Chicago XIVwas the band’s lone new wave-era attempt at bucking its dance-pop approach in favor of a more introspective sound — an experiment that, of course, did not last — and Cetera’s intimate “Song For You” was this album’s great exemplifier. The singer’s more naturally pro...
If you could put one Chicago song in a time capsule, which one would it be? “Beginnings” from the first album. It’s one of the songs in the repertoire that I get to stretch out on and solo on. So, I always like that. You put out a great documentary, 2016’sNow More Than Ev...
Chicago’s Jimmy Pankow and Lee Loughnane Discuss the Band’s Beginnings, the Evolution of Their Sound and Life in the Time of COVID with the Chicago Federation of Musicians. “Man, it’s been a drag,” laments trombonist Jimmy Pankow from his house… ...
In October 1969, Columbia had re-tested the waters by releasing “Beginnings” as a single, but AM radio still wasn’t interested, and the record failed to chart. All of this changed, however, when the label excerpted two songs, “Make Me Smile” and “Colour My World,” from Pankow’...
Danny’s current band, California Transit Authority, is a hybrid Chicago band or as Seraphine describes it, “Chicago on steroids”. Featuring lead singer Tony Grant, guitarist Mark Bonilla, keyboardist Ed Roth, and singer/bass player Travis Davis, and a full horn section coming in from L....
Becker got to work. When he eventually finished the guitar, five years later, he put it in a case and presented it to Wolfe before a Spirit concert at Beginnings, a now-shuttered venue in Arlington Heights. “His eyes — he was just mesmerized,” Becker recalls. ...
(An internet search turns up little about the publishing house, besides it being founded in Hartford sometime in the 1840’s and having its beginnings in printing mail-order Bibles.) The digital edition, in tandem with background information from my research, almost caused me to move the ...
We talked about its humble beginnings, how the label grew and some of the challenges they faced along the way. We also discussed the current Fat tour, the label’s future and more. Continue Reading… Tagged: Erin Burkett, Fat Mike, Fat Wreck Chords, Good Riddance, House of Blues Chicago...
Logan's mission is to figure out if she's got what it takes to be alpha - she definitely has what it takes to make him howl.) Beginnings (limited signed edition) $27.00 (Worlds of Honor #6: Anthology; short fiction set in the Honorverse, including a new Weber story about a young ...
overpowering for words, and the room it gives itself to grow as its eight-minute runtime really stretches out, building to a climax of “Only the beginning!” chants that whips the band into a near-religious fervor. Any surprise that beginnings like this led to such a generally unhumble ...