CHEAP TRICK – Cleveland 1979 (2CD)

Audience 8.7 – Here is the big question: Was this broadcast over the air?  If it was, I’d find it odd that they recorded the show from the audience, I mean, in bootleg fashion as it sounds like a bona fide audience bootleg tape!   It’s decent enough though, taken from what seems like the back of the room so it gets the full PA sound projecting out, including audience reaction, so it is somewhat immersive. You definitely get a sense of the room that’s for sure. I think this recording is a raucous good time if nothing else and shows the band very comfortable with the music and their place in rock and roll.

CHEAP TRICK
Palace Theatre
Cleveland, OH
April 23rd 1979

Disc 1

1 -Intro
2 -Hello There
3 -Come On Come On
4 -Stiff Competition
5 -On Top Of The World
6 -Rick Solo
7 -Big Eyes
8 -Ain’t That A Shame
9 -Surrender

Disc 2

10 -Need Your Love
11 -I Know What I Want
12 -I Want You To Want Me
13 -California Man
14 -Clock Strikes Ten
15 -Goodnight Now
16 -Heaven Tonight
17 -Auf Wiedersehen
18 -Elo Kiddies