I saw Chicago Transit Authority at the Texas International Pop Festival on Labor Day Weekend in 1969, I was 19 at the time. The Tanglewood concert was almost exactly like what I saw live that Labor Day Weekend a few months before Tanglewood happened.
The long Terry Kath guitar solo is a musical representation of a psychedelic journey by someone high on LSD-25, which all members of Chicago experimented with in the l960-70s.
I was pretty close, to guessing the song title meaning, (for the past 50 years) “25” to 4am/pm, the big hand would be on the “#7”, but if you have bad eyesight, (like I did), it would be “close enough” to being on the “#6” Hence “25” or “6” to “4”
Yah, if only it was called "25 or 26 to 4" no mystery. :) I'm glad it had that hook as I really liked the inner space I felt listening to it. Cool interview!
"25 Or 6 To 4" is one of my favorite Chicago songs, that and Beginnings. I saw Chicago in concert in 85 while in college (they played in our town and Basketball arena), and it is still one of the best concerts I've ever seen. They played for over 2 1/2 hours. Still have my Chicago albums (Greatest Hits, Chicago 16, and Chicago 17) from back then. And I can relate to the story about living in Hollywood in LA. I lived in Hermosa Beach for a couple of years and went to the clubs off of Sunset in West Hollywood.
Chicago truly did cross generations, not only forward but back also. In high school in 68 thru 71 they were my favorite group and my Dad loved them too. I was something I shared with my Dad.
My first musical memory was when I was about 5. I was in the living room with my dad (who was a huge Chicago fan) & listening to the song FANCY COLORS. It was magical.
Far and away my favorite band of the 70s and 80s and still my favorite. The different instruments set this group apart and made music exciting! They had wonderful understanding of what was going on. Would love to see more of what you've got with Chicago 😁!
I was never a fan of 25 or 6 to 4 until I heard Jason Scheff and his band play it a few years ago. And then saw the Tanglewood 1970 concert. That song is amazing. Guess I was too young when it first came out to appreciate the greatness.
25 or 6 to 4 is my favorite Chicago song ever! Terry Kath’s guitar rift is unforgettable and insanely incredible! And Peter Cetera proved that he can sing rock and roll whether it’s hard rock or soft rock! Shew, what a band! Thank you Robert Lamm for writing this unforgettable song!
Chicago is one of the greatest bands from the 60's-70's-80's... Long after their members have all passed away, their music will carry on with "cover bands" (there's one out of Russia that has done a fantastic recreation of their albums) and karaoke and "oldies" radio stations. "Dialogue" will always reflect what each generation is going through. Back in the 60's-70's it was about mistrust for the government and the older generation, with some college students revolting while others were not paying attention to world events, just wanted to graduate and get on with their life. Today is slightly different. We have twice the size of government with ten times the errors and we should have more mistrust. We have the young generation chanting "trust the government", "trust the science (which is run by the government)", and they still don't trust the older generation. Which is IRONIC, because all those who protested government and the old people in the 60's are now old people working for the government. The key to the song though is you have to have communication and learn to listen to the other side. Shouting people down or beating people up because you don't agree with what they say will tear us all apart as a nation. Open the "Dialogue".
A very good interview and Chicago is one of my favorite bands of all-time and you couldn't turn on a radio in the 1970s and not hear a great song by the band!👍
I agree with Lee. The lyrics of "Dialogue" are still relevant today. I had always thought of the first voice as being a liberal and the second voice as being a conservative viewpoint. I have so much respect and admiration for you guys' talent. For years your music has improved the quality of my life. Back in 1974, the first 8-track tape I ever listened to with headphones was Chicago VI. I was blown away!
Street Player is still an awsum, monstrous song. The beat, the horn arrangements, everything. I would love to see how Terry would do his solo in this masterpiece.
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LOVE that one! Chicago 13 is such an underrated album and doesn't deserve all the flak it gets.
Dear Mr. Robert Lamm! I really appreciate your work within your band Chicago, which is for me the best American rock band of all time. Let me just suggest something to you, which on the one hand might do your reputation a lot of good and on the other hand could smooth over any remaining rifts between you and your ex-colleagues. Please send the Grammy trophy in the category "Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus", which you received in 1977 for "If You Leave Me Now", directly to Peter Cetera, preferably by registered post. He wrote the piece and sang it in its entirety. So, this award practically belongs to him. Thank you for your attention.
HI Robert , My name is Eric. I'm from Brooklyn .Sound familiar? You'll probably never see this but it's worth taking a shot. I truly am one of your biggest fans ever on this earth. For my 21st birthday in 1980.. my girlfriend at the time gave me my 1st yankee hat.. And a black and white poster of you live onstage taken from a program.n I saw you in Sept.'80 at the Dick Clark Theater in Westchester the night before the Fall '80 semester started and I could not believe that I was in the same building in eyesight of Chicago's Bobby Lamm. You're a fabulous musician. You and your band mates brought alot of happiness to alot of people. PS: "Beginnings" is my favorite all-time Chicago song. The music you guys made will live forever..isn't that amazing.? Be well and G-d bless.
Lamm was an excellent vocalist, but when you also have pete cetera and the amazing terry kath, well, you do what he did, pitched in when he could. My favorite stuff from them was from the Terry Kath era. Does it get any better than Stronger Every Day, Color My World, Beginnings? So many great tunes. If they put out only one or two, that would be enough for a lifetime, but they gifted us with so much and so good. Jimmi Hendrix said Terry was the best guitar player in the universe. I think he was right.
back in south africa a guitarist named Alister Coakely played this number at a school show and his solo was amazing. still love this song after 50 years..
Teri Kath was rhe heart and soul of the band. He was incendiary on 25 or 6 to 4. Check out the live version at Tanglewood. What a senseless and tragic loss.
Street player is actually a great song, and one of my favorite Chicago songs. It features none other than trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson and the song that later sampled it that Robert was referring to is You Know I Want You by Pitbull. You can hear the unmistakable Street Player trumpet riff several times in that song.
Thank you AXS for the link. I know this is from 2019 but it's very cool you can go to your page and all the interviews are right there linked up to choose from almost all of Dan's Big interviews in full are right there and you can pull them right up and watch them from your website very nice 👍🏼🤠
That's funny. Growing up in Ohio, I had a friend who, if you asked him what time it was, would say, "Oh it's 10 or 11 to one. I always thought that was an odd way of stating the time, so I always wondered if the title of this song was another example of that.
Since the song title is not “25 or 26 to 4”, the ‘25’ in the actual title “25 or 6 to 4” stands alone and most certainly references LSD-25 given the context of the song’s creation.
It was very moving to see him get a little emotional during part of the discussion...Standup guy...There's a live video of them doing "25 or 6 to 4" back in the day that it was very popular as a subject of reaction videos. And every reactor is blown away by it...
I had never understood what the title even meant before, so this interview was helpful. I guess I would've better understood if it were 25 or 26 to 4, but that probably didn't fit within the song's meter.
I’ve always liked Street Player even with its disco beat! The entire Chicago 13 album has great music, and in my opinion is highly underrated. Also: two other Chicago tunes are as politically accurate today as they were 50 years ago: Harry Truman and Vote For Me. The latter references Russians and alternate energy for automobiles.
Glad I'm not the only one who likes that album! It's really not THAT bad and should've been a bigger hit. (And while there would never be another Terry, Donnie Dacus did a damn good job filling some HUGE shoes!).
In the mid 90s i sat cross legged on the floor at 25 or 6 to 4 wondering if i should do some more. That's about the time you decide if you're gonna watch the sun come up or not
First saw them in concert at Temple’s McGonigle Hall in March 1970. Loved their first two albums but thought subsequent albums were too commercial for my taste.
Woah, my aunt told me the story about the time on the clock years ago. She met them at a gig they had done in Atlantic City with the guy she was dating at the time. I thought she made it up.
Regarding the song Street Player, Lamm purposely avoids mention that founding drummer Danny Seraphine co wrote that tune with David Hawk Wolinski. Bad blood towards one of the greatest drummers EVER!
Interesting to finally find out what "25 or 6 to 4" means. Essentially, nothing. But then, looking back on most of the old songs, most of them have very little if any meaning behind them. There was a presumption it was conveying some deep insight, but seems the song writers were only interested in whatever fit into the song in a nice-sounding way.
I was preset close, to guessing the song title meaning, (for the past 50 years) “25” to 4am/pm, the big hand would be on the “#7”, but if you have bad eyesight, (like I did), it would be “close enough” to being on the “#6” Hence “25” or “6” to “4”
What song are they talking about during the first minute? I just looked at the lyrics of “25 or 6 to 4” and there’s nothing to do about one person into politics & one not knowing politics.
@@c.a.rankin7426 Thanks for that. I rewatched this video, & when Dan Rather said “dialogue” in the first 20 seconds, I never heard that song title before, so I thought he was just using it as a “noun”. I started listening to “Dialog” song, and I don’t recognize this song. & I’m old enough to have recognize it from the 70s, but I’m I never heard that song before (no the song title) so I wonder how far up the charts that song made it!
When I first heard the song, I thought it was about drugs. Probably tripping late at night and then into the morning. "Spinning room is sinking deep", "should I try to do some more?" and 25 from LSD25. Later, I heard the explanation and it makes sense. But a lot of songs back then were interpreted to be about drugs.
Obviously, sirthinksalot is referencing the lyric "should i try to do some more?" which is a thinly veiled reference to american imperialistic designs on northwest asia and a subsequent planned invasion of botswana that failed to materialize after the smothers brothers show was unceremonially canceled. Pretty self explanatory, really. Now tell us how swiss cheese really got is holes. Welcome to nowhere and may god bless us, everyone.
Nonsense. 25 or 624 were forms of LSD popular in the 70s. Colored lights against the sky, sitting cross-legged on the floor, should I try to do some more? Yeah, tell me that's about a grandfather clock.
Let’s Not Forget Peter Cetera’s Bass Line and Lead Vocals on 25 or 6 to 4 Yes In Those Days L25 was LSD and You Took It Favorably From 6:00 pm and The Trip Lasted Too 4:00 am Hence 25 or 6 to 4 Hey It was a Long Time Ago and I Would Like To See More Bands and Artist Use Some Of Their Abilities To Bring Us Closer Together Than What The Orange Julius Jesus Has Done To Separate Us Just My Take 😊
I think Robert Lamm wrote the basic framework of the song on piano and the lyrics, and then all the other musicians in the band created their own instrumental parts for the song in the recording studio, which is how most songs are developed and finished. The guitar work and guitar solo could not have been written on piano and was most certainly created by guitarist Terry Kath. Similarly for the drums and bass guitar. The brass arrangement was likely written by trombonist James Pankow. Lamm gets writing credit because he came up with the initial basic song framework and lyrics, but in reality the creation of songs are a team effort.
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The Chicago 1970 Tanglewood Concert is one of my all-time favorites on TH-cam. Purely great music!
I saw Chicago Transit Authority at the Texas International Pop Festival on Labor Day Weekend in 1969, I was 19 at the time. The Tanglewood concert was almost exactly like what I saw live that Labor Day Weekend a few months before Tanglewood happened.
@@artmanjohn2 Man! Good for you! How lucky is that?! I am so jealous! 👍
Totally agree! As a matter of fact, I was telling someone about it just about an hour ago! Honest truth! 😂
Terry Kath absolutely shreds on the guitar solo in this song!
The long Terry Kath guitar solo is a musical representation of a psychedelic journey by someone high on LSD-25, which all members of Chicago experimented with in the l960-70s.
His live solo on the "Live at Tanglewood" version from 1970 is just blistering and a tour de force. Jimi who? Eric who? Jimmy who? Terry, that's who!
One of the top guitar solos of All-Time!!!
Jimi has said that Terry was the greatest guitarist he ever heard.@@iaincook5835
I never get tired of watching that on TH-cam! The Tanglewood version I mean🙂
Robert Lamm has to be one of the most talented songwriters of the last 60 years.
Lee wasn't bad either
Robert Lamm, you are a very good man. Not to mention one of the most talented pop/rock musicians of the last 55 years.....
I always loved "25 or 6 to 4", but I never knew what it meant. Cool to finally know.
I was pretty close, to guessing the song title meaning, (for the past 50 years) “25” to 4am/pm, the big hand would be on the “#7”, but if you have bad eyesight, (like I did), it would be “close enough” to being on the “#6”
Hence “25” or “6” to “4”
Yah, if only it was called "25 or 26 to 4" no mystery. :) I'm glad it had that hook as I really liked the inner space I felt listening to it. Cool interview!
You are fortunate to not know what the lyrics are about. Many people lost their minds in that era because their spinning room sank too deep.
Same for me. Something just popped into me brain to find out what the title means
You're a fine man Robert, thank you for your music and you being human.
This band was so good they named a city after them!
8-7-2024. Ha-ha, no the city is older. The band is younger. But ha-ha to your comment.
🤣😂👍
"25 Or 6 To 4" is one of my favorite Chicago songs, that and Beginnings. I saw Chicago in concert in 85 while in college (they played in our town and Basketball arena), and it is still one of the best concerts I've ever seen. They played for over 2 1/2 hours. Still have my Chicago albums (Greatest Hits, Chicago 16, and Chicago 17) from back then. And I can relate to the story about living in Hollywood in LA. I lived in Hermosa Beach for a couple of years and went to the clubs off of Sunset in West Hollywood.
Chicago truly did cross generations, not only forward but back also. In high school in 68 thru 71 they were my favorite group and my Dad loved them too. I was something I shared with my Dad.
They’re right that there is a timeless quality about a lot of their music.
My first musical memory was when I was about 5. I was in the living room with my dad (who was a huge Chicago fan) & listening to the song FANCY COLORS. It was magical.
Far and away my favorite band of the 70s and 80s and still my favorite. The different instruments set this group apart and made music exciting! They had wonderful understanding of what was going on. Would love to see more of what you've got with Chicago 😁!
"25 Or 6 To 4" is my #1 all time favorite song! A very well composed song!
I was never a fan of 25 or 6 to 4 until I heard Jason Scheff and his band play it a few years ago. And then saw the Tanglewood 1970 concert. That song is amazing. Guess I was too young when it first came out to appreciate the greatness.
25 Or 6 To 4: one of the greatest songs of all time!!! Fun to play too 😊
What a great little interview! I hope there is more to come!
25 or 6 to 4 is my favorite Chicago song ever! Terry Kath’s guitar rift is unforgettable and insanely incredible! And Peter Cetera proved that he can sing rock and roll whether it’s hard rock or soft rock! Shew, what a band! Thank you Robert Lamm for writing this unforgettable song!
Chicago is one of the greatest bands from the 60's-70's-80's... Long after their members have all passed away, their music will carry on with "cover bands" (there's one out of Russia that has done a fantastic recreation of their albums) and karaoke and "oldies" radio stations. "Dialogue" will always reflect what each generation is going through. Back in the 60's-70's it was about mistrust for the government and the older generation, with some college students revolting while others were not paying attention to world events, just wanted to graduate and get on with their life. Today is slightly different. We have twice the size of government with ten times the errors and we should have more mistrust. We have the young generation chanting "trust the government", "trust the science (which is run by the government)", and they still don't trust the older generation. Which is IRONIC, because all those who protested government and the old people in the 60's are now old people working for the government. The key to the song though is you have to have communication and learn to listen to the other side. Shouting people down or beating people up because you don't agree with what they say will tear us all apart as a nation. Open the "Dialogue".
Leonid and Friends. They do excellent covers of Chicago tunes! :)
The part about "25 or 6 to 4" always makes me chuckle! Back in the day, some people claimed the title to be a code for a specific drug or dosage!! 😀😀😀
A very good interview and Chicago is one of my favorite bands of all-time and you couldn't turn on a radio in the 1970s and not hear a great song by the band!👍
I agree with Lee. The lyrics of "Dialogue" are still relevant today. I had always thought of the first voice as being a liberal and the second voice as being a conservative viewpoint.
I have so much respect and admiration for you guys' talent. For years your music has improved the quality of my life. Back in 1974, the first 8-track tape I ever listened to with headphones was Chicago VI. I was blown away!
Street Player is still an awsum, monstrous song. The beat, the horn arrangements, everything. I would love to see how Terry would do his solo in this masterpiece.
LOVE that one! Chicago 13 is such an underrated album and doesn't deserve all the flak it gets.
Much respect for Lamm.
Amazing. Simply amazing. Thanks for the music, and thanks Dan Rather for doing interviews with musicians.
When the place holder lyrics become final because they work 2:54 Sometimes your song writes itself and you're merely a spectator to the process.
Dear Mr. Robert Lamm!
I really appreciate your work within your band Chicago, which is for me the best American rock band of all time.
Let me just suggest something to you, which on the one hand might do your reputation a lot of good and on the other hand could smooth over any remaining rifts between you and your ex-colleagues.
Please send the Grammy trophy in the category "Best Pop Vocal Performance by a Duo, Group or Chorus", which you received in 1977 for "If You Leave Me Now", directly to Peter Cetera, preferably by registered post. He wrote the piece and sang it in its entirety. So, this award practically belongs to him.
Thank you for your attention.
Chicago was a truly an amazing band. They have their own style including some of the most sophisticated music in the history of pop/rock music.
HI Robert ,
My name is Eric.
I'm from Brooklyn .Sound familiar?
You'll probably never see this but it's worth taking a shot.
I truly am one of your biggest fans
ever on this earth.
For my 21st birthday in 1980..
my girlfriend at the time gave me my 1st yankee hat..
And a black and white poster of you live onstage taken from a program.n
I saw you in Sept.'80 at the Dick Clark Theater in Westchester the night before the Fall '80 semester
started and I could not believe that I was in the same building in eyesight of Chicago's Bobby Lamm.
You're a fabulous musician.
You and your band mates brought alot of happiness to alot of people.
PS: "Beginnings" is my favorite all-time Chicago song.
The music you guys made will live forever..isn't that amazing.?
Be well and G-d bless.
Lamm was an excellent vocalist, but when you also have pete cetera and the amazing terry kath, well, you do what he did, pitched in when he could. My favorite stuff from them was from the Terry Kath era. Does it get any better than Stronger Every Day, Color My World, Beginnings? So many great tunes. If they put out only one or two, that would be enough for a lifetime, but they gifted us with so much and so good. Jimmi Hendrix said Terry was the best guitar player in the universe. I think he was right.
back in south africa a guitarist named Alister Coakely played this number at a school show and his solo was amazing. still love this song after 50 years..
Timeless music--great to hear the backstories!
Teri Kath was rhe heart and soul of the band. He was incendiary on 25 or 6 to 4. Check out the live version at Tanglewood. What a senseless and tragic loss.
Some say nothing good ever happens after 2 am , they were wrong.
Terry, " Wishing You Were Here. ☮️ & ❤️
Dialogue is an awesome song…with lyrics which resonate today! 😊
They also re-recorded 25 or 6 to 4 for the Chicago 18 album. Would have liked to have heard the reasoning/logic behind that.
Agreed! How could they mess with perfection there? Especially without TERRY?!
Totally solidifies what that song means to me after all these decades ❤❤
There's a great documentary about them, I've watched it a bunch of times.
I guess I am alone in this but we really loved the remix of 25 or 6 to 4. It was so hip.
Maybe not alone but, a small group of fans of the remix😀. Cheers and be well
Street player is actually a great song, and one of my favorite Chicago songs. It features none other than trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson and the song that later sampled it that Robert was referring to is You Know I Want You by Pitbull. You can hear the unmistakable Street Player trumpet riff several times in that song.
Outstanding interview!
Our high school band would play this at our football games. Love it.
I never cared for the music Chicago created but I know this song. One thing is they seem like genuine solid guys
dan gives such a great interview…you can see how much passion he has after all these years ..
absolutely one of the best bands ever
I remember playing 25 or 26 to 4 in high school band for half time show. We had a great tuba [part
Thank you AXS for the link.
I know this is from 2019 but it's very cool you can go to your page and all the interviews are right there linked up to choose from almost all of Dan's Big interviews in full are right there and you can pull them right up and watch them from your website very nice 👍🏼🤠
That's funny. Growing up in Ohio, I had a friend who, if you asked him what time it was, would say, "Oh it's 10 or 11 to one. I always thought that was an odd way of stating the time, so I always wondered if the title of this song was another example of that.
Since the song title is not “25 or 26 to 4”, the ‘25’ in the actual title “25 or 6 to 4” stands alone and most certainly references LSD-25 given the context of the song’s creation.
It was very moving to see him get a little emotional during part of the discussion...Standup guy...There's a live video of them doing "25 or 6 to 4" back in the day that it was very popular as a subject of reaction videos. And every reactor is blown away by it...
Peter Cetera sang his butt off on 25 or 6 to 4 and Kath’s guitar solo was the icing on the cake.
Best damn band!!
Street player one of my faves!!!!!! Play it over and over!#!!
I actually loved "Street Player" - it's kinda disco, but, with that band it's really on an entirely different level.
Totally agree. One of my fav Chicago songs.
Listening to "Babe, I'm Gonna Leave You" is how Chicago wrote 25 or 6 to 4.
I dont get it. Help me....
Ahhhh! Yes, I can hear it!
What fantastic musicians and fine members of society
....love these guys.
I watched Chicago on the PBS "Fourth of July" special....a great performance with a incredible fireworks display!
Finally at 68 I get it thank you!!!
Good music is good music.
The song remembers when.
Long live Chicago!
I had never understood what the title even meant before, so this interview was helpful. I guess I would've better understood if it were 25 or 26 to 4, but that probably didn't fit within the song's meter.
Or maybe written as 25 or '6 to 4
Damn great song!
I’ve always liked Street Player even with its disco beat! The entire Chicago 13 album has great music, and in my opinion is highly underrated. Also: two other Chicago tunes are as politically accurate today as they were 50 years ago: Harry Truman and Vote For Me. The latter references Russians and alternate energy for automobiles.
Same
Glad I'm not the only one who likes that album! It's really not THAT bad and should've been a bigger hit. (And while there would never be another Terry, Donnie Dacus did a damn good job filling some HUGE shoes!).
Skip to 1:17 to hear about 25 or 6 to 4. You're welcome.
In the mid 90s i sat cross legged on the floor at 25 or 6 to 4 wondering if i should do some more. That's about the time you decide if you're gonna watch the sun come up or not
First saw them in concert at Temple’s McGonigle Hall in March 1970. Loved their first two albums but thought subsequent albums were too commercial for my taste.
Lol I was told that the song was about drugs. Lol I like it even more that it was about writing the song itself 😂
Woah, my aunt told me the story about the time on the clock years ago. She met them at a gig they had done in Atlantic City with the guy she was dating at the time. I thought she made it up.
Regarding the song Street Player, Lamm purposely avoids mention that founding drummer Danny Seraphine co wrote that tune with David Hawk Wolinski. Bad blood towards one of the greatest drummers EVER!
Great song, imo
He didn't even mention hearing Zepplin's "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You." Which he stolen the melody from.
Who did Zeppelin steal it from? Probably some blues player.
Interesting to finally find out what "25 or 6 to 4" means. Essentially, nothing. But then, looking back on most of the old songs, most of them have very little if any meaning behind them. There was a presumption it was conveying some deep insight, but seems the song writers were only interested in whatever fit into the song in a nice-sounding way.
I was preset close, to guessing the song title meaning, (for the past 50 years) “25” to 4am/pm, the big hand would be on the “#7”, but if you have bad eyesight, (like I did), it would be “close enough” to being on the “#6”
Hence “25” or “6” to “4”
In present companionship, is the limit.
What song are they talking about during the first minute? I just looked at the lyrics of “25 or 6 to 4” and there’s nothing to do about one person into politics & one not knowing politics.
"Dialogue"
@@c.a.rankin7426 Thanks for that. I rewatched this video, & when Dan Rather said “dialogue” in the first 20 seconds, I never heard that song title before, so I thought he was just using it as a “noun”. I started listening to “Dialog” song, and I don’t recognize this song. & I’m old enough to have recognize it from the 70s, but I’m I never heard that song before (no the song title) so I wonder how far up the charts that song made it!
This song has been explained by other members, but not this way...
The song is about contemplating snorting more cocaine. “ is it 25 or 26 to 4 in the morning. They lived it.
Basically not realizing you're just playing While My Guitar Gently Weeps on piano.
Terry's wife said 25 or 6 to 4 was about sitting around smoking pot at 4 in the morning lol
That I believe 😊
Probably coming down from their Trip.
When I first heard the song, I thought it was about drugs. Probably tripping late at night and then into the morning. "Spinning room is sinking deep", "should I try to do some more?" and 25 from LSD25. Later, I heard the explanation and it makes sense. But a lot of songs back then were interpreted to be about drugs.
Don't forget "Puff the Magic Dragon" leading countless lost souls down the slippery slope to hard core, full blown heroin addiction.
Obviously, sirthinksalot is referencing the lyric "should i try to do some more?" which is a thinly veiled reference to american imperialistic designs on northwest asia and a subsequent planned invasion of botswana that failed to materialize after the smothers brothers show was unceremonially canceled. Pretty self explanatory, really. Now tell us how swiss cheese really got is holes. Welcome to nowhere and may god bless us, everyone.
The song is very clearly about tripping on acid.
Spooky you tube. I just watched the fantastic cover by Leonard and friends and I was wondering what the title meant
This explanation has been around for some time ...
Nonsense. 25 or 624 were forms of LSD popular in the 70s. Colored lights against the sky, sitting cross-legged on the floor, should I try to do some more? Yeah, tell me that's about a grandfather clock.
If you don’t mind, I’ll believe the guy that wrote it. He has no reason to lie about it 50 years later. His mother and father have passed away.
I heard a different version on how the name came about.
♥
Interviewing the remaining horn section of Chicago about the great Terry Kath is unfair.
Does anyone really know what time it is ...
25 or 6 to 4' I think of Batman in the flash now
Let’s Not Forget
Peter Cetera’s Bass Line and Lead Vocals on
25 or 6 to 4
Yes In Those Days
L25 was LSD and You
Took It Favorably
From 6:00 pm and The Trip Lasted
Too 4:00 am
Hence
25 or 6 to 4
Hey It was a Long Time Ago and I Would Like To See More Bands and Artist Use Some Of Their Abilities To Bring Us Closer Together Than What
The Orange Julius Jesus Has Done To Separate Us
Just My Take 😊
25 or 6 to 4 was written on piano?
Well, he IS the keyboardist, so....
I think Robert Lamm wrote the basic framework of the song on piano and the lyrics, and then all the other musicians in the band created their own instrumental parts for the song in the recording studio, which is how most songs are developed and finished. The guitar work and guitar solo could not have been written on piano and was most certainly created by guitarist Terry Kath. Similarly for the drums and bass guitar. The brass arrangement was likely written by trombonist James Pankow. Lamm gets writing credit because he came up with the initial basic song framework and lyrics, but in reality the creation of songs are a team effort.
So us old hippies thinking that the song was about dropping acid were misled.
So "25 or 26 to 4" means it's 3:35 or 3:34
Leave it to Dan blathers; ruining an interview by bringing up some social issue.
Typical
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I preferred the song without knowing it's based on pretentious political "awareness". Ignorance is bliss.
Does Tom Brokow have a lisp or is his teeth slipping?
Possibly. But Dan Rather is doing the interview..
The first four bars….
Lee and Robert seem like good guys. Pankow does not come across in interviews like a good guy.
I knows its all midwesterner, faced have's, that's certained looked on their's faced when i first visited the states, of illinois, twns, or cities, of chicago's, and their's accents, its... differences too also its so colder there's m... legs, and hands, hurts that's becuz. A situationals i born with crippling bones, diseases, arthritics, i could'nt barely moved m... joints. Its... so stiffness, so i stayed for a whiles n... this cities, chicagos, michigans, av, over crossed the streets, union, stations, on other's sides the stations i hiked fives too sixth blk, too grey hounds stations, 2008s yrs, enjoyed traveling also i will revisited this cities, agained but not able too hog on any trained subways, longer becuz... afraid and n...up falling off platforms, too .