So funny you mention that --- I was listening to Chicago Transit Authority
this morning on the way into work, and was going to put that up as a buried
treasure.

--- Barry Schlom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jaimie Vernon [mailto:bullseyecanada@hotmail.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:15 PM
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: What are some of your Buried Treasures?
> 
> 
> AT Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:09:09 Mike Vancha wrote:
> 
> >Joe, have you checked out the other productions of Foster at 
> about the 
> >same
> >time? The Tubes and >couple of Chicago albums have Foster's 
> songs and 
> >arrangments.
> 
> Chicago hit a career low when Foster came in, fired the 
> band's longstanding 
> horn section, and brought in LA session players to back Peter 
> Cetera (can't 
> remember which Chicago album is was....IX, X, XI, EIEIO?). 
> That same year, 
> 1985, saw him destroy what was left of The Payola$ street 
> cred by having 
> members Bob Rock and Paul Hyde co-wrote such banal ditties 
> like "Stuck In 
> The Rain Again" and "It Must Be Love" with him. It didn't 
> help that A & M 
> Records insisted they change their name (after a 7 year 
> existance) to PAUL 
> HYDE & The Payola$ to downplay that forgettable black cloud 
> in American 
> radio history.
> 
> Foster's insistence in grafting his milktoast piano concerto 
> style onto 
> every record he produces can be summed up in a quote from his 
> old rockabilly 
> band leader Ronnie Hawkins: "David Foster is the greatest 
> piano player since 
> Beethoven. But he can't play "Roll Over Beethoven" worth a 
> shit. That's why 
> I fired him."
> 
> Foster was the piano player who replaced Frank "Music Box 
> Dancer" Mills in 
> Skylark...who gave us that early '70s moonglow ditty 
> "Wildfire". So there's 
> been no hope for the careers of anyone associated with him since....
> 
> 
> Jaimie Vernon,
> President,
> Bullseye Records of Canada, Inc.
> http://www.bullseyecanada.com
> "Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!"
> 
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