{"id":17828,"date":"2026-01-14T18:06:56","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:06:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=17828"},"modified":"2026-01-14T18:07:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T23:07:00","slug":"kylie-olsson-and-cheap-trick-this-is-what-happened-when-i-played-guitar-with-rick-nielsen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=17828","title":{"rendered":"Kylie Olsson and Cheap Trick: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I PLAYED GUITAR WITH RICK NIELSEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"497\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KYLIE-RIK.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KYLIE-RIK.png 474w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KYLIE-RIK-286x300.png 286w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">photo from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.instagram.com\/kylieolsson\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"www.instagram.com\/kylieolsson\/\">www.instagram.com\/kylieolsson\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On this episode of Life in Six Strings, we venture to Rockford, Illinois, a heartland city known for its industrial roots and vibrant arts scene&#8230; and most notably, the lifelong home of Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick. Rick welcomes us into his home and down into his famous basement, packed with decades of music history, rare memorabilia, and one of the most impressive guitar collections in the world. It all builds to a Life in Six Strings first, as Kylie joins Rick onstage at The Music Box for a special live performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"NEW EPISODE! 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Rick welcomes us into his home and down into his famous basement, packed with decades&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=17828\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Kylie Olsson and Cheap Trick: THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED WHEN I PLAYED GUITAR WITH RICK NIELSEN<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17829,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17830,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17828\/revisions\/17830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}