The voicings…my hands fell onto them, and I thought “Hey, this could be a song!” (laughs).
But I’ve always sort of had my head down in the work, and not really paying attention to or thinking about the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame or Songwriters Hall of Fame as a goal. So Jim already was thinking…this music won’t be able to be contained on a single album, to get an overview of what this band was doing. Lamm: We had this great producer, Jim Guercio, who also was from Chicago.
(laughs).
I just kind of taught myself how to play. Then about a year later, we invited Peter Cetera to join the band as the bass player. Notably, an excellent documentary film about the band has been made, called Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago. This was 1968, going into 1969, and at the time there was a lot of psychedelia. I said “Wow, I would love to do that.” So I was invited to come and jam with them, and then I was invited to join the band.
Ano-ano ang mga salik sa pagkakaroon ng bilinggwalismo?
I did my first two years of high school in Brooklyn. Lamm: It’s certainly happened both ways.
Chicago, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, has toured every year since its inception.
You know, songs happen, at least for me, in a sequence where you get so far and then you’re nowhere, so you need to explore further. When we're together laughing I wish I could sing it to you.
There started to be a general, critical re-examination of Chicago, which has been very positive. Lamm: I have written songs using a guitar, but I’m not (really) a guitar player.
Then in January (2017), the film premiered on CNN, and is now available to watch on-demand. DK: Chicago is known as the “rock band with horns.” So when you were writing for the band, were you envisioning the horn parts as you were writing the songs?
And then you take it a little further, and then you hit another wall, and then you look for the most interesting direction to move from this point. The film was originally shown at the Sedona International Film Festival in February 2016, and won the festival’s Best of Fest Audience Choice Award. Who is the longest reigning WWE Champion of all time? It also had very good songs—there’s a great song called “Out of the Blue” which a lot of people have remarked about.
And it’s really kind of contributed to what started a few years ago. When I'm with you, It doesn't matter where we are, Ot what we're doing, I'm with you that's all that matters.
Lamm: There’s an album called Subtlety & Passion—it was written and recorded during a time when the band was not interested in recording new music for several years. What inspired you to write this song?
Chicago’s lifetime achievements include two Grammy Awards, multiple American Music Awards, a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Chicago street dedicated in their honor, and keys to and proclamations from many U.S. cities.
He wrote such classic songs as “25 or 6 to 4,” “Saturday in the Park,” “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?”, “Beginnings,” “Questions 67 & 68,” “Free,” “Dialogue (Part 1 & 2),” “Harry Truman,” “Another Rainy Day in New York City,” “Wake Up Sunshine” and “Getaway.” Somehow, I think that that one of them, or both of them, had come into a club where I was playing with a quartet on the North Side of Chicago. So we wrote a powerful song criticizing that. “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” is such a classic.
All of the horn stuff and most of the vocals were recorded in hotel rooms. Chicago is an American rock band formed in 1967 in Chicago, Illinois. And actually as we speak now, as we prepare to go out on tour this summer with the Doobie Brothers, we are also now sharing files with each other, for new songs for a new album.
https://www.songwriteruniverse.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Robert_Lamm_interview_excerpt.mp3. We were playing at The Whiskey A Go Go club a lot, so some record guys came in to listen to us, and eventually we got a deal. You couldn’t really capture what this band was doing on one (vinyl) LP, which held maybe 34 minutes of music on it. So “Saturday In The Park” was very much one of those.
When we're together laughing. Terry Kath – guitar, backing and lead vocals; Robert Lamm – keyboards, lead and backing vocals; Peter Cetera – bass, backing and lead vocals; Walter Parazaider – saxophone, tambourine; Lee Loughnane – trumpet, claves; James Pankow – trombone, cowbell; Danny Seraphine – drums, percussion; Production I’d often start with a musical idea. So when it came to rehearsals and even recording sessions, we always had the music in front of us.
And sometimes, if I had what I thought was a good verse and chorus going, then I would look through the lyric files and maybe I’d see a line or two that might lend itself to expanding upon.
I guess the time was right to do it. Do you also play guitar, and did you write those songs on guitar?
Lamm: Well, that was a project that was initiated by the band’s manager, Peter Schivarelli, and Lee Loughnane. We are pleased to do this new Q&A interview with Robert Lamm. And there are some other really great songs.
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Then a few years later, I did an album called Living Proof, which is a little more in a singer/songwriter style.
DK: Last year, there was an excellent documentary about the band (Now More Than Ever: The History of Chicago) that was released. DK: Last year, Chicago was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, and now you’ve been inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame. The three horn players (James Pankow, Lee Loughnane and Walter Parazaider) were all music majors in college—two were at DePaul University and one was at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago. I wish that would happen more (laughs). Impressively, 25 of their 36 albums have been certified platinum. My mom remarried and so we resettled in Chicago. So I think that when he went in to negotiate with Columbia Records, he said, “These guys are doing extraordinary work—it’s not your normal pop band.” So Jim was able to negotiate the freedom and the logic of recording a double album, which we continued to do until they made us stop (laughs). Lamm wrote and sang lead vocals on many of Chicago’s hit songs. What are the two proportion of thickness?
DK: Some of your songs like “25 or 6 to 4” and “Free” are harder-edged rock songs that featured electric guitar riffs.
Lamm: Chicago was founded in the city of Chicago. So what’s interesting is that the songwriting is alive and well on our most recent albums. DK: Your song “Saturday In The Park” has such a classic piano intro.
There’s a definite arc of artistic creativity and productive energy that goes from the ‘70s right through the millennium. They had played together in a band that backed up all the rock acts on Dick Clark’s Cavalcade of Stars show. I think “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” is not a complicated song, but it’s certainly a quirky song. The group recently announced a co-headlining, North American tour with the Doobie Brothers, which starts in California in early June. Peter ended up being the director and editor of the film; he shot a lot of the footage. But that was one of the few occasions when that song came to me from some place else. Pankow was already a very good arranger, so I learned a lot from him. It was just a way to make sure that he saw how I was voicing things on the guitar.
So then I just continued on. DK: You’ve recorded a good number of solo albums over the years.
DK: When you were writing songs, did you usually write the music first, or did you sometimes write the lyrics first?
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