{"id":2327,"date":"2010-11-23T05:25:50","date_gmt":"2010-11-23T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2015-09-30T18:59:42","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T18:59:42","slug":"unreleased-1986-interview-with-cheap-tricks-rick-nielsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2010\/11\/unreleased-1986-interview-with-cheap-tricks-rick-nielsen\/","title":{"rendered":"Unreleased 1986 Interview with Cheap Trick&#039;s Rick Nielsen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick\" src=\"http:\/\/pointyguitar.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/10\/hamer_gftpm_04_98.jpg\" alt=\"Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick\" width=\"263\" height=\"367\" \/>While in college radio at KGMA at Mankato State University I did a phone interview with Cheap Trick lead guitarist Rick Nielsen. I am pretty sure this interview never aired, so this is the first time you are hearing it&#8230; in its entirety, uncut.<\/p>\n<p>I wonder if the kid who answers the phone is now Cheap Trick&#8217;s drummer, Daxx Nielsen?<\/p>\n<p>A little back story for this interview. I was supposed to interview Rick Nielsen backstage at the Met Center in Bloomington, MN. Cheap Trick were on tour opening for RATT. Unfortunately my backstage access was messed up and I was not able to interview Rick. So it was arranged to do a phone interview.<\/p>\n<p>Please leave comments and let me know what you think.<\/p>\n<p>Interview with Cheap Trick lead guitarist Rick Nielsen, December 31, 1986 &#8211; 12 Minutes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While in college radio at KGMA at Mankato State University I did a phone interview with Cheap Trick lead guitarist Rick Nielsen. I am pretty sure this interview never aired, so this is the first time you are hearing it&#8230; in its entirety, uncut. I wonder if the kid who answers the phone is now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[371,51],"tags":[123,372,496],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-music","tag-cheap-trick","tag-kgma","tag-rick-nielsen"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11790,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions\/11790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}