Frank Pettis has been going to shows and taking pictures for decades.  He tells amazing stories with his pictures and memories.  Frank was there when Alice Cooper had chickens on stage and a pillow fight broke out.  Frank Pettis was at The Red Carpet lounge when The Romantics first formed. Frank Pettis started his photo career when his dad took him to see Elvis.  Frank has tons of pictures and a massive vinyl collection.

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  Early Bob Seger (photo by Frank Pettis)

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  Alice Cooper during a show at the Eastown Theatre in Detroit in March 1970. Frank Pettis says this was his first published photo in Creem magazine.

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  Ted Nugent 70's style
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  Iggy Pop takes five

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  Pettis with The Faces’ Rod Stewart and Ron Wood in 1970.

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  Grand Funk 1972: Cobo
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  The Romantics: Red Carpet Lounge 1977 Photo courtesy of Frank Pettis

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  MC5 1972: Grande Ballroom

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  Joe Cocker
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  Hotel parties with Rod Stewart.

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  Frank Pettis with Alice Cooper at a November 1971 event at the Saginaw County Event Center (now the Dow Event Center).

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  Frank, Rod Stewart and Ronnie Lane take a bow!
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  Grand Funk 1972: Cobo

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  Frank and Seger.

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  Ted Nugent in full loincloth mode
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  Frank's autographed Rod Stewart pic

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  The Romantics: Red Carpet Lounge 1977

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  MC5 1972: Grande Ballroom
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  MC5 1972: Grande Ballroom

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  Iggy Pop

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  Frank pettis' first show: Elvis
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  Frank and Joe Cocker

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  The Romantics: Red Carpet Lounge 1977

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  The Romantics: Red Carpet Lounge 1977
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  Red Carpet Lounge 1977

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