Lee Loughnane and Robert Lamm

Interview from 40th CD

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• Chicago

[ChicagoCollectors]

No prob, just trying to put up more footage to promote one of America's best Rock Bands. There is a lot more coming!

[libralady1010]

Lost his writing abilty ?! Are you nuts or tone deaf? What @ 'Too Many Voices,' Subtely and Passion,' Skinny Boy'

'Life is Good in My Neighborhood,' Check out what he wrote on Chi VI, VII, VIII with ' Harry Truman,' ' Manipulation on XIV, Thunder and Lightning,. Ever hear of ' Stone of Sisyphus? The man has been writing over 40 years! If he stopped tomorrow, he'd still be remembered as one of America's greatest songwriters.

[HyacinthBoo]

Thanks for posting this. Good to see these guys!

[MrCarl220]

Maybe they meant they don't have many hits these DAYS! Trust me, Chicago has had plenty! Iconic band!

[metamorphosis67]

@WrestlingHeretic Exactly, "I'd Rather Be Rich," Lamm said it himself, he's a sell-out, he'd rather be rich than an artist. I don't like your use of the word 'disablities,' that is an insult to retarded people. How dare you call someone 'disabled' you insensitive twit? They are just as 'able' as anybody else, only about 17 and a half times slower & therefore, retarded. You're not much of a GANGSTA-ASS NIGGA are you 'wrestling heretic' if you're afraid to even say the word RETARDED ?

[metamorphosis67]

@WrestlingHeretic The 'auditor' is ultimately reality, not critics & certainly not some asswipe neanderthal in the audience who wouldn't know his way around a nursery rhyme if not for true artists. When an artist panders to a market audience in order to continue having a lavish, extravagant lifestyle dependent on lots of money, he's a retarded WHORE, plain & simple. He'll play a silly tune with idiotic lyrics that he doesn't really like & pretend he does IF you pay him LOTS of cash.

[WrestlingHeretic]

@metamorphosis67

My continued problem with your line of reasoning is that you assume that terms like "artistry" and "integrity" are objective. They're not. They're subjective. The relationship between artist, the creative act and auditor is very complex. It is certainly not the binary "integrity or sellout" false dichotomy you've constructed.

[WrestlingHeretic]

@libralady1010

Completely agreed.

[WrestlingHeretic]

He did write the line "Listen, if you think that we're here for the money, you could be right you know." He also wrote "I'd Rather Be Rich." He also got clean of coke in 1982 (the reason for his absence from Chicago 16) and I've never read anything to indicate he went back on it. I also don't like your pejorative use of the word "retarded," which is an insult to people with disabilities. Please look at r-word dot org. Use of that word is not particularly... progressive.

[libralady1010]

@WrestlingHeretic It would be in your best interests to try and not piss off somebody like David Foster but even then, it doesn't work. Anyone who writes a book and titles it ' Hit Man?' You have to wonder. He's a legend in his own mind. He's the sole reason Peter Cetera left. He's done a lot for Cetera,I've noticed. NOT !!!

[libralady1010]

@metamorphosis67 Yes but the 60's and 70's are in the rear-view mirror. As for McCartney, well everyone knows what happened there. [ somebody say Yoko ?!?! ] Kudos to all of them for carrying on.

[metamorphosis67]

@libralady1010 Yeah but only for the stuff he wrote in the 60s & 70s. The rest of the stuff is sappy awful pop at worst & medicore attempts at regaining artistry sold-out at best. Problem is, once integrity gets sold, as soon as you pander, artistry ends & it's rare that someone is able to go back. People also change & become different or deteriorate, never mind the environment or zeitgeist of the times. Paul McCartney of today is a joke compared to what he was in the Beatles or even Wings.

[metamorphosis67]

@WrestlingHeretic Which is just another way of saying he started pandering pablum to an audience of newly retarded infants who liked staying idiotic. Basically he sold his ass for money & to keep the lifestyle he was used to, so he convinced himself he really liked the sappy pop crap he was putting out. If he had integrity he would lose money, lose his house, lose a few of his cars, lose some of the mountains of cocaine he was sniffing, even lose everything & still play only progressive music.