Cheap Trick
The 50 Best Live Albums of the 1970s
The concert industry exploded in the 1970s, and the live album, a stopgap project once reserved for only the biggest artists, became a compulsory ritual and a pivotal moment for many artists. Live albums captured legendarily loud bands like The Who and The Ramones in their natural element. Once obscure regional acts like Bob Seger, KISS and Cheap Trick exploded into the mainstream with live albums. The Band, The Stooges, and Velvet Underground put their final gigs on vinyl. Jimi Hendrix, Neil Young (as his ongoing archive series shows), and Jackson Browne recorded entire sets of new songs onstage. The Grateful Dead released several official live albums (and continue to do so) that only made fans want to bootleg shows on their own more. With the 50th anniversary of a landmark live album, Th...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Cheap Trick’s Tom Petersson
Name Tom Petersson Best known for Cheap Trick, 12-string bass guitarist. Current city Nashville, TN. Really want to be in London, England. I would wander the streets aimlessly for the rest of my life. Excited about I’m always excited about recording and releasing new albums. My current music collection has a lot of I love the diverse music they play on NPR and love hearing music I would never think to listen to. I like surprises! Don’t judge me for Nothing to report about embarrassing records I like – but I probably wouldn’t mention it if I did! Preferred format CD – easier to transport. Vinyl – for reading credits. 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: 1 The Beatles (White Album)The Beatles CREDIT: Capitol Since I was a teenager in the 1960s, I heard and loved all the Beatles records in real-tim...
The Four Weirdest Bands From the 1970s
Doug Brod has always wanted to write a book about music. It makes sense. He is a former SPIN editor in chief and has worked at Atlantic Records. But Brod wanted to find an angle that “has never been covered before and would actually surprise people and shed new light on something.” He does that splendidly in They Just Seem a Little Weird: How Kiss, Cheap Trick, Aerosmith, and Starz Remade Rock and Roll. Brod has always been a fan of ‘70s hard rock bands and these four are his favorite ones. “I’ve seen Cheap Trick probably 52 times. I’ve seen KISS a number of times, and Aerosmith and Starz, I’ve seen them a lot.” After doing some research, he found the connection between these four groups. “All of them are represented in a 1978 Gene Simmons solo album. In ’78, when KISS did four solo albums...
