I gave up on the band after Terry's passing. The music just wasn't the same. They were still good for sure, but they weren't the band I knew and loved.
Yeah, after his death, I dont think the group ever recovered. Kath was the heart and soul of the group, Chicago had steady success with him. Chicago had to change their sound to a power ballad band to finally find success again.
Hmm, some ppl are saying there is more to his death than meets the eye...?? Was he killed...?? Possibly...why no one knows!?? Owed money maybe for drugs..??
@@mr.snicker-doodles7081 Guess everyone is just sticking to what the band and manager said, the man loved his guns and it was a playful stunt that went bad.
@@mr.snicker-doodles7081 I did read that he was into drugs and liked to drink. According to what I can determine there was another person in the room that was known to him and partying with him. He related the accident to investigators. Personally I think it was an accident. Too many drugs and a loaded gun seldom ends well.
Angela, the guitarist was the late, great Terry Kath. He tragically passed away in Jan 1978. He was playing around with a gun he didn't think was loaded, and shot and killed himself. He was the heart and soul of Chicago. They were never the same after his passing.
The legendary guitar play Jimi Hendrix was blown away by Terry Kath’s guitar playing. When first hearing Terry Kath play, Jimi Hendrix was quoted as saying that he thought Terry Kath played guitar better than he did.
They had great mutual respect for each others abilities, and they were supposed to hook up together for a project that they had discussed. BUT circumstances dictate.
@@Mr.56Goldtop I regret never having seen him live. I was about 17 when he passed away. I saw Chicago in the 80s and I was glad that they still did those older songs but it just wasn't the same.
Terry Kath, one of the best guitarists of his generation and a soulful singer. He died tragically and incredibly young. Chicago survived but was never the same after his death.
Excellent version . Really shows out guitarist Terry Kath's phenomenal virtuosity . The Chicago with him (first 8 albums) had this gutsy , visceral tone ...bluesy/funk/jazz/rock at the highest level .
Terry Kath was the guitarist, who also sang lead on "Make Me Smile," which you reacted to previously. If you want more Terry Kath on guitar, try "Poem 58." He, Peter Cetera, and Danny Seraphine (the drummer) make a killer power trio on that one. "South California Purples" is another good Chicago track as well, which is more blues-oriented. And if you're feeling REALLY adventurous, you could check "Liberation," a 15-minute jam where Terry Kath cuts loose big time. I'm done now. 🙂
Poem 58 PROVES Jimi Hendrix was right when he told Chicago that their guitar player was better than Jimi himself. Terry Kath was criminally underrated by the media.
Original Chicago in the late 60s and 70s, while Terry Kath is still alive, is remarkable, no one else sounds like them. Great ensemble, so remarkable that horn section but everyone in that band was a super talent. They went soft in the 80s after Terry passed but what you saw is how good they were. Try Beginnings, another classic from them. Also, Tanglewood, where this was filmed, is 20 minutes away from me, here in the Berkshire Hills of Western Mass. It is a world famous music facility that is home to the Boston Pops in the summers and has seen a ton of great popular artists stop there in season. Some all time shows you can see on You Tube are The Who, Jethro Tull, Santana, the Jefferson Airplane and of course, Chicago. Well worth taking a look. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Find out all you need to know from the Documentary The Terry Kath Experience. Filmed by his daughter, who lost her dad when she was young. It was her tribute to him and equally a good way to know her father she didn't really know. And yes, Terry Kath is the Guitarist. Must see documentary!
Yes you got this one right 👍. Terry Kath was the main band member. Plus he setup the other guys for success. By giving them advice on how to be a great musician ❤
Love the horn section, KC & The SunShine Band had an awesome one as well. This one here is the horn section that played for the Bee Gees on Too Much Heaven as a favor to the BG's for singing back up on a song for Chicago earlier that year
I've watched this performance more times than I can count. Each time I'm just amazed at what I just saw. I've never seen a guitar player go that hard for that long. He was amazing.
That man in the blue denim shirt and jeans on the killer guitar is the late great Terry Kath. He was a confirmed guitar god. Even Jimi Hendrix admitted that Terry was a better guitarist than he was. Of course Jimi had his own style and technique and was a guitar god in his own right and was known to compliment other musicians and did not have a "godlike" persona. He was real, down to earth. I'm not one to grade guitar legends cause there are many who are good, a few who are damned good, and several who are a dimension above. B.B. King once said that Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac) was the only man who gave him the cold sweats, his chords were so sweet, such a great, distinctive sound. I love it when great men in their field are gracious enough to state their attention and attraction to others at or near their level.
Good ol fashion jam session. They as a band are just feeling it on stage. I was lucy enough to see them twice but not til the 80's. I can still feel that bass thumping in my stomach haha
This is one of my favourites to play live. Our drummer never knows when I'm going to end my solo - sometimes I don't. So I always have to turn around and give him a signal that the end is coming.
3 lead vocalists: Peter Cetera that you heard in this performance, Terry Kath who was that brilliant guitarist and Robert Lamm jamming on the keyboards.
Terry Kath was the beating heart of the original Chicago sound. His death was tragic beyond measure. If you want to hear what the intention and feel of the original Chicago band was meant to be… listen to their first song, off their first album… the song is appropriately called “Introduction”… and what an introduction it was! Many of the band members were graduates of the Julliard School for the Performing Arts, extremely talented and highly trained actual musicians. They decided to form a band… Thank God they Did!!!!
None of them went to Julliard - they were all from the Chicago (some of them did attend DePaul). Could you be thinking of Blood, Sweat and Tears (I think they might have had a Julliard grad or two in their ranks).
Peter Cetera was lead singer sometimes, the great guitar player Terry Kath also sang lead on some songs with a deeper, grittier voice and also Robert Lamm sang leads too.
Angela, now you should compare this live version with the current group LEONID & FRIENDS. They play this song and a plethora of Chicago songs incredibly well.
Hi A. The meaning of the song is described here. simply a reference to the time of day, as in “25 or 26 minutes until 4am”. This lends further to the theory about the song’s meaning having to do with psychedelics,
When you have a man like Jimi Hendrix say Terry Kath was a better guitarist than he was (per James Pankow when Hendrix discovered Chicago in Los Angeles' Whisky a Go-Go) You know Kath was the heart and soul of Chicago that never recovered after his death in 1978. Hendrix asked the group to go on tour with him and the rest is history. Pankow added, there were talks both Hendrix and Chicago recording an album together! But it never happened since Hendrix passed away.
There are a handful of live rock performances that become historic in their energy. This performance by Chicago is one of them. Much is celebrated about guitarist Terry Kath and he deserves it all. But Peter Cetera is a fantastic bass player not to mention rock singer.
TERRY KATH on guitar. He was on FIRE in this Tanglewood concert ! Now hear him sing the lead in 2 parts of - "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon" Tanglewood 1970 - ( people cut this one up so look for 14 minutes ) You have already reacted to and liked one of the two, 3 minute cutouts of it.
They were called the Chicago Transit Authority when they released this. Lead vocals courtesy of Peter Cetera and the amazing guitaring by Terry Kath. He was the heart and soul of the band. Chicago was a Rock Orchestra you really need to look up all their music from 1969-1977.
Back then, Chicago didn't have just one lead singer, they had three: Teri Kath, Robert Lamm and Peter Cetera. After Kath's tragic death, Cetera did most of the singing. All three had excellent voices.
Loved this reaction. As I have probably 98% of them. One group that I haven’t heard any reactor do is ARS. The Atlanta Rhythm Section has a pretty deep catalog and we’re quite popular in the seventies. You could start your dive into this group with Georgia Rhythm. A good second choice would be Love Is A Colorful Thing. As I think back, you may have done an ARS reaction. Maybe So Into You. Any way, I don’t think they have a song you wouldn’t like. Thanks in advance for the consideration.
Telling time on an old fashioned analog clock is different than on a digital device. Quarter to, half past, quarter til; Three thirty-four AM - Song Time. What songs did Robert Lamm write? He wrote many of the band's biggest hits, including "Questions 67 & 68," "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?," "Beginnings," "25 or 6 to 4," "Saturday in the Park," "Dialogue (Part I & II)" and "Harry Truman."
Terry Kath was the heart & soul of Chicago, & as many have already said one of the all time great monsters on guitar! Terry was also one of the better lead singers, check out “Make me smile”.
We are on the same page! They had so many great hits that rocked all the way to groove town, it's mind boggling! Too bad they are no longer, but the fabulous music lives on! Ciao you all!
And Rolling Stone magazine doesn’t even list Terry Kath on their list of the Top 100 guitarists. This shows why they are such a joke of any serious musical critique.
Unfortunately, guitarist Terry Kath passed away after a gun accident and base player/singer left to go solo. Current members include the 3 horns and the organ/keyboard player from the original group
Terry Kath was a beast of a guitarist, sadly he died way too young. Check out "Colour my world" Terry Kath sings lead on that song. Im glad you can appreciate the music I grew up listening to when I was a kid. Im in Vegas in 8 days I found out Chicago is playing in Vegas, Im going to try and get into the show and see them 1 night Im there.
You should listen to the studio recording of this song. Live versions can never duplicate the mix done in the studio and that's the way we heard it on the radio in 1970. This song was recorded in August for the self titled album "Chicago". The album was released in January 1970 and this song was released as a single in June1970. This live version is inferior to the studio recording. The band is from Chicago and was originally known as 'Chicago Transit Authority'. The CTA is the name of the mass transit system of Chicago, IL. They threatened to legal action if the band didn't cease and desist using that name, so they shortened it to 'Chicago'. The name of their debut double album is Chicago Transit Authority, recorded January 27-30, 1969 and released April 28, 1969 on the Columbia Records label. It didn't do well at first but fortunately, this during the advent of FM radio and eventually it sold 2 million copies on its initial pressing. The impact of FM radio can not be understated, it is what was directly responsible for the explosion of album sales and relegated the 45 rpm disc to a marketing tool to initiate /invigorate album sales. This was the beginning of the Golden Age of the music business.
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One Terence Kath !! Just amazing!! He left us way too soon!🥺and they were just as great live !! Terry took guitar playing to a whole new level!!!!
Kath was in the zone with that solo, one of the best live performances all time in my opinion
Terry Kath guitar solo. Doesn’t get much better. Fabulous guitarist and had a beautiful, soulful voice. His tragic death was so, so sad. RIP Terry. 🙏
Terry Kath was incredible! RIP❤️🙏
After guitarist Terry Kath's tragic death, Chicago became a ballad driven band. He was amazing and irreplaceable...😟
I gave up on the band after Terry's passing. The music just wasn't the same. They were still good for sure, but they weren't the band I knew and loved.
Yeah, after his death, I dont think the group ever recovered. Kath was the heart and soul of the group, Chicago had steady success with him. Chicago had to change their sound to a power ballad band to finally find success again.
Hmm, some ppl are saying there is more to his death than meets the eye...?? Was he killed...?? Possibly...why no one knows!?? Owed money maybe for drugs..??
@@mr.snicker-doodles7081 Guess everyone is just sticking to what the band and manager said, the man loved his guns and it was a playful stunt that went bad.
@@mr.snicker-doodles7081 I did read that he was into drugs and liked to drink. According to what I can determine there was another person in the room that was known to him and partying with him. He related the accident to investigators. Personally I think it was an accident. Too many drugs and a loaded gun seldom ends well.
Angela, the guitarist was the late, great Terry Kath. He tragically passed away in Jan 1978. He was playing around with a gun he didn't think was loaded, and shot and killed himself.
He was the heart and soul of Chicago. They were never the same after his passing.
Amazing….Chicago was great from 1969-1979…..The early years were the best 🙏🏻☮️❤️
They took me from 8 years old to my senior year. What a time for music to form my teen years.
Peter Cetera’s voice is timeless.
The legendary guitar play Jimi Hendrix was blown away by Terry Kath’s guitar playing. When first hearing Terry Kath play, Jimi Hendrix was quoted as saying that he thought Terry Kath played guitar better than he did.
They had great mutual respect for each others abilities, and they were supposed to hook up together for a project that they had discussed. BUT circumstances dictate.
@@Mr.56Goldtop what a treasure that would have been!
@@magneto7930 Without a doubt.
@@Mr.56Goldtop I regret never having seen him live. I was about 17 when he passed away. I saw Chicago in the 80s and I was glad that they still did those older songs but it just wasn't the same.
And the kicker is, when they approached Terry to join CTA, he was a bass player.
Terry Kath (RIP), one of the best to ever pick up a guitar... awesome performance!
Terry Kath, one of the best guitarists of his generation and a soulful singer. He died tragically and incredibly young. Chicago survived but was never the same after his death.
Excellent version .
Really shows out guitarist Terry Kath's phenomenal virtuosity .
The Chicago with him (first 8 albums) had this gutsy , visceral tone ...bluesy/funk/jazz/rock at the highest level .
Terry Kath was a beast on the guitar. Just amazing. RIP, friend.
The greatest horn driven rock & roll band of all time.
Jimi Hendrix once told Chicago "your guitarist is better than me." However, Jimi Hendrix was extremely humble.
They were both great. Just different styles. Kath more jazzy rock; Hendrix very psychedelic!
Terry Kath was the guitarist, who also sang lead on "Make Me Smile," which you reacted to previously. If you want more Terry Kath on guitar, try "Poem 58." He, Peter Cetera, and Danny Seraphine (the drummer) make a killer power trio on that one. "South California Purples" is another good Chicago track as well, which is more blues-oriented. And if you're feeling REALLY adventurous, you could check "Liberation," a 15-minute jam where Terry Kath cuts loose big time. I'm done now. 🙂
Liberation is amazing.
Poem 58 PROVES Jimi Hendrix was right when he told Chicago that their guitar player was better than Jimi himself. Terry Kath was criminally underrated by the media.
Just shows,that if your drunk,don't play Russian roulette.tragic waste of a gifted player.
The early group was GREAT. Every song/ album a winner. Beginnings was our (my wife and me) wedding song.
Chicago was my jams growing up. I wore out countless 8 tracks and cassette tapes. Never got enough of this music. It just filled my soul!!!
Earth Wind and Fire has done quite a few tours with Chicago, which is perfect because they are both horn-driven bands.
Great song, I think Chicago’s early records are the best, thanks for doing the live performance, great music from the 70’s
That solo was insane.
A Classic. Also a truly great live performance. This is old school. The live horns
take it to another level.What a great group!
They had 7 original members. 3 lead singers. Peter, Terry Kath(Guitar), ----------- Lamb(Keyboard).
Original Chicago in the late 60s and 70s, while Terry Kath is still alive, is remarkable, no one else sounds like them. Great ensemble, so remarkable that horn section but everyone in that band was a super talent. They went soft in the 80s after Terry passed but what you saw is how good they were. Try Beginnings, another classic from them.
Also, Tanglewood, where this was filmed, is 20 minutes away from me, here in the Berkshire Hills of Western Mass. It is a world famous music facility that is home to the Boston Pops in the summers and has seen a ton of great popular artists stop there in season. Some all time shows you can see on You Tube are The Who, Jethro Tull, Santana, the Jefferson Airplane and of course, Chicago. Well worth taking a look. Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Find out all you need to know from the Documentary The Terry Kath Experience. Filmed by his daughter, who lost her dad when she was young. It was her tribute to him and equally a good way to know her father she didn't really know. And yes, Terry Kath is the Guitarist. Must see documentary!
Yeah she was able to track down 2 of his guitars. They are worth a fortune.
Free on UA-cam, BTW.
Terry Kath acting a fool on lead guitar!
Yes you got this one right 👍. Terry Kath was the main band member. Plus he setup the other guys for success. By giving them advice on how to be a great musician ❤
Chicago was never the same band after Terry Kath died.
3 lead singers in Chicago at that time. Peter Cetera (Bass), Terry Kath (Guitar), Robert Lamm (Keyboards).
Love the horn section, KC & The SunShine Band had an awesome one as well. This one here is the horn section that played for the Bee Gees on Too Much Heaven as a favor to the BG's for singing back up on a song for Chicago earlier that year
This is early chicago ,before Terry Kath died....his death changed their sound completely....
Guitarist was the Amazing Terry Kath!
He also had an equally incredible and soulful voice.
Jimi Hendrix said Terry was his favorite guitar player. They had three lead singers.
I've watched this performance more times than I can count. Each time I'm just amazed at what I just saw. I've never seen a guitar player go that hard for that long. He was amazing.
That’s Terry Kath on guitar.
That man in the blue denim shirt and jeans on the killer guitar is the late great Terry Kath. He was a confirmed guitar god. Even Jimi Hendrix admitted that Terry was a better guitarist than he was. Of course Jimi had his own style and technique and was a guitar god in his own right and was known to compliment other musicians and did not have a "godlike" persona. He was real, down to earth. I'm not one to grade guitar legends cause there are many who are good, a few who are damned good, and several who are a dimension above. B.B. King once said that Peter Green (Fleetwood Mac) was the only man who gave him the cold sweats, his chords were so sweet, such a great, distinctive sound. I love it when great men in their field are gracious enough to state their attention and attraction to others at or near their level.
The guitarist is Terry Kath.
Guitarist Terry Kath's death tore the soul out of the band. What a guitarist and a bandleader.
Loved it! You will love “Colour my world” by Chicago! Terry Kath sings lead on that one!
One of my all time favorite Chicago tunes!
Finally a good request!!! 🎶🔥♥️👍
Sounds great and it was live. Most bands rely on tech to cover their voice.
Good ol fashion jam session. They as a band are just feeling it on stage. I was lucy enough to see them twice but not til the 80's. I can still feel that bass thumping in my stomach haha
There also a great cover of this and several other Chicago songs by the super-talented Russian band "Leonid and Friends."
Terry had a great voice too. Dialogue 1 &2 Peter and Terry sing a story of two friends one went to work and the other went to college.
This is one of my favourites to play live. Our drummer never knows when I'm going to end my solo - sometimes I don't. So I always have to turn around and give him a signal that the end is coming.
3 lead vocalists: Peter Cetera that you heard in this performance, Terry Kath who was that brilliant guitarist and Robert Lamm jamming on the keyboards.
Terry Kath was the beating heart of the original Chicago sound. His death was tragic beyond measure.
If you want to hear what the intention and feel of the original Chicago band was meant to be… listen to their first song, off their first album… the song is appropriately called “Introduction”… and what an introduction it was!
Many of the band members were graduates of the Julliard School for the Performing Arts, extremely talented and highly trained actual musicians. They decided to form a band… Thank God they Did!!!!
None of them went to Julliard - they were all from the Chicago (some of them did attend DePaul). Could you be thinking of Blood, Sweat and Tears (I think they might have had a Julliard grad or two in their ranks).
Peter Cetera was lead singer sometimes, the great guitar player Terry Kath also sang lead on some songs with a deeper, grittier voice and also Robert Lamm sang leads too.
Terry Kath on guitar. The brass section referred to Terry Kath as their "show stopper".
I'm so proud that my 4 year old Grandson can tell you that is the late Terry Kath, and that he's playing a Fender Srat!
So good... I think I'm gonna learn that noodling around stuff TK plays before he kicks it off.
Thank you so much for playing the entire song without interrupting. Made your reaction that much better.
Angela, now you should compare this live version with the current group LEONID & FRIENDS. They play this song and a plethora of Chicago songs incredibly well.
Hi A. The meaning of the song is described here. simply a reference to the time of day, as in “25 or 26 minutes until 4am”. This lends further to the theory about the song’s meaning having to do with psychedelics,
Terry Kath was tearin up the guitar. Vocals and orchestration were on point. Entertaining to watch! 👍👍🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
When you have a man like Jimi Hendrix say Terry Kath was a better guitarist than he was (per James Pankow when Hendrix discovered Chicago in Los Angeles' Whisky a Go-Go) You know Kath was the heart and soul of Chicago that never recovered after his death in 1978. Hendrix asked the group to go on tour with him and the rest is history. Pankow added, there were talks both Hendrix and Chicago recording an album together! But it never happened since Hendrix passed away.
So glad you liked this!!!!! ❤
Love the smile when the horn section kicks in! -- me too every time
There are a handful of live rock performances that become historic in their energy. This performance by Chicago is one of them. Much is celebrated about guitarist Terry Kath and he deserves it all. But Peter Cetera is a fantastic bass player not to mention rock singer.
They have 3 lead singers Peter Cetera Terry Kath and Robert Lamm
TERRY KATH on guitar. He was on FIRE in this Tanglewood concert ! Now hear him sing the lead in 2 parts of - "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon" Tanglewood 1970 - ( people cut this one up so look for 14 minutes ) You have already reacted to and liked one of the two, 3 minute cutouts of it.
Love your reactions !!
Cool reaction, happy you did old folks' music. Keep Rocking.
The late Great Terry Kath on guitar. Loved your reaction. You were living that guitar solo.
I'm surprised how good this live version is
Chicago had 3 singers, Peter Cetera, keyboardist Robert Lam and guitarist Terry Kath.
Wonderful reaction! I knew you would love it.
Magical guitar solo
One of the best solos ever.. I saw them in concert
They were called the Chicago Transit Authority when they released this. Lead vocals courtesy of Peter Cetera and the amazing guitaring by Terry Kath. He was the heart and soul of the band. Chicago was a Rock Orchestra you really need to look up all their music from 1969-1977.
Chicago and Earth, Wind and Fire have Chicago roots I believe, and they used to feed off of each other. The horn section for Chicago was the truth!
One of the great Guitarist Terry Kath. He is outta sight so we used to say. Another Terry Kath guitar solo on youtube is the song Uptown.
Back then, Chicago didn't have just one lead singer, they had three: Teri Kath, Robert Lamm and Peter Cetera. After Kath's tragic death, Cetera did most of the singing. All three had excellent voices.
🇨🇦 One of my favourite groups of all time !
Loved this reaction. As I have probably 98% of them. One group that I haven’t heard any reactor do is ARS. The Atlanta Rhythm Section has a pretty deep catalog and we’re quite popular in the seventies. You could start your dive into this group with Georgia Rhythm. A good second choice would be Love Is A Colorful Thing. As I think back, you may have done an ARS reaction. Maybe So Into You. Any way, I don’t think they have a song you wouldn’t like. Thanks in advance for the consideration.
Great comparison... those two bands toured together... oh the horns. RIP Terry, he was destined. damn russion roulette I heard.
This was live in Lenox MA at the Tanglewood venue
Telling time on an old fashioned analog clock is different than on a digital device. Quarter to, half past, quarter til; Three thirty-four AM - Song Time.
What songs did Robert Lamm write?
He wrote many of the band's biggest hits, including "Questions 67 & 68," "Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?," "Beginnings," "25 or 6 to 4," "Saturday in the Park," "Dialogue (Part I & II)" and "Harry Truman."
Terry Kath was the heart & soul of Chicago, & as many have already said one of the all time great monsters on guitar!
Terry was also one of the better lead singers, check out “Make me smile”.
We are on the same page! They had so many great hits that rocked all the way to groove town, it's mind boggling! Too bad they are no longer, but the fabulous music lives on! Ciao you all!
The late great Terry Kath, this is the tanglewood concert, the first song "Introduction" is so epec. so many moods in one song.
Terry Kath's voice, in it's own way, is as awesome and soulful as his guitar playing.
Originally the band was CTA or Chicago Transit Authority.
Their original name was "The Big Thing"
@@DanielFrost21 ok
I love how she starts the video, then busies herself with other things
Terry Cath is the guitar 🎸 man and yes i believe this performance at Tanglewood mass can be downloaded
I saw them when I was in college. We had the cheap seats: upper deck behind the stage.
Seen em live way back in the day, absolutely mind blowing 😎
Legend of Terry Kath. So great 👍
And Rolling Stone magazine doesn’t even list Terry Kath on their list of the Top 100 guitarists. This shows why they are such a joke of any serious musical critique.
Unfortunately, guitarist Terry Kath passed away after a gun accident and base player/singer left to go solo. Current members include the 3 horns and the organ/keyboard player from the original group
Terry Kath, one of the greatest guitarists that ever lived! I just wish he could have lived much longer.
Terry Kath was a beast of a guitarist, sadly he died way too young. Check out "Colour my world" Terry Kath sings lead on that song. Im glad you can appreciate the music I grew up listening to when I was a kid. Im in Vegas in 8 days I found out Chicago is playing in Vegas, Im going to try and get into the show and see them 1 night Im there.
😂 The struggle is real! 😂
You should listen to the studio recording of this song. Live versions can never duplicate the mix done in the studio and that's the way we heard it on the radio in 1970. This song was recorded in August for the self titled album "Chicago". The album was released in January 1970 and this song was released as a single in June1970. This live version is inferior to the studio recording. The band is from Chicago and was originally known as 'Chicago Transit Authority'. The CTA is the name of the mass transit system of Chicago, IL. They threatened to legal action if the band didn't cease and desist using that name, so they shortened it to 'Chicago'. The name of their debut double album is Chicago Transit Authority, recorded January 27-30, 1969 and released April 28, 1969 on the Columbia Records label. It didn't do well at first but fortunately, this during the advent of FM radio and eventually it sold 2 million copies on its initial pressing. The impact of FM radio can not be understated, it is what was directly responsible for the explosion of album sales and relegated the 45 rpm disc to a marketing tool to initiate /invigorate album sales. This was the beginning of the Golden Age of the music business.
The mighty Terry Kath, besides being top man and foundation for group was also a killer on the guitar.
Terry Kath could play lead, rhythm and bass guitar with equal enthusiasm...amazing. They were cutting edge for the day
Love this song and great reaction.
I've been waiting for this one!
TERRY KATH is the name of the guitarist!!! He was a badass and can play the HELL out of it!!!