“It’s not necessarily a because our train is still moving at such a fast pace and it’s really blazing right now,” the guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist shares during a late night dinner at the Stonewood Ale House near his home in Schaumburg after playing to more than 10,000 fans at a suburban festival (the same weekend as Riot Fest and Zac Brown Band’s Wrigley Field sell out). Sure, the band’s performed alongside everyone from Bon Jovi and Kid Rock at Soldier Field to Journey, Def Leppard, Cheap Trick, Styx, REO Speedwagon, Neon Trees and eons more, but with at least 250 headlining shows on the books every year, a continuously swelling catalogue, and of course, the band’s signature “30 Songs in 30 Minutes” medley that regularly gets reworked, there’s simply too much coming down the pipeline to get sidetracked reminiscing about yesterday. Technically speaking, this may be the 30th anniversary of Chicago rock mainstays 7th Heaven, but mention the milestone to founder Richie Hofherr, and it may as well be a passing footnote. L to R: Mooshey, Cox, Heisler, Hofherr, Kennetz (photo Dan Machnik)
