Cheap Trick Manager: 'I Can't Believe We're Alive' - Band narrowly avoided death in stage collapse

Rolling Stone ^ | July 18, 2011 | Matthew Perpetua

[a fool in paradise]

PING

“We’re trying to get gear set up for our show tomorrow in Buffalo. Do you know where we can rent a five-neck guitar?”

[rogue yam]

The real news here is that Cheap Trick is still getting festival bookings.

[Jet Jaguar]

[Invincibly Ignorant]

The New York State Thruway is closed man. :-)

[the invisib1e hand]

long time ago, I read that there was a drummer paralyzed by falling stage rigging...I think he was backing Paul Simon, but can’t say for sure. Was it in Central Park?

[the invisib1e hand]

one of my favorite rock guitarists. I like is his style all - musical and stage.

[driftdiver]

Don’t be Cruel man

[driftdiver]

Don’t be Cruel man

[Political Junkie Too]

Maybe they should become the Moderately Expensive Trick in their old age?

-PJ

[Jet Jaguar]

Mine too,

[WayneS]

If I recall correctly, Cheap Trick is the “touringest” band ever. I’m pretty sure I read that they’ve performed more ‘live’ shows than any other band in the history of rock-n-roll.

[the invisib1e hand]

read something like that, too. remember thinking, “gawd but they work hard.”

[dfwgator]

If I recall correctly, Cheap Trick is the “touringest” band ever. I’m pretty sure I read that they’ve performed more ‘live’ shows than any other band in the history of rock-n-roll.

Well, Geritol isn't cheap.

[trad_anglican]

one of my favorite rock guitarists. I like is his style all - musical and stage.

I had a chance encounter with him in a bar at O'Hare a number of years ago. He's also a really nice guy off stage.

[stratman1969]

I saw them in Petaluma back in 2007, and then they played a benefit at our convention a couple of years later. They put on a great show.

[WayneS]

The first rock-n-roll concert I ever attended was a Cheap Trick show in 1978.

[the invisib1e hand]

OK, I'll be the first: not my fave, and not strictly Cheap Trick, but an awesome tune and an awesome prop to Rick Nielsen.

[presently no screen name]

Why is it closed?

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I’ll never forget walking into a bar in August 1974 in Madison Wisconsin and they were playing (for free). I remember
thinking to myself - “Hey these guys really suck”. I remember the keyboard dude playing keyboards on the back of some other band member and thinking “wow - that’s lame”. Flash forward a few years and it turns out they’re rock and roll superstars. But my initial assessment still stands :)