Blood On The Rooftops. Wow. The vocals and bass guitar GET me. All of it. Thanks Steve for writing that one.

I found Kansas when I was in middle school...1976-7...I was obsessed. I leaned a lot of new words from them!! Smart lyrics. But my pre-teen, pubesent person was entralled every time I heard Steve's voice! Sexy, sexy!!!!

Champlin breathe life to a Chicago sinking ship. Without Seraphine bringing Foster and Champlin in Chicago, the band would have disbanded in the early 80s

It's Lamm, Lee and Pankow's part of the script - to badmouth ex Chicago members, instead of being grateful. They did it with Peter Cetera, Danny Seraphine, Bill Chan, even Jason Scheff. Insecure and greedy old farts are what's left with the band plus the cover band members

I still consider The Cinema Show as Genesis apex but I get his opinion. Great interview!

Supper’s Ready Close To The Edge Tarkus 2112 Thick As A Brick Echoes Tubular Bells Lizard

I love Chris Whitley. Gone too soon.

My fave! 🏆

Ii heard Skunk say some wonderful things about a handful of drummers, but I didn't get the impression he was holding anyone of them over the others. Did I miss somthing?

Clay for the WolfMan!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I met Mark at a smaller venue in Houma, LA many many moons ago. Such a humble and great faithful guy.

No Farner, No GFR!

I lived close to their Connecticut house in Bloomfield.

And yet, just a few months ago Steve *did* do songs from _Lamb Lies Down On Broadway_ on his tour.

Don't worry Lou. That wasn't our favorite or the greatest Foreigner song. Every hit before that was. Every one of them. We thought it was a girly girl song. It's like Foreigner entered into the worst of 'Journey' type territory. Not cool. None of us guys liked it much. Your vocals were great on it but it didn't make it for us. I'm talking about stoned out hippie rockers like us from the 70s and 80s. Dirty Freakin' White Boys. See what I mean? Speed increases all control is in the hands of Those Who Know... I saw you guys in concert in 1978 and 1982. Before that song even existed. You always kicked ass. Sorry he screwed you out of that song. It should have been 75% you and 25% Mick.. frankny66yroldwhitekid

Would love an interview with Fred Turner or Blair Thornton. Both very elusive members of BTO. I would have a ton of questions for each of them.

Kenny Loggins❤ on the soundtrack of my life.

Around 12:15 you stated that you were just a little voice in the song.......maybe you were according to Mick, but all of your fans know that YOU were Foreigner. YOU were the voice that was famous even before the 4th album. It was YOU! Without your voice, their is no Foreigner.

The best singer after jason is Nick Donell but Peter ceters is Chicago

ARGUABLY the best drummer of all time imo...

You have to have some chops to sing and play Stings bass parts in a Police cover band. Not easy!

Heard he recorded a song called “You” as a Christian song. Would love to know how I can hear/buy it.

Simon is a tremendous drummer.. one of the greats for sure.

Trevor’s songs were the best on Union

Oh, the Jones Beach show. I was there in 1978. I just graduated from high school. It was a miserable drizzly night. But the music was good.

Glen Frey was just a control freak. And I think he was a bit jealous of other band mates musicianship. But that’s just entertainers for you , they all want to be the biggest star. I’ve been an Eagles fan since I first heard of them in 1974 , and Hotel California is one of the reasons I got a guitar and learned how to play it. 👍👍

I would take anything this guy said with a grain of salt. I was at that concert about 50 feet away from the stage on the grass and Foreigner did not headline it was Aerosmith. The lineup was AC/DC, Van Halen. Pat Travers Band, Foreigner and Aerosmith headlined. The show started about 10:30AM.

That’s my grandpa

I was incredibly shy as a kid. I also had a fascination with my grandmother's piano at 4. She was a musician, and I had that gene also. I was drawn to anything about music. I was in chorus, where it was all about singing. I never joined the band though, because I was interested in playing guitar, and they didn't have guitar in the band. I was self-taught, which was enough to get me by. I finally had an opportunity to join my uncle's band, and for the next 30 years I played in bands. The desire to play in a band overcame the shyness I had. I became an extrovert when I was playing, but an introvert when I wasn't.

This is a very diplomatic version of the Doobie story. In previous interviews, both Skunk and Michael McDonald have said they couldn't deal with each other - Skunk wanted to play jazzy progressive stuff, and Michael wanted straight R&B/pop, and so pushed him out of the band.

In Cleveland, we NEVER thought that way about Kid Leo from WMMS!!! He was a very popular dj in Cleveland and loved. Rush and Triumph were quite popular in Cleveland,

I would suggest that the desire to compete is innate in every one of us. I know in my case, wanting to do some activity, whatever it is, brings rise to wanting to do it well….its not a choice, its an omnipresent natural drive - and then to compete against others and win is, to me, genetically programmed in all of us. The mask comes when you BEND or ALTER ETHICS and/or PRINCIPLES for commerce and economic reasons. Any time you change 0.00001% of your ethics, morals, principles and dna 🧬 given perspectives you are indeed wearing a mask - usually to gain popularity, attention or money.

I went to a Kinks concert back in 1977 (great show, by the way). The opening act was a new band I had never heard of before and they rocked the place leaving an impression of a band that was likely on the way to becoming a very much "known" act. What a great experience it was to see "Cheap Trick" in the beginning stages of a long, long career. My wife keeps telling me, "If Cheap Trick plays a concert we can get to, let's go!" She wasn't even born yet in 1977 and it impresses me she is into this band. My response is, "Yes, we will!"

I attended several Sons of Champlain shows while he was still in Chicago, he would piss and moan about his "other band" like he was too good for them. He burned a lot of bridges...Mic Gillette didn't have kind words to say about Bill.

Billy is amazing and such a humble man.

Phenomenal musicians!!! Smoking’!!!

Check out Dwayne Gretzky from Toronto,Ontario,Canada.

I adore Lenoid and Friends. I know he transcribes each instrument by ear, but why can't he get the sheet music?

Hurt you didn't mention our trio as one of your dream bands. It was then but that was 25 years ago

Any reason why the song Angela was never mentioned in the video? One of my all-time favorite Toto songs. I was really looking forward to what David Paich had to say about it. Maybe next interview...... Thanks John for the video. It was great to watch.

I saw Chicago earlier this year. I was really pleasantly surprised at how much of "Chicago Transit Authority" was in the set list. One of the greatest debut album of all time.

The Reaper has the Byrds sound.

I was SO excited when Bernie came back !!!..

It's not Jethro Tull without Martin Barre. Ian shouldn't have treated him like that.

I'd argue the name "Jethro Tull" became used for Ian Anderson after This Was. That album should have been called "This Was Jethro Tull". Barre is a genius and created fantastic riffs, but Tull has always been Anderson's band since Stand Up.

As a young guitarist I waiting with bated breath for Rik’s article in Guitar Player magazine…you don’t need that guitar kid, you haven’t earned this guitar yet. Good stuff.

John, I appreciate your channel and especially when you feature Toto. If you do continue going back and featuring the past albums and you cover Hydra, can you possibly find out the truth about the supposed concept that the band had where it was going to be a double album where the first song Hydra was going to take up the entire first side of the first album? I remember reading that many years ago but have not heard any confirmation from the band. As a big fan, I can honestly say that a twenty plus minute version of the song Hydra would have been amazing. Yes, a bit pretentious possibly, but what an idea. Even hearing them playing during the fade out you can tell there was a lot more there. And like you, I love the Fahrenheit and The Seventh One albums. So, any new info on those releases would be cool as well.

Henry besides being the greatest showman and musician I have ever met, is also one of the greatest human being

" Kansas was my first concert back in 1975 along with foghat. In a place called the capital passic New Jersey.

Rik was a tremendous influence - I had no idea he was a “Stoney” for a period there, but that’s ok. I would love to continue smoking weed, AND cigarettes but it just takes too much of a toll at age 61. I am reading his book now and it is fantastic - I love the messages and the philosophy. Very very impressed with how the “partnership” worked when all was copacetic. Tremendous player and singer, Rik is!