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Rick Nielsen

Rick Nielsen

American Musician

Born: Dec 22, 1948

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I never tried to emulate The Beatles, and I never really wanted to be like The Rolling Stones. I never really felt that I had the look or the demeanor of veteran musicians. Rick Nielsen

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I was always the wise guy class clown throughout my childhood. Rick Nielsen

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I think I've probably had one of my guitars on display at every Hard Rock Cafe in the world. Rick Nielsen

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I didn't want to be one of the Beach Boys or one of the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah band. I mean, we appreciated that music. But I didn't want to grow a beard to look like Roy Wood just because I liked him. Rick Nielsen

Some bands, they're too snooty, or they think they're too this or that and wouldn't talk to us. And some other bands are afraid to talk to us. Rick Nielsen

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I like 'Salty Dog' by Procol Harum. Rick Nielsen

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If we waited for a hit record to tour, we would never have toured. Rick Nielsen

Would Record Tour Never Toured Waited Hit Hit Record

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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Cheap Trick have always prided ourselves on being groundbreaking. Rick Nielsen

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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. Rick Nielsen

Hendrix was a different kind of guitar player. It was like, 'Holy cow, this guy can sing, he can play all this weird stuff... what is this?' It was a new kind of music. Rick Nielsen

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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. Rick Nielsen

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. Rick Nielsen

My parents were opera singers. I didn't want to play opera because I wasn't good enough. I didn't want to play their music; I wanted to play the music that I wanted to play, and I'm so lucky that today I get to play that music, even though I don't like every song I write. Rick Nielsen

No one knows this, but when I would play the clubs back in '65, '66, they used to call me 'Screaming Chicken,' 'cause I would go out and scream, fall on the ground, beat myself, smash stuff, jump through the ceiling, roll on the floor, and act like I was having epileptic fits. Rick Nielsen

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I don't like the term 'rock star.' Rick Nielsen

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We're known as a touring band, not a singles band. Rick Nielsen

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If you start having to tell people you're cool, you're not. Rick Nielsen

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We're basically a rock band - guitar, bass, drums and vocals. But we take it further than that. We can be rotten, dirty, and heavy as anyone, but at the same time, we've got a lot of melody. Rick Nielsen

People say, 'Oh, Rick, he's crazy.' Well, I'm crazy, and I'm not crazy... When I went to my high school reunion, I was the only one there doing what he said he was going to do. How crazy is that? Rick Nielsen

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