What's Up - Your guide to what's happening in Fayetteville, AR this week!
Issue link: http://www.epageflip.net/i/1471106
night is a little bit different from the last," Loughnane says. "It's amazing how the venues change, sound-wise, volume-wise, sometimes it's just really great. You're indoors, and it's controlled. You can hear each other, and it's just more musical. And sometimes you just play and 'get 'er done." One constant over the five decades is the fans. "[The fans] haven't really changed all that much other than growing up with us. The people who were seeing us in the '70s got married, had kids, and then they start bringing their kids, and the kids liked what they're hearing, and then they grew up, they got married and had kids, and they're bringing their kids. So other than that, and we have people from 10 years old to 70 years old, in the audience, and they're all digging on it and they're loving it." After being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and winning multiple Grammys, Loughnane says it's still a thrill to hear so many people singing their long list of hits back to them. "When you write a song, you're hoping that anybody else besides yourself will like it. So to have this many people share some sort of enjoyment with the tunes that you've written is pretty cool," he adds. With 21 top 10 singles — five of them gold — 25 certified platinum albums and more a million albums sold, the biggest hurdle is playing the songs that everyone wants to hear. "It's amazing that we can get away with it sometimes, not playing 'If You Leave Me Now' or 'Hard Habit to Break.' Sometimes the sets are shorter because of the venue that we're playing. So we have to leave a few songs out. And nobody ever actually complains. They go, 'Oh, I wish you would have done this song or that song,' but they had a good time with the show," Loughnane laughs. He adds that they always have to play "Saturday in the Park." They often close with "25 or 6 to 4." Chicago will release their 38th album, "Born for This Moment," on July 15. The single, "If This is Goodbye," is available to stream now. The latest album was tricky to put together because of the pandemic. While they adapted their record- making process to be able to record on the road in the past, Loughnane says this album presented new challenges. "Because of the pandemic we never had actually got in the studio together for any length of time; the only time we got together was with the brass in my studio in Sedona," he adds. "The benefit of being in the studio together is that when you play something together, you can adjust it here or there. It's so much harder to do when you're putting a file together, and then you email it to somebody else. And then they put in their thing. You can't really talk to each other. So in that way, this was the weirdest album that we have ever recorded. "I would hope that, you know, after the pandemic, when we record again, we'll be able to get in the studio and just bounce ideas off each other like the old days. But it still came out sounding pretty damn good." 4 WHAT'S UP! JUNE 19-25, 2022 ROGERS Chicago Continued From Page 3 Three original members, Robert Lamm on keyboards, Lee Loughnane on trumpet and James Pankow on trombone, are back on the road with Chicago, stopping June 21 at the Walmart Arkansas Music Pavilion. (Courtesy Photo/WAC)