Who isn't impressed with Cheap Trick?

[BigmanPigman]

Robin's vocal range is fantastic and the whole band rocks! Steve Marriott (Humble Pie, Small Faces) has a vocal range that always has me wanting more too.

[highplainsdem]

1. I like Cheap Trick. I think Robin Zander's vocal range is probably greater than Steve

Marriott's (though I'm not sure of that, and I've seen disagreement online on Robin's vocal range).

OTOH, if we're talking preferences, I'd much rather listen to Steve than Robin. Just prefer his voice. I think he's a more powerful rock and blues singer.

Steve in the '60s, '70s and '80s:

Steve's daughter Mollie is pretty good, too. Steve would be very proud:

[BigmanPigman]

2. I really love Steve too.

Robin and Steve both have kids that are musicians. I guess it really is in the genes.

[highplainsdem]

3. Eddie Vedder's daughter, too. Steve Winwood's. And at least 3 of the 4 members

of Golden Earring have kids who are singers and/or musicians (I haven't read anything about the drummer's kids).

Since you're a Cheap Trick fan, I want to give you a link to a thread on Steve Hoffman's forum that I spotted this evening, in case you didn't know about this upcoming release:

https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/cheap-trick-live-at-the-whisky-1977-4-cd-box-set-coming-limited-to-2-000-copies.1158104/

Already 5 pages of replies there, since very early yesterday morning.

[BigmanPigman]

4. Man, what a play list!!!

I wasn't aware of the Whiskey performances. Thanks!

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Met Those Guys

We opened for them at a festival. (Actually, we opened for the band that opened for them.)
They were all very friendly. They had THEIR crew making sure we were happy & had everything we needed.
We hung out with them for a good 2/3rds of the middle band's set.
Bun E. was a little shy, but still a nice dude. Rick & Robin were very outgoing, telling stories from the club act days.
Rick brought over 40 guitars to the show, watched over by an armed guard! A lot of them were those custom finish models Hamer was throwing at him every other week.
I got to play his "coffee table" guitar. His tech had that setup absolutely perfect.
I also played his famous 5 neck. I don't know how he played that thing standing up. First, it was heavy! Second, I'm not sure I could reach the bottom neck.
Here's a link to an article with a pic of him playing it.
https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/rick-nielsen-reveals-the-story-behind-his-1981-hamer-five-neck

[BigmanPigman]

6. Wow, and I thought getting one of Rick's guitar

picks well cool.

I saw a clip of Alan Thicke interviewing them for his daytime talk show and he picked up the 5-neck and he almost fell over too.

[ProfessorGAC]

7. Funny You Mentioned The Pick

The famous coffee table guitar was a body finish, where they took a picture of Rick's rec room glass table.
Then, they took a picture from the bottom.
The guitar then is a perfectly matched top & bottom or the stuff on the table, from both top & bottom.
IIRC, just above the bridge there's a guitar pick, and on the back of the guitar, in the same spot, is the other side on his pick.
I don't recall whether it was a signature pick, or just a Fender.
The estimates at that time was that the finish was worth 3 times the guitar itself because it required so much work.
It was really cool.
I found a pic of one online, but only the top was the coffee table. That's not the one I played.

[highplainsdem]

8. Great story about a fantastic meeting! I love stories about rock legends who

are really good, friendly people. And how cool that you got to play those guitars!

I was looking for info on that 5-neck guitar (including its weight) and ran across a Collection video from.Gibson TV, over an hour on Rick and his guitars, that was done about a year ago. Decided that looked watchable enough that it should be in an OP, so I posted it here: https://democraticunderground.com/10355530