Cheap Trick Respond to Steve Miller's Rock Hall Comments

[@andrewfrancis7272]

Solid down to earth guys with good sense of humour. Lots of respect for Cheap Trick.

[@lancesmith4449]

Steve miller is 100% correct. The hall of shame.

[@NightOwlie]

Cheap Trick! Just saw them as the cover for Foreigner. I covet the Dream Police album I got for Christmas back in I think 1979. Love every single song and love them! No-one has their style.

[@matthewstetson1840]

Did you mean opening band for? Cover...huh?

[@runthejudes]

matthew stetson I was confused as well

[@peabodypenfold3930]

The cover for Foreigner??

[@Brewzerr]

"cover for Foreigner"? Whaa?

[@larryc8834]

Gonna Raise Hell is criminally underrated

[@cardtrix1970]

The members of Cheap Trick seem like They would be a LOT of fun to perform/hang with! Always liked their music!

[@morebeer7673]

If you ever get a chance to see Robin's solo band, RZB, don't miss it. He does a LOT of classic rock covers- AC/DC, The Who, Cream, Etc, and it's amazing hearing his legendary voice on those tracks.

[@larrydrozd2740]

My sister knew these guys before they were famous. A few years ago she went to see them and hung after and met up with Robin. He is an absolute blast and the nicest guy ever. Took the time to talk and hang out with everybody that stayed behind, which was about 12 people.

[@waynehand4600]

Power pop pioneers

[@jordancarpenter676]

What’s great about the press leaving this night is we got so many better interviews and stories from everyone. Steve Miller turned this whole thing on its head.

[@jamesha175]

what a great band! we drove 5 hours to Phoenix and paid $3.00 admission to see them play at the Arizona state fair in 1981

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Az state fair has always had good bands. Some of the best

[@jeffjacobs1963]

Great bunch of guys. I saw them for a dollar at Pine Knob in 96. They were gonna open for somebody that backed out at the last minute (big venue) so they said well do it for a buck a head and saved the day. Favorite cover by Dwight Yokum

[@timothysandvik6865]

Ha, I was at that show. I was 17. I remember their encore was Day Tripper. Totally awesome show.!

[@jamesha175]

@@timothysandvik6865 i was also 17. remember when he busted out that 5 neck guitar?

[@timothysandvik6865]

@@jamesha175 yep, I think he also threw a guitar out to the audience and told security the guy could keep it. Neilsen was the coolest.

[@davidphelps7048]

Great band. Great guys...super nice...don't to earth.... talked to my 13 year old son and I for a long time.... just hung with us....super cool

[@davidwiser3883]

Steve Miller was right to call out the "I'm better than you mentality" of the RRHOF. The artists and their fans is what is important. He should have told the RRHOF to kiss his ass when they informed he he was nominated!

[@tomsenick2033p]

Old rocks stars love their hats sunglasses and scarves

[@briancollins5117]

Helps cover up disappearance of hair and appearance of wrinkles and you can look cool at the same time lol

[@squinkque]

Well, the older I get the more I realize that protective clothing is a must need. You will too.

[@richardthompson5436]

All of this , and Joan Jett! Awesome!

[@rickapin]

Cheap Trick awesome band!

[@robinbrl]

I am glad they made it. Cheap Trick deserved it. It's been a Long Time Coming. LOL.:-). I have nothing against Dax at all. I just miss Bun E. He is one bad ass drummer. Just saying.

[@matthewstetson1840]

Dax who married Kristen Bell? Naaah.

[@Brewzerr]

Yeah, it's not that I think Dax sucks. He pulls it off. It's just that Bun E is one of those drummers that nobody can touch. He was always my favorite member of CT and he added so much to their sound, image, and overall magic. They're still writing great songs (much better than what they were serving up in the horrible '85-'94 period) and they still put on a great show, but it doesn't go to that next level like it did with Bun E. Oh well, I guess we had better just get used to it. I don't think Bun E's ever coming back. That ship sailed a while back now.

[@marzsit9833]

@@Brewzerr 'the singer' hates bun-e and threatened to leave the band if he wasn't sidelined, nielsen got scared so he went along with it.

[@drewwin794]

Bun E. Stopped touring, but still expected a paycheck. So he was replaced by Rick’s son I believe.

[@Pistakeerick]

And thanks, everyone, for watching this interview which was sponsored by Citibank and Pringles, both delicious, but in significantly different ways.

[@dirtylemon3379]

The best CheapTrick cover is Dream Police by Apu on The Simpsons.

[@waynehand4600]

👍

[@blizzdog3881]

I did a lot of marble work in Rick Nelson house in Rockford IL he is a down to earth nice guy. When I was working in the master bathroom he came in set on the toilet (not using it) and talk to for a half HR then show me his walk in safe full of guitars and his little recording studio, Rick even let me pick up and play Angus Young Gibson guitar that was given to him.

[@blizzdog3881]

@c Dittmer lol your making it hard on me this was back in 93 or 94, Rick use to live in this huge stone house that look like a Castle then built his new one I believe it was south of Loves Park, I remember the drummer live down the street from Rick he would stop by now and then look things over.

[@markuschelios6891]

It's not CT without Bun E.

[@elklakeradio8776]

Yeah, apparently Bun E. is quite the dick though.

[@scottmasson3039]

Bun e Carlos quit the band. Imagine you starting a business, and somebody from your staff quits. Are you just gonna stop running your biz?

[@thewhiteelephant]

No

[@privatepenguin3137]

Bun E. was there with them for the induction, then he performed with them. He just didn't do press.

[@SergeitheMet]

Funny guys. Great band! Got all their CDs.

[@GrayWoIf]

Mariah Carey covered Def Leppard....apparently they felt they weren't neutered enough

[@gorn9161]

Some buddies and I got to party in their trailer one night when they were playing in L.A. They were inside the Forum, rehearsing. I peeked out the window and all these girls screamed! I ducked back and my friends go: "What the fuck was that?!" I said: There's a TON of girls outside! "No way!" Watch this. And I put on one of Nielsen's hats, and turned the brim up. He had a bunch of them on the wall. I pulled back the curtain and popped my head out. All these girls went flippin' crazy! Last time That ever happened...

[@scullcap357]

AWSOME LIVE BAND .

[@phuoitrinh1]

Love these guys!

[@zorantaylor3190]

I'm still waiting for someone to open their acceptance speech by saying, "I can't begin to express how honoured I am to have an institution that was created by a guy who smuggled a teenage girl across state lines, filmed unsuspecting women going to the bathroom and stole his entire stage act from Marty McFly inform me that I am famous, a thing that is, of course, impossible to prove by any other means...."

[@patricias5122]

Amen to that

[@chadkcmo]

Who is the guy?

[@Draftsman_of_Doom]

It's a joke about Chuck Berry.

[@keithmcintyre6403]

They seem like nice guys!

[@arthurs4964]

Yeah, I can imagine Beyonce singing "I want you to want me, hey now now now now" Sounds about right.

[@70srocknroll]

I saw cheap trick early small place. In stockon ca

[@Carlos-xz3vi]

Cheap Trick is a great band. They always reminds me of a punk rock version of The Kinks.

[@SouthOCmixdown]

I would say they're more a post -Rockabilly/pre-metal version of a bunch of regionally-famous bands few people have heard of. The Kinks did punk better themselves towards the end of their career with various tracks from "Give The People What They Want".

[@ChicagoBeaver]

I saw Cheap Trick with Rainbow 1978 or 79, Chicago Amphitheatre . I was there to see Richie only but ended up liking Cheap Trick too.

[@danielh1830]

The RNR Hall of Fame is a joke, I'll never go there. The magazine is a rotten corpse of itself.

[@eddieguitarwatson2085]

Joan Jett is starting to look like Judge Judy

[@myfordranger]

little work done too..

[@bob5951]

Hahahaha - she really does . . .

[@bigbluegpr]

The effects of a lifetime of smoking.

[@tdrewke]

Maybe, Eddie, but I'd still love her music if she looked like Yoda. It's the art that counts.

[@tomsenick2033p]

She looked good for a long time

[@tobiashoyden2644]

I still fucking love Cheap Trick

[@eddiemuniz443]

Let alone for Peter frampton Humble pie should be in ducted in 2019 for the Rock n Roll Hall of fame!!!

[@davidmathews2599]

Eddie Muniz... Humble Pie was a better band than any band mentioned in any of these posts by far.

[@Voxtender]

Frampton absofreakinlutely!

[@richardeast3328]

Eddie Muniz Just for 30 Days in a Hole.

[@jamiehoward6505]

Richard East 30 days in a hole is a really bad song

[@TehQSAclan]

peter frampton isnt rock n roll, and aside from that he sucks

[@Gypsy_Soul7]

Robin Zander-still looking fine after all these years 🔥

[@robinbrl]

Oh he sure is still looking fine. I love his chin and well, everything else. LOL. They are all cute and still great musicians.

[@reaver622]

Heidi 123 he's got an amazing smile too. Better looking than guys half his age

[@robinbrl]

Oh yeah. But I love them all. LOL. I like Robin and Tom's smiles:-).

[@reaver622]

robinbrl I'm going to see them in concert in July. Got meet and greet tickets and I'm so excited

[@robinbrl]

Nice Danielle. I might try to go in June. It is so expensive. However, I may not and probably would not get another chance if I don't go and do the meet and greet this time.

[@andysott]

I met cheap trick in 2001, Bun E was the only one that was down to earth~ of course I was there as his guest, but still, he was the only one to talk with people...

[@harrisfoster1066]

Moody Blues had to wait 30 years...BS

[@williedaniels3882]

Amen to that! That was my favorite band of the 1970s! And the RAP CRAP garbage bands get in before that CLASS ACT?!! One BIG reason I will NEVER step foot inside that HOF building! It's a JOKE!

[@PerpetualArt]

Willie Daniels, Total joke !! Do you live in the Cleveland area?

[@DanielRamirez-li6zc]

Over Under Sideways Down Interesting moniker.. Is that how LIBTARDS treat you in the pool? 😎 Didn't I Didn't I Didn't I See you cryin?

[@zorantaylor3190]

@@DanielRamirez-li6zc That's a classic Yardbirds song. Conservatives who are well-informed about rock music are the most surreal hybrid ever....

[@zorantaylor3190]

@jeflynnenut RRHOF: Dumb institution, fantastic onomatopoeia for a sleepy old bulldog telling you to leave it alone...

[@outlawamps]

Cheap Trick is awesome! Love those guys!

[@V8Deuce]

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is a complete joke! They would rather have Rappers that have NOTHING to do with Rock & Roll - guys like Tube Sox Fer Sure inducted instead of legends like Dick Dale or Link Wray ! Pathetic !

[@cardtrix1970]

I...agree. In addition, they need to change the name to simply "ROCK HALL OF FAME"! he "Rock & Roll" moniker is...outdated.

[@mikecamilli1047]

You are 100% right! Why is rap in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Rap isn’t even music!

[@V8Deuce]

@Keith Nowak and both of those bands suck ass !

[@tdrewke]

It's obvious that the RRHoF is run by more greed than honor to worthwhile musicians

[@timholt9948]

Steve's always been pretty quiet did see him in a interview really enjoyed it

[@lastnamefirst4035]

SM Quiet? Hardly

[@timholt9948]

@@lastnamefirst4035 I think that's the only interview I've ever seen and I was buying his music over forty years ago and just bought him a few weeks ago

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@timholt9948 I always figured miller a nice guy but how would I know. Then I saw the interview he did with dan rather. Jeez What an ego. The kind of cringy self appraisal and how he is the best etc. Ive seen a couple of other interviews but don't recall where I saw them. Ive several auto biographies of my favorite musicians. They obviously often are nothing like they seem to be thru their music. Ive been real disappointed w some are pretty shallow and ego driven but to read the lyrics to their songs I would never had guessed. I dont read too many bios anymore. Trying to stick w the music

[@timholt9948]

@@lastnamefirst4035 my cousin works where they made his tour bus and the company a man drive the tour bus to dallas I think steve hired the man to be his driver the man drove for him for years the man died and Steve came back to this little town for the funeral he treated the driver real well

[@lastnamefirst4035]

@@timholt9948 good to hear. I would have expected him to go to the funeral given that he new the guy

[@leonalm7510]

In color and I black and white is one of the 10 best albums of all time.

[@richrocken4uj151]

Well Steve , I like Neilsons guitar playing more then you style.. love the turnarounds Rick does on solo runs.

[@lastnamefirst4035]

Love cheap trick. Cant stand SM

[@garystorm6251]

Our only Refuge and Hope is in the Son of God. He spoke Truth Forever. Please Forgive, and Pray for everyone... Peace

[@magiccheeseball]

its cute how they are exited to be inducted , the RNR hall of fame is the lucky ones to have them they are a big part of RNR .

[@mirrortime]

Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame is ANYTHING BUT Rock & Roll. Cheap Trick IS... Rock & Roll!

[@paultynan8705]

I VISITED ROCKFORD A FEW YEARS AGO. WISH I KNEW

[@kathleenthompson6649]

My home town ❤️

[@paultynan8705]

@c Dittmer you missed thepoint

[@dionisioiacobelli6689]

They have some great songs.I don't know if they have enough great songs.

[@theamericanpatriotshow3993]

Met Rick- dudes fun... lives close by

[@marknocera7212]

Cheap Trick is AWESOME!!!!!!!!🎸🎸🥁🙂

[@paulstafford4784]

Where's Bun E. Carlos ? He was there with them.....

[@outlawamps]

Love Cheap Trick!

[@kennystanton]

Cheap Trick is a class act,u can see they don't take themselves 2 seriously. Steve Miller was a cocky wise ass back in SF in the late 60's, he was gonna show those hippies a real musician,damn it.Close your eyes a few seconds&let your mind play "Abracadabra".Funny that his best work is 3 min pop tunes "Jungle Love""Swingtown""Take the $$ & Run". Yup ,he sure showed Jerry,Jorma,Cippolina,a real musician

[@headbangingmama8907]

I had heard about this on the radio, and I agree with your synopsis. Steve was apparently mad because the RRHOF wouldn't pay for his wife and kids to fly to Cleveland. What a tight wad! 😠

[@paultynan8705]

VERY DOWN TO EARTH! MISS BUN E

[@s.j.villalobos9220]

Cheap Trick is awesome and Rick Nielsen is a guitar sensei...with 2 good chords may blow your mind and create a hit!

[@tgshort7638]

I love Rock and roll

[@davidrichter9164]

So, put another dime in the jukebox baby.....

[@ronaldackerman7383]

Now that's the way rock and roll group should do interviews have fun who cares don't get serious make fun of each other and enjoy the moment way to go cheap tricks

[@MrPlooky]

They have every right to brag, they're great .

[@williamhelms9942]

Rocking In The USA - Steve Miller Band

[@tanksgameing8507]

Good they now have reached the status of madona and janet jackson you guys should be proud

[@hugoflores6866]

They preceded both of the x you have just mentioned, and even in their infancy this band was much better than the aforementioned

[@jacobmoreno8149]

"Hey nah nah" made me die.

[@matthewsolina4920]

No mention of Steel Panther? They do a killer cover of “She’s Tight” featuring Robin on the chorus.

[@bluefm7370]

Is that you Rick.....still have the pick you gave me when you played with Pat Travers... what year was that...lol. Stay safe brother🙏🏻❤️

[@romeowhiskeyjuliette8711]

Cheap Trick and the Cars seem to be outstanding for me in my 20's.

[@tp5776]

Other Cheap Trick responses, "we never won anything before, so this is cool."

[@jimmybrock7660]

Zander still so youthful!

[@Andrew-pu8ly]

Cheap Trick IS !!!!

[@roberthill4652]

I believe it was in 1978 we saw them and Springfield me and my girlfriend and they were backing up I believe rainbow I could be wrong but they sucked so we went outside to the back of the place and there was an RV parked and we leaned up against it and we're talking to each other and somebody else hey get off that RV and it was Rick Nielsen and Robin Zander and they were drinking Pabst Blue Ribbon and I yelled up to him that they put on a great show and could they give us two beers and Rick Nielsen said wait a second and he came back with two pbr's and drop them down to us I thanked him very kindly and then I asked him for some T-shirts and he said now you're really pushing it it was so cool

[@Mr1Gitrdone]

Where's Bun E.?

[@synthonaplinth5980]

He and RZ had a falling out. He quit the band and was sued.

[@kenmandu4499]

I hope that's Florida on Zander's hat.

[@davidbrothers2765]

What happened to bun e carlos

[@terrybull2903]

Any serious Rock and Roll Fan ignores the RRHOF, because the RRHOF is crap!

[@billmay7364]

John Lennon brought on Bun E. Rick Neilson with Tony Levin Earl Slick and did I'm Losing You. Better than the Version on Album. Check it out.

[@70stunes71]

Well for the General Public, we won't ever get to spend a moment Like These professionals have being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Lot of controversy surrounding all of this these days. I think some of it is politically charged. I'm still a big Steve Miller Band fan and have been since the mid-seventies anyway

[@skull330]

These lengedary rock & rollers have to share this award with a bunch of thug ganster rappers? What a slap in the face, these thugs need to be on the wall inside 7 11 where they belong...

[@ReggieSears]

At least you aren’t hiding your prejudice or racism.

[@dans2125]

I was going to comment on their diss of pearl jam and the money hungry thought of someone like beyonce covering their songs but rather just say congratulations I love The Flame.

[@furion..]

Tommy James of Crimson and Clover, Mony Mony, I Think We're Alone Now, Draggin' The Line and many others fame isn't inducted but (c)rap groups are. 'nuff said. RaRHO (Wenner's) Favorites - is more like it.

[@rodneylee4026]

Cool.

[@freedomworks3976]

Where’s the drummer ???

[@bluecollarmusic]

Beyonce cover a cheap trick song? Well maybe she would be good doing "The Flame" but I doubt she has the vocal range to hit those high notes that Zander could reach..

[@djohanson99]

idk, people who don't say anything bad about people or a situation makes me wonder. i get it don't talk bad about people but when something is a obvious wrong shouldn't you speak out on it.

[@tanksgameing8507]

Will they be inducted in the rap hall of fame just curious

[@Luileadolfo]

Josn Jett and Cheap Trick, both owe The Who a lot...

[@captbss]

So what did Steve Miller say ?

[@mhelgnr3537]

How about POISON, MR.BIG, SKIDROW, VAN HALEN, & EUROPE?

[@peabodypenfold3930]

Van Halen would be pulling each other's hair catfighting for the mike.

[@mikekennedy8644]

gawd damn joan jett is a FOXXXXXXX

[@MrZerosphere]

John Brandt, you gorgeous thing :)

[@Brewzerr]

I can't stand Steve Miller's music but he was dead on the money about the RRHoF. Someone needed to say it and he stepped up. I still won't listen to his records, but he's got my undying respect. Cheap Trick has been one of my top 3 favorite bands for well over 40 years, but I never cared one way or another when they got inducted. That institution means fuck-all to me. It's just an excuse for a bunch of record industry scumbags and their sycophants to get together and stroke each other's egos while they charge $10K admission. It has about as much to do with actual rock and roll as an insurance seminar. They induct rappers and pop divas while completely ignoring the true rock and roll pioneers. I really wish people would quit thinking of them as the standard for rock and roll legitimacy and greatness. That place is a joke and a skid mark on the underwear of rock and roll.

[@SouthOCmixdown]

RRHOF gives Cleveland a reason to exist on the map and pluck down a few tourists from L.A./NYC flights over flyover country and make a few bucks. It is what it is.

[@acemacgruber6593]

Steve Miller wouldn’t give the RnR Hall his music and likeness unconditionally, good for him. And for fighting to get his band there to perform without having to buy them tickets at $10k each.

[@bobsam55]

Im with Steve Miller

[@kurtsherrick2066]

Since the best band in Rock finally made it the Not much all of Fame Deep Purple. Are we ever going to get Steppenwolf in there. Their to good for that ridiculous establishment. Uriaheep should be in there. It's a shame they have Rap garbage over artist like John Kay and Steppenwolf and Uriaheep.

[@matthewstetson1840]

Not every fucking band that recorded an album should be in the HOF. Uriah Heep and Steppenwolf were nice and both are unworthy. Emerson, Lake and Palmer should be in however for their huge record sales and world wide popularity, their incredible stage shows and the fact that they brought something new and different to the table. Emerson's Hammond rocked just as much as any of his contemporaries on guitar and none other than Jimi Hendrix was a fan. I realize they won't ever get in, unless they wait until Carl Palmer passes away. Silly assholes.

[@markscutti9682]

Kansas should be in the RRHOF! But RRHOF is not worthy!

[@matthewstetson1840]

Nah but Snafu should get in.

[@pbracey1]

And Jethro Tull is still not in.

[@SouthOCmixdown]

Love DP but, I would rather see Blackmore's Rainbow get inducted, over DP, maybe just induct Blackmore and then Ian Paice, Glover, Lord, Coverdale, Dio, Daisley, Bonnet, JL Turner, Glover, Cozy Powell, et al..Can get their criminally underrated overdue accolades. Blackmore literally defined his own genre of hard rock/metal, spawned some of the best bands ever with highly listenable and technically-sound music, and very quietly played with some of the greatest musicians in rock history.

[@mhelgnr3537]

TWISTED SISTER & CINDERELLA should be in there!!!

[@jamesmandas639]

I really like and respect Cheap Trick. I sure hope Bun didn't get the shaft.

[@johnrumsey5090]

I got news for all of you Steve Miller 's got all of you beat

[@matthewstetson1840]

Make like Abracadabra and disappear.

[@DobeBob]

You can't be serious!

[@johncahill3018]

I first saw Steve Miller on the Book of Dreams tour...amazing concert, trailblazing sounds for the time! But what do you expect from a guy who grew up learning guitar from Les Paul.

[@PerpetualArt]

Steve Miller is the man !!

[@leeellenwood5461]

Cheap trick rocks on, and so does Stevie. Both band to the bone.

[@jeffmurray1681]

Never really cared for their albums, but they were a completely different band live. In 1980 I dated a girl that was into CT and she drug me to a show. I was blown away. Those dudes rocked. Saw them again in '81 and that show was just as good.

[@steveconn]

She probably blew you away in other ways too ;)

[@robertroth8652]

Never cared for their LPS? Have you listened to their first record, Heaven Tonight or All Shook Up?

[@shawnhill3482]

Steve Miller is way Above Cheap trick as far as I am concerned so !

[@nathanielnicholson559]

Your opinion, but not at all relevant here. Look up the reason for these comments. Miller totally shamed the HoF in his acceptance speech and defended CT while doing it. Steve Miller and Cheap Trick are both amazing live so :) Watch the speech, it's an anthem in itself.

[@jibnation69420]

Toto in rock in roll hall of fame

[@DocSkirv]

Rolling stone sicks

[@thezootwo]

Charlie Sheen is in Cheap Trick?

[@fhhfgj]

I love when Robin says that Rick and Tom's fuck ups are better than pearl jam's "best" work. I concur Mr. Zander, I concur!

[@TheDoug2103]

joan.... come on......

[@MajorWolfgangHochstetter]

It was a 'cheap trick' putting this 'flash in the pan' act in the 'sham' R&RHOF!