Comments on: Bill Champlin – no longer in Chicago

By: retroDan

retroDan — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:00:32 +0000

here’s my recent review of Bill Champlin’s No Place Left to Fall -

http://www.retroblog.net/2009/11/06/bill-champlin-no-place-left-to-fall-review/

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Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:21:48 +0000

[...] speaking with some friends about Bill Champlin leaving Chicago, I realized that casual fans may not really be aware of how much their vocals are [...]

By: Perplexio

Perplexio — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 20:12:55 +0000

Going forward, I’ll be much more apt to give my money to Bill Champlin’s solo endeavours and his work with the Sons of Champlin than Chicago.

Stick a fork in ‘em they’re done.

I caught 2 shows back when Bailey was still in the band– and 7 since. The shows before his departure were much better than the shows since. After SOS got shelved and focus was shifted to N&D Bill seemed to grow more bored at a near exponential rate year after year.

Can’t say I blame him. Back in the early 90s– even on the Terry Kath material they let him stretch out a bit– I remember how he used to do a scat vocal audience participation thing during “Dialogue Pt. 2″ that was pretty cool.

I’ll always enjoy and appreciate Chicago’s older material, but it looks like that show I caught with EWF back in ‘04 was my last Chicago concert.

By: lake shore driver

lake shore driver — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 13:47:29 +0000

sadly, Chicago lost me once they started continually repackaging their greatest hits over and over again. they were obviously trying to milk their fan base dry.

and don’t get me started on their last studio album produced by the guy from Rascal Flatts. what a train wreck that was.

unless their reunite with Peter Cetera (highly unlikely), Chicago is pretty much done in my book.