Now that is a boat load of talent. 99% of the music recorded today is crap.

/My lawn
//Get off it
///NOW!

Full of Overflowing with win.

Who?

I personally like the attempt at "conversation" at the beginning of the video. That wasn't contrived in any way what so ever. I think the performance overshadows that a wee bit.

/subby

No fireworks, no dancers, all win.

And then Chicago had to go and bring in Peter Cetera.

It's sad that the tools and software available have sucked the soul out of music. Some artists do great with it (see Cinematic Orchestra) but the mainstream produces some of the most banal shiat imaginable.

Take away Pro Tools and you wouldn't have all these pop stars running around ruining music.

Gulper Eel:

Re: Peter Cetera

Yeah. The ballads he sings makes my sphincter clench. Great bass player, though.

Wow, whoever ran the voice processor on that guy really made him sound great!

Too bad he's not still around today to do the same for the current crop of singers.

/what? that was just his voice?

Stitch Jones: /subby

Thanks! Phenomenal stuff.

That was totally overflowing with win. Awesome.

mediaho: Thanks! Phenomenal stuff.

Your Welcome. Stuff like this is why I surf You Tube at work.

Now that's a recording studio. Notice the absence of bling laden hip hop wannabees hanging around. Drum sound sucks, but hey, that was the 70's.

What happened to Chicago? How did they go from this to "You're the Inspiration"? Someone tell me.

Really, it blows my mind.

/i threw up in my mouth until it came out my nose

I'd also like to add that I find it amazing that yesterday's average (not to say that Al Green is anything but top of the line) soul is better than today's most successful, respected rnb/neosoul/hiphop/whatever. Somewhere along the line, soul left soul music.

I blame drum machines.

musicky: What happened to Chicago?

Kath died and David Foster was brought in to produce 16 and 17. Even after Cetera left, the Foster influence was still there in the rest of their 80s music.

musicky:
I blame drum machines.

Drum machines have a place, but I don't think that place should be soul and R&B.

Music is more about a marketable package. You have to be a complete whore first. You have to have (some of) the looks second. Everything else Pro Tools and Photoshop can fill in the blanks.

Today's mainstream music is like the hamburgers you see on TV commercials. They look really nice on the screen, but they're coated with motor oil and completely inedible. There's no substance, just some corporate made image.

Gulper Eel: And then Chicago had to go and bring in Peter Cetera.

Ummmmm peter was there from the beginning, go look at the 30 sex mark of the video, the shaggy blond playing the bass, yep thats him. Still I hate his ballads but love most of chicagos early work.

Glitchwerks: Today's mainstream music is like the hamburgers you see on TV commercials. They look really nice on the screen, but they're coated with motor oil and completely inedible. There's no substance, just some corporate made image.

I have this fantasy that if I come into a lot of money I can fund decent bands no matter what they look like, I feel if you put good music out there it doesnt matter they will get the crowds.

Gulper Eel: And then Chicago had to go and bring in Peter Cetera.

Cetera was there the whole time. He did good bass and vocal work, too. But Chicago started to suck when he replaced the deceased Terry Kath as the soul of the band.

I'm 26 and most of my friends have only ever heard the shiatty 80s era Chicago. I've re-educated a few and now they dig it.

Damn, gotta love the Rev. Al Green. What a farking stud

I'll have to watch it when I get home, it's not playing here at work. I saw Chicago Wednesday night in Denver. Good show!

:O

peachy92: musicky: What happened to Chicago?

Kath died and David Foster was brought in to produce 16 and 17. Even after Cetera left, the Foster influence was still there in the rest of their 80s music.

FTFY

Why, Terry?
Why?

musicky: What happened to Chicago? How did they go from this to "You're the Inspiration"? Someone tell me.

Really, it blows my mind.

/i threw up in my mouth until it came out my nose

Terry Kath had to go and die in 1978. The band died with him.

Everything after that was, and continues to be, crap.