Cheap Trick’s ‘Live at the Whisky 1977’

"The main reason why they dazzled so many crowds is because they were (and still are) an explosively exciting rock band who’d honed their skills the Beatles-in-Hamburg way, playing four or five or six hours a night to drunk and/or indifferent audiences — and these four shows capture the end of that chapter. Recorded during a break in the sessions for their second album, “In Color” (which included the limp studio version of their first and biggest hit, “I Want You to Want Me”), a couple of weeks after these shows the group would begin a summer-long tour supporting Kiss, playing arenas on a nightly basis and getting even better (anyone seeking evidence should check here and here). After 1977, Cheap Trick would never be a bar band again." READ MORE