The original Garage Power Pop Punk Rock Band - CHEAP TRICK! These guys are still going strong - except for original drummer, Bun E Carlos. We miss you, Bun E!!
no its not wrong, it just means 95% of cheap tricks stuff isnt known by most people, the radio plays mostly i want you to want me, surrender , dream police, then the flame and maybe "shes tight" WE FANS know the rest of the stuff
Robin is the definitive 70's Rock Frontman. He seems to effortlessly reproduce his studio vocals live on stage. He plays guitar (Not like Freddie or Mick, no disrespect, but they modeled guitars on stage, Robin's guitar. is actually In the Mix) And he looked like a Rock Star , in a suit or a tshirt
This song is like a whole bunch of classic rock tracks all rolled into one: the guitar riff of the Yardbirds "Psycho Daisies", the stuttering vocal of the Who's "My Generation," the "My baby likes to rock" lyric of Ted Nugent's "Wango Tango," and the histrionics and stop-and-go rhythm of Zeppelin's "Black Dog." If you need an instruction manual on how to write a great rock song, here it is.
ALRIGHEEEET ,,,,!!!I ITZA WANGOOOOO ZEE TANGOOO JUAN OO REE ORE , COME ON BOYS,,, TURN U P THE WANGO!! my baby she like a rock my baby she like a roll my baby she a dance alnight my babys got no control she do the wango tango,,, lol dude ever wonder where the band NASHVILLE PUSSY got their name??
Your funny! alot you have listed i can agree on or I dont know but this isnt at all like Bonhams Black Dog , theres no click beginninng each part, Bun has a different intro for each one and dont tell us youve never written a song by putting down a part you thought was good n cleaver until someone like yourself goes off finding something simular. remember they put it all together and did it well, you should be an attorney instead of a musician. this isnt 1964 many riffs have been used
I saw them sing this last night in STL! Robin (and the band) still sound as great as ever!!! He's definitely one of the all-time greatest rock singers....I would almost say possibly the MOST underrated singer of all-time, as well.
robin zander is the best rock singer in history ... I saw him in an LA club with Ratt's singer, Jovi, and Vince Niel. when robin sang they all bowed down to him. He did Highway to Hell
@@establ its a crying shame, I bet slow hand and garcia from the ungratefiul Dead even though he doesnt tune up or slow hands plays whimppy they are both on your list
I remember seeing this in some bar in the Bronx, and my friend and I were ecstatic like two giddy idiots. Still love Robin Zander after all these years -- front men like him don't grow on trees!
who has time to make lists, I write rock operas on my channel, I wrote Wanton Opera. I saw cheap trick, and the guitarist saw me, I was just standing drinking a beer cause I cant dance, but I like cheap trick
Especially as good as he sounded while singing Live throughout the bands long career. Not the heaviest band by any means, but they know what a good riff and hook is to make it onto radio. Their old tunes still make me freak out just like they did when Ibwas a 10 or 11 year old little punk kid.
I remember seeing this in college in my dorm with the guys and girls. We knew this was coming on and we had such respect and love for Cheap Trick, we delayed going out just to see them on SNL.
My friend owned a guitar shop and he called me up and said "Come on over to the shop I need your help for awhile". So I walked into the shop and there was Rick Nielsen. My friend started laughing and said "I don't need your help but I knew you would want to meet Rick" It was the best surprise ever as I am a huge Cheap Trick fan. I hung out with them for an hour as Rick looked at and played several guitars. Rick was such a cool guy. My friend Pete sold him several guitars over the years.
I read somewhere that Cheap Trick and AC/DC hung out in the mid 70s, and Rick introduced Bon Scott to Mexican food. I'd love to see Rick and Angus playing on the same stage.
😂 I recently watched the RUclips video of Rick, Robin, and Tom on that Dan Rather interview program. Rick said that they got audiences that other bands didn't, include members of the LGBTQ community. These guys appealed to SO MANY people and musical preferences. 👍🏼🎸
A rare appearance of Pete Comita. This is wicked. I actually met the original band when Bun E. Carlos was still the drummer. This was way before where you pay to meet bands. They even signed a Budokan photo I had been saving.
cheap trick is an undertoe of waves...punk,glam,techno,grunge,new age-old age/disco to modern...all waves that splash and crash...the undertoe grabs you ,and rocks you
I was in the audience for both the rehearsal and the live taping of this SNL broadcast. Cheap Trick was definitely the highlight. That, and the then-unknown Eddie Murphy who came out to warm up the audience before the show started. There were a couple of record executives in line right in front of us, and the new bass player was brought out to meet them, which was pretty cool.
@headshop I'd met CT years ago just after they first got signed. But recently, earlier this summer Bun E. put on a drum clinic at SSE Music in La Crosse (Wisconsin) and I had an opportunity to chat with him and he confirmed that like Ringo Starr, he's actually left handed, but plays right handed and is (for some odd reason) not as proficient playing drums left handed but good enough to 'fake it' in the few videos where he does it. Bun E.'s a total class act. He's good people.
I was a senior in high school and I remember watching this on SNL. Also saw Cheap Trick that same year at Market Square Arena, Indianapolis IN. They kicked ass!
Yep...this is the SNL performance of Baby Loves To Rock. I remember making sure I was home in time to see this the very night this aired. Those were some good times!
LOVE IT! This band changed my life! They were the first concert I saw. Snuck out of the house to go see them at the Boston Garden. There was no stopping me.! Grew up and have been working in the music business for 20+ years! Still love them as much to day as I did back then! Long lice Cheap Trick!
Bunny on a double-bass kitt is pretty funny---untill you remember that he used to play as both a natural lefty, and a righty......I saw him live as both. (what a monster)
This is such a great performance. Can't wait for the 2nd song to be posted. I am ashamed to admit this but when I first watched this years ago I did not realize that Tom Petersson was out of the band and Pete Comita had replaced him for this show and the tour.
Well don't feel too ashamed. Most of us didn't know at the time. They didn't really make much of an announcement. Tom just quit right before they were scheduled to go on tour. They found Pete on the DL, who was pretty much a Tom lookalike, and then hit the road without any press conferences. By the time anyone even realized Tom had been replaced, they were well into their tour. I remember being pretty puzzled myself because they looked so much alike
@@Brewzerr No they didnt, so what he left im sure most of us know why he left , but what about when Tom returned in 86? came back a super bad ass and has never left since, thats 37 years so who cares what you think Rockno
Why would anyone judge you for having good taste in men? I mean, I'm a straight male and it's still pretty damn obvious to me that Robin at this time was a really good looking guy.
Yeah Me too. I've seen Cheap Trick live over 25 times, but the only time I've ever seen them without Tom Petersson was in 1981 on the All Shook Up Tour. Saw them in Oakland CA and UFO opened for them!!!!!!!!! 👍
Yep. Dagmar, his wife, made him leave the band to go tour with her I've been told. Don't know how accurate it was, but glad he came back. He is as much a one of a kind as Rick Robin and Bun E.
This is great. The band was tight as anything. Interesting - the drum set myst have been rented or was provided by the house because Bun never played a double bass.
@YouDummy That is so cool. I never noticed that in the original recording or even in this recording. Thanks for pointing that out for me. I now look at this song at a whole new artistic level. Thanks again.
@@BeauTokyo So you think Pete Comita, a guitarist who was hired to fill a bass vacancy is a better bass player than Tom Petersson... whose basslines Pete could only barely nail (I saw them with Pete and he was struggling with more than a few of those tunes)? Ok then. You do you.
OMFG !!! ROBIN ZANDER IS ABSOLUTE PERFECTION IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD ~ IN EVERY SINGLE WAY ! THE MAN IS STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS . ID LIKE TO HAVE MY WAY WITH HIM , UNTIL HE WAS SO WEAK , THAT HIS BODY & MIND COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE . OMG ! OMG ! OMG .......
At their peak for playing live.
Power and loud, yet very melodic.
I've seen them play live 33 times, since 1978.
The original Garage Power Pop Punk Rock Band - CHEAP TRICK!
These guys are still going strong - except for original drummer, Bun E Carlos.
We miss you, Bun E!!
When the list of greatest rock singers is discussed, you almost never hear anyone mention Robin Zander.
That's just wrong.
no its not wrong, it just means 95% of cheap tricks stuff isnt known by most people, the radio plays mostly i want you to want me, surrender , dream police, then the flame and maybe "shes tight" WE FANS know the rest of the stuff
+Eet Chit But Robin does sound great on all of those tracks you mentioned, doesn't he?
I do. :)
There are underrated singers, criminally underrated singers and Robin Zander.
I agree he"s the best.
Robin is such an underrated vocalist!
What a Great band
I agree.
My all-time favorite SNL musical performance...
Robin is the definitive 70's Rock Frontman. He seems to effortlessly reproduce his studio vocals live on stage. He plays guitar (Not like Freddie or Mick, no disrespect, but they modeled guitars on stage, Robin's guitar. is actually In the Mix) And he looked like a Rock Star , in a suit or a tshirt
Nothing else compares. They were the culmination of rock
love the tone of Ricks guitar.
This song is like a whole bunch of classic rock tracks all rolled into one: the guitar riff of the Yardbirds "Psycho Daisies", the stuttering vocal of the Who's "My Generation," the "My baby likes to rock" lyric of Ted Nugent's "Wango Tango," and the histrionics and stop-and-go rhythm of Zeppelin's "Black Dog." If you need an instruction manual on how to write a great rock song, here it is.
ALRIGHEEEET ,,,,!!!I ITZA WANGOOOOO ZEE TANGOOO JUAN OO REE ORE ,
COME ON BOYS,,, TURN U P THE WANGO!! my baby she like a rock my baby she like a roll my baby she a dance alnight my babys got no control she do the wango tango,,, lol dude ever wonder where the band NASHVILLE PUSSY got their name??
Also sounds a bit like Summer Time Blues.
I never realized, but this does owe heavily to Psycho Daisies!
It sounds like a song Cheap Trick wrote for Dream Police to me.
Your funny! alot you have listed i can agree on or I dont know but this isnt at all like Bonhams Black Dog , theres no click beginninng each part, Bun has a different intro for each one and dont tell us youve never written a song by putting down a part you thought was good n cleaver until someone like yourself goes off finding something simular. remember they put it all together and did it well, you should be an attorney instead of a musician. this isnt 1964 many riffs have been used
Man, what band nowadays would even come close to energy like this? They still rock better than most today!
I saw them sing this last night in STL! Robin (and the band) still sound as great as ever!!! He's definitely one of the all-time greatest rock singers....I would almost say possibly the MOST underrated singer of all-time, as well.
robin zander is the best rock singer in history ... I saw him in an LA club with Ratt's singer, Jovi, and Vince Niel. when robin sang they all bowed down to him. He did Highway to Hell
Rick is still one of the best rock and roll guitar players of all time
Look up the top 100 all time best guitar players. Rick is nowhere to be found. The whole band has always been under rated.
And he sings those high back ups
@@establ its a crying shame, I bet slow hand and garcia from the ungratefiul Dead even though he doesnt tune up or slow hands plays whimppy they are both on your list
I remember staying up as a kid just to watch this!! I was so excited!
I loved Rick and all his stage antics.
I remember seeing this in some bar in the Bronx, and my friend and I were ecstatic like two giddy idiots. Still love Robin Zander after all these years -- front men like him don't grow on trees!
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Anyone who does not put Robin Zander in the top five vocalist of all time is embarrassing themselves for their lack of knowledge
I'd say more like top 3
Yes and there's twenty cheap Trick studio albums to prove it
who has time to make lists, I write rock operas on my channel, I wrote Wanton Opera. I saw cheap trick, and the guitarist saw me, I was just standing drinking a beer cause I cant dance, but I like cheap trick
Especially as good as he sounded while singing Live throughout the bands long career. Not the heaviest band by any means, but they know what a good riff and hook is to make it onto radio. Their old tunes still make me freak out just like they did when Ibwas a 10 or 11 year old little punk kid.
Bull
One of the most underrated bands. I saw em live in Shreveport LA and this band was so cool. Thanks Cheap Trick/
Rick had the best stage persona. He portrayed the geek/court jester/goofball - but he was a great guitarist, songwriter and harmony vocalist.
I remember seeing this in college in my dorm with the guys and girls. We knew this was coming on and we had such respect and love for Cheap Trick, we delayed going out just to see them on SNL.
My friend owned a guitar shop and he called me up and said "Come on over to the shop I need your help for awhile". So I walked into the shop and there was Rick Nielsen. My friend started laughing and said "I don't need your help but I knew you would want to meet Rick" It was the best surprise ever as I am a huge Cheap Trick fan. I hung out with them for an hour as Rick looked at and played several guitars. Rick was such a cool guy. My friend Pete sold him several guitars over the years.
I read somewhere that Cheap Trick and AC/DC hung out in the mid 70s, and Rick introduced Bon Scott to Mexican food. I'd love to see Rick and Angus playing on the same stage.
Rick Nielson is a genius and loves his craft. And Robin Zander makes me question my heterosexuality.
LOL well said.
He was almost prettier than any girl i dated!!
😂 I recently watched the RUclips video of Rick, Robin, and Tom on that Dan Rather interview program. Rick said that they got audiences that other bands didn't, include members of the LGBTQ community. These guys appealed to SO MANY people and musical preferences. 👍🏼🎸
@@nurknanker6105 LOL, I feel that
It’s 2023 you’re good
This SNL performance was my introduction to Cheap Trick. I've been a hardcore fan ever since.
I fell in love with Cheap Trick after this performance! ❤
Timeless music. Never gets old.
I miss Bun E. on drums. However, this rocks. Cheers!
Great band at their best. Fucking Zander... What a freakin great singer and a handsome dude...
Cheap Trick is still my favorite after all these years.
Love this song. I remembered staying up to watch them. Damnit, maybe I just did not notice those arms. Wow!
Be still my beating heart 😍 my 16 year old self was in L.O.V.E.
A rare appearance of Pete Comita. This is wicked. I actually met the original band when Bun E. Carlos was still the drummer. This was way before where you pay to meet bands. They even signed a Budokan photo I had been saving.
Why was Pete replaced by Jon?
Oh my god, Robin is really awesome, really ❤️
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cheap trick is an undertoe of waves...punk,glam,techno,grunge,new age-old age/disco to modern...all waves that splash and crash...the undertoe grabs you ,and rocks you
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I was in the audience for both the rehearsal and the live taping of this SNL broadcast. Cheap Trick was definitely the highlight. That, and the then-unknown Eddie Murphy who came out to warm up the audience before the show started. There were a couple of record executives in line right in front of us, and the new bass player was brought out to meet them, which was pretty cool.
Interesting, thanks for the tidbit. I remember seeing it on tv, I taped it on VHS and lived in NYC but I was too young to go to the taping :((
Very cool.
great live band
I saw this as a kid when it first aired. Hadn't seen it since then. WOW, it's even better than I remember!!!
Love, love this BAND!!!!
Just saw them at NY state Fair....They still Rock!!!!!!K
@headshop I'd met CT years ago just after they first got signed. But recently, earlier this summer Bun E. put on a drum clinic at SSE Music in La Crosse (Wisconsin) and I had an opportunity to chat with him and he confirmed that like Ringo Starr, he's actually left handed, but plays right handed and is (for some odd reason) not as proficient playing drums left handed but good enough to 'fake it' in the few videos where he does it. Bun E.'s a total class act. He's good people.
Some drummers are cool, but no one is 1981 smoking on tv Bun E Carlos cool.
I don't think his cigarette is lit during this performance.
@@robertshubitowski1984 Ive seen it lit and smoked down to a decent size butt
I heard he had an ashtray mounted on his drum kit.
Robin is in my top 10 as far as Rock singers go
Robin Zander...what a voice???? Great video and brings back memories
just saw them last week and they are still rockin' the house!
I was a senior in high school and I remember watching this on SNL. Also saw Cheap Trick that same year at Market Square Arena, Indianapolis IN. They kicked ass!
Yep...this is the SNL performance of Baby Loves To Rock. I remember making sure I was home in time to see this the very night this aired. Those were some good times!
LOVE IT! This band changed my life! They were the first concert I saw. Snuck out of the house to go see them at the Boston Garden. There was no stopping me.!
Grew up and have been working in the music business for 20+ years!
Still love them as much to day as I did back then! Long lice Cheap Trick!
i remember when this aired always wanted to see it again, now i can over and over
Bunny on a double-bass kitt is pretty funny---untill you remember that he used to play as both a natural lefty, and a righty......I saw him live as both. (what a monster)
I love this band. Robin has the best vocal in all of rock. He is also the hottest guy ever. Yummy.
@🤘🤘🎸 🎸 ❤
I remember watching this live!
This is such a great performance. Can't wait for the 2nd song to be posted. I am ashamed to admit this but when I first watched this years ago I did not realize that Tom Petersson was out of the band and Pete Comita had replaced him for this show and the tour.
Well don't feel too ashamed. Most of us didn't know at the time. They didn't really make much of an announcement. Tom just quit right before they were scheduled to go on tour. They found Pete on the DL, who was pretty much a Tom lookalike, and then hit the road without any press conferences. By the time anyone even realized Tom had been replaced, they were well into their tour. I remember being pretty puzzled myself because they looked so much alike
@@Brewzerr No they didnt, so what he left im sure most of us know why he left , but what about when Tom returned in 86? came back a super bad ass and has never left since, thats 37 years so who cares what you think Rockno
These guys should be in the RnR hall of fame!
They ARE !!!!!
The voice!!
I've always loved how careless Bun E. looks when he plays! :)
Such a big sound out of a small kit and makes it look easy. Some guys look their giving birth back there.
I like looking at those leather pants. I mean, I can't stop it but I'm gonna try.
10 years later...
Still looking?
I know I am.
LOL. I can't stop looking at his guns. He's skinny, but puts on a nice gun show.
I could not stop oozing at Mr. ZANDER as a whole.
Also-thanks for posting!!!! I have not seen this since the one and only time I saw it in '81!!! Awesome!!!
The last great American rock band. They won.
STANDING ON THE EDGE with Jon Brant on bass is one of my two or three favorite albums by Cheap Trick.
mmm
That is how I remember Robin the best!
Got to meet him, he was so nice and had dreamy brown eyes. lol
I was 18, don't judge me!
+LisaH Judge you?? HeII, I think he's dreamy and I'm a dude!
Why would anyone judge you for having good taste in men? I mean, I'm a straight male and it's still pretty damn obvious to me that Robin at this time was a really good looking guy.
Oh girl, he's dreamy 😻 and one of the best rock n roll singers in history
ive heard a couple of live shows with Pete Comita in the band and he was really really good. he played some really interesting bass runs
Saw a couple of shows with him and I totally agree
Yeah he was good. Not quite as good as Tom, but definitely better than Jon Brant.
That All Shook Up tour of 81 was great. My first time seeing them and Pete Comita was even represented on the tour shirt.
Yeah Me too. I've seen Cheap Trick live over 25 times, but the only time I've ever seen them without Tom Petersson was in 1981 on the All Shook Up Tour. Saw them in Oakland CA and UFO opened for them!!!!!!!!! 👍
Man, this is the version! And with the luscious Karen Black! It doesn't get any better!
I saw cheap trick in 80, MSG canceled, so CT played 3 hours. First and only time Bun E played double bass and he even played a solo
Great to see this again after all these years, thanks!
😆CHEAP TRICK : A GREAT AMERICAN BAND😉ROBIN ZANDER : ONE OF ROCKS BEST VOCALISTS !!!!!😆
Nice to see Pete Comita!
Zander !
Zander !
Zander !
Zander !
Still has the pipes of a god
I stayed up late specifically to see Cheap Trick on SNL.
This was when I first realized that Tom was missing.
Yep. Dagmar, his wife, made him leave the band to go tour with her I've been told. Don't know how accurate it was, but glad he came back. He is as much a one of a kind as Rick Robin and Bun E.
So this isn't Tom. I thought not. Still pure badass!
@@csolomonholmesPete Comita; 1980-81ish, then Jon Brandt until Tom’s return in ‘88.
That checkerboard Hamer is the Excalibur of guitars for me.
Robin Zander is Gawd.
World's Greatest Rock Band!
The Clarences love & support this era of Cheap Trick!
Nothing sexier than those leather pants on Robin. Great song!
He does look SEXY!!!
This is great. The band was tight as anything. Interesting - the drum set myst have been rented or was provided by the house because Bun never played a double bass.
That was Bun's actual kit thru the 81 tour. You can see his name on both bass drums. Not a rented kit
The 🐐
I got it...Baby loves to rock😉! Thanks, Amy. I am sure Augie would remember him.
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Truly amazing 🙀
my favorite snl preformace
magic!
Kind of cool it was Karen Black introducing them. Karen was from Illinois as is Cheap Trick.
Robin, you dizzy blonde. My all time fav
When SNL had REAL bands on!!
I remember watching this broadcast when it happened!
Caevan O'Shite Me too. I was 9 and in pajamas!
yuppers
you could not be more right!
@YouDummy That is so cool. I never noticed that in the original recording or even in this recording. Thanks for pointing that out for me. I now look at this song at a whole new artistic level. Thanks again.
A friend of mine on Facebook apparently was there and said Gene and Paul from Kiss were in the audience without their makeup...
I also remember watching this airing live back in 1981...Stanley Clarke also did a tune at the end of the show!!!
Whenever CREEM magazine had Cheap Trick on the cover it was a guaranteed sale to me!
Takin' me back...
GREAT.
THE GODS OF ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Killer! Great tune! Took me a minute to realize that it wasn't Tom wasn't there.
Tom couldn't come with a bass line like that......nor move around in stage being cool
@@BeauTokyo What? Tom could play circles around Pete Comita
@@Brewzerr Tom can't play squat. Horrible bassist.
@@BeauTokyo So you think Pete Comita, a guitarist who was hired to fill a bass vacancy is a better bass player than Tom Petersson... whose basslines Pete could only barely nail (I saw them with Pete and he was struggling with more than a few of those tunes)? Ok then. You do you.
@@Brewzerr Most guitarists are better bassists. Noel Redding ring a bell?
Bunny looks funny with the double kick.
Bring Back Bun E Carlos!
OMFG !!!
ROBIN ZANDER IS ABSOLUTE PERFECTION IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD ~ IN EVERY SINGLE WAY !
THE MAN IS STUNNINGLY GORGEOUS .
ID LIKE TO HAVE MY WAY WITH HIM , UNTIL HE WAS SO WEAK , THAT HIS BODY & MIND COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE .
OMG ! OMG ! OMG .......
stalker alert
He's so pretty he makes me a bit uncomfortable as a hetro male
Someone needs a cold shower
@@Brewzerr And a restraining order.ha
my first concert also. My older brother bought me a ticket for a birthday present. it was 1979. My younger brother went also.
I stayed up to watch this. I was like 14
lol, i cant believe they put the rooster sound in.
43Aquaman lol
LOL!! I thought the same thing!
I saw this tour @ Shea's Performing Arts Center in Buffalo NY on Feb.20,1981....(I still have the Tshirt) ..... UFO opened the show!
I think this is the SNL performance I have never been able to find. Thanks.
Please welcome epic recording artist cheap trick playing an epic song from The epic all shook up lp
BUN E CARLOS ROCKS!!
Pete Comita excellent bassist!!