Robert Lamm Interview

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[keed48]

Robert Lamm looks great all the time. The man is amazing...and seems SO sweet.

[carina2244]

This is the same sweet, charming, self-effacing Bobby Lamm that I had the privilege to very briefly meet in 1977. Sorry, I'll never get used to calling him, "Robert"!!!

[luvtotruck]

Bobby is just under 70 and don't look or act like it. Just an all around good guy

[SeattleLA]

God, he looks like he is 40

[steveskin1]

Chicago has seen lots of members come and go, but Robert Lamm has been the heart and sole of the group for more than 40 years!

[WrestlingHeretic]

I don't deny the lyrics of YTI are sappy and those of AHBV are interesting. But from the standpoint of music-as-music, you're underestimating YTI. I also doubt that there is much you can tell me about Edgard (with a 'd' on the end) Varese since I teach graduate-level music theory courses on post-tonal composers for a living. All I wanted to do was praise Robert Lamm, and you use my comment as a vehicle for your already stated negativity.

[WrestlingHeretic]

"A Hit By Varese" is most certainly a pop song. It sounds more adventurous on the surface than it actually is. From a structural and formal standpoint, it's pretty conventional. (That's not a bad thing in my view.) From a harmonic standpoint, YTI is actually more adventurous than AHBV. AHBV begins and ends in the same key (C minor). YTI employs root movements by thirds, sequences, common-tone modulations, interesting stuff. AHBV never moves beyond tonic and subdominant.

[Adequates63]

@metamorphosis67 Hey smart-ass, Kenny Rogers begged Cetera to write him a hit, then decided it was not for him. And Kenny Rogers was cool! LOL!

[dapfonz]

In Florida--humidity is getting to Bobby's hair. lol.

[metamorphosis67]

They offered the song to Kenny Rogers! Ah man, what an embarrassment ! Terry Kath is turning over in his grave. Why would any real musician even contemplate writing a song that would be perfect for a moron like Kenny Rogers? 

[metamorphosis67]

@WrestlingHeretic It wasn't a pop song, it was a progressive Jazz-Rock song. If you play that song for most of morons that listen to "You're the Inspiration" & sappy crap like that they'd run out of the room. These guys were into Varese mainly by way of Frank Zappa. Guercio, the band's producer, knew & had worked with Frank Zappa before on the "Freak Out" album. Zappa's idol was Edgar Varese. There are more than a few Zappaesque Grand Wazoo horn parts & melodies on early Chicago records.

[pjohnson1967]

Great musician and a classy guy.......