Why did Bob Seger want to go to Katmandu anyway?
Well?
It wasn’t Detriot.
It was the destination of a generation of young people seeking the spiritual wisdom of the East and/or drugs.
Cause no one in the USA loved him anyway.
Because Kathmandu and Marrakesh both have syllabic resonance. Try the following:
“Don’tcha know we’re riding on the Nome Express?”
“Yeah I’m goin’ to Purdue.”
Wouldn’t even crack the top 100.
Also, Marrakesh was a drug destination, and people thought that Kathmandu would provide some enlightenment, whereas it was mainly a place to contract dysentery.
Yeah but:
I got no kick against the west coast.
I got no rap against the southern states.
I got no quarrel with the Midwest.
I ain’t got nothing 'gainst the east coast
It still defies me why he needs to move to Katmandu.
Good thing he doesn’t live there.
It’s better than Fire Lake.
Can’t imagine what it was like in the 60’s, but when I arrived in the early 70’s Kathmandu was supposedly “cleaned up”. Durbar Square (the old downtown area) looked like a movie set from whatever Indian Jones film that was. One still was served hashish with a pipe as an “appetizer” upon entering a restaurant on Freak Street. Lots of foreigners on drugs in the streets. Nobody seemed to care.
Went back in the early 80’s and things were really cleaned up. No open drug use, still lots of hippies. Great time.
I’m sure its changed a bit now, but if you ever get a chance, you really should take Bob’s advice and go to Kathmandu.
Please, people: it’s Kathmandu. Thanks.
Yeah well, tell Bob that 'cause he spells it wrong on his albums.
Correct. Seger obviously never made it to the place, or he would have known about the H. But back in the day, it really was a hippie haven. The government made a big push and expelled most of the hippies maybe 20 years ago, but there are still a few around. Just an awesome place really, and I recommend it to anyone who can possibly go there. The entire Kathmandu Valley is a World Heritage site.
I think Bob said in a interview ages ago that it was a drug joke, based on the fact it was the highest city by elevation in the world. Which it isn’t.
Isn’t he considered a Detroit guy?
::checks wiki:: yep; seems to be…may not live there now…
Detroit-area, as the Wiki says. “Detroit area” isn’t Detroit. He’s from Ann Arbor.
So, feel free to take your Detroit bashing to another thread.
Awesome how? Scenery? Food? What is there to do there?
He obviously hated the northern states.
BTW, Kat[h]mandu was his second choice; The Clash was already rocking the Casbah.
I don’t know, but there he goes, on the road again…
Sounds like someone’s not gone to Kathmandu. 
Nepali food is shit. Luckily there’s lots of good Indian. And some not-bad Mexican and Italian even. The whole valley is one big museum. Imagine turning a corner and seeing a 1500-year old statue that would be in a museum anywhere else in the world stuck right in the middle of a sidewalk – and all the neighborhood residents are hanging their laundry to dry on it! Surreal stuff like that abounds.
Flying into Kathmandu – with the mountains still towering above you, not below you – you don’t get a real feel for how high up you really are until you take a bus out of the vally. As soon as you go through the pass, it’s a friggin’ steep drop, and down the road goes. That’s when you realize how high up this entire valley is. It’s just a large bowl suspended up in the mountains.
Bakhtapur is probably our favorite place in the valley, but it’s all great.
I think the point is that the road don’t end there, either.