Chicago - A Hit By Varese Lyrics

Wanted to be a horn player so when Chicago was heard was mesmerized along with COLD BLOOD they still blast my tweeters away !!

Now they are associated with sappy pop songs, some of which are great mind you, but this is a gem, some funky stuff!

get the 1st 5 albums..and DIG IT

@Thomas Maxwell nice natural sound. Tight horns, man

@Thomas Maxwell They did some good live performance as well. There'd be like ten guys up there jammin'.

What a fantastic collaboration of jazz musicians ... woo!!! Bobby's influence on full display here.

Best 2 albums: CTA & V(This one). Most Popular Album: II. Jazziest Album: III. Worst in Concert Recording: IV - 4 record set. lol. Everything after this album was a sugary pop sell-out. Probably why Terry Kath "checked out". As soon as disco showed up, Chicago was over. Terry should have left and formed his own power trio ala Hendrix. He'd be in the R&R Hall of Fame by how for sure if he did.

don't disagree with ANYTHING you said. the 1st part of 7 was VERY jazzy however- 2 was jazzy but they went hardcore on3

I think it was after Chicago 7 - their last jazz LP - in 1974, that it became very noticeable the band was getting too soft, too commercial. Too many Peter Cetera ballads, some even with un-Chicago-like string accompanyments. Not a lot of hot instrumental jams which unfortunately weren't that fashionable in the later 1970s, with disco and all that. An unexpected bullet may have killed Terry Kath in early 1978, but it was the disco times of the late 1970s that killed the band as founded. Returning on the early 1980s with endless sappy power ballads.

He would've went either way , with or without Chicago in my opinion.

6 and 7 are very good albums too....

8 is a very great album! Harry Truman, Ain’t It Blue, Oh Thank You Great Spirit, and a few others!

Mighty fine

StinkinFunkyJazzRock---they couldn't be touched!!!

First heard this on my Brother’s 8 track player in his car. Just a grade school kid but I knew I loved these sounds. Now that I can play drums and guitar, I have an even deeper appreciation for the musicianship. If you haven’t seen it yet, check out Terry Kath’s documentary on Amazon Prime. Absolutely fantastic!

This was among my first two dozen albums I bought after I got my first all-in-one stereo system around 1975 from my parents. I was a young budding musician and albums like this were great influences on how high I could reach with my playing. Because of some bad choices and addiction, I never got as good as I wanted to be and stopped playing after high school. I picked it back up in my late twenties and got pretty good again with a very good band. They were friends since they were in school. They welcomed me into their band on keyboards. I wanted to take it to the next level. But that's when addiction devastated our band. After over a decade of playing together on 50 out of 52 Mondays of every year, our drummer discovered the "glass pipe". For those of you who are familiar with the effects, you won't be surprised to hear that after four weeks we were unable to even plug in. He was incapacitated.
I continued on my own with albums but I didn't write hardly any of the music down. I haven't played much in the past ten years since I've been sober. But what I did, I did well. I moved to another state and haven't connected to any musicians yet.

One day at a time bro'. Hope you get back in the music groove.

"Glass pipe"?
The rock?

Yup the pipe took down the band and later it took me down, only to rise from the ashes like the Phoenix with God's power.

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