Or maybe because all the grunge rock bands I cut my teeth on as a teenage were huge Cheap Trick fans? This last week has been an odd epiphany for me, Klinger. Is it because they speak some sort of unconscious Midwestern language that I am in tune with having grown up in the Heartland? What’s even more confusing, is that as much as I want to not like Cheap Trick - mostly just to irk you - I can’t help but feel like this record is pretty much the foundation of my own musical foundation. How does an obscure band from the Midwest get dubbed the “American Beatles” in Japan? Cheap Trick and their success is still a complete enigma for me. Was it the fact that the group was able to cherry pick its best material for a rethink of their sound? Or was it just the fact that thousands of screaming girls made the whole thing completely irresistible?Mendelsohn: I have absolutely no idea. So what was it about the live album that suddenly made these groups so commercially viable? Was it the production, which gave their songs some added punch? But At Budokan became the group's signature album, at least for the general public, and at No. And of course Cheap Trick were more or less a quirky road band until they tapped into their rabid Japanese following and made the album At Budokan.When they performed at the Budokan indoor martial arts hall in 1978, Cheap Trick had released the maybe-too-weird Cheap Trick and the maybe-too-slick In Color, and they were about to release the sublime Heaven Tonight.
Kiss's first few albums were largely ignored until Alive made them jukebox (and lunchbox) heroes.
Peter Frampton had been something of a journeyman musician for about a decade before Frampton Comes Alive made him a heartthrob and radio staple. Nowadays, the live album is seen as a delightful little bonus for the fans and completists, but back in the satin-jacketed ’70s it provided an opportunity for bands to cross over into the mainstream. At Budokan Label: Epic US Release Date: 1979Klinger: By the late 1970s rock had become big business, and the emergence of the live album is a perfect example of the way that popular music had gone from being a cottage industry to being a regular industry.
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