Anyone heard of the band Chicago?

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Tonks40 said:
“25 to 6 to 4” should sound awesome with your marching band! I hope you can load up a link to performance for us “old fogies” to listen to! Can’t wait to hear it!
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I guess my age is showing now–our marching band (clarinet player, LOL) played 25 or 6 to 4 when it was still relatively new! And this music is perfect for a marching band!

Penitent
 
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cardenio:
I’ve got a minor obsession with Styx…
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Back when I was a working musician (more years ago than I care to remember), my bandmates and I happened to drop into Roselle Music (in the Chicago 'burbs) the day after Styx picked up a bunch of new equipment and dumped off their old stuff on trade-in… still got a couple of their old microphone stands (true story!).

Now… about your obsession… if owning a microphone stand actually owned and used by Dennis DeYoung & Company will help satiate your obsession, well… I’m sure we could work a deal!

ahem… rare, coveted musical artifacts such as these are very hard to come by, y’know… veeerrry valuable items, I’d think…:rolleyes:

…hold on a minute… my phone’s ringin’… gotta take this call… could be the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame… y’see, I’m expectin’ a call from them with their offer…

😃 😃 😃
 
25 or 6 to 4

The title refers to the time of day. It is either 3:35AM (25 to 4) or 3:34AM (26 to 4). We know it is early morning because of the line “Waiting for the break of day.”

From my friend who knows everything rock.

Alan

P.S. also from same friend:

There was a rumor that “6 to 4” was a nickname for LSD, because if you dropped acid at 6 PM, the effects of the drug would wear off by 4 AM, 10 hours later.
 
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CarolAnnSFO:
And I saw them in concert back then!

Ah, I’d better crawl back into the old fogey cave. 😃
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Scoot over and make room for me!
 
To the Original Poster:

You have succeeded in making me feel ancient! “Has anyone heard of the band Chicago?” You know how today everyone knows who that Eminem rapper is? Imagine yourself in 25 years when someone says to you,“Have you ever heard of a singer named Eminem?”

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JKirkLVNV:
To the Original Poster:

You have succeeded in making me feel ancient! “Has anyone heard of the band Chicago?” You know how today everyone knows who that Eminem rapper is? Imagine yourself in 25 years when someone says to you,“Have you ever heard of a singer named Eminem?”

:crying:
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Yeah, well now it’s started a chain reaction. :eek:

My kids, including my oldest son in engineering college, told me that what he knows of Reagan, the Moon Landing, and lines for gasoline stations (they think we were whiny little, well, a word I can’t use for complaining about THOSE prices) is all from their history books. Oh, plus we went in 2000 to Simi Valley to the Reagan museum so they know him that way too. :banghead:

Say it isn’t so! WE haven’t become THEM, have we? :crying:

Alan
 
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JKirkLVNV:
To the Original Poster:

You have succeeded in making me feel ancient! “Has anyone heard of the band Chicago?” You know how today everyone knows who that Eminem rapper is? Imagine yourself in 25 years when someone says to you,“Have you ever heard of a singer named Eminem?”

:crying:
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There’s a singer named Eminem?? :rolleyes:
 
Orogeny - I like the Doobie Brothers. Styx is better, though.

Penitent - You played clarinet? Ew! haha… the trumpet section has a certain amount of rivalry with the clarinet section… heh heh heh…

a pilgrim - that’s pretty awesome. I don’t know the details but I do know that the band split up or something… haven’t heard any of their new music (I hear Dennis DeYoung is putting out his own albums?) but it’s their old music that’s great. Come Sail Away and Grand Illusion are probably my favorite songs. One of our drummajors has a major obsession with Mr. Roboto, to the point where he’s trying to learn Japanese. You know what, though? I found an old Styx website and made a rather startling discovery - I have the same birthday as James Vincent Young. (except, of course, for the year.)

AlanFromWichita - one thing that bugs me about bands today is that they’re all about sex, dating, love, and breaking up. What I like about 70s-80s music is only half of the music is about that; what I don’t like about 70s-80s music is that the other half is about drugs.

JKirkLVNV - I’m going to apologize for making you feel old, even though it is hard to say I’m sorry. (my obsession with puns greatly surpasses my obsession with styx, thus making shakespeare superior to… yeah.) But why is “old” bad?

everyone - I’ve got a story for you. Band camp, we were in the band room rehearsing our music. Now, you have to understand that from the end of Daylight Savings Time to Christmas break, the clocks in our school are off - either a few hours forward or two and a half hours back or just dead stopped or something. This also occurs at the beginning of DST, and they fix the clocks again in the summer.

So we were in the band room, just the brass, playing 25 or 6 to 4. Paul, one of our custodians, came in, glanced at the clock, and said “Does anybody really know what time it is?”

Mr. Forsleff got it, and laughed. The rest of us assumed the clocks were off again, and laughed.
 
Another old-fogeyism – does anyone remember the Rolling Stones when they were actually called the Rolling Stones? I saw them in concert in – get ready for this – Carnegie Hall. You don’t even want to know the year. That was my first rock concert, by the way. 😃

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cardenio:
JKirkLVNV - I’m going to apologize for making you feel old, even though it is hard to say I’m sorry. (my obsession with puns greatly surpasses my obsession with styx, thus making shakespeare superior to… yeah.) But why is “old” bad?
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It isn’t bad at all! It’s just that inside I still feel young. I just can’t get my body to promptly do what I wish it to do. I’m always a little annoyed at that. Your question reminds me of a friend who picked up a mood ring in a store, turned to me, and said,“What’s a mood ring?” That’s another time I felt old.
 
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CarolAnnSFO:
Another old-fogeyism – does anyone remember the Rolling Stones when they were actually called the Rolling Stones? I saw them in concert in – get ready for this – Carnegie Hall. You don’t even want to know the year. That was my first rock concert, by the way. 😃

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Mine was the Who. “Who are you, who, who, who, who?”
My ears rang for three days.
 
cardenio said:
Penitent - You played clarinet? Ew! haha… the trumpet section has a certain amount of rivalry with the clarinet section… heh heh heh…
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I know what you mean about the rivalry, only by my aged recollection, it was more a brass v. woodwind go-round…I also recall the trumpets always were the loud kids and the clarinets had more of the “briefcase”-type personality…but I can tell you who I used to sit with on the bus trips–a trumpet player!

My first concert was Jethro Tull (and my mother came with me, which was quite embarrassing)…but the worst was when she made me accompany her to a JOHN DENVER concert because she couldn’t get anyone else to go with her. Do you know for a kid trying to be cool, what attending a JOHN DENVER concert could’ve done to me had I been discovered?

Penitent
 
My brother likes The Who a lot. “Behind Blue Eyes” used to be a good song until about sixteen thousand other bands stole it and ruined it.
 
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JKirkLVNV:
Mine was the Who. “Who are you, who, who, who, who?”
My ears rang for three days.
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They were great in concert! I saw them three times, including once in one of Murray the K’s concert shows in the RKO theater on 58th St (New York City). What fun! We each got a souvenir at that concert – a copy of the record album “Murray the K’s 1962 Boss Golden Gassers”. I still have mine. 😃

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Penitent
I also recall the trumpets always were the loud kids and the clarinets had more of the “briefcase”-type personality
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Trumpet = loud + ego + fanfare.

Clarinets… briefcase… beautifully put.
 
cardenio said:
Penitent

Trumpet = loud + ego + fanfare.

Clarinets… briefcase… beautifully put.
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Oboes – setting the standard by which the entire orchestra tunes.👋

Clarinets only get that distinction in, shall we say, “lesser” bands? 😛

Alan
 
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ncjohn:
There’s a singer named Eminem?? :rolleyes:
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Haven’t you heard? Allegedly he hung it up. My kids read about him in their history books. :rolleyes:

If you like Eminem, you must be oooold. He’s an important historical fact that shaped the style of music, mostly in the very late 20th century.

Alan
 
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AlanFromWichita:
Oboes – setting the standard by which the entire orchestra tunes.👋
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Better hold off on that tuning if it’s a very cold day, and the oboist has just come in from the outdoors. 😃

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Just promise me you won’t do “You’re the Inspiration.” Someone should’ve stoned Peter Cetera for unleashing that aural abomination upon the unsuspecting public.
 
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CarolAnnSFO:
Better hold off on that tuning if it’s a very cold day, and the oboist has just come in from the outdoors. 😃
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You had better believe it.

Everybody waits until the oboist is ready! 👍

Also, as you know, an oboist never hits a note poorly. If you don’t like the sound, it is obviously the fault of the reed. If an oboist gets caught playing a sour note, you will often see them changing reeds and/or getting out the knife and scraping on the one – sometimes during concerts.

Alan
 
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