Happy Birthday To Cheap Trick's Robin Zander
. Robin Zander was born on this day in 1953 in the town of Beloit, Wisconsin, along the Illinois border. The fourth of five children, Robin was raised in a musical household, with his father playing in a local jazz band. In 1964, though, he was floored � like most kids of his generation � by The Beatles' invasion of America. The following year, he got his first guitar and, shortly thereafter, formed his first band, The Destinations. As he progressed through school in Loves Park, Illinois, he bounced from band to band and sang in a choral group. Robin, as it so happened, was blessed with one of those one-in-million-voices that was both bell-clear and stentorian in its power. He was, to put it succinctly, the perfect rock singer. Which made his next move, at the dawn of the 1970s, a bit puzzling. Chicago was teeming with garage rock bands like Shadows of Knight, The Cryan' Shames and the Grim Reapers (the latter featuring a certain Rick Nielsen and Tom Petersson). Zander, though, followed a different path, teaming up with a pianist to form the folk duo Zander and Kent. Every summer, the duo held a residency in the resort area known as the Wisconsin Dells. In between gigs with Zander and Kent, he would sometimes moonlight in oldies bands with his pal, Brad Carlson (a.k.a. Bun E. Carlos). more on this story Gibson.com is an official news provider for antiMusic.com.
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