Here's the facts, from the girl that interviewed "Cheap Trick" in 1977 at 20 yrs. young. This was probably one of my first interviews ever, and my first interview with a famous band. Since the early 90's I have hosted/produced a TV and Radio (LATalkRadio) talk show called "Out of the Blue" on animals, the environment & spirituality. Now, 38 yrs. after the interview with Cheap Trick, I believe I am an ass-kickin' interviewer. So watch the stones you through May bounce back and hit you!😇

@MOAONAABE

7 жыл бұрын

sounds like a hicksville accent

@andyfaithnomoreguitarist5444

7 жыл бұрын

You were such a beauty back then,you still are! :D

@arthurbishop3173

7 жыл бұрын

Deirdre, you look like Nancy Wilson (of Heart) here :)

@jackies1729

7 жыл бұрын

Deirdre Wilson nice interview

@Marknelsonize

7 жыл бұрын

I thought you did great, seriously

Omg robin is absolutely gorgeous!!

@sherryd3299

4 жыл бұрын

I know! He is such a sexy singer with an excellent voice.

@RevAlKhemy

4 жыл бұрын

Robin just sit there and be pretty

@rv11cs

2 жыл бұрын

@@RevAlKhemy LITERALLY

@georgehenderson7783

8 ай бұрын

How about in this 1978 version of Surrender? kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZJp91pt6nNKZabQ.html

Tom & Robin are trying so hard not to bust up in laughter at Rick's answers. Lol.

Robin on one side. Tom on the other. Two classic hotties, nice, humble, great musicians - the complete package. I love Cheap Trick.

@deanpesaturo6401

6 ай бұрын

Yeah. They can play too!! ❤😂

This was so early in CT's career, that nobody could warn poor Deirdre that she wouldn't get a straight answer from this group.

Rick is such a visionary. Even then he knew that most of their fans would come from Amazon. How did he know in the 70's that fans would get their music from Amazon? Amazing ;)

@adannarvaez

2 жыл бұрын

He was talking about THE Amazon idiot. There's a river and a rain forest in southamerica named Amazon.

@shanemartin8904

Жыл бұрын

Because he is from venuzuela in south America...das where de Amazon is

I wish I'd got to see them back then,I just saw them 2 months ago,they where awesome,to see them back in their prime woulda been killer

I’m one minute into this, the band hasn’t said a word and I’m already excited for it. Thanks for posting.

I saw these guy's open for KISS at The Cow Palace in 1976. ... I thought they were better than KISS personally! 3:)

@sputnikjr123

8 жыл бұрын

i saw them open up for KISS at Madison Square Garden 78

@rodneylee4026

7 жыл бұрын

They were/are better than Kiss.

@olddogcitypound5859

6 жыл бұрын

RodneyLee you are correct, much better

@davedave6321

5 жыл бұрын

benjamin hoffman ... you are mistaken. They never played MSG with KISS

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

@@rodneylee4026 hardly.

They started in ROCKFORD!!!!!!Ricks dad owned Nielson's music on 7th street.

@Obscured1972

5 жыл бұрын

It's like Aerosmith being a Boston band

Great footage and rare until now. Thanks! My High School years!!

This is the best worst interview I ever saw. I loved it

You’ve been doing your homework Dierdre lolol So much BS🤣🤣 Robin checking out the questions and the girl 😍🤣 This is amazing🙌🙌love these guys🖤🤍

Yeah!!!! Morristown, NJ!!!

Best look of a band ever and thats saying a lot... 2 nerdy guys and two 70s lounge lizard pin up boys...just well played by CT

Love 3:07 Robin leans over and looks at her other questions. Probably thinking, "Geez, what else is she gonna ask us?"

I wonder what the other three guys in the band thought of Rick's interview.

Hearing Rick say '1998' is interesting.

WOW , Cheap Trick gave her a tough time answering the questions , iam from Rockford Ill where they went to High School

Ahhh dang it, I remember this interview....that makes me old.

I just saw the band live a few days ago for the first time.They were beyond incredible!

Rick Nielsen was just having plain out fun with this reporter.....I am laughing my ass off.

How sad and pathetic ....you have to make fun of someone who you know nothing about, in order to build up your own self worth and ego..Deirdre is a caring beautiful person inside and out.Next time someone says something about you that is untrue and hurts remember Karma comes in a full circle.

I also didn’t know that cheap Trick was this talented musicians excellent

It is a hard watch tho but huge thanx for posting. The band doesn't have much early stuff to watch. Thx

Hahahaha...thanks for posting made my day!

so beautiful

SPINAL TAP moment. I love this. I watch it now and then for a giggle.

@medd0ws

4 жыл бұрын

I've been watching this over and over since it's so rare to find interviews of them when they were so young!

great old interview.

I had lotsa fun watching this. A Kane interview by a cute girl. Rock being so nice, tom bored as hell, Robin peeking at her notes and BunE. Just getting along ..

I have never seen this interview 🎙️ Well Played▪️Can't always be SO serious ▪️ Fan of Cheap Trick from the start▪️☑️

@damianodavid65

2 ай бұрын

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Saw them at the Jax Coliseum, ‘78. Opened for Aerosmith I think. Great fun

Not a bad interview, IMO. You'll have to forgive the written notes - this was before every little podunk station had teleprompters. The interviewer obviously did at least some research before the interview and tried to roll with the non sequitors. She was outnumbered and tried to think on her feet, and actually got some interesting questions out. I think Rick was channelling Lennon and felt he had to answer every question with a witty quip.

@damianodavid65

2 ай бұрын

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Love this

@TimBlackyBlack

8 жыл бұрын

Neilson's Fucking funny ! Born in Chicago, Grew Up in Venezuela.. Too funny

@timhoovermusicman

4 жыл бұрын

@@TimBlackyBlack he's as funny as a rattlesnake in your pants

She's trying so hard and they're just eating her alive. I LOVE this!

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

If you consider being a dickhead eating her alive.

LMAO! Gotta love it!

This always makes me laugh! Love how she answers her own questions...I thought Robin was the ballroom dancer. He looks bored shitless. Lucky Bun E. is out of shot most of the time, he is probably asleep :P

@sherrydrake4973

4 жыл бұрын

I think they are all bored to death. Alice Cooper said when on the road, they do around 25 interviews per day.

@carlsaganlives5112

Жыл бұрын

Same old mindless questions, zero creativity, inspires a flat-line brain activity. On the other hand an off the cuff, spontaneous interview is so novel that you hardly see them. Same thing over and over, no matter what band - ya still hear every dumbfuck ask Mick or Keith how long the Stones are gonna stay together, what about the Beatles, blah, blah, blah....

I love these old interviews. The band members messed so bad with the interviewers.

The question at 5:30 is fun and the badness of the question brings out their great faces, attitudes etc.

Really great interview of a top band.

Don't touch the hat there Deidre.....*Damn* Still laughing!

I grew up on the Elvis, The Beatles, and The Beach Boys. When I heard "Mommy's alright, Daddy's alright, they just seem a little weird" blasting from my big sisters bedroom when I was a kid in '78 I lost my shit.

i love robin😣

They all bowed down to Rick it seems, he must have held the keys to the car.

lol at 3:08 when Robin peeks at the notes

They played this interview just like Nirvana would have.

Near Chicago? ROCKFORD PRIDE

Rick is tired of the interview about a minute into the interview, LOL

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

I was tired of him in '76

@paullevine1813

4 жыл бұрын

@@timhoovermusicman I was sick of him in 69.

great footage

The Clarences love & support Cheap Trick!

tim hoover must be some psycho replying to all these comments. what's the need? rick nielson wasnt being a jerk either. he was just a sarcasm god.

Hahahaha, I love how they are messing with her!!

good interview....cool dudes

Chicago area???? I'm ashamed to be from Rockford too!!!

I'd love to have sat that close to Robin Zander! I could be your lover-let's pretend! In my dreams!! 🤗

@damianodavid65

16 күн бұрын

🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸 🎸 😊

Bun E. Carlos was friendly in this, but the other three seemed bored. Not a bad set of questions and she'd done her homework on the band

@user-sm7og6fi3j

4 жыл бұрын

@@timhoovermusicman No. That's just your opinion. You seem a bit jealous.

@timhoovermusicman

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-sm7og6fi3j no,its just fact.you seem pretty douchy too.

It always amazed me that CT would never acknowledge their Rockford Ill. roots in most of their early day interviews.They must have thought such association would not help them market their image.Now they don't seem to mind but you start to mellow out when you get into your sixties as many of them have.They have had a Rockford base since they started but always associated geographical allegiance to Chicago. Rockford is NOT Chicago but has its own history & identification.

@72littlesis

Жыл бұрын

Rick still lives here. He loves his hometown. I think maybe it was an easy answer. He's actually a really good guy. They all are. Bun still lives here too and hangs at a local bar during the week. They're extremely hometown proud and they definitely belong to us🤗👑

I wonder what Robin was lip saying to Tom?

Wow , that was a cool interview .. i wonder why they just didnt say they were from Rockford, illinois instead of saying "the chicago area " ? ?????

/uh! Robin Zander was so cute!

@reburos --ha! That is funny, isn't it. Back in the 'Sick Man of Europe' days they would sometime say they were from Madison, and, occasionally, Philly, ... but you've gotta admit, they really give props to Rockford these days. I was born and raised in Rockford, and lived there for 40 years, but finally had to leave. It ain't safe anymore.

@Berus7777 polite to an extent. LOL. Robin talks over her mouthing something to Tom at 3:27( LOVE IT...hee hee), that's not polite. He lip reads her notes while she reads out loud, looks at her notes while she looks away, what else....hmmm. He is just naughty. Can't say I would have been much better or worse sitting through the torture. Watch it again. It is hilarious! Tom politely calls her out. Rick is Rick. Bun E. may be trying not to laugh out loud or he is stunned or both.

It's funny how Rick talks about the future and says 1989. Is when his old Band stuff is going to be released weird huh?

@damianodavid65

16 күн бұрын

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Oh Robin!

'I don't know about you guys, but I always wanted to perform in front of a camera!' Rick checks his watch to see if he has time after the show, haha 9:10

I kept waiting for a flicker of comprehension that the band members were obviously pulling the interviewer's leg but it never happened. The lights were on but nobody was home.

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

Your lights have never been on

My favorite part (8:53). : )

The Amazon? He was fairly prophetic.

The dude with the hat looks like a hipster who rides a fixie time traveler from circa 2005

302 one-night gigs, in one year? Oi

@iwantthe80sback59

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. They’ve been doing that for decades. Kid Rock mentions that in his speech when CT was inducted into the RRHoF.

@91ROCKANGEL Ha ha ha, you're right!

Who else could actually see Rick being a math teacher?

@georgehenderson7783

8 ай бұрын

What about Bun E. Carlos? 😅

Robin Zander is fibbing , he collects pistols

Should I jump in and give you my opinion of what you did over 30 years ago?

Wow, this was hard to watch, pretty uncomfortable for her. Very interesting though, thanks for an unusual post.

I am a big fan of Cheap Trick. Rick often says his parents were opera singers. Is that really true or is it another one of his many jokes? He even called Sydney Opera house his "apartment"... In one of their songs there is a melody from "Il Trovatore" by Giuseppe verdi. Because I am a classical singer that is very amusing to me. In this interview Rick is telling so many jokes and questionable "facts". Now we can laugh about it but was that a "cheap trick"? I presume he was a naughty child. I really believed that Bun.E. was born in Venezuela. Was that also a "cheap trick"? Anyway, I love them and Cheap Trick forever!

is their drummer actually Sgt Shulchz ?

it would be nice if someone besides rick could talk in any of these interviews, jeez :/

@damianodavid65

2 ай бұрын

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Rick is the only one talking. The other 3 seem tied. Its too bad these guys seem like alot of fun. They all are alot more talkative these days.

WoW! This lady is about as bright as a cave, and just as dense! Good thing she was wearing a low cut shirt and was cute. I hear coke was pretty damn good back in the 70's. I love it how Robin informs her that she has 4 minutes. Obviously she didn't take the hint that it was four minutes of hell that they had to endure.

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

I see you have reverend him for a profile pic,he's smarter than you.

Fuse was pretty good.

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

A friend just sent me some of their stuff the other day .

@WilliamRMize

4 жыл бұрын

Tim. YOU LIAR!!!!!! You said you had never listened to Fuse and here it is in black and white! You otta be ashamed of yourself!!!! Oh sorry for the mispelling. How rude of me. Next thing you know I'll be chewing gum. How rebellious!! Subversive even!

@paullevine1813

4 жыл бұрын

@@WilliamRMize You told one person Fuse were your favorite band but you have done nothing but bad mouth them , who's the liar . You're a loony bastard with no musical sensibilities. Find your rock & crawl back under it. . Seen your channel & it's like your brain .. EMPTY !!!!!

@WilliamRMize

4 жыл бұрын

Paul go listen to a 10 min drum solo you Prog Rock / Blues Rock FREAK!!!

i can see both sides. they are sick of pat questions, esp. Rick and she is trying to do good with her job.

Punto para Raulito Nielsen 🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

8:59 *vine boom/rock eyebrow raise*

Lol Rick is such a goof

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

You misspelled douchebag

why is bun e.carlos not in the band

@johnmat4678

4 жыл бұрын

He had some medical problems and missed some shows. They fired him. He sued and won big time.

to her credit, it was an awkward time. just an awkward time period indeed.

"Should have been released in 1998" LOL!

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

Fuze was good,you can find it on KZread

I wonder did Robin date this girl later? Their seems to be some chemistry between them.

@marceloromero4515

4 жыл бұрын

You noticed that, too? Robin is a charmer.

I think they want to get out of there to be honest.

Hello, how ARE you?! (i dreamed of you last night...)

This is a time where the band really could/should have taken control of a very bad/embarrassing interview. Come on, Cheap Trick - you're professionals - take over and talk to your fans!

@robinbrl

6 жыл бұрын

Now, I know y'all are tired of my comments here. LOL. I love all the guys in Cheap Trick. Everyone one of them. They were one of the if not the first concert I ever attended. In this interview though, I kind of felt that Rick was patronizing. Sorry.

@sherrydrake4973

4 жыл бұрын

They don't like to reveal much about their personal lives so they just make up nonsense during interviews.

basicly fromch

Come on she did not know the band, so she ask stupid things and they were really young the answers are according to all of this. Robin always cute, hansome but the cloth oh god!!!! I love them all One of the greatest bands ever!

environmental expert!..PLEEEESE!

robin was sure enjoying rick toying with this gal. i agree, if she wasn't so pretty she would be a secretary somewhere where nobody cares.

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

I bet your mother was a HEAD nurse.

I bet that interviewer grows up to be smoking hot.

@andrewmcintyre8774

6 ай бұрын

Click on her image in the description and you'll see exactly how she looks now......

Evidently they didn't develop social skills until later on in life. (These days, they're quite fun to to listen to.) At this point in their career, I think a valid question would have been, If you're going to be this aloof, why do any press at all?? I kinda think Rick was putting on an act.

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

A bad one.

@bartonfritzinger2177

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent band I've seen them 53 times including 3trickfests ,if you never saw them put them on your bucketlist,and be up front to get a rick pic,goodnite now ladies and gentlemen

@timhoovermusicman

4 жыл бұрын

@@bartonfritzinger2177 I like the singer and their music but neilson is a Dick.

@7:33-7:48- What exactly is Robin up to? Definitely lots of action in those pockets. And then that blatant snort. Hmm....nah.

This is interview is so awesomely bad. CT is great entertainment as always even during this train wreck. Robin, what are you saying to Tom at 3:30? LMAO. Every CT member seems to be in disbelief that they actually experiencing what must be a joke. Ha!

@timhoovermusicman

5 жыл бұрын

How many interviews have you done?... ya,that's what I thought .