Cheap Trick-Cheap Trick At Budokan (1978)


 Artist: Cheap Trick

Title: Cheap Trick At Budokan

Label:  Epic

Format: LP

Cat:  FE 35795

Year of Release: 1978

Country and Year of Edition: US 1979  Terre Haute Pressing Gatefold

Sell Price: $5.99 VG+/VG 9/30/22 spine wear, insert included, inner sleeve missing

Discogs Last Sold: 9/30/22 VG+/VG+ $5.99

Low: $2.00   G+/VG

Median: $5.99

Average: $9.21

High: $28.99 NM/NM

Current low price: $2.00

Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26

Have/Want: 840/78

Where Sold:  Wichita Falls, TX

Time it took to sell:  7 years

Where and When Purchased: used  That' Entertainment early 80's

Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A

Sad To See It Go: No

Since Cheap Trick At Budokan sold in tandem with yesterday's One on One, I figured I'd spend a little time on this classic.  Bob Dylan used Budokan to shoot for reimagining himself as Neil Diamond.  Cheap Trick made it a serious-joke all the way to the upper end of the charts.

I never played Budokan as much as Heaven Tonight or Dream Police or later on the first one, but I know it well.  Now it may very well take it's place in my head as the best of them all, popularity be damned.  Only "Surrender" from Heaven Tonight and "Need Your Love" from the forthcoming Dream Police made the cut of the two monoliths.

"I Need Your Love" utters Robin Zander.  To emphasize he repeats "I NEED your LOVE!!!" to the shrieking Japanese throngs with the urgency of requesting an emergency bathroom key for the second time.  The 19 song sets at Nippon Budokan were chopped down to a single album in the age of the double.  Later edition compiled the left-out material and restored the live running order.  If you look at the set list, side one is culled from the first 12 songs.  Side 2 has 3 of the remaining 5 plus the two encores.  Encore #1, the Fats Domino cover was moved to the top of the second side and the final song of the night was "Clock Strikes Ten."

The stage patter proved to be a winning introduction for "I Want YOU To Want ME!"  The studio one never took off THIS way.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...."

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