Reader Jim M left a comment on the "Dreams" post and recommended "Leonid and Friends"
Holy shit... These guys cover Chicago better than Chicago did Chicago.....
I found their webpage and they are Touring the USA. >>>>> LINK<<<
ETA...The show near me is sold , Fuck. I went to buy tickets.
You are welcome! BTW...John Huntsman, former US Ambassador to Russia played keyboards on a gig with them in Moscow. Check out the gal singer on their original music. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1zNRIs0OiM
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I have 2 of Leonid and Friends' CDs. This is the rare cover band that sounds BETTER than the original. Plus Ksenia Buzina is VERY pleasant to look at. Check their cover of Earth Wind and Fire's "September" and just stand back.
ReplyDeleteWow. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteGot turned on to these cats about three months ago, would LOVE to actually see them live!
ReplyDeleteAccording to the old guy that started the group, some of the singers DON'T KNOW English - they learned to sing it by ear. I wonder if they speak English now.
Also, they couldn't find any sheet music so they had to transcribe it by listening to the albums!
They are brancing out into Earth, Wind, and Fire among some other artists...
See: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVXUlV86bAM
Saw them live in November of 2019. They are WELL worth seeing.
ReplyDeleteI was introduced to them by a friend who linked a video - their sax player looked enough like a mutual friend that I thought it actually was our friend Pete. As to language, the extraordinarily beautiful Ksenia Buzina is Siberian, speaks and sings in Chinese as well as , I think, 4 or 5 other languages. What a talented bunch. And yes I looked into tickets too late to see them as well.
ReplyDeleteHoly cow! This is like smack!
ReplyDeleteAnd coming to Dallas in October!
I just lost about an hour listening to their music. Well not lost. :-D
Damn, that's scary. Hope they succeed in keeping Chicago's music alive. Was WAY too good to let it fade into the dustbin of history.
ReplyDeleteWe used to get WLS to come in at night back when John Records Landecker was the evening DJ and one night, he went off on an epic rant about bubble-gum music. Clearly he hated it with a passion and said if you people would just quit buying this junk, I wouldn't have to play it, and so on and so forth, and eventually he went to commercial. When the commercial ended, South California Purples started up and as it was coming to conclusion, I'm A Man started up playing over the top of it and these were the full album versions as well. At the conclusion of I'm A Man, another commercial started up and all this without Landecker saying a single word. Woof-ta. Take that, you pissant teenie-boppers!
DeleteNice. The Chicago sound is timeless, with the horns and 'their' rhythms. Supposed to be 'boomer music'...and I'm OK with that.
ReplyDeleteThe vocalist was great. I saw Chicago before Terry Kath passed away. Amazing Amazing show. After Kath passed away Chicago had Cetera doing vocals and they went soft rock. Compare their early albums to their stuff after Kath passed away. They sucked. Weepy soft rock, suck suck sucks.
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