'This band has no past' was the first line of the farcical
biography printed on the inner sleeve of Cheap Trick's first album,
but the band, of course, did have a past--a past that straddles two
very different decades: from the tumult of the sixties to the
anticlimax of the seventies, from the British Invasion to the
record industry renaissance, with the band's debut album arriving
in 1977, the year vinyl sales peaked. This Band Has No Past tells
the story of a bar band from the Midwest--the best and weirdest bar
band in the Midwest-- and how they doggedly pursued a most unlikely
career in rock'n'roll. It traces every gnarly limb of the family
tree of bands that culminated in Cheap Trick, then details how this
unlikely foursome paid their dues--with interest--night after
night, slogging it out everywhere from high schools to bars to
bowling alleys to fans' back yards, before signing to Epic Records
and releasing two brilliant albums six months apart. Drawing on
more than eighty original interviews, This Band Has No Past is
packed full of new insights and information that fans of the band
will devour. How was the Cheap Trick logo created? How did the
checkerboard pattern come to be associated with the band? When did
Rick Nielsen start wearing a ballcap 24/7? Who caught their mom and
dad rolling on the couch? What kind of beer did David Bowie drink?
And when might characters like Chuck Berry, Frank Zappa, Don
Johnson, Otis Redding, Eddie Munster, Kim Fowley, John Belushi, Jim
Belushi, Elvis Presley, Leslie West, Groucho Marx, Robert F.
Kennedy, Patti Smith, Andy Warhol, Lou Reed, The Coneheads, Tom
Petty, Harvey Weinstein, Michael Mann, Linda Blair, Eddie Van
Halen, Elvis Costello, Matt Dillon, and Pam Grier turn up? Read on
and find out.
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