'Just a little weird': Hanging out with a yesteryear brand of Illinois rockers
Gone were the long hair and bell bottom blue jeans of their days. Not a sniff of marijuana drifted in the cold night air. No albums, eight-tracks, ...
Gone were the long hair and bell bottom blue jeans of their days. Not a sniff of marijuana drifted in the cold night air. No albums, eight-tracks, or cassettes around. But they gathered, now as grandparents and senior citizens, on Cass Street in Joliet to worship rock-and-roll, Illinois style that is. Were they there to see the inaugural lighting of Gigantar, a 24-foot aluminum guitar outside the Illinois Rock-n-Roll Hall of Fame or to see Rick Nielsen from the band Cheap Trick and other legends?Nielsen, who never left hometown Rockford, was still the wild quick-witted frontman of this rock show while exclaiming a certain body part of his was cold.