![]() I bought the vinyl albums together, a year after the fact, the way most of us did when "Surrender" blasted onto Midwestern radios in the summer of `78. The two albums are of a piece to me now, with short `70's running time and now home-burned onto one CD. "I'm thirty but I feel like sixteen," Rick says in Robin's voice. It came out maybe ten minutes after the self-titled first album, which confused DJs by labeling its sides "Side A" and "Side 1" and featured the dirty old man classic "Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School." The producers of "Dazed And Confused", a movie that gets the feel of the era right, lost a great opportunity when they failed to make that the theme song for Matthew McConaghay's character. Manic guitarist Rick Nielsen, the songwriting brains of the outfit, had his own mismatched dork fashion sense or lack thereof, complete with Wisconsincentric ephemera like a Point Beer button.Ĭheap Trick In Color was near-perfect, its only flaw being its brevity. Carlos looked just like my eighth grade science teacher, and it wasn't because my teacher looked like a rock star. On the back, the two nerds on children's bicycles, with the subtitle "and in black and white." Drummer Bun E. Zander and bassist Tom Petersson on the front cover, on choppers, with their rock star manes. They cut a unique bifurcated figure in Dazed and Confused era rock, best illustrated by the second album cover, Cheap Trick In Color. No one rocked a `70s-cut three piece suit like the lead singer of Cheap Trick. ![]() ![]() When I was fifteen I wanted to have Robin Zander's hair. ![]()
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