{"id":12401,"date":"2014-06-22T14:15:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=12401"},"modified":"2014-06-22T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:15:03","slug":"chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2014\/06\/chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"CHICAGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12402\" alt=\"M-31-ENCORE\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/M-31-ENCORE.jpg\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/M-31-ENCORE.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/M-31-ENCORE-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>THE FACES OF CHICAGO WERE UNKNOWN TO MANY when photographer Norman Seeff shot this L.A. session for the band\u2019s 1978 album, <i>Hot Streets<\/i>. \u201cAll their previous covers featured graphic renditions of their logo,\u201d he says. \u201cNo one ever saw the band.\u201d When a \u201cmob of guys\u201d arrived at his studio, Seeff feared he had his work cut out for him. \u201cWhen you have a large group\u2014and a square album cover\u2014one challenge is how to squeeze everyone in,\u201d he explains. \u201cIt requires physical intimacy\u2014band members nearly have to sit in each other\u2019s laps\u2014and sometimes you encounter some tension.\u201d Not with this mob. \u201cIt was almost like football,\u201d muses Seeff. \u201cOne guy would piggyback on another and run across the studio, and someone would tackle them. They were like overgrown adolescents\u2014really fun.\u201d The loose session with the horn-driven group yielded stunning images. \u201cThere was a kind of equity among them,\u201d Seeff adds. \u201cYou could sense mutual respect for one another\u2019s musicianship. They were a true ensemble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE FACES OF CHICAGO WERE UNKNOWN TO MANY when photographer Norman Seeff shot this L.A. session for the band\u2019s 1978 album, Hot Streets. \u201cAll their previous covers featured graphic renditions of their logo,\u201d he says. \u201cNo one ever saw the band.\u201d When a \u201cmob of guys\u201d arrived at his studio, Seeff feared he had his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5264],"tags":[7423,7328],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12401"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12403,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12401\/revisions\/12403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}