Tampa Bay never has any shortage of Cheap Trick.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame-inducted quartet (now a quintet, with the recent addition of Robin Zander’s son, Robin Taylor) has opened for Rod Stewart, ZZ Top, and—less recently—The Kinks.
But due to Zander being a Safety Harbor resident, it’s no hassle for him to get into his Hummer and drive up to Ruth Eckerd Hall for a solo show with his kids, or the Seminole Hard Rock, where he, Tom Petersson, and the Nielsen father-son duo will most likely play an hour or so of deep cuts, new songs, and semi-hits, and then close up with 25 minutes of greatest hits.
This article appears in Mar 2-8, 2023.
