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« Reply #45 on: August 03, 2010, 02:11:58 pm » |
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Except you said they were the hard rocking ballad band. Which in my mind was part of the problem. They were more ballad than hard rocking and we blame radio for this, except radio was playing hard rock. Chicago wasn't. They had the capability, of course to play and be more. Except most of the hard rocking was watered down as compared to the early days and the ballads are the only song to really feel they were given any TLC. SOS just goes to show that when left to their own devices, they just no longer had that magic, likely due to letting others control them so long.
So yeah it seems we are all pretty much in agreement. even if we look at them slightly different as to why, and with that we are all speculating based on observations so we are all likely correct. To me it was their giving in to what others wanted that gave them the success of 17, but completely destroyed the very foundation of what the were, not what they were capable of, but what they became. Pride, desire for money and fame, whatever it was redirected their desires.
Maybe Terry's death as Robert stated was the end of Chicago. Maybe it would have been best for them to change the name, as it seems clear now that no matter what they were nothing of the former band, they weren't the rock band with horns, but the ballad band that could still rock, and sometimes horns, but usually only on ballads or whatever. The innovation of Roberts writing was gone and sadly now that it looks like he has it back, there's still no Chicago willing to play it.
Walt said at one point it was like they could fart on record and it would be a hit, after awhile it seemed they were so desperate for a hit, they would do anything including selling their soul to do it, now it seems they have no desire to do anything because they can't have a hit. It seems like every decision they have made since Terry departed, is the we need to go right, so go left! kinda thing. That is what I believe had truly hurt the band the most. they like to blame the ballads for messing them up, but in those 15 wasted years they could have done whatever they wanted...and nothing. Like I've said before, they are now selling soundboard songs for $2 a pop, what is keeping them from pulling a HIP and making some songs they feel is what they want and having Keith mix em on his Laptop and sell them? Nothing but desire, in my book. gotta be a radio hit attempt or they don't bother? Seems they just say what they think we want to hear, and after so long even they buy into it.
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