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 Cheap TrickSilver [Video/DVD] Release Date: 2001 10 09 Label: Image Entertainment Rating:  |
Cheap Trick has been through it all: from barrooms to Budokan to barbecues to this birthday bash. And what a fiesta: the boys blow through their career catalogue, hitting the numerous high points of their 25 years as a group and nailing each crowing achievement with the precision and confidence that could only come from rockin' the house together night after night. Several guests -- some famous and some family -- show up, but the true stars are, obviously: Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson, and Bun E. Carlos. Cheap Trick is the brainstorm of colorful guitarist Nielsen, who is one of the most memorable wise-acres ever in rock, but on this night, the Master of Ceremonies diplomatically steps aside (except for wartime valentine "World's Greatest Lover" and the spellbinding train wreck "Gonna Raise Hell") and lets his cohorts shine throughout the mammoth 29-song show. One of the greatest, but unsung, voices in rock, Robin Zander's singing never needs support. His tone hardened with age, but never lost an ounce of power and still sets the standard against which all pop voices are measured. In fact, here he delivers the best version of "Voices" ever. Midway through the set, Zander proclaims he's sung enough ballads and intently begins belting out the rocky stuff. Whether snarling the incomprehensive lyrics of "You're All Talk " (while playing a mean set of maracas) or crooning "Time Will Let You Know" with his daughter, Robin, he inadvertently blows away whoever is on-stage with him. (A long-lost live version of "Johnny Be Good" reveals Zander could even out-scream Bon Scott.) Meanwhile, Petersson's full-bodied 12-string lays the bedrock for Nielson's flailing hot licks and Carlos' wavering big beat. Petersson's turn at the mic on the immortal throwaway "I Know What I Want" is always a pleasure, even though Nielsen has tortured his once-delicious solo beyond recognition. And in the end, as in the beginning, it all comes back to Carlos and the "Tusk"-like chant "Who D' King." Odd-man-out Jon Brant shows up in some kooky headgear, working it on a couple of '80s killers he worked on. Shout-along should-have-beens like "She's Tight" and "Never Had a Lot to Lose" sound good, oh so good. The poignant pop perfection of "Oh Candy" and "Tonight It's You" still resonates decades later. Like most great bands, Cheap Trick possesses two personalities, one in the studio and the other under the spotlight. In the mid-'90s, when Cheap Trick returned to the club circuit, the band didn't bring a keyboard player and each song benefited highly from the bare-bones Live at Leeds powerhouse delivery that first broke the quartet back in the '70s. Such is the case with the opening numbers here, but the deadly keys of fifth member Tod Howarth soon crash into the set. Luckily, his big-'80s chimes perfectly fit the wonderfully ridiculous "Can't Stop Falling into Love" and the Rockford Symphony orchestration accompanying grand opuses like "Stop This Game" and "World's Greatest Lover" finally frames those works as the masterpieces they are. =Silver signals the end of an era for one of the greatest live bands and one of the greatest rock bands in history. This DVD works for the lucky people who were there and for the people who weren't. What more could anyone want? Doug Stone, All Music Guide
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Ain't That a Shame | Bartholomew, Domino | 5:09 |
| 2 | I Want You to Want Me | Nielsen | 3:37 |
| 3 | Oh, Candy | Nielsen | 2:58 |
| 4 | That 70's Song | Bell, Chilton, Nielsen | 3:01 |
| 5 | Voices | Nielsen | 5:04 |
| 6 | If You Want My Love | Nielsen | 3:29 |
| 7 | She's Tight | Nielsen | 3:56 |
| 8 | Can't Stop Fallin' into Love | Nielsen, Petersson, Zander | 4:03 |
| 9 | Gonna Raise Hell | Nielsen | 8:56 |
| 10 | I Can't Take It | Zander | 3:43 |
| 11 | Take Me to the Top | Nielsen, Zander | 4:21 |
| 12 | It All Comes Back to You | Nielsen, McFadden, Reynolds, Zander, Petersson | 3:36 |
| 13 | Tonight It's You | Zander, Brant, Radice, Nielsen | 5:26 |
| 14 | Time Will Let You Know | Zander, ODoherty | 6:18 |
| 15 | World's Greatest Lover | Nielsen | 5:01 |
| 16 | Flame | Mitchell, Graham | 6:31 |
| 17 | Stop This Game | Nielsen, Zander | 4:49 |
| 18 | Dream Police | Nielsen | 4:44 |
| 19 | I Know What I Want | Nielsen | 4:20 |
| 20 | Woke Up With a Monster | Zander, Nielsen, Petersson | 4:54 |
| 21 | Never Had a Lot to Lose | Zander, Petersson | 3:50 |
| 22 | You're All Talk | Nielsen, Petersson | 5:23 |
| 23 | I'm Losing You | Lennon | 5:13 |
| 24 | Hard to Tell | Nielsen, Petersson, Zander | 3:40 |
| 25 | Oh Claire | Nielsen, Zander, Carlos, Petersson | 1:07 |
| 26 | Surrender | Nielsen | 5:07 |
| 27 | Just Got Back | Nielsen | 3:40 |
| 28 | Day Tripper | McCartney, Lennon | 4:29 |
| 29 | Who d' King | Carlos, Nielsen | 3:12 |
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