Photos by David Prohaska – Milwaukee – 10/8/11
Archive for October, 2011
Rick with author and historian David McCullough
Rick with author and historian David McCullough. Mr. McCullough is a (two-time) Pulitzer Prize winner and a National Book Award recipient, as well as a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Boston – 10/2/11
Photo by CARLA DRAGOTTI
Cheap Trick lobbies Congress to regulate temporary stages
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The sky was falling on Cheap Trick when the band was playing the Ottawa Bluesfest in mid-July.
Most of the band scattered to the back of the stage to escape when a storm blew through the festival and brought the 50-ton roof crashing down on the temporary stage. Guitarist Rick Nielsen bolted to the front of the buckling stage. “I felt like I was in a Buster Keaton movie where the building falls down on him,” Nielsen said Monday in an unexpectedly dramatic Future of Music Summit panel with the band’s manager, Dave Frey. “I ran forward looking for the equivalent of daylight” as the blackness descended.
Fortunately, the collapsing rig’s fall was broken by the band’s equipment truck, parked directly in back of the stage, leaving about a six-foot gap between the roof and the stage. “It fell 70 feet in a quarter-second,” Frey said. Two crew members and several other people were injured, the band’s equipment was destroyed, but no one died…. CLICK HERE for the full article
Rick’s Hamer Checkerboard Five Neck Guitar Under Repair
Rick’s Hamer Checkerboard Five Neck Guitar – “This is my favorite of all the 5-necks,” said Rick – and not seen with him in public since the Ottawa disaster, is shown here backside, while getting its last finishing touches of the extensive rebuild. 5-neck is still too embarrassed – and has recently been quoted as saying, “No frontal exposure photos just yet.”
