{"id":30936,"date":"2013-07-09T06:03:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T10:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=30936"},"modified":"2013-07-09T06:03:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-09T10:03:28","slug":"justins-japan-cheap-trick-brings-budokan-to-the-bowery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2013\/07\/09\/justins-japan-cheap-trick-brings-budokan-to-the-bowery\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin’s Japan: Cheap Trick Brings Budokan to the Bowery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine<\/em><\/strong><\/a>\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/strong>(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi<\/a>, 2001-02) for <\/strong><\/em>Shukan NY Seikatsu<\/a><\/strong>. Visit his Examiner.com Japanese culture page\u00a0here<\/a>\u00a0for related stories.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

On April 28, legendary American rockers Cheap Trick played an invitation only, packed to the gills performance at the John Varvatos boutique in Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side. The occasion: a tuneful recreation of the band\u2019s debut concert at Tokyo\u2019s Nippon Budokan arena, 35 years to the day of that historic gig.<\/p>\n

Originally recorded for a Japan-only live album (where the band enjoyed a Beatles-like following at the time), Cheap Trick at Budokan<\/i> was released in the U.S. the following year, igniting the band\u2019s popularity at home. It remains their best-selling album at over three million copies sold, and hits like \u201cI Want You to Want Me\u201d and \u201cSurrender\u201d remain classic rock staples.<\/p>\n

Held at the former site of another storied rock venue, CBGB, and hosted by Varvatos himself, Cheap Trick was in fine form throughout the 90-minute set. Sponsored by Sony, the entire show was professionally filmed and posted on Livestream.com. Original members Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander and Tom Petersson (with Nielsen\u2019s son Daxx providing the beat) still continue to radiate the energy, chemistry and charisma that make them one of the best live acts among their \u201970s peers.<\/p>\n

New Yorkers can enjoy Cheap Trick\u2019s next area performance for free on July 12 as part of the Seaside Summer Concert Series<\/a> at Coney Island. For more information, visit www.cheaptrick.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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By\u00a0JQ\u00a0magazine\u00a0editor\u00a0Justin Tedaldi\u00a0(CIR\u00a0Kobe-shi, 2001-02) for Shukan NY Seikatsu. Visit his Examiner.com Japanese culture page\u00a0here\u00a0for related stories. On April 28, legendary American rockers Cheap Trick played an invitation only, packed to the gills performance at the John Varvatos boutique in Manhattan\u2019s Lower East Side. The occasion: a tuneful recreation of the band\u2019s debut concert at Tokyo\u2019s Nippon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,340,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-justins-japan","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-82Y","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30936"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30939,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30936\/revisions\/30939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}