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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.