Cheap Licks

High Roller cover by yours truly…whoever mic’d the kick drum deserves a Grammy youtu.be/GLsFGpWsrxk?si=JBa6…

Is this band still alive, Trez Rek 500? youtube.com/watch?v=XuNvEMrJ…

First commercial cover of a @cheaptrick song was this French release of I Want You To Want Me youtu.be/Zfex-hHUu9M?is=XXUC…

California kid gets Ferrari for 18th birthday youtube.com/shorts/XLNcOGNoz…

Bamboo wall, cigarette smoke, vintage threads, and four guys who looked like they'd already won before the first note. This is Cheap Trick when the hunger was still visible in the frame.

All time worst example of Album Filler.....on the otherwise incredible album; Valen Halen's Fair Warning are the two worst VH tracks of all time, Sunday Afternoon in the Park & One Foot Out the Door. How did you allow this @VanHalen ?

Smoke, shades, and a pocket so deep you could lose a city in it. This is what happens when a drummer decides the beat isn't negotiable. Bun E. Carlos, doing what he did best: making it look effortless and impossible at once.

Look at that pocket. That's Bun E. Carlos behind the kit—dapper, locked in, and absolutely not interested in playing it safe. This is the drummer who made Cheap Trick genuinely lethal.

Four guys in a booth. One's grinning like he already knows what's coming. Long hair, cigarette smoke, a cap pulled low, dark curls catching the light. This is Cheap Trick before the world caught up. Pure voltage, zero filter. We're just trying to find our way back to that.

Drummer locked in, logo burning bright, and the kind of pocket-deep focus that made Cheap Trick genuinely dangerous. This is what it looked like when four guys decided to rewire rock and roll.

Four faces, one moment before they became immortal. This is Cheap Trick when they were still hungry—when the real work was just beginning.