Chicago - 50th Anniversary box set of previously unreleased live recordings?

I remembered as it was one of my last posts before going off to sleep for 12 hours. Exciting news, on the heels of the documentary finally being released.
Terry and I came from the same neighborhood, and attended the same schools. A fan since 1967.
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Agreed. That 1975 set was a huge disappointment.

 

I like a lot of the performances in that set, but the sound is not great. A good system helps clarify the murk some. Still, a disappointment. I wonder what happened. Andrew Sandoval mixed it and Charles Benson mastered it.

 

Sounds exciting! And I just started listening to Chicago two weeks ago! Love this band already.

 

Hoping for some news on this.

 

Let me guess this will be an Oct/Nov 2018 release for the Christmas shopping season.

 

I hope some the 1970 Tanglewood performances will be included?

 

Hat Tip to IMWAN website:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079PT1MW...2025&sr=8-1&keywords=Chicago:+VI+Decades+Live

 

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B079PT1MW...2025&sr=8-1&keywords=Chicago:+VI+Decades+Live

• Audio CD (March 30, 2018)
• Number of Discs: 5
• Label: Rhino Records
• ASIN: B079PT1MWV

 

Very interesting. The curation on this is going to be make-or-break.

 

Great news - I'll be in the line for this.

 

This could be anywhere from great to horrible. I know, I know... but it's true.

I am guessing one live disc from the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s and 00's?

 

Hoping to not be disappointed.

 

I'm not looking forward to a set with the 80's,90's etc. I did not think there was any chance the current leadership of the band would put out a live set from just the 60's or 70's of
the original band. With the other years being included it's just going to inflate the price to get what we really want to hear.

I'll also echo other posts in saying that I sure hope this sounds better than the 1975 release.
Let's face it Chicago and Rhino as a whole do not have a good track record as far as sound goes.

 

Me too. I’ll know soon enough as I’ve preordered.

 

This track list was on Amazon.ca, though it's gone now - so take it FWIW:

Disc: 1
Introduction
South California Purples
Beginnings
In The Country
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? (Free Form Intro)
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Mother

Disc: 2
It Better End Soon
Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon
25 Or 6 To 4
I'm A Man

Disc: 3
Poem For The People
25 Or 6 To 4
Liberation
Goodbye
Now That You've Gone
A Hit By Varèse
If You Leave Me Now
Takin' It On Uptown

Disc: 4
Hot Streets
Little One
Forever
Medley: In The Midnight Hour, Knock On Wood, I'm A Man, Get
You're Not Alone
The Pull
In The Mood
Don't Get Around Much Anymore
Look Away (Acoustic)
America

Disc: 5
Anyway You Want
Saturday In The Park
Skin Tight
Just You 'N' Me
Hope For Love
You Are On My Mind
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon
Beginnings
Scrapbook
A Hit By Varese
Call On Me
Takin' It On Uptown
If You Leave Me Now
Once Or Twice
(I've Been) Searchin' So Long
25 Or 6 To 4
Got To Get You Into My Life
I'm A Man

 

Disc 5 look interesting. I notice Anyway You Want, Hope For Love & Once Or Twice coming from a show with Terry Kath. I can't say for sure but did the post Kath & Cetera
band ever do those tracks live? I also see Little One on disc 4....would be nice to get a live version of that.
If that last disc is from the Kath era it looks like only part of disc 3 would be post Terry Kath.... here's to that possibility!

 

Oh my goodness! Release around late March. Hope I can afford this.

 

Disc 5 has so many more songs than the others that I'm wondering if it's a DVD (meaning VIDEO.) Anyone know?

 

Hmm yeah could be DVD / BluRay. Maybe some gig from 1976?

 

After looking at that disc again I thought that also....looks like way to many to be audio tracks. Some of those are long tracks.Good point williamjoel

 

Gotta be footage on the final disc. Could discs 1 and 2 be one entire early performance? Isle of Wight?

 

Disc 5 is a DVD of a Rockpalast appearance from February 1977, with a bonus from Chicago in the Rockies tv special.

 

Interesting set lists.