Tom Petersson

I get out of the car.

I go over to Tom on the other side.

I'm like, who is he? And she goes, everything he said is going to happen.

So I'm like, okay, I believe you.

So I saw them there and, uh, and you know, other Boston bands too, but the shows I remember the most besides the two neighborhoods shows, the one with Shake the Faith, which is May of 87.

They played their other release show there for the self-titled Third Stone record, and the guys from Chief Trick showed up, and they all jammed on stage that night.

They did Southern Girls, and that was incredible, hanging out with Rick Nielsen and Tom Peterson.

I got to know more as the years went on.

Even my bass, like on my last three solo records that I did, the Canvas series, I've got a couple of like bass solos in there on fretless bass, 12 string bass.

I'm playing Tom Peterson's, that he gave me a 12 string bass, acoustical bass.

Everything's a melody.

So it fits into the song.

There's Robin's microphone.

And onto the right is Tom Peterson's microphone.

Then there's a fourth mic, Robin Taylor Zander's mic.

So we're going, wait a minute.

We climbed over the seats, jumped them into the front, fists in the air, singing every song.

Robin Zander recognized us from the last time when we made a big scene in Niagara Falls.

Tom Peterson walks over, points to us, recognized us.

And Rick starts talking in between songs.

And it's four sets of three strings each.

And those bases were predominantly spearhead by Tom Peterson from Cheap Trick.

And the idea was that when Rick went to a lead and Robin wasn't playing guitar, there was no other guitar to sort of balance out the middle.

So he wanted to carry that rhythm section or the rhythm guitar as well.