All the old Chicago stuff is great (like others have mention I - VIII was really where it's at). After Chicago VIII they started a brutal downward spiral that the 80's finished off... good god the 80's era of Chicago is utter garbage. However, I digress.
My band is currently playing "Introduction" from Chicago I. Talk about a ton of fun to play man... however that section in 3/4 where the bass and piano are doubling all the root note movement is a pain in the ass to memorize. I refuse to have a stand on stage for what works out to be one page of music of one song.
We're also toying with the idea of doing "I'm a Man".
Oh yeah, we also previously wrote out and arranged "Mongonucleosis" and "Free". We worked up both tunes but dropped them because "Free" just wasn't a crowd pleaser like we thought it was going to be and "Mongonucleosis" sounded too much like a game show theme... The horns were irritated when we dropped "Free" since they spent so much time in the woodshed on the middle section.
My band is currently playing "Introduction" from Chicago I. Talk about a ton of fun to play man... however that section in 3/4 where the bass and piano are doubling all the root note movement is a pain in the ass to memorize. I refuse to have a stand on stage for what works out to be one page of music of one song.
We're also toying with the idea of doing "I'm a Man".Oh yeah, we also previously wrote out and arranged "Mongonucleosis" and "Free". We worked up both tunes but dropped them because "Free" just wasn't a crowd pleaser like we thought it was going to be and "Mongonucleosis" sounded too much like a game show theme...
The horns were irritated when we dropped "Free" since they spent so much time in the woodshed on the middle section.
