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

Friday, January 30 Those Men Inside My Brain (Cheap Trick Tribute) featuring Simon & The Apparatus Doors open at 7 PM; show begins at 8 PM All ages welcome $12 in advance or $15 on the day of performance plus an additional $3 for guests under age 21. Originating from Cleveland and established in 2018, Dan Loy (bass and vocals), Chris Noble (drums), Pete Ortenzi (guitar and vocals), and Jeff Pappas (lead vocals and guitar) deliver the celebrated music of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members Cheap Trick to contemporary audiences. Iconic tracks such as I Want You to Want Me, Surrender, Dream Police, and Aint That a Shame have become synonymous with rock concerts and festival stages worldwide, and Those Men Inside My Brain present them with the energy and edge characteristic of young Cheap Trick when they first emerged onto the late 1970s rock scene. The name Those Men Inside My Brain originates from the refrain in Dream Police; the group draws inspiration from Cheap Tricks early musicparticularly their built-to-be-rocked-live repertoire, anti-rockstar identity, punk-edged irreverence, persistently off-kilter quirky humor, and above all their impeccable power-pop delivery. They channel those elements to perform the best material 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 careerfrom 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 notes that multiple generations of bands are not 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 perform throughout Ohio and neighboring states in 2026. They clearly connect with Cheap Tricks legendary style and sound but do not aspire merely to imitate. Dan explains that our tribute is to infuse the songs with our own personality, energy, and insight to achieve a more personally relevant and electrifying performance. Chris adds that it is what gives our show its edge.