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Cheap Trick extends North American tour into October
Now nearing its 30th anniversary, rock act Cheap Trick shows no signs of slowing, as evidenced by a busy 2003 tour schedule that stretches into early October.
The group, which wrapped up its most-recent round of U.S. dates in late February, returns to the road in late March. The band had planned to precede the North American jaunt with a March European outing, but the overseas tour was postponed days before its scheduled kick-off.
The group cited a change in its release plans for a new album as the reason for the postponement. According to information posted at the band's website, the album is finished, but no release date has been announced.
Whenever it does eventually surface, the forthcoming album will be the group's first new studio set since its self-titled 1997 release, which longtime producer Ian Taylor (Psychedelic Furs, Scorpions) produced. Taylor also produced the group's most-recent release, last May's "The Greatest Hits."
In 2001, Cheap Trick released "Silver," a two-disc set that captures the band's 25th-anniversary performance in Rockford, Ill., on Aug. 28, 1999. The show, which was also released in DVD form, features guest appearances from Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins), Slash (Guns N' Roses) and Art Alexakis (Everclear).
Cheap Trick--vocalist Robin Zander, guitarist Rick Nielsen, bassist Tom Petersson and drummer Bun E. Carlos--formed in the early '70s and released its self-titled debut album in 1977. The band's most commercially successful release is the 1979 live recording "Live at Budokan," which spawned the hit "I Want You to Want Me."
