Cheap Trick — Budokan!
Recorded April 28, 1978
Nippon Budokan · Tokyo · 
Japan
Setlist
Wrong timestamp?
Latest album at the timeIn Color1977It is the most recent studio album on the night of the recording and supplies Hello There, Downed, Southern Girls and I Want You to Want Me.“To see Cheap Trick on their first Japanese tour, at the Budokan stop that comes before their international breakthrough.”
Context
In April 1978, Cheap Trick find a reception in Japan that their first albums had not yet produced in the United States. It is the band's first Japanese tour. On the 28th, the quartet takes the stage at the Nippon Budokan in Tokyo, before turning this stop into their big commercial turning point.
Robin Zander takes vocals, Rick Nielsen guitar, Tom Petersson bass and Bun E. Carlos drums. Hello There opens the program. The set brings Downed and Southern Girls alongside Surrender and Auf Wiedersehen, while covers of Terry Reid, The Move and Fats Domino widen the night beyond their own songs.
The live album opens the way to international success in 1979. The footage, originally aired on Japanese television, gets a commercial DVD release in the 30th anniversary edition in 2008. Come On, Come On is included as a bonus; Voices and If You Want My Love show the return to the same stage, three decades later.
- The bonus tracks bring the 1978 show alongside the return to the Budokan thirty years later.
Lineup at this show
The lineup of this performance — not necessarily the current one.
- Robin ZanderVocals and rhythm guitar
- Rick NielsenGuitar and backing vocals
- Tom PeterssonBass and backing vocals
- Bun E. CarlosDrums
Trivia
Come On, Come On is second in the night's set but appears after Clock Strikes Ten as a DVD bonus.
Voices and If You Want My Love belong to the 2008 return to the Budokan, not the 1978 show.
From 1:11:25, Looking Back gathers 2008 interviews about the experience in Japan.
You might also like…
More Rock, from around 1978
BroadcastDavid Bowie
1978·Musikladen Extra
Tour of Heroes (1977)
Official releaseABBA
1978·ABBA in Japan
Era of ABBA: The Album
BootlegQueen
1977·Live at the Summit
Tour of News of the World (1977)
BroadcastRoberto Carlos
1977·Roberto Carlos Special 1977
Era of Roberto Carlos (1976)
BroadcastSupertramp
1977·Sight and Sound in Concert
Tour of Even in the Quietest Moments... (1977)
BroadcastElton John
1977·Live at Wembley 1977
Album Blue Moves (1976)
BroadcastElvis Presley
1977·Live in Omaha
Era of From Elvis Presley Boulevard, Memphis, Tennessee (1976)
AC/DC
1979·Day on the Green 1979
Tour of If You Want Blood You've Got It
Official releaseKISS
1977·The Summit — Houston 1977
Tour of Love Gun
BroadcastDire Straits
1979·Rockpalast 1979
Era of Dire Straits (1978)
BroadcastDolly Parton
1977·Musikladen 1977
Album New Harvest...First Gathering (1977)
BroadcastScorpions
1977·Kaléidospop 1977
Tour of Virgin Killer (1976)
Official releaseABBA
1979·ABBA in Switzerland
Era of ABBA: The Album
Official releaseABBA
1979·ABBA in Concert
Tour of Voulez-Vous (1979)
BootlegQueen
1976·Live at Hyde Park
Era of A Night at the Opera (1975)
Roy Orbison
1980·Ao Vivo em Roosendaal
Era of Laminar Flow (1979)
Official releaseKISS
1980·Sydney Showground — Unmasked 1980
Tour of Unmasked
BroadcastDire Straits
1980·Rockpop in Concert 1980
Tour of Making Movies (1980)
Official releaseBob Dylan
1980·Trouble No More: A Musical Film
Tour of Slow Train Coming (1979)
BroadcastCarpenters
1976·In Concert at the New London Theatre
Album A Kind of Hush (1976)
