Yes agree. I think this is my theme song! I’ve listened to it since it came out and never gets old. Love the bridge and guitar solo. Also love the opening, not the album version but the single version with the awesome guitar riff.
That's Dawayne Bailey on guitar. Bill Champlin! Respect to these guys ❤❤❤ Dawayne gave a decade to Chicago while Bill and Jason gave 3 decades. Let that not be forgotten.
Me too. I seen them in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1999. I quit seeing them after that. They were just playing the same old tunes from the 70s and 80s. I wanted to hear more current stuff and they wouldn't play it. Chicago 21 was a great album and the Stone of Sisyphus, but they didn't promote those albums, very sad. I just quit seeing those guys because they got too predictable and boring.
@@lamarravery4094 I would have LOVED to have seen them play songs from 21 live: 1) God Save 2) Somebody Somewhere 3) Chasin' The Wind 4) One From The Heart 5) Holdin' On as a closer, etc. 6) Explain It To My Heart, which was a Diane Warren ballad that sounded like Because You Loved Me, which she wrote 5 years later for Celine...very similar structure and same key (D-flat major).
Also, it's weird, because Greatest Hits 1982-1989 leaves off this song (#10 in 1988) but puts on We Can Last Forever, which is a good song, but very obscure (#55 in 1989). It's a good way to close the album, though, not unlike Twenty 1 closing with Holdin' On and Chicago 18 closing with One More Day. That's my guess!
@@joshuaecht You're Not Alone reached #10 on the top 40 charts in March 1989. I remember and it was like their 3rd top 10 hit from Chicago 19. I think Diane Warren wrote all 3 of those hits.
Many have wondered including me why Dwayne has basically been written out of the history of his time with the band?? Bill to some extent elso. These two were what they needed to stay relevant whether they want to admit it or not…
I saw them in '94 with Kansas at Pine Knob and I was very impressed, first time I ever saw Chicago live. I remember the lead guitar player really standing out to me as exceptional...
Yeah, I seen Dwayne Bailey a couple of times with Chicago. He would showcase his talent with guitar solos. He was exceptional and kept the band sounding great in the 1990s. Too bad he was let go, he had more of an edge than their current guitarist.
@@paulmiller3885 I'd love to see them live in UK ( I live in Northern Ireland) but somehow I think I've missed my chance as nowadays they only tour the USA. I only really got into Chicago in the 90s but if I'd known they were playing live in London I would DEFINITELY have tried to get tickets and booked a flight to London. Good bands with longevity, like Chicago, tend to avoid Northern Ireland
@@adrianbradley8513 yep. I got into Chicago in the 1980s. I've got all their albums plus Bills, Jason's and Roberts solo albums. Bill is also in a band CWF who are very good. I'm hoping they tour again and hope they do Northern Ireland for your sake but they just your USA. But keep looking your dream may come true. Its nice to communicate with another Chicago fan
@@paulmiller3885 Same here mate. It's funny but Def Leppard and the more lesser known AOR bands Magnum and Asia are the only UK Rock bands I really listen to. Even when it comes to sports I'm not a soccer or Rugby fan but I l LOVE American Football 🏈 Having said that I'm a San Francisco 49ers fan and not a CHICAGO Bears one.🤣🤣🤣. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong country🇺🇲🤣🤣🤣 By the way I've seen the 49ers win twice at Wembley. Sorry for slightly going off the subject of the band Chicago. Another thing funny about me liking Chicago, a love song band, is that I am currently single and haven't had much luck with the ladies. ♥️😢😂
I can see why they went back to there first and second album stuff, the great Chicago music. Bill Champlin Kept them going with his great voice, but they were the original horn band and that's their legacy. 👍👍
I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW VERSATILE THIS GROUP WAS THROUGH THE DECADES- MAYBE MOSTLY HORNS EARLIER AND MORE AND MORE ELECTRONIC AS THE YEARS WENT BY!! THANKS YOU FOR THIS VIDEO. I NEVER GOT TO SEE THEM LIVE!!!!
Yes Yes!! This was in the 80s when so many great songs were coming out - yet I would wait for my radio stations to play it (didn't hear it enough though). I didn't buy many cassettes because they didn't sound as good as the radio - my player wasn't the best!!
This is back in the day, "Chicago" they're from my generation, & oh my Lord I never realized how hot these guys were both physically & musically, this is my favorite song by them , Chicago you guys absolutely R O C K...
Mary I recently watched a documentary on Chicago on Netflix, so I'm wondering in this video - is this peter cetera singing the lead bcuz in the documentary Peter Cetera looks nothing like this video ?
So true - so true! This is also my favorite latter song by Chicago. "Beginnings" is my favorite song that is from their older days when they seemed to be more horns than guitars. Love them either way!!!!
I think Bill was fired in 2009. I think he wasn't happy being on the band anymore. He probably wanted to create new music, but the rest of the band wanted to keep playing the older stuff. I'm with Bill, they should've made some newer material, these guys had so much talent, but got too complacent and lazy.
Chicago was at their second peak from '82 to '95. I remember reading a story of a girl with the Chicago XVI/16 album coming up to a band member and asking for an autograph. She asked him (maybe Pankow or Lamm) "Is this your first album?" to him or something along the lines of that...
Jim and Walt should've have had the professional courtesy to their band mates to at least learn a little bit of the song. Especially if they were taking a lion's share cut.
He looks so peaceful as he is shredding also!! I read that he left the group later - I really hate that. I haven't watched a video that is more recent to see if he did leave Chicago.
Don't know why they wouldn't use Bailey in the studio. He had the talent. They would also use Jerry Hey on horns in the studio, what's wrong with Lee, hs's not good enough for the album? Why are they in the band if they're not good enough to play on the album?
On this song, there weren't any horns, so he had to play something, I don't think he was actually playing and same with Walt, I don't think he knows how to play guitar. And Lee probably took a cigarette break when they were doing this song.
@@lamarravery4094 they know how to play those instruments, on a basic level at least, but doubt they were hooked up here. Notice that Lamm is already playing Keytar and there are at least two other guitarists (Champlin and Bailey), so whatever Walt and Jim might be playing would be redundant. It did look cool though...
who is the great session or hired gun guitarist bailey? i dont guess they have had a true lead guitarist since terrys death not many can play like that in the world hes great.please advise on that.
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Actually, in studio Bill sings out of his vocal region and it was something surreal and amazing, but live he would lose his voice, so they would lower the key of the song, Look Away also has the lower key so it can sound for Bill's voice to sound stronger and rock After 1998, Bill began to have vocal cord problems due to years of singing outside his region, but he was still able to sing for his vocal ability, but it caused serious problems ... Bill is a baritone, but can sing as a torn tenor, which has greatly helped to cause his vocal problems.
@@TheJldef What is a "torn tenor?" I'm familiar with the various terms (baritenor, multiple sopranos (soprano 1/2, etc.)) but have never heard of that term.
@@joshuaecht I learned this suit in the USA in the studio. It is used a lot by baritonous singers who manage to leave their region and go to another region with a more hoarse sound, in Bill's case ... Michael McDonald for example uses: falsette The studio recordings show this, it is not for nothing that he only lowers a tone to sing them live and it was this that even affected his voice, singing far beyond his tessitura without changing the tuning of the instrument.
This “bullshit Muzak” is what was on the radio when I was growing up and my love for it it made me discover the greatness of all of Chicago’s old material. It didn’t just make me a fan of what they were in the eighties and nineties, it also made me fan of what they were before. I love it all.
I love Chicago and especially love this song, but my god, live music sucks. I’m paying to hear you sing and it’s half ass. Billy Idol was the only artist I ever saw who sounded just like his records.
Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff, Tris Imboden, and Dawayne Bailey rocked Chicago! WOW ❤️
Agreed 100%
I wonder if Walt and James are really playing and I don't see Lee. But yeah, the rest of those guys rocked.
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Very much agree!
STILL LISTENING IN 2020!!!!! WHAT A CHANGE FROM EARLY CHICAGO SONGS BUT LOVE THE OLDER ONES TOO!!!!
My favorite Chicago song - it really rocks and that says a lot because I like so many of their songs and to say this is my favorite means a lot!!
Yes agree. I think this is my theme song! I’ve listened to it since it came out and never gets old. Love the bridge and guitar solo. Also love the opening, not the album version but the single version with the awesome guitar riff.
That's Dawayne Bailey on guitar. Bill Champlin! Respect to these guys ❤❤❤ Dawayne gave a decade to Chicago while Bill and Jason gave 3 decades. Let that not be forgotten.
かっこよすぎです💓♥️❤️
sure it is!
Loved this lineup! They Rocked!!!!
Awesome! Thanks for posting. I saw this lineup a dozen times in the nineties and it a always seemed like they ignored this era. Love it!
Me too. I seen them in 1990, 1994, 1996, and 1999. I quit seeing them after that. They were just playing the same old tunes from the 70s and 80s. I wanted to hear more current stuff and they wouldn't play it. Chicago 21 was a great album and the Stone of Sisyphus, but they didn't promote those albums, very sad. I just quit seeing those guys because they got too predictable and boring.
@@lamarravery4094 I would have LOVED to have seen them play songs from 21 live: 1) God Save 2) Somebody Somewhere 3) Chasin' The Wind 4) One From The Heart 5) Holdin' On as a closer, etc. 6) Explain It To My Heart, which was a Diane Warren ballad that sounded like Because You Loved Me, which she wrote 5 years later for Celine...very similar structure and same key (D-flat major).
Also, it's weird, because Greatest Hits 1982-1989 leaves off this song (#10 in 1988) but puts on We Can Last Forever, which is a good song, but very obscure (#55 in 1989). It's a good way to close the album, though, not unlike Twenty 1 closing with Holdin' On and Chicago 18 closing with One More Day. That's my guess!
@@joshuaecht Man to Woman would've been awesome live, such a powerful power ballad.
@@joshuaecht You're Not Alone reached #10 on the top 40 charts in March 1989. I remember and it was like their 3rd top 10 hit from Chicago 19. I think Diane Warren wrote all 3 of those hits.
Dawayne and Bill best guitar harmony since Felder and Walsh.
YES -- NOT SURE WHEN THEY BOTH JOINED THE GROUP BUT THEY ADDED SOOOOO MUCH TO THE BAND!!!!
@@mrorionfan1 For SURE. And that's an understatement.
Totally agree. My fave era of Chicago post-Kath is the Bill Champlin Dawayne Bailey era.
Many have wondered including me why Dwayne has basically been written out of the history of his time with the band?? Bill to some extent elso. These two were what they needed to stay relevant whether they want to admit it or not…
@@mrorionfan1 Bill Champlain joined in 1982
He knows how to play that guitar .love this songs .keep playing guys.your my number one fan .
I saw them in '94 with Kansas at Pine Knob and I was very impressed, first time I ever saw Chicago live. I remember the lead guitar player really standing out to me as exceptional...
Yeah, I seen Dwayne Bailey a couple of times with Chicago. He would showcase his talent with guitar solos. He was exceptional and kept the band sounding great in the 1990s. Too bad he was let go, he had more of an edge than their current guitarist.
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Jason Scheff is SO cute with his short hair and 90s vest. All these guys are insanely talented.
Still loving Chicago - would love to see them live-------WHAT GREAT SOUND!
Saw them live in 2010 London. Best day of my life
@@paulmiller3885 I'd love to see them live in UK ( I live in Northern Ireland) but somehow I think I've missed my chance as nowadays they only tour the USA. I only really got into Chicago in the 90s but if I'd known they were playing live in London I would DEFINITELY have tried to get tickets and booked a flight to London. Good bands with longevity, like Chicago, tend to avoid Northern Ireland
@@adrianbradley8513 yep. I got into Chicago in the 1980s. I've got all their albums plus Bills, Jason's and Roberts solo albums. Bill is also in a band CWF who are very good. I'm hoping they tour again and hope they do Northern Ireland for your sake but they just your USA. But keep looking your dream may come true. Its nice to communicate with another Chicago fan
@@paulmiller3885 Same here mate. It's funny but Def Leppard and the more lesser known AOR bands Magnum and Asia are the only UK Rock bands I really listen to. Even when it comes to sports I'm not a soccer or Rugby fan but I l LOVE American Football 🏈 Having said that I'm a San Francisco 49ers fan and not a CHICAGO Bears one.🤣🤣🤣. Sometimes I think I was born in the wrong country🇺🇲🤣🤣🤣 By the way I've seen the 49ers win twice at Wembley. Sorry for slightly going off the subject of the band Chicago. Another thing funny about me liking Chicago, a love song band, is that I am currently single and haven't had much luck with the ladies. ♥️😢😂
Good stuff. Thanks for posting them!
Not a particular fan of this song but these guys are jammin it out. Absolutely love this incarnation although I do love soon to come, Keith.
how can you not like this song
@@sebastieng-r9764 Just not my taste. I mean I'll always take Chicago and champlin but not my favorite if I had to pick one that's all
I can see why they went back to there first and second album stuff, the great Chicago music.
Bill Champlin Kept them going with his great voice, but they were the original horn band and that's their legacy. 👍👍
I love Bill,Jason, Duane, and Tris.
He truly bridged the gap between the sad untimely passing of Terry Kath and into the 1980’s with that new thing called MTV.
Damn... they rocked! Bill, Jason, Tris, Dwayne!
Memories now, never see this lineup again.
Jimmy's hair, man. Wow, that's something.
The Chicago lineup I preferred... great band.👍
Thanks
I CANNOT BELIEVE HOW VERSATILE THIS GROUP WAS THROUGH THE DECADES- MAYBE MOSTLY HORNS EARLIER AND MORE AND MORE ELECTRONIC AS THE YEARS WENT BY!! THANKS YOU FOR THIS VIDEO. I NEVER GOT TO SEE THEM LIVE!!!!
One of the my best Chicago sohs. I love alive again. Both have a special place in my heart. Thanks for this video ❤
Oh how I wished I could have seen this line up in 1993!!! Damn. So awesome.
I did up in Tahoe several times.
Bill Champlin - Dwayne Bailey- Jason Scheff-Tris Imboden ---- and the rest--------- WHAT A GROUP!!!!
Used to seeing Jason with long hair --- would not have cut it if my hair looked like his did!
I love their long hair 😍
Love the song
Perfect key and tempo!
This is amazing!
Such a smooth sounding song
Yes Yes!! This was in the 80s when so many great songs were coming out - yet I would wait for my radio stations to play it (didn't hear it enough though). I didn't buy many cassettes because they didn't sound as good as the radio - my player wasn't the best!!
Temaso de la mejor epoca de la musica ❤❤❤❤
This is back in the day, "Chicago" they're from my generation, & oh my Lord I never realized how hot these guys were both physically & musically, this is my favorite song by them , Chicago you guys absolutely R O C K...
Deborah Sheahy agreed!
Mary I recently watched a documentary on Chicago on Netflix, so I'm wondering in this video - is this peter cetera singing the lead bcuz in the documentary Peter Cetera looks nothing like this video ?
It's Scheff-Not Cetera.
Ty Yeo I was gonna say, I just do not remember Cetera being that hot & not to mention sexy - thanks for clarifying that for me :)
So true - so true! This is also my favorite latter song by Chicago. "Beginnings" is my favorite song that is from their older days when they seemed to be more horns than guitars. Love them either way!!!!
Damn! This is awesome!
Espectacular Chicago gran banda una de mis favoritas
I very very much agree ❤❤
Bill Champlin retired from Chicago man he was awesome
I think Bill was fired in 2009. I think he wasn't happy being on the band anymore. He probably wanted to create new music, but the rest of the band wanted to keep playing the older stuff. I'm with Bill, they should've made some newer material, these guys had so much talent, but got too complacent and lazy.
Fired. The band Chicago is a joke now.
these guys were having FUN.....and is works
Yay Bill! You're awesome!
Me gusta el tema de Chicago, tiene garra, sentimiento.
Chicago was at their second peak from '82 to '95. I remember reading a story of a girl with the Chicago XVI/16 album coming up to a band member and asking for an autograph. She asked him (maybe Pankow or Lamm) "Is this your first album?" to him or something along the lines of that...
São espetaculares.
Really wild to see Jimmy Pankow on keyboards. He is totally into this. No horns to play so this they needed to do something.
Jury's out, if James and Walt were really playing their instruments on this one. And I don't see Lee, no need for him on this song anyhow.
@@lamarravery4094 Walt was not playing his guitar for sure.
The horn section is pointless. They should all be fired.
@@salozmen29 ?! Fire them and?! If they were fired so Lamm is the Only Original Member left?! LOL!
@@pierceelyhibionada342 James was playing. You can hear him slamming it out of tune at 1:35 to 1:41
He was just slammin chords.
Bill+Jason+Dawayne+Tris are so fukin power ballad, Chicago next level
Jim and Walt should've have had the professional courtesy to their band mates to at least learn a little bit of the song. Especially if they were taking a lion's share cut.
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At 2:32, they seem to be goofing off. They look foolish, no? Seems like a pretty cushy gig.
Chicago didn't know what they had with Dwayne Bailey. He got screwed when they let him go.
DWAYNE CAN SHRED WITH THE BEST OF THEM!!!! FINGER-STYLE LIKE EDDIE VAN HALEN (RIP EDDIE).
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I agree
Does anyone know if that's James Pankow on keyboards behind Bill with the shades on?
yes it is/was,
@@synchronicity1470 Thanks! 😊
Damn!
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Fk!!! Ya DB !! 🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
Who created the guitar part of this song? Dawayne Bailey or Dann Huff?
Was him Glenn Frey version of Chicago?
Dawayne Bailey was shredding his ass off!
He looks so peaceful as he is shredding also!! I read that he left the group later - I really hate that. I haven't watched a video that is more recent to see if he did leave Chicago.
Bailey was not used in the studio. Dan Huff played this in the studio and Michael Landau on other albums.
Thanks - love the inside scoops people know about!!
Don't know why they wouldn't use Bailey in the studio. He had the talent. They would also use Jerry Hey on horns in the studio, what's wrong with Lee, hs's not good enough for the album? Why are they in the band if they're not good enough to play on the album?
Bill Champlin! Wow!
With Pankow on keys !!
Digging Walt on the guitar even if it may not be plugged in or whatever Maybe it is. I'm sure he can play it. Just diggin it.
This is the GREAT Chicago being the GREAT Chicago!
Didn't know Jimmy played so much keyboards those days !
On this song, there weren't any horns, so he had to play something, I don't think he was actually playing and same with Walt, I don't think he knows how to play guitar. And Lee probably took a cigarette break when they were doing this song.
They were unplugged. Gotta make it somehow look that you have a role in the band when you really dont.
@@lamarravery4094 they know how to play those instruments, on a basic level at least, but doubt they were hooked up here. Notice that Lamm is already playing Keytar and there are at least two other guitarists (Champlin and Bailey), so whatever Walt and Jim might be playing would be redundant. It did look cool though...
@@potownrob Jimmy actually Played the Keys you can hear the Sounds!
@@pierceelyhibionada342 are you sure it’s not Lamm??
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Walter Parazaider on guitar, ladies and gentlemen, lol.
Si Bad
This is boy Chicago
Bailey and Champlin were a nice break from the elevator music
who is the great session or hired gun guitarist bailey? i dont guess they have had a true lead guitarist since terrys death not many can play like that in the world hes great.please advise on that.
Keith Howland has been Chicago's lead guitarist since 1995.
Dawayne Bailey was the guitarist from 1986-1995
Who is the lead guitar
@@davidprawira5755 dats my idol dawayne bailey
Dawayne Bailey rocked and shredded with the best of them - he seemed to be a great matchup with the group!
Bill should do more Lead Guitars...
Dawayne Bailey is possessed.
DWAYNE CAN SHRED AND FINGER-TAP WITH THE BEST OF THEM!!!!
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Whose the guy on keys behind Bill???
trombonist Jimmy Pankow
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they dont make music like this anymore
why is Walt faking that he can play guitar?
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Night Of The Mullet. And Captain Caveman on drums. Parazaiders guitar probably isn’t even on.
Two Minute Piano Man that’s the triple threat lmfao
Alguien podría opinar de lo que esta pasando ahora ??? dejen de hablar de lo que pasó hace dos siglos...todo esta lleno de polillas.
theres something so generically shitty about this but at the same time its kinda good
Why are they performing in a lower key? Champlin sounds great in studio but live just doesn't match up.
Maybe this is late in the concert and he doesn't want to strain his voice.
Actually, in studio Bill sings out of his vocal region and it was something surreal and amazing, but live he would lose his voice, so they would lower the key of the song, Look Away also has the lower key so it can sound for Bill's voice to sound stronger and rock
After 1998, Bill began to have vocal cord problems due to years of singing outside his region, but he was still able to sing for his vocal ability, but it caused serious problems ...
Bill is a baritone, but can sing as a torn tenor, which has greatly helped to cause his vocal problems.
Well why write the song in a higher key to begin with then?
@@TheJldef What is a "torn tenor?" I'm familiar with the various terms (baritenor, multiple sopranos (soprano 1/2, etc.)) but have never heard of that term.
@@joshuaecht I learned this suit in the USA in the studio. It is used a lot by baritonous singers who manage to leave their region and go to another region with a more hoarse sound, in Bill's case ...
Michael McDonald for example uses: falsette
The studio recordings show this, it is not for nothing that he only lowers a tone to sing them live and it was this that even affected his voice, singing far beyond his tessitura without changing the tuning of the instrument.
Terry Kath is rolling in his grave. This is the type of bullshit muzak that turned off Chicago's original fans.
Every group can still play the old stuff but not be stuck there you closed-minded oooof! Look at Boston and Madonna. Look at Heart!
This “bullshit Muzak” is what was on the radio when I was growing up and my love for it it made me discover the greatness of all of Chicago’s old material. It didn’t just make me a fan of what they were in the eighties and nineties, it also made me fan of what they were before. I love it all.
I love Bill's voice, but he often sucked live. Changing things up dramatically isn't what most fans want to hear.
I love Chicago and especially love this song, but my god, live music sucks. I’m paying to hear you sing and it’s half ass. Billy Idol was the only artist I ever saw who sounded just like his records.
Eagles don't forget
These guys were put through 150 days of touring for 30 straight years. Sorry if they couldn't bring it 100% every night.
That is the improv man. It is great. Want to listen to records with overdubs or a live band of professionals who write their own music.
Champlain...so angry. Talented but thinks he deserves more?
Most noisy Guitar player ever, he should be playing in a glam band, not in Chicago
True True!
Poison or GNR ? 😂
Crappy Chicago...yes it pooped.
That is your lousy opinion.