Cheap Trick perform their classic “Dream Police” on SIRIUS XM Artist Confidential at the Hard Rock Café in New York City. Before the song, SIRIUS XM Artist Confidential host Lou Brutus asks the band about how they feel about not being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
“Sleep Forever” by Cheap Trick at rehearsal for an upcoming PBS Soundstage Special at The Music Resource Center, http://musicresourcecenter.org, Charlottesville, Virginia, Jan 21, 2010.
Music Resource Center is a state-of-the-art after-school music initiative. Kids can take lessons and/or use the instruments, rehearsal rooms, and recording studio(s). The mission of the Music Resource Center is to educate and inspire young people and hopefully better equip them through music education, performance opportunities, and life skills mentoring for the future. The Center was started in 1992 by John Hornsby and other area musicians and relies on contributions.
Cheap Trick had a great experience there and would like to encourage others to learn more about this asset to the Charlottesville community.
Dave Frey: I’m not very good with a camera. But I was there and had one. The room is a chapel that’s seen a lot in it’s 100-some years and was the first African American owned church in town. The vibe was great and the sound was warm because all that wood throughout the room soaked it up. The song also has a special place for me because it honors a long-time Cheap Trick road associate/friend of ours who has passed.
Cheap Trick and Audi of America come together to rock the big game on Sunday, February 7. Cheap Trick went back to the studio to rescore the hit “Dream Police” and renamed it “Green Police”. The new version will be featured as the music track in the Audi A3 TDI clean diesel commercial scheduled to air during the game. The entertaining TV spot shows how choosing the green car A3 TDi clean diesel is an easy way to lend a hand to Mother Nature when faced with many difficult eco choices. A limited number of free downloads will be available at www.facebook.com/audi.
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UPDATED: Here’s the link to the full episode @ Hulu:
from Spinner.com: Cheap Trick’s new single, ‘Sick Man of Europe,’ which is taken from the band’s just-released album, ‘The Latest,’ is a lean slice of hard-hitting power pop, bristling with the kind of edgy vitality usually credited to a young band with a reputation to make. But, then, that’s exactly what the song is about. Sick Man of Europe was actually the name for a nascent Cheap Trick, formed around 1971, and numbering guitarist Rick Nielsen, drummer Bun E. Carlos, bassist Tom Petersson and singer Stewkey from the Nazz. “It’s a bit of our history,” Nielsen tells Spinner. “Tom and I were living in Europe, after leaving the American pop scene, of which there was none.”
“It was such an intriguing set of words,” he says of the band name. “To me, ‘Sick Man of Europe’ conjures up stuff, but no one else thought so much of it. Every time people asked ‘What’s the name of your band?’ it’d be ‘What?’ How can you take the world’s worst band name and turn it into something?”
Somehow, 37 years later, that’s what they did. While the song tells of a young band struggling against the odds to find its place in rock ‘n’ roll, the video splices retro clips of go-go dancers and swinging London — including the iconic original Biba clothing store — with career-spanning Cheap Trick shots.
But how did they come up with that odd sounding name? “We were traveling around Europe and saw the Herald Tribune one day and they were referring to Turkey or Italy, I forget which, as the sick man of Europe, dragging the rest of Europe down,” Nielsen says. According to some critics, this young band wasn’t so hot either. “We did one show with the Mahavishnu Orchestra,” Nielsen recalls, “and someone wrote, ‘Wherever they’re from, they should go back.’”
Watch the exclusive video premiere of ‘Sick Man of Europe’ here.
(Tom comes in at around 7:33 into the video)
The official Cheap Trick YouTube channel has launched, at www.youtube.com/cheaptrick.
Here’s a quick guide to what’s currently featured:
Live Providence, R.I. 1980, Complete Concert
Blistering 11 song concert with newly remastered audio, high quality video from original broadcast quality footage.
CLICK HERE to play all 11 videos
Dream Police Tour 1979 @ Budokan
5 existing songs, single camera shot with remastered audio from the rarely seen Budokan follow-up tour.
CLICK HERE for the 5 clips
Night Gallery 1977
The earliest Cheap Trick footage we’ve got!
CLICK HERE for 5 vintage videos
