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Cheap Trick - Rick Nielsen

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Bun E. Carlos 12/06/1951

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Cheap Trick: Are You Ready? Live 12/31/1979 (2019)

Sometimes I can't even remember what I was doing last week, let alone last year and certainly not on New Year's Eve 1979, but, thanks to this clearly dated Record Store Day release, we all know precisely what Cheap Trick were doing as the '70s gave way to the '80s ...

Yes, seems Rockford's finest were rocking their fans at L.A.'s Fabulous Forum while local radio station KLOS broadcasted a small part of the show live; but this double LP from 2019 rounds up the entire, 90-minute, 19-song concert for the first time. (*)

To be honest, I was a little skeptical at first, since this isn't the first time (nor will it be the last) that Sony Music has tried to exploit the incomparable legacy of 1978's At Budokan to sell inevitably inferior in-concert recordings of Trick at their precocious peak.

But I must say that Are You Ready? Live 12/31/1979 may be the closest they've come to justifying the exercise -- and the spending of your hard-earned dollars -- with a recording that balances believable rawness (**) and excitement with a sheer wealth of classic material.

As they did At Budokan, Cheap Trick were still bookending shows with "Hello There" and "Goodnight Now," playing those early hits ("Clock Strikes Ten," "Ain't That a Shame," "I Want You to Want Me," "Surrender"), plus In Color's excellent "Downed," but, oddly, still totally ignoring their self-titled debut.

But fans of Heaven Tonight got a generous helping (the title track, "Stiff Competition," "Way of the World," and an apropos "California Man") and those partial to the recently released Dream Police got virtually the entire LP, including standout performances of "Voices," "I Know What I Want," and the wonderfully creepy "Need Your Love."

On the other hand, the interminable "Gonna Raise Hell" is only slightly more tolerable live than on record, Rick Nielsen's stage raps are just as often irritating as amusing, and employing a keyboard player behind a curtain to enhance their sound when needed (e.g. "Surrender" and the encore of "Dream Police") was always a little shady.

But, all things considered, these are largely small "nits" about a set that obviously still boasts a lot of additional and essential early Cheap Trick material (***), much of which that had yet to be released at the time of At Budokan's recording, all of 18 months earlier.

So I don't want to lead you astray by suggesting Are You Ready? Live 12/31/1979 actually compares with that earlier set's flawless (and, admittedly, somewhat doctored) perfection, but its probably the next-best Cheap Trick live album I've heard, and that includes the expanded Budokan concerts package.

Happy new year!

* Although some of these cuts were previously available on expanded CD reissues of the Dream Police album.

** The first reel of the master tapes was never found, so that rawness is especially noticeable on the first four songs, which had to be sourced and remastered from a high-resolution tape of the original radio broadcast.

*** Presumably, when the clock strikes midnight (no pun intended on "Clock Strikes Ten"), the band sneaks in a quick rendition of "Auld Lang Syne."

More Cheap Trick: Cheap Trick, In Color, Heaven Tonight, At Budokan, Dream Police, Found All the Parts, All Shook Up, One on One, Woke Up with a Monster.

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bun e carlos image dump - part 1

hey another one of these and another of my favourite men

30 image cap, ill do the rest sometime

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I wish Cheap Trick was real 💔🏁

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Cheap Trick - Rick Neilsen

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Cheap Trick Live at the Whisky 1977 2022 Real Gone ————————————————— Tracks CD One: Early Show 06/03/1977 01. Rodney Bingenheimer intro 02. Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace 03. Elo Kiddies 04. Set Break 1 05. High Roller 06. Southern Girls 07. Cry, Cry 08. Big Eyes 09. Can’t Hold On 10. Oh Boy 11. You’re All Talk 12. Set Break 2 13. He’s a Whore 14. The Ballad of T.V. Violence (I’m Not the Only Boy) 15. Down on the Bay 16. Goodnight

Tracks CD Two: Late Show 06/03/1977 01. Hello There 02. Come on, Come On 03. Set Break 1 04. Oh, Candy 05. Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School 06. Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace 07. Elo Kiddies 08. Loser 09. Taxman, Mr Thief 10. Clock Strikes Ten 11. Set Break 2 12. Big Eyes 13. He’s a Whore 14. You’re All Talk 15. Auf Wiedersehen

Tracks CD Three: Early Show 06/04/1977 01. Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace 02. Elo Kiddies 03. Set Break 1 04. Hot Love 05. Southern Girls 06. Cry Cry 07. Big Eyes 08. Set Break 2 09. Ain’t That a Shame 10. Oh Caroline 11. Oh Boy 12. You’re All Talk 13. Set Break 3 14. He’s a Whore 15. The Ballad of T.V. Violence (I’m Not the Only Boy) 16. Down on the Bay 17. Goodnight

Tracks CD Four: Late Show 06/04/1977 01. Hello There 02. Come on, Come On 03. Set Break 1 04. Oh, Candy 05. Daddy Should Have Stayed in High School 06. Please, Mrs. Henry 07. Set Break 2 08. Violins 09. Taxman, Mr Thief 10. Clock Strikes Ten 11. Set Break 3 12. Big Eyes 13. He’s a Whore 14. You’re All Talk 15. Auf Wiedersehen 16. Encore Break 17. Goodnight —————————————————

Bun E. Carlos

Rick Nielsen

Tom Petersson

Robin Zander

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HEAVY METAL-Cheap Trick-I Must Be Dreamin'

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bun e carlos image dump - part 2

stuff i couldn't fit in the previous post - https://www.tumblr.com/instantelephantmix/776669947039498240/bun-e-carlos-image-dump-part-1?source=share

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Andy Warhol and Cheap Trick backstage at the Bottom Line in New York City on June 12, 1978.

Photo by Bob Gruen

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Cheap Trick -Rick Nielsen