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   Message 38,122 of 39,879   
   Piper to The old geezer   
   Re: FZ vs. Chicag/James Pankow.....   
   14 Jun 15 23:52:39   
   
   From: piper@gatesofdawn.com   
      
   The old geezer wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
      
   If memory serves, there was a lot of "revolution" rhetoric in the liner   
   notes to at least one of their early albums.   
      
   Jefferson Airplane-like posturing.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)   

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