A Cheap Trick Tribute To The Beatles
A Influential BAND PAYS TRIBUTE TO AN EVEN GREATER BAND
I reasonable picked up an amazing DVD.
If the Rock-n-Roll family tree has it's roots in the Mississippi River Delta and the blues singers who got the whole fad started, one of the tree's thickest supporting branches very soon spread its way to the banks of the River Mersey, in Liverpool. The Beatles took what was started in this homeland and absorbed it, redefined it, owned it and sent it back over here. One of the American bands that picked up on the Beatles new squirm (and shout) was Cheap Trick.
If you don't know much of Cheap Trick's work, look beyond "The Boyfriend". Their early stuff is often cited by punk bands as persuasive and inspirational. Some Cheap Trick stuff from the 70's foreshadows what grunge would one day quality like. They were the masters of power pop, sometimes rough, sometimes much more smooth, brim-full with hooks and built around crunchy guitar. Much of the music is a contrasting and ever-so-intentional nod to the Beatles. Singer Robin Zander even admits. "If you're wealthy to steal, steal from the best!"
Cheap Trick still accepted strong about 35 years after they started. They even have a new album out called "The Latest" I've listened to parts of it, it sounds pulchritudinous good. But this blog is not about that music.
New Music Tuesday: Sgt. Pepper (Live); Cheap Trick, indeed
,&Nbsp; I had discovered something the music coterie had known for years, The Beatles ruled, and furthermore, The Bee Gees had no duty re-recording the fab four's amazing tunes.Fast forward some twenty-eight years. Fair a few weeks ago, I, like many other fans of Cheap Trick was disappointed when I well-versed the Nashville leg of their current tour with Def Leppard and Poison was to be cancelled, due to the unexpected decease of someone close to one of the members of Def Leppard . Oh well, there goes my chance to relive my infancy.
At least I could take solace in the pending release of Cheap Trick 's live reinterpretation of The Beatles paragon narrative project, . After all, what could be a more perfect union than a grand live act I remembered from my childhood and a great album I discovered during that same every now, right?
Sadly, I was wrong. The old adage, why mess with completeness keeps going off in my head. Yes, Cheap Trick is still a great real band, and more importantly, the CD and the companion DVD, which were recorded on December 12 of 2007 at the Waldorf Astoria in New York, are a fundraising stab benefitting the Prostate Cancer Foundation Source: Examiner.com
