While I had Chicago X, (Greatest Hits) on open reel tape, I was not a huge Chicago fan, and their “After All That We’ve Been Through” was REALLY overplayed IN Chicago during my freshman year at U of C. That said, “Leonid and Friends” forced me to take another look, and to appreciate the musicianship that created the songs even if I thought they started to sound like each other after a while.
I thought V was their peak, but by VIII, they started to get stale, especially since Bobby Lamm didn’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.