Cheap Trick had no command of the "deep and meaningless," as Robert Plant once put it, and thus could not generate the mystery of Led Zeppelin. And they had a fitful command of the deep and meaningful, a satiric edge closer to the C..
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From bar band could-be's to arena rocking superstars, from bargain bin has-beens to objects of hipster rediscovery, Cheap Trick has the might of Kiss or Nugent, they're humorous, hook-filled, bracingly loud, and subtly sensitive. Coming out of the Midwest bar-band scene in the mid-'70s, the band debuted with Cheap * The following code is Copyright 1998-2004 Opinionlab, Inc.
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