Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes With Bob Seger (Painted Turtle) by Tom Weschler, Gary Graff Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Travelin' Man: On the Road and Behind the Scenes With Bob Seger (Painted Turtle)
Book Review: only for true seger fans
Summary: 4 Stars
lets get this straight, this is not a biography in any way,this is the authors collection of photographs he took over his many years with seger and every third picture or so gets a paragraph telling you about it, though it does go in chrono order.i'm not saying its bad, but if your looking for the true stories and events that happened during segers formative years in rock in a normal biography way you'll be disappointed,but if you dont mind alot of pictures with a little story then you'll be satisfied.
its really up to you
Book Review: A Michigan Rocker
Summary: 5 Stars
So the Mitten State has brought forth Iggy, The MC5, Mitch Ryder, John Lee Hooker, Kid Rock, Jack White...and on top of that we have ALL THE WATER. Do not count US out. When a performer says "Detroit Audiences are the best rock and roll audience there is" they aren't kidding one little bit, and folks Like Seger helped get us used to expecting hard driven rock. Wouldn't you have hated to grow up without those silver bullet band lps folks?
Buy this because it is right!
Jim Linderman
Dull Tool Dim Bulb
Book Review: Great book, tons of photos
Summary: 5 Stars
Growing up in Michigan, I have always been a Bob Seger fan. The photos are amazing. Travelin' Man , in my humble opinion, is his best song and makes the perfect title. Buy and enjoy this book.Book Review: Seger fan applaude's "Travelin' Man"
Summary: 5 Stars
Thanks to Gary Graff, who's articles I've followed in Detroit newspapers over the years regarding Bob Seger! Thanks too, to Tom Weschler, for the great photos of Michigans most Beloved Rocker--Bob Seger!
"Live Bullet" was my first Seger album as a Christmas gift when I was 10 yrs old and growing up in the suburbs of Detroit. My brother and sister told me to ask "Santa" for the album, but it didn't take me long to figure out (when it kept ending up in the basement with all of their other records) that they really just wanted my Bob Seger "Live Bullet' LP for themselves! I was hooked!
Unfortunately, I wasn't old enough to attend concerts until 1983's: The Distance tour. I've been to every Seger tour since (several times), but only seeing Bob Seger perform 7 times in a lifetime, is not that many. Most diehard Seger fans have seen him 60, 70- 100 times!
Those of you who love Bob Seger for the ultimately down to earth, nice guy, who thinks he's the "unlikliest guy to ever be called a rockstar", will LOVE this book and his climb to stardom. From playing 250 gigs a year to becoming a Grammy Winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee! He's been a greatly appreciated entertainer in Detroit, for 40 years!
Graff and Weschler seem to really respect and admire Bob Seger and that comes across. My only fault was that pictures of Bob Seger and his bands could have been larger and filled the entire page. Kudos to the both of them that they thought to do this for Bob Seger! He certainly deserves it.
Book Review: Great book, wonderful photography
Summary: 5 Stars
I love this book mostly for the old photos it contains. I've always been a fan of pre-"Live Bullet" Seger and wondered when someone was going to do a book including the formative years (the action actually starts off with "Noah" sessions).
There are a few errors so far (I'm up to page 40): In the timeline that begins on pg. xix, under January 1966, Cameo-Parkway is spelled "Cameo-Parkay," and on pg. 39 there is a picture of the System from summer 1970 with an erroneous caption--it should be Seger, Watson, Honaker, Perrine, not Seger, Perrine, Watson, Honaker.