*RTH* Cheap Trick - I want you to want me (live)

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Influence

Cheap Trick is highly respected by its peers and an influence on its descendants. The band was one of Joey Ramone’s all-time favorites and has received acknowledgment from such peers as Gene Simmons (Rick Nielsen appeared on Simmons' 1978 solo album), Joe Perry, and Angus Young. In 1979, Robin Zander was informally approached to join British glam rockers Sweet after the departure of singer Brian Connolly. In the 1980s, Cheap Trick garnered support from the hard rock community when bands like Mötley Crüe, Ratt and Guns N' Roses cited their influence. An interesting shift happened during the early to mid-90s that helped fortify the band’s credibility - the band was now being seen as influential within the blossoming alternative rock scene. Kurt Cobain mentioned the band as an influence, while Smashing Pumpkins showed their admiration by having Cheap Trick open shows for them. Even earlier, industrial post-punk band Big Black released a version of Cheap Trick's "He's A Whore" as a single in 1986.

According to Poison guitarist C.C. Deville the main riff to "Talk Dirty to Me", is taken from Cheap Trick's "She's Tight", while his solo for the song is taken from "California Man".

Smashing Pumpkins leader Billy Corgan has made a number of onstage guest appearances with Cheap Trick over the years. The thrash metal band Anthrax has covered two Cheap Trick songs, "Big Eyes" and "Auf Wiedersehen". Other bands that have mentioned Cheap Trick as an inspiration and influence include Gin Blossoms, Urge Overkill, Pearl Jam, Weezer, Stone Temple Pilots, The Squids, Webb Wilder, Jason & the Scorchers, Everclear, Extreme, Enuff Z'nuff, The Bad Dolphins/Rich'Ionizer'Salzer, Green Day, American Hi-Fi, Foo Fighters, Soundgarden, Fountains of Wayne, Red Hot Chili Peppers, the Rival Mob, OK Go, Terrorvision, Sugar High, Kings of Leon, Hüsker Dü, Slipknot, Jet, Tinted Windows, Surf Punks and The Wildhearts. Alice Cooper, on his "Nights with Alice Cooper" radio show once called Cheap Trick "America's House Band", citing their following among a wide range of musical genres. Even R&B/Soul artist Reggie Sears has mentioned Cheap Trick to be a big influence.

In the movie This is Spinal Tap, the fictional, down on its luck band Spinal Tap finds renewed success in a sold-out tour of Japan, an homage to Cheap Trick's rise to international success after its tour of that country.

Singer-songwriter and guitarist Buzz Osborne of the Melvins, a seminal alternative music group, stated in 2011 that he's been a Cheap Trick fan and influenced by their work. The Bad Dolphins recorded 'The Ballad of Bun & Jon' in Virginia Beach, VA in 2014 on an independent EP VA Rocks.

The lyric "Got my Kiss records out" in the Cheap Trick song "Surrender", is rewritten as a tribute to Cheap Trick in The Squids song "Weeeee!! A KISS Concert!!" (2008) as "Got my Cheap Trick records out".