Bill Champlin - New Album Out Today

[The_Noble_Cause]

4 tracks in. Really strong. Ordered.

Obviously not TOTO related - but given Bill's relationships with Joseph, Bobby etc. - I figured it was worth a post.


https://www.billchamplin.com/product-pa ... l-champlin

[r@y]

4 tracks in. Really strong. Ordered.

Obviously not TOTO related - but given Bill's relationships with Joseph, Bobby etc. - I figured it was worth a post.


https://www.billchamplin.com/product-pa ... l-champlin

Very cool....listening to them on Spotify. And.....not bad at all. Gotta admit....just sonically, this sounds nicer than Luke's 3 tracks so far. Hey, just me....and just based on the sound and production.

Nice mix of different kind of tracks. I like it.

[The_Noble_Cause]

4 tracks in. Really strong. Ordered.

Obviously not TOTO related - but given Bill's relationships with Joseph, Bobby etc. - I figured it was worth a post.


https://www.billchamplin.com/product-pa ... l-champlin

Very cool....listening to them on Spotify. And.....not bad at all. Gotta admit....just sonically, this sounds nicer than Luke's 3 tracks so far. Hey, just me....and just based on the sound and production.

Nice mix of different kind of tracks. I like it.

I ended up ordering the hard copy and digital version. Reminds me of Bobby's last solo album. Good mix of blues, west coast pop, funk, and some heartfelt Chicago-esque ballads. Also Lenny plays on it. It's killer.

[r@y]

4 tracks in. Really strong. Ordered.

Obviously not TOTO related - but given Bill's relationships with Joseph, Bobby etc. - I figured it was worth a post.


https://www.billchamplin.com/product-pa ... l-champlin

Very cool....listening to them on Spotify. And.....not bad at all. Gotta admit....just sonically, this sounds nicer than Luke's 3 tracks so far. Hey, just me....and just based on the sound and production.

Nice mix of different kind of tracks. I like it.

I ended up ordering the hard copy and digital version. Reminds me of Bobby's last solo album. Good mix of blues, west coast pop, funk, and some heartfelt Chicago-esque ballads. Also Lenny plays on it. It's killer.

Yeah, and I also think Steve Porcaro, Vinnie C and ex bandmate Jason Scheff is on it too. I'm definitely digging it.

[Abitaman]

Would really like Bill and Jason to form a group together. New songs, plus solo, side projects and Chicago. Make for a good show.

[Sundet]

Trivia facts:

Steve Porcaro was lined up to tour with Bill Champlin in the spring of 1996 (in support of the He Started to Sing album) but had to bail, apparently because he got too busy working on the Metro soundtrack. Obviously the two had toured together in Jay Graydon's band in 1994 and Graydon had embarked on another tour in the winter of 1996. Neither Porcaro nor Champlin were part of that line-up, but in return Joseph Williams was very much involved. As it happened, Champlin and Jason Scheff were in Scandinavia doing promotion for Chicago when the Graydon tour hit that region in February and sat in to play Pamela in Stockholm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5e_0xEAeyE.

[The_Noble_Cause]

Trivia facts:

Steve Porcaro was lined up to tour with Bill Champlin in the spring of 1996 (in support of the He Started to Sing album) but had to bail, apparently because he got too busy working on the Metro soundtrack. Obviously the two had toured together in Jay Graydon's band in 1994 and Graydon had embarked on another tour in the winter of 1996. Neither Porcaro nor Champlin were part of that line-up, but in return Joseph Williams was very much involved. As it happened, Champlin and Jason Scheff were in Scandinavia doing promotion for Chicago when the Graydon tour hit that region in February and sat in to play Pamela in Stockholm: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5e_0xEAeyE.

Interesting. Thanks! Still lovin Bill's album. Really a strong release.

[Abitaman]

Finally got around to listening to the CD today, not bad at all. I am a big Bill Chapman fan and have all of his solo CDs stuff in Chicago sons of Chapman and can't remember the name of the group but stuff he did with Joseph Williams of Toto. This is pretty good better than his last album he did

[Morten]

I am a big Bill Chapman fan

Um, that's Champlin. Bill Champlin.