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don't buy the "Chicago" X-Mas album.

Just a rearranged collection of non-sense.

sad, very sad...

I was a big fan of Chicago with Kath at guitar, and I feel that the band lost its 'heart of rock-n-roll' when Kath died.

Agreed Gary. The 80's were not a great time for Chicago musically as the band seem to fall under the direction of Peter Cetera.

Saw "Chicago" at Wolf Trap this summer. (I had to go to something in order to use up an exchanged ticket.) Anyway, they were pretty tight. And I commented somewhere here that their bass player had very good tone.
But each guy in the band looked to be in their late 20s or early 30s except the original trombone player. And I thought to myself - what I'm really watching is a Chicago tribute (cover) band. A very good cover band. But a cover band.

I think that Robert Lamm is still with them. There is a concert that I've seen on HDTV a few times, with Chicago & Earth, Wind & Fire. Pretty good show, with alot of energy. The trombone player with his tight pants and sleeveless shirt was still trying to look young. I don't like seeing the younger guys singing those classics though.

As far as Nirvana, after years of seeing pop bands of the 80's that were so full of themselves, I just remember seeing the raw energy of those guys on SNL and my jaw dropping. I have not been a radio listener for years, so I have to stumble upon new music once in awhile. SNL in the early 90's was the place to stumble into for my music. I first saw Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins there (and I think Living Colour), and got that same feeling from all of them. Just load, raw energy.

"Chicago, now there was a band with one good album in them."

Well actually their first album was much better than anything that followed (CTA) although I still thought they had some nice singles afterward for a while. Cetera was a great bass player/vocalist no matter what you think of his musical style.
Earth, Wind, & Fire were another excellent band.
I also liked Living colour.
Queens of The Stone Age are to me a great contemporary rock band, they rock.

Nothing much to add on Chicago, but when I saw this thread title I immediately thought of the "Farside" cartoon where the two pilots are looking out their window and they see a goat surrounded by clouds...

Copilot to pilot: "Hey, what's a mountain goat doing way up in this cloudbank?"