MUSIC MADNESS: Win tickets to see Cheap Trick tomorrow! -- WE HAVE OUR WINNERS!

POSTED: Thursday, July 15, 2010, 5:30 PM

Filed Under: Music

How can you not love Papas of Power Pop Cheap Trick? They're goofy, they're catchy and best of all half the band looks like they should be working at Kinko's, while the other half is rock star-ready. One-time Philadelphians Rick Nielsen and Tom Petersson hit up the Piazza tonight to sign autographs and screen Cheap Trick at Budokan, then they play the Mann with Squeeze tomorrow. And we want you to go! But first, our own A.D. Amorosi talk to Tom about his time in Philly, being big in Japan and what it's like to hold the power pop crown in this week's issue:

City Paper: It's 1971 and you're in Philly. What's wrong with that picture? Tom Petersson: We were working with our singer named Stewkey and he got some sort-of-a deal. He wanted Rick and I to come out there so we did. CP: That's trusting. TP: We knew him. Trusted him. Hell, even if we didn't there wasn't much for us to lose. I loved it there. We lived in Center City. I had just turned 21. I had a blast.

So you wanna go see Cheap Trick at the Mann? All you have to do is e-mail the answer to the following trivia questions to molly [dot] eichel [at] citypaper [dot] net:

Drummer Bun E. Carlos is still a member of Cheap Trick but no longer tours with the band. Who replaced him?

Daxx Nielsen, Rick's son, tours in Bun's place.

Cheap Trick at Budokan, Thu., July 15, 7:30 p.m. autographs, 8:15 p.m. screening, free, Piazza at Schmidts, 1050 N. Hancock St., atthepiazza.com.

Concert Fri., July 16, 7:30 p.m., $29.50-$53.50, with Squeeze, Mann Center for the Performing Arts, 5201 Parkside Ave., 215-878-0400, manncenter.org.

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