Cheap Trick - WDR 13th Rockpalast Night (1983)

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Cheap Trick is an American band that enjoys international fame particularly because of their spectacular live concerts. The history of Cheap Trick is as uncommon as the band itself. Rick Nielsen, an American, and Tom Petersson, who was born in Sweden and grew up in the USA, decided in the beginning of the '70s to form a band in Europe. They played around in different line-ups and with different names throughout England, Germany and France. There, in the south, they found singer and guitarist Robin Zander, also an American and a manager that Nielsen already knew from earlier times.

Afterwards, they decided to return to the USA because they felt that the best job possibilities were there; there, (to their luck?) they found a drummer, Bun E. Carlos, who came from Venezuela. After releasing their self-produced LP in 1976, Cheap Trick played endless tours throughout the USA, sometimes doing more than 300 dates per year. Their success was not only due to the fact that they were one of the few bands that didn't take everything in rock'n'roll so seriously, but also because they always entertained the audiences with lots of action and gags.

Rick Nielsen is guitarist and writer of most of the songs and also head of the group; he not only writes good songs, but also came up with each band member's styling. Whereas Nielsen and Bun E. Carlos look more like the type of people from whom you'd probably never buy a used car, Zander and Petersson seem likeable and attractive.

1978 and '79 were successful years for Cheap Trick. A live concert at the Budokan Theater in Japan, and a live recording brought the group world-wide notices in the Hit Parade and filled concert halls. The stress associated with all this was too much for Petersson and he pulled out of the group. His successor was Jon Brant. Tick Nielsen saw to it that they had variety at live appearances. He has a strange collection of guitars which he puts into the shows at certain surprising moments without ending up looking like a poser.
Cheap Trick will be flying in from the USA especially for their appearance at the 13th Rockpalast-Festival. It's a sure bet that the band will also see to it that there will be lots of fun and surprises in Essen.

There wasn't much ado about the band and, up till 1985, they pulled themselves out of the music business, at times completely. Cheap Trick returned with the LP 'Standing on the Edge'. The grand-daddy bass player of the band, Tom Petersson, came back in 1988. Cheap Trick tours and tours and are still loved in many parts of the world, even if they are no longer as successful as before.

"Cheap Trick still lives from the tension between Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander and Bun E. Carlos. Rick Nielsen wore loud clothes ("Next position please"), and, along with the guitar in the national colors of Germany that we already knew about, he brought along a new invention with him: A guitar with five necks."…

~ rockpalastarchiv.de

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