Rick Nielsen is the lead guitarist, backing vocalist, and primary songwriter of the rock band Cheap Trick.

Rick has had a TON of gear in his rig. We'll list a small sampling of what has been seen in his guitar rig, here.

Image by Carl Lender. Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic licensed from flickr

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Guitars
Note: Rick has been stated to have over 250 guitars in his collection. Below are some:
- Rick has owned tons of cool looking custom Hamer guitars over the year.
- custom Hamer checkerboard guitars (V shaped, explorer shaped, etc...)
- '90 Hamer Miller Beer guitar
- '83 Hamer "Uncle Dick" dual neck model
- Hamer "The 'Busted' guitar
- Hamer 5-neck guitar
- 1961 Gibson ES-1235 6/6 Black Doubleneck
- 1958 Gibson Explorers

- Gretsch Penguin

- Gretsch 1954 Round-up
- Gretsch Malcolm Young models

- Gibson Les Pauls



Amps
- Fender Deluxe Reverb amplifier heads (modified)

- Fender Blues Deville amps

- Checkerboard Rivera amps
- Sound City cabinets (vintage)
- Premier Amps
- 60's Orange combos
- 50's Fender Tweed amps
- Nielsen Amp
- 60's Vox AC30

- Marshall cabinets

Effects and more
- Shure wireless
- Whirlwind Multi-selector
- passive splitter box
- 60's Vox Wah pedal

Go to the next page for awesome pictures of Rick's guitar rig.