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
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.
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.
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.
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.
ifs
Everything works if you let it
band fans would-be
If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.
player thinking guitar
I'm a guitar player. Actually, I think of myself as a songwriter/rhythm-guitar player.
husband kids wife
I'm quite an example. I have four kids, all from the same wife, all from the same husband.
opportunity guitar equal
I prefer to be an equal-opportunity offender of the guitar.
parent trying worst
The worst thing your parents can do is try to emulate you.
growing-up parent trying
When you're growing up you need your parents, but you don't want to be associated with them because you're trying to have your own life.
thinking parent mets
Every person I've ever met always thinks their parents are weird.
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.