There are a lot of Chicago songs that I love (and quite a few I don't care for), but "Dialogue (Part I & II)" is the best. It was on their 1972 album Chicago V. Keyboardist Robert Lamm wrote it, and it's sung by guitarist Terry Kath and bassist Peter Cetera. It wasn't as big of a hit as the other single off that album, "Saturday in the Park," but it's the one I'd rather listen to about once a week fifty years later. This version was recorded at the Arie Crown Theater in Chicago in 1972.
Thursday, July 03, 2025
Dialogue (Part I & II)
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It's funny how you find music sometimes.
I had a friend at high school named Mark, and he and I would hang around together on weekends.
One day we were in a cafe which had a piano, and Mark sat down and sang and played 'Pieces of April' ... at the time I didn't know whose song it was, and I just sat there amazed at the talent of my friend ... lol, it was almost as if he sprouted wings from his head, because we were a bit rough and tumble back then, typical 15 year olds, I guess.
Obviously, now, every time I hear that song I am transported back some 50 plus years to the waterfront cafe in Wellington, Mark's magical voice and his talented fingers, painting the ambience beautiful.
Mark had some infamy years later, his step daughter was abducted, raped and buried alive (it is not just the USA that has evil creeps) ... they eventuslly caught the guy, and gave him a long sentence in jail.
5 or so years into his sentence, the guy lodged an appeal, based on some bullshit reason, and Mark went public with his statement "If he gets let out I will kill him" ... and the police, those stalwarts of justice and commonsense, arrested him for threatening to kill (adds ffs here)
The noise from the people was deafening, every one of our 5 million citizens (it seemed) stood up and yelled NO ! ... and after a while the charges were dropped (and the killer guy stayed in jail, where he still is)
As I said, I thought about Mark every time I heard that song, which was a fair bit back in the day, but kids and businesses got in the way of me reaching out, and when all the hullabaloo about Mark being arrested for saying what we all wanted to say was on, I felt I didn't want to be that old friend that pops up to share the press coverage, so I kept stum ... which I now regret, because he needed all the friends he could get, and I wasn't there for him.
Bit of a long story, but it if makes any one reach out for a forgotten friend, then I would be glad.
Me ? I still haven't reached out to Mark ... myriad of reasons - walked away from making money, rescue cats now, grew fat, became grey, Mark lives 600kilometres away ... far far too late and don't want to pick at scabs, HIS scabs, don't want to bring it all back in his mind ...
Guess rescuing cats has made me a bit of a pussy.
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