Name that Tune!: Nos. 25 (Chicago, Free Form Guitar) & 26 (Haydn, String Quartet Op.33, No.2 in E flat (The Joke))

[John "Sparky" Prokop]

All right, so these two have nothing to do with each other (except that they are both from my collection). For No.25, please name either the performer or the group. For No.26, composer (natch) and title or at least, its "nickname".

[Joseph Benzola]

Hmmmmmm..... I was thinking Hendrix on # 25 but the recording sounds a bit too modern. Hard to say out of context but that is the point you tricky devil!

[John "Sparky" Prokop]

Joseph Benzola said:

Hmmmmmm..... I was thinking Hendrix on # 25 but the recording sounds a bit too modern. Hard to say out of context but that is the point you tricky devil!

Not Jimi, but, ...sorry I'm going to hold on a clue, but no, it's not Jimi.

[Steve Moshier]

25 - James Blood Ulmer
26 - Joseph Haydn

[John "Sparky" Prokop]

Steve Moshier said:

25 - James Blood Ulmer
26 - Joseph Haydn

James Blood Ulmer: nein.
Joseph Haydn: ja. Funfzig Punkte.

[Greg Hooper]

me too, so is it a strat?

Joseph Benzola said:

Hmmmmmm..... I was thinking Hendrix on # 25 but the recording sounds a bit too modern. Hard to say out of context but that is the point you tricky devil!

[John "Sparky" Prokop]

Greg Hooper said:

me too, so is it a strat?

I just checked the cover: it is a Strat!

[James Ross]

#25 Chicago Free Form Guitar

[James Ross]

Terry Kath was one bad motherfucker, man ...

[John "Sparky" Prokop]

James Ross said:

Terry Kath was one bad motherfucker, man ...

Damn right! What a big surprise! One time, just for fun, I tried mashing "Free Form Guitar" with "Baby What a Big Surprise" but I found I was simply indignifying the former. Yeah, Chicago was not the same after Terry Kath's demise. And after they were dropped from Columbia, well, it just got so treacly that I stopped listening to their subsequent material altogether. Good Chicago: Wishing You Were Here. Bad Chicago: If You Leave Me Now (although I have a little better appreciation of that tune after hearing Butters singing that on an episode of South Park). Good Chicago: Listen, A Hit By Varese, Questions 67 & 68, Now That You've Gone, Mississippi Delta City Blues. Bad Chicago: Colour My World, the rest of side three of the second elpee after 25 or 6 to 4.

Oh yes, 100 smackerinos.

[Joseph Benzola]

Fucking James Ross is ON FIRE!!!!!!! I have not heard that tune in years. Way to go Jim!!!!

James Ross said:

Terry Kath was one bad motherfucker, man ...

[Jeff Harrington]

Dag... I'm lost here... ;*)

[John "Sparky" Prokop]

And here 'tis, in its full glory.

And also "Listen".