The best thing about this video for me... is how much fun they were having playing this stellar performance... you see it in their eyes, and in their smiles... they were "killin' it" and having a blast while doing so... doesn't get much better than that for a touring rock band...
Have never, ever seen Robin look like he is having as much fun as he is having in this. He seems to just be having the time of his life up there. he also seems really in tune to the audience.
.....CRIMINALLY underrated, to this DAY - Message From The Country, is a near-MASTERPIECE (and more or less, the TRUE Electric Light Orchestra debut.....)
New Years Eve 1979, Los Angeles, The Fabulous Forum, 2nd row, front and center. One of the very best shows I saw in the 70's. You'd hear something on the radio, you'd get the record, and a lot of times it was hit and miss when performed live in your face. Not these guys. SOLID EVERY TIME.
I always thought Robin Zander was a man of a million voices...plus he has a son and a daughter both named Robin Zander and he's stayed married to a Playboy Playmate for right at 30 years.... he's basically a super-hero without the cape.
In 1979...everyone was going disco. The Stones went disco with "Emotional Rescue." Kiss went disco with "I was made for Lovin' You." Hell they even tried to take the Beatles to disco with the Bee Gees and the "Sgt Peppers" movie. Everyone went disco EXCEPT for Cheap Trick who kept on rockin'.
This song was written by a guy called Roy Wood who was huge in the UK in the early 70's in various bands. The "California" reference in the song title was down to an area in the city of Derby in the English, East Midlands where Roy Wood was born called California.
Imo, THE best live rock album. All the great parties, early 80's used to play this. Saw them in London 5/6 times. Intro...'Epic recording artists Cheap Trick', followed by Hello There...emblazoned in my mind forever.
Grew up not too far from Rockford, Ill. . Greatest group of all time (IMO). Rick is one of the greatest guitarist, Robin's vocals are awesome, Tom is a Master on the bass, and Bun E is such an underrated drummer Only music I listened to in highschool and 40+ years later still my preferred music to listen to.
You either loved them or hated them. They were divisive. I saw them for the first time at Kiel Opera House in St. Louis in 1978 (3500 seats...maybe...first concert without my mother). Ken Burns should do a documentary on them!
Celebrity theater Phoenix AZ? I was there too! I believe that was in the round too. Only time I went to a show there. Ushers were @$$#0!e$. Show was great as usual. Saw them 2 years earlier in a community college theater with only 100 or so people. It was Illinois and way below zero. They did two shows. Stayed for both. Got some picks and a harmonica that Bun E. used during a solo break from the kit. Haven't seen them since the 25th anniversary show in Rockford. My hearing probably can't take it anymore.
Same here..driving around town in my friends mother’s Camaro.. Surrender, and Van Halen rattling the paper core speakers while dreaming of owning a Porsche 924. Sleeping out for KISS and Cheap Trick tickets that cost $7.50. Wondering who I would ask to prom and what college I would get into?
@Nathaniel Adams Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and Roy Wood! Nobody can beat them. Don't even try. Yeah rock on Birmingham! ( Cheap Trick took a good stab at it and they were good. But ummmmmm sorry. The Move got you beat!)
Just emptied a second restaurant kitchen quality extinguisher and watched it come back in the window it was climbing out of. A hundred yards away from the kitchen it came from.
from day one I think Cheap Trick would play your garage for a few people and completely blow away the neighborhood even the cops would show up for a good time 😜
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The best thing about this video for me... is how much fun they were having playing this stellar performance... you see it in their eyes, and in their smiles... they were "killin' it" and having a blast while doing so... doesn't get much better than that for a touring rock band...
Have never, ever seen Robin look like he is having as much fun as he is having in this. He seems to just be having the time of his life up there. he also seems really in tune to the audience.
A concert in Japan by a group from Chcago covers a song about California by a legendary group from Birmingham Englsnd
Suburbs of Chicago, but close enough.
@@publicanimal ROCK ford
First class stuff !
@@publicanimal Rockford is NOT a suburb! The suburbs stop before Elgin
Rockford, IL baby! 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome remake of "The Move" classic.
“ Goin to a party meet me on after school” God how I wish I could go back to those days….
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Written by one of the best of the 60s and 70s music. SIR ROY WOOD.
Amazing songwriter. Amazing musician.
THE MOVE wrote so many catchy pop-rock songs -- this one given a great reading by Cheap Trick.
.....CRIMINALLY underrated, to this DAY - Message From The Country, is a near-MASTERPIECE (and more or less, the TRUE Electric Light Orchestra debut.....)
Perfect rock band; walls of sound, great vocals and harmonies and great stage presence
Best sounding live concert ever.
How can this have only 11k views? Among the best live rock n roll performance bands of all time. And a sick tune to boot.
11,000 views because everyone can't be as cool as a cheap trick fan
Amazing band, amazing song !
It's at 158k now
People just don't know what good rock is 🥴
The magnetism of Robin Zander, the charisma of Rick Nielsen ... and the tunes!
Knocks me out how Robin sings like that while effortlessly playing rhythm guitar right in the pocket
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New Years Eve 1979, Los Angeles, The Fabulous Forum, 2nd row, front and center. One of the very best shows I saw in the 70's. You'd hear something on the radio, you'd get the record, and a lot of times it was hit and miss when performed live in your face. Not these guys. SOLID EVERY TIME.
I was born and raised in California and consider this my own personal theme song. Thank you Cheap Trick. Rock on boys!
Written by a Brit, though! And recorded first by British group, The Move! 🤣
the "move" wrote this... if you have not seen the video, its a hoot ! (jeff lynne from E L O and a few others are in it)
I love you so much Robin
Look up message from the country by the move - awesome song
Me too! Born and raised in San Jose, just like the song says!
That VOICE!!!!!
ravello99, I KNOW right? AMAZING! The range is unmatchable, (my opinion alone probably, but, oh well, lol)
I always thought Robin Zander was a man of a million voices...plus he has a son and a daughter both named Robin Zander and he's stayed married to a Playboy Playmate for right at 30 years.... he's basically a super-hero without the cape.
Robin also has two older children, Holland and Ian. Holland also has an amazing voice and range like her dad.
One of the loudest bands I ever saw OUTSTANDING
Your comment just made me think of the great quote in Spinal Tap- “World’s Loudest Band.” 🤣lol.
Steel Wheels Tour...
Living Color opened for the Stones....
In a Downpour....
Absolutely the Loudest Power Trio I've heard...
@@nicknixon6198 ... Any motorhead show
@@ralphtom3431 miss lemmy
@@nicknixon6198shure do
Roin Zander.... great vocals and a classy Rock Star...love Cheap Trick
Excellent cover of The Move's song. 👍
In 1979...everyone was going disco. The Stones went disco with "Emotional Rescue." Kiss went disco with "I was made for Lovin' You." Hell they even tried to take the Beatles to disco with the Bee Gees and the "Sgt Peppers" movie. Everyone went disco EXCEPT for Cheap Trick who kept on rockin'.
You are right, Cheap Trick rocks, but I do love Emotional Rescue🤷♀️
And zep.....they never went disco
Don't forget Acca Dacca who put out Highway to Hell in '79
Zep flirted with dance moves in the latter years.@@davidcollins6455
The cars
Seriously underrated....
They are here. ALWAYS been here
@@nicknixon6198 oh no way, they are loved and respected by every player in every band in rock.
One of the best, hands down, rock m roll symphonies of all time.
This song was written by a guy called Roy Wood who was huge in the UK in the early 70's in various bands. The "California" reference in the song title was down to an area in the city of Derby in the English, East Midlands where Roy Wood was born called California.
Pure kickass music, as I fondly remember it!👌👍🏻
America's premier Rock and Roll band!
Imo, THE best live rock album. All the great parties, early 80's used to play this. Saw them in London 5/6 times. Intro...'Epic recording artists Cheap Trick', followed by Hello There...emblazoned in my mind forever.
Grew up not too far from Rockford, Ill. . Greatest group of all time (IMO). Rick is one of the greatest guitarist, Robin's vocals are awesome, Tom is a Master on the bass, and Bun E is such an underrated drummer Only music I listened to in highschool and 40+ years later still my preferred music to listen to.
Bun E is the American Ringo.
You either loved them or hated them. They were divisive. I saw them for the first time at Kiel Opera House in St. Louis in 1978 (3500 seats...maybe...first concert without my mother). Ken Burns should do a documentary on them!
This has got to be one of the greatest videos shared on this platform. Great quality and so iconic. Love this.
It’s amazing to think that this was from 1978. One of my buddies played this constantly.
Man THIS was the party song!
It all came together on this tour. Slogging it out in bars and bowling alleys in the Midwest, and then...Budokan!
Originally released in 1972 by The Move, who later had hits as ELO, you must give credit where its due.
The best band ever!!!
As a kid I read the credits on heaven tonight thinking R. Wood was Ron Wood 😄 but I Later thank Cheap Trick for getting me into The Move
I wish I could have seen this 40 (!!) years ago.... Oh wait--I did. Celebrity Theater -Phoenix Jan. 7.1979
Damn you are old. Caught them I. July 79. In Duluth, MN. The Romantics opened up. You
Watch it in 2x speed it’s faster and the crowd screams like a helecopter
My uncle took me to see em in summer of 1979 when I was 9 at the Chicago Amphitheater
Celebrity theater Phoenix AZ? I was there too! I believe that was in the round too. Only time I went to a show there. Ushers were @$$#0!e$. Show was great as usual. Saw them 2 years earlier in a community college theater with only 100 or so people. It was Illinois and way below zero. They did two shows. Stayed for both. Got some picks and a harmonica that Bun E. used during a solo break from the kit. Haven't seen them since the 25th anniversary show in Rockford. My hearing probably can't take it anymore.
My favorite CT song ever! Sounds better the louder you crank it!
Bun killing it. Wish they’d show his chops more.
Robin Zander has still got me rockin! LOVE 💕 MY ROCKFORD BOYS! 🎉❤
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This band doesn't get the reconditioned it deserves 💯
you mean recognition?
@@minnihapy2722He does. And I agree.
This is quite the lil rock N rollin' lil tune right here in'nt? :)
1978 Boston garden I lost a good portion of my hearing at their show lol.✌️
Give me a time machine and I'm going to this concert as well as the Ramones at the Rainbow.
This is like time travel!
I am 61 years old and this so g was at a great time in my life :)
Rick, you rock!!!
Same here..driving around town in my friends mother’s Camaro.. Surrender, and Van Halen rattling the paper core speakers while dreaming of owning a Porsche 924. Sleeping out for KISS and Cheap Trick tickets that cost $7.50. Wondering who I would ask to prom and what college I would get into?
Great band great musicians
One of the great rock and roll voices.
If I'm not mistaken, Tom introduced the 12-string bass.
John Paul Jones of Zeppelin played one. Tom worked with the designer and manufacturer on his.
The best ❤❤
"The best band I ever produced who didn't come from Liverpool" (Sir George Martin).
yep...i read that as well. :)
uuuummm never knew that . Dig this song
@Nathaniel Adams Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and Roy Wood! Nobody can beat them. Don't even try. Yeah rock on Birmingham! ( Cheap Trick took a good stab at it and they were good. But ummmmmm sorry. The Move got you beat!)
Great quote!
Best rendition
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@@brittdanielrocks The most famous office that had ever communicated with me. Now I can die peacefully.
Southern Cal baby!!!! Surfer dudes!
Amazing musicians, amazing song. Red hot stuff !!
Awesome 😎👍😎👍😎👍👍
Going to a place where the jive is REALLY cool!
nailed it !
Saw them in 79 when they opened up for KISS.
I actually love this song I'm from New York City
Originally written by Roy Wood of The Move. Cheap Trick's version kicks it up a notch or 3.
Awesome
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0:01 how it feels to chew 5 gum
01:00 stimulate your senses
Love that so much 😂
Like both versions
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I'm a California Man too. I'm so simple for you to admit it
Yaaaaa Haaaaaa!!!!!!✌️❤️😁🎭
Iconic Cheap Trick fizzy ? rythmn guitar sound
My Jam
According to nielsen himself, they were "just 4 knuckleheads from illinois" lol..... Hardly.
Hottest band ever in history of rock and roll.
this is how it gets done.
I really am a California Man now living in Japan.
Terry Glaze from Pantera loves this song from Cheap Trick. Tommy is looking hot.
So is Robin.
Me too buddy
Why was this song left off the album?
great cover! Originally done by Jeff Lynne and the Move by roy wood. Check it out!
I just noticed they go into the riff from Brontosaurus (another old Move song) for a few seconds, after the guitar solo!
Good sound from back rhe
Yes, I Was There 🎵🎵🎵
Did you hear screaming
Me and madshenans puts a timer for question yes or no
Wow absolutely cool
Rock and roll
I SAW THIS GUY'S AT THE LES BOIS FAIR GROUNDS BOISE IDAHO 1980 WORLD 🌎 TOUR
alright!
❤ Bun E
I miss Bun E. Carlos...........
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This sounds like Eric Hovde’s theme song! No calling that guy a Wisco man lol.
Is Robin’s guitar plugged in?
Robin Zander was a babe!!!!
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Tom is pretty hot too!
+Mytube777 true!!
my sister agrees with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes he was a hot babe!
I literally said how it feels to chew 5 gum
Massive.
Just emptied a second restaurant kitchen quality extinguisher and watched it come back in the window it was climbing out of. A hundred yards away from the kitchen it came from.
Interesting, this has a different tag at the end of the song to the version on the record.
from day one I think Cheap Trick would play your garage for a few people and completely blow away the neighborhood even the cops would show up for a good time 😜
Ｉ like it 💥 I'm
カリフォルニアマン😃😆
Bun E. does all the work and get 2:57 and 3:42 for it.
Roy Wood!
See kids? This is what happens when you don't have a screen to stare at and you're bored.
Bun king of the Luddies
愛子様のお通りだ。貴様ら頭が高いぞ。そこをどこだと思っとるか。
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Im a Florida Keys gurl...get that guitar a rocking..
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CHEAP TRICK como quiia qu venga un concierto maa qui en GUUste
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Dam Tose Years Robin Stole Everyone s Girls & Sisters
1.1x speed for The Move experience
2x speed is quicker put it on XD
That’s right!
Ron Wood of the Stones wrote this song.
No. Roy Wood, not Ron...
Yes Roy Wood from the move
Similar to the same riff of the time warp. Same chords too. Hmmmm 🤔
Tom is a total babe
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Cheap trick is such a weird looking band