Review: Bob Seger delights with his timeless hits

Coincidentally, Bob Seger’s biggest hit was titled “Old Time Rock and Roll.” Call the old-timer’s brand of music whatever you’d like, but for the nearly 8,000 fans at Intrust Bank Arena on Tuesday night, Seger delivered one timeless hit after another.

Seger, 69, eagerly walked on stage wearing a simple black shirt and blue jeans and was accompanied by members of his Silver Bullet Band. His trademark beard has long since turned white.

“Hello, Wichita!” he yelled to the appreciative crowd before opening the show with his 1983 hit “Roll Me Away.”

His unique, gravelly voice has lost a bit of bite, but five songs into the set, when he sang “I remember standing on the corner at midnight” from his 1977 hit “Mainstreet,” there was no denying he still had plenty of vocal chops as he kept harmony with the soaring saxophone parts played by bandmate Alto Reed.

“Pretty sure we haven’t done this song here in about 20 – yeah,” Seger trailed off as the crowd laughed. He then launched into his hit “Like a Rock,” which asks the question “Twenty years now. Where’d they go?”

Songs spanned the period from 1968’s “Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man” to Seger’s latest album, 2014’s “Ride Out” – more than 20 songs and two hours of music.

Seger, as most iconic performers do, saved some of his best for last. Two encores featured hits “Against the Wind,” “Hollywood Nights” and “Night Moves.” He and the band closed the show with a reminder about the timelessness of good music: “Rock and Roll Never Forgets.”

This story was originally published February 17, 2015 at 10:20 PM with the headline "Review: Bob Seger delights with his timeless hits."