American - Musician | December 22, 1948 -
When we toured with AC/DC, we always had to bring our A game. They really felt like our equals.
Rick Nielsen
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We're Cheap Trick, and the majority of people know about three songs, and the real huge fans know about eight. There are 292 songs people have never heard.
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Cheap Trick have always prided ourselves on being groundbreaking.
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Basically, I try to let the song dictate what guitar I use. If it's a really loud, crazy song, I'll pull out the cheapest, oldest guitar I own, one that feeds back easily. But most of the time, I just use whatever's around.
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I have too many options when it comes to guitars.
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I started out as a drummer, and when I was 9, my drum teacher had an album out. He was the rudiment king! He signed it for me, 'Rudimentally yours, Frank Arsenault.' How cool is that?
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We played New Year's Eve in Los Angeles, maybe 1978, opening for Kansas or somebody. Driving to the hotel after the gig, we came on KLOS. It was like, 'All right! We're in L.A., we just played a big gig, and we're on the radio!' That was the start of something big.
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I got to meet Keith Moon!
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We toured with Deep Purple a number of times.
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I've taken all the mirrors out of my house because when I'm playing onstage, I feel like I'm still in high school. I feel like that kid that wanted to play in his first band, and then I look in a mirror, and it's like, 'Uh-oh!' It ain't pretty.
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People are like, 'Why are you playing that five-neck guitar?' I want to hurt. I want to play.
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Some people collect this or that. I'm a musician; I collect guitars.
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