Chicago recording their new single "Somethin' Comin', I Know" during their 2013 tour. For more info or to download the track, visit chicagotheband.com or iTunes.
Like getting a backstage pass without the cost. Thank you. When I was a kid I played your albums at 16rpm so I could pick out the horn parts at about an octave lower, and wrote the whole score to Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon, Introduction, 25 or 6 to 4, and Saturday in the Park. We put together a teenage band and I still have a recording.
Jason Scheff is so adorable. He's older but those eyes and that smile haven't changed a bit. I feel like I'm a teenager Again when I first saw Will You still Love me.
Incredibly refreshing to hear new Chicago horn licks and part of a new song that has some of the old seventies spirit to it! C'mon Chicago knock one out of the park!
Fabulous video...very inspiring. We have our own home based studio in Las Vegas and have a literal "blast" recording stuff like this. Just downloaded the song from iTunes. Can't wait to hear Chicago live in Vegas again after this entire album is done. Keep it going another 46 years guys... Wally Hanson Hanson Music Studios
Many years ago I heard Beginnings at the Cow shed in Coneaut Lake Pa. Fell in love with the music and am a long time fan. Little did I know how Great you would be. Hardest working Band EVER!
Parts of the horn section remind me of "You Are on my Mind" great stuff Chicago! I'll be sending this song to Vegas when it comes out to be played in all the clubs ;)
They really got my hopes up when they put this album out. I thought this would be the first of many new albums. They invented a new mobile recording technology and I thought they were going to make new music wherever they went. Then Scheff left, one of their lead songwriters. The new guy who replaced Scheff doesn't write, so it's up to Lamm and Pankow. This was their last album they put out and it was a damn good one.
@@artcorvolet I haven't seen them in concert since 1999. They were playing the same old songs, never doing anything new. I wouldn't pay to see them now, only if Peter came back and that's not going to happen.
Lamm and Pankow have written a ton of Chicago hits, it’s probably just a case of making easy money touring, and not really caring about writing new music since it won’t get played on radio anyway, and the sales will be minimal. I’d settle for a new CD every 5-10 years.
A treat seeing this legendary brass section in action working on their parts. Would have been nice to see the result a bit more natural and "up front" in the final mix.
Loughnane, Pankow, and Parazaider were cigarette smokers in their early years, which I presume they ceased being long ago, however, it's surprising that they have any lung power left to continue to play their horns at their ages of nearly 70.
While Jason, Keith, and Tris are talented in their own right, quality control should go through these four guys. Makin' music the way they did it originally....not overproduced ala Foster and the others. Do it guys from the heart....
A long way from the years at Caribou. Stop by a hotel room do a couple hours of PT takes and leave. For the old guys its new and convenient- they don't have the time, energy or patience to spend weeks in a recording studio. Now its just all manufactured music. Sadly the days of being 'sequestered' in that mountain studio are gone.
sturoc0 The best music of Chicago came with Terry Kath. Caribou Ranch was a double edged sword Imo, but I cannot deny CTA's early years at the Ranch. Fantastic music. Missing Terry especially on the eve of the 40th anniversary of his tragic death. 1/23/2018 RIP Terry
As great as Terry Kath was...and I'm not taking anything away from his guitar skill...these guys were always the compositional core of Chicago. And the production on this disc is pristine. Can't really be faulted.
Great to hear the horns sounding like they used to. I do wish they'd stop with the crappy drum sounds though. Lets have some raw, analogue drum tones with groove & feel rather than compressed, drum-machine-like tones....
A band that opted for cheese instead of grit.Then blamed Peter .You went on to produce schlock hiring outside writers and losing the integrity of the original band. Donnie Dacus was right to feel less than compelled to stick with you guys as the music quality declined rapidly . Then losing Jason and Bill. Sure you're all very professional and talented but your time is long, long gone. The latest offerings...laughable and you thought you'd compare yourselves to Steely Dan..hardly. An Old fan of the Chicago that wasn't bought by L.A.types. Sell outs alright.
Kinda odd. Not exactly the big studio, but still, about as intimate with the guys as I've ever seen.They're not exactly ripping it up, but maybe that's the trick; they don't play loud? The feeling I get is, they're not necessarily the brightest bulbs in the chandelier, but I suppose that is the only way they could possibly stand doing it still after 46 years...
