Guitar Player/Hamer ad

Hamer Guitars went public with an advertisement in the October 1975 issue of Guitar Player magazine.

 

The model for the ad was none other than Rick Nielsen, who was photographed at Paul Hamer's store, Northern Prairie Music, by Rich Kwasniewski.

Nielsen posed for Kwasniewski with Hamer 0002 (thanks Francis Stephenson), freshly built to fulfill an order by Martin Barre of Jethro Tull.

 

Photos from the shoot were used in Hamer catalogues as well.

BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: RICK NIELSEN (1967)

In March of 1967, a then eighteen year-old Rick Nielsen, as the leader of The Grim Reapers, became a client of Ken Adamany's RAM Productions, which was still based out of Janesville, Wisconsin at the time. Adamany asked Nielsen to fill out a standard four page questionnaire. Below is a scan of the original document.

Read more in This Band Has No Past: How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick, published by Jawbone Press on September 6th.

 

CHEAP TRIX

Cheap Trix formed in Tucson in the mid-seventies.

They performed a lot in southern California.

In August 1977, Cheap Trick passed through Tucson while on the KISS tour, and caught wind of the band. They drove by the club where Cheap Trix were performing, snapping this picture:

The above picture was then forwarded to Cheap Trick's lawyer, Richard Shelton.

Read the rest of the story in This band has no past. How Cheap Trick Became Cheap Trick.

https://www.amazon.com/This-Band-Has-No-Past/dp/1911036874

 

An unidentified fan...

Photos by Rich Kwasniewski

 

The Grim Reapers/Fuse

Rockford Morning Star, September 1965:

promo, 1966:

poster (pictured at The Factory, Madison) 1967:

Belvidere Daily Republican, March 1967:

Rockford Morning Star, August 1968:

Kinetic Playground, July 1969:

Valley Forge, November 1969:

Rockford Morning Star, November 1969:

Rockford Morning Star, May 1970:

Lake Mendota, Madison, 1970: