The latest on Cheap Trick drummer in another band

February 23rd, 2009 at 03:53pm Georgette Braun

Just got off the phone with Bun E. Carlos, Cheap Trick drummer, who is making headlines because he’s also part of a new group, Tinted Windows. Other members are former Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha, Hanson’s Taylor Hanson and Fountains Of Wayne bassist Adam Schlesinger.

(Provided photo. Bun E. Carlos on the left.)

Here are five things you should know about Carolos and Tinted Windows:

1. Carlos  is continuing to drum with Rockford-based Cheap Trick. He’s been with Cheap Trick since the group’s inception in 1974.  Carlos lives in Boone County.  “All of us are working around the schedules of our main bands,” he said.

2. Tinted Windows’ sound “is not really all that different” than Cheap Trick’s, Carlos said. “We have guitar, bass and drums, a great singer and killer songs.” And, he said, “We are all pretty much on the same level musically.” The self-titled Tinted Windows CD will be released April 21 on S-Curve Records. Listen to the “Kind of a Girl” track here at Rolling Stone.

3. The group will play April 20 on “The Late Show With David Letterman.”

4.  Carlos drums on three tracks on Miles Nielsen’s new CD, and performed with Miles’ dad, Cheap Trick guitarist Rick Nielsen of Rockford, Friday night at Kryptonite in Rockford. In January, Carlos  recorded five tracks in Chicago with The Vandalettes.

5. For more information, go here and here.

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