12-String Bass Postcards

Postcards

Cheap Trick sends out Christmas postcards every year, and also during the year to promote album releases. Some of these postcards include a 12-string bass.

In 2012 Cheap Trick recorded a parody of ‘I Want You to Want Me’ to benefit Special Olympics. The video for this song, ‘I Want You For Christmas’, has puppets of the band with the Tom Petersson puppet playing his Waterstone custom Peacock 12-string bass. 8½” wide by 6” high.

Cheap Trick’s 2007 Christmas postcard shows Rick Nielsen holding the Rockford album, the cover of which includes a drawing of a Waterstone 12-string bass. 8½” wide by 6” high.

Advertising Cards

Molken Music created this advertising card in 2009 to promote the King’s X album The Bigger Picture. Doug Pinnick is shown playing his lefty Hamer B12L 12-string bass. The reverse side of the card shows a variety of albums and DVDs released by Molken Music.

Typically used to promote a newly released album, Cheap Trick has used advertising cards extensively over the years. Both of the cards in the upper row picture the green Chandler Royale 12-string bass, with the Hamer Quad 12 shown in the Budokan cards.

Subscription Cards

These two subscription cards showing Jeff Ament and his Hamer 12-string bass were included in the January and February, 2021 issues of Bass Player magazine.