When you see us play our performances, you see it from the wings and right on stage. We do some interviews and you see us travel the world. Riding on the bus, going into dressing rooms, going over little vocal parts, and just practicing the little intricacies of songs that once you get out on stage, you can't really hear each other as well as you'd like to, but at least you know what not you're going to be singing. We had just come from a four week tour of Europe and we had filmed the whole thing, luckily, and all of that was already edited together, so we just continued filming and put together a 90 minute retrospective of our year on the road from the band's point of view.
They said they needed 90 minutes of content with surround 5.1 sound. They said that they would like to help us promote our Christmas album, and they said they could do a theater event for us. Interestingly enough, we met with a company called Fathom Events up in Colorado a few months back. The newest member, Lou Pardini, has been with us a couple of years already, and that's longer then most bands are together. Then the other guys that have come along since-Jason (Scheff) has been with us 27 years or something like that. Four of the original members are still with us-myself, Walter Parazaider, James Pankow, and Robert Lamm. It will be 45 years in February of 2012 that we have been together. From there, we decided to stick it out as long as we possibly could, but we had no idea it would be 44 years later.
They thought that's what would bring their clientele there and keep them there drinking, and doing what you do in a club. We had a good start but the club owners didn't let us play the originals, they wanted us to play the Top 40 hits of the day. Robert said he wanted to come play with the band and he already had a book of 50 original songs. He was like a Ray Charles clone at the time. We actually saw him playing in a club on the Southside, Bobby Charles and the somethings, I forget what it was. The three horn players went to DePaul University and Robert went to Roosevelt University, which was about a block away. LL: We went to school together, many of us.
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