Bob Seger and Bruce Springsteen backstage at Pine Knob, 1978

BOB SEGER · PINE KNOB · 1978

He was on the bus

Tom Weschler wasn't shooting from the press pit. He was Bob Seger's road manager with a camera around his neck — and Detroit's inside man at the Grande Ballroom, Cobo, and Masonic through rock and roll's greatest era. Every photograph here is his: shot by him, owned by him, printed from his own negatives. No label licensed these. This is what it actually looked like.

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Pink Floyd performing at the Grande Ballroom, Detroit, 1968
PINK FLOYD · GRANDE BALLROOM, DETROIT · 1968
Jimi Hendrix at Cobo Arena, Detroit, 1968
JIMI HENDRIX · COBO ARENA, DETROIT · 1968
Cream on stage at Olympia Stadium, Detroit, 1968
CREAM · OLYMPIA STADIUM, DETROIT · 1968
Led Zeppelin at the Kinetic Playground, Chicago, 1969
LED ZEPPELIN · KINETIC PLAYGROUND, CHICAGO · 1969
Bob Seger, 1975
BOB SEGER · DETROIT · 1975
Queen at Cobo Arena, Detroit, 1977
QUEEN · COBO ARENA, DETROIT · 1977

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