One of the most underrated bands ever; and totally unique persona: Two long haired handsome 70s frontmen, a certifiable loon gearhead on guitar, and your chain smoking accountant killing the skins. Nothing like it before or since. They encapsulated teen angst in the late 70s, early 80s.
@@solrackai1 I didn't care for their music until their Budokan album came out. The music on that was like there were two different groups from the studio music they made.
Each week, it was like winning the music lottery. One brilliant band after the other after the other after the other. The 70's were a tidal wave of the greatest modern bands in modern times. Yes, Im old, but Im gonna say it: the 70's and 80's was the Golden Era of all modern music.
And almost every one of them actually played LIVE. I don’t think Helen Reddy did judging by the video, but I’ll give her a pass. She’s Helen Reddy, a legend.
I agree, the midnight specials were fantastic 👌!!! Kiss doing Black Diamond is another masterpiece for the midnight special as well!!! Love them both!!!
We rode around in cars, smoking weed, drinking beer, bobbing our heads while jamming Cheap Trick very loud. My ears are still ringing and it’s been 45 years.
I remember this, vividly. I was instantly captivated. I had a hard time processing what I was seeing- two very 1970s looking rockstar Gods decked out in white with long hair, the guy on guitar, looking for all the world like Huntz Hall had escape the Bowery boys and the dude on the drums… what was some tax accountant doing in a rock band? And the song. ‘We’re all alright! We’re all alright! WE’RE ALL ALRIGHT!” Fuck yeah, we were!
Visually, Cheap Trick was like no other rock band that we had seen before, and they played up the contrast on their early album covers: two rock gods, and two nerdy-looking guys in the same band. It was as if the cool guys from school and the geeks got together and somehow created a killer band. You can imagine the scene, like in the movie Welcome to the Dollhouse: Robin and Tom: Dudes, you have to help us with our homework, 'cause if we flunk out, our dads are going to kill us. Rick and Bun E.: OK we'll do it, but you have to agree to be in our band. 😀🎸
i remember seeing this when it was broadcast during the height of the "live at budokan" album mania. bun e. carlos was the coolest drummer ever with that cigarette dangling from his mouth. dressed like an insurance salesman,drumming like a madman. great times!
Sometimes I see performances of him and think that maybe Townshend and Daltry should have brought him in instead of Kenny Anderson, after Keith Moon died.
I remember when that chorus started blasting out of our radios in the 1970s: "Mommy's all right. Daddy's all right. They just seem a little weird.". And i thought wow, someone just wrote a My Generation for my generation. I still get that same rush every time i hear this song. I love Cheap Trick!
"Surrender" is actually inspired by a different song from The Who: "The Kids Are Alright". It also inspired The Offspring song "The Kids Aren't Alright".
The drummer definitely had me cracking up when they first showed him with his business outfit smoking a cig, and KILLING it on drums. 2:03 is also a highlight where he used that puff of nicotine and transcended!
The first time i saw Cheap Trick, they were backing up Kiss. I loved Cheap Trick so much, the next day they were signing autographs at a local record store so i went down and got autographs and picked up their "In Color...and Black and White" record as well as their first one. Elo Kiddies!
I am a die hard Kiss fan, original lineup of course!!! Peter and Ace are frickin legends and my favorites, but Cheap Trick opened for them for a year and a half and what amazing shows!!!!
One of the most powerful, triumphant rock singles of all time. Cheap Trick was such a fun band. And Heaven Tonight is one of the best power-pop albums of all time, bar none. One of the great exports from the Midwest.
They were so good!! When my parents went out for the evening, my brother would crank the stereo! I can remember Cheap Trick being in the lineup. One of my favorite songs was "The Flame." Good memories and great music!! Happy Monday... thank you for sharing! 💖
Live at Budokan. All those girlies hyped up and screaming. American teenage girls wanted CheapTrick and we all bought that album. I did. Wore it out. I want YOU to want ME!
I have seen Cheap Trick in 20,000 seat arenas and 3,500 seat theaters. The last time I saw them people were there with their kids. One little dude near the front (we were all near the front as it was a small venue in Indiana that they did not sell out) was so excited that he caught Rick's attention. So Rick runs off stage and gets a publicly photo. He and the rest of the band sign the photo and Rick gives it to a guy right next to the stage. The guy didn't pass the photo on fast enough so Rick says point blank "Don't be a dick. That is for the kid." of course the guy passed it back. I thought that was very cool of Rick.
@@crapple009 So you think he caught it? It's not like catching a baseball. Even if he did catch it I'm sure one night it hit the floor and shattered the neck beyond repair.
@@joerod0 So you think he didn't catch it? If it had been a miss and it had actually shattered, it would surely have would have gone down aong time ago in the annals of Cheap Trick history as 'the one that bit the dust'. Especially as Nielsen's a guitar freak/collector, he would have mentioned it by now or by anyone who would have witnessed such a spectacle.
This is the song that made me graduate from The Monkees and kid records to Kiss, AC/DC, and, of course, Cheap Trick. One of the most important songs in my own life. Ended up playing it in sets with my own band for the better part of 25 years. Whipped this one out on a self-financed tour of England in front of a large hall filled with Birmingham teenagers and they tore the place up. That was in 2003. Damn.
Brilliant!!!!! I remember the first time I saw these guys doing I Want You To Want Me on the UK's Old Grey Whistle Test. Bought the record the next day. I also saw them many years later (now also many years ago!) in Nottingham Uk with Roy Wood coming on to play California Man - outstanding!!!! This is an amazing archive!!!
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Best part of these Midnight Special vault releases is that we are getting rare performances from these artists in their prime. Live in Budokan was the first LP I ever bought. Great album!
I barely remember seeing them at the Waverly beach ballroom in Beloit Wisconsin in 1977. Just after they released their first album. I think my ears are still ringing to this very day from standing next to Rick Neilson's amp all night while on Acid.
I remember watching this when it was first on TV. I was 15 years old. I had just kicked a two year long heroin habit in the summer and due to many weird circumstances I was out of school until the start of the year. I remember watching this and feel empowered by the whole “we’re all alright part” of the song. It was cathartic. Cheap Trick were such a great band back then. I so loved the Midnight Special when I was growing up… There weren’t a lot of choices on the TV back then (we didnt get cable until 1979 or 1980). My brother went to school with Wolfman Jack’s son. So I’d see the Wolfman at some school functions where there were PTA meetings, etc. ✌🏽❤️🎸🍄
Every member of this band is working the audience. Great song and great band. I was 19 when Budokan hit the radio and played non-stop all Summer. Perfect.
I'm super happy to see these guys on your channel! They were the rave when I was in high school, saw them in concert & they were amazing. Bun E. Carlos could knock the skins off those drums & Rick Nielsen was a pure blast, especially live! Thank you!
Awesome! Cheap Trick was one of the early bands that made me at 11 years old (in 1980) fall in love with rock n roll. I vividly remember just staring at the Dream Police LP while it was playing and how fun it was to my ears and eyes. Just perfect pop songs and harmonies.with a healthy dose of dirty rock n roll!
The ever Iconic Bun Carlos on the Drums The Cig, white shirt and Tie !!! Unique Style very underrated, as was the Band, many people never new "Cheap Trick" had Hit off the Original top Gun Sound track, "Mighty Wings". it never appeared as cut on any of their albums,
A great song that seems to never age. Cheap Trick had a unique sound, as a kid I never knew how tricky the Bass player for this band is in filling out such a big sound. I was too distracted looking at Rick Nielsen antic's on stage and his impressive custom guitars. The magic is the Bass player Tom Petersson
Cool flashback memories of a great era in music. Same year saw Cheap Trick very first time, during my teens. While residing in California. This song had heavy rotation airplay on the local rock stations too.
One of the most underrated bands ever; and totally unique persona: Two long haired handsome 70s frontmen, a certifiable loon gearhead on guitar, and your chain smoking accountant killing the skins. Nothing like it before or since. They encapsulated teen angst in the late 70s, early 80s.
selling 3 milli8on copies of their album during the height of the disco era, they were hardly underated
@@solrackai1 I didn't care for their music until their Budokan album came out. The music on that was like there were two different groups from the studio music they made.
They were overrated budokan just vaulted them over the top the studio stuff wasn't very good
Great description. My babysitter turned me on to them in 1978 when I was 8.
Another idiot who calls a R and R HoF band underrated
This old Midnight Special vault stuff is vintage GOLD! Just amazing seeing a window back into the '70's music scene. Just fantastic!
Glad you enjoyed it
I was there in the 70s.....nothing like it...ever...
Each week, it was like winning the music lottery. One brilliant band after the other after the other after the other. The 70's were a tidal wave of the greatest modern bands in modern times. Yes, Im old, but Im gonna say it: the 70's and 80's was the Golden Era of all modern music.
And almost every one of them actually played LIVE. I don’t think Helen Reddy did judging by the video, but I’ll give her a pass. She’s Helen Reddy, a legend.
I agree, the midnight specials were fantastic 👌!!! Kiss doing Black Diamond is another masterpiece for the midnight special as well!!! Love them both!!!
We rode around in cars, smoking weed, drinking beer, bobbing our heads while jamming Cheap Trick very loud. My ears are still ringing and it’s been 45 years.
Fact checked: Correct. We did too!
Mine are still ringing from seeing them in concert several times over the years! And, it's 'all alright!
😂😂😂
Ah yes…….I think I remember doing the same.
Been there...and it was great!!
Bun E. Carlos, ladies and gentlemen. Coolest drummer ever.
You forgot one thing he coolest drummer he smoking a big ass cigar at same time he is drumming
I remember this, vividly. I was instantly captivated. I had a hard time processing what I was seeing- two very 1970s looking rockstar Gods decked out in white with long hair, the guy on guitar, looking for all the world like Huntz Hall had escape the Bowery boys and the dude on the drums… what was some tax accountant doing in a rock band? And the song. ‘We’re all alright! We’re all alright! WE’RE ALL ALRIGHT!” Fuck yeah, we were!
The drummer's name is Bun E. Carlos.
@@crlaw75my son, his name is Bun, son
Visually, Cheap Trick was like no other rock band that we had seen before, and they played up the contrast on their early album covers: two rock gods, and two nerdy-looking guys in the same band. It was as if the cool guys from school and the geeks got together and somehow created a killer band. You can imagine the scene, like in the movie Welcome to the Dollhouse:
Robin and Tom: Dudes, you have to help us with our homework, 'cause if we flunk out, our dads are going to kill us.
Rick and Bun E.: OK we'll do it, but you have to agree to be in our band.
😀🎸
Yeah man I feelz ya...I totally forgot cheap trick was in this bill...but they and REO were the tightest and best sounding bands hands down.
So many tickets for Stolen thunder😂..Classic!.
The high school principal playing drums whilst smoking a bud is epic.
i remember seeing this when it was broadcast during the height of the "live at budokan" album mania. bun e. carlos was the coolest drummer ever with that cigarette dangling from his mouth. dressed like an insurance salesman,drumming like a madman. great times!
Sometimes I see performances of him and think that maybe Townshend and Daltry should have brought him in instead of Kenny Anderson, after Keith Moon died.
Just think at the cameramen knew how to shoot this.
So much was missed.
It's still classic and priceless
@@AlmostReady504 I was thinking the same thing. The broadcast director didn't want to miss a single Zander moment.
And he's smashing the drums hard here! I too think Bun E. is the coolest looking cat behind the drums
@@Genious.That would have felt RIGHT ! 🥁
I remember when that chorus started blasting out of our radios in the 1970s: "Mommy's all right. Daddy's all right. They just seem a little weird.". And i thought wow, someone just wrote a My Generation for my generation. I still get that same rush every time i hear this song. I love Cheap Trick!
They're really good. They are a lot healthier in message than when I heard them as a teen.
I was less smart then.
"Surrender" is actually inspired by a different song from The Who: "The Kids Are Alright". It also inspired The Offspring song "The Kids Aren't Alright".
Yup 😊❤
Still have Cheap Trick at Budokan on vinyl, a classic then and now. Great band.
へ～そうなんだ❗武道館ライブのLP持っている自分はなんてすごいんだろう😮けど😢まだ、レコード針を落としてないんだ😅
IMO this is one of the greatest rock and roll songs in history
A perfect expression of teenage love, lust, angst, innocence, and joy.
Fantastic!
The drummer definitely had me cracking up when they first showed him with his business outfit smoking a cig, and KILLING it on drums.
2:03 is also a highlight where he used that puff of nicotine and transcended!
I was fortunate to be a teen when midnight Special was on!
The first time i saw Cheap Trick, they were backing up Kiss. I loved Cheap Trick so much, the next day they were signing autographs at a local record store so i went down and got autographs and picked up their "In Color...and Black and White" record as well as their first one. Elo Kiddies!
I am a die hard Kiss fan, original lineup of course!!! Peter and Ace are frickin legends and my favorites, but Cheap Trick opened for them for a year and a half and what amazing shows!!!!
I can remember keg parties and listening to lots of Cheap Trick.
One of America's greatest rock bands, and one of rock's most underrated guitarists. God bless Cheap Trick.
That drummer is killing it!!!!
and smoking like he don't give any fucks
Bun E Carlos was the man! Rick Nielsen with his crazy guitars.
This is from that 1 episode with all heavy bands in it. They didn't do it again. I guess a lot of people couldn't handle that in 1978.
The Midnight Special was such an awesome show! Saw so many great bands, playing great songs, “ live”!
Thank You Paul, Burt
Good music never gets old; it just keeps getting better and better.
One of the most underrated rock bands ever. Great concerts they put on
Basically a power trio. Takes a lot of touring and playing together to get that much sound out of three instruments and two voices.
@@Music--ng8cd 3 voices .
One of the most powerful, triumphant rock singles of all time. Cheap Trick was such a fun band. And Heaven Tonight is one of the best power-pop albums of all time, bar none. One of the great exports from the Midwest.
What a performance!
They were so good!!
When my parents went out for the evening, my brother would crank the stereo! I can remember Cheap Trick being in the lineup.
One of my favorite songs was "The Flame."
Good memories and great music!!
Happy Monday... thank you for sharing! 💖
So good!
My favorite song of all time. This is such a great performance.
Bun E. Carlos with the cig- fucking epic.
I never got into Cheap Trick back in the day. But they're definitely ahead of their time.
"Rolling numbers, rock and rolling
Got my Kiss records out"
True then. True now.
Rock on yall!🤘😎🤘
Brings back memories of my high school days! A great era for music…
Drumming fills while smoking a cigarette is priceless.
Oh Hell Yes!!!! I love Cheap Trick! One of the best live bands ever.
Live at Budokan. All those girlies hyped up and screaming. American teenage girls wanted CheapTrick and we all bought that album. I did. Wore it out. I want YOU to want ME!
Bun E Carlos is a freaking legend!
I have seen Cheap Trick in 20,000 seat arenas and 3,500 seat theaters. The last time I saw them people were there with their kids. One little dude near the front (we were all near the front as it was a small venue in Indiana that they did not sell out) was so excited that he caught Rick's attention. So Rick runs off stage and gets a publicly photo. He and the rest of the band sign the photo and Rick gives it to a guy right next to the stage. The guy didn't pass the photo on fast enough so Rick says point blank "Don't be a dick. That is for the kid." of course the guy passed it back.
I thought that was very cool of Rick.
Fantastic! Had me boppin around! Love Cheap Trick!! They're so great with live performances, like at Budokan! 🙌🎶😎
So good!
This was from the best Midnight Special of all time. Cheap Trick, AC/DC, Golden Earring…and what’s his name….oh yeah Nugent.
Ted Nugent's 1st annual Rock and Roll Extravaganzo. There was never a 2nd Annual.
Don't forget Kiss doing the masterpiece Black Diamond on the midnight special!!! ✨️
Rock an Roll
Don't disgrace Cheap Trick by lumping them in with the Motor City Moron...
Bun E. Carlos is such an iconic drummer
Rick Nielsen is one of the nicest Rock Star I've meet.
And his guitar collection is stuff of legend.
I met him in 2018 and would agree with you!
Yeah but I doubt that Hamer explorer is one of them. Did you see how far he threw that thing into the audience at the end?
@@joerod0 No doubt caught by a waiting roadie, planned in advance as part of the show.
@@crapple009 So you think he caught it? It's not like catching a baseball. Even if he did catch it I'm sure one night it hit the floor and shattered the neck beyond repair.
@@joerod0 So you think he didn't catch it? If it had been a miss and it had actually shattered, it would surely have would have gone down aong time ago in the annals of Cheap Trick history as 'the one that bit the dust'. Especially as Nielsen's a guitar freak/collector, he would have mentioned it by now or by anyone who would have witnessed such a spectacle.
This is the song that made me graduate from The Monkees and kid records to Kiss, AC/DC, and, of course, Cheap Trick. One of the most important songs in my own life. Ended up playing it in sets with my own band for the better part of 25 years. Whipped this one out on a self-financed tour of England in front of a large hall filled with Birmingham teenagers and they tore the place up. That was in 2003. Damn.
What stage presence. One of the best singles ever written. Without a doubt, Cheap Trick is about as good as it gets for a live rock band.
Great band, wonderful song 🎵 🎶 👌 ❤️ 😅 😅😊
That 12 string bass !!!! Drum performance stellar!
The drummer is going ham the whole time
Perfect key change to go with the lyrics "What ever happened to all this season's losers of the year? " LOVE IT !
We were all young once
So lucky to be Alive then!
Brilliant!!!!! I remember the first time I saw these guys doing I Want You To Want Me on the UK's Old Grey Whistle Test. Bought the record the next day. I also saw them many years later (now also many years ago!) in Nottingham Uk with Roy Wood coming on to play California Man - outstanding!!!! This is an amazing archive!!!
I laughed at the end when he said "Coke adds life to the midnight special" 😮
Robin was a sharp dressed man 🤍🤍
Yep, a Bryan Ferry acolyte..
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Wow, Bun E. Carlos....
My 15th birthday, Cheap Trick were so good, like The Cars
😎👍the Bun e. Carlos Experience!!!
Best part of these Midnight Special vault releases is that we are getting rare performances from these artists in their prime. Live in Budokan was the first LP I ever bought. Great album!
What an insane performance by Cheap Trick! This footage looks and sounds amazing!
Man... I miss my youth. When people could actually play.
people can still play now but that music doesn't make it to the radio/tv unfortunately.
Rick Nelson and his guitar army. That's what rock and roll is about folks...
If anyone ever asks you what rock and roll is you show them this and say “This…this is rock and roll goddammit!!!! This is rock and roll!!!!!”
Yes!!!!!
Just say...Saturday November 24, 1978....that is rock n roll
If Surrender had been released in 1974, I would not have graduated high school. I was close enough to quitting school to play guitar as it was.
(:
18 years old back when this was on, great songs from these guys, always on the radio for good reason. Thank you for memories
I barely remember seeing them at the Waverly beach ballroom in Beloit Wisconsin in 1977. Just after they released their first album. I think my ears are still ringing to this very day from standing next to Rick Neilson's amp all night while on Acid.
Me too, except it was a UFO/ACDC ticket
@@tonystevenson26 Dang, those were two great bands to see. As I saw on a tee shirt once: I may be old but I saw all the good bands!
Rock & music will never be this great again, imagine seeing this live!
Imagine getting all these huge bands to come on tv, live, today.......would never happen
So happy you are uploading the clips of Cheap Trick on Midnight Special-epic--what a band!
One of the first songs to break the Disco stranglehold.
Definitely was a pushback to Disco.
I remember watching this when it was first on TV. I was 15 years old. I had just kicked a two year long heroin habit in the summer and due to many weird circumstances I was out of school until the start of the year. I remember watching this and feel empowered by the whole “we’re all alright part” of the song. It was cathartic. Cheap Trick were such a great band back then. I so loved the Midnight Special when I was growing up… There weren’t a lot of choices on the TV back then (we didnt get cable until 1979 or 1980). My brother went to school with Wolfman Jack’s son. So I’d see the Wolfman at some school functions where there were PTA meetings, etc. ✌🏽❤️🎸🍄
Every member of this band is working the audience. Great song and great band. I was 19 when Budokan hit the radio and played non-stop all Summer. Perfect.
Aww sweet Robin Zander. ❤the good old days of the great 70’s !
Rock and roll personified.
Tom Petersson; thank you for introducing and pioneering the 12-string bass guitar! You are a living legend.
I'm super happy to see these guys on your channel! They were the rave when I was in high school, saw them in concert & they were amazing. Bun E. Carlos could knock the skins off those drums & Rick Nielsen was a pure blast, especially live! Thank you!
Awesome! Cheap Trick was one of the early bands that made me at 11 years old (in 1980) fall in love with rock n roll. I vividly remember just staring at the Dream Police LP while it was playing and how fun it was to my ears and eyes. Just perfect pop songs and harmonies.with a healthy dose of dirty rock n roll!
Saw them twice in their heydey...they were one of the best I've seen live
I first saw them in the early 80's ('81 or '82?); have seen them twice since and plan on going again...they are still one of the greatest live bands!
This song is as relevant as it is today I remember ❤😊
Wow!!! Amazing sound and energy.
Now theres a REAL Rock n Roll Band!!
This might have been the taping I was at. If so, AC/DC was there too. I was mesmerized.
The ever Iconic Bun Carlos on the Drums The Cig, white shirt and Tie !!! Unique Style very underrated, as was the Band, many people never new "Cheap Trick" had Hit off the Original top Gun Sound track, "Mighty Wings". it never appeared as cut on any of their albums,
I saw them just weeks after this aired. God i miss those days😢
A great song that seems to never age. Cheap Trick had a unique sound, as a kid I never knew how tricky the Bass player for this band is in filling out such a big sound. I was too distracted looking at Rick Nielsen antic's on stage and his impressive custom guitars. The magic is the Bass player Tom Petersson
For sure that 12-string bass gives them their signature sound...
I saw them live and they really delivered the energy. Robin Zander's a very underated vocalist.
One of the greatest bands of all time, from fucking Rockford, how is it possible?
I watched this the night it aired. I still love Cheap Trick and loved watching Midnight Special back then.
True Talent.🌟
ABSOLUTELY LEGENDARY PERFORMANCE 😮
The drummer.... full on from go to whoa, awesome!
Bun E Carlos.
I Fucking love Cheap Trick. I the camera direction.
love this song! It's great fun to play on guitar!!
They cranked!
I was lucky enough to see these guys play at MIT in the 80s, Rick Nielsen even had his 5 neck guitar...
I was fortunate to have seen them twice in concert before Zander became folically challenged. 😮😂
Finally remastered vids from the Special!
Stroh's Brewery/WRIF Block Party weekend in the 80's they rocked it.
Love Cheap Trick; Rick is so underrated it's criminal.
All Live BaBy!!😁👍🏻👍🏻
Cool flashback memories of a great era in music. Same year saw Cheap Trick very first time, during my teens. While residing in California. This song had heavy rotation airplay on the local rock stations too.
Incredible. The repeated "We're all alright" choruses at the end are just chills & goosebumps.
Come for the music; stay for Bun E. Carlos’ cigarette never leaving his lips during the whole song
That drummer is up on things.
And Ric just sweating profusely, lol! Must be the stage lights..
Just saw them front row several months ago…. Still slaying a full house like it was yesteryear.🖖🏽
They were a great band back in the day I love their dream police album