![]() ![]() ![]() They had generated some buzz with their first two LPs Cheap Trick and In Color, but they were not household names. Cheap Trick used the live album gambit well. If all those folks knew how great this band was, you didn’t want to be the naysayer left out in the cold. ![]() After all, if all those screaming people on the record were enjoying the group that much, they must be pretty damn exciting. First, it could create an excitement about the band that no studio album could duplicate. Still, the well-rendered live album could do a couple of things. Live albums were huge in the latter half of the 1970s, which is incomprehensible on some level since the bands almost always concentrated on reproducing, as closely as possible, the studio versions of their songs, the only exception being the insertion of many extra minutes of guitar soloing on a few tracks. It was originally released in 1978, a couple years after the live album to end all live albums, Frampton Comes Alive. Cheap Trick at Budokan must surely qualify as one of the music industry’s biggest cash cows.
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