![]() ![]() Here they rip through eleven songs with switchblade precision and I don’t know if I’ve ever heard vocalist Robin Zander sound better than he does here. That album catapulted the band into the stratosphere of rock and roll superstardom. This footage of Cheap Trick on Rockpalast in 1979 captures the band at the very top of their game after the face-smashing success of their live album, Cheap Trick at Budokan that finally saw a US release after a frenzy of demand for the record (which was only available in Japan at the time). The first time I saw the band live I was (gulp) already in my 30’s and I actually fucking cried when they broke into one of the greatest rock anthems ever written, “Surrender.” It wasn’t until I got into college that I finally realized that there was clearly something wrong with my ears, and finally embraced the band after hearing “Stop this Game” from their 1980 album All Shook Up. I even dated a guy who was a Cheap Trick super-fan who never stopped trying to help me understand how great the band was. ![]() I was a huge metal head and for some reason, I just didn’t “get” Cheap Trick when I was in high school. ![]() When it comes to Cheap Trick, I was a late-bloomer. Artist Kii Arens’ gorgeous poster commemorating Cheap Trick’s introduction to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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