Rickresource Rickenbacker Forum

Posted: **Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:51 am**

You gotta love Cheap Trick - still rockin after all these years.
I saw them twice in 2005 and they were fantastic. Robin Zander still has an incredible voice and still pulls out his ol' Rickenbacker 450 for a bunch of tunes. Here are some 2007 pics of him playing his old Ric from the CT website.
http://cheaptrick.com/images/03-01-07/rztp.jpg
http://cheaptrick.com/images/03-01-07/rztp4.jpg
http://cheaptrick.com/images/03-01-07/band.jpg
http://cheaptrick.com/images/03-01-07/band7.jpg

Posted: **Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:48 pm**

Hey!!! He stole that guitar from Johnny Ramone!!!

http://www.rockometer.com/ramones/g_rick.html

Posted: **Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:38 pm**

Well, that has been discussed here at least a couple of times! I had an opportunity to ask Rick Neilsen about it once, and he stated that Robin had owned that guitar "way before the Ramones".

Cheap Trick Rules! (so do the Ramones!)

Posted: **Tue Apr 17, 2007 4:31 pm**

If you look close, in a couple of pics you can also spot a couple of AC30's powering Robins 450

Posted: **Wed Apr 18, 2007 2:36 am**

He still has the same guitar. Looks like he wears it about a foot lower than he was back in '78.

Posted: **Wed Apr 18, 2007 6:20 am**

As you get older, everything starts to drop...

Posted: **Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:32 pm**

I posted a pic here once of Robin using it way back before the alleged rip-off from the Ramones...
And yes, he still uses it. GREAT voice...

Posted: **Thu Apr 19, 2007 6:19 am**

I've played that guitar. IT's HAMMERED!

Posted: **Thu Apr 19, 2007 7:51 am**

Don't forget about the 1958 325 (# V100) that was owned by Robin at one time, and it is pictured on Glen Lambert's website...a fairly recent addition to the site...

Posted: **Thu Apr 19, 2007 8:07 am**

Did he have to walk through the snow to get to the gig?

http://cheaptrick.com/images/03-01-07/band7.jpg

Posted: **Thu Apr 19, 2007 10:27 am**

How do you mean, Kenny? Just worked over? Details?