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  • Hello There
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  • 1977 songs
  • Hard rock songs
  • Cheap Trick songs
  • Song recordings produced by Tom Werman
  • Songs written by Rick Nielsen
  • Foetus (band) songs
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  • %22Hello There%22 is a song written by Rick Nielsen and first released on Cheap Trick's 1977 album In Color. The song was also often used as the first song of Cheap Trick concerts, and as a result was the first song on the band's seminal live album Cheap Trick at Budokan. The song is a frantic, energetic, raucous hard rock song. Critic Dave Marsh of Rolling Stone Magazine detected echoes in the song of the %22manic verve%22 of The Beatles' song %22Birthday%22. Ed Masley of The Arizona Republic described %22Hello There%22 as %22Cheap Trick's 'Helter Skelter.'%22 Denise Sullivan of Allmusic describes the song as being %22all about the good-time/partying spirit, asking the proverbial question, 'Are you ready to rock?Template:'%22 John M. Borack listed the song one of 20 Cheap Trick songs to die for and said of the song that %22it's quick, it's kick ass and it's a perfect set opener.%22 As performed on In Color, the song starts with Nielsen playing a frenzied, fuzzy guitar part for two and a half bars, then Bun E. Carlos' strong drum beat appears, and finally Tom Petersson's bass and Robin Zander's vocal join in. The entire song lasts 1 minute and 41 seconds. Cheap Trick also released the song on its compilation albums Sex, America, Cheap Trick and The Essential Cheap Trick. A live video of Cheap Trick performing %22Hello There%22 at the Budokan concert was shown on the DVD included with the 30th anniversary collector's edition release of Cheap Trick at Budokan album.Nielsen has stated that he wrote the song because in its early days the band did not always get a soundcheck before it played live. Rather than use one of their more melodic songs to experiment with the sound coming out of the PA system, they could use this song, which Nielsen called a %22perfect welcome to the show intro piece.%22 Nielsen said he got the idea for such an intro song from an earlier band, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera. %22Hello There%22 replaced %22ELO Kiddies%22 as Cheap Trick's live opening song. It was the band's typical live opener from 1977 through the mid-1980s.%22Hello There%22 was covered by Foetus on their 1996 album Boil. It was also covered by Phil Lewis in 2000. Cheap Trick's version was also included on the soundtrack to the Matt Dillon film Over the Edge, along with the Cheap Trick songs %22Surrender%22, %22Downed%22 and %22Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace.%22 A version of %22Hello There%22 is also included in the music video game Rock Band 2 as a playable track.
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  • Rick Nielsen
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  • USSM17700061
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  • Tom Werman
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  • Epic Records
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  • Hello There
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