It’s Cheap Trick Day — Now Go Vote!

1 comment April 1st, 2008

Rockford’s greatest treasure, Cheap Trick, now has their own designated day in honor of their rockin’ achievements, and we just can’t get enough of the group that gave us classics like, “I Want You To Want Me,” and “Dream Police.”

A friend of mine, Derek Wright, maintains a music-related blog for the Northwest Herald, a newspaper in the Chicago Suburbs, and has been holding his own version of the NCAA March Madness tournament. His contest is not to find the best college basketball team in the nation, but rather to find the best music act in Illinois.

Perhaps this was predictable — after all, we know how good they are — but Cheap Trick is in the “championship game” against Carpentersville’s Smoking Popes. Derek accepts votes via e-mail, so head on over there and vote. Don’t let our boys down!

As you already know, the General Assembly last year named April 1 as Cheap Trick day. Although I was not in the statehouse last year, I’ve had it recounted to me several times that Rick Nielsen’s appearance was quite a hit. After all, the Legislature may now be filled with mature men in suits, but they were probably in their heyday in the ’70s when Cheap Trick burst onto the scene.

In honor of today’s Illinois holiday, the Daily Herald used Cheap Trick Day to look at other state-declared holidays. Up next: Crohn’s and Irritable Bowel Disease Day on April 11.

Here’s a bit of music for your morning Cheap Trick fix:

“Surrender”

“I Want You To Want Me”

“She’s Tight”

“The Flame”