They want you to want them... all over again. Cheap Trick, the '70s pop band that was discovered in a Milwaukee bowling alley by Aerosmith producer Jack Douglas, is back. Epic/Legacy just rereleased three of the quartet's seminal albums ("Cheap Trick," "In Color," and "Heaven Tonight"). And this Halloween weekend the guys are winding down a national tour (they've shared bills with Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins) with a trio of sold-out shows at Manhattan's Irving Plaza.

But don't even think of suggesting to guitarist Rick Nielsen that Trick is riding a wave of '70s nostalgia. "I hate it when people say, 'Oh, boy, the '70s are back,'" Nielsen tells EW Online. "Yick! I don't want the '70s to be back. When we originally started to do well, disco music was at its peak. Why would anyone want that back?"

Nielsen, 49, thinks the band's reemergence has something to do with the quality of its songs. "It's kinda cool when kids find out that music their parents liked wasn't completely awful. It's not like them saying, 'I loved Cher,' and then you go see Cher and say, 'Oh brother, that sounds like my parents' kind of junk.'" Case in point: In Philadelphia last week the band was paid homage to by one famous offspring. "Sean Lennon came up and said, 'I can't believe my dad was hip enough to like you guys,'" says Nielsen. "Can you imagine, John Lennon not being hip enough to like us?"