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Video from the band CTA - California Transit
Authority. Check it out. A must for fans of the
band CTA, Chicago and Danny Seraphine.
CTA's 'Full Circle' Now Available at Borders &
Online!
Drummer Danny Seraphine's trip back to the future,
effectively tipping his hat to his past as a
founding member of the Grammy award-winning band
Chicago CTA's 'Full Circle' Now Available at
Borders & Online!
CTA (California Transit Authority) is drummer
Danny Seraphine's trip back to the future,
effectively tipping his hat to his past as a
founding member of the Grammy award-winning band
Chicago, with his feet firmly planted in the here
and now. Aptly titled 'Full Circle', California
Transit Authority's debut album brings Seraphine
back to his roots.
While CTA revisits early Chicago classics "Make Me
Smile" and "Colour My World" on 'Full Circle', CTA
isn't just a nostalgia trip. For example, "Make Me
Smile" has been transformed into an instrumental,
with Marc Bonilla recreating the vocal lines on
guitar. In addition, Bonilla has also re-imagined
many of Chicago's classic horn parts on his
guitar. Another twist is vocalist Larry Braggs,
the voice of Tower of Power since 2000.
Aside from the re-workings of the Chicago tracks,
'Full Circle' revisits Bonilla's "Antonio's Love
Jungle," which is given new life as Seraphine's
human touch replaces the original's drum-machine
rhythms; as well as "Something Different," the
Cannonball Adderley track composed by a young
Chuck Mangione. On "I'm The Man," guest artists
Sheila E. (on timbales), Alex Acuna (on congas),
and Keith Emerson (organ solo) make an appearance.
And a new original track, "Several Thousand,"
features guest vocalist Wes Quave.
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CTA (California Transit Authority) is: Danny
Seraphine (drums), Larry Braggs (lead vocals),
Marc Bonilla (guitar), Peter Fish (keyboards),
Edward Harris Roth (keyboards), Mick Mahan (bass)
and Walter Rodriguez (congas)
http://www.ctatheband.com
http://www.myspace.com/ctatheband
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Exclusively at your local Borders store
http://www.bordersstores.com/search/title_detail.j
sp?id=57297749&srchTerms=CTA&mediaType=0&srchType=
Keyword
"Full Circle" on iTunes
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/
viewAlbum?id=260786152&s=143441
"Full Circle" on Napster
http://free.napster.com/view/artist/index.html?id=
12402656
"Full Circle" on emusic
http://www.emusic.com/album/CTA-California-Transit
-Authority-Full-Circle-MP3-Download/11074678.html
"Full Circle" on Rhapsody
http://www.rhapsody.com/ctacaliforniatransitauthor
ity/fullcircle
Tags : CTA California Transit Authority Chicago Danny Seraphine Marc Bonilla Jazz Funk Rock Drummer |
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Affichage : 10188
Durée : 328 s |
| I hate the CTA |
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sometimes public transportation just sucks. i
don't hate the cta. this song and amv was done for
pure randomness. good times
artist:() all i know for sure is a morning fix
parody son (See below)
anime: 5cm a second
ps.
somebody who i cannot contact back sent me, a
message. it goes as follows.
"I sent an e-mail to Alan, the Q101 host, and
asked him if he'd be kind enough to let us know
who the singer was. He was good enough to respond:
"It was written and recorded by Q101's production
whiz Ned Spindle."
how true it is...idk, good times i spose? when i
get time i will try to verify this info. *Shrug*
Tags : 5cm second punk rock hate the CTA q101 morning fix parody song |
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Affichage : 3522
Durée : 76 s |
| CTA Rapid Transit of Old |
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You guys who are freaking out about the CTA's
"doomsday" service cuts ain't seen nothin'.
Compare the faded CTA route map from the '30's to
a map from about 1964.
Some north and west side lines had stations every
TWO BLOCKS. What is now the Skokie Swift (formerly
part of the now-gone North Shore Line's Skokie
Valley Route) actually had intermediate stations
between Howard and Dempster. There was a Humboldt
Park El line that branched off west from the old
Milwaukee line (now the elevated portion of the
O'Hare Blue Line). The Garfield Park el line,
which the Congress Blue Line replaced, went west
off the Van Buren leg of the Loop, dropped to
grade level at Laramie, and went past Desplaines
all the way to 22nd and Mannheim (its old route
west of Desplaines is roughly the route of the
soon-to-be-axed 17 Westchester bus.) Part of the
Garfield 'L's route was also used by the defunct
Chicago, Aurora and Elgin interurban.
On the south side, there was a Stockyards/Kenwood
el at roughly 40th St., whose transfer point to
downtown was the current Indiana Green Line
station. There was also a short branch off the
Englewood line south to 69th St. The Jackson Park
line went all the way to the edge of the Park at
Stony Island before its bridge over the IC tracks
was judged to be too dilapidated to repair; the
line was eventually cut back to Cottage Grove
about 10 years ago.
They're all gone now, along with the Isabella
station on the Evanston Purple Line.
All of these el line, interurban and station
closings except the Isabella and North Shore Line
and the Jackson Park cutback, plus the death of
streetcar service, happened between the end of
World War II and 1960. And you thought YOU had to
deal with service cutbacks?
The bus line that runs by my house, the 24
Wentworth, lost night and weekend service in the
1997 cutbacks. If the Red Line el isn't running, I
have to walk 3 blocks east to State Street to
catch the #29 (a dicey proposition when Robert
Taylor Homes was still standing) or walk 6 blocks
west to Halsted through Canaryville to catch the
#8 (a dicey proposition times two). Things are
tough all over.
Tags : Chicago Transit Authority RTA CTA route map rapid transit trains cutbacks service doomsday budget 1930 1940 1950 1960 |
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Durée : 108 s |
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