BROOKLYN, NY—It was a night of raucous rockers and plaintive ballads at the Barclays Center, where Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band took us back to the ‘70s with a full-tilt boogie blowout from another era. Celebrating the beautiful loser in us all, Seger fired it up for a two-hour-plus performance of the hits and some new ones from his forthcoming album due sometime in August.

Seger and his band went beyond a greatest hits redux as they pulled out all the stops in a tour de force knockout as he stood his ground on rock and roll turf that goes back to the ‘60s. The Bob Seger System that bolted out of the gritty trenches of Michigan also gave us the radical stampeding of the MC5 and the decadent sleaze of Iggy And The Stooges.

Sporting a full-blown tuff of silver hair and goatee, Seger cranked out the tunes in a gruff vocal that hasn’t lost an ounce of thunder. He was downright giddy as he mentioned more than once the joy of celebrating his daughter’s 18th birthday here, where she now resides, as well as walking over the Brooklyn Bridge earlier in the day. Dressed in…