So what inspires your MOG love? And why? What gets you to jump onto a fellow MOGger's thread? What kind of post elicits a comment from you? Need to express solidarity with someone else who just "gets" a favorite artist of yours? Compelled to swap anecdotes or answer a query? Why do you come back here to read, listen, look, post and comment, day after day, week after week?Inquiring MOGs want to ...
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I was not/(am not) a big **Cheap Trick** fan, but this song has rocked my world for a long time.For my money, they became cartoon characters as their career progressed.But on this track they rock like bona fide rockers, ??not?? caricatures.
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So with my last post I seem to have struck a nerve with my fellow mogsters. Can a music collection make or break a relationship. Now I ask, lets say you are a few dates into this new found love, and you want that special person to really get to know who you are. What do you do, well of course you make them a mix tape. Ok, I just dated myself by saying tape, so I will say mix cd. Seeing most mix...
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Wouldn't Preston Tucker be proud? Talk about gettin' too big fer your britches...The splintering of auto giant GM will shower us with toothpicks for decades, I'm sure. It'll over-burden the already bloated health care system, as well as offer retailer Walmart some brand new work force candidates.Hummer? Sold to China!GM, which filed for bankruptcy court protection on Monday, has said it plans t...
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Some oldies but goodies from one of my favorite bands of yore, Cheap Trick.
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Cheap Trick performed "Sick Man of Europe" on the Tonight Show with Conan O Brien. Check it out below:Buy "Sick Man of Europe" on iTunes or Amazon
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Nope. Not Sufjan. And not the namesake wordplay from Slade. How'z 'bout Illinois one and only Cheap Trick? Still crankin' it after 30+ years of aural explosions, these guys were pretty much my Beatles. Their last recording, "Rockford", is named after their hometown. Nice homage.Here's Robin Zander in a '76 Trick show at the Columbus, Ohio Agora.
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The latest (ok, close to two years old) CD by Cheap Trick is a great one. I own their box set and the two latest releases. I may need to get more. This is one of my faves from Rockford (I know they mean Rockford, IL but as a former resident of Rockford, MI I will choose to believe otherwise).Now, who's ready for a car ride?
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SurrenderSurrenderBut don't give yourself awaySurrenderSurrenderBut don't give yourself awaySurrenderSurrenderBut don't give yourself away.I'm waiting for some candidate to denounce MOVE ON.ORG as the elitest facist entity that it is. But after asserting in 06 that ' move on' (in the words of founder and chief financier George Soros) "owns the democratic party" they have moved the party ever le...
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See that thing up there? That's what we used to call an 8-track tape back in the dark days of the 70's. It was bulky and the format of four equal-length "sides" meant that songs were either put on the tape in a different order from the album or they would fade out in the middle, only to fade back in once the tape moved to the next "track" (it was called 8-track, but it was really four stereo t...
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4 freaking degrees!! here today. Something to warm the bones...
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Tom Peterson (bass-right) doing a decent Lou Reed here. Their trademark sound fits
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Recently, Cheap Trick and a few friends undertook the daunting task of performing The Beatles "Seargent Peppers" in it's entirity live at the Hollywood Bowl in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the original release. Tricked up, as ever...
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The first Cheap Trick album hit my sophmore year in college. That same week, they played for free with Photomaker at the Agora. I had missed them by a couple days at Max's Kansas City the previous summer and I was hot to see these guys. Played the crap outa this LP, and this remake of an old Terry Reid tune was one of my faves. You just knew these guys were headed for good things, actually, I t...
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Hey these pictures are kinda crappy, but what the hey. Cheap Trick at Legend Valley '77. Todd Rundgren was also on the bill, and here he's jamming with CT to this very song.
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