MOORHEAD - Everything you need to know about Rick Nielsen can be learned by watching him for a few minutes. The Cheap Trick songwriter is as much a guitarist as he is a showman. He swaps out a series ...
Gibson Garage in Nashville was packed Wednesday night during the annual Rock to Remember event celebrating Veterans Day and Guitars for Vets, an organization that serves at-risk veterans through the ...
If Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson was ever taught the “traditional” way to approach bass guitar, it didn't take. As a founding member of Illinois's most celebrated rock outfit, he has long been a model ...
When Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen joins a recent Zoom video call from his Rockford, Illinois home, he’s strumming a beautiful vintage guitar. “This one’s a 1962 Dwight Coronet,” he says. “I have ...
Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen, a founding member of the group, once described the band as “America’s greatest pop/rock garage band.” Some would argue that after they conquered Budokan, they ...
It is never just the sound of a guitar. It is the feel of it. The weight of it. The way it sits against the player’s body, and how well it responds to every touch, be it a pick across its strings or ...
ASHWAUBENON - Cheap Trick will add to its impressive tally of some 6,000 shows when the band plays with Bad Company on Saturday night at the Resch Center, a return trip for the Rock and Roll Hall of ...