CHEAP TRICK - "Bun E.'s Basement Bootlegs Vol. 4 - Cheeseland 1976"
November 1976
Excellent Soundboard Recording
Notes: simply a mind blowing listening experience for Cheap Trick fans, an early version of "I Want You To Want Me" and a load of unreleased never-before-heard tracks. A lot of talking between songs which is a great insight, but you can tell it's a small place ;)
01 I Want You To Want Me 3:01
02 Do You Believe Me 5:41
03 Fool 8:44
04 Taxman 6:06
05 High Roller 3:14
06 Turkey 5:22
07 Lovin' Money 4:31
08 Younger Girls 3:04
09 Henry 9:01
10 Oh Boy 3:47
11 Girls On Fire 8:02
12 Down Down 5:12
BootlegZone Comments:
This was volume 4 of this excellent series and became first available in August of 2002. "Cheeseland '76" was the bonus CD paired with the "Semi Acoustical" CD.
This must have been recorded in December of 1976 as Rick talks how he's been recycling the line "Today being Thanksgiving" for the past "week and a half". Cute how the song titles were sloppily shortened in an homage to the vinyl age of 70's bootlegs.
Rarebird says:
Bun E.’s Basement Bootlegs were CD’s sold through Cheap Trick’s official website and fan club. They contained previously unreleased Cheap Trick recordings from the band’s archives, compiled by drummer Bun E. Carlos. There were four separate volumes issued between the years 2000 and 2002. Each one was limited to 1,000 copies. Each CD was packaged in a plain white cardboard sleeve with a stamped illustration of the drummer’s face and his hand-autographed initials. The discs were numbered using black marker. Each disc had a different theme to classify the types of tracks included on it.
Cheeseland ’76, contains 12 live tracks recorded the year before the release of Cheap Trick’s 1977 debut album. The band may or may not have been aware of the growing punk rock movement that was happening at that time, but this disc is as good a document as any from that pivotal moment in music history. The not-yet-famous quartet cheerfully indulged in wild electric jams that could make Neil Young and Crazy Horse jealous. It was certainly brazen for Nielsen to introduce a song called “Taxman” as if it was a familiar Beatles cover, when the band was actually playing a Cheap Trick original of the same name (for obvious reasons, that song was retitled “Taxman Mr. Thief” on the debut album). Some of the other songs performed here also turned up on Cheap Trick’s studio albums, while others did not quite make the cut (“Lovin’ Money” was destined to be an outtake from the first album; an instrumental version of “Oh Boy” would be used as the B-side for the studio single of “I Want You To Want Me”). The set includes heavy-rocking early versions of “I Want You To Want Me” and “Downed” (titled “Down Down” here), and a version of “High Roller” that is marginally different than the studio version. Their cover of John Lennon’s “Cold Turkey” seems more restrained at first than some of the band’s later renditions of the song, until it faithfully climaxes with the same Plastic Ono-style screaming as Lennon’s original. “Girls On Fire”, written by Bun E., sounds like a new wave song just ahead of its time, except that most new wave songs weren’t nearly as long. Cheeseland ’76 is the exciting sound of a still-hungry rock and roll band sowing their wild musical oats, before they were refined by the machinery of the record industry.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/7wya0r...land%20SBD.rar
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November 1976
Excellent Soundboard Recording
Notes: simply a mind blowing listening experience for Cheap Trick fans, an early version of "I Want You To Want Me" and a load of unreleased never-before-heard tracks. A lot of talking between songs which is a great insight, but you can tell it's a small place ;)
01 I Want You To Want Me 3:01
02 Do You Believe Me 5:41
03 Fool 8:44
04 Taxman 6:06
05 High Roller 3:14
06 Turkey 5:22
07 Lovin' Money 4:31
08 Younger Girls 3:04
09 Henry 9:01
10 Oh Boy 3:47
11 Girls On Fire 8:02
12 Down Down 5:12
BootlegZone Comments:
This was volume 4 of this excellent series and became first available in August of 2002. "Cheeseland '76" was the bonus CD paired with the "Semi Acoustical" CD.
This must have been recorded in December of 1976 as Rick talks how he's been recycling the line "Today being Thanksgiving" for the past "week and a half". Cute how the song titles were sloppily shortened in an homage to the vinyl age of 70's bootlegs.
Rarebird says:
Bun E.’s Basement Bootlegs were CD’s sold through Cheap Trick’s official website and fan club. They contained previously unreleased Cheap Trick recordings from the band’s archives, compiled by drummer Bun E. Carlos. There were four separate volumes issued between the years 2000 and 2002. Each one was limited to 1,000 copies. Each CD was packaged in a plain white cardboard sleeve with a stamped illustration of the drummer’s face and his hand-autographed initials. The discs were numbered using black marker. Each disc had a different theme to classify the types of tracks included on it.
Cheeseland ’76, contains 12 live tracks recorded the year before the release of Cheap Trick’s 1977 debut album. The band may or may not have been aware of the growing punk rock movement that was happening at that time, but this disc is as good a document as any from that pivotal moment in music history. The not-yet-famous quartet cheerfully indulged in wild electric jams that could make Neil Young and Crazy Horse jealous. It was certainly brazen for Nielsen to introduce a song called “Taxman” as if it was a familiar Beatles cover, when the band was actually playing a Cheap Trick original of the same name (for obvious reasons, that song was retitled “Taxman Mr. Thief” on the debut album). Some of the other songs performed here also turned up on Cheap Trick’s studio albums, while others did not quite make the cut (“Lovin’ Money” was destined to be an outtake from the first album; an instrumental version of “Oh Boy” would be used as the B-side for the studio single of “I Want You To Want Me”). The set includes heavy-rocking early versions of “I Want You To Want Me” and “Downed” (titled “Down Down” here), and a version of “High Roller” that is marginally different than the studio version. Their cover of John Lennon’s “Cold Turkey” seems more restrained at first than some of the band’s later renditions of the song, until it faithfully climaxes with the same Plastic Ono-style screaming as Lennon’s original. “Girls On Fire”, written by Bun E., sounds like a new wave song just ahead of its time, except that most new wave songs weren’t nearly as long. Cheeseland ’76 is the exciting sound of a still-hungry rock and roll band sowing their wild musical oats, before they were refined by the machinery of the record industry.
http://www.mediafire.com/file/7wya0r...land%20SBD.rar
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