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  • Country

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  • So Dagmar Caught Her Tom

  • Bravo Magazine

  • West Germany

  • Number 15

  • April 3, 1980

  • 28-29

Bravo magazine has been publishing this teen-oriented magazine since 1956. The focus is on television, movies, and pop music. The magazine has also served as a source of sex information for teenagers, with full frontal nudity being commonly displayed.

This issue shows a Hamer B12A 12-string bass.

You should realize you’re in trouble when your new girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend is also pictured in an article about you.

Other German fan magazines mentioned Dagmar’s past: “Bassist and girl favorite Tom Peterson is unfortunately no longer there. He left at the end of August to concentrate on a solo career. By the way, Tom is not only a Jürgen Drews doppelganger, but he is also married to the former Drews-girlfriend Dagmar.”

  • Article Title

  • Magazine

  • Country

  • Issue

  • Date

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  • The new clowns of the rock scene

  • Bravo Magazine

  • Germany

  • Number 19

  • May 3, 1978

  • 16-17

Tom Petersson plays the Hamer prototype 10-string bass on stage.

  • Article Title

  • Magazine

  • Country

  • Issue

  • Date

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  • Wählt Eure beliebtesten Rockgruppen!

  • Bravo Magazine

  • Germany

  • Number 46

  • November 6, 1980

  • 15

This photo article includes Pete Comita with Rick Nielsen’s White Hamer B12S 12-string bass.

Bravo issue number 41 from October 2, 1980 has a full page about Cheap Trick that is largely devoted to Rick Nielsen’s guitars. A photo of the double-cutaway Hamer B12A 12-string bass is also included. later in the magazine a sidebar gives details about Tom Petersson’s departure from Cheap Trick on August 26, 1980. Pete Comita is mentioned as Petersson’s replacement.

The Hamer double-cutaway B12A 12-string bass.

A notice that Petersson has left Cheap Trick.

 
 

Bravo magazine issue 37 from September 6, 1979 includes two photos of Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson with his natural Hamer B12A 12-string bass.

 
 

Bravo issue 43 from October 18, 1979 includes the Hamer Quad 12-string bass in the ‘Song of the Week’ column. Lyrics for Cheap Trick’s tune ‘I Want You To Want Me’ are included, as is the German translation. The song doesn’t rhyme quite so well in German…

The Hamer B12A 12-string bass is shown in small and enlarged photos from the September 27, 1979 issue #40 of Bravo magazine. The article relates how Petersson was now Dagmar’s boyfriend.

Jürgen Drews and soon-to-be bride of Tom Petersson, Dagmar, photo from the January 18, 1979 issue #4 of Bravo. At the time Jürgen and Dagmar broke up, Jürgen was considered to be the #1 singer in Germany and was appearing on many magazine covers.

Black Hamer B12A 12-string bass. Bravo Issue No. 32, 1988.

Lyrics to ‘The Flame’ and the Black Hamer B12A 12-string bass. Bravo No. 40, 1988.

Bravo consistently made mistakes in their Cheap Trick articles:

 

Bravo issue No. 24, 1988. Jon Brant is shown playing his Red Hamer B12S 12-string bass but he is identified as being Tom Petersson.

 

Issue No 44, October 23, 1986. After a 4-year absence from this magazine a reader’s letter prompted Bravo to include this 1979 photo showing Tom Petersson and his Hamer B12A 12-string bass. The text states this is Cheap Trick’s bassist Don (not Jon) Brant. DOH!

Bravo issue No. 26, June 24, 1982, shows Pete Comita playing the White Hamer B12S 12-string bass but doesn’t mention him even though Tom Petersson and Jon Brant are noted. Also, the review gets the album name wrong, calling it “One to One” instead of One On One.