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   Message 38,121 of 39,879   
   The old geezer to Charles Ulrich   
   Re: FZ vs. Chicag/James Pankow.....   
   14 Jun 15 08:12:44   
   
   From: JYOB@aol.com   
      
   On Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 7:53:27 PM UTC-4, Charles Ulrich wrote:   
      
      
   > > We don't want to be ultra-commercial, we don't want to prostitute   
   > > ourselves, but on the other hand we don't want to become so complex   
   > > that we burn ourselves out of the industry. Like The Mothers. The   
   > > Mothers had a very musical thing going but their approach was a   
   > > little too heavy, a little too quick for the mass media to accept,   
   > > and they kind of burned themselves out. Zappa got so frustrated that   
   > > he closed the band down......   
      
   He does have a point there about FZ..  But by 1976 Chicago had "prostituted"   
   themselves....sold out....a long way from the tunes "Introduction" & "Listen"   
   from the CTA album.   
      
   TOG   
      
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