My brother Ric once looked at Little Angel, put a Cheap Trick record on the turntable, and said, “You need to hear this.” I responded by running up the stairs while he chased me playing air guitar. Years later, after Ric was gone, his monster stereo and record collection came home, and Dream Police was waiting for me. This time, I didn’t run. I listened. What began as a favorite memory of my big brother became a journey into Cheap Trick, “Surrender,” and one of my earliest realizations that a band could have something all its own: a sound.