Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.

And I'm Brian. And what are we talking about this week, Brian?

1970s in color by Cheap Trick.

Hello there, ladies and gentlemen. Hello. What we do here every week on the podcast is a great of music and talk about what makes it great.

We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do, and we cap it all off with a track-by-track review. But we're not doing it

alone this week. Absolutely not. This week, we have BJ Kahuna joining us. He is a podcaster

himself, who has a couple of podcasts, and he's a great option to talk about

cheap trick with because he has a cheap trick podcast.

Yes, the foremost authority on the band.

And as you'll hear in our conversation with him, he kind of says like, oh yeah,

am I conversation with this person and my conversation

with that person. This person and that person, meaning people connected directly to cheap trick.

Yeah. Not like, my conversation with like my buddy at the bar. It's like, no, my conversation with like

this A&R guy or this like, you know,

early member of that circle or, you know, whatever.

So very reliable information.

So we'll let B.J. promote himself when he comes on shortly.

So before we do that, Brian, do you mind giving everybody a little bit of a background biography

on Cheap Trick so that we have all the names, dates, and places in our heads?

And we're on the same page for the conversation.

Yeah.

Cheap Trick formed in 1974 in Rockford, Illinois, centered around their guitarist and the songwriter, Rick Nielsen.

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