If you can convince me that Cheap Trick is way better than power pop predecessors The Raspberries, more power to you, but let’s keep this challenge simple: Is there evidence that Cheap Trick should be thought of as anything more than The Raspberries with a highly evolved schtick?
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What’s the best Irish pride song by a non-Irish national? Lennon, McCartney, Costello, and I’m sure Dripkick Murphys have such songs in their catalogs. I’m sure there are more.
These guys were an early 70s Canadian band, Hamilton to be exact, heavily influenced by Syd’s Pink Floyd, The Stooges and The Velvet Underground. Formed in 1972, the first six tracks on the belated album, Cyborgs Revisited, were recorded in 1974 by Bob and Daniel Lanois (fellow Hamiltonians) in their mother’s basement. The sessions were aborted when funds ran out.
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Guys, what’s wrong with me? You all know I won’t give the sweat off the bad part of my ass for most “jam”-fueled music. I am the original pop-Nazi when it comes to issues related to structure and its role in rock and roll — and I usually have a particular distaste for all things purporting to take good old-fashioned rock and roll and make it more “progressive.”
So why, oh why do I absolutely adore the entire 26 minutes of Miles Davis‘ “Right Off” — the opening track to his Tribute to Jack Johnson LP? I listen to it at least once or twice a week, and enjoy it more every time. Is something wrong with me? Am I experiencing the musical equivalent of learning to like anchovies and blue cheese — or is there something more sinister at work here?
I’m relaxing (as best I can) on the RTH analyst’s couch, people. I’m ready to answer any questions you may have to help me diagnose the source of my aberrant behavior. I’m ready to begin the healing. I want to learn. Help me.
Yours, etc.,
HVB
I know there’s something that robot’s really trying to tell us! There may be something you’re trying to tell us as well but no existing thread will allow you that opportunity. That’s why Rock Town Hall created the All-Star Jam. Do you own thing!
There’s a nice treat in this old post that has been an entry for many into the Halls of Rock. Never having been a big Cheap Trick fan, I have yet to download and listen to this treat in its entirety, but it came on during a mastering session with an engineer friend just Wednesday night, and then it came up for discussion again on Thursday, so I’ll download this bad boy myself. Finally. If you haven’t done so already, why don’t you check it out and report back to us? Thanks!
This post initially appeared 9/27/07.
This is from answers.com and seems identical to what I read awhile back on Wikipedia but is now mysteriously gone.
On the radio show “Rockline” in 2003, someone called in and asked the band for the history behind the rumored Steve Albini version of the “In Color” disc, and Bun E. Carlos gave the explanation. The “In Color” album was produced by Tom Werman, but the band always felt that Werman screwed up the album. “He made it safe for radio, but the album sounds like it was done in a cardboard box.” So in the late 1990s they were in the studio hanging around with the producer Steve Albini, and had nothing to do for a few days, so they said “Yeah, that would be fun to redo that.” So they started re-recording the songs. They Did not finish the album, not all the harmonies or instruments are on it yet, but it can be found on the internet. It includes two versions each of “I Want You to Want Me” and “Oh Caroline” as well as a cover of John Lennon’s “I’m Losing You.”
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