Roy, they probably should get in first...no, wait...be nominated first before we need to ponder possible induction speakers. And I do not see a nomination or induction in the near future.

Posted by Dezmond on Saturday, 02/2/2013 @ 13:12pm

Its gonna take some sort of new guard on the R&R Hall Committee to get Chicago in. There is no way its gonna happen with the current regime, they clearly hate the band as the acts that are getting in/nominated now are a joke and pale in accomplishments to Chicago. Your telling me Randy Newman who is a good composer was/is more influential than Chicago? Really, with a straight face? Not on his best day and I'm sure he would tell you the same thing.

Posted by Pete on Monday, 02/18/2013 @ 01:58am

Roy, the only thing I don't like about the picture posting is that when I come here I usually click on the 'Most Recent Comments' tab & if you use alot of vertical bandwidth by posting those pictures, it means that alot fewer comments are within the block set aside for Most Recent Comments (so I think).

Nice picture of the President, BTW.

Posted by Paul in KY on Monday, 02/25/2013 @ 07:42am

Yea I agree with you Paul in KY, thats what I usually do is read the recent comments and when he puts up stuff like that and all of the same comments on different artists it wipes out alot of the recent ones.

Posted by bojanthebest on Monday, 02/25/2013 @ 11:22am

Americans are obsessed with celebrity. Americans are obsessed with the bad boy aspect, all of the people rags, and celebrity obsession. This band focuses on the excellence of the art. The sensationalistic craving for celebrity is a boring journey. Nobody wants to talk about the art. Higher calling folks will acknowledge that. This obsession with celebrity leaves us out of the mix because it’s not about that with this band, it’s about this legacy of the music and there is nothing printable about that that is sensationalistic. There is a lot of value in what we have done over the years. It’s quite phenominal this legacy we have created but it is not sensationalistic. It’s not something you would want a typical reader of these rags to find interesting. They want to read about who did what to whom. Who went to jail for what. They want to read about somebody’s misfortune. They want to see that someone is worse off than they are.

--James Pankow


Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04.14.13 @ 23:22pm
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Truer words have never been spoken, regarding art vs. sales hype. It's a real pity that hype & marketing won out.

Posted by Cheesecrop on Monday, 04/15/2013 @ 06:58am

How can anyone take this so called Rock & Roll HOF serious... it has no credibility whatsoever!
to exclude Chicago is a disgrace, and an insult to 1 of the greatest bands ever. replace this committee post haste!!!!!

Posted by CC Golf on Thursday, 06/6/2013 @ 05:31am

I just heard Green Day's "Brain Stew" on the radio and noticed the main guitar line borrows its chord progression from "25 or 6 to 4"

Posted by Aaron O'Donnell on Friday, 06/7/2013 @ 17:14pm

Roy, was reading the Kickstarter writeup & although I had heard that Mr. Kath's death was more a drunken accident & being stupid with firearms than anything else, the writeup makes it sound like it was a concious suicide.

What is your take on Mr. Kath's death?

Posted by Paul in KY on Thursday, 06/20/2013 @ 12:37pm

First three albums were decent. After that the music was pure pap. We could put our babies to sleep by playing Chicago's albums. In contrast, they were awake, engaged and actively listening when we played The Beatles.

Posted by Bob Borzoi on Friday, 06/21/2013 @ 16:55pm

If the Chicago Cubs ever win a World Series championship again, that would raise my hopes for Chicago getting in the RRHOF.

Never mind the Blackhawks. Or the Bulls. Or the White Sox.

Posted by Jason Voigt on Tuesday, 06/25/2013 @ 20:29pm

To be quite honest, I would rather see the band Chicago inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame than Nirvana next year.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Monday, 07/1/2013 @ 01:27am

To be quite honest, I would rather see the band Chicago inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame than Nirvana next year.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Monday, 07.1.13 @ 01:27am
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I understand where you'd like to see Chicago get in. I have nothing against Chicago, & would like to see them get in as well. However, better they do it on the back's of someone else than Nirvana.

I used to see a lot of comments about "this band should have to wait until this group gets in". Nine times out of ten, they dealt w/a new band having to wait for an older act. Inevitably, I found that when I mentioned there were acts older than the favored group in question, the person clammed up.

My point was always this: if you know an act is a first ballot group, why wait to induct them? Look what happened w/Metallica, who were definitely a first ballot case. In a sports Hall of Fame, they don't wait to let in a player who has the definitive credentials. Imagine Michael Jordan having to wait a yr. cause they forgot someone from 1965?! No one in their right mind would propose that (at least I don't think???).

I agree, Chicago should go in. They should be there already. They probably should've made it within at least three to five classes, if not on the first ballot themselves. However, it's not any modern group's fault that the voter's have muffed this. Why punish the more modern group? Let them in - but don't do it on the back of a more modern act that deserves to be there themselves.

Posted by Cheesecrop on Monday, 07/1/2013 @ 05:28am

Wow, I had never really heard Chicago's songs (other than those played on the radio) until earlier this year. Who would have known that they would be classified as a "progressive rock" band?

Posted by Enigmaticus on Thursday, 07/11/2013 @ 10:04am

IMO, Chicago is a pop band that also has released conventional rock songs as well.

They are definitely not 'progressive rock', as I understand the term.

Posted by Paul in KY on Thursday, 07/11/2013 @ 15:17pm

This might work, Roy. I doubt they've ever gotten an email from a creepy Chicago fan. This is probably all that was standing in the way.

Posted by DarinRG on Thursday, 07/18/2013 @ 03:01am

This might work, Roy. I doubt they've ever gotten an email from a creepy Chicago fan. This is probably all that was standing in the way.

Posted by DarinRG on Thursday, 07/18/2013 @ 03:01am

Roy,

I only have two studio albums by Chicago thus far: "Chicago Transit Authority" and "Chicago." I also own the compilation, "Chicago The Very Best Of: Only The Beginning."

Peter Cetera had sung on quite a few of Chicago's greatest songs written by other individuals, in addition to quite a few of his own great self-penned songs. I do not think that Peter Cetera's pop oriented songs has been detrimental to their nomination, however.

Will "Clear History" have the same effect on Chicago that "I Love You, Man" had for Rush?

Posted by Enigmaticus on Thursday, 08/15/2013 @ 02:49am

Roy,

The way that I see it, is that Peter Cetera is for many individuals- the voice of Chicago. After he left the band, Chicago was never the same. In order to get Chicago into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame, Peter Cetera will need to be invited back to work with Chicago in the studio. It appears that he really does not want to tour any longer, however a "one off" show recorded for DVD, BluRay that would be televised on VH-1 classic might be just the right thing to convince the nominating committee that Chicago is worthy of induction. Unfortunately "Clear History," however well intentioned, may just not do the trick. If my opinion about this film, at least the portions that i have seen, is similar to other reviewers, it could hurt Chicago.

The members of that major "progressive rock" band, who have recently been inducted, may hold the key. Has anybody ever asked the "holy triumvirate" what they think about Chicago?

Posted by Enigmaticus on Saturday, 08/17/2013 @ 10:36am

Roy,

Has anybody ever created a documentary about Chicago (the band), in the same light as "Rush: Beyond The Lighted Stage?"

Has VH-1 Classic featured Chicago in an episode of their "Behind The Music: Remastered" series?

Posted by Enigmaticus on Saturday, 08/17/2013 @ 17:54pm

Way over DUE

Posted by Happy on Saturday, 08/17/2013 @ 21:54pm

I agree that Chicago should already have been in YEARS ago!

Posted by James on Saturday, 08/17/2013 @ 22:06pm

Roy, that is fascinating. I would also like to know, for each member of Chicago:

1. Favorite color;
2. Favorite food; and
3. Age and location where each member lost his virginity.

Posted by Dezmond on Sunday, 09/8/2013 @ 23:50pm

Whatttttttt? What do fans need to do to make this happen?

Posted by Bb on Saturday, 09/14/2013 @ 20:21pm

How brutal would it be to have Chicago, Bon Jovi and Linda Ronstadt on the ballot? Throw Sonic Youth in there and I'll gag. (God I hate hipster heroes).

In seriousness, I think Chicago is borderline but it's defensible (Fine early career, wretched later career). Bon Jovi is one I would oppose (not enough quality imho), but I could still see the rationale. Ronstadt would be a travesty. Pure cronyism.

Posted by astrodog on Tuesday, 10/15/2013 @ 05:49am

On a ballot like that, Sonic Youth would be the one redeeming feature.

Posted by GFW on Tuesday, 10/15/2013 @ 13:57pm

Chicago has NOT been nominated!!! LOOOOLLLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ok. That was a bit premature. Just anticipating the strange sense of satisfaction that will cause me. Not even sure why.

Posted by astrodog on Tuesday, 10/15/2013 @ 17:59pm

CHICAGO COULD LESS ABOUT THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME.IT IS JUST A MUSEUM FOR DINOSAURS .AS IN THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY

Posted by greenbay ray on Thursday, 11/21/2013 @ 13:57pm

CHICAGO COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME.IT IS JUST A MUSEUM FOR DINOSAURS.AS IN THE MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.

Posted by greenbay ray on Thursday, 11/21/2013 @ 14:02pm

"museum for dinosaurs"

protip: if your first album was in 1969, there's a 99% chance that you are, in fact, a dinosaur as well.

Posted by GFW on Thursday, 11/21/2013 @ 14:33pm

Roy, was on teh internets yesterday & I came across a story in Washington Monthly about famous bad reviews. One of those profiled was a 1972 review by Lester Bangs of a Chicago live Christmas album (that they must have put out as a money maker) that he did for Creem.

Mr. Bangs wrote a scathing review of the band (and that album). You might want to read that (or you might not want to, as he really slagged the band). When I read that review (which reeks of condescending 'rockism'), I think I get a better idea why some of the Hall poohbahs don't want Chicago in their club.

Posted by Paul n KY on Tuesday, 12/3/2013 @ 07:43am

You do know that Chicago wasn't nominated this year, right?

Posted by Dezmond on Sunday, 12/15/2013 @ 10:05am

I guess the folks voting for bands going in to the Rock and Roll HOF haven't listened to music in the last 45 years. To leave CHICAGO out of the HOF is just plain ridiculous. They've only sold over 100,000,000 record (almost all ROCK AND ROLL).
Why dont you just close down the Rock and Roll HOF because it is not a HOF without CHICAGO. Its a JOKE!!

Posted by Mark on Wednesday, 12/18/2013 @ 22:46pm

I am truly shocked that Chicago and the Moody Blues are not in the HOF !! That does not even make sense!

Posted by Danny on Friday, 12/20/2013 @ 00:56am

Why?

Posted by Dezmond on Wednesday, 01/1/2014 @ 08:22am

Chicago good enough to play at Carnegie hall but not in the HoF... Get real.

Posted by RJA on Wednesday, 02/26/2014 @ 22:38pm

My boyfriend & I went to see Chicago at Carnegie Hall. It was a fantastic show. We got married in 1972 and Color My World was played for our First Dance. Chicago has so many fabulous songs, they should already be in the R & R Hall of Fame.
A Fan 4 Ever!

Posted by Eileen on Wednesday, 04/2/2014 @ 16:25pm

I noticed, a lot of lesser known artists that opened up for Chicago in the 70s, have already surpassed them and entered the Rock hall. Billy Joel, Allman Brothers Band....


Back in June 1973, when Chicago played in Philadelphia, the audience booed the opening act really really bad. It was a fiasco. Now the act is in the Hall of Fame, whereas Chicago still isn't there.

So who was the unfortunate opening act? Bruce Springsteen!!!!

Posted by Barry on Wednesday, 05/7/2014 @ 09:15am

I love Chicago first saw them in 1967. I do miss Peter Cetera but with that said I have started a Facebook page "Put the band Chicago in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Please like and join.

Posted by Michael Denoyer on Wednesday, 05/21/2014 @ 20:15pm

Chicago has some of the best musicians still working. Every concert is sold out and they are always working all over the world. They brought a unique combination of rock, blues, jazz and funk wrapped in a full sound we still enjoy today. Few bands are as deserving.

Get with it and induct them already.

Posted by Sylvie on Monday, 06/2/2014 @ 03:57am

the group does not belong in. in high school, they senta dumb kid around telling people what songs to listen to. ive since gotten fair legal use of the dead pal al copyright, ive renamed the group the alfed e neuman band, with al bruckner the devils radio. tunes such as dialouge,qustions 67 and 67, which are guidance counselor material do not need recording,thunder and lightning homosexuals.the al bruckner bysblos kid ive disposed of at the lunch table in high school because of the 4 seasons and tommy roe,except for his homosexual air.my wife pam and i sustained apertinent hypothesis,i do not have to look at him unless in court, or the al prinipal disciplines him.the alfed e neuman band did not need to ask questions, a beginning counselor and therapist asks too many questions.

Posted by john jarvis on Friday, 06/13/2014 @ 15:13pm

I agree that it is time for Chicago to be put into the Hall of Fame. Btw, their new album "Now" is going to be one of their best!

Posted by Dennis on Thursday, 06/19/2014 @ 16:26pm

THEY ARE POP! AND THEIR GUITARIST SUCKS!!!

Posted by Karl Singleton on Thursday, 07/17/2014 @ 23:00pm

Roy, I'm sorry, I know that you're one of their most passionate fans, but they haven't done anything relevant since the 70s, and what they've done since then has hurt their cause. Possibly irreparably. I'm not trying to be a dick, but when it comes to Chicago, you might need to start blaming Chicago.

Posted by DarinRG on Saturday, 08/16/2014 @ 00:07am

Roy, who is Mr. Hilburn?

Posted by Paul in KY on Friday, 08/22/2014 @ 07:42am

Roy, thank you for the link.

Posted by Paul in KY on Tuesday, 08/26/2014 @ 14:21pm

I've always said: Just induct the Terry Kath years & to heck with anyone who got in later.

Posted by Paul in KY on Wednesday, 09/3/2014 @ 15:01pm

Alright. I can't believe Chicago aren't in Rock n'Roll Hall of Fame. They were so popular in the 70's. You would think they up Hall's alley. Also their first 3 albums were great contributions to Rock. A couple years ago I was thinking it was because after the mid 70's they were pure Pop. I don't even like their 80's stuff. That would have been a good theory except Abba went in and Hall & Oates went in. They are pure Pop. They were certainly Pure Pop in the 80's. So what gives. Chicago therefore should certainly go in. The fact that they were a Solid Rock outfit early on makes them more worthy than the 2 artists I mentioned above. They certainly have a long career that shouldn't be ignored. No way. Their 70's stuff makes them worthy.

Posted by Ben on Friday, 09/19/2014 @ 06:24am

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To: FRL website monitor
Re: Roy

Help please! The poster "Roy" has effectively spammed up this Chicago page. It is now way beyond question. If you don't believe me, put the following into a search query:

Question: What do you get when you mix the voice of Ray Charles with the voice and the guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix?

How many times was it posted on this page? It is only a snippet of an extremely long "speech" which is posted many (many!) times! Making this page tedium extremis! BTW: I'm a huge fan of Terry Kath (may he r.i.p). Also, I like the open exchange format of the FRL site. However, at least some moderation is needed in this case. The page should be cleaned up and individuals should not hi-jack it. Ironically this mess is a turnoff.
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Posted by Telarock on Wednesday, 10/15/2014 @ 04:58am

"Question: What do you get when you mix the voice of Ray Charles with the voice and the guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix?"

Answer: I'll tell ya what you get. You get such masterpieces as "You're the Inspiration"! Although you also need to add the composing skills of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the lyrics of Bob Dylan and the melodic sense of Lennon/McCartney. THEN you approach Chicago! "When you love somebody! Always on my mind!" The pinnacle of human achievement in the arts, right there.

Posted by Arturo Fuentes on Wednesday, 10/15/2014 @ 06:17am

Obviously the two commenters before completely disregarded my point. Roy you are only now bent on monopolizing communication, and have made yourself wearisome. Do you really imagine anybody wants to wade thru the yard-long posts which you are likely plagiarizing. I see several other people have indicated likewise with me, it's annoying! Are you nuts? You have made Chicago page a garbage repository!

FRL help!

Posted by Telarock on Wednesday, 10/15/2014 @ 09:16am

You're right, Telarock. It was way out of hand. It has been cleaned up.

Roy -- everything deleted had been posted by you on about eight other websites, so you can find it there.

Posted by FRL on Wednesday, 10/15/2014 @ 09:44am

Mercí beacoup FRL. The thread here is still a mile long but it's navigatable. Now, let's go Chicago! Woohoo! Original 7 members only baby!

Posted by Telarock on Wednesday, 10/15/2014 @ 10:20am

And think about poor folks like myself that sometimes visit FRL on my iPad and iPhone. It can be miserable to have to scroll and scroll. And then scroll some more.

Posted by Mike on Wednesday, 10/15/2014 @ 11:06am

http://futurerocklegends.com/artist.php?artist_id=Chicago#post

The "post your own" comment link at the top of every comment list will get you to the bottom.

Posted by FRL on Wednesday, 10/15/2014 @ 13:10pm

Arturo Fuentes do I sense sarcasm? lol
Hey, even Mozart had some less-than-inspiring compositions ... and he was working alone. But then, of course, his good ones were really Good!

Posted by Telarock on Thursday, 10/16/2014 @ 05:55am

Perhaps just a tinge of sarcasm. I actually like Chicago, although I'm not a huge fan. I am aware that they are much more than the cheesy 80's period.

Posted by Arturo Fuentes on Thursday, 10/16/2014 @ 07:16am

Roy,


An article about Chicago is being featured in the new issue of PROG magazine.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Tuesday, 10/21/2014 @ 08:30am

Who is on the cover? Is Chicago mentioned anywhere on the cover?

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 10/21/2014 @ 08:46am

King Crimson is on the cover. Chicago is mentioned on the back cover.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Tuesday, 10/21/2014 @ 08:49am

It's a crime that Chicago has been ignored for induction. Their music is a unique fusion of rock and classical(horns) and has been enjoyed by fans all over the world for 45 years. The play to sold out shows everywhere and have been doing so for all those years. Please give them their due. They should have been in the Hall since the late 90's. Seems like someone does not want them there. All of us fans sure want them there. Thanks.

Posted by Roger Peterson on Sunday, 10/26/2014 @ 21:24pm

Can and should Peter Cetera be called blue-eyed soul for his vocals?

Lowdown, Old Days, Just You 'N' Me, Feelin' Stronger Everyday, I've Been Searchin' So Long, Wishing You Were Here, If You Leave Me Now, Baby What A Big Surprise, Love Me Tomorrow, Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Hard Habit To Break, You're The Inspiration, Glory Of Love, One Good Woman, Restless Heart.

His bass work was called Beatles-meet-Motown.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 10/27/2014 @ 16:27pm

When you consider Rolling Stone and MTV completely control who gets in and who does not there is not surprise Chicago has not been inducted. They have a success record that no other group has had save the Beatles. A previous comment said it best....lack of education on GOOD music on the part of critics and the nomination board is the other reason why they will not let Chicago in. So Mr. Landau.....I challenge you to name one group that is still making music and touring every year that has been around for as long as Chicago has and has had the success they have had. Get off your God Damn high horse and pay some respect to a group who can run circles around any current "talent".

Posted by Raymond O Shanks on Tuesday, 10/28/2014 @ 07:11am

Peter Cetera, blue-eyed soul? I dunno. The term applies well to Daryl Hall. It is valid ico Annie Lennox, Eric Burdon, Tom Jones other notables. Cetera?
As to Raymond's comment Chicago v. Beatles: Mercifully (imo) The Beatles split up, went their separate ways while they were still going strong. Chicago should have disbanded long ago. Going long does not equate to going strong! It usually only equates to "oldies" group.
Also, I myself respect the people who run the Rock Hall. If you don't respect the institution, why do you even care about yor artist getting in or not? Rolling Stone and MTV don't completely control everything. Jann Wenner has/had influence as well he should, but nobody annointed him dictator. I would encourage disgruntled fans to stop whining about Wenner, he puts his pants on same as you! Of course, after he puts his pants on, he has an empire that he runs! lol. SNL joke.

Posted by Telarock on Thursday, 10/30/2014 @ 10:05am

They gotta be in. I mean, STILL getting new fans, despite their "clean" image (how many bandcs can say that?-that's an important thing, if later audiences still like 'em), public recognition for all the many decades, horns and saxes in the band, and at the outset MANY EXPIREMENTAL tracks..I mean, Poem 58 [first album, CHICAGO TRANSIT AUTHORITY, 1969], and all thouse suites on the next album [CHICAGO, 1970].

And that guy who said that he saw them in 1967 is even MORE proof of their induction eligibilty: longevity.

Maybe the group should have done drugs or gotten stoned and then arrested?

I'm also for having Three Dog Night, Electric Light Orchestra, Kraftwerk, Pat Boone, and Jethro Tull in as well.

Posted by SteveCarras on Friday, 12/19/2014 @ 10:24am

PS I was interested in seeing the Jann Wenner grudge comments that some folks made..so that's another reason....did Chicago just insult Jann's favorite music styles or politicals of its performers.

Posted by SteveCarras on Friday, 12/19/2014 @ 10:28am

@ SteveCarras

Wow! Chicago not into drugs getting stoned or arrested?!!! Have I got some stories for you. It was an open secret in the 70's that the band's entertainment of choice was coke. The Chicago logo has a similar style to Coca Cola for a reason. Peter Cetera did clean up after TK's death. In an interview Lee tells PC to STFU and have a Coke. He's not talking about the soda. If you look at some of the videos you can tell they are high. Check out the 72 Tokyo concert, Feeling Stronger Everyday at the Ranch and Thunder and Lightening on the Merv Griffen Show.

Bobby wrote State of the Union after he got arrested for swearing on stage. Then there are the political songs. A song for Richard and his Friends basically tells the POTUS to take a hike. other political songs are:

Where Do We Go From Here
It Better End Soon
Lowdown
Dialogue Parts 1 and 2 (on New Years Rockin Eve PC mentions Nixon in the song)
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is

Then the songs with sexual meaning

A Hard Morning Risin' Without Breakfast
Skintight
You Get It Up

There is also the one floating around that Terry gave the finger in England at a concert or press conference. And don't forget about PC getting beaten up by a bunch of Marines at Dodgers Stadium and needing to get his jaw wired shut.


About the Jann Wenner feud

From what I read it started when their manager, Jimmy Guercio started complaining about their reviews and not getting on the cover of RS. According to Danny they were all saying things about wiping their butts with RS. I have seen several variations about what PC is quoted as saying. What I recall going around in the 70's is that PC was quoted as saying: Yeah I take with me when I go to the john. I use it to wipe my ass when I take a sh*t.

Hope that helps.

Posted by Zuzu on Saturday, 12/20/2014 @ 09:12am

Who the f*ck is Jann Wenner anyway. Why does anyone care what his opinion of greatness is?

Maybe we should start an online R&R HOF website to induct artists that the people want. While we are at it we should start a boycott of any current HOF proceedings, i.e., the museum, the website, the ceremonies,, etc. There should have been a committee of artists overseeing the selection committee. They would have to be made up of artists not eligible, and/or artists already in.

Posted by jvgunn on Friday, 01/30/2015 @ 15:29pm

Who the f*ck is Jann Wenner anyway. Why does anyone care what his opinion of greatness is?

Maybe we should start an online R&R HOF website to induct artists that the people want. While we are at it we should start a boycott of any current HOF proceedings, i.e., the museum, the website, the ceremonies,, etc. There should have been a committee of artists overseeing the selection committee. They would have to be made up of artists not eligible, and/or artists already in.

Posted by jvgunn on Friday, 01/30/2015 @ 15:29pm

Who the f*ck is Jann Wenner anyway. Why does anyone care what his opinion of greatness is?

Maybe we should start an online R&R HOF website to induct artists that the people want. While we are at it we should start a boycott of any current HOF proceedings, i.e., the museum, the website, the ceremonies,, etc. There should have been a committee of artists overseeing the selection committee. They would have to be made up of artists not eligible, and/or artists already in.

Posted by jvgunn on Friday, 01/30/2015 @ 15:29pm

Who the f*ck is Jann Wenner anyway. Why does anyone care what his opinion of greatness is?

Maybe we should start an online R&R HOF website to induct artists that the people want. While we are at it we should start a boycott of any current HOF proceedings, i.e., the museum, the website, the ceremonies,, etc. There should have been a committee of artists overseeing the selection committee. They would have to be made up of artists not eligible, and/or artists already in.

Posted by jvgunn on Friday, 01/30/2015 @ 15:29pm

Who the f*ck is Jann Wenner anyway. Why does anyone care what his opinion of greatness is?

Maybe we should start an online R&R HOF website to induct artists that the people want. While we are at it we should start a boycott of any current HOF proceedings, i.e., the museum, the website, the ceremonies,, etc. There should have been a committee of artists overseeing the selection committee. They would have to be made up of artists not eligible, and/or artists already in.

Posted by jvgunn on Friday, 01/30/2015 @ 15:29pm

The case for Chicago's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is overwhelming and compelling: Second only to the Beach Boys in terms of album sales by a US band; they continue to record new music and to play live; their musicianship -- particularly in their early years -- is unique and outstanding. Whatever "political" issues have kept this amazing group of musicians out of the RRHF should once and for all be discarded.

Posted by Dave on Wednesday, 02/4/2015 @ 14:46pm

Chicago not in the hall, what a joke, and "Public Enemy" is...you've got to be f...ing kidding me.

Posted by Mark Rensch on Monday, 03/2/2015 @ 21:53pm

http://www.futurerocklegends.com/statistics.php

Chicago has finally made it onto the "Most Yes Votes" list on the FRL Voting Statistics page. Thanks to the inductions of Rush, Nirvana, Green Day and Stevie Ray Vaughan and their removal from the page. Chicago is # 10 in YES votes on FRL.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 05/4/2015 @ 12:06pm

THE TOP 5 CHARTING ROCK AND ROLL BANDS OF ALL-TIME ON BOTH, THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART AND THE BILLBOARD 100 SINGLES CHART:

01. The Beatles
02. The Rolling Stones
03. The Beach Boys
04. Chicago
05. The Bee Gees

AND THIS IS HOW IT WILL ALWAYS BE!

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/9/2015 @ 06:26am

Chicago

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)
08. Laudir De Oliveira (1973-1980: percussions; songwriter; Sergio Mendes)
09. Donnie Dacus (1978-1980: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
10. Chris Pinnick (1980-1985: guitar)
11. Bill Champlin (1981-2009: vocals; keyboards; guitar; songwriter; The Sons Of Champlin)
12. Jason Scheff (1985-Present: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter; The Keane Brothers; Keane)
13. DaWayne Bailey (1986-1994: guitar; songwriter; The Silver Bullet Band)
14. Tris Imboden (1990-Present: drums; songwriter; Honk; Firefall)
15. Bruce Gaitsch (1995: guitar)
16. Keith Howland (1995-Present: guitar)
17. Lou Pardini (2009-Present: vocals; keyboards)

Posted by Roy on Monday, 05/11/2015 @ 09:14am

William Howard Taft High School Hall of Fame, A Message From the Principal

Terry Alan Kath, will be inducted, into "The Taft High School Alumni, Hall Of Fame"

Dinner & Ceremony to be held 9.12.15,
Ridgemoor Country Club
6601 W Gunnison St, Harwood Heights, IL 60706

Details forthcoming!

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 05/12/2015 @ 23:21pm

It's about time. This has been long overdue. Taft has been playing games with not recognizing Terry Kath for a while. About five years ago there was a tribute concert to protest Terry not being included in his high school's Hall of Fame. Danny Seraphine, James Guercio and Peter Cetera's brother, Kenny were in attendance. There are several You Tube videos of the event online.

Now to work on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Posted by Zuzu on Wednesday, 05/13/2015 @ 10:28am

Roy,where is Walfredo Reyes on your list of current and former Chicago Band members?

Posted by James on Monday, 05/18/2015 @ 13:16pm

I'd like to see Chicago make RRHOF. There has been many forum posters who think they should be inducted. They have been around in some incarnations over 45 years. They have sold over 100 million albums and had several hit songs. I can't make any argument against Chicago. They check off most of the boxes RRHOF criteria. Chicago has many fans like Rush who will vote and petition the Hall. KING

Posted by KING on Tuesday, 05/19/2015 @ 21:17pm

Chicago

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)
08. Laudir De Oliveira (1973-1980: congas; percussions; songwriter; Sergio Mendes)
09. Donnie Dacus (1978-1980: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
10. Chris Pinnick (1980-1985: guitar)
11. Bill Champlin (1981-2009: vocals; keyboards; guitar; songwriter; The Sons Of Champlin)
12. Jason Scheff (1985-Present: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter; The Keane Brothers; Keane)
13. DaWayne Bailey (1986-1994: guitar; songwriter; The Silver Bullet Band)
14. Tris Imboden (1990-Present: drums; songwriter; Honk; Firefall)
15. Bruce Gaitsch (1995: guitar)
16. Keith Howland (1995-Present: guitar)
17. Lou Pardini (2009-Present: vocals; keyboards)
18. Drew Hester (2009-2012: drums; percussions; Foo Fighters; Common Sense; Coattail Riders)
19. Walfredo Reyes, Jr. (2012-Present: percussions; Santana; Traffic)

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 05/20/2015 @ 08:54am

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

CHICAGO

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)
08. Laudir De Oliveira (1973-1980: congas; percussions; songwriter; Sergio Mendes)
11. Bill Champlin (1981-2009: vocals; keyboards; guitar; songwriter; The Sons Of Champlin)
12. Jason Scheff (1985-Present: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter; The Keane Brothers; Keane)
14. Tris Imboden (1990-Present: drums; songwriter; Honk; Firefall)

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 05/20/2015 @ 08:58am

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

CHICAGO

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)
08. Laudir De Oliveira (1973-1980: congas; percussions; songwriter; Sergio Mendes)
09. Bill Champlin (1981-2009: vocals; keyboards; guitar; songwriter; The Sons Of Champlin)
10. Jason Scheff (1985-Present: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter; The Keane Brothers; Keane)
11. Tris Imboden (1990-Present: drums; songwriter; Honk; Firefall)

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 05/20/2015 @ 09:01am

It will be interesting to see which bands Chicago beats out for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 05/20/2015 @ 09:04am

The following list is for anyone who doesn't realize that Chicago being in the Hall is about Chicago alone. It is core to understanding how and why Chicago was influential. It is a list of artists of from the 60's through the early 80's who are: from Chicago and the Chicago area, have a band member from Chicago an the Chicago area or spent time as a part of the Chicago music scene. None are in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!

Chicago - Styx - REO Speedwagon - John Prine - Steve Goodman - Bonnie Koloc - Michael Peter Smith - Dan Fogelberg - Ides of March - The Buckinghams - New Colony Six - The Cryan Shames - The Shadows of Knight - Kal David and the Exceptions (the Exceptions/The Exception) - Illinois Speedpress (the Rovin Kind)- The Missing Links - Aorta - Alliota, Haynes and Jeramiah - M & R Rush - The Flock - The Blues Brothers - The Acrocryphals - Jimmy Ford and The Executives - Jimmy Rice and The Gentlemen (Jimmy and The Gents) - The Mystics - Tommy James and The Shondells - Marshal Tucker Band - Journey - Steve Miller Band - Chaka Kahn and Rufus - Poco - Cheap Trick

Posted by Zuzu on Wednesday, 05/20/2015 @ 14:49pm

I have been doing a rediscovery of Chicago lately and I come across some interesting tidbits about what some of the original members were doing before Chicago.

Walt was set to have a spot on the Chicago Sympathy. One of his De Paul professors was preparing him to take his place when he retired.

Terry, Danny and Walt were in both the Missing Links and Jimmy Ford and The Executives, a band that was with one of the two Dick Clark traveling shows.

Terry was in the Mystics and Jimmy Rice and The Gentlemen. According to Brian Higgens, another member of the Mystics, they recorded four songs that were never released. It sounds like Brian Higgens is trying to get them released.
timmwood.com/mystics

Peter was in Kal David and the Exceptions. They recorded on a Dick Campbell album with members of The Butterfield Blues Band. The Exceptions also several songs on their own. There are You Tube videos of the Dick Campbell album and several Exception songs. Peter Cetera sang the lead on the Exception's cover of You Always Hurt Me.

I came across a Kal David interview with Martin Ernst on You Tube in which he said a couple of interesting things. Calvin Carter put him with John Lee Hooker to learn. He was in a band that signed up with Vee Jay Records. Vee Jay would only have one white artist so they were released when Vee Jay signed The Beatles.

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 05/21/2015 @ 02:42am

Had an interesting article in one of the Brit rock mags recently about Terry Kath. Mr. Kath was a physically big man, 6' 2" and built like a linebacker. One of his bandmates said something to effect of 'Terry could handle more drugs than any human being I have ever seen. Way more than a normal bear. However, it was killing him.'

He & the roadie he was with were both messed up when Terry mishandled an automatic pistol that he had removed the magazine from (but forgot there was a round in the chamber) and accidently shot himself.

Was a sad article.

Posted by Paul in KY on Thursday, 05/21/2015 @ 08:05am

@ Paul

I think Terry's death traumatized The band is what really caused the rift in the band.

Danny talks about Terry's death in his book, Street Player. If you haven't read it, Google Books has some exerts online.

Posted by Zuzu on Friday, 05/22/2015 @ 01:16am

Thanks, Zuzu for that info. It might have been Danny who was reminiscing there. This band member actually got to the house & saw Terry dead before the police/ambulance got there.

It definitely was a mortal torpedo to the side of the band that I think should be in HOF.

Posted by Paul in KY on Friday, 05/22/2015 @ 07:05am

@Paul

It may well have been Danny, but I have a feeling they all may have been by Terry before emergency responders arrived. You don't happen to know if this article is online? I would love to read it.

I was born and raised in Chicago. One of the kids I went to High School with was from Peter Cetera's neighborhood. If you mentioned Chicago in front of this person, they were bouncing off the walls with excitement. These were our boys - our guys. They grew up in the same type of blue collar, working class neighborhoods that many of us did. They were one of us. In a sense, for me, Chicago not being in the Hall is personal.

Posted by Zuzu on Friday, 05/22/2015 @ 16:43pm

Right!! I don't always weigh in on the Chicago section on here, but there is an element of regional conflict and class conflict here. Chicago started out, at least, as a blue-collar band, and these are the sorts of artists the Hall tends to look down their nose at in favor of artists that resonate with more middle-class audiences (Laura Nyro, Leonard Cohen, Randy Newman, etc.) and middle-class affectations toward the blues (PBBB, Albert King, etc.)

Posted by PopeCharming on Friday, 05/22/2015 @ 17:01pm

@PopeCharming

I'm glad that somebody else also noticed the regional - class bias. I also think there is a bias towards certain styles to the point of over saturation and some wash rinse repeat in another form. Early Rock (R & B + Blues) - British Invasion - Motown - the California Sound - Disco. This is what the music industry was shoving down our throats.

I sometimes feel that someone is trying to cover their behind or their friends behind for poor decisions that were made. Then there is also the petty vendettas. Somebody has to be fueling some of the negative propaganda that gets put out there.

Posted by Zuzu on Friday, 05/22/2015 @ 20:16pm

Chicago, Doobie Brothers, Yes, Emerson Lake ans Palmer, Journey .... These are the some non inductees that are the reason the R and R Hall of fame is a joke.

Posted by BLRotz on Tuesday, 05/26/2015 @ 19:12pm

I came across a You Tube video of a 1972 interview of Chicago when they were in Australia. In it Jimmy said that they were not only influenced by Jazz. He said that they didn't like to limit themselves and took inspiration from various styles of music such as Classic, Pop and Country.

To me that sounds like Eclectic Rock Fusion. Were the critics in error by defining Chicago as just a Jazz Rock Band?

Posted by Zuzu on Wednesday, 06/3/2015 @ 21:13pm

The Chicago Blackhawks have won their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their third during a Barack Obama presidency. Chicago will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2016 or 2017.

First, a Chicago politician named Barack Obama is elected the first black President of the United States of America in 2008. Then, in 2010, the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks win their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history, but their first Stanley Cup since 1961, the year of Barack Obama's birth. Dustin Byfuglien becomes the first African-American hockey player in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup (Note: Black goaltenders Grant Fuhr and Eldon Reddick won the Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers, but they were Canadians). Then in 2013 the Chicago Blackhawks win their fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their second during a Barack Obama presidency. Three more black hockey players win the Stanley Cup: Ray Emery, Jamal Mayers, and Johnny Oduya. Obama and Oduya both have five letters and they both begin with the letter O and end with the letter a. Obama and Oduya both have Kenyan ancestry. Then in 2015 the Chicago Blackhawks win their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their third during a Barack Obama presidency. Johnny Oduya becomes the second black hockey player in NHL history behind Grant Fuhr to win more than one Stanley Cup championship. Then, what do you know, Chicago, the band, is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 20??, during a Barack Obama presidency. Also, "Chicago" had seven letters and seven members until a game of rumored Russian Roulette. Then there were six, just like the six letters in "Barack", who is an "ally" of Russia. Keeping one's nuclear rivals close can be seen as a six-lettered gamble itself, and gambling was born of the Chicago mob scene. Seven Blackhawks on the ice would have been too many.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 06/16/2015 @ 00:38am

http://digitaldreamdoor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=4895&start=45

The Beatles and The Rolling Stones vs. The Beach Boys and Chicago

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 06/17/2015 @ 23:30pm

there are a lot less groups in the hall so why it Chicago?

Posted by JeffI on Friday, 06/26/2015 @ 11:03am

there are a lot less groups in the hall so why it Chicago?

Posted by JeffI on Friday, 06/26/2015 @ 11:03am

http://www.futurerocklegends.com/statistics.php

Chicago has finally made it onto the "Most Yes Votes" list on the FRL Voting Statistics page. Thanks to the inductions of Rush, Nirvana, Green Day and Stevie Ray Vaughan and their removal from the page. Chicago is # 10 in YES votes on FRL.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 05.4.15 @ 12:06pm

Chicago is now at # 10 in the "Most Votes" list as well on the FRL Voting Statistics page. That's the list for yes and no votes combined.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 07/5/2015 @ 06:37am

No Chicago, Doobie Brothers, or Styx.....No relevant Hall of Fame!

Posted by Money on Thursday, 07/9/2015 @ 01:03am

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES FOR GIVING THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO:

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, David Foster, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Barry Gibb, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sting, Gerry Beckley, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Alistair Ian "Ali" Campbell, Huey Lewis, Chris Isaak, Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, Axl Rose, Slash, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Tom Morello, Rob Thomas, Stephan Jenkins, Mark McGrath, Steve Malkmus, Trey Anastasio, Justin Vernon

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 07/12/2015 @ 19:14pm

Chicago is Bill Clinton's favorite band, as a friend of mine saw them perform in Arkansas after he made a speech. With his connections to Jann Wenner, I'm shocked there hasn't been much consideration.

Posted by Jason Voigt on Sunday, 07/12/2015 @ 21:23pm

Finally got to see this band live a couple nights ago in St. Louis. EW&F opened for them and performed with them on some songs from the beginning and end. Great show, although it would have been fun if Peter Cetera were present (laughs). At least Robert Lamm and a couple original members were there, and they can still rock it out.

So....yeah, why are they not in the RRHOF? Me and thousands tend to dwell on this question. Its been more than 20 years since their first year of eligibility. Obviously something has been holding back the nomination crew. I haven't the time (yet) to read through all 509 comments (most of them by who else? Roy.) but I'm sure they speak for those who feel my curiosity. I'll go ahead and share at least maybe 5 reasons why they're not in there yet:

1) Too many band members. Who to induct and why?
2) Lack of innovation.
3) They were mostly remembered as a power-ballad band.
4) They're just another hit-making band.
5) The so-called professional critics have hated them since Day One.

For now, they're just an act where its proven no matter how many Top 10 and radio hits you have, you don't belong in the HOF. As I said in the previous comment, they do have their famous fans...most notably, Bill Clinton. And Clinton has strong connections with Mr. Wenner, or so I believe.

Posted by Jason Voigt on Sunday, 08/2/2015 @ 20:10pm

Looking through the "one hit wonders" who ARE in the R&R Hall, I am amazed an all American group like Chicago who not only had many hits, but spanned many genres and over 40 years of amazing music! Did they not fit into someone's pre-made box of what is required? Why not look at Album and Single sales from 1964-1986? They tour today with many original members and always give a hell of a show. But a band in the 70's who toured with 2 percussionists (a rock kit and a Latin ), 4-5 keyboards with various players, a lineup of horns and flutes, guitars, and much more. No one has ever done this...and made money. Re-listen to "I'm a Man" . The long version. Good set of headphones. Then ask yourself again- Why were they not inducted 20 years ago? Oh! It's going to be a Posthumous Induction in another 20 years where all members are dead and their families can set their award by their Urn on the mantelpiece.

Posted by Katharine on Sunday, 08/23/2015 @ 02:06am

Katharine,

While I do agree that Chicago had written quite a few great songs during their career; their best work had become radio hits. Between 1970 and 1984, Chicago's hit songs had dominated the airwaves. What is not to like about Peter Cetera's, or Robert Lamm's vocals? I do not believe that the members of Chicago will be inducted posthumously, but they really need to get Peter Cetera back, to most people, he was the voice of Chicago, plus he had written, or co-written quite a few of their most successful songs. The members of Chicago made a serious error by not allowing him to have a solo career at the same time. Had they done so, I have no doubt that he would have stayed and Chicago would have been inducted years ago.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Sunday, 08/23/2015 @ 11:54am

Katharine,

While I do agree that Chicago had written quite a few great songs during their career; their best work had become radio hits. Between 1970 and 1984, Chicago's hit songs had dominated the airwaves. What is not to like about Peter Cetera's, or Robert Lamm's vocals? I do not believe that the members of Chicago will be inducted posthumously, but they really need to get Peter Cetera back. As far as most people, are concerned, he was the voice of Chicago. Additionally, Peter had written, or co-written quite a few of their most successful songs. The members of Chicago had made a very serious error by not allowing him to have a solo career at the same time. Had they done so, I have no doubt that he would have stayed and Chicago would have been inducted years, possibly even decades ago.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Sunday, 08/23/2015 @ 12:03pm

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/terrykath/searching-for-terry-the-man-behind-the-guitar

Searching for Terry : The Man Behind the Guitar by Michelle Kath

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 08/29/2015 @ 21:09pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hP4bm-T-1-E

Terry Kath Documentary Trailer

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 08/29/2015 @ 21:51pm

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES FOR GIVING THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO:

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, David Foster, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Barry Gibb, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Shmit, Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sting, Gerry Beckley, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Alistair Ian "Ali" Campbell, Huey Lewis, Chris Isaak, Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, Axl Rose, Slash, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Tom Morello, Rob Thomas, Stephan Jenkins, Mark McGrath, Steve Malkmus, Trey Anastasio, Justin Vernon

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 09/2/2015 @ 08:58am

@Jason Voigt

No Terry, Peter or Danny - you didn't see the real Chicago but only a shadow of what they really were. You need check out videos of the 72 Japan concert at Bodukan and you'll see what I mean.

1) Too many band members. Who to induct and why?

Most fans would want just the original 7 and I think many of those would be ok with Laudir de Oliveira being added. Band members would probably want everybody. I don't see this being a problem with Danny and Peter with the exception that Peter might push to also add his brother Kenny and his high school buddy Marty Grebb added.
The Hall is actually the one that would create any drama and as usual be the problem - so why should Chicago be penalized for their childishness?

3) They were mostly remembered as a power-ballad band.

Says who - not the kids. Check out the crowds reaction to the 70's songs especially 25 or 6 to 4 and for the record If You Leave Me Now is the most covered Chicago song.

youtube.com/watch?v=-DPv7OOt7iw
youtube.com/watch?v=FzcbN61ly_k

Is this propaganda put out by Cheese-wiz factory?

4) They're just another hit-making band.

I guess that means Elvis, the Beatles and the Beach Boys need to be kicked out of the Hall.

5) The so-called professional critics have hated them since Day One.

Jann Wenner and his corporate cronnies had a vendetta against Chicago. this was going around back in the 70's. Check out Chicago on Google newspapers - not all critics were and are in Jann Wenner's back pants pocket.

2) Lack of innovation.

You really need to validate your sources and check if they are reliable.

Chicago was considered the most easily recognizable band of the 70's. This means they were different and that takes innovation.

In several articles I have read that Chicago took integration of the horns to anew level. According to Lee what Chicago did was use the horns as a lead instrument.

When Chicago changed their name from CTA to Chicago they did something that I can't find anybody else before doing.

Gibson used Peter Cetera for its bass ads. They were targeting musicians and I doubt they would respect somebody that was not doing something innovative. Google Peter Cetera and bass to see what actual bass players have to say about him. I believe you will find he is very respected bass player.

The switch from baritone to tenor being the standard occurred in the early 70's. Who do you think led the way - the singer defined as an elastic tenor who gets in your head and stays there or the guy defined as struggling and straining and still not getting it up there?

Chicago pushed the use of the 2 part song. In his book Danny explains how the record company gave them problems with the suites. The 2 part song was a way around this and became associated with Chicago. By the end of the 70's the 2 part song being played on even top 40 AM radio stations became a common occurrence.

You brought up 80's Chicago, but were you aware that metal prog was influenced by 80's Chicago or that several R & B artists sampled 80's Chicago songs? It may not be your favorite era of Chicago music but some professional musicians found it innovative and were influenced by it.

Posted by Zuzu on Wednesday, 09/2/2015 @ 16:01pm

Ahhhh, Peter Cetera does not want Kenny Cetera and Marty Grebb inducted with Chicago! Why would you even mention that? They were not members of Chicago. Peter Cetera isn't crazy like that.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 09/2/2015 @ 23:28pm

Roy

Wiki lists both as touring musicians. I think the years listed may be wrong. On the internet I have come across Marty Grebb saying he shared a room with Terry when they traveled and that Kenny filled in for Oliveira when he left. When Chicago appeared on the Merv Griffen Show in 1980, Marty Grebb was introduced as a member of the band.

I came across an interview where Walt says that they had problem with a tribute band that was giving them competition. He also said this band had former "members" of Chicago. Note he used a plural - so he couldn't have been talking about Danny's band.

The only tribute band that I have come across that could be the one that Walt was talking about is Chicago's Finest. It contained: Chris Pinnick, Marty Grebb and Kenny Cetera. So I think it is reasonable to question whether Marty Grebb and Kenny Cetera were members of Chicago or just hired hands.

youtube.com/watch?v=A7tyV2Gm7qU
youtube.com/watch?v=bzkB66Ibhq4
youtube.com/watch?v=EyB-QJPpVVA

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 09/3/2015 @ 08:06am

Roy

I searched and I need to modify what Walt said in the interview. Sorry, I must have been remembering something else I read in regards to the plural. The interview was in Jam Magazine. Walt mentions needing to send out a cease and desist order and the question asked pertained to splinter groups. As far as I know Danny's band just released a cd in 2013 - so I don't think Walt was talking about Danny.

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 09/3/2015 @ 08:55am

Kenny Cetera and Marty Grebb were only hired hands. Read the booklets of the last 7 Chicago Greatest Hits albums. They list the names of all the official members of Chicago. The Heart Vol. I & II, The Best, The Very Best, Love Songs, The Box Set. I'm just saying that Kenny Cetera and Marty Grebb will not be included in the induction, and Chicago is not going to push for that.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 09/3/2015 @ 09:59am

Chicago will have between 7 to 11 inductees. This is who qualifies:

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

CHICAGO

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)
08. Laudir De Oliveira (1973-1980: congas; percussions; songwriter; Sergio Mendes)
09. Bill Champlin (1981-2009: vocals; keyboards; guitar; songwriter; The Sons Of Champlin)
10. Jason Scheff (1985-Present: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter; The Keane Brothers; Keane)
11. Tris Imboden (1990-Present: drums; songwriter; Honk; Firefall)

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 09/3/2015 @ 10:04am

When Chicago is finally nominated for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, I hope Robert Lamm Walter Parazaider, James Pankow and Lee Loughnane will make an effort to make sure the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame listens to them when it comes to which additional members of Chicago to induct along with the 7 original members.

I can tell you right now that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will not include guitarists Donnie Dacus, Chris Pinnick or DaWayne Bailey as inductees because they were all short-lived, non-original members of Chicago. Keith Howland and Lou Pardini will not be inducted because they were very, very late arrivals to the band.

Along with the 7 original members of Chicago, these are the additional members of Chicago who can and should be inducted: Laudir De Oliveira, Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff, and Tris Imboden.

Laudir De Oliveira was Chicago's 8th member. He was with the band for 7 years and he performed on 10 Chicago albums, including all 5 of Chicago's number 1 albums.

Bill Champlin was with Chicago for 28 years and 9 studio albums. He played a big part in the Chicago 80s comeback. His lead voice is heard on the radio on the Chicago top 10 hits, Hard Habit To Break, Will You Still Love Me, I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love, You're Not Alone, and the number 1 hit, Look Away.

Jason Scheff has been with Chicago for 30 years now. It would look very odd if the guy who replaced Peter Cetera in Chicago is not included as an inductee into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Jason Scheff has been on 8 Chicago studio albums and his voice is still heard on the radio on Chicago's top 10 hits, Will You Still Love Me and What Kind Of Man Would I Be.

If Timothy B. Schmit of Poco and Joe Walsh of The James Gang were inducted with the Eagles, and Sammy Hagar of Montrose was inducted with Van Halen, then Bill Champlin of The Sons of Champlin and Jason Scheff should be inducted with Chicago. They shouldn't be treated any differently.

Tris Imboden marks his 25th year as Chicago's drummer this year. He should be inducted as well.

I think Chicago's case is a little similar to The E Street Band.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 09/3/2015 @ 10:50am

Roy

I still find it odd that Marty Grebb is on the Merv Griffen Show with Chicago and being introduced as a member of the band. Now there is also the question of who Walt was talking about in the Jam interview.

By the way there were two benefit concerts for Marty Grebb earlier this year to help with medical bills from his fight with cancer. One in LA with Bonnie Raitt and one in the Chicago region with Danny and Hawk Wolinski.

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 09/3/2015 @ 11:01am

I will have to check the credits again on the Chicago XIV album to see if Marty Grebb is credited anywhere because the horn section was on drugs and couldn't perform on early 80s Chicago records. They weren't even really performing on the Merv Griffen Show, they were lip-singing while the album track played in the background. So it was pointless to have Marty Grebb there with them. Maybe they were on tour at the time. Chicago has had other horn players sub for Walter Parazaider recently in concerts whenever he is ill.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 09/3/2015 @ 23:14pm

Marty Grebb plays several instruments. His father was a big band musician and made sure both Marty Grebb and his brother learned several instruments. He also filled in for Bobby at times.

The lip-syncing was fairly common at the time and I believe some of the shows required it. I remember American Bandstand did it all the time. Read the You Tube comments about what Peter was on Thunder and Lightening which they did on Merv Griffen.

Posted by Zuzu on Friday, 09/4/2015 @ 18:51pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oAoSZ2y1cw

Chicago - Full Concert - 07/21/70 - Tanglewood (OFFICIAL)

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 09/6/2015 @ 07:46am

When Chicago is finally nominated for and inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, I hope Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider, James Pankow and Lee Loughnane will make an effort to make sure the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame listens to them and inducts not only the original 7 members of the band, but also the 4 most important later members of the band.

I can tell you right now that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will not include guitarists Donnie Dacus, Chris Pinnick or DaWayne Bailey as inductees because they were all short-lived, non-original members of Chicago. Keith Howland and Lou Pardini will not be inducted because they were very, very late arrivals to the band. Their inclusion as inductees is not necessary and I'm pretty sure they don't care about it.

Along with the 7 original members of Chicago, these are the 4 additional members of Chicago who can and should be inducted: Laudir De Oliveira, Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff, and Tris Imboden.

Laudir De Oliveira was Chicago's 8th member. He was with the band for 7 years and he performed on 10 Chicago albums, including all 5 of Chicago's number 1 albums.

Bill Champlin was with Chicago for 28 years and 9 studio albums. He played a big part in the Chicago 80s comeback. His lead voice is heard on the radio on the Chicago top 10 hits, Hard Habit To Break, Will You Still Love Me, I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love, You're Not Alone, and the number 1 hit, Look Away.

Jason Scheff has been with Chicago for 30 years now. It would look very odd if the guy who replaced Peter Cetera in Chicago is not included as an inductee into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Jason Scheff has been on 8 Chicago studio albums and his voice is still heard on the radio on Chicago's top 10 hits, Will You Still Love Me and What Kind Of Man Would I Be.

If Timothy B. Schmit of Poco and Joe Walsh of The James Gang were inducted with the Eagles, and Sammy Hagar of Montrose was inducted with Van Halen, then Bill Champlin of The Sons of Champlin and Jason Scheff should be inducted with Chicago. They shouldn't be treated any differently.

Tris Imboden marks his 25th year as Chicago's drummer this year. He should be inducted as well.

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
THE CHICAGO INDUCTEES

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)
08. Laudir De Oliveira (1973-1980: congas; percussions; songwriter)
09. Bill Champlin (1981-2009: vocals; keyboards; guitar; songwriter)
10. Jason Scheff (1985-Present: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
11. Tris Imboden (1990-Present: drums; songwriter)

BANDS WITH 10 OR MORE MEMBERS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

01. Parliament-Funkadelic (16 Members Inducted in 1997)
02. The Grateful Dead (12 Members Inducted in 1994)
03. Bill Haley And The Comets (11 Members Inducted in 1987/2012)
04. Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band (11 Members Inducted in 1999/2014)

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 09/8/2015 @ 08:22am

I was right! Chicago will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a Barack Obama presidency! I don't like the photo they chose to use for Chicago on the Rock Hall website.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/8/2015 @ 05:31am

https://rockhall.com/inductees/nominees/2016-chicago/

The intro to Chicago on the Rock Hall website only mentions James Pankow and then it says Chicago’s early lineup created such an unmistakable sound. I don't know if this means that only the 7 original members will be inducted.

Fusing jazz and rock together in a time when the Beatles were still crashing onto the American shores and psychedelic rock was taking over the basements of teenagers; Chicago Transit Authority broke onto the scene unapologetically in 1969 with their self-titled double album, Chicago Transit Authority. A brazen mix of soulful rock, pop and jazz coupled with protester’s chants from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention; the album received critical acclaim and later produced the classic singles “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” and “Beginnings.” As the band began touring, under pressure from the city of Chicago, they shortened their name to simply, Chicago, and later released their second self-titled album, Chicago, in 1970. The center track, “Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon,” is a seven-part, 13-minute suite of pure melodic perfection composed by James Pankow who merged his love of classical, long song styles with Chicago’s signature sound. It yielded two unexpected singles “Make Me Smile” and “Colour My World” that quickly took the charts by storm reaching the Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100. From their inception through to the late 1970’s, Chicago mastered the art of making melodic jazz tinged rock with a keen pop sensibility. The group had a long string of jazz-rock mega hits including: “Make Me Smile,” “Saturday In The Park,” “25 Or 6 To 4,” “Feelin Stronger Every Day,” “If You Leave Me Now” and many others. Chicago’s early lineup created such an unmistakable sound. With over 21 Top 10 singles, five consecutive Number One albums, 11 Number One singles, fans that stretch across the globe and countless bands that have followed in their wake, Chicago’s legacy is unquestionable.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/8/2015 @ 05:47am

Roy, praise not the Chicago induction until the Chicago induction has occurred.

They've just been nominated.

Posted by Paul in KY on Thursday, 10/8/2015 @ 10:22am

www.chicagotheband.com/news/

Chicago Reports on Their Nomination

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/8/2015 @ 17:08pm

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME : CHICAGO

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THIS IS HOW CHICAGO SHOULD BE REMEMBERED ON ROCK HALL DOT COM/ORG

Suggestion has been emailed to the Rock Hall by me!

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/8/2015 @ 20:20pm

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6722672/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2016-nominees-cheap-trick-chicago-react

"On behalf of the members of the band Chicago, past and present, I am grateful for the creative life that Music continues to provide. We are surprised and honored to be nominated," Chicago's Robert Lamm told Billboard.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 10/9/2015 @ 07:56am

Chicago is the all-time best selling act and highest Billboard charting act on this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot. It makes sense that they are number one in the official Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fan poll and the Future Rock Legends poll because this is Chicago!

The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Bee Gees, Chicago!

Posted by Roy on Friday, 10/9/2015 @ 13:31pm

Actually, Roy, Janet is the biggest singles act on the ballot. According to Joel Whitburn's latest edition of Top Pop Singles, Janet Jackson ranks 8th, where as Chicago is 23rd.

Posted by Philip on Friday, 10/9/2015 @ 13:42pm

When you combine the all-time point total for the Billboard 100 singles chart and the point total for the Billboard 200 albums chart, Chicago is number 1.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 10/9/2015 @ 16:50pm

I imagine if you include the point totals for the R&B charts, the Dance charts, Janet pulls ahead, though the AC charts will certainly be Chicago's territory, too.

Posted by Philip on Friday, 10/9/2015 @ 18:17pm

Roy,

I recall reading that the sale totals is a combination of all US album and single sales. How it charted would not matter.

Philip,

The Jackson family has been known to inflate sales numbers in books. What counts is the official records.

Posted by Zuzu on Friday, 10/9/2015 @ 19:15pm

Whether it's the charts or the sales, Chicago is ahead of all the other 2016 nominees on both counts. The poll shows Chicago fans are out in full force. Chicago will be inducted in 2016. I will update my Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech for Chicago to include the result of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame official fan poll.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 10/9/2015 @ 20:00pm

Zuzu, I'm not going on any books that the Jackson family had a hand in. I'm using the information from Record Research, the foremost authority on exactly this type of information. If you care more about singles than albums, Janet's the leader. If it's all about the LPs, it's Chicago.

Posted by Philip on Friday, 10/9/2015 @ 22:01pm

http://petercetera.com

No reaction yet from Peter Cetera on Chicago's nomination.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/10/2015 @ 13:51pm

Why is it okay for Timothy B. Schmit and Joe Walsh to be inducted with the Eagles ("I Can't Tell You Why" and "The Long Run"), but not okay for Bill Champlin and Jason Scheff to be inducted with Chicago ("Will You Still Love Me" and "Look Away")?

Timothy B. Schmit and Joe Walsh were with the Eagles for only one or two albums before the Eagles broke up in 1980 and then reunited in 1994 for Hell Freezes Over ("Love Will Keep Us Alive" and "Get Over It").

I've sent emails to Chicago's management and to members of the Rock Hall committee explaining to them why Laudir De Oliveira, Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff and Tris Imboden should be inducted with Chicago.

When Chicago is finally inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, I hope Robert Lamm, Walter Parazaider, James Pankow and Lee Loughnane will make an effort to make sure the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame listens to them and inducts not only the original 7 members of the band, but also the 4 most important later members of the band.

I can tell you right now that the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will not include guitarists Donnie Dacus, Chris Pinnick or DaWayne Bailey as inductees because they were all short-lived, non-original members of Chicago. Keith Howland and Lou Pardini will not be inducted because they were very, very late arrivals to the band. Their inclusion as inductees is not necessary and I'm pretty sure they don't care about it.

Along with the 7 original members of Chicago, these are the 4 additional members of Chicago who can and should be inducted: Laudir De Oliveira, Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff, and Tris Imboden.

Laudir De Oliveira was Chicago's 8th member. He was with the band for 7 years and he performed on 10 Chicago albums, including all 5 of Chicago's number 1 albums.

Bill Champlin was with Chicago for 28 years and 9 studio albums. He played a big part in the Chicago 80s comeback. His lead voice is heard on the radio on the Chicago top 10 hits, Hard Habit To Break, Will You Still Love Me, I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love, You're Not Alone, and the number 1 hit, Look Away.

Jason Scheff has been with Chicago for 30 years now. It would look very odd if the guy who replaced Peter Cetera in Chicago is not included as an inductee into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Jason Scheff has been on 8 Chicago studio albums and his voice is still heard on the radio on Chicago's top 10 hits, Will You Still Love Me and What Kind Of Man Would I Be.

If Timothy B. Schmit of Poco and Joe Walsh of The James Gang were inducted with the Eagles, and Sammy Hagar of Montrose was inducted with Van Halen, then Bill Champlin of The Sons of Champlin and Jason Scheff should be inducted with Chicago. They shouldn't be treated any differently.

Tris Imboden marks his 25th year as Chicago's drummer this year. He should be inducted as well.

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
THE CHICAGO INDUCTEES

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)
08. Laudir De Oliveira (1973-1980: congas; percussions; songwriter)
09. Bill Champlin (1981-2009: vocals; keyboards; guitar; songwriter)
10. Jason Scheff (1985-Present: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
11. Tris Imboden (1990-Present: drums; songwriter)

BANDS WITH 10 OR MORE MEMBERS INDUCTED INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

01. Parliament-Funkadelic (16 Members Inducted in 1997)
02. The Grateful Dead (12 Members Inducted in 1994)
03. Bill Haley And The Comets (11 Members Inducted in 1987/2012)
04. Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band (11 Members Inducted in 1999/2014)

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 10/11/2015 @ 06:00am

I think Schmidt and Walsh were inducted with The Eagles partly due to name recognition.

Posted by Dezmond on Sunday, 10/11/2015 @ 08:13am

Roy,

I think you may find that some fans would object to Bill Champlin and Jason Scheff. There is one floating out there on the internet that Bill Champlin and Jason Scheff had come up with a ultimatum that they go or Danny goes and that is why Danny was fired. Danny is Chicago. Bill Champlin and Jason Scheff are not. Anyway who wants to hear the kid sing when you have the genuine article and his vocal ability is 1,000 times better.

I've read that it was Bill Champlin got the band to hire David Foster as a manager. A lot of fans do not like David Foster for what he did with Chicago. A lot of people do not like David Foster for what he did with several artist.

Considering Los Lobos are the only Hispanics on the ballot, I would be surprised that they wouldn't include Laudir De Oliveira since he is Brazilian and a Latino.

In your list you have two drummers, two bass players and two keyboardist. Yet the list has no living guitarist. Chris Pinnick was playing guitar and not Bill Champlin. Bill Champlin may play guitar but does he play it well enough.

Has Danny said anything?

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 10/11/2015 @ 09:54am

Danny Seraphine and Bill Champlin have patched things up. Champlin has been touring with Seraphine's California Transit Authority, and I think he was on the last album as well. Champlin was fired via email by the four remaining original Chicago members in 2009.

Jason Scheff doesn't have to sing at the induction ceremony. He could just play bass. I'm sure Imboden and Scheff wouldn't mind sitting out of the performance and letting Danny Seraphine and Peter Cetera perform. Guns 'N Roses second drummer did not perform at the ceremony, but he picked up his trophy. Scheff and Imboden should still be inducted, even if they don't perform.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 10/11/2015 @ 12:43pm

Zuzu wrote:
Roy,

In your list you have two drummers, two bass players and two keyboardist. Yet the list has no living guitarist. Chris Pinnick was playing guitar and not Bill Champlin. Bill Champlin may play guitar but does he play it well enough.

Has Danny said anything?
Sunday, 10.11.15 @ 09:54am

Danny has not commented yet. Keith Howland is Chicago's current guitarist. He won't be inducted, but will most likely perform with Chicago at the ceremony.

I'll get back to you on Champlin's guitar playing, once I find the videos on youtube. I have a few concerts in mind.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 10/11/2015 @ 12:53pm

http://twitter.com/dannyseraphine/with_replies

Danny Seraphine tweets a link to the Rock Hall poll

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 10/11/2015 @ 14:23pm

http://twitter.com/chicagotheband

Chicago tweets a link to the Rock Hall poll

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 10/11/2015 @ 14:32pm

CHICAGO : THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART

01. 1969 - # 17 - The Chicago Transit Authority
02. 1970 - # 4 - Chicago
03. 1971 - # 2 - Chicago III
04. 1972 - # 3 - Chicago At Carnegie Hall
05. 1972 - # 1 - Chicago V
06. 1973 - # 1 - Chicago VI
07. 1974 - # 1 - Chicago VII
08. 1975 - # 1 - Chicago VIII
09. 1975 - # 1 - Chicago IX: Greatest Hits
10. 1976 - # 3 - Chicago X
11. 1977 - # 6 - Chicago XI
12. 1978 - # 12 - Hot Streets
13. 1979 - # 21 - Chicago 13
14. 1980 - # 71 - Chicago XIV
15. 1981 - # 171 - Greatest Hits Volume II
16. 1982 - # 9 - Chicago 16
17. 1984 - # 4 - Chicago 17
18. 1987 - # 35 - Chicago 18
19. 1988 - # 37 - Chicago 19
20. 1989 - # 37 - Greatest Hits 1982-1989
21. 1991 - # 66 - Twenty 1
22. 1995 - # 90 - Night And Day
23. 1997 - # 55 - The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997
24. 1998 - # 154 - The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II
25. 1998 - # 47 - Chicago 25: The Christmas Album
26. 2002 - # 20 - The Very Best Of Chicago: Only The Beginning
27. 2003 - # 102 - Chicago Christmas: What's It Gonna Be Santa?
28. 2005 - # 57 - Love Songs
29. 2006 - # 41 - Chicago XXX
30. 2007 - # 100 - The Best Of Chicago: 40th Anniversary Edition
31. 2008 - # 122 - Chicago XXXII: Stone Of Sisyphus
32. 2011 - # 170 - Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three
33. 2014 - # 82 - Chicago XXXVI: Now

CHICAGO : THE BILLBOARD 100 SINGLES CHART

01. 1969 - # 71 – Questions 67 And 68
02. 1970 - # 9 – Make Me Smile
03. 1970 - # 4 – 25 Or 6 To 4
04. 1970 - # 7 – Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
05. 1971 - # 20 – Free
06. 1971 - # 35 – Lowdown
07. 1971 - # 7 – Beginnings
08. 1971 - # 7 – Colour My World
09. 1971 - # 24 – Questions 67 And 68
10. 1971 - # 49 – I’m A Man
11. 1972 - # 3 – Saturday In The Park
12. 1972 - # 24 – Dialogue (Part I & II)
13. 1973 - # 10 – Feelin’ Stronger Every Day
14. 1973 - # 4 – Just You ‘N’ Me
15. 1974 - # 9 – (I’ve Been) Searchin’ So Long
16. 1974 - # 6 – Call On Me
17. 1974 - # 11 – Wishing You Were Here
18. 1975 - # 13 – Harry Truman
19. 1975 - # 5 – Old Days
20. 1975 - # 61 – Brand New Love Affair (Part I & II)
21. 1976 - # 32 – Another Rainy Day In New York City
22. 1976 - # 1 – If You Leave Me Now
23. 1977 - # 49 – You Are On My Mind
24. 1977 - # 4 – Baby, What A Big Surprise
25. 1978 - # 44 – Little One
26. 1978 - # 63 – Take Me Back To Chicago
27. 1978 - # 14 – Alive Again
28. 1978 - # 14 – No Tell Lover
29. 1979 - # 73 – Gone Long Gone
30. 1979 - # 83 – Must Have Been Crazy
31. 1980 - # 56 – Thunder And Lightning
32. 1982 - # 1 – Hard To Say I’m Sorry
33. 1982 - # 22 – Love Me Tomorrow
34. 1983 - # 81 – What You’re Missing
35. 1984 - # 16 – Stay The Night
36. 1984 - # 3 – Hard Habit To Break
37. 1984 - # 3 – You’re The Inspiration
38. 1985 - # 14 – Along Comes A Woman
39. 1986 - # 48 – 25 Or 6 To 4
40. 1986 - # 3 – Will You Still Love Me?
41. 1987 - # 17 – If She Would Have Been Faithful…
42. 1987 - # 91 – Niagara Falls
43. 1988 - # 3 – I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love
44. 1988 - # 1 – Look Away
45. 1989 - # 10 – You’re Not Alone
46. 1989 - # 55 – We Can Last Forever
47. 1989 - # 5 – What Kind Of Man Would I Be?
48. 1990 - # 75 – Hearts In Trouble
49. 1991 - # 39 – Chasin’ The Wind
50. 1997 - # 59 – Here In My Heart

Posted by Roy on Monday, 10/12/2015 @ 16:37pm

The Chicago Cubs might win the World Series this year!

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/15/2015 @ 12:07pm

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Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/15/2015 @ 14:14pm

https://www.facebook.com/Chicago.Official?fref=ts

Chicago has changed the cover photo on their official Facebook page. It's a photo on the original 7 members. They must know something.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/15/2015 @ 14:48pm

I think the Rock Hall members found all my emails to them to be funny, and now they too want to see Chicago inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during a Barack Obama presidency.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/15/2015 @ 15:02pm

Chicago will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame the year after the Paul Butterfield Blues Band was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band are from Chicago and they had a song called Born In Chicago. This is being done on purpose.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 10/16/2015 @ 07:52am

You can add Chris Cornell of Soundgarden as a possibility for giving the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction speech for Chicago.

"SOUNDGARDEN's Chris Cornell had Kath's vocal style in mind when he plugged in to record his first solo effort, Euphoria Morning (A&M).

"When we started recording this album, recalled Cornell, " I told everyone involved that I was hearing vocally was white soul from the late '60s and early '70s, singers like Terry Kath. Because back then, it was cool to be a blue-eyed soul singer. It was still aggressive and kind of dangerous. It isn't merely white guys trying to sound black., Kath's style was a natural influence that was being incorporated into what we did. He was almost overly dramatic, but in a really cool way. I like that." - CHRIS CORNELL (Soundgarden)

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/17/2015 @ 08:52am

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES FOR GIVING THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, David Foster, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Barry Gibb, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Shmit, Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sting, Gerry Beckley, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Alistair Ian "Ali" Campbell, Huey Lewis, Chris Isaak, Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, Axl Rose, Slash, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Tom Morello, Rob Thomas, Stephan Jenkins, Mark McGrath, Steve Malkmus, Trey Anastasio, Justin Vernon

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/17/2015 @ 09:01am

I was surprised! No one has mentioned the late great Terry Kath of Chicago. This band is really underrated.

Here's an excerpt from Guitar One Magazine.

Chicago's original guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Terry Kath was real bluesy and very soulful. Listen to his songs from the first album "Chicago Transit Authority" to his last album with the band before he died, "Chicago XI. Soundgarden's Chris Cornell admires Terry Kath's vocal style and admitted that that he had Kath's vocal style in mind when he plugged in to record his first solo effort, "Euphoria Morning" (A&M). "When we started recording this album," recalled Cornell, "I told everyone involved that what I was hearing vocally was white soul from the late '60s and early '70s, singers like Terry Kath. Because back then, it was cool to be a blue-eyed soul singer. It was still aggressive and kind of dangerous. It wasn't merely white guys trying to sound black, it was a natural influence that was being incorporated into what they did. They were almost overly dramatic, but in a really cool way. I like that."

Aside from being a good bluesy singer, he's a monster when it comes to guitar playing.

SOURCE: Guitar One Magazine August 2001 issue.
ARTICLE TITLE: Gone Too Soon - A Tribute To 65 Fallen Heroes"

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/17/2015 @ 09:12am

Roy, another good person to induct Chicago would be Pope Francis.

Posted by Dezmond on Saturday, 10/17/2015 @ 10:54am

Actually, the Rock Hall could get Al Kooper or Bobby Colomby to induct Chicago, to suggest that Blood, Sweat & Tears will be nominated next year.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/17/2015 @ 18:19pm

Bill Clinton is a Chicago fan. Bill Clinton plays the saxophone. Bill Clinton played the saxophone on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1992, the same year that Peter Cetera appeared on the Arsenio Hall Show, twice.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 10/18/2015 @ 15:13pm

Yes, I know. And the fact that Clinton was on in the same year as Cetera cannot be mere coincidence. This is why I predict that Chicago will be inducted be a special delegation consisting of Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Pope Francis and a returned Jesus Christ. Also, the world will be so excited that Peter Cetera has decided to rejoin his old band for one night only for a transcendent version of "Along Comes a Woman" that the next day there will be a lasting peace accord between the Israelis and Palestinians.

Posted by Dezmond on Sunday, 10/18/2015 @ 21:19pm

So true Dezmond, as was foretold in Parts I AND II of the Dialogue of St. Peter.

Posted by Philip on Sunday, 10/18/2015 @ 22:35pm

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES FOR GIVING THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, David Foster, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al Kooper, Bobby Colomby, Barry Gibb, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Shmit, Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sting, Gerry Beckley, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Alistair Ian "Ali" Campbell, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla, Chris Isaak, Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, Axl Rose, Slash, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Tom Morello, Rob Thomas, Stephan Jenkins, Mark McGrath, Steve Malkmus, Trey Anastasio, Justin Vernon

Posted by Roy on Monday, 10/19/2015 @ 08:46am

http://www.oregonlive.com/movies/2015/10/cubs_win_world_series_in_2015.html

Chicago Cubs will win World Series in 2015 -- 'Back to the Future Part II' predicted it

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 10/20/2015 @ 08:05am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADXs2C4Vmho

Put some money on the cubbies

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 10/20/2015 @ 08:32am

CHICAGO ILLUMINATI UPDATE

First, a Chicago politician named Barack Obama is elected the first black President of the United States of America in 2008. Then, in 2010, the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks win their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history, but their first Stanley Cup since 1961, the year of Barack Obama's birth. Dustin Byfuglien becomes the first African-American hockey player in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup (Note: Black goaltenders Grant Fuhr and Eldon Reddick won the Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers, but they were Canadians). Then in 2013 the Chicago Blackhawks win their fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their second during a Barack Obama presidency. Three more black hockey players win the Stanley Cup: Ray Emery, Jamal Mayers, and Johnny Oduya. Obama and Oduya both have five letters and they both begin with the letter O and end with the letter a. Obama and Oduya both have Kenyan ancestry. Then in 2015 the Chicago Blackhawks win their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their third during a Barack Obama presidency. Johnny Oduya becomes the second black hockey player in NHL history behind Grant Fuhr to win more than one Stanley Cup championship. Then in 2015, Major League Baseball's Chicago Cubs win the World Series, which was predicted in the 1989 Back To The Future II movie. Then, what do you know, Chicago, the band, is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, during a Barack Obama presidency.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 10/20/2015 @ 09:20am

Roy,

You did know that Obama is a Sox fan? If you are from Chicago you are one or the other not both. Kevin Cronin is the Hawks fan. REO's Riding The Storm Out is played at Hawks games.

You might be on to something about the Cubs. There was the Dodgers Stadium incident that resulted in Peter getting his jaw wired shut. The whole band are cubbies at least the originals. But Steve Goodman wrote Go Cubs Go and his ashes were dispersed in Wrigley.

Now the big one. The World Series has not been played yet. The division playoffs are still going on. right now the Cubs are 0-2 against the Mets.

Cubbies believe in curses. They will do just about anything to break a curse - eat goat meat - blow up baseballs. So this year may become known as the curse of Roy.

Posted by Zuzu on Tuesday, 10/20/2015 @ 09:56am

The bots that ruined the fan poll have destroyed the Cubs too! The Mets are moving on, the Cubs, not so much. The Illuminati have been held at bay. Now maybe the Cubs had to be sacrificed so the band could get in this year, but the band's fans have only been waiting since 94/95. The Cubs' fans have been waiting since 1908. Quit cutting in line, Cetera!

Posted by Philip on Wednesday, 10/21/2015 @ 23:55pm

You did know that Obama is a Sox fan? If you are from Chicago you are one or the other not both.


Posted by Zuzu on Tuesday, 10.20.15 @ 09:56am


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Well, I was born in South Bend, Indiana, lived 70 miles outside Chicago, inside NW Indiana's Central Time Zone Chicagoland area and I've always been a fan of both The Cubbies and White Sox!

8-)

Posted by Rick Vendl II on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 01:20am

The bots that ruined the fan poll have destroyed the Cubs too! The Mets are moving on, the Cubs, not so much. The Illuminati have been held at bay. Now maybe the Cubs had to be sacrificed so the band could get in this year, but the band's fans have only been waiting since 94/95. The Cubs' fans have been waiting since 1908. Quit cutting in line, Cetera!

Posted by Philip on Wednesday, 10.21.15 @ 23:55pm


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LOL

Well, as usual, maybe next year, I think they will win one sooner than later, by 2018, interesting how Da Cubs swept the New York Mets in a 7-game regular season sweep, their first such sweep of that many games since 1885, when Back to the Future Part III happened, yet could do nothing against Murphy, this player who has that 1945 goat's infamous name, in an 0-4 NLCS sweep, 1969 all over again, but it ends differently!

:-(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1ULjJ3EqyY

Posted by Rick Vendl II on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 01:35am

Well, I was born in South Bend, Indiana, lived 70 miles outside Chicago, inside NW Indiana's Central Time Zone Chicagoland area and I've always been a fan of both The Cubbies and White Sox!

8-)

Posted by Rick Vendl II on Thursday, 10.22.15 @ 01:20am


I have a general idea where South Bend is. I also know who Digger Phelps was. ;) I used to go up to New Buffalo in the summers when I was little. Never could figure out the time zone differences. Isn't there somewhere around there that doesn't change clocks? I can't remember if it was in Indiana or Michigan. The camp I went to was on Chicago time.
South Bend is not Chicago. It's actually one way to tell right off the bat if somebody is actually from Chicago or the burbs. Burbies will either not declare a team or will say both. If you were actually born and raised in Chicago it is one or the other. I grew up close enough to Comiskey to hear the scoreboard.

:)


Bots? Proof --- and none of those phoney baloney numbers please. While you're at it maybe you should also show what was going on with another person's numbers. Fans don't run up numbers and walk away. So who was running up those numbers? Hmmmm! I wonder who.

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 02:40am

Got a beach house I could sell you in Idaho if you don't think there were bots ruining the fan vote.

Posted by Gassman on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 07:38am

some people are complaining yet I don't see proof. Nobody took screen shots? Let's have screenshots at 2 or 3 hour intervals. Let's show everybody what really was happening.

Let's see who was the one that was really doing something funny. This was a free for all poll. People set their buts down on a chair in front of a computer and vote. When somebody else is catching up or getting ahead fans react and do something. You don't go from about 400,000 to over 3,000,000 in as little as a few hours and do barely anything for the next day or so when others pass you up.

Now that is funny. Then you go and complain about it.

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 10:00am

Leave Chicago alone! This is Chicago!! Everyone in the Rock Hall poll is being botted, some more than others. Chicago is # 1 for a reason!!! Have you heard of Heavy Metal's Holy Trinity - Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Deep Purple? Well, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys, Chicago and the Bee Gees are Rock and Roll's Holy Quintet on the Billboard Charts! Chicago at # 1 in the Rock Hall poll makes sense! Get over it! Chicago will be inducted in 2016! This is Chicago, not Boston or Kansas.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 10:50am

Did you forget to take your meds this morning, Roy? Calm down. "This is Chicago!!" So what? Look, the process is fraudulent. Perhaps Chicago deserves or would be #1 in the poll right now, perhaps not. We will never know because the integrity of the whole process has been compromise. My favorite band of the nominees is The Cars, and they have also benefited from the fraudulent voting. I'm happy they will get a vote through the Fan Ballot. But it is still a fraud.

Posted by Dezmond on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 12:41pm

What fraud? Did you mean the one that went from about 400,000 to about 3,000,000 and then poof disappeared? What fans do that? Let's stop the accusations and actually start showing some proof. Let's start seeing screenshots at regular intervals for that first week.

It's all fine and dandy to come up with accusations after the fact but if somebody thought something funny was going on than why didn't they document it? Where are the screenshots? There is a word for baseless accusations. It's called propaganda.

Like Roy said this is Chicago. One of the Big Four. It isn't Boston and it isn't Kansas. It is Chicago.

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 13:04pm

Again, so what if it's Chicago. I think Future Rock Legends has documented what happened quite well, I am not going to rehash what he has already shown so well. Just look at the numbers and refer to what FRL wrote. Why didn't anyone prove with screen shots? I don't know. I don't care that much because the Fan Ballot means very little in reality. It is one ballot out of hundreds. Also, my Cars benefit, so great. They get a vote. I don't really care if the vote is fraudulent or not. What I do mind is people who are so blinded by their love for a band that they cannot see reality right in front of them. That is more annoying than a fraudulent Fan Poll. Just take the Chicago vote and be happy with it.

Posted by Dezmond on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 14:09pm

Again, so what if it's Chicago. I think Future Rock Legends has documented what happened quite well, I am not going to rehash what he has already shown so well. Just look at the numbers and refer to what FRL wrote. Why didn't anyone prove with screen shots? I don't know. I don't care that much because the Fan Ballot means very little in reality. It is one ballot out of hundreds. Also, my Cars benefit, so great. They get a vote. I don't really care if the vote is fraudulent or not. What I do mind is people who are so blinded by their love for a band that they cannot see reality right in front of them. That is more annoying than fraudulent Fan Poll. Just take the Chicago vote and be happy with it.

Posted by Dezmond on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 14:09pm

Without the actual documentation nothing is shown. Graphs are nothing more than pretty pictures without the actual data shown to back it up.

Neither graph depicts what I recall happening. The first one does not show the flip flops that were occurring. Janet regained the top spot twice. It also does not show The cars or Yes taking the top spot. The second one does not show amounts as I remember them. This is why screenshots are so important. It backs up the graphs shown. Without the backups graphs are not validated and are very very vulnerable to being disputed.

It may only be one vote and that is not what matters. It's the principle. After twenty years, Chicago fans are tired of the snide remarks. Chicago fans are tired of the anti-Chicago propaganda. No more. Enough is enough.

Quite frankly I think the truth behind the propaganda is that somebody had their morning cup of Joe and is doing some damage control.

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 14:45pm

Don't worry about it Dezmond. Let them live in la-la land. Hopefully the Rock Hall will either delete votes from IP addresses they know are bots or they start the vote over again with the 15 vote limit. If not its only one vote.

Posted by Gassman on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 15:16pm

There is no proof to the propaganda. Plain and simple. Repeating something over and over and coming up with graphs without the data to back it up does not make it true.

One and a half months to go and we will see. That is what really counts.

:)

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 15:32pm

"Neither graph depicts what I recall happening. The first one does not show the flip flops that were occurring. Janet regained the top spot twice. It also does not show The cars or Yes taking the top spot. The second one does not show amounts as I remember them. This is why screenshots are so important. It backs up the graphs shown. Without the backups graphs are not validated and are very very vulnerable to being disputed."

Very genuine question, Zuzu.... do you remember when, in reference to how soon the fan vote opened that Janet Jackson reclaimed the spot not once after being knocked off the top, but twice? I never saw Janet reclaim the top spot ever, so I'm curious as to when these two things happened.

"It may only be one vote and that is not what matters. It's the principle. After twenty years, Chicago fans are tired of the snide remarks. Chicago fans are tired of the anti-Chicago propaganda. No more. Enough is enough."

This is why graphs, IP traces, and even a confession from a hacker wouldn't appease Chicago fans.

Posted by Philip on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 15:35pm

Philip,

Janet regained the top spot late on the first or second day. She went from around 400,000 to 3,000,000. I am pretty sure it was the second day. She fell down to sixth place over a time period that was between 1 and 2 days. Then she went from about 3.5 or maybe 4 mil to about 8 or 9 mil. She went back down to 6th place again. There were a couple attempts but they only lasted less than 1/2 hour. Chicago started going full force in numbers after being overtaken by both Yes and the Cars. Both were at least once and one was twice. The other may have been twice too.

You might be able to find out when by searching for Roy's name in the nomination thread. I believe he made comments on that thread about who was in the lead some of the times. I may have commented once early on.

Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 16:03pm

Philip:

Unless it happened sometime after the 10th of October, it never happened.

https://twitter.com/futurerocklgnds/status/652913393863561216/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Posted by Gassman on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 16:07pm

Zuzu, our data is fine. Vote totals are recorded daily, not hourly. Results were indeed volatile in the first day, which is to be expected.

In this case, your mistrust seems to be misplaced.

Posted by FRL on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 17:56pm

Tom Morello wore a CTA cap at this year's Rock Hall ceremony. That's proof that Chicago will get enough votes from the committee and the inductees. Chicago will be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2016. Questlove wore a Hall & Oates shirt and they were inducted right after. Morello's CTA cap was a sign!

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 20:34pm

I have a general idea where South Bend is. I also know who Digger Phelps was. ;) I used to go up to New Buffalo in the summers when I was little. Never could figure out the time zone differences. Isn't there somewhere around there that doesn't change clocks? I can't remember if it was in Indiana or Michigan. The camp I went to was on Chicago time.
South Bend is not Chicago. It's actually one way to tell right off the bat if somebody is actually from Chicago or the burbs. Burbies will either not declare a team or will say both. If you were actually born and raised in Chicago it is one or the other. I grew up close enough to Comiskey to hear the scoreboard.

:)


Posted by Zuzu on Thursday, 10.22.15 @ 02:40am


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I'm aware about all that, but 4 Grandparents on both sides of my family, even Dad, then most farmers and business owners migrated to NW Indiana, most everyone is originally from Chicago.

Indiana now observes Daylight Savings Time since 2006, that was where there was confusion.

I also know New Buffalo, Michigan.

8-)

Posted by Rick Vendl II on Thursday, 10/22/2015 @ 20:48pm

Now that Chicago is finally going to be inducted or at least most likely should I want to know who they plan on inducting. The only members I think there is some doubt on is Tris and Jason. Personally I hope they both get in. For those who think there is some question about Bill Champlin, he gets the nod no question about it. From 85 on he was the face of the band, sure Jason replaced Cetera but the voice of Chicago became Bill. Within the industry Bill probably has a good as reputation as anyone. If Bill gets left out, its original 7 only no shot of Jason or Tris getting in.

Posted by Pete on Friday, 10/23/2015 @ 20:38pm

The fan ballot doesn't count for much in the final tally — and this year in particular, it has apparently been manipulated by rabid fans — but at this writing, Chicago leads the vote by at least 50% over their fellow nominees. Who knew Robert Lamm and Gene Simmons had so much in common?

-Billboard Magazine

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/24/2015 @ 09:19am

Sorry, the last post was a quote from NPR, not Billboard.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/24/2015 @ 11:52am

I'm aware about all that, but 4 Grandparents on both sides of my family, even Dad, then most farmers and business owners migrated to NW Indiana, most everyone is originally from Chicago.

Indiana now observes Daylight Savings Time since 2006, that was where there was confusion.

I also know New Buffalo, Michigan.

8-)

Posted by Rick Vendl II on Thursday, 10.22.15 @ 20:48pm



I remembered it was something about Daylight Savings Time. I couldn't remember if it was Indiana or Michigan.

Most of the people I know that moved to Indiana from Chicago moved to the St John - Griffith area.
Are the people you know mostly from the South Side?

Chicago which was mostly West Siders were all Cubbies. Styx were the Sox fans. Kevin Cronin was born in Evanston and raised in Oak Lawn. I haven't found anything about him being a fan of either team. He is very much a Hawks fan.

Posted by Zuzu on Saturday, 10/24/2015 @ 17:20pm

^ No.

Former Chicagoans go as far south in NW Indiana as San Pierre, North Judson, Bass Lake and Knox around Starke County. Radioville, Medaryville, Francesville and Winamac around Pulaski County. They all started migrating around The Great Depression era.

Da Bears use to hold their annual training camp at St. Joseph's College in Rensselaer, Indiana, from 1944-1974!

Posted by Rick Vendl II on Saturday, 10/24/2015 @ 22:39pm

Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple.
Chicago's South California Purples.
They will be inducted the same year!
This is being done on purpose!
Two classic opening guitar riffs!
Too bad South California Purples was never a single!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 10/25/2015 @ 06:28am

Roy said: "Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple.
Chicago's South California Purples.
They will be inducted the same year!
This is being done on purpose!"

There is a word that needs to be introduced to Roy's vocabulary: "coincidence."

Also, Roy, just because something happens or is so. And then something else happens or is so. And after the fact your mind can connect them somehow, however much the stretch...it does NOT necessarily mean there is a cause/effect relationship there!

Posted by Dezmond on Sunday, 10/25/2015 @ 08:29am

I've always assumed that Roy's convoluted conspiracy theories were a joke. I can't imagine this is serious:

"Smoke On The Water by Deep Purple.
Chicago's South California Purples.
They will be inducted the same year!
This is being done on purpose!"

Posted by Classic Rock on Sunday, 10/25/2015 @ 21:08pm

No, he's serious. Scroll up several hundred posts and find his fantasy induction speeches for Chicago. My favorite part is when he tells us when the audience laughs. You've got to admire his scary dedication, though.

Posted by Dezmond on Monday, 10/26/2015 @ 02:20am

There is a word that needs to be introduced to Roy's vocabulary: "coincidence."

Posted by Dezmond on Sunday, 10.25.15 @ 08:29am

Coincidence my arse!

Genesis and ABBA Inducted in 2010.
Abacab by Genesis.
Follow You Follow Me by Genesis.
Knowing Me Knowing You by ABBA.

My induction speeches for Chicago were taken down by FRL after Telarock complained that I was taking up too much space. I will post the final copy after Chicago is inducted!

Posted by Roy on Monday, 10/26/2015 @ 07:36am

Again coincidence.

Posted by Greg F on Monday, 10/26/2015 @ 16:57pm

So let me get this straight, Roy. You are saying that the Genesis/ABBA inductions and Chicago/Deep Purple possible inductions are all purposeful. Not just the Nominating Committee, but enough of the voters are sitting around figuring out these Roy Haikus? Is that what you are saying?

I would also like to know your theories on the following:

1. The Kennedy assassination
2. The moon landing

I will tell you what is a real conspiracy. How could FRL take down Roy's masterpiece Chicago Induction Speech? That was a work of art.

Posted by Dezmond on Monday, 10/26/2015 @ 17:32pm

With all this talk, I gotta now see Roy's Chicago acceptance speech. Are there lines in the speech like Chicago's is now "Alive Again" or those were the "Old Days." Or they "Colour Our World" (BTW, I know it's "My") because they will (most likely) get inducted this year? Will Chicago play the song "Beginnings" and end with "Feeling Stronger Everyday"? The jokes are endless here.

On a side note, Roy if believe that's the Rock Hall's Agenda to induct Genesis/ABBA and Deep Purple/Chicago based on coincidences then you are highly delusional. I want Chicago in the Rock Hall just as bad you do but still this is getting ridiculous.

Posted by Nick on Monday, 10/26/2015 @ 21:54pm

Oh yes. For longtime FRL readers like myself, Roy's epic Chicago Induction Speech is the stuff of legend. My favorite parts were where he inserted cues for the audience to laugh or chuckle.

Posted by Dezmond on Monday, 10/26/2015 @ 23:10pm

http://ourrockandrollhalloffame71305.yuku.com/topic/1517/CHICAGO

MY ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO

It will be updated in December. I will post it here in April!

Posted by Roy on Monday, 10/26/2015 @ 23:23pm

chicago is personally responsible for the rise of isis wake up america.

Posted by GFW on Tuesday, 10/27/2015 @ 19:50pm

Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago. Hillary Clinton is the next President of the United States of America.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 10/28/2015 @ 18:59pm

Roy,

Hilary Clinton had nothing to do with Chicago and her being the next POTUS is questionable. Now if you said that meant something special for Steve Goodman that would be a different story. She went to school with Steve Goodman and was interviewed for his biography.

Posted by Zuzu on Wednesday, 10/28/2015 @ 19:56pm

Dammit, Roy, don't jinx her!!

Posted by Paul in KY on Thursday, 10/29/2015 @ 07:13am

So let me get this straight, Roy. You are saying that the Genesis/ABBA inductions and Chicago/Deep Purple possible inductions are all purposeful. Not just the Nominating Committee, but enough of the voters are sitting around figuring out these Roy Haikus? Is that what you are saying?

I would also like to know your theories on the following:

1. The Kennedy assassination
2. The moon landing

Posted by Dezmond on Monday, 10.26.15 @ 17:32pm

YES!

There is also a connection between the Kennedys and Wayne Gretzky. Gretzky and Obama. Gretzky and Michael Jackson. Gretzky and Princess Diana. Also, a connection between the 80s TV shows Dynasty and He-Man and the Masters of the Universe.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 10/30/2015 @ 14:12pm

(Fun chart trivia: Steve Miller has knocked Chicago out of the No. 1 spot on the Hot 100 twice: "Rock'n Me" bumped "If You Leave Me Now" in 1976, and "Abracadabra" ejected "Hard to Say I'm Sorry" in 1982. If Miller gets inducted this year and Chicago doesn't, Chicago's fans with long memories may hold a grudge.)

-NPR

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/31/2015 @ 07:50am

Roy,

Where do you get the NPR quote from? I looked and I couldn't find it.

Posted by Zuzu on Saturday, 10/31/2015 @ 09:33am

http://www.npr.org/sections/therecord/2015/10/24/451226961/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2016-the-only-system-weve-got

End of the paragraph on Steve Miller

Posted by Nick on Saturday, 10/31/2015 @ 10:57am

Thanks Nick.

Why somebody like this is writing for NPR I will never know. He needs to take it somewhere else like Rolling Stone. This sort of opinionated garbage does not belong on anything funded with government dollars. Public Radio and Public Television was not intended to be used for somebody to vent their uneducated opinion.

Posted by Zuzu on Saturday, 10/31/2015 @ 11:18am

The fan ballot doesn't count for much in the final tally — and this year in particular, it has apparently been manipulated by rabid fans — but at this writing, Chicago leads the vote by at least 50% over their fellow nominees. Who knew Robert Lamm and Gene Simmons had so much in common?

-NPR

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/31/2015 @ 11:49am

http://twitter.com/TrisImboden

Tris Imboden tweets about the Rock Hall

Tris Imboden ‏@TrisImboden Oct 9
I voted for "2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Nominee Fan Vote!"
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Reply Retweet 4 Favorite 13
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Tris Imboden ‏@TrisImboden Oct 9
So happy the band has finally been nominated for the RRHOF!
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Tris Imboden ‏@TrisImboden Oct 8
Well we've got some seriously stiff competition but we will see what happens this year with the RRHOF!

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/31/2015 @ 19:04pm

http://petercetera.com

PETER CETERA COMMENTS ON THE CHICAGO ROCK HALL NOMINATION

October 24, 2015

Hold your horses all you folks that are so excited about this Hall of Fame voting. Let me remind you that whomever has this vendetta that has kept the original Chicago out of the HOF is still in charge. We should have been in years ago of course and that’s my point. They have put in so many who don’t belong that it’s an insult to think that they might have to be forced to at least finally put us in the nominee category. Also, this fan vote only counts for ONE vote out of the hundreds of voters out there so there’s still a chance for them to finagle their way out of “letting” us in. I also heard something about Chicago fans cheating by voting early and voting often! Keep it up because you never know what might happen!

Ciao, p

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 10/31/2015 @ 22:13pm

http://www.mcall.com/entertainment/lehigh-valley-music/mc-review-peter-cetera-at-valley-forge-casino-resort-missing-nothing-except-more-energy-20151012-column.html

MORE FROM CETERA DURING AN OCTOBER 11TH CONCERT

He even commented on Chicago finally being nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last week, after being eligible for more than 20 years.

“Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, huh?” he said. “Where the hell you been for the past 30 years? Vendettas. Not going down without a fight, Rolling Stone.”

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 06:53am

Roy,

I posted what PC said on his site too in the 2016 Nominees thread.

I also heard something about Chicago fans cheating by voting early and voting often! Keep it up because you never know what might happen!

The vote early and vote often comment comes a parody of one of Old Man Daley's campaign slogans - vote early -- vote Daley. I am not absolutely sure but I think it was Nixon supporters that came up with it.

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 12:15pm

Why are people upset that Chicago is # 1 in the Rock Hall fan poll, but not upset that Rush and KISS also finished # 1 in the fan poll? Chicago finishing # 1 in the poll is no surprise to me. Let me remind all of you again who you are dealing with here! This is Chicago! Of the 15 nominees on this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot, Chicago is the number one all-time selling and charting act on the list. Chicago at # 1 makes sense!! Rock and Roll's Holy Quintet: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Bee Gees, Chicago! Chicago will join the rest in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2016!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 12:27pm

Roy,

I posted what PC said on his site too in the 2016 Nominees thread.

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 11.1.15 @ 12:15pm

When did they re-open the PC forum? Do you have the link? I can't find it.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 12:29pm

Roy,

I posted it on the 2016 Nominee thread on this site. Not on any PC forum

I posted the same comment from PC that you posted. No biggie since it is pertinent to both threads. I was just letting you know.

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 12:38pm

Roy,

I posted it on the 2016 Nominee thread on this site. Not on any PC forum

I posted the same comment from PC that you posted. No biggie since it is pertinent to both threads. I was just letting you know.

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 12:38pm

Nobody's upset that Chicago is #1. Read this for clarification:

http://rockhallmonitors.blogspot.com/2015/10/rock-vote-dont-tip-vote-over.html?spref=tw

Posted by dmg on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 12:46pm

It's the Chicago mafia voting!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 12:55pm

Roy,

PC explains it very well. Anyway I wouldn't let people try to ruin it. Worry about more important questions.

Will PC accept or reject induction?

If PC accepts will he bring a roll of tp with him?

If PC brings a roll of tp will he have something printed on it?

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 13:54pm

Peter Cetera will attend the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. He has stated in the past that that would be the only way he would ever perform with Chicago again, and Chicago has no problem with it.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 14:29pm

When did he say this? I haven't come across it. The closest I've come across is Bobby talking to Peter about getting together with the band or just the two of them doing something together and then Chicago replies that Peter is too lazy to tour. This doesn't sound like Peter would without question play with Chicago if inducted into the hall.

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 15:21pm

A Rock Hall performance is not a tour. The lazy quote is from the site called somethingelse. I will post the link about Cetera performing at the Rock Hall soon. He'll do it for his daughters.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 15:37pm

There is a word that needs to be introduced to Roy's vocabulary: "coincidence."


Posted by Dezmond on Sunday, 10.25.15 @ 08:29am


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But the mafia doesn't believe in coincidence!

:D 8-)

Posted by Rick Vendl II on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 16:39pm

Rick

Danny did actually have mafia ties.

RO: I was surprised to read that you know [Mafia figure] Tony "The Ant" Spilotro pretty well. What can you tell me about him that might surprise someone who saw Joe Pesci as a Spilotro-based character in Casino?

DS: He was always really nice to me and cordial. I knew how vicious he could be, because he had that reputation in the neighborhood. He was even proud of me [after Chicago's success] that I came from the neighborhood. But you knew you were around dangerous people. At one point, the FBI came after me [looking into possible band/mafia ties], but I was more scared of the mob than the FBI!

http://www.houstonpress.com/music/mobsters-crime-and-jazz-danny-seraphines-chicago-story-6766814

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 17:34pm

https://northumbriancountdown.wordpress.com/2014/06/23/the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-class-of-2015-an-early-prediction/

16. Chicago: The hall, as others have pointed out, has gotten more populist lately, and lots of commercially successful bands that were snubbed are finally getting recognized. If Hall & Oates can get in, why not Chicago? They had more hits than any rock band not in the Hall of Fame, and between Kath’s guitar, Seraphine’s drums, Cetera’s vocals, and Pankow’s horn arrangements, there’s no denying they pass the “excellence” test. Robert Lamm reported last year that sources told him they were the last cut from the ballot for the class of 2014.

Another thing to consider: the Rock Hall wants to avoid another KISS fiasco. Chicago dialed down their criticism of the rock hall in recent years, and both the band and Peter Cetera have intimated that a rock hall performance is the only way on earth that a reunion would happen. It could draw some good press for all parties concerned if it happens.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 18:41pm

Roy,

I wouldn't consider that an absolute since it's not a direct interview.

Posted by Zuzu on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 18:58pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsNc23RP40A

Hold On from Chicago XIV is the funniest Chicago track ever. You can bang your head to a couple portions of the song as well. The guitar and drums from 1:37 to 2:30, and the way Cetera is repeating the same lines, and then again from 3:02 to 3:50. I want to cut those portions out and put them back to back to back on an 80-minute CD and listen to it all day or annoy the hell out of non-Chicago fans with it!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 19:13pm

https://northumbriancountdown.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/sing-a-mean-tune-kid-chicago-for-people-who-hate-chicago/

Sing a Mean Tune, Kid: Chicago for people who hate Chicago

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 19:16pm

http://popdose.com/best-chicago-songs/

10 Songs to Make You Love Chicago (the Band)

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/1/2015 @ 19:19pm

http://ourrockandrollhalloffame71305.yuku.com/topic/1517/CHICAGO

LOADS OF CHICAGO INFO LINKS HERE

Posted by Roy on Monday, 11/2/2015 @ 14:49pm

Chicago lost Terry Kath 11 albums in, not 4 albums in as that Dave Marsh interviewer says. Dave Marsh called Chicago just a vehicle for their guitar player, which is not enough to get them in.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 11/4/2015 @ 04:24am

Dave Marsh doesn't know who he can compare to Chicago and says Dave Brubeck is better than Chicago. Dave Marsh sarcastically asks which is better Roundabout or 25 Or 6 To 4.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 11/4/2015 @ 05:00am

Did Dave Marsh venerate Terry Kath by calling Chicago just a vehicle for Terry Kath's guitar playing?

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/8/2015 @ 08:56am

Camelia Emily Ortiz, Terry Kath's widow, was married to Keifer Sutherland 1987 through 1990. Sutherland was a stepdad to Michele Kath, and had his daughter Sarah Sutherland with Ortiz.

Terry Kath's widow is currently dating Jeff Lynne of ELO. Could Jeff Lynne be giving the induction speech for Chicago?

Posted by Roy on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 05:54am

Chicago fans all over North America have been summoned by me via the internet. They are now all heading to all of their local libraries and Apple stores to vote for Chicago on the Future Rock Legends poll for the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame nominees. Chicago will finish # 1 in the Future Rock Legends poll!

Posted by Roy on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 08:26am

Roy,

Don't forget about the hall's fan vote. Remember PC's warning to not trust them. Also don't forget to ask them to show a little love for Chaka Khan and Steve Miller.

Posted by Zuzu on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 08:45am

About Chicago, Zuzu wrote:

Roy,

Don't forget about the hall's fan vote. Remember PC's warning to not trust them. Also don't forget to ask them to show a little love for Chaka Khan and Steve Miller.

All I told them was that Janet Jackson couldn't be one of the other four acts they vote for because Janet and Chicago are now tied for first place on FRL. Chicago is going to win the official Rock Hall poll. That's over.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 09:05am

Roy says: "Chicago fans all over North America have been summoned by me via the internet." That is so awesome. It is like Roy has activated all of these sleeper cells.

Posted by Dezmond on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 13:12pm

"They are now all heading to all of their local libraries and Apple stores to vote for Chicago on the Future Rock Legends poll for the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame nominees."

Why do they have to go to libraries and Apple stores? Are Chicago fans all homeless? Do they not own computers or internet capable devices of their own?

Posted by DarinRG on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 17:35pm

Because they already voted from their home computers. They can't vote again from home, unless they lose their internet signal and FRL resets.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 18:18pm

http://ourrockandrollhalloffame71305.yuku.com/topic/2421/The-2015-Nominee-Ballot-for-2016-Induction-Are?page=21

Underground Democrat wrote:

The Chicago Transit Authority Was Almost On Apple Records

In 1968 Paul McCartney shocked everyone by going to a Capitol Records business meting in Los Angeles, artists with The Beatles fame don't usually do stuff like that, but Macca was not there as an artist but as a businessman wanting to get Capitol business people on board with Apple.

One night,Mc Cartney went to the Whiskey Au Go Go where the headliner was B.B. King, opening for B.B. was a unsigned act named Chicago Transit Authority ,Macca liked them and instantly wanted to sign them to Apple Records.

CTA's manager James William Gucerio told McCartney that while he liked the idea of having a Beatles connection ,he was in negotiation with Columbia Records and wanted to sign with them because they were the biggest record label in the world.

You know the rest.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 18:46pm

People are actually going to make a trip to a library or Apple store to vote in a poll that carries no weight and has no impact on the final class?

That's a really special level of insecurity and craving for the Rock Hall's validation.

Posted by DarinRG on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 18:55pm

How come N.W.A, The Smiths, Los Lobos, The Spinners, Chic, The Cars, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple and Yes all get photos on the Rock Hall website that show their faces up-close, but Chicago doesn't get that?!

Posted by Roy on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 19:33pm

www.chicagotheband.com/a-chicago-story/

A Chicago Story

Posted by Roy on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 19:35pm

Library and (not or) the Apple store. That's two votes per person. But each person would have to go to a separate library and Apple store because you can't vote more than once at each place.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 11/9/2015 @ 19:39pm

Roy,

I had never heard about the Apple/McCartney connection before. According to the Gibson site though, Chicago did not consider Apple because they were already in talks with Columbia and no mention is made that they wanted a big company.

http://www.gibson.com/news-lifestyle/features/en-us/10-things-you-might-not-know-about-paul-mccartney.aspx

From what I read and I think this was from Google Book excerpts of Street Player, CTA was having some problems getting a record deal and Columbia wanted James Guercio to produce the BST album. As part of the conditions of producing the album Chicago got signed with Columbia.

Back in the 70s it was going around that Chicago had gotten the raw end of the deal from both their manager and record company. According to Danny they got 1/s the usual royalties in order to do the double albums because Columbia was worried about sales of a double album for a new group. It sounds like their manager didn't make sure there were bonuses if they reached certain sales goals like many baseball payers do when agreeing to a lower salary.

Posted by Zuzu on Tuesday, 11/10/2015 @ 14:50pm

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES FOR GIVING THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, David Foster, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al Kooper, Bobby Colomby, Barry Gibb, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Jeff Lynne, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Shmit, Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sting, Gerry Beckley, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Alistair Ian "Ali" Campbell, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla, Chris Isaak, Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, Axl Rose, Slash, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Tom Morello, Rob Thomas, Stephan Jenkins, Mark McGrath, Steve Malkmus, Trey Anastasio, Justin Vernon

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 11/10/2015 @ 17:44pm

http://www.amazon.com/Chi...id=1337037072&sr=1-1

Chicago: Feelin' Stronger Every Day by Ben Joseph

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 11/11/2015 @ 09:54am

http://www.amazon.com/Chicago-Stronger-Everyday-Ben-Joseph/dp/1550822454/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1447253713&sr=8-5&keywords=Chicago+Feelin%27+Stronger+Everyday

Chicago: Feelin' Stronger Every Day by Ben Joseph

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 11/11/2015 @ 09:56am

http://www.amazon.ca/Street-Player-My-Chicago-Story/dp/0470416831/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?tag=8013053-20

Street Player: My Chicago Story by Danny Seraphine

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 11/11/2015 @ 09:58am

http://www.amazon.ca/Days-The-Hole-Experiment-ebook/dp/B007QHMC1A/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1337000778&sr=1-1&tag=8013053-20

33 Days In The Hole: The Chicago Experiment by Rob Kern

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 11/11/2015 @ 10:00am

David Wild of Rolling Stone is voting for Chicago.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 11/14/2015 @ 07:18am

Chicago will win the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poll and they will be inducted. Will Chicago finally get a Rolling Stone Magazine cover story? Will there also be a Rolling Stone Special Collectors Edition on Chicago? If so, should it just be the Chicago logo all over the front cover, staying in theme with all of Chicago's album covers?

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys and the Bee Gees have all been on the cover of Rolling Stone, as well as having been given special collectors edition magazines made just for them.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 11/20/2015 @ 18:39pm

RUSH and KISS made it onto Rolling Stone Magazine after they were inducted. I think Chicago is next!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 11/22/2015 @ 16:53pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgxSkb6eHp0

Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago Official Trailer

Posted by Roy on Friday, 11/27/2015 @ 15:18pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMCwq-LagJ0

The History of Chicago Trailer

Posted by Roy on Friday, 11/27/2015 @ 15:25pm

http://ourrockandrollhalloffame71305.yuku.com/topic/1517?page=46

Check out these new Chicago CDs!!

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 11/28/2015 @ 19:39pm

RUSH is voting for Chicago!

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 12/2/2015 @ 18:43pm

Chicago Songs With Trombonist James Pankow On Lead Vocals

01. Till The End Of Time (Chicago XI)

Chicago Songs With Trumpeter Lee Loughnane On Lead Vocals

01. Together Again (Chicago X)
02. This Time (Chicago XI) with Peter Cetera
03. Rockin' And Rollin' On Christmas Day (Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three)
04. Something's Coming, I Know (Chicago XXXVI: NOW) with Robert Lamm

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 12/6/2015 @ 08:21am

Not to nit-pick, Roy, but Lee also sang lead on "Song of the Evergreens" from VII and "Let It Snow" from XXV.

Posted by AlexVoltaire on Sunday, 12/6/2015 @ 08:43am

I forgot that one.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 12/6/2015 @ 09:39am

Chicago Songs With Trombonist James Pankow On Lead Vocals

01. Till The End Of Time (Chicago XI)

Chicago Songs With Trumpeter Lee Loughnane On Lead Vocals

01. Song Of The Evergreens (Chicago VII)
02. Together Again (Chicago X)
03. This Time (Chicago XI) with Peter Cetera
04. Let It Snow (Chicago 25: The Christmas Album)
05. Rockin' And Rollin' On Christmas Day (Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three)
06. Something's Coming, I Know (Chicago XXXVI: NOW) with Robert Lamm

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 12/6/2015 @ 09:42am

Chicago Songs With Trombonist James Pankow On Lead Vocals

01. You Are On My Mind (Chicago X)
02. Till The End Of Time (Chicago XI)

Chicago Songs With Trumpeter Lee Loughnane On Lead Vocals

01. Something In The City Changes People (Chicago VI)
02. Song Of The Evergreens (Chicago VII)
03. Together Again (Chicago X)
04. This Time (Chicago XI)
05. Let It Snow (Chicago 25: The Christmas Album)
06. Rockin' And Rollin' On Christmas Day (Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three)
07. Something's Coming, I Know (Chicago XXXVI: NOW)

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 12/6/2015 @ 14:38pm

http://debris-slide.blogspot.ca/2015/11/chicago-rock-roll-hall-of-fame.html

Chicago: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Justifications and Excuses, Part I

Posted by Roy on Monday, 12/7/2015 @ 07:01am

The 1970s Chicago Songs with Lee Loughnane, James Pankow or Donnie Dacus on Lead Vocals

01. Something In The City Changes People (Chicago VI: Lee Loughnane)
02. Song Of The Evergreens (Chicago VII: Lee Loughnane)
03. You Are On My Mind (Chicago X: James Pankow)
04. Together Again (Chicago X: Lee Loughnane)
05. Till The End Of Time (Chicago XI: James Pankow)
06. This Time (Chicago XI: Lee Loughnane)
07. Take A Chance (Hot Streets: Donnie Dacus)
08. Ain't It Time (Hot Streets: Donnie Dacus)
09. Love Was New (Hot Streets: Donnie Dacus)
10. Must Have Been Crazy (Chicago 13: Donnie Dacus)
11. Paradise Alley (Chicago 13: Donnie Dacus)
12. Closer To You (Chicago 13: Donnie Dacus)

That's a whole album!

Posted by Roy on Monday, 12/7/2015 @ 08:46am

http://debris-slide.blogspot.ca/2015/11/chicago-rock-roll-hall-of-fame.html

Apparently, Tom Nawrocki of Rolling Stone Magazine had brunch with Lobo, Michael Bolton, Peter Gabriel, and Dave Matthews over the weekend, then watched the Browns vs. Bengals game. Lobo thinks "Look Away" is unmanly. Michael Bolton thinks the vocals are overwrought. Peter Gabriel thinks it’s pretentious. Dave Matthews thinks it’s poorly composed. I'm guessing Nawrocki lives in California or New York.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 12/8/2015 @ 08:40am

Songs edited out from the suite "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon" from Chicago II (Make Me Smile, Colour My World) not included in the Singles Collection!

NOTE: These are just my preferences.

Chicago: The Singles Collection (1969-1977)

01. Beginnings
02. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
03. Questions 67 And 68
04. 25 Or 6 To 4
05. Free
06. Lowdown
07. Dialogue (Parts 1 & 2)
08. Saturday In The Park
09. Just You N' Me
10. Feelin' Stronger Everyday
11. (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
12. Wishing You Were Here
13. Old Days
14. If You Leave Me Now
15. Baby, What A Big Surprise

Chicago: The Terry Kath Guitar Album

01. Introduction
02. Listen
03. Poem 58
04. Free Form Guitar
05. South California Purples
06. Liberation
07. In The Country
08. 25 Or 6 To 4
09. I Don't Want Your Money
10. A Song For Richard And His Friends
11. Oh, Thank You Great Spirit
12. Scrapbook

The Chicago Suites Collection (75 minutes)

01. Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon (12:55)
02. Memories Of Love (9:12)
03. It Better End Soon (10:24)
04. Travel Suite (22:30)
05. An Hour In The Shower (5:30)
06. Elegy (15:27)

Chicago (LONG SONGS: 6 minutes and over) Album Versions (DOUBLE ALBUM)

CD # 1

01. Introduction (6:35)
02. Beginnings (7:34)
03. Poem 58 (8:35)
04. Free Form Guitar (6:49)
05. South California Purples (6:28)
06. I'm A Man (7:43)
07. Liberation (14:37)
08. In The Country (6:35)
09. Sing A Mean Tune Kid (9:18)

CD # 2

01. State Of The Union (6:16)
02. Goodbye (6:05)
03. A Song For Richard And His Friends (8:16)
04. Beyond All Our Sorrows (7:06)
05. Prelude To Aire (2:47)
06. Aire (6:27)
07. Devil's Sweet (10:07)
08. Byblos (6:18)
09. Oh, Thank You Great Spirit (7:19)
10. Your Love's An Attitude (6:00)
11. Prelude (Little One) (0:52)
12. Little One (5:40)
13. Street Player (9:11)

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 12/9/2015 @ 10:31am

I have read many of the comments of why and why not and I am frustrated. As a fan from day ONE, I will be 70 next year and before I leave this would like see my favorite group in the hall.

I have the complete collection records and cos and when I'm in my car CHICAGO is playing. With all their songs I can go months on end before I repeat a song. Each year I hope the will release more new material.

The group is an institution. I have attended every concert when they are in New Jersey and hope to do so until.......

Posted by Vince on Wednesday, 12/9/2015 @ 18:24pm

http://www.chicagotheband.com/tour/

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2016 Induction Ceremony will be held in New York in April 2016. What day in April?

CHICAGO HAS A CONCERT ON APRIL 18, 2016 AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN IN NEW YORK CITY

04/01/16 Chicago, IL United Center w/ EWF
04/02/16 St. Paul, MN Xcel Energy Center w/ EWF
04/05/16 Columbus, OH Nationwide Arena w/ EWF
04/06/16 Hershey, PA Giant Center w/ EWF
04/09/16 Uncasville, CT Mohegan Sun Arena w/ EWF
04/10/16 Allentown, PA PPL Center w/ EWF
04/12/16 Baltimore, MD Royal Farms Arena w/ EWF
04/15/16 Grand Rapids, MI Van Andel Arena w/ EWF
04/16/16 Moline, IL iWireless Center w/ EWF
04/18/16 New York, NY Madison Square Garden w/ EWF

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/10/2015 @ 06:16am

http://www.futurerocklegends.com/blog_files/FRL_Predicts_the_2016_Inductees.html

Chicago - The Rock Hall hasn’t set the date or the venue for the 2016 induction ceremony, except to say it will be in New York in April. Chicago is touring this spring, and are scheduled to wrap up that leg of their tour at Madison Square Garden on April 18th. Hmmm... (a side note to this: Yes is beginning a UK tour on April 27th. Chic is potentially playing Coachella this year April 15-17 and 22-24. Chicago is on tour in early April. Steve Miller Band is touring extensively next year, but is on a break for all of April. If you don’t think the Rock Hall and HBO consider this stuff, you’re crazy. Never forget it’s a show to raise money for the non-profit Rock Hall Foundation. They aren’t going to induct an artist who can’t make it because they’re on tour, if they have other options available. Disinterested artists like Deep Purple are also hard to induct if the Rock Hall isn’t sure if they will show up for the ceremony.)

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/10/2015 @ 06:25am

http://petercetera.com/tour/

Peter Cetera is off in April! smiley: happy

Danny Seraphine's California Transit Authority also has a concert on April 18 (like Chicago), and then they are off! smiley: happy

Bill Champlin is off in April too! smiley: happy

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/10/2015 @ 07:47am

Songs edited out from the suite "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon" from Chicago II (Make Me Smile, Colour My World) not included in the Singles Collection!

NOTE: These are just my preferences.

Chicago: The Singles Collection (1969-1978)

01. Beginnings
02. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
03. Questions 67 And 68
04. 25 Or 6 To 4
05. Free
06. Lowdown
07. Dialogue (Parts 1 & 2)
08. Saturday In The Park
09. Just You N' Me
10. Feelin' Stronger Everyday
11. (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
12. Wishing You Were Here
13. Old Days
14. If You Leave Me Now
15. Baby, What A Big Surprise
16. No Tell Lover

Chicago: The Terry Kath Guitar Album

01. Introduction
02. Listen
03. Poem 58
04. Free Form Guitar
05. South California Purples
06. Liberation
07. In The Country
08. 25 Or 6 To 4
09. I Don't Want Your Money
10. A Song For Richard And His Friends
11. Oh, Thank You Great Spirit
12. Scrapbook

The Chicago Suites Collection (75 minutes)

01. Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon (12:55)
02. Memories Of Love (9:12)
03. It Better End Soon (10:24)
04. Travel Suite (22:30)
05. An Hour In The Shower (5:30)
06. Elegy (15:27)

Chicago (LONG SONGS: 6 minutes and over) Album Versions (DOUBLE ALBUM)

CD # 1

01. Introduction (6:35)
02. Beginnings (7:34)
03. Poem 58 (8:35)
04. Free Form Guitar (6:49)
05. South California Purples (6:28)
06. I'm A Man (7:43)
07. Liberation (14:37)
08. In The Country (6:35)
09. Sing A Mean Tune Kid (9:18)
10. Goodbye (6:05)

CD # 2

01. State Of The Union (6:16)
02. A Song For Richard And His Friends (8:16)
03. Beyond All Our Sorrows (7:06)
04. Prelude To Aire (2:47)
05. Aire (6:27)
06. Devil's Sweet (10:07)
07. Byblos (6:18)
08. Oh, Thank You Great Spirit (7:19)
09. Your Love's An Attitude (6:00)
10. Prelude (Little One) (0:52)
11. Little One (5:40)
12. Street Player (9:11)

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/10/2015 @ 11:33am

Chicago/Peter Cetera: The Ballads/Singles (1982-1995)

01. Hard To Say I’m Sorry (Chicago/Peter Cetera) 4:00
02. Love Me Tomorrow (Chicago/Peter Cetera) 4:00
03. Hold Me ‘Til The Morning Comes (Paul Anka/Peter Cetera) 4:50
04. Hard Habit To Break (Chicago/Peter Cetera/Bill Champlin) 4:45
05. You’re The Inspiration (Chicago/Peter Cetera) 3:50
06. Glory Of Love (Peter Cetera) 4:18
07. The Next Time I Fall (Peter Cetera/Amy Grant) 3:46
08. Will You Still Love Me? (Chicago/Jason Scheff/Bill Champlin) 5:43
09. I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love (Chicago/Bill Champlin) 4:00
10. Look Away (Chicago/Bill Champlin) 4:00
11. What Kind Of Man Would I Be? (Chicago/Jason Scheff) 4:20
12. I Wasn’t The One (Who Said Goodbye) (Agnetha Faltskog/Peter Cetera) 4:12
13. One Good Woman (Peter Cetera) 4:38
14. After All (Cher/Peter Cetera) 4:05
15. Restless Heart (Peter Cetera) 4:09
16. Feels Like Heaven (Peter Cetera/Chaka Khan) 4:50
17. Even A Fool Can See (Peter Cetera) 4:31
18. (I Wanna Take) Forever Tonight (Peter Cetera/Crystal Bernard) 4:40

TOTAL RUNNING TIME ON AN 80-MINUTE CD: 79 MINUTES

Regardless of whether you use the album versions or the singles versions of Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Love Me Tomorrow, One Good Woman, Will You Still Love Me and What Kind Of Man Would I Be. There are a few ways to play around with this collection.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/10/2015 @ 11:36am

Chicago/Peter Cetera: The Ballads/Singles (1982-1995)

01. Hard To Say I’m Sorry (Chicago/Peter Cetera) 5:05 / 4:00 / 3:42 / 3:52
02. Love Me Tomorrow (Chicago/Peter Cetera) 5:09 / 4:00
03. Hold Me ‘Til The Morning Comes (Paul Anka/Peter Cetera) 4:50
04. Hard Habit To Break (Chicago/Peter Cetera/Bill Champlin) 4:45
05. You’re The Inspiration (Chicago/Peter Cetera) 3:50
06. Glory Of Love (Peter Cetera) 4:18
07. The Next Time I Fall (Peter Cetera/Amy Grant) 3:46
08. Will You Still Love Me? (Chicago/Jason Scheff/Bill Champlin) 5:43 / 4:12
09. I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love (Chicago/Bill Champlin) 4:00
10. Look Away (Chicago/Bill Champlin) 4:00
11. What Kind Of Man Would I Be? (Chicago/Jason Scheff) 4:20 / 4:16
12. I Wasn’t The One (Who Said Goodbye) (Agnetha Faltskog/Peter Cetera) 4:12
13. One Good Woman (Peter Cetera) 4:38 / 4:13
14. After All (Cher/Peter Cetera) 4:05
15. Restless Heart (Peter Cetera) 4:09
16. Feels Like Heaven (Peter Cetera/Chaka Khan) 4:50
17. Even A Fool Can See (Peter Cetera) 4:31
18. (I Wanna Take) Forever Tonight (Peter Cetera/Crystal Bernard) 4:40

TOTAL RUNNING TIME ON AN 80-MINUTE CD: 79 MINUTES

Regardless of whether you use the album versions or the singles versions of Hard To Say I'm Sorry, Love Me Tomorrow, One Good Woman, Will You Still Love Me and What Kind Of Man Would I Be. There are a few ways to play around with this collection.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/10/2015 @ 12:24pm

Chicago: The Singles Collection (1969-1977)

01. Beginnings
02. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
03. Questions 67 And 68
04. Make Me Smile
05. Colour My World
06. 25 Or 6 To 4
07. Free
08. Lowdown
09. Dialogue (Parts 1 & 2)
10. Saturday In The Park
11. Just You N’ Me
12. Feelin’ Stronger Every Day
13. (I’ve Been) Searchin’ So Long
14. Wishing You Were Here
15. Call On Me
16. Harry Truman
17. Old Days
18. If You Leave Me Now
19. Baby, What A Big Surprise

Chicago/Peter Cetera: The Ballads/Singles (1982-1995)

01. Hard To Say I’m Sorry (Chicago/Peter Cetera)
02. Love Me Tomorrow (Chicago/Peter Cetera)
03. Hold Me ‘Til The Morning Comes (Paul Anka/Peter Cetera)
04. Hard Habit To Break (Chicago/Peter Cetera/Bill Champlin)
05. You’re The Inspiration (Chicago/Peter Cetera)
06. Glory Of Love (Peter Cetera)
07. The Next Time I Fall (Peter Cetera/Amy Grant)
08. Will You Still Love Me? (Chicago/Jason Scheff/Bill Champlin)
09. I Don’t Wanna Live Without Your Love (Chicago/Bill Champlin)
10. Look Away (Chicago/Bill Champlin)
11. What Kind Of Man Would I Be? (Chicago/Jason Scheff)
12. I Wasn’t The One (Who Said Goodbye) (Agnetha Faltskog/Peter Cetera)
13. One Good Woman (Peter Cetera)
14. After All (Cher/Peter Cetera)
15. Restless Heart (Peter Cetera)
16. Feels Like Heaven (Peter Cetera/Chaka Khan)
17. Even A Fool Can See (Peter Cetera)
18. (I Wanna Take) Forever Tonight (Peter Cetera/Crystal Bernard)

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/10/2015 @ 19:33pm

Laudir De Oliveira currently lives in Rio de Janeiro, where he is Cultural Director of the Universidade do Grande Rio. In September 2010 he reunited with Chicago on the occasion of the band's concert at the HSBC Arena in Rio de Janeiro, performing Happy Man.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 12/11/2015 @ 17:53pm

In 1990 Bill Champlin wrote, produced, and sang lead on "Hearts in Trouble", a song for the movie soundtrack of Days of Thunder. Originally a solo song, the producers of the movie decided, for marketing purposes, that it be released under the name of Chicago; so the band's horn section added a brass arrangement to the track and subsequently it was released as a single. In the summer of 1990, Chicago launched their Hearts in Trouble Tour.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 12/11/2015 @ 18:37pm

Chicago recorded and released twelve songs that were not included on any of their regular studio albums with original material. Eleven of the songs are originals, one is a remake of an other artist's song. Three of the twelve studio recorded songs are included on a live album. Three of the twelve songs are original Christmas songs included on Christmas albums with remakes of other artists' Christmas songs. Four of the songs are original tracks included on greatest hits albums. Only "Good For Nothing" includes Peter Cetera. The song was recorded during Chicago 17, but wasn't included on the album, nor was it included as a bonus track on the remastered RHINO edition of Chicago 17. Good For Nothing was included on the USA For Africa: We Are The World album. We Are The World was released four months before Peter Cetera left Chicago while the band was on tour. Good For Nothing, Hearts In Trouble, Here In My Heart, The Only One, All Roads Lead To You and Show Me A Sign are also included in the Chicago Box Set from 2000.

01. 1985: Good For Nothing (USA For Africa: We Are The World)
02. 1990: Hearts In Trouble (Days Of Thunder Soundtrack)
03. 1997: Here In My Heart (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997)
04. 1997: The Only One (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997) with Lenny Kravitz
05. 1998: All Roads Lead To You (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II)
06. 1998: Show Me A Sign (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II)
07. 1998: Child's Prayer (Chicago 25: The Christmas Album)
08. 1999: Back To You (Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert)
09. 1999: If I Should Lose You (Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert)
10. 1999: You Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher And Higher) (Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert) with Michael McDonald
11. 2003: Bethlehem (Chicago Christmas: What's It Gonna Be Santa?)
12. 2011: Rockin' And Rollin' On Christmas Day (Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three)

THAT'S A WHOLE ALBUM. I HOPE THEY PUT IT OUT!

Posted by Roy on Friday, 12/11/2015 @ 19:55pm

CHICAGO: THE SCATTERED SONGS

01. 1985: Good For Nothing (USA For Africa: We Are The World)
02. 1990: Hearts In Trouble (Days Of Thunder Soundtrack)
03. 1997: Here In My Heart (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997)
04. 1997: The Only One (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997) with Lenny Kravitz
05. 1998: All Roads Lead To You (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II)
06. 1998: Show Me A Sign (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II)
07. 1998: Child's Prayer (Chicago 25: The Christmas Album)
08. 1999: Back To You (Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert)
09. 1999: If I Should Lose You (Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert)
10. 1999: Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher And Higher) (Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert) with Michael McDonald
11. 2003: Bethlehem (Chicago Christmas: What's It Gonna Be Santa?)
12. 2011: Rockin' And Rollin' On Christmas Day (Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three)

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 12/12/2015 @ 09:00am

Chicago is definitely going to be inducted in 2016. Chicago is this year's Beatles, Rolling Stones, and Beach Boys on the ballot. Chicago is the top selling and highest Billboard charting act on the nominees list this year. They will win the Rock Hall's fan poll and win the votes of the Rock Hall committee and past inductees.

Chicago will win the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame poll and they will be inducted. Will Chicago finally get a Rolling Stone Magazine cover story? Will there also be a Rolling Stone Special Collectors Edition on Chicago? If so, should it just be the Chicago logo all over the front cover, staying in theme with all of Chicago's album covers?

The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Beach Boys and the Bee Gees have all been on the cover of Rolling Stone, as well as having been given special collectors edition magazines made just for them. RUSH and KISS made it onto Rolling Stone Magazine after they were inducted. I think Chicago is next!

Chicago finishing # 1 in the fan poll is no surprise to me. Let me remind you who you are dealing with here! This is Chicago! Of the 15 nominees on this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ballot, Chicago is the number one all-time selling and charting act on the list. Chicago at # 1 makes sense!! Rock and Roll's Holy Quintet on the Billboard charts: The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Beach Boys, The Bee Gees, Chicago! Chicago will join the rest in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2016!

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES FOR GIVING THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, David Foster, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al Kooper, Bobby Colomby, Barry Gibb, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Jeff Lynne, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Shmit, Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sting, Gerry Beckley, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Alistair Ian "Ali" Campbell, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla, Chris Isaak, Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, Axl Rose, Slash, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Tom Morello, Rob Thomas, Stephan Jenkins, Mark McGrath, Steve Malkmus, Trey Anastasio, Justin Vernon, Robin Thicke

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 12/13/2015 @ 07:39am

Chicago is off on April 8!
Peter Cetera is off in April!
Danny Seraphine is off on April 8!
Bill Champlin is off in April!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 12/13/2015 @ 08:19am

I'll check my work schedule. Perhaps I am off too.

Posted by Dezmond on Sunday, 12/13/2015 @ 12:01pm

This should be interesting. Lots of folks now feel Chicago will indeed get in before Cheap Trick and with two days remaining before ballots are turned in, I'm sure things are gonna get tighter with these two acts. If Chicago gets in, it'll be redemption from critics who dismissed them as corny sellouts in the '80s.

Posted by Tim on Sunday, 12/13/2015 @ 14:52pm

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES FOR GIVING THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, David Foster, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al Kooper, Bobby Colomby, Barry Gibb, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Jeff Lynne, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Shmit, Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sting, Gerry Beckley, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Alistair Ian "Ali" Campbell, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla, Chris Isaak, Harry Connick Jr., Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, Axl Rose, Slash, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Tom Morello, Rob Thomas, Stephan Jenkins, Mark McGrath, Steve Malkmus, Trey Anastasio, Justin Vernon, Robin Thicke

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 12/15/2015 @ 09:11am

I'm contacting Chicago's management. Whoever gives the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech for Chicago, should come on stage wearing a Chicago Blackhawks jersey and carrying the Stanley Cup, and have it put on display on the stage during Chicago's induction. The NHL guards will be there too to protect the Stanley Cup.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 12/15/2015 @ 09:38am

Message Sent:

Whoever gives the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech for Chicago, should come on stage wearing a Chicago Blackhawks jersey and carrying the Stanley Cup, and have it put on display on the stage during Chicago's induction. Contact the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto and tell them to have the Stanley Cup ready for April 8 in New York City.

Contact:
Brookfield Place
30 Yonge Street
Toronto, ON Canada
M5E 1X8
(416) 360-7765
info@hhof.com

First, a Chicago politician named Barack Obama is elected the first black President of the United States of America in 2008. Then in 2010, the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks win their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history, but their first Stanley Cup since 1961, the year of Barack Obama's birth. Then in 2013, the Chicago Blackhawks win their fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their second during the Barack Obama presidency. Then in 2015, the Chicago Blackhawks win their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their third during the Barack Obama presidency. Then, what do you know, Chicago, the band, is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, during the Barack Obama presidency.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 12/16/2015 @ 08:42am

I think Chicago's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will open the door for Jan & Dean, and the Monkees to finally be nominated and inducted.

Chicago's induction will remind the nominating committee that Chicago is the # 2 American band behind the Beach Boys on Billboard, and that the Beach Boys performed on Chicago albums in 1970s and that the Beach Boys toured with Chicago in the 70s and 80s. The Beach Boys were surf music, Chicago had one "Beach Boys feel" song called Wishing You Were Here, which the Beach Boys performed on. Chicago's induction will remind the nominating committee of the Beach Boys, which will remind the nominating committee of Jan and Dean.

Chicago's induction will also remind the nominating committee of the British invasion of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, which will remind them of the Monkees, whose 60s TV show aired in reruns in the 80s on MTV while Chicago's cheesy 80s music videos were also playing on MTV.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 12/16/2015 @ 09:40am

Ladies and gentlemen, Chicago!

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 01:05am

ROCK AND ROLL BANDS WHO BEAT CHICAGO INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

The Beach Boys * The Beatles * The Rolling Stones * The Kinks * The Who * The Four Seasons * The Byrds * The Yardbirds * The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Sly and the Family Stone * Cream * Creedence Clearwater Revival * The Doors * The Animals * The Band * The Grateful Dead * Led Zeppelin * The Allman Brothers Band * Jefferson Airplane * Pink Floyd * The Velvet Underground * Buffalo Springfield * Crosby, Stills and Nash * Parliament-Funkadelic * The (Young) Rascals * The Bee Gees * The Jackson Five * The Mamas and the Papas * Santana * The Eagles * Fleetwood Mac * Earth, Wind & Fire * Lovin’ Spoonful * Aerosmith * Queen * Steely Dan * Ramones * Talking Heads * Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers * AC/DC * The Clash * The Police * Elvis Costello & the Attractions * Traffic * ZZ Top * The Pretenders * U2 * Black Sabbath * Blondie * Lynyrd Skynyrd * Sex Pistols * R.E.M. * Van Halen * The Ventures * The Dave Clark Five * Metallica * ABBA * Genesis * The Hollies * The Stooges * Alice Cooper * Guns N’ Roses * Red Hot Chili Peppers * The Small Faces/Faces * Heart * Rush * KISS * Hall & Oates * Nirvana * Green Day * Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band * Joan Jett and the Blackhearts * Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble * The Paul Butterfield Blues Band * Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys * Booker T. and the M.G.’s * Bill Haley and the Comets * Buddy Holly and the Crickets * Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps *

ROCK AND ROLL BANDS WHOM CHICAGO BEAT INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

The Kingston Trio * The Surfaris * The Zombies * The Kingsmen * The Troggs * The Turtles * Herman’s Hermits * Paul Revere & the Raiders * The Flying Burrito Brothers * The Monkees * Jan & Dean * Johnny Burnette and the Rock N Roll Trio * John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers * Big Brother and the Holding Company * Derek and the Dominos * The Spencer Davis Group * Blind Faith * Canned Heat * Humble Pie * Husker Du * Fairport Convention * The Mothers of Invention * Little Feat * Grand Funk Railroad * Tommy James and the Shondells * Three Dog Night * Steppenwolf * Thin Lizzy * Procol Harum * Roxy Music * The Blues Project * Blood, Sweat & Tears * Electric Flag * Tower of Power * The Guess Who * Bachman-Turner Overdrive * War * The Meters * The Neville Brothers * Kool & the Gang * The Commodores * New York Dolls * MC5 * The J. Geils Band * The Sir Douglas Quintet * Electric Light Orchestra * Emerson, Lake and Palmer * The Moody Blues * Yes * Jethro Tull * King Crimson * The Doobie Brothers * The Cars * Dire Straits * Motorhead * Iron Maiden * Judas Priest * Air Supply * America * Boston * Kansas * Journey * Styx * Toto * Foreigner * REO Speedwagon * Squeeze * Wings * The Silver Bullet Band * The Revolution * Kraftwerk * Chic * Joy Division * New Order * Sonic Youth * Miami Sound Machine * Wham! * Huey Lewis and the News * Bon Jovi * INXS * B-52’s * Duran Duran * Depeche Mode * Def Leppard * Tears For Fears * Los Lobos * The Cure * The Smiths * The Replacements * Nine Inch Nails * Soundgarden * Alice In Chains * Jane’s Addiction * The Black Crowes * Pixies * Smashing Pumpkins * Pearl Jam * Radiohead * Stone Temple Pilots * Dave Matthews Band * The Wallflowers * No Doubt

ROCK AND ROLL BANDS INDUCTED THE SAME YEAR AS CHICAGO

Deep Purple * Cheap Trick

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 04:24am

First, a Chicago politician named Barack Obama is elected the first black President of the United States of America in 2008. Then in 2010, the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks win their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history, but their first Stanley Cup since 1961, the year of Barack Obama's birth. Then in 2013, the Chicago Blackhawks win their fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their second during the Barack Obama presidency. Then in 2015, the Chicago Blackhawks win their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their third during the Barack Obama presidency. Then, what do you know, Chicago, the band, is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, during the Barack Obama presidency.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 04:30am

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

01. 1988: The Beatles
02. 1988: The Beach Boys
03. 1989: The Rolling Stones
04. 1997: The Bee Gees
05. 2016: Chicago

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 04:54am

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/blogs/staff-blog/rolling-stones-list-of-the-25-undisputed-guilty-pleasure-bands-20070409

Chicago is the fourth act from Rolling Stone’s 2008 List of the 25 Undisputed Guilty Pleasure Bands to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. The first was ABBA, the second was Rush, the third was Daryl Hall and John Oates.

Some of us still have a thing for Rush or Paula Abdul or RuPaul. That’s cool. To each his or her own and all that. But there are some artists who unequivocally leave much to be desired in terms of, say, quality or coolness, but still manage to rock, or at least inspire serious if shameful adoration on a mass scale. It’s these artists that we’re interested in. Artists who absolutely belong on a best guilty pleasures ever list, because that’s what we’re creating.

Those of you who proudly listen to Rush at top volume in your car all summer long, (ie thereby displaying the total lack of guilty in your pleasure), take note:? Rush come in at Number One on our official list of the Rock’s Undisputed Guilty Pleasure Bands. Like the rest of the acts on our list (which you helped put together), we love them to death, and can never forgive ourselves. The full list:

1. Rush
2. Electric Light Orchestra
3. Journey
4. ABBA
5. Chicago
6. Boston
7. Foreigner
8. Bread
9. Bon Jovi
10. New Edition
11. The Monkees
12. Motley Crue
13. STYX
14. Eddie Money
15. Simply Red
16. Kelly Clarkson
17. America
18. Wham!
19. R.E.O. Speedwagon
20. Poison
21. Lionel Richie
22. Kansas
23. Air Supply
24. Hall & Oates
25. Britney Spears

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 08:42am

THE 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Chicago

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 10:25am

I bet that felt really good to write and post, Roy. As much as I LOVE to give you a hard time (and I will not stop), I would like to pause and give you a sincere, heartfelt congratulations. I know this means a lot to you. You must be a happy guy this morning.

Posted by Dezmond on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 10:35am

Thank you. After next year, you will never hear from again on the Chicago page, or anywhere else on FRL until Bernie Taupin is inducted.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 10:44am

HORN PLAYERS IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

01. 1987 Louis Jordan
02. 1990 Louis Armstrong
03. 1990 John Entwistle (The Who)
04. 1993 Jerry Martini (Sly & The Family Stone)
05. 1993 Cynthia Robinson (Sly & The Family Stone)
06. 2000 King Curtis
07. 2000 Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind & Fire)
08. 2002 Isaac Hayes
09. 2003 Steve Douglas
10. 2006 Herb Alpert
11. 2006 Miles Davis
12. 2008 Denis Payton (The Dave Clark Five)
13. 2012 Joey D’Ambrosio (The Comets)
14. 2012 Rudy Pompilli (The Comets)
15. 2014 Clarence Clemons (The E Street Band)
16. 2014 Gary Tallent (The E Street Band)
17. 2016 Walter Parazaider (Chicago)
18. 2016 Lee Loughnane (Chicago)
19. 2016 James Pankow (Chicago)

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 11:11am

http://www.chicagotheband.com/chicago-chosen-for-2016-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame/

Chicago Chosen for 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 20:03pm

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/chicago-rock-hall-peter-cetera/?trackback=tsmclip

Chicago Open to Rock Hall Reunion With Peter Cetera

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/17/2015 @ 20:26pm

I would state that, since Chicago is now officially in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the time has come to induct Boston, Kansas, Nazareth, Alabama, America, Europe and Asia--except I already did that, seven years ago. I'll shut up now. You're welcome!

Oh, and they should also consider the Miami Sound Machine, the Ohio Players, L.A. Guns, the MC5, John Denver, and--of course--Hannah Montana.

Posted by Joe on Friday, 12/18/2015 @ 02:37am

http://petercetera.com

I'm waiting for Peter Cetera to comment on his induction.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 12/18/2015 @ 08:11am

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/17/chicago-rock-roll-hall-fame-jimmy-pardo

Why Chicago belongs in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, according to superfan Jimmy Pardo
Never Not Funny host Jimmy Pardo explains Chicago's place in rock and roll history.
BY KYLE ANDERSON

Posted by Roy on Friday, 12/18/2015 @ 08:26am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Fk7sY55TrU

IT'S OFFICIAL! CHICAGO! Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2016!

Posted by Roy on Friday, 12/18/2015 @ 19:59pm

Philip Bailey, Ralph Johnson, and Verdine White will most likely be the presenters for Chicago, but I'm hoping it isn't because it doesn't get me excited.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 12/19/2015 @ 06:36am

One of those most important R&B/funk outfits of the 1970s, a group that brought many Afrocentric ideas into the mainstream, accepts Chicago- one of the whitest groups that ever lived- as their peers, tours with them, and always takes the time to praise their talent- and you don't find it exciting?

Posted by AlexVoltaire on Saturday, 12/19/2015 @ 06:44am

One of those most important R&B/funk outfits of the 1970s, a group that brought many Afrocentric ideas into the mainstream, accepts Chicago- one of the whitest groups that ever lived- as their peers, tours with them, and always takes the time to praise their talent- and you don't find it exciting?

Posted by AlexVoltaire on Saturday, 12.19.15 @ 06:44am

I don't know. Maybe it's because they have never given a Rock Hall induction speech. I don't know how much they know. I don't know how much they will delve into the Rock band with horns aspect. I don't know how deep they will get in their speech. Will they talk about each member of the band?

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 12/19/2015 @ 07:43am

THE 1992 HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME INDUCTEES

Chicago

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)
08. Bill Champlin (1981-2009: vocals; keyboards; guitar; songwriter)
09. Jason Scheff (1985-Present: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
10. DaWayne Bailey (1986-1994: guitar; songwriter)
11. Tris Imboden (1990-Present: drums; songwriter)

THE 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Chicago

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 12/19/2015 @ 08:08am

I don't know for sure if Laudir De Oliveira was inducted with Chicago onto the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but he did not attend the event.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 12/19/2015 @ 08:10am

http://www.walkoffame.com/chicago

CHICAGO: THE 1992 HOLLYWOOD WALK OF FAME

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 12/19/2015 @ 08:28am

HORN PLAYERS IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

01. 1987 Louis Jordan
02. 1990 Louis Armstrong
03. 1990 John Entwistle (The Who)
04. 1993 Jerry Martini (Sly & The Family Stone)
05. 1993 Cynthia Robinson (Sly & The Family Stone)
06. 2000 King Curtis
07. 2000 Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind & Fire)
08. 2002 Isaac Hayes
09. 2003 Steve Douglas
10. 2004 Chris Wood (Traffic)
11. 2006 Herb Alpert
12. 2006 Miles Davis
13. 2008 Denis Payton (The Dave Clark Five)
14. 2012 Joey D’Ambrosio (The Comets)
15. 2012 Rudy Pompilli (The Comets)
16. 2014 Clarence Clemons (The E Street Band)
17. 2014 Gary Tallent (The E Street Band)
18. 2016 Walter Parazaider (Chicago)
19. 2016 Lee Loughnane (Chicago)
20. 2016 James Pankow (Chicago)

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 12/19/2015 @ 16:19pm

First of all, let me say Congratulations to Robert Lamm, James Pankow, Lee Loughnane, Walter Parazaider, Danny Seraphine, Peter Cetera and the family of the late Terry Kath. Your induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame is long overdue. I have personally been listening to your songs via f.m. radio for more than 46 years. You are probably the group that probably had most influenced my taste in music. I owe a lot to you for expanding my musical horizons. I am glad that the members of Rush, my co-favorite band along with Yes, were very pleased about your induction also. I only wish that Yes, The Moody Blues, E.L.O., Sade, Carly Simon and Duran Duran had been there with you, also. Perhaps, next year?

Roy and Zuzu, you should be thrilled, your avid support for Chicago has finally yielded results. Now, if you could only support my induction of the aforementioned artists, I would be most grateful. Thank you, in advance.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Sunday, 12/20/2015 @ 15:04pm

First of all, let me say Congratulations to: Robert Lamm, James Pankow, Lee Loughnane, Walter Parazaider, Danny Seraphine, Peter Cetera and the family of the late Terry Kath. Your induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame is long overdue. I have personally been listening to your songs via f.m. radio for more than 46 years. You are probably the group that had most influenced my taste in music. I owe a lot to you for expanding my musical horizons. I am glad that the members of Rush, my co-favorite band along with Yes, were very pleased about your induction also. I only wish that Yes, The Moody Blues, E.L.O., Sade, Carly Simon and Duran Duran had been there with you, also. Perhaps, next year?

Roy and Zuzu, you should be thrilled, your avid support for Chicago has finally yielded results. Now, if you could only support my induction of the aforementioned artists, I would be most grateful. Thank you, in advance.

Posted by Enigmaticus on Sunday, 12.20.15 @ 15:04pm

Posted by Enigmaticus on Sunday, 12/20/2015 @ 15:40pm

http://radio.com/2015/12/21/chicago-to-reunite/?cid=twitter_Radiodotcom

Chicago to Reunite with Peter Cetera and Danny Seraphine at Rock Hall Induction

Robert Lamm thinks the presenter for Chicago will either be Brian Wilson, Don Henley, Philip Bailey, Clive Davis. or Questlove.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 12/22/2015 @ 07:17am

Peter Cetera will attend, but won't perform. This sucks!

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 12/22/2015 @ 21:15pm

Peter Cetera is still attending the ceremony. He will collect his trophy and give his speech, but he won't perform with the band. Is Peter Cetera an a##hole or is he just shy? He does actually still play bass, contrary to the Robert Lamm interview.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 12/23/2015 @ 08:58am

http://petercetera.com

Ah Ha! It appears that maybe Peter Cetera will perform with Chicago at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, and he was just pissed that Robert Lamm spoke on his behalf to the media. I don't know, that just how I feel. Peter Cetera will be making his official announcement about the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after January 1.

Peter Speaks:

December 23, 2015

ATTENTION!! IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING HALL OF FAME!!!

Yes, that’s right. Tell all your friends, tell the press, tell radio, TV, newspapers, why you can even tell The Pres, Hillary, Trump everyone. I will make an important announcement on this site after the New Year that will shock the WOOORRRLLDD! Ok, maybe not the world but at least maybe parts of the USA and Canada! I'll have a statement that will come from me and me only regarding my participation in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Until then, have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and Ill speak to you shortly after New Year’s day with my earthshaking announcement regarding the Hall Of Fame! Ciao, Peter

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 12/23/2015 @ 17:53pm

I have a feeling Peter Cetera will perform at the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony, but not with Chicago. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will give Peter Cetera the option to perform separately, with his own band, an offer which reportedly was given to, but turned down by David Lee Roth for Van Halen's 2007 induction. That year there were only 5 inductees.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 12/23/2015 @ 22:43pm

https://www.facebook.com/Danny-Seraphine-40406623440/

From Danny Seraphine on Facebook :

" Today is a good day to be alive......I'm very grateful for our induction into to the RRHOF. I never realized it would feel this good. This award belongs to all of us, ESPECIALLY THE FANS that let their voices be heard for all these years. Thank you for never giving up, it wouldn't have happened without your support. Thank you to Jann Wenner and the RRHOF voting board for voting us in on the first ballot, that is also great honor. This really couldn't have come at a better time, we can hopefully join together and celebrate the legacy and enduring body of music we all created in 1967. I know Terry is smiling on us all and hopefully we will do him proud and give the fans a performance they will never forget. I just want to reassure everyone that I WILL be performing with Chicago at the RRHOF induction ceremony. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Peace Danny Seraphine "

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 12/24/2015 @ 05:29am

Chicago Hits With Peter Cetera On Lead Vocals (Solo) 1969-1979

01. Questions 67 And 68
02. 25 Or 6 To 4
03. Lowdown
04. Just You N' Me
05. Feelin' Stronger Everyday
06. (I've Been) Searchin' So Long
07. Wishing You Were Here
08. Call On Me
09. Happy Man
10. Old Days
11. If You Leave Me Now
12. Baby, What A Big Surprise
13. No Tell Lover
14. Alive Again
15. Street Player

Posted by Roy on Friday, 12/25/2015 @ 12:41pm

SOLO ARTISTS CHICAGO BEAT INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

Chuck Willis * Esther Phillips * Johnny Ace * Joe Tex * Mary Wells * Dionne Warwick * Chubby Checker * Phil Ochs * Joan Baez * Judy Collins * Patsy Cline * Connie Francis * Willie Nelson * Merle Haggard * Conway Twitty * George Jones * Kris Kristofferson * Dolly Parton * Kenny Rogers * Gram Parsons * Warren Zevon * Todd Rundgren * Captain Beefheart * Joe Cocker * Barry White * Patti LaBelle * Roberta Flack * Chaka Khan * Janet Jackson * Whitney Houston * Mariah Carey

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 12/26/2015 @ 16:37pm

POSSIBLE CANDIDATES FOR GIVING THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO

Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Clive Davis, David Foster, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Al Jardine, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Bruce Johnston, Al Kooper, Bobby Colomby, Barry Gibb, Philip Bailey, Verdine White, Ralph Johnson, Al McKay, Jeff Lynne, Don Henley, Glenn Frey, Joe Walsh, Timothy B. Shmit, Steven Van Zandt, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Billy Joel, Sting, Gerry Beckley, Steve Lukather, Bobby Kimball, Alistair Ian "Ali" Campbell, Huey Lewis, Johnny Colla, Chris Isaak, Harry Connick Jr., Dave Matthews, Lenny Kravitz, Axl Rose, Slash, Chris Cornell, Dave Grohl, Taylor Hawkins, Tom Morello, Rob Thomas, Stephan Jenkins, Mark McGrath, Steve Malkmus, Trey Anastasio, Justin Vernon, Robin Thicke, Questlove

ROCK AND ROLL BANDS WHO BEAT CHICAGO INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

The Beach Boys * The Beatles * The Rolling Stones * The Kinks * The Who * The Four Seasons * The Byrds * The Yardbirds * The Jimi Hendrix Experience * Sly and the Family Stone * Cream * Creedence Clearwater Revival * The Doors * The Animals * The Band * The Grateful Dead * Led Zeppelin * The Allman Brothers Band * Jefferson Airplane * Pink Floyd * The Velvet Underground * Buffalo Springfield * Crosby, Stills and Nash * Parliament-Funkadelic * The (Young) Rascals * The Bee Gees * The Jackson Five * The Mamas and the Papas * Santana * The Eagles * Fleetwood Mac * Earth, Wind & Fire * Lovin’ Spoonful * Aerosmith * Queen * Steely Dan * Ramones * Talking Heads * Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers * AC/DC * The Clash * The Police * Elvis Costello & the Attractions * Traffic * ZZ Top * The Pretenders * U2 * Black Sabbath * Blondie * Lynyrd Skynyrd * Sex Pistols * R.E.M. * Van Halen * The Ventures * The Dave Clark Five * Metallica * ABBA * Genesis * The Hollies * The Stooges * Alice Cooper * Guns N’ Roses * Red Hot Chili Peppers * The Small Faces/Faces * Heart * Rush * KISS * Hall & Oates * Nirvana * Green Day * Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band * Joan Jett and the Blackhearts * Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble * The Paul Butterfield Blues Band * Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys * Booker T. and the M.G.’s * Bill Haley and the Comets * Buddy Holly and the Crickets * Gene Vincent and the Blue Caps

ROCK AND ROLL BANDS WHOM CHICAGO BEAT INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

The Kingston Trio * The Surfaris * The Zombies * The Kingsmen * The Troggs * The Turtles * Herman’s Hermits * Paul Revere & the Raiders * The Flying Burrito Brothers * The Monkees * Jan & Dean * Johnny Burnette and the Rock N Roll Trio * John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers * Big Brother and the Holding Company * Derek and the Dominos * The Spencer Davis Group * Blind Faith * Canned Heat * Humble Pie * Husker Du * Fairport Convention * The Mothers of Invention * Little Feat * Grand Funk Railroad * Tommy James and the Shondells * Three Dog Night * Steppenwolf * Thin Lizzy * Procol Harum * Roxy Music * The Blues Project * Blood, Sweat & Tears * Electric Flag * Tower of Power * The Guess Who * Bachman-Turner Overdrive * War * The Meters * The Neville Brothers * Kool & the Gang * The Commodores * New York Dolls * MC5 * The J. Geils Band * The Sir Douglas Quintet * Electric Light Orchestra * Emerson, Lake and Palmer * The Moody Blues * Yes * Jethro Tull * King Crimson * The Doobie Brothers * The Cars * Dire Straits * Motorhead * Iron Maiden * Judas Priest * Devo * Air Supply * America * Boston * Kansas * Journey * Styx * Toto * Foreigner * REO Speedwagon * Squeeze * Wings * The Silver Bullet Band * The Revolution * Kraftwerk * Chic * Joy Division * New Order * Sonic Youth * Miami Sound Machine * Wham! * Huey Lewis and the News * Bon Jovi * INXS * B-52’s * Duran Duran * Depeche Mode * Def Leppard * Tears For Fears * Los Lobos * The Cure * The Smiths * The Replacements * Nine Inch Nails * Soundgarden * Alice In Chains * Jane’s Addiction * The Black Crowes * Pixies * Smashing Pumpkins * Pearl Jam * Radiohead * Stone Temple Pilots * Dave Matthews Band * Rage Against The Machine * The Wallflowers * No Doubt

SOLO ARTISTS CHICAGO BEAT INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

Chuck Willis * Esther Phillips * Johnny Ace * Joe Tex * Mary Wells * Dionne Warwick * Chubby Checker * Phil Ochs * Joan Baez * Judy Collins * Patsy Cline * Connie Francis * Willie Nelson * Merle Haggard * Conway Twitty * George Jones * Kris Kristofferson * Dolly Parton * Kenny Rogers * Gram Parsons * Warren Zevon * Todd Rundgren * Captain Beefheart * Joe Cocker * Barry White * Patti LaBelle * Roberta Flack * Carly Simon * Cher * Chaka Khan * Janet Jackson * Whitney Houston * Mariah Carey

ROCK AND ROLL BANDS INDUCTED THE SAME YEAR AS CHICAGO

Deep Purple * Cheap Trick

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 12/29/2015 @ 08:25am

BIRTH DATES AND PLACES OF BIRTH OF THE MEMBERS OF CHICAGO, OLDEST TO YOUNGEST:

01. Laudir De Oliveira born on Saturday, January 6, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
02. Peter Cetera born on Wednesday, September 13, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois
03. Robert Lamm born on Friday, October 13, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York
04. Walter Parazaider born on Wednesday, March 14, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois
05. Terry Kath born on Thursday, January 31, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois
06. Lee Loughnane born on Monday, October 21, 1946 in Elmwood Park, Illinois
07. Bill Champlin born on Wednesday, May 21, 1947 in Oakland, California
08. James Pankow born on Wednesday, August 20, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri
09. Danny Seraphine born on Saturday, August 28, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois
10. Tris Imboden born on Friday, July, 27, 1951 in Orange County, California
11. Donnie Dacus born on Friday, October 12, 1951 in Galena Park, Texas
12. Jason Scheff born on Monday, April 16, 1962 in San Diego, California

Posted by Roy on Friday, 01/1/2016 @ 08:02am

The Producers of the Chicago Studio Albums with Original Material

01. 1969 The Chicago Transit Authority by James William Guercio
02. 1970 Chicago by James William Guercio
03. 1971 Chicago III by James William Guercio
04. 1972 Chicago V by James William Guercio
05. 1973 Chicago VI by James William Guercio
06. 1974 Chicago VII by James William Guercio
07. 1975 Chicago VIII by James William Guercio
08. 1976 Chicago X by James William Guercio
09. 1977 Chicago XI by James William Guercio
10. 1978 Hot Streets by Phil Ramone
11. 1979 Chicago 13 by Phil Ramone
12. 1980 Chicago XIV by Tom Dowd
13. 1982 Chicago 16 by David Foster
14. 1984 Chicago 17 by David Foster
15. 1987 Chicago 18 by David Foster
16. 1988 Chicago 19 by Ron Nevison and Chas Sandford
17. 1991 Twenty 1 by Ron Nevison and Humberto Gatica
18. 2006 Chicago XXX by Jay DeMarcus
19. 2008 Chicago XXXII: Stone of Sisyphus by Peter Wolf
20. 2014 Chicago XXXVI: Now by Hank Linderman

Posted by Roy on Friday, 01/1/2016 @ 08:04am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkA9w1c4oTA

Deep Purple's David Coverdale sang Chicago's Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is with the band the Government in 1971, and now Chicago and Deep Purple are being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in the same year.

Deep Purple
South California Purples by Chicago

Posted by Roy on Friday, 01/1/2016 @ 08:16am

Peter Speaks:

January 3, 2016

Tune in to LA’s “Mark in the morning” drive time radio show at 8:30am this Monday morning! I’ll be talking about my upcoming Jan. 9th show at the Saban theatre fearuring special guests “City City”. I’ll also talk about my decision on the RnR HoF induction ceremony! Whoopde Do!

December 30, 2015

I’m getting ready to post my reply to the Hall of Fame about my participation for the show. It should happen within the first week of the new year. Tell your friends, relatives, Romans and of course countrymen. see ya, P

100.3 FM The Sound Los Angeles

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 01/3/2016 @ 21:12pm

http://bestclassicbands.com/peter-cetera-speaks-about-chicago-hof-1-4-16/

Peter Cetera Speaks About Chicago, HoF

Posted by Roy on Monday, 01/4/2016 @ 21:49pm

PETER CETERA WILL PERFORM WITH CHICAGO AT THE INDUCTION CEREMONY

Peter Speaks:

January 6, 2016

Hello Everyone! I’ve just sent this mail to everyone involved. Hopefully it will answer all the questions concerning my participation in the Hall of Fame induction..Thanks

Hello Robert, Danny, Lee, Walter, and James. I’m sending this to you and Danny since yours are the only email addresses I have. Please forward this to everyone.

First off, congratulations all around on this long overdue honor. While our fans believe we should have been inducted years ago, they find it harder to believe that we haven’t even been nominated in all that time. Oh well, we are now!

All the credit goes to those who voted for us in overwhelming numbers during the recent poll. They alone deserve our thanks for finally making this happen.

I know we all look forward to speaking that evening and I’m sure we all wish that Terry was there to join us. That can’t happen unfortunately, but I have one thing that can.

As a finale, we can walk onstage together one last time as a group, I’ll strap on the bass, and we can do 25or6to4 in the key of E. I believe it would make for one fantastic Hall of Fame moment and satisfy those who have always wanted some sort of reunion.

Along with your current members, I would also like us to invite past members Laudir de Oliveira, Donnie Dacus, Kenny Cetera, Chris Pinnick, and Bill Champlin to join us up there as well on the song. They’ve all contributed to the legacy of the group and I think this would be a fitting way to honour them.

In the end, this should go a long way towards healing old wounds and showing solidarity on that night. At least I hope so!

See you all in Brooklyn, Peter

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 01/6/2016 @ 07:51am

Chicago will be the highest Billboard charting act at the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony. It's Chicago's music that should be performed at the All-Star jam, and it most likely will be. Not Deep Purple, and absolutely not N.W.A!!! That's not happening!

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 01/6/2016 @ 08:09am

There is no doubt that the jam will be Chicago's "Look Away".

Dre is going to rock the mike with "if you see me walkin' by, with teardrops in my eye, look away, baby look away", then Ritchie Blackmore will solo, then...

Posted by Classic Rock on Wednesday, 01/6/2016 @ 10:32am

MY ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO

The year was 1966, and the place was Chicago's DePaul University. That was where a saxophone, clarinet, and flute player named Walter Parazaider got together with a drummer named Danny Seraphine, a guitar player and singer named Terry Kath, a trumpet player named Lee Loughnane, and a trombone player named James Pankow. Then in 1967, they met a piano player and a singer named Robert Lamm, from Chicago's Roosevelt University, who was performing at the Belmont Lounge and Yogi's Den in Chicago, and they asked him to join their band, which he did. The band would be called The Big Thing, and The Big Thing would play on the Midwest club circuit, building a following. An engagement during the second week of December 1967 proved to be an important gig. The Big Thing was an opening act at Barnaby's in Chicago for a band called the Exceptions, which was the biggest club band in the Midwest, and they stuck around and listened to them. If The Big Thing had stayed late to see the Exceptions, one of the Exceptions had come early to see The Big Thing. That night, singer and bass guitar player Peter Cetera would leave the Exceptions and join The Big Thing as its seventh member, and big things were about to happen.

James William Guercio, who had been a DePaul University student of music as well, moved the band out to Los Angeles and he would become their manager and producer. The Big Thing would become The Chicago Transit Authority, and then simply, Chicago. The plan from the beginning was to start a horn centered Rock and Roll band, a Rock and Roll band with a horn section, a Rock and Roll band with horns that were an integral part of the music, a Rock and Roll band whose horn section formed the heart of the band, a Rock and Roll band with a horn section that was another lead voice dancing with the vocals. Chicago's use of brass and woodwinds was like no other band. They took what is called a "melodic" approach to the horns rather than a "harmonic" approach. The horns actually acted as an additional vocal line, not just performing fill rifts. This is what was innovative about Chicago. Chicago was a rock 'n' roll band with horns, and a band way ahead of its time.

True to the need of the album-oriented rock format that launched them, the first four albums released by Chicago between 1969 and 1972 comprised three double albums and one quadruple album. That's 10 albums in three years. Chicago's next five albums: Chicago V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX all hit number one on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, and included Chicago's eighth member, percussionist and conga player Laudir De Oliveira, who would remain with the band for their next five albums: Chicago X, XI, Hot Streets, 13 and XIV. Chicago took America and the world by storm without the help of their faces. Total subjugation of individual ego to the collective good of the group was the rule in Chicago, even to the point of using a logo rather than a picture of the band on all of their album covers. Chicago refused to emphasize celebrity over the music. The group turned its anonymous, professional air into a virtue and a marketing strategy. They were the faceless band behind a logo. Chicago's logo and its facelessness were very much in keeping with the style of the late '60's that valued group effort over individual ego. The group would come to be identified by a logo, and that logo, designed by Nick Fasciano, would become the most famous logo in Rock and Roll history. Some people though would offer a more sinister viewpoint of the logo, suggesting that management used the fact that nobody really knew what the members of Chicago really looked like as a reminder that nobody in the band was irreplaceable. Inspired by classical music, Chicago chose to number most of their albums with Roman numerals instead of giving them full names.

In 1969, Chicago released their first album, and to this day, it is considered to be one of the greatest groundbreaking albums ever produced in the history of Rock and Roll; that album being The Chicago Transit Authority. It was a blend of jazz, classical, and straight-ahead rock and roll. It included an unheralded synthesis of electric guitar rock and roll to more deeply rooted jazz influences and arrangements. It was funky, melodic, emotive, and politically intoned. I'm guessing most people in this room tonight have never listened to The Chicago Transit Authority. You can not buy a Chicago greatest hits record and understand what I'm talking about, but there are so many people that I am speaking for tonight who know exactly what I'm talking about. When The Chicago Transit Authority was released in 1969, it seemed to be the perfect synthesis of everything that was diametrically opposed. It had smooth, lush harmonies, it had the distorted feedback-drenched pyrotechnic guitar works of Terry Kath, it had the Beatles-meet-Motown bass works of Peter Cetera, it had the Buddy Rich-meets-Mitch Mitchell drum works of Danny Seraphine, it had the churning Hammond organ and classical piano works of Robert Lamm, and it had those powerful horns of Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane, and James Pankow weaving in and out of the arrangements, ending up toe-to-toe with everything else, and it all worked. The dynamics were perfect. The Chicago Transit Authority seemed to have everything in the right place. The horn section, the vocalists, and the rhythm section were tight and unified. Individually, the members of Chicago were all outstanding on their respective instruments. Unlike many bands of the era that utilized session musicians for their recordings, Chicago was completely self-contained.

Chicago's first 11 albums all showcased the impeccable musicianship of all the members of the band. At first, Chicago's sound was a hard sell. Radio stations wouldn't play their songs. Chicago's music was not easily identifiable what it was. Chicago could not be pigeonholed. Their sound met with resistance. Record executives turned to Guercio, and Guercio edited a number of Chicago's songs to make them shorter and more radio friendly. It was a compromise to be on the radio, and it was what it was. You can still listen to all of the band's songs in their entirety on all the early Chicago albums; it's the radio versions of the songs that are shorter. Basically, the songs were made shorter because (as Robert Lamm put it) Chicago's music wasn't for people with Attention Deficit Disorder. You know, because those are the people who listen to radio (people with A.D.D). As the '70's became the '80's and the demands of the music industry started to change, Chicago went looking for a new record label. During Chicago's search for a new record company, one label said to them, "If you get rid of the horn section we'll sign you," to which Chicago responded, "Go fck yourself!" Asking Chicago to get rid of the horn section is like asking Elton John to get rid of the piano, as James Pankow once said. Chicago would go on to sign with a new record label, and the horns stayed, and the band played on for forty more years.

Question: What do you get when you mix the voice of Ray Charles with the voice and the guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix? The answer is Chicago's first lead singer and lead guitarist, Terry Kath. Terry Kath had a very soulful quality to his voice and he was an outstanding, superb, deep and wicked virtuoso of a guitar player. One of the best examples of Terry Kath’s brilliant guitar playing can be heard on the hit single 25 Or 6 To 4 from Chicago’s second album. The song's distinctive descending riff has been murdered by as many beginning guitarists as has been done with Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water," Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." The terrifyingly brilliant guitar solo performed by Terry Kath-a mountain few players ever dare to climb-is what makes 25 Or 6 To 4 absolutely essential. It is one of the greatest moments in Rock history for the electric guitar. The song's rather mystical title is just a reference to the time of day the song was written: 25 (or 26) minutes to 4 A.M. In a group known for its horns, it was Terry Kath's hard-edged guitar and soulful vocals that kept the band rooted in rock and roll. Chicago's line-up for such a large band was astonishingly stable, broken after eleven years and eleven albums only by the death of Terry Kath. After Terry Kath's tragic death in 1978, Chicago could have gone on to produce albums under a different name, they could have dissolved their band completely with each member going off to do other musical projects, or they could have just left the music business altogether and done other things with their lives, but they didn't. Chicago soldiered on for another forty years with the help of other notable lead rock guitarists, from Donnie Dacus and Chris Pinnick, to DaWayne Bailey and Keith Howland.

Chicago's second lead singer was Robert Lamm—an ambitious composer and piano player whose songwriting talents made him the default leader of the band in the early years. The Robert Lamm-penned hits included, Beginnings, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, Questions 67 & 68, Saturday in the Park and of course the afore mentioned, 25 or 6 to 4. His clear baritone voice was an asset, as were his stylized keyboarding skills. The International press portrayed Robert Lamm as Chicago's social conscience, and many of his best songs (Dialogue, Free, Harry Truman, State of the Union) all espoused political themes. Some of Robert Lamm's compositions had a swing feel to them as well. Frank Sinatra could have handled Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, very well. Actually, as the story goes, it was Colour My World, a portion from trombonist James Pankow’s Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon that Frank Sinatra wanted to do a remake of. It never happened though because Frank Sinatra wanted James Pankow to write an additional verse for it, and James Pankow wouldn't do it. You don't mess with a classic, even if the chairman of the board himself asks you to. Other Chicago songs penned by James Pankow included the hits, Make Me Smile, Old Days, Just You 'n' Me, I've Been Searchin' So Long, and Feelin' Stronger Everyday. That last one, by the way, was written by James Pankow and Chicago's original bass guitarist and third lead singer, Peter Cetera—the elastic tenor voice who was brought in to hit the high notes and keep up with the horn section, which the baritone voice of Robert Lamm and the gruff voice of Terry Kath couldn't.

If you were to ask any Chicago fan or Rock music historian to name the first three Chicago songs they think of when they hear someone say the name Peter Cetera, they will all tell you the exact same thing—what else but the smoochadelic classics, If You Leave Me Now, from the 1976 Chicago X album, Baby, What A Big Surprise from the 1977 Chicago XI album, and Hard To Say I'm Sorry from the 1982 Chicago 16 album (the comeback album). The sexiest, the sweetest, the most distinctive tenor voice in all of Rock And Roll history belongs to Peter Cetera mthrfckrs! There is no comparison. “High above shimmering, echoing ballads and rock-solid choruses that aim for the bleachers, Cetera’s tenor voice soars like a bird in flight. If it doesn’t strike you deep in your heart, it’ll at least stick deep in your head.” That's what an unknown source from Rolling Stone Magazine's website once said about Peter Cetera. Well Peter, I would like to tell you tonight on behalf of all your fans that your voice has actually done both for us. Your voice has struck us deep in our hearts and it is stuck deep in our heads and that is where we want it and that is how we like it! In May of 1985, after 18 years with the band, and after Chicago's biggest commercial success (the Chicago 17 album), Peter Cetera left Chicago for a solo career. Let's just say that things got really ugly. It was like a divorce, as Peter would say, and that's all I'm going to say about that because I wasn’t there, and I don’t know all the details, and it's none of my gddmn business! So, out walks Peter Cetera and in walks singer/songwriter and bass guitar player Jason Scheff, the son of Jerry Scheff, who was a bass guitar player for Elvis Presley. Jason Scheff has been with Chicago now for over 25 years. To tie this whole thing together, I have to take you back to 1981 because that was the year that singer/songwriter, keyboard player and guitarist, Bill Champlin, the lead singer of the late 60s and 70s psychedelic rock band, the Sons of Champlin, joined Chicago and played a huge role in the success of Chicago 16 and 17. During his 28 years with Chicago, Bill Champlin's husky voice was the perfect complement to both, Peter Cetera and Jason Scheff. Chicago 18, 19, Twenty-1, Night and Day, Stone of Sisyphus, Chicago XXX, and a whole bunch of greatest hits and Christmas albums all included Bill Champlin and Jason Scheff.

And finally, Chicago's original drummer; its backbone, Danny Seraphine. During his time with Chicago, Danny Seraphine played drums in a style that, ironically perhaps, can best be described as lyrical. To be a good drummer one must develop his own technique. Good timing and good taste is essential, but it is the technique that sets the truly great drummers apart from the rest, as Danny Seraphine once said. After 25 years with the band, let's just say a little more drama ensued, and Danny Seraphine was replaced by drummer Tris Imboden, who has been with Chicago now for over 25 years. And that folks was Chicago. 50 years, 50 albums, 5 number one albums, 130 million albums sold worldwide, 50 hits, and 3 number one songs later, Chicago is being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Now I am going to present you with information that must be stated! According to Billboard chart statistics, Chicago is second only to the Beach Boys as the most successful American Rock and Roll band of all time, in terms of both albums and singles. The number one Billboard charting Rock and Roll band of the 1970s was Chicago! The Top 4 charting Rock And Roll bands of all-time on both, the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, and the Billboard 100 Singles Chart just happen to be the same four bands on both lists, and this is how the lists read: Number 1 - The Beatles! Number 2 - The Rolling Stones! Number 3 - The Beach Boys! And at number 4, (all together now) Chicago! And in case you are wondering who's at number 5, it's The Bee Gees! And that says it all right there folks! And up until tonight, Chicago was the only band on those lists who had not been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame yet! Also, of the 15 acts who were nominated for the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Chicago was the best-selling and highest Billboard charting act on the nominees list. So it makes sense that Chicago won the official 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame online fan poll. Chicago fans came out in full force and made sure that Chicago would finish at number one! They voted early and they voted often, as they were told to do!

And you know what's funny? First, a Chicago politician named Barack Obama is elected the first black President of the United States of America in 2008. Then, in 2010, the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks win their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history, but their first Stanley Cup since 1961, the year of Barack Obama's birth. Then in 2013 the Chicago Blackhawks win their fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their second during the Barack Obama presidency. Then in 2015 the Chicago Blackhawks win their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their third during the Barack Obama presidency. Then, what do you know, Chicago, the band, is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, during the Barack Obama presidency, but Chicago the band isn't black, but they did play Rock and Roll, which stems from the blues, which is the music of black people as Jann Wenner said at the 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in reference to the induction of Little Walter. Walter is also the name of Chicago's saxophone, clarinet and flute player (Walter Parazaider that is). Well, you know what they say, things always happen in threes, and in this case it's Barack Obama, the Chicago Blackhawks, and Chicago the band. And all I have left to say is that it's about fckng time Chicago got inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame because this is Chicago mthrfckrs! This isn't Boston or Kansas, if you know what I mean! So, without any further ado, ladies and gentlemen, CHICAGO!!!

THE 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Chicago

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)

Posted by Roy on Friday, 01/8/2016 @ 09:56am

Yes! That last paragraph is pure Roy!

Posted by Dezmond on Friday, 01/8/2016 @ 20:36pm

SOLO ARTISTS WHOM CHICAGO BEAT INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

Chuck Willis * Esther Phillips * Johnny Ace * Joe Tex * Mary Wells * Dionne Warwick * Chubby Checker * Phil Ochs * Joan Baez * Judy Collins * Patsy Cline * Connie Francis * Willie Nelson * Merle Haggard * Conway Twitty * George Jones * Kris Kristofferson * Dolly Parton * Kenny Rogers * Tom Jones * Gram Parsons * Warren Zevon * Todd Rundgren * Captain Beefheart * Joe Cocker * Barry White * Jimmy Buffett * Patti LaBelle * Roberta Flack * Carly Simon * Cher * Chaka Khan * Janet Jackson * Whitney Houston * Mariah Carey

ROCK AND ROLL BANDS WHOM CHICAGO BEAT INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

The Kingston Trio * The Surfaris * The Zombies * The Kingsmen * The Troggs * The Turtles * Herman’s Hermits * Paul Revere & the Raiders * The Flying Burrito Brothers * The Monkees * Jan & Dean * Johnny Burnette and the Rock N Roll Trio * John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers * Big Brother and the Holding Company * Derek and the Dominos * The Spencer Davis Group * Blind Faith * Canned Heat * Humble Pie * Husker Du * Fairport Convention * The Mothers of Invention * Little Feat * Grand Funk Railroad * Tommy James and the Shondells * Three Dog Night * Steppenwolf * Thin Lizzy * Procol Harum * Roxy Music * The Blues Project * Blood, Sweat & Tears * Electric Flag * Tower of Power * The Guess Who * Bachman-Turner Overdrive * War * The Meters * The Neville Brothers * Kool & the Gang * The Commodores * New York Dolls * MC5 * The J. Geils Band * The Sir Douglas Quintet * Electric Light Orchestra * Emerson, Lake and Palmer * The Moody Blues * Yes * Jethro Tull * King Crimson * The Doobie Brothers * Blue Oyster Cult * Jefferson Starship * The Cars * Dire Straits * Motorhead * Iron Maiden * Judas Priest * Devo * Air Supply * America * Boston * Kansas * Journey * Styx * Toto * Foreigner * REO Speedwagon * Squeeze * Wings * The Silver Bullet Band * The Revolution * Kraftwerk * Chic * Joy Division * New Order * Sonic Youth * Miami Sound Machine * Wham! * Huey Lewis and the News * Bon Jovi * INXS * B-52’s * Duran Duran * Depeche Mode * Def Leppard * Tears For Fears * Los Lobos * The Cure * The Smiths * The Replacements * Nine Inch Nails * Soundgarden * Alice In Chains * Jane’s Addiction * The Black Crowes * Pixies * Smashing Pumpkins * Pearl Jam * Radiohead * Stone Temple Pilots * Dave Matthews Band * Rage Against The Machine * The Wallflowers * No Doubt

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 01/9/2016 @ 07:50am

Chicago's Look Away, written by Diane Warren, was originally offered to Cheap Trick and they turned it down. Cheap Trick accepted the Flame instead, written by Bob Mitchell and Nick Graham. Look Away and The Flame were both # 1 hits! Chicago and Cheap Trick are now being inducted the same year.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 01/11/2016 @ 08:27am

Congratulations to all of Chicago! So glad the brassiest rock band of all time is finally going to be inducted! I'm also glad Mr. Cetera will be present for the evening! Thanks for your great job in Chicago, Mr. Parazaider! Let's all hope it's Yes' turn to be inducted in 2017!

Posted by Bill Langan on Tuesday, 01/12/2016 @ 15:22pm

UPDATE

HORN PLAYERS IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

01. 1987: Louis Jordan
02. 1990: Louis Armstrong
03. 1990: John Entwistle (The Who)
04. 1993: Jerry Martini (Sly & The Family Stone)
05. 1993: Cynthia Robinson (Sly & The Family Stone)
06. 1993: Van Morrison
07. 1994: Garth Hudson (The Band)
08. 1996: David Bowie
09. 2000: King Curtis
10. 2000: Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind & Fire)
11. 2002: Isaac Hayes
12. 2003: Steve Douglas
13. 2004: Chris Wood (Traffic)
14. 2006: Herb Alpert
15. 2006: Miles Davis
16. 2008: Denis Payton (The Dave Clark Five)
17. 2012: Joey D’Ambrosio (The Comets)
18. 2012: Rudy Pompilli (The Comets)
19. 2014: Clarence Clemons (The E Street Band)
20. 2014: Gary Tallent (The E Street Band)
21. 2016: Walter Parazaider (Chicago)
22. 2016: Lee Loughnane (Chicago)
23. 2016: James Pankow (Chicago)

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 01/12/2016 @ 20:04pm

UPDATE

HORN PLAYERS IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

01. 1987: Louis Jordan
02. 1989: Brian Jones (The Rolling Stones)
03. 1990: Louis Armstrong
04. 1990: John Entwistle (The Who)
05. 1993: Jerry Martini (Sly & The Family Stone)
06. 1993: Cynthia Robinson (Sly & The Family Stone)
07. 1993: Van Morrison
08. 1994: Garth Hudson (The Band)
09. 1996: David Bowie
10. 2000: King Curtis
11. 2000: Andrew Woolfolk (Earth, Wind & Fire)
12. 2002: Isaac Hayes
13. 2003: Steve Douglas
14. 2004: Chris Wood (Traffic)
15. 2006: Herb Alpert
16. 2006: Miles Davis
17. 2008: Denis Payton (The Dave Clark Five)
18. 2012: Joey D’Ambrosio (The Comets)
19. 2012: Rudy Pompilli (The Comets)
20. 2014: Clarence Clemons (The E Street Band)
21. 2014: Gary Tallent (The E Street Band)
22. 2016: Walter Parazaider (Chicago)
23. 2016: Lee Loughnane (Chicago)
24. 2016: James Pankow (Chicago)

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 01/12/2016 @ 20:26pm

Bruce Springsteen toured with Chicago in the early 70s. Chicago's Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane, and James Pankow are the first horn players to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame after Clarence Clemons and Gary Tallent, the horn players for the E Street Band.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 01/12/2016 @ 20:36pm

Chicago is being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in 2016. The Chicago Blackhawks will be the 2016 Stanley Cup Champions!

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 01/13/2016 @ 06:31am

Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago. Bernie Sanders graduated from the University of Chicago. One of them will be elected president in 2016. The Chicago Blackhawks have to win the Stanley Cup in 2016.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 01/14/2016 @ 10:03am

Hopefully the Blackhawks will NOT win the Stanley Cup in 2016.

Posted by dmg on Thursday, 01/14/2016 @ 11:34am

Boy, Roy, will your face be red if the Republicans win the White House this November. Better start finding the Chicago connections for them too, just in case.

Posted by Philip on Thursday, 01/14/2016 @ 22:14pm

MY ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION SPEECH FOR CHICAGO

The year was 1966, and the place was Chicago's DePaul University. That was where a saxophone, clarinet, and flute player named Walter Parazaider got together with a drummer named Danny Seraphine, a guitar player and singer named Terry Kath, a trumpet player named Lee Loughnane, and a trombone player named James Pankow. Then in 1967, they met a piano player and a singer named Robert Lamm, from Chicago's Roosevelt University, who was performing at the Belmont Lounge and Yogi's Den in Chicago, and they asked him to join their band, which he did. The band would be called The Big Thing, and The Big Thing would play on the Midwest club circuit, building a following. An engagement during the second week of December 1967 proved to be an important gig. The Big Thing was an opening act at Barnaby's in Chicago for a band called the Exceptions, which was the biggest club band in the Midwest, and they stuck around and listened to them. If The Big Thing had stayed late to see the Exceptions, one of the Exceptions had come early to see The Big Thing. That night, singer and bass guitar player Peter Cetera would leave the Exceptions and join The Big Thing as its seventh member, and big things were about to happen.

James William Guercio, who had been a DePaul University student of music as well, moved the band out to Los Angeles and he would become their manager and producer. The Big Thing would become The Chicago Transit Authority, and then simply, Chicago. The plan from the beginning was to start a horn centered Rock and Roll band, a Rock and Roll band with a horn section, a Rock and Roll band with horns that were an integral part of the music, a Rock and Roll band whose horn section formed the heart of the band, a Rock and Roll band with a horn section that was another lead voice dancing with the vocals. Chicago's use of brass and woodwinds was like no other band. They took what is called a "melodic" approach to the horns rather than a "harmonic" approach. The horns actually acted as an additional vocal line, not just performing fill rifts. This is what was innovative about Chicago. Chicago was a rock 'n' roll band with horns, and a band way ahead of its time.

True to the need of the album-oriented rock format that launched them, the first four albums released by Chicago between 1969 and 1972 comprised three double albums and one quadruple album. That's 10 albums in three years. Chicago's next five albums: Chicago V, VI, VII, VIII, and IX all hit number one on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, and included Chicago's eighth member, percussionist and conga player Laudir De Oliveira, who would remain with the band for their next five albums: Chicago X, XI, Hot Streets, 13 and XIV. Chicago took America and the world by storm without the help of their faces. Total subjugation of individual ego to the collective good of the group was the rule in Chicago, even to the point of using a logo rather than a picture of the band on all of their album covers. Chicago refused to emphasize celebrity over the music. The group turned its anonymous, professional air into a virtue and a marketing strategy. They were the faceless band behind a logo. Chicago's logo and its facelessness were very much in keeping with the style of the late '60's that valued group effort over individual ego. The group would come to be identified by a logo, and that logo, designed by Nick Fasciano, would become the most famous logo in Rock and Roll history. Some people though would offer a more sinister viewpoint of the logo, suggesting that management used the fact that nobody really knew what the members of Chicago really looked like as a reminder that nobody in the band was irreplaceable. Inspired by classical music, Chicago chose to number most of their albums with Roman numerals instead of giving them full names.

In 1969, Chicago released their first album, and to this day, it is considered to be one of the greatest groundbreaking albums ever produced in the history of Rock and Roll; that album being The Chicago Transit Authority. It was a blend of jazz, classical, and straight-ahead rock and roll. It included an unheralded synthesis of electric guitar rock and roll to more deeply rooted jazz influences and arrangements. It was funky, melodic, emotive, and politically intoned. I'm guessing most people in this room tonight have never listened to The Chicago Transit Authority. You can not buy a Chicago greatest hits record and understand what I'm talking about, but there are so many people that I am speaking for tonight who know exactly what I'm talking about. When The Chicago Transit Authority was released in 1969, it seemed to be the perfect synthesis of everything that was diametrically opposed. It had smooth, lush harmonies, it had the distorted feedback-drenched pyrotechnic guitar works of Terry Kath, it had the Beatles-meet-Motown bass works of Peter Cetera, it had the Buddy Rich-meets-Mitch Mitchell drum works of Danny Seraphine, it had the churning Hammond organ and classical piano works of Robert Lamm, and it had those powerful horns of Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane, and James Pankow weaving in and out of the arrangements, ending up toe-to-toe with everything else, and it all worked. The dynamics were perfect. The Chicago Transit Authority seemed to have everything in the right place. The horn section, the vocalists, and the rhythm section were tight and unified. Individually, the members of Chicago were all outstanding on their respective instruments. Unlike many bands of the era that utilized session musicians for their recordings, Chicago was completely self-contained.

Chicago's first 11 albums all showcased the impeccable musicianship of all the members of the band. At first, Chicago's sound was a hard sell. Radio stations wouldn't play their songs. Chicago's music was not easily identifiable what it was. Chicago could not be pigeonholed. Their sound met with resistance. Record executives turned to Guercio, and Guercio edited a number of Chicago's songs to make them shorter and more radio friendly. It was a compromise to be on the radio, and it was what it was. You can still listen to all of the band's songs in their entirety on all the early Chicago albums; it's the radio versions of the songs that are shorter. Basically, the songs were made shorter because as Robert Lamm put it, Chicago's music wasn't for people with Attention Deficit Disorder. You know, because those are the people who listen to radio (people with A.D.D). As the '70's became the '80's and the demands of the music industry started to change, Chicago went looking for a new record label. During Chicago's search for a new record company, one label said to them, "If you get rid of the horn section we'll sign you," to which Chicago responded, "Go fck yourself!" Asking Chicago to get rid of the horn section is like asking Elton John to get rid of the piano, as James Pankow once said. Chicago would go on to sign with a new record label, and the horns stayed, and the band played on for forty more years.

Question: What do you get when you mix the voice of Ray Charles with the voice and the guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix? The answer is Chicago's first lead singer and lead guitarist, Terry Kath. Terry Kath had a very soulful quality to his voice and he was an outstanding, superb, deep and wicked virtuoso of a guitar player. One of the best examples of Terry Kath’s brilliant guitar playing can be heard on the hit single 25 Or 6 To 4 from Chicago’s second album. The song's distinctive descending riff has been murdered by as many beginning guitarists as has been done with Deep Purple's "Smoke on the Water," Black Sabbath's "Iron Man" and Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven." The terrifyingly brilliant guitar solo performed by Terry Kath-a mountain few players ever dare to climb-is what makes 25 Or 6 To 4 absolutely essential. It is one of the greatest moments in Rock history for the electric guitar. The song's rather mystical title is just a reference to the time of day the song was written: 25 (or 26) minutes to 4 A.M. In a group known for its horns, it was Terry Kath's hard-edged guitar and soulful vocals that kept the band rooted in rock and roll. Chicago's line-up for such a large band was astonishingly stable, broken after eleven years and eleven albums only by the death of Terry Kath. After Terry Kath's tragic death in 1978, Chicago could have gone on to produce albums under a different name, they could have dissolved their band completely with each member going off to do other musical projects, or they could have just left the music business altogether and done other things with their lives, but they didn't. Chicago soldiered on for another forty years with the help of other notable lead rock guitarists, from Donnie Dacus and Chris Pinnick, to DaWayne Bailey and Keith Howland.

Chicago's second lead singer was Robert Lamm, an ambitious composer and piano player whose songwriting talents made him the default leader of the band in the early years. The Robert Lamm-penned hits included, Beginnings, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, Questions 67 & 68, Saturday in the Park and of course the afore mentioned, 25 or 6 to 4. His clear baritone voice was an asset, as were his stylized keyboarding skills. The International press portrayed Robert Lamm as Chicago's social conscience, and many of his best songs (Dialogue, Free, Harry Truman, State of the Union) all espoused political themes. Some of Robert Lamm's compositions had a swing feel to them as well. Frank Sinatra could have handled Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, very well. Actually, as the story goes, it was Colour My World, a portion from trombonist James Pankow’s Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon that Frank Sinatra wanted to do a remake of. It never happened though because Frank Sinatra wanted James Pankow to write an additional verse for it, and James Pankow wouldn't do it. You don't mess with a classic, even if the chairman of the board himself asks you to. Other Chicago songs penned by James Pankow included the hits, Make Me Smile, Old Days, Just You 'n' Me, I've Been Searchin' So Long, and Feelin' Stronger Everyday. That last one, by the way, was written by James Pankow and Chicago's original bass guitarist and third lead singer, Peter Cetera—the elastic tenor voice who was brought in to hit the high notes and keep up with the horn section, which the baritone voice of Robert Lamm and the gruff voice of Terry Kath couldn't.

If you were to ask any Chicago fan or Rock music historian to name the first three Chicago songs they think of when they hear someone say the name Peter Cetera, they will all tell you the exact same thing—what else but the smoochadelic classics, If You Leave Me Now, from the 1976 Chicago X album, Baby, What A Big Surprise from the 1977 Chicago XI album, and Hard To Say I'm Sorry from the 1982 Chicago 16 album (the comeback album). The sexiest, the sweetest, the most distinctive tenor voice in all of Rock And Roll history belongs to Peter Cetera mthrfckrs! There is no comparison. “High above shimmering, echoing ballads and rock-solid choruses that aim for the bleachers, Cetera’s tenor voice soars like a bird in flight. If it doesn’t strike you deep in your heart, it’ll at least stick deep in your head.” That's what an unknown source from Rolling Stone Magazine's website once said about Peter Cetera. Well Peter, I would like to tell you tonight on behalf of all your fans that your voice has actually done both for us. Your voice has struck us deep in our hearts and it is stuck deep in our heads and that is where we want it and that is how we like it! In May of 1985, after 18 years with the band, and after Chicago's biggest commercial success (the Chicago 17 album), Peter Cetera left Chicago for a solo career. Let's just say that things got really ugly. It was like a divorce, as Peter would say, and that's all I'm going to say about that because I wasn’t there, and I don’t know all the details, and it's none of my gddmn business! So, out walks Peter Cetera and in walks singer/songwriter and bass guitar player Jason Scheff, the son of Jerry Scheff, who was a bass guitar player for Elvis Presley. Jason Scheff has been with Chicago now for 30 years. To tie this whole thing together, I have to take you back to 1981 because that was the year that singer/songwriter, keyboard player and guitarist, Bill Champlin, the lead singer of the late 60s and 70s psychedelic rock band, the Sons of Champlin, joined Chicago and played a huge role in the success of Chicago 16 and 17. During his 28 years with Chicago, Bill Champlin's husky voice was the perfect complement to both, Peter Cetera and Jason Scheff. Chicago 18, 19, Twenty-1, Night and Day, Stone of Sisyphus, Chicago XXX, and a whole bunch of greatest hits and Christmas albums all included Bill Champlin and Jason Scheff.

And finally, Chicago's original drummer; its backbone, Danny Seraphine. During his time with Chicago, Danny Seraphine played drums in a style that, ironically perhaps, can best be described as lyrical. To be a good drummer one must develop his own technique. Good timing and good taste is essential, but it is the technique that sets the truly great drummers apart from the rest, as Danny Seraphine once said. After 25 years with the band, let's just say a little more drama ensued, and Danny Seraphine was replaced by drummer Tris Imboden, who has been with Chicago now for 25 years. And that folks was Chicago. 50 years, 50 albums, 5 number one albums, 130 million albums sold worldwide, 50 hits, and 3 number one songs later, Chicago is being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

Now I am going to present you with information that must be stated! According to Billboard chart statistics, Chicago is second only to the Beach Boys as the most successful American Rock and Roll band of all time, in terms of both albums and singles. The number one Billboard charting Rock and Roll band of the 1970s was Chicago! The Top 4 charting Rock And Roll bands of all-time on both, the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, and the Billboard 100 Singles Chart just happen to be the same four bands on both lists, and this is how the lists read: Number 1 - The Beatles! Number 2 - The Rolling Stones! Number 3 - The Beach Boys! And at number 4, (all together now) Chicago! And in case you are wondering who's at number 5, it's The Bee Gees! And that says it all right there folks! And up until tonight, Chicago was the only band on those lists who had not been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame yet! Also, of the 15 acts who were nominated for the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Chicago was the best-selling and highest Billboard charting act on the nominees list. So it makes sense that Chicago won the official 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame online fan poll. Chicago fans came out in full force and made sure that Chicago would finish at number one! They voted early and they voted often, as they were told to do!

And you know what's funny? First, a Chicago politician named Barack Obama is elected the first black President of the United States of America in 2008. Then, in 2010, the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks win their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history, but their first Stanley Cup since 1961, the year of Barack Obama's birth. Then in 2013 the Chicago Blackhawks win their fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their second during the Barack Obama presidency. Then in 2015 the Chicago Blackhawks win their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their third during the Barack Obama presidency. Then, what do you know, Chicago, the band, is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, during the Barack Obama presidency, but Chicago the band isn't black, but they did play Rock and Roll, which stems from the blues, which is the music of black people as Jann Wenner said at the 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in reference to the induction of Little Walter. Walter is also the name of Chicago's saxophone, clarinet and flute player (Walter Parazaider that is). Well, you know what they say, things always happen in threes, and in this case it's Barack Obama, the Chicago Blackhawks, and Chicago the band. But wait, there's more! The next president of the United States of America, to be elected this year, in November 2016, could either be Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders graduated in 1964 from the University of Chicago, and Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago in 1947, the same year that Chicago's trombone player James Pankow was born. Hillary Clinton is married to Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America. Bill Clinton's favorite band is Chicago, and Bill Clinton is a saxophone player like Chicago's Walter Parazaider. And now I am going to make a prediction. I predict that this coming June, the Chicago Blackhawks will win their 7th Stanley Cup in franchise history, and their fourth Stanley Cup during the Barack Obama presidency. And all I have left to say is that it's about fckng time Chicago got inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame because this is Chicago mthrfckrs! This isn't Boston or Kansas, if you know what I mean! So, without any further ado, ladies and gentlemen, CHICAGO!!!

THE 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Chicago

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 01/17/2016 @ 07:04am

BIRTH DATES AND PLACES OF BIRTH OF THE MEMBERS OF CHICAGO, OLDEST TO YOUNGEST:

01. Laudir De Oliveira born on Saturday, January 6, 1940 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
02. Peter Cetera born on Wednesday, September 13, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois
03. Robert Lamm born on Friday, October 13, 1944 in Brooklyn, New York
04. Walter Parazaider born on Wednesday, March 14, 1945 in Chicago, Illinois
05. Terry Kath born on Thursday, January 31, 1946 in Chicago, Illinois
06. Lee Loughnane born on Monday, October 21, 1946 in Elmwood Park, Illinois
07. Bill Champlin born on Wednesday, May 21, 1947 in Oakland, California
08. James Pankow born on Wednesday, August 20, 1947 in St. Louis, Missouri
09. Danny Seraphine born on Saturday, August 28, 1948 in Chicago, Illinois
10. Tris Imboden born on Friday, July, 27, 1951 in Orange County, California
11. Donnie Dacus born on Friday, October 12, 1951 in Galena Park, Texas
12. Jason Scheff born on Monday, April 16, 1962 in San Diego, California

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 01/17/2016 @ 07:15am

http://digitaldreamdoor.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=4895

The Beatles and The Rolling Stones vs. The Beach Boys and Chicago vs. The Bee Gees

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 01/20/2016 @ 16:40pm

JANUARY 14, 2016 ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE PAGE 17: THE 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

Rolling Stone shows a post-Terry Kath photo of Chicago, which includes Laudir De Oliveira and Donnie Dacus, who are not being inducted. Andy Greene calls Peter Cetera Chicago's guitarist, instead of bass guitarist or just bassist.

Chicago

The horn-powered band has been on the road for nearly 50 years, and the induction gives it a chance to play with original singer-guitarist Peter Cetera for the first time since 1985. "I'd find that very moving," says keyboardist Robert Lamm.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 01/21/2016 @ 19:46pm

https://rockhall.com/pressroom/announcements/the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2016-inductees/#sthash.NDU91qZr.H7AYlAQB.dpuf

CHICAGO

Inductees: Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Walter Parazaider, Danny Seraphine

Fusing jazz and rock together in a time when the Beatles were still crashing onto the American shores and psychedelic rock was taking over the basements of teenagers; Chicago Transit Authority broke onto the scene unapologetically in 1969 with their self-titled double album, Chicago Transit Authority. A brazen mix of soulful rock, pop and jazz coupled with protester’s chants from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention; the album received critical acclaim and later produced the classic singles “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” and “Beginnings.” As the band began touring, under pressure from the city of Chicago, they shortened their name to simply, Chicago, and later released their second self-titled album, Chicago, in 1970. The center track, “Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon,” is a seven-part, 13-minute suite of pure melodic perfection composed by James Pankow who merged his love of classical, long song styles with Chicago’s signature sound. It yielded two unexpected singles “Make Me Smile” and “Colour My World” that quickly took the charts by storm reaching the Top Ten on Billboard’s Hot 100. From their inception through to the late 1970’s, Chicago mastered the art of making melodic jazz tinged rock with a keen pop sensibility. The group had a long string of jazz-rock mega hits including: “Make Me Smile,” “Saturday In The Park,” “25 Or 6 To 4,” “Feelin Stronger Every Day,” “If You Leave Me Now” and many others. Chicago’s early lineup created such an unmistakable sound and their inclusion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not only well-deserved, but an honor that has been overlooked. With over 21 Top 10 singles, 5 consecutive Number One albums, 11 Number One singles – fans that stretch across the globe and countless bands that have followed in their wake, Chicago’s legacy is unquestionable.

Selected discography: “Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?,” Chicago Transit Authority (1969) • “Make Me Smile,” “25 Or 6 To 4,” Chicago (1970) • “Saturday In The Park,” Chicago V (1972) • “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “Just You ‘N’ Me,” Chicago VI (1973) • “Old Days” (1975) • “If You Leave Me Now,” Chicago X (1976) • “Baby What A Big Surprise,” Chicago XI (1977)

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 01/24/2016 @ 08:18am

First, a Chicago politician named Barack Obama is elected the first black President of the United States of America in 2008. Then, in 2010, the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks win their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history, but their first Stanley Cup since 1961, the year of Barack Obama's birth. Dustin Byfuglien becomes the first African-American hockey player in NHL history to win the Stanley Cup (Note: Black goaltenders Grant Fuhr and Eldon Reddick won the Stanley Cup with the Edmonton Oilers, but they were Canadians). Then in 2013 the Chicago Blackhawks win their fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their second during the Barack Obama presidency. Three more black hockey players win the Stanley Cup: Ray Emery, Jamal Mayers, and Johnny Oduya. Obama and Oduya both have five letters and they both begin with the letter O and end with the letter a. Obama and Oduya both have Kenyan ancestry. Then in 2015 the Chicago Blackhawks win their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their third during the Barack Obama presidency. Johnny Oduya becomes the second black hockey player in NHL history behind Grant Fuhr to win more than one Stanley Cup championship. Then, what do you know, Chicago, the band, is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, during the Barack Obama presidency. Well, you know what they say, things always happen in threes, and in this case it's Barack Obama, the Chicago Blackhawks, and Chicago the band. But wait, there's more! The next president of the United States of America, to be elected this year, in November 2016, could either be Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders graduated in 1964 from the University of Chicago, and Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago in 1947, the same year that Chicago's trombone player James Pankow was born. Hillary Clinton is married to Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America. Bill Clinton's favorite band is Chicago, and Bill Clinton is a saxophone player like Chicago's Walter Parazaider. And now I am going to make a prediction. I predict that this coming June 2016, the Chicago Blackhawks will win their seventh Stanley Cup in franchise history and their fourth Stanley Cup during the Barack Obama presidency.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 01/24/2016 @ 09:49am

Hurray for Chicago! Finally! And I agree with the inductees being limited to only those 7 early members.

Posted by Telarock on Sunday, 01/24/2016 @ 09:57am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU8GD6AWicM

Peter Cetera played accordian with Weird Al Yankovic and Bruce Jenner.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 01/28/2016 @ 19:38pm

Rob Thomas of Matchbox 20 will induct Chicago.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 01/29/2016 @ 17:28pm

I sent Rob Thomas my Chicago induction speech on Facebook.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 01/30/2016 @ 18:06pm

Rob Thomas was born three years after The Chicago Transit Authority was released. Rob Thomas was born in February of 1972, six months before the release of Chicago V.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 02/3/2016 @ 19:28pm

http://www.stereogum.com/1857616/chicagogate-update-peter-cetera-threatens-to-walk/news/

ChicagoGate Update: Peter Cetera Threatens To Walk

Peter Speaks:
February 5, 2016

Hello everyone! I know you’re all waiting to hear what’s happening with the Hall of Fame. I know how frustrated you all are, but trust me, no one is more tired and frustrated than yours truly. I had a conference call with the musical department today and I’ve presented another song option. Right now it’s about a fidy fidy chance that we can hammer something out by the weekend. Frankly folks, Im done if this doesn’t work out. Here’s hoping this one works…Ill let you know either way ASAP.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 02/5/2016 @ 19:09pm

Cetera's having a tantrum and threatening to not play with them if it can't be the songs he wants.


Textbook example of a first-world problem.

Posted by Philip on Friday, 02/5/2016 @ 19:59pm

Whether or not Peter Cetera performs, he is still attending the ceremony and collecting his trophy instead of asking to have it mailed to him.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 02/6/2016 @ 08:26am

Chicago is the highest charting act on Billboard at this year's Rock Hall induction ceremony. It's their music that should be played in the all-star jam. They should let Chicago perform 4 or 5 of their own songs at the ceremony. 4 for the induction and 1 for the all-star jam.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 02/6/2016 @ 08:32am

The Options

Beginnings
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is
Saturday In The Park
25 Or 6 To 4
Make Me Smile
Feelin' Stronger Everyday
If You Leave Me Now

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 02/6/2016 @ 08:40am

SOLO ARTISTS WHOM CHICAGO BEAT INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

Chuck Willis * Esther Phillips * Johnny Ace * Joe Tex * Mary Wells * Dionne Warwick * Chubby Checker * Paul Anka * Neil Sedaka * Link Wray * Dick Dale * Phil Ochs * Joan Baez * Judy Collins * Patsy Cline * Connie Francis * Willie Nelson * Merle Haggard * Conway Twitty * George Jones * Kris Kristofferson * Dolly Parton * Kenny Rogers * Tom Jones * Harry Nilsson * Gram Parsons * Warren Zevon * Todd Rundgren * Captain Beefheart * Joe Cocker * Barry White * Jimmy Buffett * Patti LaBelle * Roberta Flack * Kate Bush * Carly Simon * Cher * Chaka Khan * Janet Jackson * Whitney Houston * Mariah Carey

ROCK AND ROLL BANDS WHOM CHICAGO BEAT INTO THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME

The Kingston Trio * The Surfaris * The Zombies * The Kingsmen * The Troggs * The Turtles * Herman’s Hermits * Paul Revere & the Raiders * The Flying Burrito Brothers * The Belmonts * The Monkees * Jan & Dean * Johnny Burnette and the Rock N Roll Trio * John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers * Big Brother and the Holding Company * Derek and the Dominos * The Spencer Davis Group * Blind Faith * Canned Heat * Humble Pie * Husker Du * Fairport Convention * The Mothers of Invention * Little Feat * Grand Funk Railroad * Tommy James and the Shondells * Three Dog Night * Steppenwolf * Thin Lizzy * Procol Harum * Roxy Music * The Blues Project * Blood, Sweat & Tears * Electric Flag * Tower of Power * The Guess Who * Bachman-Turner Overdrive * War * The Meters * The Neville Brothers * Kool & the Gang * The Commodores * New York Dolls * MC5 * The J. Geils Band * The Sir Douglas Quintet * Electric Light Orchestra * Emerson, Lake and Palmer * The Moody Blues * Yes * Jethro Tull * King Crimson * The Doobie Brothers * Blue Oyster Cult * Jefferson Starship * The Cars * Dire Straits * Motorhead * Iron Maiden * Judas Priest * Devo * Air Supply * America * Boston * Kansas * Journey * Styx * Toto * Foreigner * REO Speedwagon * Squeeze * Wings * The Silver Bullet Band * The Revolution * Kraftwerk * Chic * Joy Division * New Order * Sonic Youth * Miami Sound Machine * Wham! * Huey Lewis and the News * Bon Jovi * INXS * B-52’s * Duran Duran * Depeche Mode * Def Leppard * Tears For Fears * Los Lobos * The Cure * The Smiths * The Replacements * Nine Inch Nails * Soundgarden * Alice In Chains * Jane’s Addiction * The Black Crowes * Pixies * Smashing Pumpkins * Pearl Jam * Radiohead * Stone Temple Pilots * Dave Matthews Band * Rage Against The Machine * The Wallflowers * No Doubt

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 02/6/2016 @ 15:17pm

Chicago is the highest charting act on Billboard at this year's Rock Hall induction ceremony. It's their music that should be played in the all-star jam. They should also be the last act to be inducted at this year's ceremony.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 02/7/2016 @ 06:57am

Ps. As of today it’s now down to 25 per cent chance of happening.

-Peter Cetera

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 02/7/2016 @ 08:02am

Peter:

Your legacy amongst Chicago fans is on the line. The "pass" that you received 32 years ago could be rescinded if you decide to bail out of playing now.

Most people don't hold it against you that you left when you did. They will, however, consider your absence at the Induction Ceremony a selfish act, and one not befitting of a Hall or Fame inductee.

Consider this the next time you lay odds of your presence at the ceremony!

Posted by Gary on Sunday, 02/7/2016 @ 17:45pm

Cetera is getting old, his voice can only handle 25 Or 6 To 4 in the key of E. I'm guessing the band is giving him that, but he also wants to add another song of his choosing to the ceremony. He has not stated which song it is though. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is and Saturday In The Park are most likely the other two songs, chosen by Chicago. I'm guessing Cetera wants to add Feelin' Stronger Everyday or If You Leave Me Now.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 02/7/2016 @ 19:25pm

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Posted by Roy on Monday, 02/8/2016 @ 19:56pm

This really sucks! Peter Cetera will not perform at or attend the 2016 Rock Hall induction ceremony.

Peter Speaks:

February 8, 2016
I just sent this to the RnR hall of fame people. This is the the short high road nice version of what I really wanted to say. I’ll post that response at the appropriate time. Ciao,

Hello Alex and Joel!
Unfortunately, this scenario doesn’t work for me. I know we all did our best to make it happen, but I guess it’s just not meant to be.
Personally, I’m frustrated and tired of dealing with this and it’s time to move on. I have a life with two beautiful daughters and a solo career and its time to get back and give them all the full attention they deserve.
Thanks for all your help and consideration! Have a great show and please send any individual award I receive to the contact you have for me.
All the best, Peter Cetera

Posted by Roy on Monday, 02/8/2016 @ 19:57pm

Kurt Schwarz
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@OakPressMarquee @GraffonMusic Rock Hall is up to its nasty old tricks again and Peter Cetera says he's out! petercetera.com
https://mobile.twitter.com/RealLifeHusband/status/696728921178505216?p=v

Kurt Schwarz @RealLifeHusband
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Such a nefarious bunch, they seem to create drama intentionally year after year. No regard for the fans!

Posted by Roy on Monday, 02/8/2016 @ 20:05pm

I'm waiting to read exactly what Peter Cetera was asking of the Rock Hall and Chicago, aside from 25 Or 6 To 4 in the key of E, the additional song, and Peter Cetera wanting to invite Donnie Dacus, Laudir De Oliveira, Chris Pinnick, and his brother Kenny Cetera to perform with the band at the ceremony. …And the Rock Hall's response.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 02/8/2016 @ 20:28pm

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/peter-cetera-chicago-rock-hall/

Peter Cetera Backs Out of Chicago Rock Hall Reunion Again

By Nick DeRiso February 8, 2016 12:52 PM

Posted by Roy on Monday, 02/8/2016 @ 22:01pm

Peter:

You OWED it to Your fans, and to the fans of Chicago, to show up and play. Did you ever consider that many fans have purchased tickets anticipating the one-night-stand that you advertised on your web site?

Regardless of the circumstances, you have made a Trump-like mistake by deciding to not show up. Your legacy amongst the fans that helped foster your "solo career" will be tarnished forever.

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It iIs? Yes-- it's time to jettison the respect we had for our favorite band's former lead singer!

Posted by Gary on Monday, 02/8/2016 @ 22:14pm

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/rock/6867425/peter-cetera-chicago-rock-roll-hall-fame-induction

Peter Cetera Officially Bows Out of Chicago Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction: 'It's Just Not Meant to Be'

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 02/9/2016 @ 05:27am

http://radio.com/2016/02/08/peter-cetera-bows-out-of-chicago-reunion-again/

Peter Cetera Bows Out of Chicago Reunion — Again
It really *is* hard to say "I'm sorry."

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 02/9/2016 @ 19:32pm

http://radio.com/2016/02/09/chicago-release-official-statement-on-peter-cetera/?cid=twitter_Radiodotcom

Chicago Release Official Statement on Peter Cetera

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 02/9/2016 @ 19:34pm

http://noisey.vice.com/en_ca/blog/26-musicians-too-rock-to-show-up-for-their-own-rock-n-roll-hall-of-fame-induction

Peter Speaks:

February 10, 2016
Make that 27! Happily moving on!
26 MUSICIANS TOO ROCK TO SHOW UP FOR THEIR OWN ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTION

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 02/9/2016 @ 20:03pm

http://www.billboard.com/photos/6882054/clive-davis-grammy-party-photos-portraits

Clive Davis' Grammy Party: See Exclusive Photos

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 02/20/2016 @ 08:40am

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Posted by Roy on Saturday, 02/20/2016 @ 08:46am

http://www.chicagotheband.com/chicagos-jason-scheff-interview/

Jason Scheff responds to his exclusion as a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee with Chicago

That’s a great question. When I was a kid growing up and first getting exposed to music, if you were to ask me as a kid here’s what’s going to happen: you are going to get an opportunity at 23-years old to join a legendary group at the peak of their commercial success, and you are going to be the guy that replaces the voice of the band at the time. You are going to sing on one of the biggest hits the band has ever had in “Will You Still Love Me” and you are going to write some pretty big songs for the band like “What Kind of Man Would I Be” and you are going to have this phenomenal run. Then all of a sudden, they’re going to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and they decide that they are going to go with that original lineup but they leave you off. Really, that’s the trade off. Your name won’t be on that list, but you’re going to be a part of it. Think about this for a second. Go back as a twelve-year old kid, or even as a twenty-two year old kid, the year before I joined the band and they said “Here’s how it’s going to be played out.” I think most of us would say “Where do I sign?”

All those years the band wasn’t in the Hall of Fame, I thought: ask so many (bands) that are in, that maybe were only together two, three or five years. Ask them if they could only choose one, you can be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame or you can have a thirty-year career with all of those things that I mentioned. What’s your choice? I say give me my career. So it really doesn’t bother me. I’m just excited to go and be a part of this event. Keep the perspective about being a team player. It’s not about you, it’s about the band! That’s really a great question and I’m glad you asked.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 02/20/2016 @ 13:54pm

http://petercetera.com

Peter Speaks:

February 22, 2016
My final HoF decision!

Regretfully, I’ve decided NOT to participate in the 2016 HoF induction ceremonies. I appreciate the award and I want to thank all of you who voted and finally made it happen.

Many of you will be disappointed and that’s understandable. Quite frankly, I’m disappointed as well. There comes a time when you need to make a decision based on what’s best for you without worrying about the consequences and this is that time.

Every idea or suggestion I offered about how it could work musically was either rejected or changed by the shows producers. Together with the fact that while I sent those same emails to the group, the only reply I ever received back from them was a very snarky “Take a chill pill dude!” Whoa! Really?

At this point in my life, I don’t care to reintroduce the same negativity, misplaced egos, and petty jealousies I left behind years ago.

I’m very happy right where I am now, touring and playing my music with a band I love. You should all come and see us if you have the chance and please check my site for performance updates.

Peacefully moving on, Peter

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 02/21/2016 @ 20:52pm

It's not about YOU, Peter! If you don't understand that, then you deserve to stay home. You've diminished your own legacy. How sad that is, especially for your longtime fans! Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? Yes--it's time to jettison our former favorite lead singer!

Posted by Gary on Tuesday, 02/23/2016 @ 22:16pm

CHICAGO'S BILLBOARD 100 SINGLES WITH ROBERT LAMM ON LEAD VOCALS

04. 1970 - # 7 – Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
07. 1971 - # 7 – Beginnings
10. 1971 - # 49 – I’m A Man
11. 1972 - # 3 – Saturday In The Park
18. 1975 - # 13 – Harry Truman
26. 1978 - # 63 – Take Me Back To Chicago
31. 1980 - # 56 – Thunder And Lightning

CHICAGO'S BILLBOARD 100 SINGLES WITH TERRY KATH ON LEAD VOCALS

02. 1970 - # 9 – Make Me Smile
05. 1971 - # 20 – Free
08. 1971 - # 7 – Colour My World
10. 1971 - # 49 – I’m A Man
12. 1972 - # 24 – Dialogue (Part I & II)
17. 1974 - # 11 – Wishing You Were Here
20. 1975 - # 61 – Brand New Love Affair (Part I & II)
25. 1978 - # 44 – Little One

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 02/28/2016 @ 19:30pm

Terry Kath's wife and their daughter will be at the 2016 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony with Chicago.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 03/7/2016 @ 19:29pm

Roy:

Please weigh in. What are your thoughts on Peter taking a pass? Legacy breaking?

Posted by Gary on Monday, 03/7/2016 @ 23:03pm

Roy:

Please weigh in. What are your thoughts on Peter taking a pass? Legacy breaking?

Posted by Gary on Monday, 03.7.16 @ 23:03pm

Legacy breaking? I don’t know. Members of Van Halen and GNR also passed on their inductions.

Peter Cetera is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee who will not attend his induction ceremony. His Rock and Roll Hall of Fame trophy will be mailed to him.

I would like to know which member of Chicago it was that told Peter Cetera to take a chill pill by email. Maybe it was Chicago’s manager Peter Schivarelli relaying the message.

Because of his old age, Peter Cetera wanted to perform 25 Or 6 To 4 in the key of E with Chicago, and the band said no. Peter Cetera could have just played bass with Chicago at the ceremony and let Jason Scheff sing, but Cetera has too big of an ego to do that. Cetera could have also attended the ceremony, collected his trophy, gave his speech, and not performed at all. Too big of an ego to do that either.

If Peter Cetera wasn’t going to perform with Chicago, he wanted to bring his own band to the ceremony and perform separately from Chicago. So there would have been a Chicago performance and a separate Peter Cetera performance, maybe with the Rock Hall’s house band.

I’m waiting for a Peter Cetera interview where he details exactly what he wanted to do at the Rock Hall induction ceremony, and which songs he wanted to perform on his own.

I am disappointed that Peter Cetera won’t be at the induction ceremony, but he is still my all-time favorite singer behind Elton John, and the only reason I’m giving the title to Elton John is because he is far more influential than Peter Cetera.

I will now go listen again to the first four albums Peter Cetera released after leaving Chicago: Solitude/Solitaire, One More Story, World Falling Down, and One Clear Voice (re-released as Faithfully on a different label; I have both). These albums are a hundred times better than the first four albums Chicago released after Cetera’s departure: 18, 19, Twenty 1, Night & Day, which are garbage. Stone of Sisyphus, Chicago XXX, and Chicago XXXVI are awesome though. I will then go back and listen to The Chicago Transit Authority through Chicago 17.

You may have been listening to Chicago since you were a child, but remember, the members of Chicago are not childhood friends. It's a business.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 03/13/2016 @ 07:29am

Thanks for your response, Roy. You took Peter Cetera's "pass" far better than I did. I might be in the minority, but I believe Cetera's absence will be long remembered--to his detriment! The RHOF could easily have passed on Chicago's induction had the fans not voted for them in droves in the Fan Poll. The most ardent of those fans will be in attendance in Brooklyn. Slighting them is a poor business decision, AND shoes a lack of class!

Posted by Gary on Monday, 03/14/2016 @ 22:31pm

That was a great response. As mean as this sounds, I mean it as a compliment... it's also the first time that Roy didn't sound like a bot either, but an actual person partaking in a conversation.

Posted by Philip on Monday, 03/14/2016 @ 23:55pm

Best Songs From Chicago 18:

25 Or 6 To 4 (Remake), It's Alright, Niagara Falls, Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now, Will You Still Love Me

Worst Song From Chicago 18:

If She Would Have Been Faithful…

The Rest: Forever, Over And Over, One More Day, I Believe

Best Songs From Chicago 19:

Look Away, I Don't Wanna Live Without Your Love, What Kind Of Man Would I Be, You're Not Alone, Runaround, Come In From The Night

Worst Songs From Chicago 19:

We Can Last Forever, Heart In Pieces

The Rest: I Stand Up, Victorious

Best Song From Chicago Twenty-1:

Somebody, Somewhere

Worst Song From Chicago Twenty-1

You Come To My Senses, Explain It To My Heart

Posted by Roy on Monday, 03/21/2016 @ 21:43pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOBrJ0Y358Y

I felt so bad for Chicago when they had to perform You Come To My Senses on the Arsenio Hall Show in 1991.

You come to my senses
I have no defences

Worst Chicago song ever. That and If She Would Have Been Faithful…

John Denver - You Fill Up My Senses (Annie's Song)

Posted by Roy on Monday, 03/21/2016 @ 21:56pm

http://ourrockandrollhalloffame71305.yuku.com/topic/1517/CHICAGO?page=71

So anything but the key of E for 25 Or 6 To 4 would be too high for Peter Cetera in his old age.

According to a source on another site, the key of E is too high for Chicago's horn section at their old ages, especially for Walter Parazaider who has serious heart problems. I wonder if Peter Cetera was given this reason in the conference calls with the Rock Hall.

I'm guessing it was James Pankow or Lee Loughnane who told Peter Cetera to take a chill pill by email.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 03/27/2016 @ 08:16am

https://audioboom.com/boos/4331153-episode-10-let-s-fix-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame?utm_content=buffer1db35&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Episode 10: Let's Fix The Rock And Roll Hall of Fame

Chicago discussed.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 03/27/2016 @ 08:24am

The Chicago Tribute Album

01. Beginnings by Eric Clapton
02. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? by Eric Clapton
03. Saturday In The Park by Elton John
04. South California Purples by Deep Purple
05. Feelin' Stronger Every Day by Fleetwood Mac
06. I've Been Searchin' So Long by The Eagles
07. Dialogue by Matchbox 20 and Kid Rock
08. Questions 67 & 68 by Billy Joel
09. 25 Or 6 To 4 by Metallica and Jeff Beck
10. Street Player by Maroon 5
11. No Tell Lover by Aaron Neville
12. Just You 'N Me by Justin Beiber
13. Old Days by Barenaked Ladies
14. Wishing You Were Here by Boz Scaggs and Kenny Loggins
15. If You Leave Me Now by NSYNC
16. Baby, What A Big Surprise by the Backstreet Boys
17. Hard Habit To Break by Daryl Hall & John Oates
18. Hard To Say I'm Sorry by Boyz II Men

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 03/27/2016 @ 20:13pm

CHICAGO: THE SCATTERED SONGS

01. 1985: Good For Nothing (USA For Africa: We Are The World)
02. 1990: Hearts In Trouble (Days Of Thunder Soundtrack)
03. 1997: Here In My Heart (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997)
04. 1997: The Only One (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1997) with Lenny Kravitz
05. 1998: All Roads Lead To You (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II)
06. 1998: Show Me A Sign (The Heart Of Chicago 1967-1998 Volume II)
07. 1998: Child's Prayer (Chicago 25: The Christmas Album)
08. 1999: Back To You (Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert)
09. 1999: If I Should Lose You (Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert)
10. 1999: Your Love Keeps Lifting Me (Higher And Higher) (Chicago XXVI: Live in Concert) with Michael McDonald
11. 2003: Bethlehem (Chicago Christmas: What's It Gonna Be Santa?)
12. 2011: Rockin' And Rollin' On Christmas Day (Chicago XXXIII: O Christmas Three)

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/1/2016 @ 04:44am

http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/music/a40587/2016-rock-hall-inductees/

Chicago

"Saturday in the Park," "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is" and "Old Days" are classic pop songs. (Not rock 'n' roll songs, incidentally; pop songs.) They are trained musicians. They have been around forever and are still touring. But they also gave us the solo career of Peter Cetera, a Margaret Keane big-eye painting that came to life and whined at you. I know there are no hard rules when it comes to the Hall of Fame, that it's a private organization that can do its business however it wants, but how about this: If a member of your band has gone on to record a duet with Amy Grant, you are disqualified from induction.

Late-career embarrassment: The video for their 1984 single "Stay The Night," in which Peter Cetera tries to be an action hero and ends up looking like Ellen DeGeneres' stunt double.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 04/5/2016 @ 05:36am

Does Anybody Realize How Bad These Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees Really Are?

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 04/5/2016 @ 05:52am

http://www.chicagotheband.com/chicagos-robert-lamm-talks-rock-hall-peter-cetera/

Chicago’s Robert Lamm Talks About Rock Hall, Peter Cetera and More

One point of excitement for fans was the fact that it looked like Peter Cetera might take the stage with you guys at the induction ceremonies to perform. Now it looks like that’s not going to happen. What was it really that went down behind the scenes that brought things to that conclusion?

In a nutshell — and I really don’t want to talk too much about it — I would say that Peter didn’t understand that this was a band honor, that it was the band Chicago being inducted. He was proposing to bring his band to play when he sang a Chicago song. So you know, it got very strange. But I think in a nutshell, he didn’t or doesn’t get that it’s a band thing — it’s not about any particular guy.

If I’m correct, you’ve had some contact with Peter in recent years, haven’t you?

Oh, yeah.

It seemed like there was a slight amount of water that had gone under the bridge after all of these years.

Yeah, you know, I was very surprised at his attitude.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 04/5/2016 @ 20:44pm

25 Or 6 To 4 will be played in the All-Star jam! This could mean Chicago will be the last induction of the night.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/6/2016 @ 23:30pm

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Be Honest: Can You Sing all the Words to "Saturday in the Park?"
Robert Lamm penned the lyrics to Chicago's highest-charting single in 1972. While Chicagoans – specifically, Cubs fans – are all-too familiar with the tune given its regular rotation during Saturday baseball games at Chicago’s Wrigley Field, visitors to the Hall of Fame will get a first-hand look at Lamm's musical baby coming to life via his handwritten lyrics. Warning: you'll be humming "Saturday in the Park" all day (if you're not already).

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/7/2016 @ 05:50am

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Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/7/2016 @ 05:51am

Back in January I sent Rob Thomas my induction speech for Chicago on facebook and told him to use it. I got no response. I also told him to go to the induction ceremony in a Chicago Blackhawks jersey and to bring the Stanley Cup with him on stage. I gave him the contact info for the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. Let's see if Rob Thomas will give the induction speech for Chicago while wearing a Chicago Blackhawks jersey and with the Stanley Cup on stage. I sent the same message to Chicago management. Rob Thomas will walk out on stage carrying the Stanley Cup over his head. Then he will congratulate the Chicago Blackhawks on their 2010, 2013, & 2015 Stanley Cup championships and then give his Rock and.Roll Hall of Fame induction speech for Chicago.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/7/2016 @ 13:03pm

The Stanley Cup might be on hand tomorrow at the Barclays Centre in New York as Rob Thomas gives the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech for Chicago and mentions the connections to Barack Obama and the Chicago Blackhawks.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/7/2016 @ 14:22pm

http://wcbsfm.cbslocal.com/2016/04/07/robert-lamm-wont-stop-peter-cetera-from-joining-chicago-during-rock-hall-induction/

Robert Lamm Won’t Stop Peter Cetera From Joining Chicago During Rock Hall Induction

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/7/2016 @ 19:44pm

The Stanley Cup might be on hand tomorrow at the Barclays Center in New York as Rob Thomas gives his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech for Chicago and mentions Chicago's connections to Barack Obama and the Chicago Blackhawks.

Back in January I sent Rob Thomas my induction speech for Chicago on facebook and told him to use it. I got no response. I also told him to go to the induction ceremony in a Chicago Blackhawks jersey and to bring the Stanley Cup with him on stage. I gave him the contact info for the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. They will bring the Stanley Cup to the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. Let's see if Rob Thomas will give the induction speech for Chicago while wearing a Chicago Blackhawks jersey and with the Stanley Cup on stage. I sent the same message to Chicago management. Rob Thomas will walk out on stage carrying the Stanley Cup over his head. Then he will congratulate the Chicago Blackhawks on their 2010, 2013, and 2015 Stanley Cup championships, express his hopes that they win again in 2016, and then give his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction speech for Chicago. His speech will end as follows:

Now I am going to present you with information that must be stated! According to Billboard chart statistics, Chicago is second only to the Beach Boys as the most successful American Rock and Roll band of all time, in terms of both albums and singles. The number one Billboard charting Rock and Roll band of the 1970s was Chicago! The Top 4 charting Rock And Roll bands of all-time on both, the Billboard 200 Albums Chart, and the Billboard 100 Singles Chart just happen to be the same four bands on both lists, and this is how the lists read: Number 1 - The Beatles! Number 2 - The Rolling Stones! Number 3 - The Beach Boys! And at number 4, (all together now) Chicago! And in case you are wondering who's at number 5, it's The Bee Gees! And that says it all right there folks! And up until tonight, Chicago was the only band on those lists who had not been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame yet! Also, of the 15 acts who were nominated for the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Chicago was the best-selling and highest Billboard charting act on the nominees list. So it makes sense that Chicago won the official 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame online fan poll. Chicago fans came out in full force and made sure that Chicago would finish at number one! They voted early and they voted often, as they were told to do!

And you know what's funny? First, a Chicago politician named Barack Obama is elected the first black President of the United States of America in 2008. Then, in 2010, the National Hockey League's Chicago Blackhawks win their fourth Stanley Cup in franchise history, but their first Stanley Cup since 1961, the year of Barack Obama's birth. Then in 2013 the Chicago Blackhawks win their fifth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their second during the Barack Obama presidency. Then in 2015 the Chicago Blackhawks win their sixth Stanley Cup in franchise history and their third during the Barack Obama presidency. Then, what do you know, Chicago, the band, is finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, during the Barack Obama presidency, but Chicago the band isn't black, but they did play Rock and Roll, which stems from the blues, which is the music of black people as Jann Wenner said at the 2008 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony in reference to the induction of Little Walter. Walter is also the name of Chicago's saxophone, clarinet and flute player (Walter Parazaider that is). Well, you know what they say, things always happen in threes, and in this case it's Barack Obama, the Chicago Blackhawks, and Chicago the band. But wait, there's more! The next president of the United States of America, to be elected this year, in November 2016, could either be Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton. Bernie Sanders graduated in 1964 from the University of Chicago, and Hillary Clinton was born in Chicago in 1947, the same year that Chicago's trombone player James Pankow was born. Hillary Clinton is married to Bill Clinton, the 42nd President of the United States of America. Bill Clinton's favorite band is Chicago, and Bill Clinton is a saxophone player like Chicago's Walter Parazaider. And now I am going to make a prediction. I predict that this coming June, the Chicago Blackhawks will win their seventh Stanley Cup in franchise history and their fourth Stanley Cup during the Barack Obama presidency. And all I have left to say is that it's about fckng time Chicago got inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame because this is Chicago mthrfckrs! This isn't Boston or Kansas, if you know what I mean! So, without any further ado, ladies and gentlemen, CHICAGO!!!

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/7/2016 @ 20:32pm

I will try to find out if Bill Clinton and/or Barack Obama are attending the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony tomorrow. Maybe Hillary and Michelle too!

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/7/2016 @ 21:14pm

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Rob Thomas rehearses with Chicago

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Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/7/2016 @ 22:23pm

Hey Peter:

I have a good title for your next big single--"Coward's Way Out."

Posted by Gary on Thursday, 04/7/2016 @ 23:49pm

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is was one of the songs Rob Thomas was rehearsing with Chicago.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/8/2016 @ 04:07am

http://www.robthomasmusic.com/rock-roll-hall-of-fame-simulcast-rob-thomas-special-guest/

ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME SIMULCAST – ROB THOMAS SPECIAL GUEST

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/8/2016 @ 04:17am

https://mobile.twitter.com/JulietHuddyTV/status/718217817053655040

Rob Thomas rehearses with Chicago

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/8/2016 @ 04:23am

https://mobile.twitter.com/JulietHuddyTV/media/grid?idx=0

Another Chicago photo in the background

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/8/2016 @ 04:28am

THE TOP 5 CHARTING ROCK AND ROLL BANDS OF ALL-TIME ON BOTH, THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART AND THE BILLBOARD 100 SINGLES CHART

01. The Beatles
02. The Rolling Stones
03. The Beach Boys
04. The Bee Gees
05. Chicago

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

01. 1988: The Beatles
02. 1988: The Beach Boys
03. 1989: The Rolling Stones
04. 1997: The Bee Gees
05. 2016: Chicago

THE 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Chicago

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)

THE 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Chicago is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee

Walter Parazaider is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Lee Loughnane is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
James Pankow is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Robert Lamm is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Terry Kath is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Peter Cetera is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Danny Seraphine is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee

Walter Parazaider is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Lee Loughnane is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
James Pankow is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Robert Lamm is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Terry Kath is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Peter Cetera is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Danny Seraphine is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/8/2016 @ 21:34pm

THE TOP 5 CHARTING ROCK AND ROLL BANDS OF ALL-TIME ON BOTH, THE BILLBOARD 200 ALBUMS CHART AND THE BILLBOARD 100 SINGLES CHART

01. The Beatles
02. The Rolling Stones
03. The Beach Boys
04. Chicago
05. The Bee Gees

THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

01. 1988: The Beatles
02. 1988: The Beach Boys
03. 1989: The Rolling Stones
04. 1997: The Bee Gees
05. 2016: Chicago

THE 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Chicago

01. Walter Parazaider (1967-Present: saxophone; clarinet; flute; songwriter)
02. Lee Loughnane (1967-Present: vocals; trumpet; flugelhorn; songwriter)
03. James Pankow (1967-Present: vocals; trombone; songwriter)
04. Robert Lamm (1967-Present: vocals; piano; keyboards; songwriter)
05. Terry Kath (1967-1978: vocals; guitar; songwriter)
06. Peter Cetera (1967-1985: vocals; bass guitar; songwriter)
07. Danny Seraphine (1967-1990: drums; songwriter)

THE 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES

Chicago is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee

Walter Parazaider is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Lee Loughnane is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
James Pankow is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Robert Lamm is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Terry Kath is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Peter Cetera is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee
Danny Seraphine is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Inductee

Walter Parazaider is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Lee Loughnane is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
James Pankow is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Robert Lamm is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Terry Kath is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Peter Cetera is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer
Danny Seraphine is a Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/8/2016 @ 22:12pm

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1jMJgMXgzgWKL

Chicago's Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction on Periscope

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/8/2016 @ 22:29pm

Chicago performed Saturday In The Park, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?, and 25 Or 6 To 4, in that order.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/8/2016 @ 22:37pm

Rob Thomas didn't mention Barack Obama or the Chicago Blackhawks during his induction speech for Chicago, and the Stanley Cup didn't appear. His speech was very short.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/8/2016 @ 23:42pm

All of Chicago's album covers were shown on the screens at the back of the stage during the speeches and the performances.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/9/2016 @ 07:36am

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/chicagos-robert-lamm-talks-peter-cetera-absence-at-rock-hall-20160409#ixzz45KSpgtXj

Chicago's Robert Lamm Talks Peter Cetera Absence at Rock Hall

"If Peter didn't want to play or couldn't play or couldn't sing or whatever, at least he could have stood with us," co-founder says

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/9/2016 @ 07:48am

What if Robert Lamm hadn't spoken for Peter Cetera? Would Peter Cetera have attended?

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/9/2016 @ 07:52am

http://radio.com/2016/04/08/rock-hall-induction-ceremony-2016-wrap-up-cheap-trick-n-w-a-and-more/?cid=twitter_Radiodotcom

Rob Thomas took the stage to speak about Chicago. He called their late leader Terry Kath “One of the best and most underrated guitarists of all time.”

“If you’re going to take the name of one of America’s great cradles of rock, blues, jazz and soul, you’ve got to be a great band. This is not a soft rock band, Chicago was a rock and roll band with horns!”

“Let’s talk about the kind of stones that these guys have. Their first album was a double album. Balls of steel! Second album: double album. Third album: double album! The titles, Chicago, Chicago II, Chicago III: f—ing fearless!”

“People say a lot of things about Chicago, and ‘badass’ is generally not one of them. But when they met Jimi Hendrix he said that their guitarist is better than him. That’s badass. So if you say Chicago is your mom’s band, then I want to party with your mom!”

Keyboardist/singer Robert Lamm said, “I’d like to first thank the audiences that come to see us year after year.” He thanked all the current and former members of the band, including bassist/singer Peter Cetera, who famously decided not to attend.

Lee Loughnane said, “I’m blessed with three things: music my trumpet and the guys in this band,” and later joked, “I want to thank my ex-wives for making sure I have to keep working!”

Former drummer Danny Seraphane introduced himself, “I’m Danny f—in’ Seraphine! I’m gonna get to play with my band for the first time in a long time. I wanna tell you a story about a band of brothers. 1968 we’re at a Dodger game, they were playing the Cubs, Peter gets in a fight with a marine — bad idea — he got his jaw broken. Ten days later he was on the road. When Rob [Thomas just] said we were badass… yeah we were a badass band!” He also noted that Lamm broke his leg in a basketball game — “white men can’t dunk, Robert!” — the band missed one gig and then the band hit the road for another six weeks.

Mentioning the band’s late guitarist Terry Kath, he said, “I miss him every day.” Soon the teleprompter flashed a “PLEASE WRAP UP” message. “‘Please wrap it up!’ F— you! I’ve been waiting 25 years for this!”

Finally, Kath’s daughter Michelle said of her father, “He would be beyond honored and extremely excited.”

The band, with Danny “f—in'” Seraphine, played “Saturday in the Park,” and were joined by Rob Thomas for “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is.” They finished with “25 or 6 to 4.” Like Deep Purple and the Steve Miller Band, the current lineup of Chicago does the band’s legacy proud.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/9/2016 @ 08:39am

https://www.periscope.tv/w/1jMJgMXgzgWKL

CHICAGO LIVE at Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Ceremony - Brooklyn, NY.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/9/2016 @ 09:11am

Feelin' Stronger Everyday was the song that played at the Rock Hall induction ceremony as Chicago walked up to the stage to collect their trophies and give their speeches.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/9/2016 @ 09:15am

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/n-w-a-cheap-trick-deep-purple-enter-rock-hall-at-hit-packed-ceremony-20160409#ixzz45L7Z9L7N

Matchbox 20's Rob Thomas then stepped up to the podium to induct Chicago, making a passionate argument that they've been unfairly maligned and overlooked over the years. "People say a lot of things about Chicago," he says. "And I know that 'badass dudes' is not one of them. But remember this: when Jimi Hendrix met them for the first time he told them their horn section sounded like one set of lungs and that their guitar player Terry [Kath] was better than him. That, kids, is badass. If you think Chicago is your mom's band, then I want to party with your mom."

Former Chicago bassist and lead singer Peter Cetera stayed home, partially due to a dispute over what key they'd perform the songs in, but the rest of the classic lineup was in the house. They all gave gracious speeches, but it was former drummer Danny Seraphine - who was booted from the group back in 1990 - that delivered the best lines. "We lived together, as most bands do, we cried together, we fought together, we fcked together," he said. "'Please wrap it up?' Scrw you. I’ve waited 25 fcking years for this!"

In the first reunion of the night, Seraphine took his old spot behind the drum kit and helped the band play "Saturday in the Park," "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?" and its famous answer song "25 or 6 to 4." Even Chicago's haters have to recognize the power of that last tune, and as unlikely a band as Green Day liked it so much they borrowed generously from it for "Brain Stew." But this is a Cetara song, and it would have been a truly stellar moment had he played it with his old buddies one last time. This was an opportunity for him to really step back into the spotlight and create something magical, and the opportunity was squandered.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/9/2016 @ 10:37am

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/15-best-moments-at-the-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-2016-induction-20160409/chicagos-former-drummer-grabs-the-spotlight-20160409

Chicago's Former Drummer Grabs the Spotlight

15 Best Moments at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2016 Induction

# 10

In his induction speech, Rob Thomas did everything possible to assure the crowd that Chicago were much cooler than most people thought. "If you think Chicago is your mom's band," he said, "then I want to party with your mom!" But it wasn't until former Chicago drummer Danny Seraphine stepped up to the microphone that his point was proven: "We lived together, as most bands do, we cried together, we fought together, we fckd together," he said. "'Please wrap it up?' Scrw you. I've waited 25 fckng years for this!" By the end even his bandmates were urging him to stop talking, but the crowd loved it, as did Kid Rock. "The drummer for Chicago turns out to be a fckng bdss!" he said before inducting Cheap Trick.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/9/2016 @ 12:45pm

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7326479/rock-roll-hall-of-fame-2016-induction-10-moments

Chicago's Incredible, Explicit Acceptance Speech

Who would have thought that soft rock kings Chicago would deliver the more expletive-filled acceptance speech of the night? Aside from a healthy number of f-bombs used as adjectives, drummer Danny Seraphine spoke of how the group "lived together, cried together, fought together and f---ed together." Then, as if he had shocked even himself, he added, "Did I really say that?" Chicago, incidentally, was absolutely blistering and instrumentally astounding while delivering their early hit "25 or 6 to 4," reminding people they can tear up a stage just as well as sing a radio-friendly ballad. During his introduction to them, Rob Thomas noted that many critics see Chicago as a "mom's band" these days, but added, "If your mom listens to Chicago, I want to party with your mom."

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/9/2016 @ 14:01pm

Hey Kenny Cetera:

If your brother still has such a great voice, why did he find the need to dictate to the rest of Chicago the key in which they would be singing?

We're all glad you both took a pass, and with your absence consider you the "brothers with no class!"

Posted by Gary on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 02:45am

Tom Petersson joked at the ceremony that Cheap Trick thought about adding a keyboard player to the band, but no one wanted to be the person sitting in the middle seat of a car. I don't know how Chicago did it. They must have used to cars, he said.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 06:43am

Rob Thomas made no mention of Chicago's status on the Billboard Charts as the number two American band behind the Beach Boys, and number four behind the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, and the Beach Boys.

At one point during the speech Rob Thomas referred to CTA as Chicago I. That just didn't sound right.

I wonder if the Rock Hall gave any say to Chicago as to whether or not Peter Cetera could perform separately at ceremony.

I wish Chicago's induction ceremony was at the Waldorf-Astoria.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 06:54am

Chicago is inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame…

28 years after the Beatles were inducted
28 years after the Beach Boys were inducted
27 years after the Rolling Stones were inducted
22 years after Elton John was inducted
19 years after the Bee Gees were inducted
19 years after the Jackson Five were inducted
15 years after Michael Jackson was inducted
6 years after Madonna was inducted
6 years after Leonard Cohen was inducted

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 09:30am

Chicago is inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame…

28 years after the Beatles were inducted
28 years after the Beach Boys were inducted
27 years after the Rolling Stones were inducted
22 years after Elton John was inducted
19 years after the Bee Gees were inducted
19 years after the Jackson Five were inducted
15 years after Michael Jackson was inducted
8 years after Madonna was inducted
8 years after Leonard Cohen was inducted

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 09:34am

The Rob Thomas Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Speech For Chicago

Saturday In The Park, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, If You Leave Me Now, 25 Or 6 To 4, Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Wishing You Were Here…

I'm going to tell you a story. These songs are the sound of a city, they're the sounds of a melting pot, they're the sounds of unity, and they're the sounds of Chicago. In 1967 a group of musicians came together, and they were weaving their city's diverse musical influences into one bold, beautiful sound. It was a sound that was built on a tight R&B beat, beefed up with big-band horns and jolted with riffs from Terry Kath, who is one of the best and most underrated guitar players of all-time.

Just like everybody else they were seeing the Vietnam War on television. They were seeing the national guard on the streets of Chicago. They were seeing the marches in the south. They were being discriminated against because of their long hair. They wanted a revolution too, but all of their unrest came through the music and the lyrics: diverse, harmonious, powerful. So, Terry Kath, Walter Parazaider, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Robert Lamm, and Peter Cetera formed the Chicago Transit Authority, and then with a [shrewd]? bit of editing, [lightened]? it down to Chicago.

Now if you're going to take the name of one of America's great cradles of jazz, blues, rock and soul, you got to be more than just another rock band, and this is not a soft-rock band, this is not a jazz band. Chicago is a bonafide rock and roll band with horns. Big, bold horns that were [pulping]? fists, hitting harder than any drum line ever could.

So lets talk about the kind of stones that these guys have. Their first album was a double album. That my friends is balls of steal. Second album, double album. Third album, also a double album. Three double albums in a row to start their career. And what did they call those albums?: Chicago I, Chicago II, Chicago III. Fckng fearless! They sold more than 100 million records. 21 top ten singles, 5 consecutive number one albums, 11 number one singles, and 5 gold singles. An incredible 25 of their incredible 34 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 47 gold and platinum awards.

Now people say a lot of things about Chicago, and I know that bass-ass is generally not one of them. But just remember this, when Jimi Hendrix met them the first time, he told them that their horn section sounded like one set of lungs, and that their guitar player Terry was better than him. That kids is bad-ass! So if you think that Chicago is your mom's band, then man I want to party with your mom. These guys are legends. They are true musicians, and they are a bass-ass rock band with horns. It is my honor to finally induct Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Danny Seraphine, Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, and Robert Lamm, Chicago into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 16:47pm

The Rob Thomas Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Speech For Chicago

Saturday In The Park, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, If You Leave Me Now, 25 Or 6 To 4, Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Wishing You Were Here…

I'm going to tell you a story. These songs are the sound of a city, they're the sounds of a melting pot, they're the sounds of unity, and they're the sounds of Chicago. In 1967 a group of musicians came together, and they were weaving their city's diverse musical influences into one bold, beautiful sound. It was a sound that was built on a tight R&B beat, beefed up with big-band horns and jolted with riffs from Terry Kath, who is one of the best and most underrated guitar players of all-time.

Just like everybody else they were seeing the Vietnam War on television. They were seeing the national guard on the streets of Chicago. They were seeing the marches in the south. They were being discriminated against because of their long hair. They wanted a revolution too, but all of their unrest came through the music and the lyrics: diverse, harmonious, powerful. So, Terry Kath, Walter Parazaider, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Robert Lamm, and Peter Cetera formed the Chicago Transit Authority, and then with a [shrewd]? bit of editing, [lightened]? it down to Chicago.

Now if you're going to take the name of one of America's great cradles of jazz, blues, rock and soul, you got to be more than just another rock band, and this is not a soft-rock band, this is not a jazz band. Chicago is a bonafide rock and roll band with horns. Big, bold horns that were [pulping]? fists, hitting harder than any drum line ever could.

So lets talk about the kind of stones that these guys have. Their first album was a double album. That my friends is balls of steal. Second album, double album. Third album, also a double album. Three double albums in a row to start their career. And what did they call those albums?: Chicago I, Chicago II, Chicago III. Fckng fearless! They sold more than 100 million records. 21 top ten singles, 5 consecutive number one albums, 11 number one singles, and 5 gold singles. An incredible 25 of their incredible 34 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 47 gold and platinum awards.

Now people say a lot of things about Chicago, and I know that bad-ass is generally not one of them. But just remember this, when Jimi Hendrix met them the first time, he told them that their horn section sounded like one set of lungs, and that their guitar player Terry was better than him. That kids is bad-ass! So if you think that Chicago is your mom's band, then man I want to party with your mom. These guys are legends. They are true musicians, and they are a bass-ass rock band with horns. It is my honor to finally induct Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Danny Seraphine, Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, and Robert Lamm, Chicago into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 17:24pm

The Rob Thomas Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Speech For Chicago

Saturday In The Park, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, If You Leave Me Now, 25 Or 6 To 4, Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Wishing You Were Here…

I'm going to tell you a story. These songs are the sound of a city, they're the sounds of a melting pot, they're the sounds of unity, and they're the sounds of Chicago. In 1967 a group of musicians came together, and they were weaving their city's diverse musical influences into one bold, beautiful sound. It was a sound that was built on a tight R&B beat, beefed up with big-band horns and jolted with riffs from Terry Kath, who is one of the best and most underrated guitar players of all-time.

Just like everybody else they were seeing the Vietnam War on television. They were seeing the national guard on the streets of Chicago. They were seeing the marches in the south. They were being discriminated against because of their long hair. They wanted a revolution too, but all of their unrest came through the music and the lyrics: diverse, harmonious, powerful. So, Terry Kath, Walter Parazaider, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Robert Lamm, and Peter Cetera formed the Chicago Transit Authority, and then with a [shrewd]? bit of editing, [lightened]? it down to Chicago.

Now if you're going to take the name of one of America's great cradles of jazz, blues, rock and soul, you got to be more than just another rock band, and this is not a soft-rock band, this is not a jazz band. Chicago is a bonafide rock and roll band with horns. Big, bold horns that were [pulping]? fists, hitting harder than any drum line ever could.

So lets talk about the kind of stones that these guys have. Their first album was a double album. That my friends is balls of steal. Second album, double album. Third album, also a double album. Three double albums in a row to start their career. And what did they call those albums?: Chicago I, Chicago II, Chicago III. Fckng fearless! They sold more than 100 million records. 21 top ten singles, 5 consecutive number one albums, 11 number one singles, and 5 gold singles. An incredible 25 of their incredible 34 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 47 gold and platinum awards.

Now people say a lot of things about Chicago, and I know that bad-ass is generally not one of them. But just remember this, when Jimi Hendrix met them the first time, he told them that their horn section sounded like one set of lungs, and that their guitar player Terry was better than him. That kids is bad-ass! So if you think that Chicago is your mom's band, then man I want to party with your mom. These guys are legends. They are true musicians, and they are a bad-ass rock band with horns. It is my honor to finally induct Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Danny Seraphine, Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, and Robert Lamm, Chicago into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 17:33pm

Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney talk Steve Miller induction, Chubby Checker's Rock Hall grievance and their own chances of getting in

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/black-keys-on-first-rock-hall-ceremony-its-like-a-viagra-commercial-20160408#ixzz45SbMAkAO

Have you run into anyone else tonight?
Carney: We met, like, nine of the members of Chicago so far.

What was that like?
Auerbach: What's your favorite Chicago album? III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII, IX? You like the first one?

There's some wild stuff on there.
Auerbach: That's what everybody says. ... "I like the early stuff."

There's wild guitar improv on that stuff. Jim O'Rourke is a big fan. And he played it for Thurston Moore and didn't tell him who it was. ... It totally blew Thurston Moore's mind.
Auerbach: That's awesome. I love that.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 17:36pm

Will winning the official fan poll and being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame finally get Rolling Stone magazine to do a Special Collectors Edition issue on Chicago? If not the band on the front cover, then just the band's logo all over the front cover, keeping in theme with the band's album covers.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/10/2016 @ 21:10pm

I'm waiting for Peter Cetera to post a picture of himself holding his Rock and Roll Hall of Fame trophy.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 04/11/2016 @ 05:53am

Now the Chicago Blackhawks have to win the Stanley in June.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 04/11/2016 @ 13:54pm

No, they don't. Go Stars!

Posted by dmg on Monday, 04/11/2016 @ 15:11pm

I can't speak to it as the Bruins missed the playoffs again.

Posted by Tom H. on Monday, 04/11/2016 @ 15:48pm

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Posted by Roy on Monday, 04/11/2016 @ 22:22pm

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/flashback-chicago-play-a-smoldering-25-or-6-to-4-in-1970-20160412#ixzz45erea8ea

Flashback: Chicago Play a Smoldering '25 or 6 to 4' in 1970

Check out band back when guitarist Terry Kath was blowing Jimi Hendrix's mind

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 04/12/2016 @ 20:01pm

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/videos/flashback-peter-cetera-honors-the-glory-of-karate-kids-love-20160414#ixzz45qa7Jyeb

Flashback: Peter Cetera Honors the 'Glory' of Karate Kid's Love
Former Chicago frontman rode 1986 single "The Glory of Love" to top of charts and Academy Awards
By Andy Greene April 14, 2016

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/14/2016 @ 19:39pm

I'm still obsessing Chicago's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and analyzing what each one of them said at the ceremony. I'm going to post the Rock Hall acceptance speech for each member of Chicago later. Then I'm going to give my final thoughts on Chicago. In the meantime, I'm getting the feeling that Peter Cetera is a Republican.

Posted by Roy on Friday, 04/15/2016 @ 20:14pm

Chicago wanted Brian Wilson or Philip Bailey to induct them.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/16/2016 @ 06:45am

LEE LOUGHNANE HOLDING TERRY KATH'S ROCK HALL TROPHY

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Posted by Roy on Sunday, 04/17/2016 @ 08:12am

If Peter Cetera had attended and performed at the ceremony, Chicago was going to be the headliner, the last act to perform at the ceremony, because of their status on the billboard charts compared to the other acts being inducted this year.

Posted by Roy on Monday, 04/18/2016 @ 06:02am

http://thefox.iheart.com/onair/the-rick-lewis-show-5255/on-the-air-danny-seraphine-14589196/#ixzz46HiIG9hu

On the Air: Danny Seraphine
The Rick Lewis Show

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/20/2016 @ 20:13pm

According to Danny Seraphine, he and Peter Cetera spoke to each other after it was announced that Chicago was going to be inducted. Peter Cetera told Danny Seraphine that he was going to attend the induction ceremony, but he wasn't going to perform at all. Then Peter Cetera and Robert Lamm communicated. All Peter Cetera said was he was going to be at the ceremony. Robert Lamm took that as meaning Peter Cetera was going to perform with Chicago, and Lamm tells that to the media, and Cetera gets pssd off. This doesn't make sense. Why would Peter Cetera be specific, telling Danny Seraphine that he will attend the ceremony, and he won't perform, but not say those exact same words to Robert Lamm? I'm wondering now if Robert Lamm was purposly trying to pss off Peter Cetera.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/20/2016 @ 21:16pm

Robert Lamm to speak on the same show tomorrow.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/20/2016 @ 21:34pm

Robert Lamm this Friday or next Friday

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/20/2016 @ 21:47pm

THE NUMBER OF TIMES EACH MEMBER OF CHICAGO IS MENTIONED IN THEIR ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME BIOGRAPHY

Peter Cetera - 8 Times
Terry Kath - 7 Times
Danny Seraphine - 6 Times
James Pankow - 5 Times
Robert Lamm - 4 Times
Walter Parazaider - 3 Times
Lee Loughnane - 3 Times
Bill Champlin - 2 Times
Laudir De Oliveira - 1 Time
Jason Scheff - 1 Time
Tris Imboden - 1 Time
Keith Howland - 1 Time
Donnie Dacus - 0 Times
Chris Pinnick - 0 Times
DaWayne Bailey - 0 Times

ARTISTS MENTIONED IN CHICAGO’S ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME BIOGRAPHY

The Beatles * The Big Thing * The Exceptions * The Buckinghams * Blood, Sweat & Tears * Electric Flag * Sons Of Champlin * Chad and Jeremy * Jimi Hendrix * Glenn Miller * Duke Ellington * Benny Goodman * Dick Clark * James William Guercio * Phil Ramone * Tom Dowd * David Foster * Nick Fasciano

ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES MENTIONED IN CHICAGO’S BIOGRAPHY

The Beatles * Jimi Hendrix * Dick Clark * Tom Dowd

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/21/2016 @ 22:45pm

James Guercio - 7 Times
David Foster - 3 Times
Blood, Sweat & Tears - 3 Times
The Beatles - 2 Times
Jimi Hendrix - 2 Times

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/21/2016 @ 23:06pm

https://rockhall.com/inductees/chicago/bio/

THE OFFICIAL 2016 ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME BIOGRAPHY FOR CHICAGO

Inductees: Peter Cetera, Terry Kath, Robert Lamm, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Walter Parazaider, Danny Seraphine

Fusing jazz and rock together in a time when the Beatles were still crashing onto the American shores and psychedelic rock was taking over the basements of teenagers; Chicago Transit Authority broke onto the scene unapologetically in 1969 with their self-titled double album, Chicago Transit Authority. A brazen mix of soulful rock, pop and jazz coupled with protester’s chants from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention; the album received critical acclaim and later produced the classic singles “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” and “Beginnings.” As the band began touring, under pressure from the city of Chicago, they shortened their name to simply, Chicago, and later released their second self-titled album, Chicago, in 1970. The center track, “Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon,” is a seven-part, 13-minute suite of pure melodic perfection composed by James Pankow who merged his love of classical, long song styles with Chicago’s signature sound. It yielded two unexpected singles “Make Me Smile” and “Colour My World” that quickly took the charts by storm reaching the Top Ten on Billboard’s Hot 100. From their inception through to the late 1970’s, Chicago mastered the art of making melodic jazz tinged rock with a keen pop sensibility. The group had a long string of jazz-rock mega hits including: “Make Me Smile,” “Saturday In The Park,” “25 Or 6 To 4,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “If You Leave Me Now” and many others. Chicago’s early lineup created such an unmistakable sound and their inclusion into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not only well-deserved, but an honor that has been overlooked. With over 21 Top 10 singles, 5 consecutive Number One albums, 11 Number One singles – fans that stretch across the globe and countless bands that have followed in their wake, Chicago’s legacy is unquestionable.

Selected discography: “Does Anyone Really Know What Time It Is?,” Chicago Transit Authority (1969) • “Make Me Smile,” “25 Or 6 To 4,” Chicago (1970) • “Saturday In The Park,” Chicago V (1972) • “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “Just You ‘N’ Me,” Chicago VI (1973) • “Old Days,” Chicago VIII (1975) • “If You Leave Me Now,” Chicago X (1976) • “Baby What A Big Surprise,” Chicago XI (1977)

Fusing jazz and rock together in a time when the Beatles were still crashing onto the American shores and psychedelic rock was taking over the basements of teenagers; Chicago Transit Authority broke onto the scene unapologetically in 1969 with their self-titled double album, Chicago Transit Authority. A brazen mix of soulful rock, pop and jazz coupled with protester’s chants from the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention; the album received critical acclaim and later produced the classic singles “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” and “Beginnings.” As the band began touring, under pressure from the city of Chicago, they shortened their name to simply, Chicago, and later released their second self-titled album, Chicago, in 1970. The center track, “Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon,” is a seven-part, 13-minute suite of pure melodic perfection composed by James Pankow who merged his love of classical, long song styles with Chicago’s signature sound. It yielded two unexpected singles “Make Me Smile” and “Colour My World” that quickly took the charts by storm reaching the Top 10 on Billboard’s Hot 100. From their inception through to the late 1970’s, Chicago mastered the art of making melodic jazz tinged rock with a keen pop sensibility. The group had a long string of jazz-rock mega hits including: “Make Me Smile,” “Saturday In The Park,” “25 Or 6 To 4,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “If You Leave Me Now” and many others. Chicago’s early lineup created such an unmistakable sound. With over 21 Top 10 singles, five consecutive Number One albums, 11 Number One singles, fans that stretch across the globe and countless bands that have followed in their wake, Chicago’s legacy is unquestionable.

Chicago stands as one of America’s most successful rock bands of any epoch in terms of both sales and longevity. The statistics are simply staggering: Over a 46-year recording career, the band has issued 36 albums, sold well over 100 million records, and released 20 Top 10 pop and 22 Top 10 adult contemporary singles (15 of which broke the Top 10 on both charts). It achieved the enviable feat of placing these hits on the Billboard charts in five different decades. 17 of its first 20 albums were certified platinum, nine of those multiplatinum and Chicago 17 hit platinum a whopping six times.

The story of Chicago is one of the most paradoxical in the history of American music. Starting out in the late 1960s as a horn-dominated underground rock band verging on the avant-garde in its use of dissonance, jazz voicings and extended compositions, Chicago initially seemed to have little if any chance of AM radio success. Yet, within a year, the group had three Top 10 singles (“Make Me Smile,” “25 or 6 to 4” and “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is”), and were selling out arenas from coast to coast.

On its second LP, in 1970, the group declared, “With this album we dedicate ourselves, our futures, and our energies to the people of the revolution. . . . And the revolution in all of its forms.” Despite that, during its first national tour, the group’s trombonist, primary horn arranger and one of its main composers, James Pankow, stated emphatically: “We know what went on at the Democratic Convention, we know what’s going on in Vietnam, but to protest about that musically makes no sense. People hear about that stuff enough without having it shoved down their throats with music. What music is for is getting away from the problems of life.”

The latter statement would seem to be Chicago’s modus operandi for most of its career. By the 1980s, the group had long ceased to support any revolution, and no one would mistake them for being underground or avant-garde. Under producer David Foster’s tutelage, the band had morphed into a mainstream pop group fronted by bassist Peter Cetera, who seemed able to effortlessly craft one Top 10 power ballad after another (“Hard to Say I’m Sorry,” “Hard Habit to Break” “You’re the Inspiration”), while the horn section that was once one of its most distinguishing characteristics was all but muted.

Chicago was formed in the Windy City in February of 1967 by three DePaul University Music majors: saxophonist/flautist Walter Parazaider, trumpeter Lee Loughnane and trombonist James Pankow, alongside Chicago bar-band veterans keyboardist Robert Lamm, drummer Danny Seraphine and guitar wizard Terry Kath. Lamn originally did double duty, playing the bass parts on the pedals of his organ. Desiring more punch in the low end, the nascent group soon drafted bassist Peter Cetera from Chicago club sensations the Exceptions. In Kath and Lamm, the group had superb bass and baritone lead voices; Cetera’s tenor voice provided both depth and variety.

Initially called the Big Thing, the band relocated to Los Angeles in the summer of 1968, and manager and producer James Guercio changed its name to Chicago Transit Authority. Guercio’s pedigree included playing on Dick Clark package tours in the mid 1960s, briefly managing Chad and Jeremy, producing four hits by the Buckinghams in 1967, and producing the second Blood Sweat & Tears album. The latter association led many to mistakenly assume that Chicago was copying BS&T’s jazz-rock sound. But, in fact, Chicago had already been playing what its members preferred to think of as its own pioneering rock-band-with-horns sound in Chicago and L.A. clubs for two years before it heard BS&T. It is worth noting that just as Chicago was coming together as the Big Thing in early 1967, the Electric Flag was also pioneering its own concept of a rock band with horns.

Shortly after the release of its debut album in April 1969, the band received a cease-and-desist order from the actual Chicago Transit Authority. Consequently, from late 1969 onward, the group became known simply as Chicago.

With Guercio calling the shots, right out of the box Chicago marched to a different drummer. Four of its first seven albums were double sets. The fifth was the massive and unprecedented four-disc Chicago at Carnegie Hall, documenting a weeklong stint at the venerable concert venue in April 1971. Similarly audacious was Guercio’s decision to number, rather than title, the majority of the group’s albums, reasoning that if classical composers simply numbered their compositions, why not his group?

Instead of images of the band’s members, each album featured the group’s distinctive, stylized logo (designed by Nick Fasciano), creating brand recognition on the level of Coca-Cola or McDonald’s. It would not be until Chicago’s tenth studio album, 1978’s Hot Streets, that the cover featured photos of actual members. The net effect was that individual identities were subsumed under that of the band as a whole. This would prove extremely useful over time, as key members were replaced – the late Kath in 1978, Cetera in 1985 and Seraphine in 1990. While core fans were obviously aware of these changes, most likely the majority of Chicago’s audience hardly noticed.

Guercio’s tenure with the group from 1969 through late 1977 and Chicago XI would prove to be its golden period, producing the vast majority of the band’s best known songs, including such classic radio staples as “Color My World,” “Saturday in the Park,” “Just You ’n’ Me,” “Feelin’ Stronger Every Day,” “Old Days,” “If You Leave Me Now,” and “Baby, What a Big Surprise.” As Robert Lamm said in 2000, “The first 11 albums are Chicago, and Guercio’s genius was that he captured it, and no other producer [was able to] capture it.”

Not long after the group severed its relationship with Guercio in 1977, guitarist Terry Kath tragically died while playing with a gun he thought was not loaded. Kath was an extraordinarily soulful vocalist (“Make Me Smile,” “Hope for Love”) and a pyrotechnic guitar wizard as evidenced by “Free Form Guitar” from the group’s debut album, his slicing leads on “25 or 6 to 4,” and his moving elegy to Jimi Hendrix titled “Oh, Thank You Great Spirit.” The group would go through three more guitarists before finally settling on Keith Howland in 1995. As capable as each was, none of these ax wielders would replace the spirit, soul and musicality that Kath had brought to the group.

After three disappointing albums with first Phil Ramone and then Tom Dowd taking on the producer’s mantle, Chicago was bought out of its Columbia Records contract. Signing to Full Moon/Warner Bros., the band drafted keyboardist and vocalist Bill Champlin (formerly of the San Francisco staple Sons of Champlin) and let go Brazilian percussionist Laudir de Oliveira (who had joined beginning with Chicago VII in 1974). Handing over the reins to producer David Foster, beginning with Chicago 16 in 1982, the group drew on the earlier success of Peter Cetera ballads, such as “If You Leave Me Now,” and was reborn as a singles-oriented, power ballad juggernaut.

Foster would end up cowriting many of the songs on the next three albums (Chicago 16 through 18), bringing session musicians in to replace or augment the talents of the original band members, liberally employing drum machines and relegating the group’s horn section to the background. Things would never be the same.

By 1985, Peter Cetera left to embark on a solo career, and was replaced by Jason Scheff. Reborn yet again, Chicago managed to achieve gold sales with Chicago 18 and platinum with 19, but after firing drummer Danny Seraphine in 1990, the band basically ceased to be a commercial force. With Tris Imboden replacing Seraphine, Chicago Twenty 1 failed to produce a hit. At this point, Chicago began to tread water. Over the next two decades, it released Night and Day (1995), an album of big-band standards originally cut by Glenn Miller, Duke Ellington, and Benny Goodman; two Christmas albums; six compilations; and two live sets. Chicago XXX (2006) was the first studio album of new original material since 1991. With the exception of 2008’s Chicago XXXII: The Stone of Sisyphus, recorded in 1993, the only subsequent album of new material was Now, put out by the group’s label, Chicago Records, in 2014. That year, the group was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. In 2015, Chicago released yet another live set, Chicago at Symphony Hall Featuring the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Despite the lack of new material over the past 25 years, Chicago has remained a steady box office draw. Millions of fans are still happy to hear the group’s stunning legacy of hit singles, which collectively cover an extraordinary variety of musical styles from funk to rock to jazz to blues to classical to pop ballads.

With that in mind, perhaps it’s fitting to let founder Walter Parazaider sum up the band’s appeal, and ultimately its greatest strength: “There were so many diverse personalities in this group that sometimes I had to wonder why this didn’t blow up after about a year’s worth of success. But we loved music so much. Peter wrote country tunes on the third album. . . . Jimmy Pankow was a stone-cold jazzer who loved the Beatles. Lee Loughnane loved playing big-band jazz, but loved rock and roll. The same thing with myself. And then you had people who loved the Jimi Hendrix stuff, like Terry, or just rock and roll stuff, like Danny, and if you think about it, there is everything from blues, classical, the big-band sound. It became a meld into the band where any kind of music, as long as it was played well, was valid.”

Thirty-six albums and 46 years later, the results speak for themselves.

By Rob Bowman

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 04/21/2016 @ 23:13pm

http://thefox.iheart.com/onair/the-rick-lewis-show-5255/on-the-air-robert-lamm-14614187/

The Rick Lewis Show

On The Air: Robert Lamm

Posted by Roy on Monday, 04/25/2016 @ 19:59pm

http://thefox.iheart.com/onair/the-rick-lewis-show-5255/on-the-air-danny-seraphine-14589196/#ixzz46HiIG9hu

The Rick Lewis Show

On the Air: Danny Seraphine

Posted by Roy on Monday, 04/25/2016 @ 20:00pm

The Chicago Blackhawks won't be winning the Stanley Cup in the year of Chicago's induction into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame because the St. Louis Blues just eliminated them. Damn it!

Posted by Roy on Monday, 04/25/2016 @ 23:22pm

http://petercetera.com/photos/

Oh thank God, it arrived safely! It's official, Peter Cetera posts pictures of himself with his 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame trophy.

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/27/2016 @ 06:48am

http://petercetera.com/photos/

Peter Cetera has posted another photo of himself and his Rock Hall trophy, along with Steve Miller in Idaho, with a caption:

With Steve Miller in Idaho before the interview for our local paper, The Mountain Express.The article should be in next Wednesdays paper and it will be the first and only one with us together talking about careers and the Hall Of Fame induction snafu’s…Bam

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/27/2016 @ 20:32pm

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THIS EXPLAINS A LOT! MAYBE!

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/27/2016 @ 20:45pm

http://petercetera.com

Peter Speaks:

April 28, 2016

Hello again!

Just did an exciting interview with fellow local Steve Miller. Two long time friends from the same small town, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame the same year and with two strangely similar takes on the ceremonies…The first and only interview together will be in the Mountain Express, the local paper up here in Idaho next Wednesday…….

Posted by Roy on Wednesday, 04/27/2016 @ 21:49pm

Boys and girls--this is what a guy with tremendous talent, and no brains looks like. Don't try to emulate this self-centered turd!

Posted by Gary on Friday, 04/29/2016 @ 01:09am

https://www.facebook.com/HuffPostEntertainment/videos/10154116129017363/

VIDEO: Chicago's Robert Lamm and Lee Loughnane Huffington Post Facebook Interview

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/30/2016 @ 11:29am

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Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/30/2016 @ 13:43pm

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Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/30/2016 @ 13:46pm

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Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/30/2016 @ 13:48pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylVR2UlTLpA

It was Jann Wenner who asked Rob Thomas to present Chicago. Which means Jann Wenner selected all the presenters.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 04/30/2016 @ 20:37pm

It doesn't appear that Terry Kath's family, Danny Seraphine or Peter Cetera offered anything of theirs to be put on display at the Rock Hall museum. No guitars or anything.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 05/1/2016 @ 22:35pm

Terry Kath's green long sleeve Fillmore East shirt is on display at the Rock Hall.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 05/1/2016 @ 22:48pm

Laudir De Oliveira and Donnie Dacus were in New York for the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. They performed with Danny Seraphine at the Cutting Room after the induction ceremony along with Chad Smith, the drummer for the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Check for photos on Danny Seraphine's Facebook and on Youtube.

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 05/1/2016 @ 23:31pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIzuIIBLEYg

RAW: Full interview with Chicago band manager Peter Schivarelli

Talks about what transpired between Robert Lamm and Peter Cetera.

Posted by Roy on Tuesday, 05/3/2016 @ 22:37pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9v72MHsdxY

RAW: Full interview with James Pankow of Chicago

Posted by Roy on Friday, 05/6/2016 @ 21:49pm

http://www.mtexpress.com/arts_and_events/music/feelin-stronger-every-day/article_71c63714-117e-11e6-910f-7b48ec8e9a79.html?mode=image&photo=0

Feelin’ stronger every day
Rock stars Steve Miller and Peter Cetera are 2016 Hall of Famers

Posted by Roy on Friday, 05/6/2016 @ 23:04pm

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Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/7/2016 @ 06:18am

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ROB THOMAS TALKS PETER CETERA, CHICAGO ROCK HALL INDUCTION BACKSTAGE

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/7/2016 @ 06:21am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylVR2UlTLpA

Rob Thomas Talks Rock Hall 2016 Inductee Chicago

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/7/2016 @ 06:23am

Terry Kath's green long sleeve Fillmore East shirt is on display at the Rock Hall.

I got an email response from Terry Kath's daughter. Terry Kath's guitars will eventually be at the Rock Hall Museum.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/7/2016 @ 06:35am

The Rob Thomas Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame Induction Speech For Chicago

Saturday In The Park, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is, If You Leave Me Now, 25 Or 6 To 4, Feelin' Stronger Every Day, Wishing You Were Here…

I'm going to tell you a story. These songs are the sound of a city, they're the sounds of a melting pot, they're the sounds of unity, and they're the sounds of Chicago. In 1967 a group of musicians came together, and they were weaving their city's diverse musical influences into one bold, beautiful sound. It was a sound that was built on a tight R&B beat, beefed up with big-band horns and jolted with riffs from Terry Kath, who is one of the best and most underrated guitar players of all-time.

Just like everybody else they were seeing the Vietnam War on television. They were seeing the national guard on the streets of Chicago. They were seeing the marches in the south. They were being discriminated against because of their long hair. They wanted a revolution too, but all of their unrest came through the music and the lyrics: diverse, harmonious, powerful. So, Terry Kath, Walter Parazaider, Danny Seraphine, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, Robert Lamm, and Peter Cetera formed the Chicago Transit Authority, and then with a [shrewd]? bit of editing, [tightened]? it down to Chicago.

Now if you're going to take the name of one of America's great cradles of jazz, blues, rock and soul, you got to be more than just another rock band, and this is not a soft-rock band, this is not a jazz band. Chicago is a bonafide rock and roll band with horns. Big, bold horns that were [pulping]? fists, hitting harder than any drum line ever could.

So lets talk about the kind of stones that these guys have. Their first album was a double album. That my friends is balls of steal. Second album, double album. Third album, also a double album. Three double albums in a row to start their career. And what did they call those albums?: Chicago I, Chicago II, Chicago III. Fckng fearless! They sold more than 100 million records. 21 top ten singles, 5 consecutive number one albums, 11 number one singles, and 5 gold singles. An incredible 25 of their incredible 34 albums have been certified platinum, and the band has a total of 47 gold and platinum awards.

Now people say a lot of things about Chicago, and I know that bad-ass is generally not one of them. But just remember this, when Jimi Hendrix met them the first time, he told them that their horn section sounded like one set of lungs, and that their guitar player Terry was better than him. That kids is bad-ass! So if you think that Chicago is your mom's band, then man I want to party with your mom. These guys are legends. They are true musicians, and they are a bad-ass rock band with horns. It is my honor to finally induct Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Danny Seraphine, Walter Parazaider, Lee Loughnane, James Pankow, and Robert Lamm - Chicago into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!

Song that plays while Chicago is walking up to the stage to give their acceptance speeches: Feelin’ Stronger Every Day from Chicago VI (1973).

THE ACCEPTANCE SPEECHES

WALTER PARAZAIDER

I feel pretty damn good right now, I have to tell you. Thanks to the hall of fame for this great honor. This band started on February 15, 1967, when we played together for the first time in my basement. We never thought we’d be standing up here at this time, wow. I’d like to thank my brothers up here for the incredible experience of creating and playing music with them, as well as Terry Kath, our good friend and great guitar player. I’d like to thank my wife of 49, actually, almost 50 years, Jacqueline. You are my angel, my inspiration, and lifesaver, and I love you madly. I’d like to thank my daughters Laura and Felicia, and son-in-law Bryan for their support and understanding, and for all and everything, the important things in their lives growing-up that I missed. I love you dearly. There are a lot of names from radio, I’d like to thank Tom Cuddy, Scott Shannon, and Dick Young. I should let you clap for those three guys. They’re really great. Also we had two great road managers and that’s Steve [Roambot]? and Jack Dowdy. Some of the best in the business I have to say. Last and not the least is our manager who has believed in us for well over 30 years and kept us working. I don’t know how you do it. I get tired just thinking about it. That’s Peter Schivarelli. Been with us for 30 years. Thank you Peter. You kept us working the whole time. I have to say you’re a great friend. You have a heart of gold. And I’m biased because I’m from the neighborhood in Chicago. We go back 60 years. God bless you Pete. Thank you. And lastly to the fans out there for making it happen for us day after day, year after year. We’re not going anywhere. We’re gonna keep going. So thank you, and you ain’t seen nothing yet!

ROBERT LAMM

I want to first acknowledge and thank all the audiences that come to see us play year after year and the millions of fans. If anybody here voted online and added to the 37 million people who voted for us to get in the hall of fame finally, thank you. I want to congratulate our fellow inductees. Thank you for your music. Thank you for your creativity. We are flattered to be among you tonight. Thank you to the Hall of Fame for this honor, if only for the opportunity to thank all the people that helped make all of this a reality. As I’ve heard said earlier tonight, this isn’t something you can do by yourself. In this case, Walt, Danny, Lee, James, Terry: my brothers in the band. I would not be standing here without you. I have to say, the current band: Jason Scheff, Keith Howland, Tris Imboden, Walfredo Reyes, Jr. [Peter Cetera]??? All these guys, all these musicians have taught me so much about music and about living. I want to take this time also to thank the effervescent Peter Schivarelli, our manager. He has been our offense, our defense since forever. He’s somehow found a way to keep us working for almost fifty years. We love you Peter. You are a generous gentleman. I’m trying to do this without my notes, so please excuse the pausing. But I’m a lucky man because I got the love and support of my beautiful wife Joy for 25 years now. I love you so much honey. Our three daughters somehow found a way to get here tonight from all over the country: Shawn, Kate, Sasha, I love you so much. I know there’s other stuff in here I was going to say, more business type stuff, but I will acknowledge all the team at CAA who take all of Peter’s phone calls 24 hours a day and find a way to keep us working. So thank you once again Hall of Fame. Thank you to them. Thank you.

LEE LOUGHNANE

How you doing? I’m Lee Loughnane. This is pretty interesting. We’re having a great time. We hope you guys are too. We’re new at this. I have my cue cards here. It doesn’t come up over there. I wrote a little something down with iPhone. Life is filled with ups and downs but I’ve been blessed with three things that never failed me: music, my trumpet (as long as I keep practicing), and the guys in this band. Thank you guys. As you can see we’ve got the best manager in the business. Look he’s on the phone right now. He’s like the energizer bunny. He never needs batteries. He just keeps going and going and going and going. Unbelievable, thanks Peter. I want to thank our millions of fans around the world. They came in here and they pushed for our nomination. They voted 37 plus million times to get us in here. They count as one vote, but it was a big one. I want to thank besides all the business people who’ve already been mentioned, I want to thank my mom and dad, my brothers and sister who are here tonight. [Docs Harrison, John Bussal, Paul Whip, Rich Vandusky, Tom Fabish]? and especially my kids, they probably had it the hardest because I’ve been gone for such a big part of their lives. Here we are! And lastly I’d like to thank my ex-wives for making sure that I have to keep working. Thank God, I love it. Thank you.

JAMES PANKOW

Hi, I’m Jimmy Pankow. This is amazing. We never thought we would make it, but we did. You know, it’s a milestone. A family whom I love very much is with me. My wife sustains me everyday. Delivered me four beautiful kids. They all are a source of inspiration at all times. My brothers in the band, my other family. All of the hard working intelligent professionals in this industry that were very instrumental in delivering this musical message to the world. 37 million fans that stepped up and cast your vote. If any of you are here tonight, all of us on this stage would not be here without you. And the hall of fame, thank you for finally inviting us into your house. You did a good thing.

DANNY SERAPHINE

I’m Danny Fckng Seraphine! Can you here me? Is the mike on? Okay I won’t yell then. I’ve been kind of away for 25 years in case you noticed or haven’t noticed. You probably haven’t noticed. I want to thank the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for making this possible. I’m going to get to play with my band for the first time in 25 years. I want to tell you a story about a band of brothers. 1968, we’re at a Dodger game. We’re going to see the Cubs play the Dodgers. Peter Cetera gets in a fight with a marine. Bad idea. He got his jaw broken. We took him to the hospital. They wired his mouth shut. Ten days later he’s on the fckng road performing his ass off. Now that’s balls! When Rob said bad-ass, this is a bad-ass band. That gave me so much belief that we could do anything. Fast forward six years. Robert is playing basketball backstage, trying to dunk. White people can’t dunk Robert. He breaks his fckng leg. He missed a gig. The next day he’s got a full cast and he played D3 for six more weeks. That’s what this band was all about. And that’s why we were so successful. We lived together as most bands do. We cried together, we fought together, we fckd together. Did I really say that? We died together. We had to bury one of our best friends. Our hearts were broken. I miss him every day. Terry Kath! As every band has spoken, it takes a village to do what we do. You can’t thank them all, but I have to thank James William Guercio. He gave us our name. He pointed us in the right direction. Paid our bills and gave us enough money to eat for six months while we conceived Chicago Transit Authority. There’s Howard Kauffman who always made sure we had good business. Jack Dowdy, always had our back for many years, our road manager for 18 years or more than that, until he tragically passed away. Larry Fitzgerald. We had a great dream management team. You can’t do it without great team management no matter how good you are. You’re done. So we’ve been really blessed. The producers we’ve been able to work with. David Foster, who made amazing records for us. Phil Ramone, the great Phil Ramone. Tom Dowd, Ron Nevison, Chas Sanford. I want to thank a few more people that really really made major contributions. Please wrap it up! Screw you! I waited 25 fckng years for this! I’m not leaving! I’m not going anywhere! Okay, I’ve got to thank Bill Champlin, Donnie Dacus, Laudir De Oliveira. Please give them what they deserve. Chris Pinnick, DaWayne Bailey. Even my bandmates are telling me to get the fck off. Hey, so anyways, tonight I get to play with them for the first time in 25 years. We’re going to burn up the stage! I want you to meet Terry’s daughter, Michelle.

MICHELLE KATH (TERRY KATH’S DAUGHTER)

I’m trying to imagine what my dad would say right now. I’m accepting on his behalf. He wasn’t too into fame, but I think he would be beyond honored and extremely excited to be recognized along with his very talented bandmates for this great honor from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and I’d just like to thank you guys for letting me get to know my dad through his music and his fans. I see you with the Terry Kath sign over there! Thank you Hall of Fame for getting Chicago in and honoring this amazing band.

The songs Chicago performed at the 2016 Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony:

01. Saturday In The Park (from Chicago V: 1972)
02. Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (from The Chicago Transit Authority: 1969)
03. 25 Or 6 To 4 (from Chicago: 1970)

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/14/2016 @ 21:57pm

I'm going to update my induction speech for Chicago to mention only the original seven members.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/14/2016 @ 22:16pm

If Peter didn't want to play or couldn't play or couldn't sing or whatever, at least he could have stood with us. I think he certainly deserves it. I think it's unfortunate.

-Robert Lamm

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 05/15/2016 @ 06:20am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG-9jz3HZKM

Peter Cetera: 25 Or 6 To 4 in the key of E, not A

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 05/19/2016 @ 21:54pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHrkDClpK88

Another One! Peter Cetera: 25 Or 6 To 4 in the key of E, not A

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 05/19/2016 @ 21:55pm

There's one more chance for a Chicago/Peter Cetera reunion: The Songwriters Hall Of Fame induction ceremony. Even if they don't perform together, they will be in the same room at the same time. Chicago wouldn't be able to tell the Song Hall that they don't want Cetera performing separately from them, because unlike the Rock Hall inductees, the Song Hall inductees are being honoured for their individual songwriting achievements, both as members of a band and for their solo careers. In Chicago's case, only Robert Lamm, James Pankow, and Peter Cetera wrote enough songs to qualify for the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Robert Lamm, James Pankow, and Peter Cetera would be the only song hall inductees for Chicago, but the rest of the band would still perform with them at the induction ceremony. Chicago would probably not perform with their original drummer, Danny Seraphine, since this is an individual honor, not a band honor. Chicago would perform with their current drummer, Tris Imboden. Peter Cetera would perform separately from Chicago and invite Danny Seraphine to play drums for him. Chicago would perform Robert Lamm's Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? and Saturday In The Park, and James Pankow's Make Me Smile and Colour My World. Then Peter Cetera would come out with his own band, plus Danny Seraphine, and perform If You Leave Me Now, Baby What A Big Surprise, Hard To Say I'm Sorry, plus Glory Of Love from his solo career, without Danny Seraphine on drums. Peter Cetera can't perform 25 Or 6 To 4 because he didn't write it, and this is the Songwriters Hall of Fame. He would have to perform it with Chicago, but that won't happen.

Robert Lamm and James Pankow were nominated for the 2008 Songwriters Hall of Fame as Robert Lamm / James Pankow and they lost. Peter Cetera was not included as a nominee with them. From the song hall's bio for Robert Lamm / James Pankow it suggests that only Robert Lamm and James Pankow were nominated because they are still with the band Chicago, and they were the ones who wrote the most enduring songs for the band. Although, Robert Lamm and James Pankow hardly ever collaborated on any Chicago songs. Peter Cetera could still be nominated separately for the Songwriters Hall of Fame, but I don't know how much he is liked by them. There is nothing stopping the Song Hall from nominating them as Robert Lamm/James Pankow/Peter Cetera. They've made changes before. They used to always nominate Bert Berns and Jerry Ragovoy together. Now they nominate Bert Berns separately. If they nominate Robert Lamm and James Pankow together, and have a separate entry for Peter Cetera on the same ballot, there is a possibility they won't all be inducted the same year.

Paul McCartney and John Lennon were inducted into the Songwriters Hall Of Fame in 1987. George Harrison was nominated for the 2016 Songwriters Hall Of Fame and he lost. Ringo Starr doesn't qualify.

Peter Cetera gave the Songwriters Hall Of Fame induction speech for Paul Anka in 1993 and David Foster in 2010.

Posted by Roy on Thursday, 05/19/2016 @ 23:51pm

I’d like to thank my brothers up here for the incredible experience of creating and playing music with them, as well as Terry Kath, our good friend and great guitar player.

-Walter Parazaider

As I’ve heard said earlier tonight, this isn’t something you can do by yourself. In this case, Walt, Danny, Lee, James, Terry: my brothers in the band. I would not be standing here without you.

-Robert Lamm

My brothers in the band, my other family.

-James Pankow


I'll have to check if any of the other bands with no related members ever called each other brothers on stage during their inductions into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame.

If you watch the clips of Chicago's induction on youtube, recorded by the audience members, you can hear their reactions when Robert Lamm leaves out Peter Cetera as one of his brothers in the band. All the oooohs, holy shts, and laughter.

There was also one odd second during Robert Lamm's speech when he is thanking the current band and naming them, period. Then he says Peter Cetera, which made it sound like Peter Cetera was a current member of the band.


I have to say, the current band: Jason Scheff, Keith Howland, Tris Imboden, Walfredo Reyes, Jr. Peter Cetera. All these guys, all these musicians have taught me so much about music and about living.

-Robert Lamm

I don't know if people in the audience were telling him to mention Peter Cetera.

Posted by Roy on Saturday, 05/21/2016 @ 17:21pm

Did they call each other brothers at the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony?

The Beatles - NO

The Rolling Stones - NO

The Beach Boys - NO

The Bee Gees - NO

Cream - NO

The Yardbirds - NO

Led Zeppelin - NO

The Who - NO

Creedence Clearwater Revival - NO

The Byrds - NO

The Eagles - NO

Fleetwood Mac - NO

Van Halen - NO

Aerosmith - NO

Rush - NO

Deep Purple - NO

Cheap Trick - NO

Chicago - YES

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 05/22/2016 @ 10:47am

https://mobile.twitter.com/JuliaMTracy/status/734747917622218753

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Posted by Roy on Monday, 05/23/2016 @ 15:14pm

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/chicago-transit-authority/?trackback=tsmclip

The History of Chicago’s Debut Album, ‘The Chicago Transit Authority’

Posted by Roy on Monday, 05/23/2016 @ 16:54pm

Roy,

Now that Chicago's long overdue induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame has occurred, whose inductions will they support next?

Posted by Enigmaticus on Sunday, 06/5/2016 @ 12:32pm

About Chicago, Enigmaticus wrote:
Roy,

Now that Chicago's long overdue induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame has occurred, whose inductions will they support next?

Willie Nelson, Joan Baez, Jan & Dean, The Monkees, Kool & the Gang, The Commodores, The Moody Blues, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, Yes, Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Joy Division/New Order

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 06/5/2016 @ 17:47pm

Roy,

Thank you for your response. By the way, would the members of Chicago be willing to support Sade?

Posted by Enigmaticus on Sunday, 06/5/2016 @ 18:08pm

I don't know

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 06/5/2016 @ 18:37pm

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I like the new photo the Rock Hall chose for Chicago's page!

Posted by Roy on Sunday, 07/17/2016 @ 22:40pm