Cheap Trick - Cheap Trick 2008 Interview: Looking Back (from Budokan!)

I have seen CHEAP TRICK 15 times. Never ever a bad show. Hands down one of THE GREATEST ALL TIME AMERICAN BANDS

My favorite band in high school, should have been much bigger in America.

Most underrated Awesome band ever CHEAP TRICK from my hometown of Rockford Il and I am PROUD!!! I forgot how many concerts that I have been to or how many towns and states. LOVE THEM ALWAYS!!!

This would make a great Cameron Crowe movie... The Midwest meets the Far East... Maybe even the Cohen Brothers... From Jack Douglas walking into that bowling alley seeing them for the first time, Rick doing his carnival game... How they started ans all that led up to Budokan. A rock and roll underdog story

yes, cheap trick and Budokan are synonymous in this part of the world, especially for us time travelers

I actually met Robin and Bunny after their show at Whitewater. They stopped by my friend's dorm room for the post show party. When they walked in they were just so cool. It is difficult to put into words; but, I could immediatly see why they were major stars. An aura of coolness, as a phrase, doesn't quite cover it; but it's close. And another part of it was that they were very down to earth. And I mentioned that I had their first album and Bunny seemed surprised. They were my favorite band and still are!

Cheap Trick has ALWAYS BEEN FUCKIN AWESOME and here is why. 4 good muscians that jelled VERY WELL. So much chemistry

First time I saw them was with Foreigner in 70's. Met my first wife that night, she hated me..lol. Rick was quite an athlete jumping around on stage just non-stop..lol So damn stoned but I still remember it like yesterday..lol

Cheap Trick were pretty much the band that the phrase "big in Japan" was coined for. It was that level of fanaticism, plus the screaming girls in the audience that really put "CT at Budokan" over the top and made them huge both here in the states and worldwide. You can just feel that level of excitement coming through in the recording, and it's all real. No overdubs, no added audience noise. What you hear is really how it was, and the authenticity is palpable. Robin's slowed down between song banter has become iconic. I've seen more than a few bands cover "Surrender", and they always do the "This next song... is the first song... on our new album..." bit at the beginning. Budokan has to be the most well known live album ever made.

Reminds me of The Ramones, they got big everywhere except the US. Hendrix moved to the UK to find success. Sucks that so many talented people have an almost impossible job on their hands.

Great hearing this story so in detail from the musicians pov.

In 40 years,this is the best interview I ever seen with the boys.

your guys were the best of the 80's, love the fact that the Japanese embraced you. quite the awesome story. great music, great shows, excellent. dream police, classic MTV when it was worth watching.

“Alright Tokyo, are you ready Will you please welcome Epic recording artist Cheap Trick”

cheap trick was and still in my top 4 bands from back in the '80's to now, and still have every album bought back in '80's in pristine cond......thank you for decades of great tunes rick, robin, tom, and of coarse the late bun

"This is the first song off our new album". Drop the beat ! Opening for Check your Head, Beastie Boys. I am a 70's kid and Cheap Trick fan who was also a 90's music nerd. That sample of Robin's voice opening that funky lo-fi, hip-hop masterpiece brought everything full circle.

Rarely are live albums game changers. I can only think of maybe four.: The Allman Brothers at Fillmore East, Framton Comes Alive, probably James Brown At The Apollo, and Cheap Trick's Live At Budokan. The first two have technically excellent (all-around better takes than already great studio versions) versions of high points of the artist's repertoire. The Brown and Trick albums though convey the humanity of very high energy over anything technical. It's a great bonus we have these and that they are so well captured on tape. For very emotional reasons my favorite two live rock albums at Live At Fillmore East and Live At Budokan. They're polar opposites in style and that in itself weighs heavy as each does much more than it was believed to be possible for each band...and the fans. Thanks for what may be the best party live rock album ever.

GOtta love the Japanese way. This was awesome. Spent time there. yeah, this is quite accurate. good people.

i didnt know "I want you to want me" wasn't a big hit when they first performed. Thats one of my favorites! Cheers

My FIRST concert was KISS on August 24, 1977. Opening Act: Cheap Trick!