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Laudir de Oliveira, a Brazilian percussionist who played with Chicago from 1973-1982, has died aged 77. He played on their albums Chicago VI until Chicago XIV. Their biggest hit was If You Leave Me Now, which went to #1 in the UK and USA, as well as Australia and Canada.

 

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3 minutes ago, Thatcher said:

Laudir de Oliveira, a Brazilian percussionist who played with Chicago from 1973-1982, has died aged 77. 

Link requires some sort of sign in, unavailable to read for me.

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8 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Link requires some sort of sign in, unavailable to read for me.

Does it work if you try the original?

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1 minute ago, Thatcher said:

Does it work if you try the original

Nope, some kind of facebook thing comes up and freezes the page. :huh:

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14 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Nope, some kind of facebook thing comes up and freezes the page. :huh:

That's strange, it's working alright for me. Here is the tweet from their account which announces the death, maybe we'll have to wait for another source to provide an obituary.

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14 hours ago, Thatcher said:

Laudir de Oliveira, a Brazilian percussionist who played with Chicago from 1973-1982, has died aged 77. He played on their albums Chicago VI until Chicago XIV. Their biggest hit was If You Leave Me Now, which went to #1 in the UK and USA, as well as Australia and Canada.

 

Pretty damn sure Chicago needs no introduction.

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I fucking hate that song! I was eight years old and it was playing every hour on the radio. 

 

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21 minutes ago, Whitehouse said:

I fucking hate that song! I was eight years old and it was playing every hour on the radio. 

 

I'm with you on that one. I actually hate Chicago as a whole, but only because of the anus vocals that sound like Chad Kroeger trying to do a Pee Wee Herman impression.

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1 hour ago, Whitehouse said:

I fucking hate that song!

 

That makes three of us.  It has bad associations.

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It doesn't have bad associations for me, I just think it's shite.

 

RIP anyhow.

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I like it

Fuck you all. :D

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Well, it was on the bloody radio all the time following the sudden and traumatic death of a friend, so you can probably understand where I'm coming from.

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I think it's a nice cheesy song but whenever I see their TV appearance from 1976 performing it, I always think "that's why punk had to happen..."

 

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18 hours ago, FixedBusiness said:

I'm with you on that one. I actually hate Chicago as a whole, but only because of the anus vocals that sound like Chad Kroeger trying to do a Pee Wee Herman impression.

 

 

To be fair - really early Chicago were an ambitious bunch hell-bent on pushing the same limits the likes of Blood, Sweat and Tears were pushing; it's just that hits and radio play were essential because there were so fucking many of them on stage; so the blanding out was inevitable.

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20 hours ago, Toast said:

Well, it was on the bloody radio all the time following the sudden and traumatic death of a friend, so you can probably understand where I'm coming from.

I do Toastie.

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Is there already a thread for completely dead rock bands? I mean bands like Jimi Hendrix Experience or Emerson, Lake & Powell? Which band will be next – Bee Gees?

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13 minutes ago, bladan said:

Is there already a thread for completely dead rock bands? I mean bands like Jimi Hendrix Experience or Emerson, Lake & Powell? Which band will be next – Bee Gees?

There was a discussion about it in the Eric Clapton thread.

Neu can be a good choice, but I don't know if Michael Rother is old/ill enough.

The Stooges is also close to it.

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1 minute ago, Thatcher said:

Dead.

Ah, FFS...

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This teaches you to never underestimate colithis, expecially if you are a deadpooler.

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