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Hyatt Place To Open with Cheap Trick Guitar Museum Attached

September 25, 2007 at 9:15 AM | by | Comments (0)

Rick Nielsen, guitarist from the 70s power pop band Cheap Trick, will soon add the title "hotelier" to his resume.

He and builder Brent Johnson are in talks with the Hyatt Place chain of hotels to develop a tourist destination in otherwise inconspicuous Forest City, Ill. The name? Simply "Rick's," a 22,000 guitar museum with an 80,000-square-foot Hyatt Place attached.

Though his guitars look like they're suffering the after-effects of a nuclear meltdown -- with unnecessary limbs, asymmetrical bodies, and wild colors -- Nielsen expects visitors to come far-and-wide to see portions of his 400-piece collection on display.

Cost of the hotel, conference center, restaurant, guitar museum, music education center, and entertainment venue is estimated at about $25 million.

[Photo: billysab99's]

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· Rick's Plans [Rockford Register Star]
· Illinois Hotel Reviews [HotelChatter]

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