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|    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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