Tonight, let’s do Fire Down Below, a song by Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band. It was released as a single in 1977 but didn’t chart very highly. I’m not sure why not, it rocks pretty well and is one of my favorite songs by Seger. For our purposes, the chorus has a number of cities that aren’t usually mentioned in rock songs, so we’ll be adding several new cities to our list.
Here’s how it goes:
It happens out in Vegas happens in Moline On the blue blood streets of Boston Up in Berkeley and out in Queens And it went on yesterday and it’s going on tonight Somewhere there’s somebody ain’t treatin’ somebody right
So the cities we can add to our list are
Berkeley
Boston (finally gets a mention after seven songs!)
Las Vegas
Moline (this is a city in Illinois, in case you didn’t know, and one of the cities in the Quad City area on the border with Iowa)
Queens
Note that two of these cities, Berkeley and Queens, are suburbs or parts of larger cities. On the master list below, I’ll list them with their parent cities.
