Such insane vocals for a then 24 year old Robin. Even now, the man can croon ballads and also give it his raspiest for the harder rock songs. One of the most golden voices ever.
Nothing better than raw as hell, old school Cheap Trick! Rick's tone has always been so overlooked. Not to mention they have one of the "coolest" names for a rock n roll band ever.
I saw them three times in a year in Houston. April 77, Music Hall w/ the Kinks; November 77, Coliseum, opening for BOC and Black Oak. January 78, The Summit, opening for Kansas. This is probably that show, but the date is off by a month.
i grew up on the sw side of chicago. there was a bar calleed harlows on 77 th cicero and for a while cheap trick was the house band. my brush with immortality
Awesome!!! My all time favorite band!! I can never get enough of them. Seen them at least 15 times, all Vegas shows. I actually spent a whole night gambling and partying with Robin. We hit 3 different casino's all of which no longer exist. All small joints and off the strip. We cabed it around on a rainy night in Vegas. What a dream come true!! Not many people can say they partied all night with the lead singer of their favorite band. I'll cherish the memories forever!!!
I saw these guys at a local rock club in Malaga, NJ on 11/20/77. They were opening for Crack the Sky that night. None of us knew who Cheap Trick were but we were totally blown away. Unbelievable show from start to finish. Walked out that night with at least a dozen of Rick's picks. He was flicking them into the air and catching them in his mouth and the spitting them into the audience. Awesome!
What a lineup! CT and Crack the Sky?! Amazing. I actually just found out about CTS and I am also shocked that they didn’t make it big. One of the great mysteries of rock music.
This show is from 01/11/1978, opening for Kansas (Rick mentions Kansas is up next at the 29:00 mark). This show is chronicled in the book 'Still Competition: The Listener's Guide to Cheap Trick.'
Wasn't that one of the gigs where Tom had a broken leg? It's currently up with the correct date on youtube, this gig would have to be even later than 1/11/78, as evidenced by the modifications of Robins Rickenbacker (in this video it looks much closer to the stock model versus the aforementioned video, where it's much less professional looking)
haha like Rush - and both bands were still rocking 2 generations of people later .. cheap trick still are.. Gonna travel to Ohio to see them on july 28 covid or no covid
Hello From Japan😄 After 3 months later, they played and recorded BUDOKAN concert🎵 I was there and I'm a still crazy fan of them😘 I really miss them sooooo much ! Today is Robin's Birthday🎂 Happy Birthday💕💕💕
Saw them on August 16th 1977 at the Cow Palace in Daly City. Played almost the exact same set list opening for KISS. Was a great show, and we learned from Paul Stanley that Elvis had passed away
In reply to Barton, I remember that show very well, I was right in the front, I was only 13 at the time, but remember Cheap Trick getting Booed Mercifully Onstage and Pelted with Objects by the Kiss Army who kept chanting that Cheap Trick Sucked and kept saying "We Want Kiss" We Want Kiss!! Even though Cheap Trick is a Great Band. It was my Very 1st Concert ever!! It was Awesome!! I remember looking in Awe, as Kiss came out of the Sky it seemed on rafters, I'll never forget it, Unbelievable it was!! The crowd came roaring forward like a Title wave!! Back then there was No internet, and very limited TV Footage of Bands.Tickets were like 10 Bucks Only!!
michael chavez My twin brother and me were sitting on the left side of the stage in the lower permanent seating area and this is a true story. My brother is a huge KISS fan and had seen KISS earlier at Winterland a few years earlier, and when Cheap Trick took the stage and he saw the drummer sit behind the drum kit, he said to me “Man that’s a weird looking drum roadie” Hahahaha, and I had to tell him that wasn’t a roadie, it was Bun E Carlos the actual drummer for CT
@@mchavez219 there is a website that has a lot of old crowd photos from that KISS cow Palace show. It's been a few years since I have seen it but you could probably Google it.
@@MENFUSSMIKE Ay Memphis Mike, Thanks Man, I was able to find the website that had all the pictures you were talking about, and I could see myself in the very front first row, right behind the barricade in the middle, I am the only Hispanic looking brown skined dude, sandwiched between two blond dudes. You could Only see my head barely reaching over the barricade, looking down towards the floor, and my two arms sticking over the barricade, I got crushed that day and had to be pulled on to the stage, by the Roadies, or I would have died that night. I was wearing a white T-shirt, and you could see my ribs outlined on My t-shirt, that's how crushed my chest was, because the barricade was black in color, and the color of the barricade melted into my t-shirt, that was full of sweat. I was in the first aid room, for about 30 minutes, and then went back to see the end of the show from the permanent seating. Man that was super scary when I was almost crushed to death, the stage Roadies saved a lot of lives that day. It is really cool, to see my 13 year old Face again, and the vast amount of hair I had back then. I found the website, it's from the San Francisco chronicle, you just have to type in, Kiss 1977 at the Cow Palace, on Google, and it will take you to the link, were you in these pictures of Kiss at the Cow Palace 1977 , Thanks Again Man, Awesome!!
And to think just over three months they would make history in Japan which would change the course of their career and a year later they were one of the top bands in the world
Cheap trick “in color” favorite album cover… I mean - 8 track tape. I wore that thing out , southern girls , downed , big eyes, come on come on …. It’s Timeless!
Whoa! I was at this concert! The headliners would have been either Foreigner or Kansas. Probably my second or third concert. What a surprise to see this.
I have seen them in Rockford Ill. With AC/DC - The Babies and The Molly Hachet On July 4th 50,000 people were there I Think and They Blew Them All Away In The Concert. I think it was in 1979 - Today in Cheap Trick history: 4 July - (1979) Cheap Trick headlined the legendary hometown Independence Day show at the Winnebago County Fairgrounds at Pecatonica, Illinois, just a few miles west of Rockford. A crowd of around 50,000 saw the band top a bill that included AC/DC, The Babys, Molly Hatchet, and Steve Dahl and Teenage Radiation. I was there
I wasn’t at this show, but I grew up in Houston at this time and I know a couple of people who were there. According to them this was actually in January of ‘78, at the Summit, which is now a megachurch where that snake oil salesman Joel Osteen fleeces his flock. I saw many a concert there in the late 70’s and early 80’s, including Cheap Trick about a year and a half after this, on the Dream Police tour in June ‘79. Sweet opened (as a 3-piece). Anyway, this is the Jan ‘78 gig. They did play Houston in ‘77, at (I believe) the Sam Houston Coliseum, opening for KISS. I could be mistaken about that last bit, but I know they were touring as the opening act for KISS that year, and KISS definitely played at the Coliseum in 1977.
I was obsessed with them. Here's what my ticket stubs say: April 77, Music Hall with the Kinks. Nov. 77, Coliseum w Blue Oyster Cult. This Kansas show at the Summit was in 1978. I'm pretty sure their first headline show in Houston was at the Music Hall, either for Heaven Tonight or Dream Police. I saw them headline for All Shook Up in 1980, think it was the coliseum. Kiss played the Summit in 1976 and 1977, I think they were last in the Sam Houston Coliseum in 1975.
@@brucesalmon8091 Yeah, at the time I had left that comment, I had gotten some bogus info from an old friend, so my bad. Yes, KISS actually played at the Summit in ‘77, and I just found out that there’s a semi-official live album of the 2nd of the two sold out concerts they played there that year, released in 2019. Apparently Styx was the opening band. As for the Cheap Trick thing, last summer when I posted that, I had been sworn to that this was from a January 1978 concert, but after doing a little deeper digging I guess he was wrong. I dunno. Like I said, I wasn’t at this one.
Hope the hoarder can find the video for Monday, September 1st, 1997 from Milwaukee Wisconsin, event called Maritime Day Festival at Veteran's Park or if anyone else can locate the whole Cheap Trick show from that evening. Thank you.
Who was the soundman? That guy made Budokan and this. But Jack Douglas was not on site to mix this. So this is how the band actually sounded live and on vinyl in 1977. Conundrum.
Its maddening how Jack Douglas, Tom Werman and Roy Thomas Baker took this fiery, rocking live band into the studio and made them sound like they were recorded in a pillow-encased cardboard dungeon. Although not completely finished, the Steve Albini 'In Color' sessions (1998) make me feel better!
Okay I had to stop a couple mins in... audio is so bad. But I smiled when I heard the MC welcome CT to the stage... we all know that voice from Budakan... that was cool. Way before the band had big success. Is that a roadie? I would love to know if somebody knows.... don't guess and speculate but if you know please let me know.
Hello There Come On, Come On ELO Kiddies Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace Big Eyes Southern Girls Downed Clock Strikes Ten Goodnight Now Mrs. Henry
Such insane vocals for a then 24 year old Robin. Even now, the man can croon ballads and also give it his raspiest for the harder rock songs. One of the most golden voices ever.
Nothing better than raw as hell, old school Cheap Trick! Rick's tone has always been so overlooked. Not to mention they have one of the "coolest" names for a rock n roll band ever.
I was there too. Lots of mud and fireworks. Pretty great day of great music. AC/DC with Bon Scott was great, too.
I was there. Cheap Trick was the backup band to Kansas.
I saw them three times in a year in Houston. April 77, Music Hall w/ the Kinks; November 77, Coliseum, opening for BOC and Black Oak. January 78, The Summit, opening for Kansas. This is probably that show, but the date is off by a month.
I saw this tour at the san diego sports arena, they opened for kiss on the love gun tour 1977
Robin's voice is just killing it!!!
i grew up on the sw side of chicago. there was a bar calleed harlows on 77 th cicero and for a while cheap trick was the house band. my brush with immortality
WOW, you were soooo lucky to have been able to go see them that much!! Great story and I'll be super memories!!
Awesome!!! My all time favorite band!! I can never get enough of them. Seen them at least 15 times, all Vegas shows. I actually spent a whole night gambling and partying with Robin. We hit 3 different casino's all of which no longer exist. All small joints and off the strip. We cabed it around on a rainy night in Vegas. What a dream come true!! Not many people can say they partied all night with the lead singer of their favorite band. I'll cherish the memories forever!!!
At that point they didn’t know now long their careers would last, or that they would be enshrined in the HOF. They just played their hearts out.
Rick Nielsen:
Court Jester/excellent guitarist/brilliant songwriter.
Robin looks so young here.
Damn fine stuff.
Way ahead of their time...
I saw these guys at a local rock club in Malaga, NJ on 11/20/77. They were opening for Crack the Sky that night. None of us knew who Cheap Trick were but we were totally blown away. Unbelievable show from start to finish. Walked out that night with at least a dozen of Rick's picks. He was flicking them into the air and catching them in his mouth and the spitting them into the audience. Awesome!
Can never get enough Crack The Sky. Talk about a band that should have become a household name
What a lineup! CT and Crack the Sky?! Amazing. I actually just found out about CTS and I am also shocked that they didn’t make it big. One of the great mysteries of rock music.
Best American rock band ever. Damn.
My first, seeing Cheap Trick open for Kiss in Aug 77. Have seen them another 4x since and NEVER disppointed!
Amazing. I'm incredibly jealous of this. Born in 90😔
This show is from 01/11/1978, opening for Kansas (Rick mentions Kansas is up next at the 29:00 mark). This show is chronicled in the book 'Still Competition: The Listener's Guide to Cheap Trick.'
You are a valuable encyclopedia of rock knowledge sir
Wasn't that one of the gigs where Tom had a broken leg? It's currently up with the correct date on youtube, this gig would have to be even later than 1/11/78, as evidenced by the modifications of Robins Rickenbacker (in this video it looks much closer to the stock model versus the aforementioned video, where it's much less professional looking)
@@griffinm4224 You are right. I was at the show later in 1978 (they opened for Foreigner). And Tom sat as he played for the whole concert.
yes....thats why the 8 string bass instead of the 4 string tbird......which sounded MUCH better! the 12 string came in on 1979
actually....it does look like the 12 string......
Setlist: Hello There 00:01, C'mon C'mon 03:11, Elo Kiddies 06:16, Speak Now 10:43, Big Eyes 16:07, Southern Girls 19:42, Downed 23:29, Clock Strikes Ten 29:28, Goodnight 32:31, Please Mrs. Henry 35:54,
They were already outplaying the headliners at this point!
haha like Rush - and both bands were still rocking 2 generations of people later .. cheap trick still are.. Gonna travel to Ohio to see them on july 28 covid or no covid
they may have been opening for KISS on the shirt Love Gun Tour
@@kmgntv it was
@@kmgntv Kansas, Point Of Know Return. I was present, and they waxed Kansas.
The beauties were on double duty!!
Hello From Japan😄
After 3 months later, they played and recorded BUDOKAN concert🎵
I was there and I'm a still crazy fan of them😘
I really miss them sooooo much !
Today is Robin's Birthday🎂
Happy Birthday💕💕💕
You were? Can you tell me about your experience?
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Saw them on August 16th 1977 at the Cow Palace in Daly City. Played almost the exact same set list opening for KISS. Was a great show, and we learned from Paul Stanley that Elvis had passed away
In reply to Barton, I remember that show very well, I was right in the front, I was only 13 at the time, but remember Cheap Trick getting Booed Mercifully Onstage and Pelted with Objects by the Kiss Army who kept chanting that Cheap Trick Sucked and kept saying "We Want Kiss" We Want Kiss!! Even though Cheap Trick is a Great Band. It was my Very 1st Concert ever!! It was Awesome!! I remember looking in Awe, as Kiss came out of the Sky it seemed on rafters, I'll never forget it, Unbelievable it was!! The crowd came roaring forward like a Title wave!! Back then there was No internet, and very limited TV Footage of Bands.Tickets were like 10 Bucks Only!!
michael chavez My twin brother and me were sitting on the left side of the stage in the lower permanent seating area and this is a true story. My brother is a huge KISS fan and had seen KISS earlier at Winterland a few years earlier, and when Cheap Trick took the stage and he saw the drummer sit behind the drum kit, he said to me “Man that’s a weird looking drum roadie” Hahahaha, and I had to tell him that wasn’t a roadie, it was Bun E Carlos the actual drummer for CT
@@mchavez219 there is a website that has a lot of old crowd photos from that KISS cow Palace show. It's been a few years since I have seen it but you could probably Google it.
@@MENFUSSMIKE Ay Memphis Mike, Thanks Man, I was able to find the website that had all the pictures you were talking about, and I could see myself in the very front first row, right behind the barricade in the middle, I am the only Hispanic looking brown skined dude, sandwiched between two blond dudes. You could Only see my head barely reaching over the barricade, looking down towards the floor, and my two arms sticking over the barricade, I got crushed that day and had to be pulled on to the stage, by the Roadies, or I would have died that night. I was wearing a white T-shirt, and you could see my ribs outlined on My t-shirt, that's how crushed my chest was, because the barricade was black in color, and the color of the barricade melted into my t-shirt, that was full of sweat. I was in the first aid room, for about 30 minutes, and then went back to see the end of the show from the permanent seating. Man that was super scary when I was almost crushed to death, the stage Roadies saved a lot of lives that day. It is really cool, to see my 13 year old Face again, and the vast amount of hair I had back then. I found the website, it's from the San Francisco chronicle, you just have to type in, Kiss 1977 at the Cow Palace, on Google, and it will take you to the link, were you in these pictures of Kiss at the Cow Palace 1977 , Thanks Again Man, Awesome!!
Correct date is 01.11.1978
And to think just over three months they would make history in Japan which would change the course of their career and a year later they were one of the top bands in the world
My father thought Rick looked like Huntz Hall from the Bowery Boy. Just that got him to listen to them.
Cheap trick “in color” favorite album cover… I mean - 8 track tape.
I wore that thing out , southern girls , downed , big eyes, come on come on …. It’s Timeless!
Whoa! I was at this concert! The headliners would have been either Foreigner or Kansas. Probably my second or third concert. What a surprise to see this.
They ope.ed for kiss
Foreigner was 9/30/78. I was at that show.
It was Kansas. I was there.
I have seen them in Rockford Ill. With AC/DC - The Babies and The Molly Hachet On July 4th 50,000 people were there I Think and They Blew Them All Away In The Concert. I think it was in 1979 - Today in Cheap Trick history: 4 July - (1979) Cheap Trick headlined the legendary hometown Independence Day show at the Winnebago County Fairgrounds at Pecatonica, Illinois, just a few miles west of Rockford. A crowd of around 50,000 saw the band top a bill that included AC/DC, The Babys, Molly Hatchet, and Steve Dahl and Teenage Radiation. I was there
Rick toying with Stiff Competition
Four Kings with an Army Strong 💪
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you...for posting this.
Cheap Trick defined 80's fashion - not to many people know that - it's all thanks to rick..
Haha ok. That's right everyone was wearing sweaters, baseball caps and bow ties
@@2728muzikmannMy favorite bit is “not too many people know that” 🤣🤣🤣
Please Mrs Henry live footage Nice
the wind just blew off your roof
I wasn’t at this show, but I grew up in Houston at this time and I know a couple of people who were there. According to them this was actually in January of ‘78, at the Summit, which is now a megachurch where that snake oil salesman Joel Osteen fleeces his flock. I saw many a concert there in the late 70’s and early 80’s, including Cheap Trick about a year and a half after this, on the Dream Police tour in June ‘79. Sweet opened (as a 3-piece).
Anyway, this is the Jan ‘78 gig. They did play Houston in ‘77, at (I believe) the Sam Houston Coliseum, opening for KISS. I could be mistaken about that last bit, but I know they were touring as the opening act for KISS that year, and KISS definitely played at the Coliseum in 1977.
I was obsessed with them. Here's what my ticket stubs say: April 77, Music Hall with the Kinks. Nov. 77, Coliseum w Blue Oyster Cult. This Kansas show at the Summit was in 1978. I'm pretty sure their first headline show in Houston was at the Music Hall, either for Heaven Tonight or Dream Police. I saw them headline for All Shook Up in 1980, think it was the coliseum.
Kiss played the Summit in 1976 and 1977, I think they were last in the Sam Houston Coliseum in 1975.
@@brucesalmon8091 Yeah, at the time I had left that comment, I had gotten some bogus info from an old friend, so my bad. Yes, KISS actually played at the Summit in ‘77, and I just found out that there’s a semi-official live album of the 2nd of the two sold out concerts they played there that year, released in 2019. Apparently Styx was the opening band. As for the Cheap Trick thing, last summer when I posted that, I had been sworn to that this was from a January 1978 concert, but after doing a little deeper digging I guess he was wrong. I dunno. Like I said, I wasn’t at this one.
Electrifying. You wonder why people didn't get it. It took a trip to Japan to get the message across.
Hope the hoarder can find the video for Monday, September 1st, 1997 from Milwaukee Wisconsin, event called Maritime Day Festival at Veteran's Park or if anyone else can locate the whole Cheap Trick show from that evening. Thank you.
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Still no dislikes. Awesome. Great stuff here. Thanks for uploading this.
I agree that this show was recorded 1/11/1978.
This was when Kiss was on their Love Gun tour. Cheap Trick opened up for them.
This show was opening for Kansas.
Who was the soundman? That guy made Budokan and this. But Jack Douglas was not on site to mix this. So this is how the band actually sounded live and on vinyl in 1977. Conundrum.
Its maddening how Jack Douglas, Tom Werman and Roy Thomas Baker took this fiery, rocking live band into the studio and made them sound like they were recorded in a pillow-encased cardboard dungeon. Although not completely finished, the Steve Albini 'In Color' sessions (1998) make me feel better!
Just bitchen musicianship ,everyone is tight in their performance and it shows .
Headliner was Kiss with their Love Gun Tour.
Nope. Kansas, Point Of Know Return
Rare Video of Cheap Trick and Kiss
Energy of Bun E and Rick
It looks like Tom is playing his first multi string Hamer bass. This looks like the 10 string that he got before Hamer made him a 12 string
This was the Kansas "Point of No Return" Tour 1977
"Know"
Looking for audio or video of cheap trick waterbury CT 9-15 -1977 show.
Thank's
Thanks a million for the great post!
Cheap Trick rules!! ☠️
Cheap tricks first album rush headline 2112.....both killed it
Okay I had to stop a couple mins in... audio is so bad. But I smiled when I heard the MC welcome CT to the stage... we all know that voice from Budakan... that was cool. Way before the band had big success. Is that a roadie? I would love to know if somebody knows.... don't guess and speculate but if you know please let me know.
Cheap Trick, Live in Houston
Thanks!
Were they opening for Kiss on this tour? The video is good enough 👌. Thanks for posting
Kansas, apparently. Yikes
Yes they did open for Kiss on the West Coast I believe, I saw them with Kiss at the Cow Palace in San Francisco/Daly City Calif. That Tour
I saw them open for KISS at the Fabulous Forum in LA in August 1977. My first concert when I was 13.😃
thanks so much!!!
Is this them opening for kiss?
Kansas.
Chicago auditorium theatre with rush firs album killed it...76 I think?
It's January '78, opening for Kansas.
spinalcrackerbox said Houston my comment was when I saw them first
Would someone be kind enough to post the set list? Muchas gracias!
Hello There
Come On, Come On
ELO Kiddies
Speak Now Or Forever Hold Your Peace
Big Eyes
Southern Girls
Downed
Clock Strikes Ten
Goodnight Now
Mrs. Henry
So did Rick steal part of his style from Angus?
No Angus ripped off Rick