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Robert Clark "Bob" Seger (born May 6, 1945) is an American rock musician who achieved his greatest success in the 1970s and 1980s and continues to record and perform today. Seger started his musical career in the 1960s in his native Ann Arbor, Michigan, soon after playing in and around Detroit as a singer and as the leader of Bob Seger and the Last Heard, and then later the Bob Seger System. Best known for his work as Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, a group he formed in 1974. |
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News in english
about Bob Seger
(October / 2009)
New book 'Travelin' Man' offers rare view of Seger Date: 06 Oct 2009
Detroit News -
Thomas Weschler plied his trade as a rock photographer before, during and after his stint as Bob Seger's road manager from 1969 until '73, and his access led to a wealth of photographs published in a book, "Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger", written with longtime Detroit music journalist Gary Graff.
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Behind the scenes with Bob Seger Date: 11 Oct 2009
Detroit Free Press -
Officially, Thomas Weschler was Bob Seger's road manager from 1969 to 1973. Unofficially, he was Seger's personal photographer for more than three decades, documenting his dogged rise from the days of playing the Oakland Mall parking lot in 1969 to his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2004.
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'Rock 'N' Roll Never Forgets:' An anthem in photos of the early career of Bob Seger Date: 12 Oct 2009
Petoskey News-Review -
The steady beat of Detroit’s assembly line pounded out a hypnotic rhythm that put the world in motion for 30 years before it erupted in the devastating chaos of the 1967 riots that shaped the world’s view of Detroit, and much of Michigan, for years afterward.
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Commercial Mortgages for Oct. 12 Date: 12 Oct 2009
Richmond Times-Dispatch -
Bob Seger in “Against the Wind” and, more recently, Toby Keith sang “I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then,“ expressing a desire to erase cumbersome knowledge and move on. Many lenders are now stuck with that feeling as they want to originate new loans, but knowledge of the past 12 months just won’t let them. Flow of Funds data recently released by the Federal Reserve support what ...
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Road Trip: Ann Arbor's Main Street Still Rockin' Date: 16 Oct 2009
antiMUSIC -
Bob Seger immortalized the Ann Arbor's main drag with his reflective hit "Mainstreet" at about the same time that, on the outskirts of town, a young Jim Osterberg was changing his name to Iggy Pop and writing hopped-up songs like "I Wanna Be Your Dog."
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Insider's view of Bob Seger Date: 18 Oct 2009
The Toledo Blade -
By DAVID YONKE BLADE STAFF WRITER Being in the right place at the right time is important, of course. But it helps to have a camera. Tom Weschler was a 15-year-old musician and band manager in Detroit when he first ran into Ed “Punch” Andrews, a local entertainment mogul, in 1965. Andrews was managing up-and-coming Detroit rocker Bob Seger, and Weschler, who had saved his money from a car-wash ...
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Bob Seger chronicler to discuss photo memoir at Book Beat Date: 21 Oct 2009
Detroit News -
Longtime Detroit music photographer Thomas Weschler will discuss the photo history book, "Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes with Bob Seger" (Wayne State University Press, $27.95) at 7 p.m. Thursday at Book Beat, 26010 Greenfield Road, in Oak Park. Weschler, who wrote the book with music journalist Gary Graff, served as Bob Seger's road manager for several years in the 1970s, and ...
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Letters to the Editor Date: 21 Oct 2009
Metro Times Detroit -
Re: " Kill city dreaming " (Oct. 7), thanks for saying what I always felt: The first two Stooges LPs were great but Raw Power was the one! What cemented it for me was seeing them live at some gymnasium. Catfish Hodge opened; then Bob Seger.
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