Cheap Trick Biography

The enduring hard-touring and self-caricaturing rock group Cheap Trick worked its way up to platinum sales with a blend of Beatles-style pop hard rock chops and a cartoonish stage act which played Rick Nielsen's exaggerated mugging and guitar gymnastics against Robin Zander's teen-idol looks and rich powerful voice.
In 1961 Nielsen then in his teens began playing locally in Rockford Illinois utilizing his ever-increasing collection of rare and valuable guitars. His band the Phaetons became the Boyz then the Grim Reapers and finally Fuse in 1967 with the addition of bassist Tom Petersson. One album for Epic in 1968 was generally ignored. Frustrated Fuse which by then included college dropout Bun E. Carlos on drums moved to Philadelphia in 1971. As Sick Man of Europe they enlisted ex-Nazz vocalist Robert Stewkey Antoni but the group soon disbanded. After a year in Europe Nielsen and Petersson returned to Rockford reunited with Carlos and a few months later asked folkie vocalist Zander to join the group they named Cheap Trick. Midwestern booking agent Ken Adamany who had played in one of Steve Miller's high school bands became their manager. Adamany encouraged them to develop their stage show and Cheap Trick toured incessantly over the next several years playing an average of 250 shows a year opening for Kiss the Kinks Santana Boston and others.

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