Bob Seger/Metallica song 'Turn the Page'...what does it mean?

[dmw16]

I was watching the metallica video for 'Turn the Page' today and I got to thinking...what do you think Bob Seger had in mind when he wrote that song? I dont really think that the metallica video fits the song. I got the feeling that he was singing about being a rockstar and on the road all the time. Anyone have any thoughts?
thanks,
-doug

 

[WarCon]

Maybe talking about one day ends up being just like the next (I think most musicians hate the road) while on the road.

 

[MrBond]

I believe its about life on the road for a rock star and how it's not all some people think it is. Some of the parts of the song (When you walk in to the resturant, struck out from the road, and you feels the eyes upon you, as your shaking off the cold, you pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode, most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can, all the same old cliche's, is it woman, is it man?) reference the stereotypes rock stars faced when they were on the road as well.

 

[Fritzo]

He's talking about the hassles of touring, and how it's mostly bordom and lonelyness on the road with a few hours of greatness thrown in. I thought it was pretty evedent in the lyrics.

 

[Frenchie]

I thought it was pretty evedent in the lyrics.
Yeah, the lyrics fully descirbe what the song is about.

Or are you referring to how the songs lyrics/meaning tie in with the songs title?

 

[dmw16]

I was speaking more of the metallica video...I really didnt think it was at all what seger meant when he wrote the song.
-doug

 

[Red Dawn]

Metallica butchered that song. Who cares what their BS Video shows. Seger Ownz them .

 

[fataIerror]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Metallica butchered that song. Who cares what their BS Video shows. Seger Ownz them .

I agree.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Metallica butchered that song. Who cares what their BS Video shows. Seger Ownz them .

Bob Seger is a poetic genius.

Metallica's video is talking about suing their fans for d/l'ing their songs.

 

[Pacfanweb]

Simply put, it means one day is over, on to the next town. NEXT!

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: MrBond
I believe its about life on the road for a rock star and how it's not all some people think it is. Some of the parts of the song (When you walk in to the resturant, struck out from the road, and you feels the eyes upon you, as your shaking off the cold, you pretend it doesn't bother you, but you just want to explode, most times you can't hear 'em talk, other times you can, all the same old cliche's, is it woman, is it man?) reference the stereotypes rock stars faced when they were on the road as well.

STRUNG out from the road.

 

[ChurchOfSubgenius]

I am a Detroit native (like Segar for those of you who are trying to figure out why I mentioned it) and I have a "Turn the Page" tale to tell, all of it 100% true (I won't tell the whole story but I'll touch on the relevant points)

I was put into drug rehab (for the second time) when I was 17 (1986) out in Souix City, Iowa. these were the days when it was very fashionable to put you children into drug treatment (not that I didn't need something to slow me down)
After a couple of weeks of hugging and finger pointing asked the cat burgler from NYC to pick my lock on the window so I could hitch my way out to CO. to live with my brother at C.S.U. , I got away wearing two pairs of pants/socks/ three shirts(it was fall) 9 packs of smokes (hey, lay off) and $28, oh yeah, my black leather jacket, well I won't go into all the craziness of getting there but I ended up somewhere north of Norfolk Nebraska with my elbow swollen up like a softball, shoes (Nike hightops, woo hoooo) covered in mud and desperately in need of a haircut (by Nebraska standards)

Here the relevent part, I walk into a family resturant in nowheresville Nebraska wearing my leather jacket, high tops, two pairs of tight pants and long hair and it's luchtime, the place is packed, and as soon as I walk through the door a ripple of silence goes through the whole resturant and heads turn toward me like the wave at the ballpark, I try to ignore the and do the long walk to the lunch counter with 50 pairs of eyes on me.
The whole time I'm there I feel eyes burning in my back and hear "all the same cliches"

Well, thats a small chunk of that trip but thats all you get today, maybe next time i'll tell you about Donnie and Marie and the traveling thieves.

 

[Joe Surv]

ChurchOfSubgenius and all others here: Hows it goin'? Its all good I hope. My name is Joe, and have a story for ya's. I was born, raised and partied in SW Iowa. We grew up with the story behind "Turn The Page" and I'll tell ya of it.
ChurchOfSubgenius, you are real close, man.
It goes like this...
You see Interstate 80 runs East/West across Iowa. I 80 actually isn't that old. Think it was constructed back in the late 60s or in 70s maybe. But before then, the way to get across Iowa (southern half anyway) was on Hiway 34. Now the story goes, Seger and his band had finished a show late one night in Omaha, and then they dropped south just a bit to hit hiway 34 and go east. About 10 miles or so ahead, there is a hiway truckstop ("was" the Ponderosa Truckstop when it "was" open) where all the local farmers and good ole' boys (haha) would go for coffee and play their cards. A good friend of mine who I partied with told me that his grandmother use to work there as a cook. She tells of a story about this rock band members with long hair who came in late one night, and the local good ole' boys, farmers, hics and all started harassing them about their hair and looking like girls and stuff. Well, a fight followed. The grandma said she looked out to see what it said on the side of the bus, but she could only see the very front portion of it cause the rest was around the corner.

None of us that ever heard the story from his grandma positively claim that was Bob Seger and his band......but EVERYTHING about the song and the story the grandma tells fits perfectly together.

Take it easy,

Joe

 

[88keys]

Here I am selling out again.
Here I am up on a stage.
There I go oh making dough again.
There I go..... sign the check.


Actually I like both versions and I see them as simply different interpretations of the same song.


Metallica still rocks. They always have and always will.

And their Dio medly was pretty damn good.

 

[who?]

Now they can get a permanent gig in Vegas or Branson, go home every night and the audience members can travel to them.

 

[marincounty]

Metallica is over the hill and desperately trying to remain relevant?
I recommend everyone turn the page - on them.

 

[88keys]

http://www.musicradar.com/us/news/guitars/the-30-best-live-acts-in-the-world-today-462684

Still considered one of the best live acts to go see.

 

[Spydermag68]

There was about 10 on the list that were a "Hello no". Not even with free front row tickets. I was getting worried until finally Iron Maiden was at #2 and Rush came out on top at #1.

 

[SSSnail]

I saw the uncensored video and I thought it was about a stripper...

 

[Drako]

Holy necro!

 

[LTC8K6]

Bob Seger is a poetic genius.

Metallica's video is talking about suing their fans for d/l'ing their songs.

Against The Wind is poetry...

 

[Giaboricua]

I was watching the metallica video for 'Turn the Page' today and I got to thinking...what do you think Bob Seger had in mind when he wrote that song? I dont really think that the metallica video fits the song. I got the feeling that he was singing about being a rockstar and on the road all the time. Anyone have any thoughts?
thanks,
-doug

I think he's comparing musicians to people who work in the sex-entertainment industry. Basically, they feel they're road hookers. They leave it all out there musically, in the form of creating and putting on shows, forsaking their families in the name of providing for them the best life possible. They're saying that eventually world's collide and when they do, it's their own who suffer.

That's what I got from it.

 

[MongGrel]

...

 

[BoberFett]

You have never been in a band on the road, obviously.

 

[MongGrel]

I wasn't the one dredged it up.

Twit.

Learn to read.

Just another of your dumb ass moves.

Say something else stupid.