By the time he was 13, the younger Nielsen was a drummer in The Phaetons, his first school band.
to Rockford, where they opened a music store.
For Nielsen, his musical path started out being the son of opera singers who moved the family from the Chicago suburb of Elmhurst, Ill. It seemed an apropos song.”ĭependably consistent might be the best way to describe Cheap Trick. We decided to do (‘Gimme Some Truth’) so John Lennon could get all the credit and all the criticism.
“These are songs that we’d written over a period of time, including during the last four years of the last administration - it’s about how to be optimistic in a pessimistic world. “We’re not a political band, but we talk about politics amongst ourselves,” he explained.
