Live at budokan cheap trick
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Pure excitement captured in an acrylic and aluminum sandwich! Carlos' power drumming and the slab-like guitar chords. Compact Disc builds up a solid wall of sound and packs menace into Bun E. The sound from vinyl was atmospheric but failed to dig into the swirling, distorted guitars and almost continuous audience reaction. The two sides of the LP are enshrined on the CD retaining the fade down between the two "sides." Continuous play CD suits the well-structured live performance with its intro, its build ups, set pieces (a stunning heavy metal version of the Fats Domino standard "Ain't That a Shame"), farewell and encore ("Clock Strikes Ten"). This "two pretty boys/two weirdos" band are masters of crowd control and tease their audience into ecstasy. So overwhelmed that they wired their manager to send for a mobile recorder. Playing gigs in Japan, Cheap Trick were overwhelmed by the strength of the audience reaction to their illustrious brand of cheap and tricky heavy rock. Robert Christgau, Christgau's Record Guide, 1981. Also: "Ain't That a Shame," the intro of which ought to give pause to those who consider Rick Nielsen an innovative guitar player as opposed to showman a throwaway collaboration with Tom Petersson a nice Move ripoff and "Surrender." B. Arrangements are gratifyingly tight - ten titles on a single disc - but six of them are also available (even tighter) on In Color. The second side almost works as a best-of, but I'd wait for the studio job - despite the Japanese applause track, this was obviously recorded in the Big Room at Carlsbad Caverns. Best cuts: "Surrender," "Need Your Love," "Big Eyes," "Look Out." Included also are four previously unreleased songs. Unlike so many current live LPs, the audience is always there, giving it more of a sense of space. With the fans behind them, the four members of Cheap Trick put out its best, playing good, hard and steady rock. Cheap Trick is a major headline attraction in Japan, as can be easily discerned from the enthusiastic reception that can be heard on this disk. Though originally released in Japan, where it was recorded, the popularity of this LP has prompted CBS to release it here in a remastered version. In an era of throwaway rock-and-roll, Cheap Trick earns some points for being frankly and honestly cheap. The same attitude seems to infuse his guitar playing, which is everywhere there's nothing very skilled going on, but one realizes it wouldn't make any difference if there were. The subject deserves to be taken about as seriously as he takes it. One suspects Nielsen's songs get this way by default, because he doesn't know enough or care enough to get them to stay on a point and make sense, but the more important thing may be that he realizes it doesn't make any difference. "Surrender" starts out about the girl Mommy warned the singer/narrator about but ends up about Mommy and Daddy being a little weird, Mommy having been a WAC during the war, and so on.
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Nielsen also writes most of the Trick's material, which ranges from songs that amount to practically nothing ("Would you like to do a number with me?" is the only thing that gets said in "Hello There") to songs that wander off surrealistically in early Captain Beefheart style.
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Cheap Trick is one of the more likable of the wall-of-sound rock groups, possibly because it's so hard to dislike a lead guitar player who looks like Huntz Hall of the Bowery Boys, as Rick Nielsen does.