Chicago (The Band)
Back in the 1970s, I never really thought about Chicago . I knew about them because we had a great FM radio station in Albuquerque that played all kinds of wonderful music, and the band definitely came on the air. My brother used to practice drums to them, and I had friends into them, but I didn't pay much attention. Recently, I stumbled onto them on YouTube, and they blew me away! Songs I had heard hundreds of times before, like 25 or 6 to 4 , suddenly sounded different. I could sense that they were more than just a rock band, or a rock band with horns. They were progressive rock, jazz rock, rock'n'roll! I bought this boxed set, The Studio Albums 1969-1978 , which was very inexpensive on Amazon. I haven't made it all the way through it, and I don't like everything, but it has some amazing tracks. Like Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon from Chicago II , which includes Color My World and Make Me Smile , and is an amazing suite of songs. Bottom line is I underestimat...
