the Billboard chart for several months. His supporting tour was also eagerly anticipated, with many shows selling out within minutes. Showing that Seger's legendary appeal in Michigan had not diminished, all 10,834 tickets available for his first show at Grand Rapids' Van Andel Arena sold out in under five minutes; three additional shows were subsequently added, each of which also sold out. In 2009, Seger released
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#17327728419646136-596: The Top 10, and " Roll Me Away " peaked at No. 27. The driving album track "Making Thunderbirds" was a popular music video filmed in Detroit and well-received on MTV . Seger's multi-platinum sales dropped off at this point, with The Distance peaking at No. 5 and selling only 1.9 million copies in the United States. The Distance was belatedly released on 8-track tape ; Capitol reportedly had no plans to do so, but Seger, claiming that many of his fans still used 8-track players in their vehicles, requested that
6254-552: The US charts and has since faded into obscurity. Even so, Back in '72 and its supporting tour mark the beginnings of Seger's long-time relationships with future Silver Bullet Band saxophonist Alto Reed , powerhouse female vocalist Shaun Murphy , and the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section. Over the tour, My Band would prove to be unreliable, which frustrated Seger. By the end of 1973, Seger had left My Band in search of
6372-487: The United States. The live 1981 album Nine Tonight encapsulated this three-album peak of Seger's commercial career. Seger's take on Eugene Williams' " Tryin' to Live My Life Without You " became a Top Five hit from Nine Tonight and the album would go on to sell 4 million copies. Seger released the acclaimed The Distance in December 1982. During the recording of this album, Silver Bullet guitarist Drew Abbott left
6490-434: The United States. Live Bullet would eventually be cited as one of the greatest live albums of all time. In February 1977, Silver Bullet Band drummer Charlie Allen Martin was hit by a car from behind while walking on a service road and was left unable to walk. David Teegarden, previous drummer for Seger on his 1972 album Smokin' O.P.'s was his replacement. Despite the loss of Martin, Seger's 1978 album Stranger in Town
6608-454: The Wind (with ex- Grand Funk Railroad member Craig Frost replacing Robyn Robbins on keyboards) and it became his first and only No. 1 album on the Billboard album chart. The first single " Fire Lake " featured Eagles Don Henley , Timothy B. Schmit , and Glenn Frey on backing vocals and Muscle Shoals guitarist Pete Carr on 12-string acoustic. Fire Lake reached No. 6 on
6726-460: The album Live Bullet , recorded over two nights in Detroit's Cobo Arena in September 1975. It contained Seger's rendition of "Nutbush City Limits" as well as Seger's classic take on life on the road, " Turn the Page ", from Back in '72 . It also included his late 1960s successful releases – "Heavy Music" and "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man". Critic Dave Marsh later wrote that " Live Bullet is one of
6844-572: The album Seven (1974), which contained the Detroit-area hard-rock hit "Get Out of Denver". This track was a modest success and charted at No. 80 nationally. In 1975, Seger returned to Capitol Records and released the album Beautiful Loser , with help from the Silver Bullet Band (with new keyboardist Robyn Robbins replacing Manasa) on his cover of the Tina Turner penned " Nutbush City Limits ". The album's single " Katmandu " which
6962-538: The balance of the $ 100,000. In 2007, Kramer sued in New York County and won, as the Court ruled that Creem Media could take no action without the approval of Carter and Kramer. Creem Media was sued by T.A. Riggs Licensing LLC in 2010 for breach of contract. Creem Media lost that suit, and Riggs was awarded $ 575,000. Creem Media was either unable or unwilling to pay. In November 2011, Creem Media attempted to have
7080-484: The band as well, being replaced by Dan Watson. Mongrel , with the powerful single " Lucifer ", was considered to be a strong album by many critics and Detroit fans, but failed to do well commercially. The Bob Seger System was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2006. After Mongrel (1970) failed to live up to the success of Ramblin' Gamblin' Man (1969), The System dissipated. For
7198-450: The band due to his frustration with Seger's frequent use of session musicians in the studio and was replaced by Dawayne Bailey . After the album's release, David Teegarden also left the band due to internal conflict and was replaced by ex- Grand Funk drummer Don Brewer . Critically praised for representing a more versatile sound than that of his recent material, The Distance spawned numerous hits beginning with Rodney Crowell 's " Shame on
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#17327728419647316-462: The best live albums ever made ... In spots, particularly during the medley of "Travelin' Man"/"Beautiful Loser" on side one, Seger sounds like a man with one last shot at the top." An instant best-seller in Detroit, Live Bullet began to get attention in other parts of the country, selling better than Seger's previous albums, getting progressive rock radio and album-oriented rock airplay, and enabling Seger to headline more shows. But Seger still had
7434-427: The city's bandshell in the 1960s. In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Seger at number 181 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. Seger's first marriage to Renee Andrietti in 1968 lasted for "one day short of a year". He had a long-term relationship with Jan Dinsdale from 1972 until 1983. In 1987, he married actress Annette Sinclair and they divorced one year later. He married Juanita Dorricott in 1993, in
7552-423: The cover of the second issue as a black and white drawing titled Detroit 1969 . For the December 1971 issue, Wilson colored the drawing, which appeared in every following issue in a Creem's Profiles , a parody of the then-popular Dewar's Profiles , featuring musicians and bands holding cans of "Boy Howdy" beer. Ownership of the magazine, trademark and intellectual property has changed hands numerous times since
7670-413: The death of publisher Barry Kramer in 1981, and the magazine's subsequent bankruptcy. Arnold Levitt bought the rights to the magazine in 1986 from Connie Kramer, and added titles including one devoted exclusively to metal along with numerous monthly special editions, before shutting down in 1989. In 1990, he licensed it to a group of Florida investors who published a bimonthly glossy tabloid version, but it
7788-462: The development of lower-case letters in the 8th century, texts in the Latin alphabet were written in a single case, which is now considered to be capital letters. Text in all caps is not widely used in body copy . The main exception to this is the so-called fine print in legal documents. Capital letters have been widely used in printed headlines from the early days of newspapers until the 1950s. In
7906-539: The early 1990s as a tabloid. In June 2022, Creem was relaunched as a digital archive, website, weekly newsletter, and quarterly print edition. The magazine is noted for having been an early champion of various heavy metal , punk rock , new wave and alternative bands, especially bands based in Detroit. The term "punk rock" was coined in the May 1971 issue of Creem, in Dave Marsh 's Looney Tunes column about ? and
8024-465: The editor during its New York residence over 1992–93. Chris Nadler was the last editor before the magazine was shut down. Steve Peters and David Sprague were the final members remaining in the original editorial chain that reached back to 1969. The Creem logo was designed by Bob Wilson, who also wrote a regular comic strip, "Mike and Barney". The "Mr. Dream Whip" and "Boy Howdy" icons were designed by underground cartoonist Robert Crumb . Both appeared on
8142-646: The entertainment industry in the United States , which was then primarily based in Hollywood and New York City . It was known for its irreverent, deprecatory and humorous tone, and became famous for its comical photo captions, which poked fun at rock stars, the industry, and even the magazine itself. The magazine dubbed the tall Plexiglas pyramid that was presented to the winner of the annual American Music Award "the Object From Space", and said it
8260-534: The evidence that all-capital printing retards speed of reading to a striking degree in comparison with lower case and is not liked by readers, it would seem wise to eliminate such printing whenever rapid reading and consumer (reader) views are of importance. Examples of this would include any continuous reading material, posters, bus cards, billboards, magazine advertising copy, headings in books, business forms and records, titles of articles, books and book chapters, and newspaper headlines. Colin Wheildon stated that there
8378-538: The eye recognizes letters by the shapes of their upper halves", asserts that recognizing words in all caps "becomes a task instead of a natural process". His conclusions, based on scientific testing in 1982–1990, are: "Headlines set in capital letters are significantly less legible than those set in lower case." John Ryder , in the Case for Legibility , stated that "Printing with capital letters can be done sufficiently well to arouse interest and, with short lines, reading at
8496-687: The film was acquired by Greenwich Entertainment and subsequently released online through paid virtual cinema streaming rental in August 2020. Following years of litigation, the relaunch of Creem was announced on June 1, 2022, by JJ Kramer, an IP attorney and son of founder Barry Kramer. Management includes former Vice publisher John Martin as CEO, VP of content Fred Pessaro ( Vice , Revolver , BrooklynVegan ), former Entertainment Weekly copy chief Dan Morrissey as executive editor and original staffer Jaan Uhelszki as editor-at-large. The relaunched Creem includes digital archives of all 224 issues of
8614-454: The final versions of Creem in the 1980s. The magazine moved its office to Los Angeles in January 1987. Holdship and Kordosh were both involved in Creem' s move to Los Angeles after it was purchased by Arnold Levitt, but both had already left the magazine before its move to New York City after Levitt licensed the name to a publisher there, and its ultimate demise. Before licensing Creem to
8732-476: The future. Back in '72 featured the studio version of Seger's later live classic " Turn the Page "; "Rosalie", a song Seger wrote about CKLW music director Rosalie Trombley (and which was later recorded by Thin Lizzy ); and " I've Been Working ", a song originally by Van Morrison , a strong influence on Seger's musical development. Despite the strength of Seger's backup musicians, the album only reached 188 on
8850-569: The given identifier represents a constant . A practice exists (most commonly in Francophone countries) of distinguishing the surname from the rest of a personal name by stylizing the surname only in all caps. This practice is also common among Japanese, when names are spelled using Roman letters. In April 2013, the U.S. Navy moved away from an all caps-based messaging system, which was begun with 1850s-era teleprinters that had only uppercase letters. The switch to mixed-case communications
8968-466: The induction speech and Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm proclaimed that date Bob Seger Day in his honor. In 2005, Seger was featured singing with 3 Doors Down on the song " Landing in London " from their Seventeen Days album. Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band were inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2005. Seger's first new album in eleven years, titled Face
9086-568: The judgment set aside, but in January 2012, the Court upheld the Judgment. In February 2012, the Court appointed a Receiver to seize all of Creem Media's assets to help satisfy the outstanding judgment. The Receiver then transferred all of the Intellectual Property from Creem Media, Inc to Riggs. CREEM International, Inc purchased the assets from Riggs to become the new successor company with all rights of ownership. Matheu tired of
9204-429: The label also release the album in the waning format. In 1984, Seger wrote and recorded the power rock ballad "Understanding" for the film soundtrack Teachers . The song was another Top 20 hit for Seger in late 1984. In 1986, he wrote and recorded "Living Inside My Heart" for the film soundtrack of About Last Night... . Seger was no longer as prolific, and several years elapsed before his next studio album, Like
9322-572: The legal battle and resigned from the board of Creem Media in 2009. Creem Media, Inc. became defunct shortly thereafter. In 2017, a group headed by Kramer acquired the Creem brand and its archives. In 2019, the Kramer-led Boy Howdy Productions, in partnership with Muse Production House and New Rose Films, wrapped production on a Creem documentary entitled CREEM: America's Only Rock 'n' Roll Magazine , which world premiered at SXSW 2019 to rave reviews. In February 2020,
9440-406: The local alternative paper rejected a concert review he had written, he decided to start publishing his own paper. Tony Reay, a clerk at Kramer's record store, became its first editor, and came up with its name, a tribute to his favorite band, Cream . Charlie Auringer became the photo editor and designer, and Dave Marsh joined soon after at age 19. The first issue was distributed only in Detroit, as
9558-567: The lower-case print is due to the characteristic word forms furnished by this type. This permits reading by word units, while all capitals tend to be read letter by letter. Furthermore, since all-capital printing takes at least one-third more space than lower case, more fixation pauses are required for reading the same amount of material. The use of all capitals should be dispensed with in every printing situation. According to Tinker, "As early as 1914, Starch reported that material set in Roman lower case
9676-513: The magazine's first two years, its offices were at 3729 Cass Avenue in Detroit. An armed robbery of the offices prompted Kramer to move the operation to a 120-acre farm in Walled Lake, Michigan , at 13 Mile and Haggerty Roads. Just before the move, Lester Bangs was hired, originally to write a feature on Alice Cooper . He had been fired from the rival music magazine Rolling Stone by publisher Jann Wenner for "disrespecting musicians" after
9794-524: The market. While Seger was a member of The Omens, he met his longtime manager Edward "Punch" Andrews , who at the time was partnered with Dave Leone running the Hideout franchise, which consisted of four club locations from Clawson to Rochester Hills, where local acts would play, and a small-scale record label. Seger began writing and producing for other acts that Punch managed, such as the Mama Cats and
9912-443: The members attended Ann Arbor High. The Decibels recorded an acetate demo of a song called "The Lonely One", at Del Shannon 's studio in 1961. As well as being Seger's first original song, "The Lonely One" was Seger's first song to be played on the radio, airing only once on an Ann Arbor radio station. In 2021, a recording of "The Lonely One" resurfaced, and was broadcast (with permission from Seger) twice on WCSX -FM in Detroit, on
10030-486: The mid-1970's Creem had a circulation of over 200,000, making it the second largest rock magazine after Rolling Stone . Creem picked up on punk rock and new wave movements early on. Creem gave exposure to artists like Lou Reed , David Bowie , Roxy Music , Blondie , and The New York Dolls before the mainstream press. In the 1980s, it provided early coverage of upcoming rock bands such as R.E.M. , The Replacements , The Smiths , The Go-Go's and The Cure . It
10148-459: The mornings of March 15 and 16. After the Decibels disbanded, Seger joined the Town Criers, a four-piece band with Seger on lead vocals, John Flis on bass, Pep Perrine on drums, and Larry Mason on lead guitar. The Town Criers, covering songs like " Louie Louie ", began gaining a steady following. Meanwhile, Seger was listening to James Brown and said that, for him and his friends, Live at
10266-578: The name of Seger's permanent band, which consisted of former Town Crier Pep Perrine on drums, Carl Lagassa on guitar, and Dan Honaker on bass. Following "East Side Story", the group released four more singles: the James Brown -inspired holiday single "Sock It to Me Santa", the Dylan -esque "Persecution Smith", "Vagrant Winter", and perhaps the most notable, " Heavy Music ", released in 1967. "Heavy Music", which sold even more copies than "East Side Story", had
10384-485: The national level with the album Live Bullet (1976), recorded live with the Silver Bullet Band in 1975 at Cobo Hall in Detroit, Michigan. In 1976, he achieved a national breakout with the studio album Night Moves . On his studio albums, he also worked extensively with the Alabama -based Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section , which appeared on several of Seger's best-selling singles and albums. A roots rock musician with
10502-552: The neighborhood at night. In 1956, when Seger was 10 years old, his father abandoned the family and moved to California . The remaining family soon lost their comfortable middle-class status and struggled financially. Seger attended Tappan Junior High School (now Tappan Middle School ) in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and graduated in 1963 from Ann Arbor High School, now known as Pioneer High School . He ran track and field in high school. Seger also went to Lincoln Park High School for
10620-523: The opportunity to add marginal notes emphasising key points. Legal writing expert Bryan A. Garner has described the practice as "ghastly". A 2020 study found that all-caps in legal texts is ineffective and is, in fact, harmful to older readers. In 2002, a US court spoke out against the practice, ruling that simply making text all-capitals has no bearing on whether it is clear and easily readable: Lawyers who think their caps lock keys are instant "make conspicuous" buttons are deluded. In determining whether
10738-534: The original magazine, a website and weekly newsletter called Fresh Creem , and a quarterly oversized glossy print edition, which commenced publication in the fall of 2022, on a subscription-only basis, with no newsstand sales. All caps In typography , text or font in all caps (short for " all capitals ") contains capital letters without any lowercase letters. For example: THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG. All-caps text can be seen in legal documents, advertisements , newspaper headlines , and
10856-461: The potential to break out nationally when Cameo-Parkway suddenly went out of business. It was a top 100 hit in Canada, where it topped out on the national RPM charts at No. 82; in the US, it just missed the Hot 100, peaking on the "bubbling under" chart at No. 103. The song would stay in Seger's live act for many years to come. After Cameo-Parkway folded, Seger and Punch began searching for
10974-418: The radio." As the Town Criers began landing more gigs, Seger met a man named Doug Brown, backed by a band called The Omens. Seger joined Doug Brown & The Omens, who had a bigger following than the Town Criers. While Brown was the primary lead vocalist for the group, Seger would take the lead on some songs—covering R&B numbers. With this group, Seger first appeared on an officially released recording:
11092-489: The reading time. When this is combined with the difficulty in reading words in all-capital letters as units, the hindrance to rapid reading becomes marked. In the eye-movement study by Tinker and Patterson, the principal difference in oculomotor patterns between lower case and all capitals was the very large increase in number of fixation pauses for reading the all-capital print. All caps text should be eliminated from most forms of composition, according to Tinker: Considering
11210-572: The same ROM. Game designers often choose to have less characters in favor of more tiles. With the advent of the bulletin board system , or BBS, and later the Internet, typing messages in all caps commonly became closely identified with "shouting" or attention-seeking behavior, and may be considered rude. Its equivalence to shouting traces back to at least 1984 and before the Internet, back to printed typography usage of all capitals to mean shouting. For this reason, etiquette generally discourages
11328-474: The same. The song earned Seger an Academy Award nomination as co-writer in the Best Original Song category the following year. Bob Seger's next record was 1991's The Fire Inside , at a time when glam metal , grunge and alternative rock were taking the forefront. His new music found little visibility on the radio or elsewhere. The same was true of 1995's It's a Mystery , although the album
11446-409: The song " Shakedown " for the soundtrack to the film Beverly Hills Cop II . A synth-driven pop-rock song, it was Seger's first and only No. 1 hit on the pop singles chart. The song had originally been intended for fellow Detroiter Glenn Frey , but when Frey lost his voice just before the recording session, he asked Seger to take his place. Seger changed the verses of the song but kept the chorus
11564-425: The titles on book covers. Short strings of words in capital letters appear bolder and "louder" than mixed case, and this is sometimes referred to as "screaming" or "shouting". All caps can also be used to indicate that a given word is an acronym . Studies have been conducted on the readability and legibility of all caps text. Scientific testing from the 20th century onward has generally indicated that all caps text
11682-581: The use of all caps when posting messages online. While all caps can be used as an alternative to rich-text "bolding" for a single word or phrase, to express emphasis, repeated use of all caps can be considered "shouting" or irritating. Some aspects of Microsoft's Metro design language involve the use of all caps headings and titles. This has received particular attention when menu and ribbon titles appeared in all caps in Visual Studio 2012 and Office 2013 , respectively. Critics have compared this to
11800-472: Was " Ramblin' Gamblin' Man ". It was a major hit in Michigan , and it also became Seger's first national hit, peaking at No. 17. The song's success led to the release of an album of the same title in 1969. The Ramblin' Gamblin' Man album reached No. 62 on the Billboard pop albums chart . Glenn Frey had his first studio gig singing back-up and playing guitar on "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man". Seger
11918-432: Was Seger's first top-ten album in the Billboard album chart, and as of 2006 was certified at 6 million copies in the United States, making it the biggest-selling studio album of his entire career. The success of Night Moves also bolstered sales of Seger's previous releases. Seger's 1975 release Beautiful Loser would eventually sell two million copies and the 1976 album Live Bullet would go on to sell six million copies in
12036-568: Was also a success. The first single, " Still the Same ", reached No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 . " Hollywood Nights " reached No. 12 on the same chart, while the ballad " We've Got Tonight " reached No. 13. "We've Got Tonight" was a major hit again when it was covered in 1983 by country music superstar Kenny Rogers and pop singer Sheena Easton . Notably, it topped Billboard's Hot Country Songs and peaked at No. 2 and No. 6 on Billboard's Adult Contemporary and Hot 100 charts respectively. " Old Time Rock and Roll ",
12154-525: Was also among the first to praise metal acts like Motörhead , Judas Priest , and Van Halen . It also focused on Detroit acts. Melvins guitarist Roger "Buzz" Osborne taught Kurt Cobain about punk by loaning him records and old copies of Creem . Alice Cooper referenced the magazine in his song "Detroit City" – "But the Riff kept a Rockin', the Creem kept a-talkin', and the streets still smokin' today". Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth said: "Having
12272-409: Was born at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, Michigan , the son of Charlotte and Stewart Seger. At age five, he moved with his family to Ann Arbor . He had an older brother, George. Seger's father, a medical technician for Ford Motor Company , played several instruments and Seger was exposed to music from an early age. Seger was also exposed to frequent arguments between his parents that disturbed
12390-481: Was certified gold (500,000 copies sold). However, in 1994, Seger released Greatest Hits ; the compilation album was his biggest-ever record in terms of sales, selling nearly 10 million copies in the United States as of 2010 . Seger did go back on the road again for a 1996 tour, which was successful and sold the fourth-largest number of tickets of any North American tour that year. (Seger was once known for his concerts in small venues, as witnessed with his appearance at
12508-482: Was close friends. Starting on August 24, 2017, Seger embarked on a 32-city Runaway Train tour that was originally scheduled to conclude on November 17, 2017, in Chicago . This tour included a show on September 22, 2017, at The Palace of Auburn Hills ( Michigan ), which was the last event to be held at that venue. The same day, Seger announced his new studio album, I Knew You When , and released "Busload of Faith",
12626-580: Was common on teletype machines, such as those used by police departments, news, and the United States' then-called Weather Bureau , as well as early computers, such as certain early Apple II models and the ZX81 , which had a limited support for lower-case text. This changed as full support of ASCII became standard, allowing lower-case characters. Some Soviet computers , such as Radio-86RK , Vector-06C , Agat-7 , use 7-bit encoding called KOI-7N2, where capital Cyrillic letters replace lower-case Latin letters in
12744-431: Was endowed with the power to force celebrities to look ridiculous while holding it. Because of the magazine's location, it was among the first national publications to provide in-depth coverage of many popular Detroit-area artists, such as Bob Seger , Mitch Ryder , Alice Cooper , The MC5 , The Stooges , Iggy Pop , and Parliament-Funkadelic , as well as other Midwestern acts such as Raspberries and Cheap Trick . By
12862-496: Was estimated to save the Navy $ 20 million a year and is compliant with current Internet protocol. An antiquated practice that still remains in use, especially by older American lawyers who grew up before the arrival of computers, is to use all caps text for text that is legally required to be emphasised and clearly readable. The practice dates to the period of typewriters, which generally did not offer bold text, small capitals, or
12980-471: Was featured in the 1985 movie Mask starring Cher (in addition to being another substantial Detroit-area hit) was Seger's first real national break-out track since 1968's "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man". Although it just missed the US Pop Top 40 – peaking at No. 43 – the song received strong airplay in several markets nationwide including Detroit. In April 1976, Seger and the Silver Bullet Band released
13098-523: Was his self-stated last major tour, playing 105 shows over nine months and selling almost 1.5 million tickets. Like a Rock reached No. 3 and eventually sold over three million copies, although it has never been certified above platinum. On March 13, 1987, Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for their contributions to the music industry, located at 1750 Vine Street . In 1987, Seger recorded
13216-430: Was named one of the Songs of the Century in 2001. Seger has since remarked that not taking one-third of writing credit on his recording was, financially, "the dumbest thing I ever did". Seger also co-wrote the Eagles ' No. 1 hit song " Heartache Tonight " from their 1979 album The Long Run ; their collaboration about Seger's and Glenn Frey 's shared early lives in Detroit. In 1980, Seger released Against
13334-473: Was not successful either. The release of writer and director Cameron Crowe 's semi-autobiographical film Almost Famous in 2000, and Philip Seymour Hoffman 's portrayal of editor Lester Bangs, rekindled interest in Creem and rock journalism of the era. Former Creem photographer Robert Matheu formed Creem Media in 2001 with his cousin Jason Turner and Michigan businessman Ken Kulpa. They negotiated
13452-427: Was read somewhat faster than similar material printed in all capitals." Another study in 1928 showed that "all-capital text was read 11.8 percent slower than lower case, or approximately 38 words per minute slower", and that "nine-tenths of adult readers consider lower case more legible than all capitals". A 1955 study by Miles Tinker showed that "all-capital text retarded speed of reading from 9.5 to 19.0 percent for
13570-507: Was released on October 14, 2014. Ride Out was accompanied by a highly successful arena tour of the United States and Canada. On December 22, 2016, Seger performed " Heartache Tonight " as the Kennedy Center honored the Eagles . A few weeks later, on January 18, 2017, Seger gave away the single "Glenn Song" on his website as a tribute marking the first anniversary of the death of Eagles founding member Glenn Frey , with whom Seger
13688-510: Was returning to the studio to complete another new album for release in the fall of 2012, followed by another supporting tour. On June 14, 2012, Seger was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame . On January 10, 2013, Seger announced another tour in the US and Canada. Seger performed a duet of " Who'll Stop the Rain " with John Fogerty on Fogerty's album Wrote a Song for Everyone , released in 2013. Seger's 17th studio album, Ride Out
13806-598: Was the anti-war message song " 2 + 2 = ? ", which reflected a marked change in Seger's political attitudes from "The Ballad of the Yellow Beret". The single was again a hit in Detroit and hit number 1 on radio stations in Buffalo, New York and Orlando, Florida , but went unnoticed almost everywhere else, and failed to chart nationally in the US. The single did, however, make the Canadian national charts, peaking at No. 79. The second single from The Bob Seger System
13924-527: Was unable to follow up on this success. For the next album, singer-songwriter Tom Neme joined The System, ultimately writing and singing the majority of the tunes featured, for which the group was heavily criticized. The album called Noah (1969), failed to chart at all, leading Seger to briefly quit the music industry and attend college. He returned the following year and put out the System's final album, 1970's Mongrel , this time without Neme. Bob Schultz left
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