One of the greatest American rock bands of all time!!!! And most under rated.

I always thought that Rick had the most fun at a Cheap Trick show. Love the guy!

I saw that episode of Countdown as a child. I can watch it over and over.I love it when the cymbal crashes

@gregsouthall5027

2 жыл бұрын

...and in perfect timing!🤣

As a kid "Countdown" was up there with food & water, life's essentials. This clip is from one of the best Sunday evenings in front of the TV ever as a child. Cheap Trick are Rock Gods!

I know Chai Truck (????...thanks a lot auto correct) I know CHEAP TRICK enjoyed a good amount of success in their heyday, but I still think they're one of the most underrated bands of all time. Great tunes, incredible personalities, fabulous showmanship... these guys had it all. I'm glad I grew up with CHEAP TRICK on the turntable!

@cooltheengines

7 жыл бұрын

BHAKTI BROPHY Well said...I could not agree more!!

@laurenmccullough8838

4 жыл бұрын

Lola@chai truck

@Brewzerr

3 жыл бұрын

I'm going to start a band called Chai Truck

@St4r_Z0mb13

Жыл бұрын

mai fave band, CHAI TRUCK

The dude has so much energy.

2:41 LASER LIGHT SHOW!!!!! Takes me back to a simpler time.

Congratulations to Huntz Hall and Cheap Trick being inducted into the R n R Hall of Fame.

@apexjoe4769

2 жыл бұрын

Leo Gorcey would be proud !

@powlperc

Жыл бұрын

Bowery Boys 👍

cheep trick are legends there music will live on forever

How could anyone not fuckin' like these guys?!?!??

Saw them at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in 79 they were absolutely amazing great show great venue

They should play this and other songs more on "Classic" Rock radio🤬. 🤓😎✌🏼

1:30 caught the guitar pick on his tongue, awesome

Great track and pretty good lip syncing! Why do that when Robin Zander could sing live better than any other vocalist? Anyway whenever Robin Zander is on screen I can't take my eyes off him! He's just mesmerising! 🤗

@bigbromiki1

Жыл бұрын

The TV stations pretty much made them do it, Queen also did it

Oh how I loved Robin Zander ♥

So much life in the music of my youth. Not like today. Great to hear this again.

I like how Rick (during his "spoken" section) deliberately f*cks off the lip synch and goes for the humor (as usual) instead of "syncing" the lip synch...funny!

cheesy 70's love it!

You know some people who are not in the recording industry might not realize this, back then Cheap Trick, Journey, Reo Speed wagon and others were on a real wide touring circuit, also keep in mind you didn't have sophisticated sound technology behind the scenes working to keep the vocals crisp and clear like you have today during a live performance!

Great Band.....

COUNTDOWN! I remember watching this , such an awesome song!

Sweet playback. Rick is rad. He caught the pick twice in his mouth.

so what if it's a playback? i saw them live on march 19, 2010. not quiet the same but still excellent. they rocked! i love them!

this band is the greatest\m/

Uhhhhhhh yeahhhhhhhh !!!!!!

Rick Is Still God !!. I Miss Buenzuela

Saw this aged 10. Immediately wanted a set of drums. Eventually got them in 1987.

See and hear how awesome late nite television use to be.

Love this song and this band - yay Tom.

Bun E. King has got to be thr coolest drummer ever !!! He literally looks as though he took a lunch break from his brokerage firm to drum for this band. Would have also been a good fit for the band Sparks !!!###

I don't think Rick Nielsen ever came out of his shell, too reserved! Never really got to express his personality at any point.

At 2:11 when bun e’s cymbal fell over and Rick jumped hahahahaha

They headed a bill with The Fixx at Radio City Music Hall in New York City in the 80s. What a great show. Ric Nielsen was his entertaining self and Zander of course was the sizzle to make them a steady popular act with the ladies. Just a great show they put on. One of their all time best here, even if it's the production version.

I love how seriously Rick took the performance. It's amazing how he plays the guitar without touching it.

@theresawilson7499

2 жыл бұрын

It’s funny how he sings sometimes with his tongue out too lol

Cheap Trick classic.

Sensational! Super Band!! Countdown!

Great video! Did people see what happens just past the 2 minute mark? Watch the cymbals. Even though they are lip syncing you can hear the crash.

100% lip sync..... That is the studio version recording from the Dream Police Album....... very fun though... awesome band... got to see them at the 2nd Annual Day of Rock n Roll, New Orleans Superdome late 70's Line up: Eagles, Foreignor, Cheap Trick and Christopher Cross. I was 14 with fake ID ordered from a ad out of Teen Beat Magazine.... drinking KFC bucket size draft beers getting ripped...lol those were the days...hahaha

@St4r_Z0mb13

3 жыл бұрын

-They gave out fake IDs just like that?-

Thanks, Hometown boys!!!

I love cheap trick

Bun E. just does not give a f*ck that this is supposed to be lip synced, just WAILING on the kit lol. Petersson is cracking up at the end!

@Tanzadog1

5 жыл бұрын

lip syncing on Countdown? Never :) haha

@dedo7326

3 жыл бұрын

I love how Rick doesn’t even try on his part😂

@Shell6424

3 жыл бұрын

Tom was laughing at Bun E.

Rick rocks

the name of cheap trick is just what they are, they know themselves well, which means they are all so clever

I love Robin's voice!

DAMM thay are so good!

GENIUS!

1:40 nice pick catch Rick !

Robin's hair is a big hit as always.

I just bought a checker board guitar strap last week at Sam Ash for my Hamer Standard Flame top and I'm totally Jazzed1

Happy Birthday Jon Brant!

this is great!

Oh hell yes

I know this is lip sync but trust me they sound absolutely awesome live

@Phoenix85006

Жыл бұрын

I went to their concert at the Arizona State Fair about 3 years ago and they definitely sounded awesome 😎👍

Oh, man, they're lip synching like 99% of every musical performance in TV history. Between Robin laughing at how ridiculous Rick was being, Bun E. knocking over his cymbals and then saying "eh, screw it" and beating the hell out of the one still standing while Rick kicks the one on the floor. That's entertainment. Great video.

this is so cooool

Good stuff!

oh I know the brown eyes but whoa!!! what a babe. Back in the day what can I say I am an old lady and had taste.

the rockplast video is live, and quite good

How in the h3ll can it get any better than that!!!!!

@MrGforce365 I was a kid in the '70s. It was a VERY weird time to be a kid

your right about that

they would need a symphony to do this live

@2008ilovemusic

5 жыл бұрын

check out their greek theater version with an orchestra!

@WhiteyMarsh lol when it falls down it goes in sync with the song the first time

2:06 look at robin's face

Rick hit me on my new motorhead tattoo from evil don.with a guitar pick that night at taste of pinellas.in vinoy park.i found a2nd pick that night they jammed,about10 yrs ago.ladt I saw Robin lita Ford made him come out on stage he did not sing.i think it was ribfest...Robin I here moved from Clearwater beach.fk.niw lives in desr Dunedin. Miss the old days,,,OVER THE EDGE YES

16 dislikes got arrested by the Real Police.

@QMAX21

8 жыл бұрын

Really?

@St4r_Z0mb13

3 жыл бұрын

@@QMAX21 No...

@mudcatGS86 Cause I can't take my eyes of them, lol! These guys are my fave band!

At 2:10 Bun E knocks over both his cymbals and a drum. Rick backs up into them, but like troopers, they keep going!

While the band is indeed lip syncing, I'm sure it's not by choice. This is one of the few bands that sounds AWESOME live. All through the years that I've seen them live (30 years roughly) they sound better than the albums.

floor tom gone!

@adjohnson2008 lol yup, TV didn't take chances back then, not that they do now, but yeah its the album track for the audio. Biggest tip off is the lack of the string sound on stage that backed the album track

And also at 2:50 Bun E's other cymbal comes crashing down!! LOL!! Go Bun E!

Why didn't they have a violinist miming with them?

@WhiteyMarsh...yes and KICKS the cymbal out of the way...kinda funny in itself

Lip Syncing at its worst! Will see them on 2/15/19 here in DC! YAY!

Woohoo

Surprised Bun wasn't doing the left handed drummer setup. He'll do that at times when he's not really playing.

Me, probably one out of five 14yo that know great music..

@gianttreeproductions3947

3 жыл бұрын

Dude you’re 21 now, how’s it going lmao

@NorahHomeBless Because we know how to enjoy ourselves

@TheRockafellers Agree REM is very talented and has done some great work. I'm not a fan at all, but I can respect their talent and impact. However, the bands mentioned above should be in ahead of them.

@OFinsignificance Cheap Trick, Rush, Doobie Brothers, and Jethro Tull are not in the Hall, but Alice Cooper, Run DMC, ABBA, and REM are? Come on.

LOL

All Lip serviced...But I still love em

@shelly10538 Nah, she's back at the Palomino Club.

I don't get it; where's Keith Olbermann?

Is it me or does Rick Nielson favor Rik Mayall from the Young Ones?

motereypop. That thar is a crime. I can hardly believe it.

most television broadcasts are lip synced because the producers don't want accidental mistakes which would cost more money redoing the takes, and not many have the guts to let it go live. They care more about the network and budgets than whether or not the artist/band looks silly. It's really unfortunate because so many bands like Cheap Trick are better when they are live.

"live"

not bad

When Cheap Trick was young and called the Grim Reapers, Otis Redding crashed and the show didn't go.

Cheap Trick Is from the northside of the american continent

@WhiteyMarsh how did you catch that?

It is too bad that they are lip syncing because Cheap Trick is really good in live performance. I loved it back in the day Blondie would not look like they were playing on like American Bandstand or Solid Gold (basically say fuck you to them shows).

TI programming

Cheap Trick is soooo weird. I love 'em for it but they are all so strange as a band...hahaha. This is one of my most favorite videos of them they just look so goofy lip-synching...

are they really lip syncing? kinda sounds like the album version of the song is playing over the video. perhaps the live audio didn't appeal to the TV station and they chose to run the song off the album during the broadcast...

Curt Cobain, Jared Leto, John Lithgow and some fat accountant, what a band!

I imagine they were told they HAD to lip synch. God knows they didn't need to. I hated all those stupid lip synch shows in the 80s and was always saying out loud "just let them SING!"

@LuciferXFallen290

6 жыл бұрын

shandi411 this was 1979 though. Countdown started in the 70s

@Tanzadog1

5 жыл бұрын

yes it was the Countdown way, you had to lip sync ... which is why Midnight Oil never appeared on it, as they refused to

I don't think I could handle lip syncing. I'd be too tempted to sing the song lol 😂