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Why I Actually Didn’t Like Some of Those Huge ’70s Records

Why I Actually Didn’t Like Some of Those Huge ’70s Records

Cheap Trick recorded ‘At Budokan’ 45 years ago this month, creating another in a string of LPs that were simply everywhere back then.

Playin’ the Changes With Tom Petty, Aerosmith + Cheap Trick: Shadows in Stereo

Playin’ the Changes With Tom Petty, Aerosmith + Cheap Trick: Shadows in Stereo

Often over-looked albums by Tom Petty, Aerosmith and Cheap Trick are turning 40 next year. But why wait for a rock ‘n’ roll re-evaluation?

Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick (1977); We’re All Alright! (2017): Shadows in Stereo

Cheap Trick – Cheap Trick (1977); We’re All Alright! (2017): Shadows in Stereo

Cheap Trick’s ‘We’re All Alright!’ does what so few late-career albums are able to do: tap into what made a band great in the first place.

Sammy Hagar, Don Felder + others, Heavy Metal: Music From The Motion Picture (1981)

Sammy Hagar, Don Felder + others, Heavy Metal: Music From The Motion Picture (1981)

An enjoyable compilation capturing a specific time, ‘Heavy Metal: Music From the Motion Picture’ arrived just before rock and pop became mechanical.

Fuse, with Cheap Trick’s Rick Neilsen and Tom Petersson – Fuse (1970): Forgotten series

Fuse, with Cheap Trick’s Rick Neilsen and Tom Petersson – Fuse (1970): Forgotten series

Before there was Cheap Trick, there was Sick Man Of Europe, and before there was Sick Man Of Europe, there was Fuse.

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Something Else! sneak peek: Red Dragon Cartel, “Feeder” from Red Dragon Cartel (2014)

Since the death of vocalist Ray Gillen and the end of Badlands, we haven’t heard much from Jake E. Lee. You May Also Like: Lucas Lee – ‘Lowered Expectations’ (2018) Butcher Brown, “Truck Fump” from ‘Encore’ (2021): Something Else! sneak peek The Lickerish Quartet, “Snollygoster Goon,” from ‘Threesome Vol. 2’Read More

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‘He was unsure of himself’: Jack Douglas remembers tentative return by the Beatles’ John Lennon in 1980

Jack Douglas, who produced the final album issued in John Lennon’s lifetime, says the former Beatles star was so nervous about returning to music in 1980 that he initially had Douglas rehearse a band without him. You May Also Like: ‘John Lennon 80: The Last Days in the Life,’ byRead More

Deep Cuts: John Lennon’s ‘I Found Out,’ ‘I’m Losing You,’ ‘Out the Blue,’ others

Deep Cuts: John Lennon’s ‘I Found Out,’ ‘I’m Losing You,’ ‘Out the Blue,’ others