Rock in the New Year with a LIVE WEBCAST of Cheap Trick’s Dream Police show live from Florida this Saturday night! For $9.99 you’ll be able to watch the show LIVE on NYE – on your computer, iphone, Roku, and more – plus you’ll have access to the show to watch again and again for the next 30 days.
CLICK HERE for all of the info from GFL.TV!
Dec. 28 – WWF/Coca Cola Arctic Home Campaign
Buckhead Theater – Atlanta, GA
Tix on sale 12/13/11 – ticketmaster.com
Benefiting the Coca Cola Arctic Home Campaign – here’s info about the charity:
https://www.arctichome.com/web/index.html?wt.mc_id=IL-CC-ArcticHome-HPhero1
Article:
http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/dec2011/2011-12-06-091.html
For a limited time only:
Cheap Trick Classic Tee Sale: $19.99 (reg. $29.99)
Cheap Trick Raglan Sale: $29.99 (reg. $39.99)
The Latest T-Shirt Sale: $14.99 (reg. $24.99)
www.cheaptrickstore.com
Cheap Trick, the Rockford band behind the ’70s hits “Dream Police†and “I Want You to Want Me,†announced Wednesday that it will “curate†a museum and music venue in a former Buick dealership at 2245 S. Michigan in the emerging Record Row-Motor Row district.
Band manager David Frey said in a statement that Cheap Trick Chicago will be “a one-of-a-kind eatery, unique musical instrument museum, radio station, and performance space as well as rooftop and outdoor and event space in the future Music Row in Chicago.â€
The project was prompted in part, Frey said, by expanding activity at nearby McCormick Place. Last month unions and management agreed to new work rules at the conventon center that will boost occupancy levels from 40 to 75 percent within two years, according to Ald. Bob Fioretti (2nd).
The announcement is a continuation of Fioretti’s vision to link the historic Chess Records site, 2120 S. Michigan; the empty Vee-Jay and Brunswick Records site, 1449 S. Michigan, and vacant auto dealerships into an entertainment district that would blend history, recording studios, hotels and restaurants.
“I think we could put the Cheap Trick project together by next year,†Fioretti said Wednesday.
BREAKING NEWS ALERT!
CHEAP TRICK NEW YEARS EVE SHOW!
Cheap Trick will perform their Dream Police show in its entirety with full orchestra at Jannus Landing in St. Petersburg, FL on Dec. 31, 2011. Tickets will go on sale on November 11. More information will follow on November 3.
Celebrate Halloween Weekend at Potawatomi!
Special Offer This Weekend Only!
Come to the Northern Lights Theater Box Office at Potawatomi in a Dream Police uniform on October 28 or 29 and you can purchase a balcony ticket for $25 for that night’s performance of Cheap Trick’s Dream Police.
This offer applies to October 28 and 29 shows only. Tickets available on a first-come basis, while supplies last. Must be 21 and over. Potawatomi management reserves all rights for this promotion.
Due to scheduling conflicts, the Cheap Trick show on Nov. 11 at the Fillmore in Silver Spring MD has been moved to Saturday, December 10 at 8:00pm. All tickets purchased will be honored at the door.
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 – “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.”
The Sept. 27 Cheap Trick show at The Fillmore in Silver Spring, MD has been rescheduled. The new date is November 11. All tickets for the original show date will be honored at that time.
Due to a storm front that caused consistent lightning near the stage, wind and rain, Cheap Trick were able to perform only 30 minutes of their show last night. The free outdoor concert was at the Seaside Summer Concert Series hosted by Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz at Coney Island. Mickey Leigh’s New Yorkestra weren’t able to perform at all. The officials took lightning near the stage seriously and insisted on safety first. Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, Seaside Summer Concert Series, and Cheap Trick appreciate and thank all the thousands of fans that sought shelter and waited in the rain for over two hours see the performance and all hope a return appearance next summer can be arranged.
Staging for PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) in Vancouver, BC is provided by Mega-Stage, (Berger), who also provided the MBNA Stage that fell on Cheap Trick at Cisco Ottawa Bluesfest on July 17th, 2011.
All potential alternatives have been explored by the band and promoter and were exhausted, leaving Cheap Trick with no other option than to cancel their September 1st engagement at the PNE.
Unless current investigation(s) prove otherwise, the band will not, as a matter of principle, but more importantly, as a matter of safety, appear on a Berger stage in the future.
Tickets are refundable at point of purchase.
Rick was a guest on VH1 Classic’s “That Metal Show” with Eddie Trunk. This show will air on October 15 on VH1 Classic television – Check your local listings..
