Rick Nielsen
Rick Nielsen
Richard Alan "Rick" Nielsenis the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Cheap Trick. He is well known for having many custom-made guitars from Hamer Guitars, including his famous five-neck guitar...
ProfessionGuitarist
Date of Birth22 December 1946
CityRockford, IL
diverse dozen good heavy rock
Like all of our records, good or bad, it's a diverse kind of record. It's not a heavy hit-you-over-the-head rock record. It's a dozen good songs.
built capacity open sixth until
They are being built for a capacity of 900. They'll open in '06, but they won't have sixth graders until '07.
fall finished high junior
We do Springville first because the Mapleton Junior High will be finished in fall 2006.
hope
We hope (the new boundaries) will be for a long time.
beg love scholars-and-scholarship
I want you to want me / I need you to need me / I'd love you to love me / I'm beggin' you to beg me.
men family-man
I'm a good solid family man. I don't say I'm a good solid man.
attitude interviews happens
When I do interviews, I always go in with the attitude that something good can happen from it.
thinking play metallica
Soundgarden and Metallica, The Ramones, Everclear... I think they all wanted to see if we still knew how to play.
crowds performing situation
I'm a reactor. I can react to crowds, performing situations.
garden squares sound
Madison Square Garden sounds like crap.
player ideas might
I'm in a band. I have the basic idea, but when you surround yourself with really good players, why would I tell anyone what to play, because they're that good. They don't tell me what to play. They might encourage me, so that's what I do. I encourage them.
opportunity land australia
I actually did my research and tried to get kind of like a working visa for Australia. It always seemed like it was a land of opportunities. The same size as the United States with one-tenth of the population.
members ifs tall
If I weren't as tall as I am, I would've been a member of AC/DC.
song bridges impressed
I always thought I wrote good bridges. I was a bit more impressed with the bridges I wrote than maybe the songs I wrote.