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by Gary Barker
Battalion Staff
Guess what? Cheap Trick was
lyper. Guess what? Cheap Trick
as rea//y hyper. And it was con-
,gious.
It may have been cold outside
rhursday night, but inside G.
iollie White Coliseum there
vasn’t a dry underarm. Cheap
Trick — that zany, pubescent-
looking, power pop group from
he Midwest — took a packed
louse, partially excited from an
idequate warm-up band, and
iept them on their feet for a solid
our and a half.
The warm-up band for the
how was Novo Combo, an aver-
ge high-tech band mainly com-
of ex-session players,
s’ovo Combo was no bigo dealo
mt they had enough to get the
ow started. The group had
ifficient harmonies and no
re a vasted notes, but little stage pre-
icnce.
■ However, Cheap Trick —
specially Rick Nielsen, the
lands lead guitarist and song-
vriter — more than compell
ed for Novo Combo's lack of
lersonality.
With his almost non-existent
lairand customary baseball cap,
ilielsen hardly looks the part of a
n’ roller. But as he careened
iround the stage, dashing off
uitar licks as if they were shor-
hand, it became obvious that
le’s an excitable, rambunctious
ind talented entertainer.
Cheap Trick opened with
Hello There,” their traditional
:all to order and then went
itraightinto “California Man,” a
lousing song that invited the au-
lience to a parly.
And the party was loud, but
the group justified the volume.
When lead singer Robin Zander’s
neck muscles strained as he
screamed “yeah, yeah, yeah" at
theendof the Beatles’ “Day Trip
per,” it was clear that volume and
rock ’n’ roll are unalterably syno-
nomous.
Zander’s voice was well-tuned
all evening. He rarely missed a
note and his powerful voice filled
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Cheap Trick’s Robin Zander
staff photo by John Ryan
the coliseum even when he was
unaccompanied.
Complementing Zander and
Nielsen were Jon Brant, the
group’s new bass player, and Bun
E. Carlos, drummer. Carlos and
Brant provided a solid rhythm
backing and kept the songs on
course even when Nielsen got
carried away with his Ted Nu
gent-like antics. Magic Christian,
keyboard player and back-up
vocalist, also provided back-up,
but he was kept hidden behind a
row of speakers.
T he group changed up their
tunes enough to make them in
teresting, but kept them close
enough to their albums to keep
the audience satisfied — and en
tertained. They were animated
and theatrical — Nielsen punc
tuating his guitar riffs by throw
ing guitar picks into the audi
ence, Zander grimacing and
whispering at appropriate times.
Zander was the ultimate tease,
taking advantage of his Tiger
Beat idol good looks to captivate
the females in the audience.
Once, carrying a 12-string acous
tic guitar, he came out on stage
and played the opening chords to
the Kinks’ “Lola,” only to stop in
mid-song and play the group’s
latest hit, “If You Want My
Love.”
After a standing ovation, the
group came back for two encores
and sent the crowd away chant
ing “we’re all alright, we’re all
alright.” And it was alright. Real
ly alright.
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