Cheap Trick - Silver
Filmed in the late summer of 1999,Cheap Trick: Silveris a 25th  anniversary celebration of the Rockford, Illinois, band famous for marrying  British Invasion-era pop hooks with the guitar crunch of the Who'sQuadropheniaperiod. Shot on a sealed-off, Rockford street, the concert  is an electrifying overview of high points from the group'sdiscography. The songs  plucked from each of their albums reveal a remarkable power-pop consistency  over the long haul, despite the band's lengthy periods of commercial  rejection and bare survival. Visibly thrilled, Cheap Trick soar here through  monster hits ("I Want You to Want Me," "Dream Police") and milk every drop of  emotion from masterful ballads ("I Can't Take It"). While stellar guests  include Slash and Billy Corgan, it's the appearances by less famous folk (the  Rockford Symphony Orchestra, a few offspring of guitarist Rick Nielsen and  singer Robin Zander) that movingly underscore the populist glories of this  American band.--Tom Keogh