Original sentence: Carlos said that before the show started KISS' drummer Peter Criss was so wasted that he almost had to put on makeup and take his place.While most power-pop contemporaries like The Knack, The Shoes, and The Raspberries stuck to writing songs in the vein of The Beatles and The Who, Cheap Trick's songs were every bit as catchy as their pop predecessors, had the hard edge of many of the heavy metal bands at the time (note "ELO Kiddies" and "Clock Strikes Ten"), as well as the speed and energy of the emerging punk rock scene ("He's a Whore")
Edited sentence: Carlos said that before the show started KISS' drummer Peter Criss was so wasted that he almost had to put on make up and take his place.While most power-pop contemporaries like The Knack, The Shoes, and The Raspberries simply stuck to writing rather derivative songs in the vein of The Beatles and The Who, Cheap Trick's songs were every bit as catchy as their pop predecessors, had the hard edge of many of the heavy metal bands at the time (note "ELO Kiddies" and "Clock Strikes Ten"), as well as the speed and energy of the emerging punk rock scene ("He's a Whore")