{"id":1646,"date":"2010-10-09T20:12:36","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T03:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/?p=1646"},"modified":"2015-09-30T19:00:26","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T19:00:26","slug":"the-best-cheap-trick-show-i-have-seen-since-dream-police-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/the-best-cheap-trick-show-i-have-seen-since-dream-police-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Cheap Trick Show I Have Seen Since Dream Police Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1647\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/photo71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1647\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1647\" title=\"Cheap Trick\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/photo71-300x224.jpg\" alt=\"Cheap Trick\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1647\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheap Trick Live Saratoga, CA<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Cheap Trick<br \/>\nOctober 8, 2010<br \/>\nMountain Winery, Saratoga, CA<\/p>\n<p>Setlist:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Way of the World<br \/>\nCalifornia Man<br \/>\nClock Strikes Ten<br \/>\nI Want You to Want Me<br \/>\nThese Days<br \/>\nBorderline<br \/>\nI Can&#8217;t Take It<br \/>\nOn Top of the World<br \/>\nHappy Birthday to John Lennon<br \/>\nDay Tripper<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t Be Cruel<br \/>\nThat 70s Song<br \/>\nBallad of TV Violence<br \/>\nBaby Loves to Rock<br \/>\nSick Man of Europe<br \/>\nCloser &#8211; The Ballad of Burt and Linda<br \/>\nSurrender<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Encores:<br \/>\nThe Flame<br \/>\nDream Police<br \/>\nGonna Raise Hell<br \/>\nGoodnight<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yes this was the best Cheap Trick show I have seen and my first of countless shows was the Dream Police tour.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">First let me start off saying the the Mountain Winery might just be the most ideal place for a concert. It is a beautiful outdoor venue up in hills outside San Jose, within a beautiful winery. Venue capacity is proably around 3-5000. Not a bad seat anywhere. The stage is situated directly at the foot of a 1852 stone church. Prior to the show we had a nice three course diner with wine on a balcony overlooking silicon valley and the surrounding hills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Onto Cheap Trick&#8230; Bun E Carlos is no longer touring with the band, Rick&#8217;s son Daxx is playing the drums. Daxx replacing Bun E. is to Eric Singer replacing Peter Criss in KISS. A world of difference in the band. I love Bun E., but the show was simply explosive with Daxx on the kit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just look at the setlist for the show! I really can&#8217;t remember when I last saw the band play a set like this. First of all they were headlining, but still. Some key points for me:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">On Top of the World sounded monstrous!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Singing Happy Birthday to John Lennon, followed by Daytripper was a great surprise.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Ballad of TV Violence &#8211; they really punched this one up, deep and heavy sounding<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Gonna Raise Hell &#8211; one of my all time favorite songs by any artist. Holy crap did it sound amazing last night! The guitar solo, bass solo and drum solo really kicked ass. Daxx on the drums was the real treat, damn can he play. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">I felt like I saw a band with new energy and drive&#8230; nobody was going through the motions. Everyone on stage was pushing a bit harder than I can recall seeing at past shows. Every song just seemed harder, heavier and more solid.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> I left the show so recharged and committed that Cheap Trick are the best effing rock band.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheap Trick October 8, 2010 Mountain Winery, Saratoga, CA Setlist: Way of the World California Man Clock Strikes Ten I Want You to Want Me These Days Borderline I Can&#8217;t Take It On Top of the World Happy Birthday to John Lennon Day Tripper Don&#8217;t Be Cruel That 70s Song Ballad of TV Violence Baby [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[123,234],"class_list":["post-1646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-cheap-trick","tag-mountain-winery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11845,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1646\/revisions\/11845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelbrandvold.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}