CHEAP TRICK The world's first CD release of a rare live performance from just after their debut in Japan, their first visit to the country in four years!

October 1, 2022

The world's first CD release of a rare live performance from just after their debut in Japan, their first visit to Japan in 4 years!
The 45th anniversary of their debut! The world's first CD release of the live show from 45 years ago, which was previously available only in analog and digital formats and sold out on RSD, is now available with bonus tracks only in Japan. 22 tracks from the shows at Whisky-A-Go-Go in LA on June 3 and 4, 1977. The CD features 22 tracks from their June 3 and 4, 1977 shows at LA's Whisky-A-Go-Go. Six additional bonus tracks from a show at the same venue around the same time are also included. The album captures Cheap Trick at their peak, just after their debut, the night before they made their big breakthrough with "at Budokan. Remastered by Guy Massey (engineer and mixer for Beatles reissues, Oasis, Radiohead, Ed Sheeran, etc.) from the original 16-channel 1/2-inch master tape discovered in Sony Music's master tape warehouse. The songs that would appear on the 2nd "Blue Highway" and 3rd "Heaven's Trap" before their release at this time are performed with different lyrics and arrangements from the album versions, and the classic songs that would later become standard on Raeu are also performed with different arrangements. 45 years of This is a rare live performance with perfect performance and sound, which has been revived beyond 45 years, and is available on CD only in Japan.

Commemorative disc for the band's visit to Japan
World's first CD release
Includes commentary, lyrics and bilingual translation
Included information
DISC 1
1 Hello There (06/03/1977 - Late Show)
2 Come On Come On (06/03/1977 - Late Show)
3 Oh Candy (06/04/1977 - Late Show)
4 Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace (06/03/1977 - Early Show)
5 Elo Kiddies (06/03/1977 - Early Show)
6 Hot Love (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
7 Southern Girls (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
8 Cry Cry (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
9 Big Eyes (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
10 High Roller (06/03/1977 - Early Show)
11 He's a Whore (06/03/1977 - Late Show)
12 Daddy Should Have Stayed In High School (06/03/1977 - Late Show)
13 Can't Hold On (06/03/1977 - Early Show)
14 Clock Strikes Ten (06/03/1977 - Late Show)
15 Loser (06/03/1977 - Late Show)
16 Taxman, Mr Thief (06/04/1977 - Late Show)
DISC 2
17 Ain't That a Shame (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
18 Oh Caroline (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
19 Oh Boy (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
20 You're All Talk (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
21 Auf Wiedersehen (06/04/1977 - Late Show)
22 Goodnight (06/04/1977 - Late Show)
Bonus Tracks
23 Down On the Bay (06/03/1977 - Early Show)
24 Mrs. Henry (06/04/1977 - Late Show)
25 Violins (06/04/1977 - Late Show)
26 The Ballad of T.V. Violence (I'm Not the Only Boy) (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
27 You're All Talk (06/04/1977 - Early Show)
28 Goodnight (06/04/1977 - Early Show) (Live at the Whisky, West Hollywood, CA)