@@shellybastion9974 Have you heard the Tinted Windows album (Bun E. with the late Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne, James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins, and Taylor Hanson from (of course) Hanson? The story goes that the three of them were discussing the kind of drummer they needed and one of them said "We need someone who plays like Bun E. Carlos..." so they asked him and he agreed to join. I loved their album but it flopped commercially.
@@shellybastion9974 You can see a live performance here: ruclips.net/video/xK0GIiBVHR8/видео.html. Most of their songs are on RUclips... but I guess they just released a vinyl pressing of the album.
I won tickets to see them in 1979 and took my then girlfriend, 10th-row center. Now almost 40 years later it still rocks. Oh, and we have been married 39 years (1980) and just saw them with Poison last year, good times!
As long as people keep watching the shallow, phony, hyped up for TV, load of complete bullcrap called American Idol, America's Got Talent, The Voice, The Masked Singer, etc. etc. etc. you'll continue not seeing REAL bands PERFORMING LIVE music they CREATED THEMSELVES... mistakes and all, instead of this perpetual parade of photoshopped young lemmings whose vocals are corrected with pitch correction processing and other processing. Stop watching, that garbage will disappear. Or... you could leave the bedroom, turn off and put away your facebook portal, and go to a real club and enjoy a live band up close.
I remember being 9 years old when this came on my Moms radio in her car I made her take me to mall and buy the album with in a week I made her buy me a guitar 🎸 this is that song for me I’m 51 and it stills gives me goose bumps and I’m still playing guitar 🎸 thank you 🙏 Rick.
A well written song with smart lyrics, top notch musicianship and vocals that don't sound as if the singer is straining to push out last night's dinner. What a refreshing reminder of what used the radio used to be filled with.
Typical old people complaining… “everything was so much more simple and pure back in my day” 😫😵💫 That’s called time-era bias. It only seems like that because you grew up in that time but in actuality it’s not..
Also, one band you MUST see live. Proud to say that I took my 13 yr old son to see literally "the best fucking band you'll ever see" this evening. They should've been in the RRHOF a VERY long time ago. Very underrated and a hidden gem from Rockford, IL.
This version is 1000 times better than the vevo video. This is 100% live and no overdubbing, the vevo video is really doctored up. This sounds great and is what I heard when I saw them in 1979.
Live Off the Floor, No Autotune or Sampling. This is Rock N Roll. You'll never see or hear music like this again as Akexa and Siri takeover. I'm so glad I lived through this Era. For those who didn't, "Ain't that a shame " Long Live Rock and Musicianship.
Oh Nice !!!! Awesome Performance.... Man I Never Caught This Episode of Midnight Special (I Must Have Been Hangin Out Rolling My Own Numbers.. Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣)
I was privileged to go bowling with Robin and his kids during an entertainment evening at an annual radio & record company convention. What a great next-door kind of guy.
Seen them in the Philippines twice in one day. First at Clark AB as part of a USO tour. Few hours later at Camp John Hay. MAYBE 50 people there. What a great group. They played their hearts out to us no matter the crowd size. Will always love them for that!!!!
When I first heard this record on WABX in 1978 it astounded me immediately. It was different from everything in rock at the time on radio. It was my favourite song in 30 seconds.
I'm really moved by this. I haven't heard it in years, "Surrender" was my anthem in those otherwise awful middle and high school days of 1978-79. As an oddball, bookish, loner teenager, there was something about the "We're All All Right" chant that reassured me of the possibility of a better tomorrow after high school hell. They were right. Thank you Cheap Trick!
Hope things turned out well. I was a bit different, in the air force and about 24...but cheap trick absolutely rocks. Most everyone, at sometimes needs to be told things Will be alright.
I noticed that too. I met Bun E. and he was saying that his doctor told him if he didn't quit smoking he wouldn't be playing next tour so he quit. I don't know how he did that . It's like jogging with a cig...
Cheap Trick were/ are more punk then the punks and better metalheads then the metal bands and could still do the best pop and ballads at any time. Which other band in the world could do all that? Answer- none, there is only one Cheap Trick.
I saw Cheap Trick in 1986 in a small club in Canton Ohio that might have held 500 people. It was the night before Thanksgiving and it was rocking. We left that dive both deaf and drunk but it was an epic good time.
epistte It wasn't in a club called the "Lost Sea" was it? I was at a small club like that back in 1985, I saw Nazareth there, it was the loudest but best sounding show I had ever heard!! Cheap Trick would have been a blast to see there!!
holy bleep..., I am crying with tears of joy as this music reminds me of my unrestrained, beautiful , glorious youth! Nothing gets me in touch with my young years like this kind of pure joyful rock and roll. I wanted to jump into the video.
Don’t jump!! You’re not as spry and supple as you once were…unless, of course, by jumping through this time-portal, you’d land on your 20th century feet😉
WOW!!!! I remember watching this when it originally aired!!! LOL!!! Still looks and sounds just as amazing! I LOVE Robin's suit! THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting!!! All of us nostalgic fans love seeing all this old footage! :)
We saw them in Rockford early 80's and I'd have to think really hard, beyond the smoke and haze to remember much more, than the fact that they were just good pure rock, the way it was. Always a great home-town band for us that grew up in the Chicago burbs. Thanks, JD
+wildcatter63 I was just saying to someone how The Kinks seem somewhat forgotten. A fantastic band and one that influenced so many others with their sound.
I love Cheap Trick I saw them in 79 81 and 82 And when it comes to a live performance you aint going to get much better than Cheap Trick They are 100% ROCK AND ROLL🎸🥁🎤..........
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe at that time AC/DC was opening for Cheap Trick. Cheap Trick was totally huge in 1979 and AC/DC was just on the brink of becoming super huge.
Yes, you are indeed right.....AC/DC DID open for CT. At any rate-saw two bad-ass bands for around $10.00. Remember when concert tickets were affordable??
the greatest band in the world! (at least while their songs are playing! ahhhh, isn't it funny how wonderful life is when Cheap Trick is blasting while your cruising the fast lane? its like making out. Remember how great making out was?? I miss making out...
To me, this is Cheap Trick. Bun behind the drums with his tired leisure suit complete with cigarette hanging from his mouth. Robin sounds totally awesome.
Now this is how a "Live Band" sounds like!! For the next week you keep saying What? to people talking to you! Rock and Roll in it's purest form. Thank you for posting this, and for the great memories!
The crazy thing is that when you look at the crowd, 3/4s of them are barely moving. Many were hearing these rockers for the first time. This show launched Cheap Trick, and just a couple of months later 'Surrender' was a monster hit. I can remember seeing this episode, not knowing who they were as well, but thinking, wow, this is going to be big. Great memories!
Interesting thing to say. It’s a USA TV show that, like most of the world, I’d never heard until recently (start being the purchase of RUclips by Google with the algorhythm pushing stuff at us). Here in NZ, like in Aussie and many other places, we heard them on the radio. They were huge all over the world. Saw them live around 79 and they were amazing.
I'm a year away from celebrating my 60th birthday and still have fond memories of going to see Cheap Trick when I was in college. Most concerts were 18 bucks and you could see one every week at the War Memorial in Rochester, NY...The Eagles, ZZ Top, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Starcastle, Pure Prairie League and so on! For you other "old folk", I remember always thinking that Rick Nielsen looked a lot like Huntz Hall from the Bowery Boys (Eastside Kids) TV series in the '40s and '50s!
I can't hear this song anymore without thinking of "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", with the scalper singing it ... LOVE me some Cheap Trick!! I always am interested in what Rick Nielson's guitars are gonna look like!!
This should be the official anthem for the generation that slipped through the cracks - anyone born between 1964-1969. Those of us too young to be baby boomers, but too old to be Gen-X-ers. This song represents us better than any other.
ZANDERS VOICE WAS AWESOME.i had a friend who literally bumped into him before a concert.my friend didnt even no who he was.my friend said sorry.ZANDER WAS totally cool.He said u guys going to the concert????partyin???my friend said yea. Only later did we realize who he was.Just a cool guy.NOT A STUCK UP PRETTY BOY.THEY ROCK HARD IN CONCERT.GREAT POST.GREAT DAYS BACK THEN
I so miss sneaking up to watch midnight special and they sound so freaking good live i feel special that i got to see them as a teen and then take my kids to see them live at the joint in the HR i snucked them in !!!! HAD TO
Bebe Tanner My sister took me Led Zeppelin concert with 80,000 fans I was only 12. She bought me a beer I said why not. When I was in High School a teacher got Allman Brothers to play at my school. Get this it was a Catholic School, sucks my school was all boys. I did see Lynyrd Skynyrd before plane crash. To bad I turned into a big beer drinker. I thought I would be in more trouble in Court because of my Irish name. Sucks I wasted 30 years drinking beer. I would drink at the beach in 90 degree weather. It was weird all those years of drinking I never built a tolerance 8-9 sips I was buzzed. I was surprised I could drink that much at only 5'6 Tall. ERIN GO BRAGH IRELAND FOREVER
I've seen these guys more times than I can count and it's always a good show! Looking forward to another Cheap Trick show this summer in Milwaukee @ Summerfest!!!
Loved watching Midnight Special. It was a special time to be a teen. Cheap Trick kicked ass. Some kids did actually did have pretty cool parents. Unfortunately, mine wasn't.
Just revisited here and after 3 rescheduled or cancelled shows was always going to see these guys down under in Australia ,love the4m to bits and watch heaps of live feeds from all over the place and loved the feed from daryl place ... one day guy one day ... cheers all
Still one of my favorite songs of all time after hearing it for the first time almost 40 years ago in middle school and music like this is all I still listen to.
The drummer with a smoke hangin' out ...............CLASSIC!!!
Epic 😋
A song that was way ahead of the curve in the 70's
THIS IS THE LATE 70S
Hold's up! Heard them n Ft. LAUDERDALE 2022. They shaved it for last. Robin dressed n his finest whites
I knew it! The redback spider guy has good taste in music 🤣
I don't think Bun E. Carlos ever got the respect he deserved because of the way he looked/dressed. Amazing drummer!
That's why we respected him. ..He was C.I.A.
@@shellybastion9974 Have you heard the Tinted Windows album (Bun E. with the late Adam Schlesinger from Fountains of Wayne, James Iha from Smashing Pumpkins, and Taylor Hanson from (of course) Hanson?
The story goes that the three of them were discussing the kind of drummer they needed and one of them said "We need someone who plays like Bun E. Carlos..." so they asked him and he agreed to join. I loved their album but it flopped commercially.
@@johnkerwin9567 No. Where can I find it?
@@shellybastion9974 You can see a live performance here: ruclips.net/video/xK0GIiBVHR8/видео.html. Most of their songs are on RUclips... but I guess they just released a vinyl pressing of the album.
@@johnkerwin9567 I'll look for it. Thank you!
The drummer is killing it!
It being himself with those fat cigars!
@@ChatGPT1111 haha 😆
Love the tie! The police detective look never goes out of style.
Serial killer vibes.
Bun E. Carlos 🚬
Bun E. Is one of the most underrated drummers in history!!!!
I won tickets to see them in 1979 and took my then girlfriend, 10th-row center. Now almost 40 years later it still rocks. Oh, and we have been married 39 years (1980) and just saw them with Poison last year, good times!
Great story man
I saw them live in 2008 with a couple friends when I was 14 they played with Heart and Journey
I saw them in Yakima Wa in 83. Amazing. Still have the pic Rick handed to me. What a night for a 13 year old boy.
Wow what a nice story congratulations on staying together that long awesome
Underated band should have been in the hall long ago
Midnight Special was a great show. It's too bad they don't have programs like that anymore. So many great bands played on that show.
To have the great show they need the great bands. They simply don't have the great bands anymore.
@@brixico1404 the Bieber?
As long as people keep watching the shallow, phony, hyped up for TV, load of complete bullcrap called American Idol, America's Got Talent, The Voice, The Masked Singer, etc. etc. etc. you'll continue not seeing REAL bands PERFORMING LIVE music they CREATED THEMSELVES... mistakes and all, instead of this perpetual parade of photoshopped young lemmings whose vocals are corrected with pitch correction processing and other processing.
Stop watching, that garbage will disappear.
Or... you could leave the bedroom, turn off and put away your facebook portal, and go to a real club and enjoy a live band up close.
Cable TV and then the Internet ruined. Midnight Special and others were once a week on one channel.
Zander ... One of the best rock vocalists of all time.
Rick Nielson's and Bun E's energy was over the top that night, got the whole band feeling it and the crowd!! Awesome awesome live Surrender version!!
That drummer is a monster! You rule boss.
And with a cigarette in his mouth
The drummer with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth; classic!
That’s Mr. Bun E. Carlos!🎉
Just a gag,never smoked them or else,he would've had a heart attack lol
Rick Nielsen, such an under-rated guitarist, the guy is amazing, and does it so effortlessly
Took the words right out of my mouth, I agree 100%. And so funny and entertaining to boot
Agree 100%! Brilliant songwriter as well!
rick neilsen is a guitar god
Everything about this band is underrated.
Rick Nielsen rocks!
I started to get to know Cheap Trick since I'm 14. I still love them to this day. Now I'm 56. 🥰
Same!
55 and 13 with Dream Police.
I remember being 9 years old when this came on my
Moms radio in her car I made her take me to mall and buy the album with in a week I made her buy me a guitar 🎸 this is that song for me I’m 51 and it stills gives me goose bumps and I’m still playing guitar 🎸 thank you 🙏 Rick.
How did that remind me of Kevin from the Office on the drums, lol
Man, this band just never ever gives up! That's why I love 'em! And Bun E.'s puff of smoke at 2:09 is just freakin' hilarious!
A well written song with smart lyrics, top notch musicianship and vocals that don't sound as if the singer is straining to push out last night's dinner. What a refreshing reminder of what used the radio used to be filled with.
40+ years on and this blows away 98% + of any music today. It is so sad what has happened to music today. It almost makes me cry.
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Typical old people complaining… “everything was so much more simple and pure back in my day” 😫😵💫 That’s called time-era bias. It only seems like that because you grew up in that time but in actuality it’s not..
Well its actually a kiddie rock song
@@macysondheim i wouldn't call it time-era bias, i fucking despise music nowadays. I am 16. Cheap trick easily beats most artist today.
You're not looking hard enough. There was plenty of shit pop back in the day too.
Big kick drum, wall of amps, doubling lead vocal all over the place, eight string bass. These fellas know what they're doing.
Correction...12 String bass
I saw them live around this time (78 or 79) and I can tell you they are/were the loudest band I’ve ever heard. Quality sound mind.
One of those bands that sounds better live than on their studio recordings
Which is a sign of a great band with genuine talent
A rare band...loved by many, and yet still underrated. They're almost like a missing gem
Yep.
Also, one band you MUST see live. Proud to say that I took my 13 yr old son to see literally "the best fucking band you'll ever see" this evening. They should've been in the RRHOF a VERY long time ago. Very underrated and a hidden gem from Rockford, IL.
Cheap trick was never underrated. They were very popular, successful and appreciated, never underrated
Not underrated
New release out rivals One on One…. just sayin’
Saw them at in Tokyo Japan in 1977 as a young marine. Semper Fi bro's 76
Surrender is one of three greatest pop rock song of all time. There's no doubt about it
This version is 1000 times better than the vevo video. This is 100% live and no overdubbing, the vevo video is really doctored up. This sounds great and is what I heard when I saw them in 1979.
This performance is EPIC!
Ha! They were on tour with kiss ! My first rock and roll show
Are you talking about this video?
ruclips.net/video/Ne4QDHFQnvM/видео.html
@@craignegrey7927 Kiss must have seemed underwhelming after the opening act!
Live Off the Floor, No Autotune or Sampling. This is Rock N Roll. You'll never see or hear music like this again as Akexa and Siri takeover. I'm so glad I lived through this Era. For those who didn't, "Ain't that a shame " Long Live Rock and Musicianship.
Ummm not entirely. They were using backing tracks for the chorus towards the end. Otherwise, it's live.
Oh Nice !!!! Awesome Performance.... Man I Never Caught This Episode of Midnight Special (I Must Have Been Hangin Out Rolling My Own Numbers.. Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣)
'Cheap Trick at Budokan' was must have album for any rock fan back in the 70's!
bubhub64 with the screaming Japanese girls. HELL YEAH
Hell yeah. We played the 8 track to death
OMG! I wish I could've witnessed them live and in their prime. They were legendary at tearing up a stage (with no gimmicks).
I was privileged to go bowling with Robin and his kids during an entertainment evening at an annual radio & record company convention. What a great next-door kind of guy.
Seen them in the Philippines twice in one day. First at Clark AB as part of a USO tour. Few hours later at Camp John Hay. MAYBE 50 people there. What a great group. They played their hearts out to us no matter the crowd size. Will always love them for that!!!!
Amazing performance of a perfect song. Tom P was absurdly gorgeous, and his bass sound just kills.
The peak of all humanity is boiled down to this 4 minutes and 30 seconds of time… for a brief, shining moment we were all all right.
When I first heard this record on WABX in 1978 it astounded me immediately. It was different from everything in rock at the time on radio. It was my favourite song in 30 seconds.
I'm 65 and still listen to them!
👍🏻
I come back to this song again and again just to be reassured that we're all alright.
Spoiler alert: Bun E.'s alright, Tommy's alright, Robin's alright, Rick's alright, we're all alright. :)
Yeah, I have to watch this video at least once a week.
Great Live show!! One of the few bands that really impressed me with their live performance.
I agree. I always thought they sounded better live than studio
I just saw them last week for the first time. Excellent!!
These were definitely the days for sure. Oh to have them back again !!!
I'm really moved by this. I haven't heard it in years, "Surrender" was my anthem in those otherwise awful middle and high school days of 1978-79. As an oddball, bookish, loner teenager, there was something about the "We're All All Right" chant that reassured me of the possibility of a better tomorrow after high school hell. They were right. Thank you Cheap Trick!
Something that every generation can share is this sentiment:
Fuck middle school.
The American Storyteller I agree 100 percent. Same era 4 me 2
The American Storyteller fuck yeah
Hope things turned out well. I was a bit different, in the air force and about 24...but cheap trick absolutely rocks. Most everyone, at sometimes needs to be told things Will
be alright.
Surrender, surrender, but don't give yourself away!!!
This track still absolutely rocks! Great live version.
This sounds just like the record are you sure they're not Faking It
oh my gosh... i can't believe this... i lived through it ( the 70s)..... and look at this with a BIG BIG HUGE SMILE!! What a band what a time!!!
Bun E. is the man and he knows it. You just can't be cooler than him!
AMEN !!!
I have 50+ picks from Rick over the years ... love every one of them !!!
Best live concert footage I’ve come across in a long time for any band This is how I remember music in the 70s and 80s
Bun E Carlos. Looks like an office worker. Plays like a beast.
He wants his stapler back
Bun E Carlos. One of the best rock names ever.
Man do I miss "Midnight Special".
The smoke puffing out of Bun E. Carlos during the drum fills.....
I noticed that too. I met Bun E. and he was saying that his doctor told him if he didn't quit smoking he wouldn't be playing next tour so he quit. I don't know how he did that . It's like jogging with a cig...
Cheap Trick were/ are more punk then the punks and better metalheads then the metal bands and could still do the best pop and ballads at any time. Which other band in the world could do all that? Answer- none, there is only one Cheap Trick.
I hear you !! I was 20 in 1978....saw AC/DC (orig lineup), Cheap Trick and Kiss, one fabulous show, in Seattle....those were the days for sure!
Can't help but feel like a teenager, hearing this.
I saw Cheap Trick in 1986 in a small club in Canton Ohio that might have held 500 people. It was the night before Thanksgiving and it was rocking. We left that dive both deaf and drunk but it was an epic good time.
epistte It wasn't in a club called the "Lost Sea" was it? I was at a small club like that back in 1985, I saw Nazareth there, it was the loudest but best sounding show I had ever heard!! Cheap Trick would have been a blast to see there!!
It was Tripper's Night Club on Dressler Ave. It was close to where the Target strip mall is now.
epistte I saw them at the Akron Rib Burnoff in the late 80's or early 90's. Great show!
Damn, Rick really chucks his guitar at the end. Hate to be the roadie that had to catch that beast.
holy bleep..., I am crying with tears of joy as this music reminds me of my unrestrained, beautiful , glorious youth! Nothing gets me in touch with my young years like this kind of pure joyful rock and roll. I wanted to jump into the video.
Don’t jump!! You’re not as spry and supple as you once were…unless, of course, by jumping through this time-portal, you’d land on your 20th century feet😉
WOW!!!! I remember watching this when it originally aired!!! LOL!!! Still looks and sounds just as amazing! I LOVE Robin's suit! THANK YOU SO MUCH for posting!!! All of us nostalgic fans love seeing all this old footage! :)
I was there too. Well, in TV Land.
And the drummer actually smoking a whole cigarette while beating the life out of the drum kit, ROCKSTAR shit right there!
We saw them in Rockford early 80's and I'd have to think really hard, beyond the smoke and haze to remember much more, than the fact that they were just good pure rock, the way it was. Always a great home-town band for us that grew up in the Chicago burbs. Thanks, JD
Another great classic. ❤😂❤😂
maybe the most underestimated great band
truly a great band
Don't know how old you are, but have you ever heard 'I must be Dreaming' from the Heavy Metal soundtrack? Unbelievable!!!
Underrated? They're in the Hall of Fame man. Instrument wise, they were essentially a power trio, and they produced a lot of sound.
+wildcatter63 I was just saying to someone how The Kinks seem somewhat forgotten. A fantastic band and one that influenced so many others with their sound.
so was DR.HOOK
Chris Jx Absolutely
Been a fan for decades, I love Zander, one of my crushes!
I love Cheap Trick I saw them in 79 81 and 82 And when it comes to a live performance you aint going to get much better than Cheap Trick They are 100% ROCK AND ROLL🎸🥁🎤..........
That guy from accounting can really play the drums. Wow.
Ryan McAtee LOL. your stupid.
That's hilarious. He does look like a bean counter. I know because I was one!!!
LOL!!!!
If you think that's funny, Bun E. Carlos was the name he went by with the band.
The lost Blues Brother.
One of the all time great teen anthem songs. Could listen to it everyday.
I saw Cheap Trick that year...1976 they opened for KISS. Spokane ,Washington
Coloseum!!!
I saw them Live in 1979, and they blew me away. Oh yeah, they opened for a little band called AC/DC.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe at that time AC/DC was opening for Cheap Trick. Cheap Trick was totally huge in 1979 and AC/DC was just on the brink of becoming super huge.
Yes, you are indeed right.....AC/DC DID open for CT. At any rate-saw two bad-ass bands for around $10.00. Remember when concert tickets were affordable??
AC/DC had been around for almost a decade when CT hit the airwaves. Thank Fast Times At Ridgemont HIgh
def 1 of the best live bands def saw them
They were still kicking ass and taking names as a live act when I finally got to see them circa 2002.
One of the greatest bands of all time... Thanks for sharing!
the greatest band in the world! (at least while their songs are playing! ahhhh, isn't it funny how wonderful life is when Cheap Trick is blasting while your cruising the fast lane? its like making out. Remember how great making out was?? I miss making out...
+marno76
if u cant be with the one you love than do shotz of Pepi Lopez with Rick.
Tegijad. 🍓🌹
To me, this is Cheap Trick. Bun behind the drums with his tired leisure suit complete with cigarette hanging from his mouth. Robin sounds totally awesome.
You know your stuff.
I remember seeing this when it aired. I was 11. Been a fan ever since. Cheap Trick has provided the soundtrack to my life. LOVE THEM!
Saw Cheap Trick four times in the 70s and 80s. Best live act, ever.
Bun E. Carlos, outstanding drummer !
Wow! This was great!!
a big 80's song....... !!!
Now this is how a "Live Band" sounds like!! For the next week you keep saying What? to people talking to you! Rock and Roll in it's purest form. Thank you for posting this, and for the great memories!
Just a great All American Band, one of the best.
Holy Flashbacks!! This song still rocks. One hell of an American classic. They put on a rocking live show too!
The crazy thing is that when you look at the crowd, 3/4s of them are barely moving. Many were hearing these rockers for the first time. This show launched Cheap Trick, and just a couple of months later 'Surrender' was a monster hit. I can remember seeing this episode, not knowing who they were as well, but thinking, wow, this is going to be big. Great memories!
same thing for me with journey
Interesting thing to say. It’s a USA TV show that, like most of the world, I’d never heard until recently (start being the purchase of RUclips by Google with the algorhythm pushing stuff at us). Here in NZ, like in Aussie and many other places, we heard them on the radio. They were huge all over the world. Saw them live around 79 and they were amazing.
I'm a year away from celebrating my 60th birthday and still have fond memories of going to see Cheap Trick when I was in college. Most concerts were 18 bucks and you could see one every week at the War Memorial in Rochester, NY...The Eagles, ZZ Top, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, Starcastle, Pure Prairie League and so on! For you other "old folk", I remember always thinking that Rick Nielsen looked a lot like Huntz Hall from the Bowery Boys (Eastside Kids) TV series in the '40s and '50s!
Yes I thought he did too!
one of the top bands of all time .excelent rock n roll.
ian
I would say CT is the most underestimated band of all time!!
The small town in FL I live in Robin Zander shows up at what seems random times at local events and sings, real treat when it happens.
I can't hear this song anymore without thinking of "Fast Times At Ridgemont High", with the scalper singing it ... LOVE me some Cheap Trick!! I always am interested in what Rick Nielson's guitars are gonna look like!!
He's a little prick Stacy!
The guitarist has such a presence and commanding performance. I love seeing an artist who can rip it with such abandon.
This should be the official anthem for the generation that slipped through the cracks - anyone born between 1964-1969. Those of us too young to be baby boomers, but too old to be Gen-X-ers. This song represents us better than any other.
Awesome! How I miss my youth! Specially my 20's..seen them Houston early, wow they were loud! Always such agreat show!
I feel old!
I remember when this aired on TV.
(I thought this aired on NIGHT FLIGHT, tho.)
This concert was brilliant.
Thanks for sharing.
lol, i feel old, I had so much fun at the Vancouver concert, I think it was 1979. These guys put on a fun show.
Great post and band 🙏 They opened for REO Speedwagon in 1984 Hartford Civic Center. They almost stole the show. REO delivered. But wow. In my Top 5.
ZANDERS VOICE WAS AWESOME.i had a friend who literally bumped into him before a concert.my friend didnt even no who he was.my friend said sorry.ZANDER WAS totally cool.He said u guys going to the concert????partyin???my friend said yea. Only later did we realize who he was.Just a cool guy.NOT A STUCK UP PRETTY BOY.THEY ROCK HARD IN CONCERT.GREAT POST.GREAT DAYS BACK THEN
One of the greatest lyrics ever written when I woke up mom and dad are rolling on the couch rolling numbers and they got my Kiss records out!!!
I so miss sneaking up to watch midnight special and they sound so freaking good live i feel special that i got to see them as a teen and then take my kids to see them live at the joint in the HR i snucked them in !!!! HAD TO
Bebe Tanner My sister took me Led Zeppelin concert with 80,000 fans I was only 12. She bought me a beer I said why not. When I was in High School a teacher got Allman Brothers to play at my school. Get this it was a Catholic School, sucks my school was all boys. I did see Lynyrd Skynyrd before plane crash. To bad I turned into a big beer drinker. I thought I would be in more trouble in Court because of my Irish name. Sucks I wasted 30 years drinking beer. I would drink at the beach in 90 degree weather. It was weird all those years of drinking I never built a tolerance 8-9 sips I was buzzed. I was surprised I could drink that much at only 5'6 Tall. ERIN GO BRAGH IRELAND FOREVER
I've seen these guys more times than I can count and it's always a good show! Looking forward to another Cheap Trick show this summer in Milwaukee @ Summerfest!!!
My first concert! 1983 Corpus Christi! Same night I lost it - 12yrs to 19yr!
gaol time for the 19 year old. and at Corpus Christi !
Charles Hernandez I saw Led Zeppelin with 80,000 fans in the 70s, even better The Clash opened for them.
A really exemplary live performance. These guys are right on. They put a lot of work into it. It shows.
I love this song!!! With greetings from an old Punkrocker of god old Germany!!!
Stands up so well even after all these years!
An account on drums, clown on guitar, model lead vocalist and rock star on bass-
PERFECT COMBO- SIGN THESE GUYS..
I remember saving up money to go to the record store and then finally buying it and getting to listen to it with my friend both sides and great times!
Always amazed at their live sound!! BUDAKON - JAPAN (IF I SPELLED IT RIGHT)WAS A GREAT LIVE ALBUM!!!!
This was our signature song for our high school band. So Awesome!!!
Loved watching Midnight Special. It was a special time to be a teen. Cheap Trick kicked ass. Some kids did actually did have pretty cool parents. Unfortunately, mine wasn't.
One of the greatest songs ever from one of Rock's greatest bands. It doesn't get better than this.
One of the greatest rock songs ever!
Absolutely !!
Just revisited here and after 3 rescheduled or cancelled shows was always going to see these guys down under in Australia ,love the4m to bits and watch heaps of live feeds from all over the place and loved the feed from daryl place ... one day guy one day ... cheers all
Still one of my favorite songs of all time after hearing it for the first time almost 40 years ago in middle school and music like this is all I still listen to.
The tie ushered the new pop sound into the states, and Robin was the cat who rocked it! 😍🎉🐈