Name: Those Men Inside My Brain (Cheap Trick Tribute) w/ Simon & The Apparatus
Start: 2026-01-30T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Grog Shop

$Those Men Inside My Brain (Cheap Trick Tribute) w\/ Simon & The Apparatus$

Friday, January 30
Those Men Inside My Brain (Cheap Trick Tribute) w/ Simon & The Apparatus
Doors 7 PM l Show 8 PM
All Ages
$12 advance / $15 day of show
+ $3 at door if under 21
Hailing from Cleveland and formed in 2018, Dan Loy (bass/vocals), Chris Noble, (drums), Pete Ortenzi (guitar/vocals) and Jeff Pappas (lead vocals/guitar) bring the sensational music of Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Cheap Trick to todays audiences. Iconic songs like I Want You to Want Me, Surrender, Dream Police, and Ain't That a Shame are synonymous with rock concerts and festival stages everywhere and Those Men Inside My Brain play them with the energy and edge of a young Cheap Trick emerging onto the late 70s rock scene.
Those Men Inside My Brain, whose name comes from the refrain in the song Dream Police, is rooted in Cheap Tricks early music, namely their built-to-be-rocked-live repertoire, their anti-rockstar identity, their punk-edged irreverence, their persistently off-kilter quirky humor, and above all, their impeccable power-pop delivery. Those Men Inside My Brain draw from those elements to play the best from Cheap Tricks illustrious five-decade career, promising the hits you know, the concert classics you love, and the album cuts you will want to hear again and again!
Cheap Trick has been culture-checked countless times throughout their resilient career, from roller skate rockers to arena upstarts, to MTV darlings, to record company cast-offs, to Hall of Famers, to one of the longest enduring and relevant 70s classic rock bands! Pete points out that, Multiple generations of bands arent simply inspired by Cheap Trick, they want to be Cheap Trick and would settle for any part of their long list of accomplishments.Those Men Inside My Brains audience has been steadily growing in Northeast Ohio and the band will be playing throughout Ohio and its neighboring states in 2026. They clearly connect to Cheap Tricks legendary style and sound but dont aspire to simply imitate. Our tribute, explains Dan, Is to infuse the songs with our own personality, energy, and insight to achieve a more personally relevant and electrifying performance. Chris adds, Its what gives our show its edge.