He was in Dot Dot Dot and The Fabulous Janes and brings really great, positive energy. “Our new singer Adam (Heisler) is a great addition to the band and he’s a great songwriter.

“The new record shows a nice growth for us,” considers Hofherr. While the visual collection taps into their arsenal of covers as diverse as Elvis Presley’s “Jailhouse Rock, “Michael Jackson’s “Beat It,” Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” and Walk The Moon’s “Shut Up And Dance,” the audio installments are entirely original, cleanly executing the band’s brand of melodic pop and alternative rock. I think our band has more to accomplish before we should be celebrating, you know?”įor starters, the group that’s also currently comprised of fellow co-founder/drummer Michael Mooshey, guitarist/vocalist Nick Cox, bassist Mark Kennetz and recently added front man Adam Heisler just dropped a trio of projects ripe for the plugging, including the new studio CD Next, the double disc retrospective The Best Of 1985-2015 and the Blu-Ray Live On The Oasis Of The Seas. “We prefer not to have to stop and go down that road yet because we’re still on our journey, so I don’t know if I want to reminisce about it.

“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)

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