Jimmy is a great guy!! I worked on the ranch in !976. He let me stay at a place called "Forest Lakes for about a year. It was so much fun with rock stars bounding around every corner.
Did you have a yellow VW. I worked there 76-77. And yes, Jimmy is a great guy! I was always going to go back for a visit and never got around to it. Great people.
I delivered the cedar lumber used to build the recording studio. I loaded it up from a railroad siding in Louisville and drove it up Boulder Canyon to Caribou Ranch. Jim was super nice and not prententious at all -- just a regular guy building his dream. He thought it was a nice coincidence that I went to a free Chicago Transit Authority concert in Venice at the beach in '69. I was tripp;ing on LSD and Jim thought it was cool that the bands music was generating super psychedelic visions from Kath's guitar and the horn section. Later on, he took me on a tour of the finished studio and I was amazed at all the gold records.
Y’all can visit parts of Caribou because it’s publicly owned now. Go there, you can feel the vibe to this day. This rare interview tells us more about those days, what it was like both in all the connections, production and engineering at the time. Very very special place and time.
The only part that one can ck out is the DeLonde homestead ranch house in the next valley over from the main ranch. This is where the first tv special "Chicago in the Rockies" was filmed, They played on the east porch of the house. It still looks the same as back then. The main ranch, the old barn studio and grounds are privately owned and off limits to public. The studio was shut down and dismantled in 1985
The names Jim's mentioning like Frank Zappa , Al Cooper, Canned Heat, Gene Pitney, The Buckinghams, all are world famous artists...*names* great hearing stories about those times...it's a shame this interviewster Patricia doesn't know who he's talking about! great stories.
Guess sometimes Jim is painted as the heavy in the Chicago story. He was a man with vision, and drive and in my opinion he made that band happen. That takes control, loyalty and doing things people just don't get. Electra Glide in Blue...genius. Caribou Ranch...genius. Chicago...genius. What do those things have in common....JG.
And don’t forget Blood, Sweat & Tears and JG’s production of their Grammy award winning album. That album’s success is what earned him Major Respect from suits at Columbia records. After that JG got the green light to go ahead and produce the band he REALLY wanted to produce - Chicago Transit Authority.
Chicago is also painted as being wildly independent until Foster showed up. They weren't. Guercio was driving just like Foster drove. Chicago always had to have a driver. They never actually did it on their own.
There wouldn’t be Chicago without Guercio. But he could’ve been more generous with the split. The band didn’t help themselves with 10 or more divorces across the original 7.
1:19 Patty Calhoun/Westword. 4:53 Zappa connection. 14:39 Bill Szymczyk, Joe Walsh/Barnstorm. 17:05 studio design Tom Hidley / Westlake Audio 21:52 recorded Paul for "Ram". 23:03 BST album beat Abbey Road for album Grammy. 28:53 some singers could sing 6-8 notes higher at altitude. 29:28 physicist / producer / engineer Tom Dowd on high-elevation sound. 41:56 America @ Caribou w/Geoff Emerick, George Martin. 45:22 Roger Daltrey visited CR, pressed Jim to feed pond trout. 47:05 Stevie Wonder driving at CR? Drove Jim's Jeep. (Elton John has said Stevie drove snowmobile at CR) 48:35 March 1985 fire. Didn't like digital sound. 50:22 has Caribou Springs big cattle ranch in SE Montana.
Hard to say what would've happened had he kept being their producer. Terry still would've died, drugs would've taken over. Would he have stopped their drug usage? We'll never know.
This guy was such a hero of mine back in the 70's; especially when none of my peers had a clue who he was. I also knew of the Buckinghams/Chicago connection through the keyboard player for the Buck's that had left a great regional band with Peter Cetera. However, I never knew until tonight that Jimmy Geurcio was the producer for the Buck's.
Glad to see this FINALLY got uploaded as I missed the live airing of it. However Ms Calhoun (the host) sucks. This request to interview seemed to be presented to JWG as a listener Q & A session and Jim kept asking Calhoun " Where are the questions?" .."Can we have some peoples questions here ??" She keeps doing her own scripted questions, interupting JWG many times. Terrible !. A bit disrespectful to Jim G and he rightly gets a little frustrated . Fortunately for us, Jim is the humble person he has always been thruout the decades of 'fame' and 'fortune'. As you can see when telling the stories of the CR etc he shows the down to earth guy that he always was.
I think we wouldn't have heard as much of Chicago (Transit Authority) had it not been for JWG. Other than Terry Kath's death, I don't know what else fell apart in the late 70's, but Guercio's dismissal didn't help.
This person literally knows nothing. How does she not know Patrick Leonard? Like...LOL! Her questions are all "how did this person get there." She had nothing of her own that I noticed. All the questions were vapid so it doesn't matter who came up with them. Thankfully, Guercio just felt like talking and just letting him go was the right course of action. She kept trying to interrupt and he either didn't care or he couldn't hear her. Maybe a little of both.
The problem with this interview is Patty Calhoun- just can't stand her personality, she stops him, interrupts and clearly is completely void in any deep musical knowledge or history of Caribou. Very glad Westword no longer carries the weight it once did, Very poor journalism.
Agreed....I'm not even to the 7 minute mark and it's a wonder I made it that far...very annoying...not even going to bother watching the rest...just ruins it for me. What a shame.
Thank you from all us Chicago fans!🎶
Jimmy is a great guy!! I worked on the ranch in !976. He let me stay at a place called "Forest Lakes for about a year. It was so much fun with rock stars bounding around every corner.
Did you have a yellow VW. I worked there 76-77. And yes, Jimmy is a great guy! I was always going to go back for a visit and never got around to it. Great people.
I delivered the cedar lumber used to build the recording studio. I loaded it up from a railroad siding in Louisville and drove it up Boulder Canyon to Caribou Ranch. Jim was super nice and not prententious at all -- just a regular guy building his dream. He thought it was a nice coincidence that I went to a free Chicago Transit Authority concert in Venice at the beach in '69. I was tripp;ing on LSD and Jim thought it was cool that the bands music was generating super psychedelic visions from Kath's guitar and the horn section. Later on, he took me on a tour of the finished studio and I was amazed at all the gold records.
@@geraldlavelle3337 Very cool, thanks
Fascinating man. I could listen all day. So many names and I loved "Electra Glide".
What a memory! I wish I could interview him.
Caribou Ranch auction (Jan. 2015 Denver Design Center) was interesting, bittersweet
Y’all can visit parts of Caribou because it’s publicly owned now. Go there, you can feel the vibe to this day. This rare interview tells us more about those days, what it was like both in all the connections, production and engineering at the time. Very very special place and time.
The only part that one can ck out is the DeLonde homestead ranch house in the next valley over from the main ranch. This is where the first tv special "Chicago in the Rockies" was filmed, They played on the east porch of the house. It still looks the same as back then. The main ranch, the old barn studio and grounds are privately owned and off limits to public. The studio was shut down and dismantled in 1985
The names Jim's mentioning like Frank Zappa , Al Cooper, Canned Heat, Gene Pitney, The Buckinghams, all are world famous artists...*names* great hearing stories about those times...it's a shame this interviewster Patricia doesn't know who he's talking about! great stories.
Mrguercioshouldbeintherockandrollhalloffame,period!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤
Just listened to Chicago concerts online in the 70s here on RUclips!
YES...I sure heard of a guy named Gene Pitney..great singer!
Guess sometimes Jim is painted as the heavy in the Chicago story. He was a man with vision, and drive and in my opinion he made that band happen. That takes control, loyalty and doing things people just don't get. Electra Glide in Blue...genius. Caribou Ranch...genius. Chicago...genius. What do those things have in common....JG.
And don’t forget Blood, Sweat & Tears and JG’s production of their Grammy award winning album. That album’s success is what earned him Major Respect from suits at Columbia records. After that JG got the green light to go ahead and produce the band he REALLY wanted to produce - Chicago Transit Authority.
Chicago is also painted as being wildly independent until Foster showed up. They weren't. Guercio was driving just like Foster drove. Chicago always had to have a driver. They never actually did it on their own.
There wouldn’t be Chicago without Guercio. But he could’ve been more generous with the split. The band didn’t help themselves with 10 or more divorces across the original 7.
I really enjoyed the stories! Thank you!
Please please please write a book, James!
Nice little story about The Beatles. Both John and Paul were great guys.
1:19 Patty Calhoun/Westword. 4:53 Zappa connection. 14:39 Bill Szymczyk, Joe Walsh/Barnstorm. 17:05 studio design Tom Hidley / Westlake Audio 21:52 recorded Paul for "Ram". 23:03 BST album beat Abbey Road for album Grammy. 28:53 some singers could sing 6-8 notes higher at altitude. 29:28 physicist / producer / engineer Tom Dowd on high-elevation sound. 41:56 America @ Caribou w/Geoff Emerick, George Martin. 45:22 Roger Daltrey visited CR, pressed Jim to feed pond trout. 47:05 Stevie Wonder driving at CR? Drove Jim's Jeep. (Elton John has said Stevie drove snowmobile at CR) 48:35 March 1985 fire. Didn't like digital sound. 50:22 has Caribou Springs big cattle ranch in SE Montana.
Thank you.
Chicago really lost their creative spark when James Guercio stopped managing them. He was their rock
Hard to say what would've happened had he kept being their producer. Terry still would've died, drugs would've taken over. Would he have stopped their drug usage? We'll never know.
He also took 51% of what the band made and left the other 49% for the other 7 guys to split amongst themselves.
This guy was such a hero of mine back in the 70's; especially when none of my peers had a clue who he was. I also knew of the Buckinghams/Chicago connection through the keyboard player for the Buck's that had left a great regional band with Peter Cetera. However, I never knew until tonight that Jimmy Geurcio was the producer for the Buck's.
Glad to see this FINALLY got uploaded as I missed the live airing of it. However Ms Calhoun (the host) sucks. This request to interview seemed to be presented to JWG as a listener Q & A session and Jim kept asking Calhoun " Where are the questions?" .."Can we have some peoples questions here ??" She keeps doing her own scripted questions, interupting JWG many times. Terrible !. A bit disrespectful to Jim G and he rightly gets a little frustrated . Fortunately for us, Jim is the humble person he has always been thruout the decades of 'fame' and 'fortune'. As you can see when telling the stories of the CR etc he shows the down to earth guy that he always was.
Induct leftover salmon Vince Herman
I think we wouldn't have heard as much of Chicago (Transit Authority) had it not been for JWG. Other than Terry Kath's death, I don't know what else fell apart in the late 70's, but Guercio's dismissal didn't help.
Guercio's production on Chicago albums were far superior to what David Foster did.
Unfortunate, try to avoid next time: Patty's camera out of focus, constant conversation collision ☹️ (internet latency?)
This person literally knows nothing. How does she not know Patrick Leonard? Like...LOL! Her questions are all "how did this person get there." She had nothing of her own that I noticed. All the questions were vapid so it doesn't matter who came up with them. Thankfully, Guercio just felt like talking and just letting him go was the right course of action. She kept trying to interrupt and he either didn't care or he couldn't hear her. Maybe a little of both.
The problem with this interview is Patty Calhoun- just can't stand her personality, she stops him, interrupts and clearly is completely void in any deep musical knowledge or history of Caribou. Very glad Westword no longer carries the weight it once did, Very poor journalism.
Agreed....I'm not even to the 7 minute mark and it's a wonder I made it that far...very annoying...not even going to bother watching the rest...just ruins it for me. What a shame.
@@rickmontgomery3037 I'm just here for Chicago.
the song foreign policy williamguerico the song should got nobil peace price at the time bucking hams
Crook.