Tom Petersson

The talented Tom Petterson plays bass with those high rollers of rock, Cheap Trick. Petersson fell in with true-original Rick Nielsen back in the '60s and the two wandered Europe before landing in Fuse, a strangely progressive quintet who issued one unsuccessful release. Nielsen returned to America in the early '70s and told Petersson he was on the verge of success with a new band. Petersson was less than delighted when he found out the truth upon returning to the States, but stayed around as the duo eventually settled with Bun E. Carlos on the drums and Robin Zander's lead vocals.



Touring heavily and releasing a blistering opening salvo of classic records, Cheap Trick rose to great success, but at the height, Petersson became disenchanted and left the band immediately after Trick completed the radical All Shook Up with Sir George Martin. Petersson ironically pulled a "Yoko" move -- leaving Trick to work with his wife Dagmar on Tom Peterson and Another Language (Petersson dropping the extra pseudo-Swedish 's' from his name). This mini-album of new wave wildness was the only thing heard from Petersson until he spilled beer in Nielsen's lap at a Duran Duran birthday party some years later.

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