Cheap Trick - California Man (from Budokan!)

[@MarkPeaceThomas]

Awesome remake of "The Move" classic.

[@sunsetcaptiva8573]

The best thing about this video for me... is how much fun they were having playing this stellar performance... you see it in their eyes, and in their smiles... they were "killin' it" and having a blast while doing so... doesn't get much better than that for a touring rock band...

[@sodasullivan]

Have never, ever seen Robin look like he is having as much fun as he is having in this. He seems to just be having the time of his life up there. he also seems really in tune to the audience.

[@paulsnape9971]

Written by one of the best of the 60s and 70s music. SIR ROY WOOD.

[@skylarkman2000]

Amazing songwriter. Amazing musician.

[@elofan5484]

A concert in Japan by a group from Chcago covers a song about California by a legendary group from Birmingham Englsnd

[@publicanimal]

Suburbs of Chicago, but close enough.

[@ralphtom3431]

@@publicanimal ROCK ford

[@skylarkman2000]

First class stuff !

[@brianbalster3521]

@@publicanimal Rockford is NOT a suburb! The suburbs stop before Elgin

[@joeseymour4073]

Rockford, IL baby! 👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@davidschecter5247]

THE MOVE wrote so many catchy pop-rock songs -- this one given a great reading by Cheap Trick.

[@ogam5]

.....CRIMINALLY underrated, to this DAY - Message From The Country, is a near-MASTERPIECE (and more or less, the TRUE Electric Light Orchestra debut.....)

[@DJSherman]

How can this have only 11k views? Among the best live rock n roll performance bands of all time. And a sick tune to boot.

[@ralphtom3431]

11,000 views because everyone can't be as cool as a cheap trick fan

[@skylarkman2000]

Amazing band, amazing song !

[@KOSMICKEN09]

It's at 158k now

[@patrickgibbons8353]

People just don't know what good rock is 🥴

[@TheNickybocker]

Best sounding live concert ever.

[@julenepegher6999]

“ Goin to a party meet me on after school” God how I wish I could go back to those days….

[@brittdanielrocks]

🤘🤘🎸🎸 🌹

[@thomasgallagher7092]

Perfect rock band; walls of sound, great vocals and harmonies and great stage presence

[@SJSUPhil]

I was born and raised in California and consider this my own personal theme song. Thank you Cheap Trick. Rock on boys!

[@StopSpyingMaya]

Written by a Brit, though! And recorded first by British group, The Move! 🤣

[@cupidofinsanity]

the "move" wrote this... if you have not seen the video, its a hoot ! (jeff lynne from E L O and a few others are in it)

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

I love you so much Robin

[@KOSMICKEN09]

Look up message from the country by the move - awesome song

[@joelanderos23]

Me too! Born and raised in San Jose, just like the song says!

[@dlewisfl]

The magnetism of Robin Zander, the charisma of Rick Nielsen ... and the tunes!

[@Dutch1954]

New Years Eve 1979, Los Angeles, The Fabulous Forum, 2nd row, front and center. One of the very best shows I saw in the 70's. You'd hear something on the radio, you'd get the record, and a lot of times it was hit and miss when performed live in your face. Not these guys. SOLID EVERY TIME.

[@stevenenglish3694]

Roin Zander.... great vocals and a classy Rock Star...love Cheap Trick

[@medwayhospitalprotest]

Excellent cover of The Move's song. 👍

[@virginiapicker]

Knocks me out how Robin sings like that while effortlessly playing rhythm guitar right in the pocket

[@brittdanielrocks]

🤘🤘🎸🎸 🌹

[@zackwheatt9565]

One of the loudest bands I ever saw OUTSTANDING

[@absolutelydisgusted3319]

Your comment just made me think of the great quote in Spinal Tap- “World’s Loudest Band.” 🤣lol.

[@nicknixon6198]

Steel Wheels Tour... Living Color opened for the Stones.... In a Downpour.... Absolutely the Loudest Power Trio I've heard...

[@ralphtom3431]

@@nicknixon6198 ... Any motorhead show

[@nicknixon6198]

@@ralphtom3431 miss lemmy

[@nealdarstein4799]

​@@nicknixon6198shure do

[@ravello99]

That VOICE!!!!!

[@Melshelly1]

ravello99, I KNOW right? AMAZING! The range is unmatchable, (my opinion alone probably, but, oh well, lol)

[@drralph100]

I always thought Robin Zander was a man of a million voices...plus he has a son and a daughter both named Robin Zander and he's stayed married to a Playboy Playmate for right at 30 years.... he's basically a super-hero without the cape.

[@mindfullymellow2323]

Robin also has two older children, Holland and Ian. Holland also has an amazing voice and range like her dad.

[@kevinfisher5492]

In 1979...everyone was going disco. The Stones went disco with "Emotional Rescue." Kiss went disco with "I was made for Lovin' You." Hell they even tried to take the Beatles to disco with the Bee Gees and the "Sgt Peppers" movie. Everyone went disco EXCEPT for Cheap Trick who kept on rockin'.

[@julenepegher6999]

You are right, Cheap Trick rocks, but I do love Emotional Rescue🤷‍♀️

[@davidcollins6455]

And zep.....they never went disco

[@comet6885]

Don't forget Acca Dacca who put out Highway to Hell in '79

[@jody8526937]

Zep flirted with dance moves in the latter years.@@davidcollins6455

[@devrawilliams3652]

The cars

[@superbug1977]

You either loved them or hated them. They were divisive. I saw them for the first time at Kiel Opera House in St. Louis in 1978 (3500 seats...maybe...first concert without my mother). Ken Burns should do a documentary on them!

[@nicknixon6198]

Seriously underrated....

[@nicknixon6198]

They are here. ALWAYS been here

[@bigdaddy-fk5bi]

@@nicknixon6198 oh no way, they are loved and respected by every player in every band in rock.

[@ricardocerrillo3472]

Pure kickass music, as I fondly remember it!👌👍🏻

[@richardhebden5603]

This song was written by a guy called Roy Wood who was huge in the UK in the early 70's in various bands. The "California" reference in the song title was down to an area in the city of Derby in the English, East Midlands where Roy Wood was born called California.

[@mauriceortiz8817]

One of the best, hands down, rock m roll symphonies of all time.

[@underock4]

Imo, THE best live rock album. All the great parties, early 80's used to play this. Saw them in London 5/6 times. Intro...'Epic recording artists Cheap Trick', followed by Hello There...emblazoned in my mind forever.

[@romelovesdan]

America's premier Rock and Roll band!

[@MultiChillidog]

Grew up not too far from Rockford, Ill. . Greatest group of all time (IMO). Rick is one of the greatest guitarist, Robin's vocals are awesome, Tom is a Master on the bass, and Bun E is such an underrated drummer Only music I listened to in highschool and 40+ years later still my preferred music to listen to.

[@jamesian-allen8725]

Bun E is the American Ringo.

[@markadkins8773]

This has got to be one of the greatest videos shared on this platform. Great quality and so iconic. Love this.

[@1wirey]

It’s amazing to think that this was from 1978. One of my buddies played this constantly.

[@professorpopkiss]

Originally released in 1972 by The Move, who later had hits as ELO, you must give credit where its due.

[@brettthomson3689]

It all came together on this tour. Slogging it out in bars and bowling alleys in the Midwest, and then...Budokan!

[@KOSMICKEN09]

As a kid I read the credits on heaven tonight thinking R. Wood was Ron Wood 😄 but I Later thank Cheap Trick for getting me into The Move

[@davekelly9657]

This band doesn't get the reconditioned it deserves 💯

[@minnihapy2722]

you mean recognition?

[@WDH59510]

​@@minnihapy2722He does. And I agree.

[@markduffey686]

If I'm not mistaken, Tom introduced the 12-string bass.

[@Frank-sm9yl]

John Paul Jones of Zeppelin played one. Tom worked with the designer and manufacturer on his.

[@kevinsandlin843]

My favorite CT song ever! Sounds better the louder you crank it!

[@denisebell3457]

Robin Zander has still got me rockin! LOVE 💕 MY ROCKFORD BOYS! 🎉❤

[@brittdanielrocks]

🤘🤘🎸🎸 🌹

[@mspixiedust100]

Man THIS was the party song!

[@gagemoss1075]

I wish I could have seen this 40 (!!) years ago.... Oh wait--I did. Celebrity Theater -Phoenix Jan. 7.1979

[@kaatwangsnoisebunker775]

Damn you are old. Caught them I. July 79. In Duluth, MN. The Romantics opened up. You

[@Earthaluigikidcompany]

Watch it in 2x speed it’s faster and the crowd screams like a helecopter

[@KOSMICKEN09]

My uncle took me to see em in summer of 1979 when I was 9 at the Chicago Amphitheater

[@mrvlsmrv]

Celebrity theater Phoenix AZ? I was there too! I believe that was in the round too. Only time I went to a show there. Ushers were @$$#0!e$. Show was great as usual. Saw them 2 years earlier in a community college theater with only 100 or so people. It was Illinois and way below zero. They did two shows. Stayed for both. Got some picks and a harmonica that Bun E. used during a solo break from the kit. Haven't seen them since the 25th anniversary show in Rockford. My hearing probably can't take it anymore.

[@warriorsofcamelotlotro3347]

The best band ever!!!

[@AHowardAz]

Bun killing it. Wish they’d show his chops more.

[@misterkite5887]

1978 Boston garden I lost a good portion of my hearing at their show lol.✌️

[@ronlarson6530]

This is like time travel! I am 61 years old and this so g was at a great time in my life :) Rick, you rock!!!

[@jody8526937]

Same here..driving around town in my friends mother’s Camaro.. Surrender, and Van Halen rattling the paper core speakers while dreaming of owning a Porsche 924. Sleeping out for KISS and Cheap Trick tickets that cost $7.50. Wondering who I would ask to prom and what college I would get into?

[@jamesallen-jones3404]

This is quite the lil rock N rollin' lil tune right here in'nt? :)

[@kevinwilliams5224]

Give me a time machine and I'm going to this concert as well as the Ramones at the Rainbow.

[@josephalvarez4131]

Great band great musicians

[@timothyjones6323]

One of the great rock and roll voices.

[@mauriceortiz8817]

Best rendition

[@brittdanielrocks]

🤘🤘🎸🎸 🌹

[@mauriceortiz8817]

@@brittdanielrocks The most famous office that had ever communicated with me. Now I can die peacefully.

[@kaseym4033]

The best ❤❤

[@WDH59510]

"The best band I ever produced who didn't come from Liverpool" (Sir George Martin).

[@jamesallen-jones3404]

yep...i read that as well. :)

[@harolddburke4726]

uuuummm never knew that . Dig this song

[@tonyaelliott4070]

@Nathaniel Adams Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and Roy Wood! Nobody can beat them. Don't even try. Yeah rock on Birmingham! ( Cheap Trick took a good stab at it and they were good. But ummmmmm sorry. The Move got you beat!)

[@virginiapicker]

Great quote!

[@dmitryowens]

Originally written by Roy Wood of The Move. Cheap Trick's version kicks it up a notch or 3.

[@skylarkman2000]

Amazing musicians, amazing song. Red hot stuff !!

[@mspixiedust100]

Southern Cal baby!!!! Surfer dudes!

[@spionsilver9626]

nailed it !

[@ryandeanlindgren9054]

Awesome 😎👍😎👍😎👍👍

[@mspixiedust100]

Going to a place where the jive is REALLY cool!

[@brannonevans3685]

Saw them in 79 when they opened up for KISS.

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

I actually love this song I'm from New York City

[@lauriemouncey7636]

Like both versions

[@brittdanielrocks]

🤘🤘🎸🎸 🌹

[@garymcgrath8246]

Iconic Cheap Trick fizzy ? rythmn guitar sound

[@lindamugford5507]

Awesome

[@brittdanielrocks]

🤘🤘🎸🎸 🌹

[@Shell6424]

Terry Glaze from Pantera loves this song from Cheap Trick. Tommy is looking hot.

[@sherrydrake9578]

So is Robin.

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Me too buddy

[@c.j.rimmer827]

I miss Bun E. Carlos...........

[@kevinlofstrom1799]

My Jam

[@jamesallen-jones3404]

this is how it gets done.

[@jjude17]

I really am a California Man now living in Japan.

[@thehotcoffeehouse6081]

According to nielsen himself, they were "just 4 knuckleheads from illinois" lol..... Hardly. Hottest band ever in history of rock and roll.

[@alann5003]

Why was this song left off the album?

[@kennethkiefer4925]

I SAW THIS GUY'S AT THE LES BOIS FAIR GROUNDS BOISE IDAHO 1980 WORLD 🌎 TOUR

[@andrewfrick5312]

great cover! Originally done by Jeff Lynne and the Move by roy wood. Check it out!

[@IanMcGrath70]

I just noticed they go into the riff from Brontosaurus (another old Move song) for a few seconds, after the guitar solo!

[@luckyman4003]

I'm a California Man too. I'm so simple for you to admit it

[@frankflores7101]

Yaaaaa Haaaaaa!!!!!!✌️❤️😁🎭

[@Richard-ur1uh]

Good sound from back rhe

[@richarddean4763]

Rock and roll

[@Earthaluigikidcompany]

0:01 how it feels to chew 5 gum 01:00 stimulate your senses

[@joewilliams1410]

Love that so much 😂

[@jedtheye1470]

This sounds like Eric Hovde’s theme song! No calling that guy a Wisco man lol.

[@mspixiedust100]

Robin Zander was a babe!!!!

[@Mytube777]

mspixiedust100 Tom is pretty hot too!

[@mspixiedust100]

+Mytube777 true!!

[@jnfamiani]

my sister agrees with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@tonyaelliott4070]

Yes he was a hot babe!

[@Earthaluigikidcompany]

I literally said how it feels to chew 5 gum

[@tedkay_music]

alright!

[@raychell370]

Yes, I Was There 🎵🎵🎵

[@Earthaluigikidcompany]

Did you hear screaming

[@Earthaluigikidcompany]

Me and madshenans puts a timer for question yes or no

[@roseakarosiehweinstein3216]

Wow absolutely cool

[@buckwilliam3749]

Is Robin’s guitar plugged in?

[@randon32ndFan]

Bun E. does all the work and get 2:57 and 3:42 for it.

[@bradleystereoguitaramplifi9616]

❤ Bun E

[@bxryme]

🔥🔥🔥

[@clarkewi]

Massive.

[@brettthomson3689]

Interesting, this has a different tag at the end of the song to the version on the record.

[@raymondfrankwick6965]

Just emptied a second restaurant kitchen quality extinguisher and watched it come back in the window it was climbing out of. A hundred yards away from the kitchen it came from.

[@andymassingham]

Roy Wood!

[@michaellorenzen8200]

from day one I think Cheap Trick would play your garage for a few people and completely blow away the neighborhood even the cops would show up for a good time 😜

[@火垂るの墓セツ子]

Ｉ like it 💥　I'm カリフォルニアマン😃😆

[@tiki_trash]

See kids? This is what happens when you don't have a screen to stare at and you're bored.

[@gnarlee9541]

⚘

[@drmrguy3410]

Bun king of the Luddies

[@pamelaadamany9646]

Im a Florida Keys gurl...get that guitar a rocking..

[@brittdanielrocks]

🤘🤘🎸🎸 🌹

[@jameschavez6400]

Dam Tose Years Robin Stole Everyone s Girls & Sisters

[@luckyman4003]

愛子様のお通りだ。貴様ら頭が高いぞ。そこをどこだと思っとるか。

[@zachsmith3]

1.1x speed for The Move experience

[@raidersrobert]

Ron Wood of the Stones wrote this song.

[@aplaceinfrance9279]

No. Roy Wood, not Ron...

[@thomasgallagher7092]

Yes Roy Wood from the move

[@robdale1214]

Similar to the same riff of the time warp. Same chords too. Hmmmm 🤔

[@anareginanoj8186]

CHEAP TRICK como quiia qu venga un concierto maa qui en GUUste

[@brittdanielrocks]

🤘🤘🎸🎸 🌹

[@Earthaluigikidcompany]

2x speed is quicker put it on XD

[@JugaJuga14]

That’s right!

[@cathystrachan4403]

Tom is a total babe

[@brittdanielrocks]

🤘🤘🎸🎸 🌹

[@evanobrien9585]

Cheap trick is such a weird looking band