Before the power-pop movement kicked into high-gear with the success of 1979?s Get The Knack and Cheap Trick?s Live at Budokan?pioneering Chicago-based group, Pezband, had already blazed a three-year trail of hard-edged, hook-laden and harmony-drenched pop-rock on three critically-acclaimed albums and two ferocious live EPs. Unfortunately, Pezband was caught in-between the power-pop boom of the early '70s?when Badfinger and The Raspberries were churning out hit singles?and the resurgence in the very-late '70s, when The Knack and Cheap Trick had singles success. Had Pezband debuted a few years earlier or later, they certainly would have found a larger audience. Further, the group?s choice of record company [LINK: the] long-defunct New Jersey-based Passport Records probably hurt their chances?as the label lacked the promotional resources to break the band (or any of their acts for that matter). Though P

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