At Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 08:48:20 Lee wrote:

>Ink19: Were you guys fans of Big Star before you did the song?
>
>Rick: We were aware of them, but we never really heard them in the
>'70s. We all knew who Alex Chilton was, of course, from The Box Tops,
>and stuff, but nobody in the band really had any of their records or
>really heard much about them until probably the '80s, 'til after they
>were broke up.

I guess what I've heard in the Big Star records must be simultaneous 
evolution as Cheap Trick. Same influences with a penchant for the same 
sounds and approaches to arrangement....which isn't unusual. Bands from any 
given era are the product of producers, their influences and the "sound" of 
the times.


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