The first time I visited the nation's capitol was with a buddy. His friend's band had played the night before in Philadelphia and we were still sobering up – a condition we quickly set to rectify with a few pre-gig drinks at a bar in Georgetown – when we arrived in D.C. The fact that the friend's band had a tab at the club – The Bayou, I believe – necessitated that we continue to drink. By evening's end, I was blissfully ignorant of the impending pain I had booked for the following day. As [...]
Long ago I noticed that there seemed to be a significant portion of visitors to this outpost of mental noodlings arriving from the upper Midwestern US and parts of Canada. I've also realized that I often frequent the writings of folks from from those same parts of the planet. Having grown up in the American Midwest, I suppose that there is some common ground - similarities in temperment and mindset - that makes for more likely connections. Scientifically speaking, birds of a feather... During our most recent trips to my homeland, I have [...]
Wow! You might say Cheap Trick brought the house down on Sunday night at Toronto's Ottawa Bluesfest . Here they are playing "I Want You To Want Me" at the Ottawa Bluesfest last night: and the next thing you know, the 90-mph winds are bringing the stage down . The AP wrote : "Cheap Trick had been playing for about 20 minutes when howling winds and storm suddenly clouds blew in. The band quickly left as the stage began to collapse, sending about 10,000 fans [...]
Cheap Trick blessed the 7 Flags Event Center in Clive on Friday night. This could have been the best show this place has seen yet. I am a huge Cheap Trick fan, so I may be a bit biased, but this show seriously rocked that place! I've seen them about ten times now, and they never disappoint. The first time was on the "One On One Tour" back in 1982. That was the second concert I'd ever seen, and I was hooked on live music. The second [...]
Cute advertising tie-in or most awesome Cheap Trick mashup ever? YOU Decide. Drink happily, drive expertly! Happy Cinco de Mayo! Cheap Trick is in Atlantic City this weekend for a show, and the local paper interviewed Rick Nielsen : Are you working on releasing any new material? (Cheap Trick's most recent release, 2009's The Latest, was put out on CD, vinyl and 8-track.) And Rick answers: "Yeah, we're working on some new stuff, but it's never [...]
Cheap Trick is the band that will likely never stop rocking - their tour schedule for 2010 is likely just as punishing as it was in 1979, when this clip of their song "Goodnight Now" (the flip to "Hello There"), was filmed. Cheap Trick will be in my neck of the woods (Phoenix/Scottsdale) at the Talking Stick Casino playing for the high rollers on July 3rd - Get your tickets here .
Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News , Exclusive , Holy Hell For the 10th anniversary reissue of their landmark album, 'Something to Write Home About,' the Get Up Kids compiled years of archival footage for a bonus DVD. Among the many highlights is a scene where the Kansas City punks took part in the time-honored rock tradition of smashing their equipment to bits. "That was the last date of the 2001 tour we did opening for Weezer ," frontman Matt Pryor tells Spinner. "We just smashed [...]
It appears that the holidays really are a time for joy, as two of the world's greatest classic rock frontmen team up with a symphonic bombast, simply known as Trans-Siberian Orchestra . TSO's annual fall tour means a double serving of conceptual rock operatics - comprised mostly of the band's Christmas Eve record - and a side of "Orff meets electric" with much applause and fake snow for all. A treat this year stems from the recent news that Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and The Who's Roger Daltrey (alongside Cheap Trick's Robin Zander) would be guesting on the TSO Fall [...]
If you are all caught up in this latest wave of Beatlemania, may I suggest a bit of a dark horse entry - Cheap Trick covering Sgt. Pepper in it's entirety, accompanied by the New York Philharmonic.
THIS is GREAT. Cheap Trick's Rick Nielsen and band archivist Bun E. Carlos just keep bringing excellent clips out of the archives for fans worldwide. Here's two newly released clips (Aug 3) of the band playing UK's Reading Festival in 1979 (hmmmm...about 30 year ago this month!). Here's the band playing below soundboard versions of 'On Top of the World" and "Stiff Competition". Excellent quality, absolutely crystal clear and brilliantly played. ENJOY! Cheap Trick also has a new CD called " The Latest " and a new video of their song "Sick [...]
The Rockford, Illinois quartet Cheap Trick took a decidedly circuitous route to fame in the music world. Formed in the late '60s by guitarist Rick Neilsen and bass player Tom Peterssen as Fuse, the group combined their love of acts like The Beatles and The Who - power chords and pop melodies. As the band's line-up stabilized and they took on the name Cheap Trick, the group signed to Epic Records and released a trio of well-received yet minor-selling albums beginning with their self-titled debut in 1977. However, in Japan, Cheap Trick became superstars and their 1979 live [...]
Prior to their historic trip to Japan in the spring of 1978, Cheap Trick was just another hard-working mid-western band. They had released two albums, 1977's incredible Cheap Trick and it's poppier follow-up In Color . Both had won over critics, but, per usual, not the masses. As a result they opened for a slew of the era's biggest money-makers ( Queen , Kiss , Boston ) but only played theater sized venues when out on their own. Sans a hit and with a couple of major label albums already in the can, [...]
Cheap Trick and Epic/Legacy release this week a four-disc (DVD + 3 CD) package, BUDOKAN!: 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION , which has the DVD release of a video recording of Cheap Trick's second Budokan concert from April 1978, a one-hour 15-song program that was broadcast only once on Japanese television 30 years ago. You can find more background info from this press blast. (The diligent Web surfer can find other clips from this show on YouTube, including "Downed" and "Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace" below. [...]
Bear with me. I don't know how I'm going to tie my va kay shione into something folks might want to hear. Our lovely island is astounding. British Columbia promotes itself as the best place on earth and I believe that to be the truth. Traveling through the Rockies in BC would make a believer out of anyone. Since I moved here I thought this province was the most beautiful place I had ever imagined and this island is just amazing. This year we did a staycation type deal. We sta [...]
It's easy to take Robin Zander for granted. There's so much irony and humor in Cheap Trick's superb catalog that sometimes you forget what a great singer this guy really is. Unlike many lead singers of successful bands, Cheap Trick's Robin Zander waited until after the commercial fortunes of his band had dissipated before offering a solo project. This 1993 solo album really showcases the vocal abilities of a gifted front man once touted as the man with a 1'000 voices. Zander doesn't deviate much from his work with Cheap Trick. It's a balanced mix of taut, power pop, [...]
Today in Music History: In 1985, UK producer and keyboard player Paul Hardcastle was at No.1 on the UK singles chart with '19'. The title referred to the average age of American soldiers in the Vietnam war. The Island hosts a phenomenon that I have never seen anywhere else. I call them Jumpers . Not the kind that go splat off a high rise, these jumpers start out innocently enough as pedestrians. Maybe it's something about walking that turns them into idiots, or maybe it's the breeze [...]
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