The Tragic Real-Life Story Of Chicago

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  • Опубліковано 29 чер 2024
  • A fatal game of Russian roulette, on-stage deaths, and a high-speed motorcycle crash are just a few of the tragedies that have haunted the members of Chicago.
    #Chicago #Bands #Musicians
    Terry Kath's accidental death | 0:00
    Walt Parazaider's health struggles | 1:10
    Bill Champlin lost his son | 2:04
    Laudir de Oliveira died onstage | 3:05
    Keith Howland's broken arm | 4:00
    Peter Cetera's near-death experience | 4:58
    Jason Scheff's substance abuse battle | 5:55
    Read full article: www.grunge.com/263954/the-tra...
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  • @karenkershaw6324
    @karenkershaw6324 Рік тому +12

    Great band. I miss the old days of great music.

    • @christineparis5607
      @christineparis5607 Рік тому +2

      I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area in the 60s and 70s, and we were just taking it for granted that these bands were always incredible! Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Frozen Noses, etc., so fun!
      Still great today.

  • @helenebrigham6093
    @helenebrigham6093 Рік тому +11

    I love Chicago they are a great group

  • @jimhsix2
    @jimhsix2 Рік тому +11

    0:56 that's a picture of Robert Lamm you are using while talking about Terry Kath dying at age 32.

    • @gramadidi
      @gramadidi 5 місяців тому

      You are correct, it is Robert Lamm.

  • @WailinMusic
    @WailinMusic Рік тому +7

    Ya - I played / lived with the two younger Cetera Brothers in the 70's. Our band heard about Terry as soon as it happened. We were also a rock band with a good horn section - it was shocking & tragic. He was the after burner of Chicago..

    • @yfirhill4801
      @yfirhill4801 10 місяців тому +1

      Are you still playing music? I’d love to see something that remains from the era before me. Music is love but live music is Life.

  • @sallykohorst8803
    @sallykohorst8803 Рік тому +5

    Yes great band with great songs! I have their greatest hits.

  • @rebwolfe2702
    @rebwolfe2702 Рік тому +15

    Such a great band!

    • @kateskeys
      @kateskeys Рік тому

      Agreed
      I love ‘em

    • @meyerj75
      @meyerj75 Рік тому

      For a band that has lasted more than a half a century and still performing, they had to be.

  • @lamarravery4094
    @lamarravery4094 9 місяців тому +3

    Sorry to hear about Keith's accident. He was their best guitarist after Kath. He had a long ride though. And I never heard of Jason's drinking problem, glad he nipped it in the bud, Jason's a pretty awesome dude.

  • @lawrencenjawe9875
    @lawrencenjawe9875 7 місяців тому +2

    One of America's standard bearers and flagship bands in the history of Rock music.. Absolutely no doubt about that...

  • @Txdcblues
    @Txdcblues Рік тому +1

    Thanks for making this! Taught me things I didn’t even know!

  • @anchmcle
    @anchmcle 29 днів тому

    So love and miss Keith, wish him so best. He makes it look so effortless while sounding so incredible.

  • @susielong9805
    @susielong9805 Рік тому +6

    Love this band...even have one of THE 8 TRACKS from my early teens. I did lighting production for them in 1991 in a club in Lancaster Pa and got them to sign it!!!! ✌️😎✌️ ROCK ON 🎶🎶🎶🎶

  • @alc.7348
    @alc.7348 Рік тому +15

    A story about Chicago without a mention of Robert Lamn? Impossible.

    • @lamarravery4094
      @lamarravery4094 9 місяців тому +2

      Lamm and his coke problem was tragic.

    • @jefflafond4618
      @jefflafond4618 9 місяців тому +1

      He was mentioned 30 seconds into the video?

    • @ladyca8366
      @ladyca8366 2 дні тому

      and Dawayne Bailey....

  • @ChicagoWalt2564
    @ChicagoWalt2564 Рік тому +4

    They really need to recheck their facts

  • @DemskePaul2017
    @DemskePaul2017 Рік тому +5

    Most of the band went through their phase of substance abuse at one time or another. I wasn't aware about Walt and Keith's situation. Keith was the best guitarist to channel Kath. I don't recognize but 2 members of the band any longer, but as Lamm once said, EVERYBODY in this band is replaceable. Danny is doing great justice to Chicago with California Transit Authority and he still has his unmistakable chops. Perhaps we'll get to see more autobiographies from surviving members in the future.

  • @scottdixon469
    @scottdixon469 Рік тому +7

    I will never forget where I was when I heard of the tragic death of Terry Kath as I was at a friends house. Chicago was never the same without Terry in my mind! In my opinion they were never the same for me anyway. I highly doubt he meant to kill himself like some have said.

    • @lamarravery4094
      @lamarravery4094 9 місяців тому +2

      Kath was planning to leave Chicago anyway. He was working on some solo material just before he died.

    • @redbarchetta8782
      @redbarchetta8782 9 місяців тому

      @@lamarravery4094 Can you imagine what we fans missed out on? From what I know about the new project Terry was working on, it would have been a Blues Rock project fronted by Terry. Think SRV before SRV and that's what it would have been.

    • @lamarravery4094
      @lamarravery4094 9 місяців тому

      @@redbarchetta8782 Who knows how successful it would've been. Lamm's solo project wasn't a commercial success, either. A blues rock album in the disco late 70s, might be out of place.

    • @meyerj75
      @meyerj75 8 місяців тому

      Kath put on quite a guitar solo on "Sing A Mean Tune Kid (Part Two)" which could never be duplicated.

    • @aprilgosa5779
      @aprilgosa5779 5 місяців тому

      No he didn't mean to as I said there were a few people there he literally forgot there was a bullet in it plus it was a party so he was not sober and his last words were don't worry ir's not loaded thats not the words of a man about to intentionally shoot himself

  • @lancehurley9743
    @lancehurley9743 Рік тому +21

    Wrong…terry Kath wasn’t playing Russian roulette….

    • @carolvillines7616
      @carolvillines7616 Рік тому

      I heard that he was depressed and a lot of people believe killed himself!

    • @victoriakrause8711
      @victoriakrause8711 11 місяців тому +2

      Terry was not depressed. He did not commit suicide.

    • @yfirhill4801
      @yfirhill4801 10 місяців тому

      Well it’s unfortunate either way.

    • @BaltoD60
      @BaltoD60 8 місяців тому +1

      ​@carolvillines7616 He was supposed to meet up with people that night to start work on his solo album. He was also having a house built in Malibu. Definitely not suicidal.

    • @thomascollins1739
      @thomascollins1739 8 місяців тому +5

      Terry died in an accidental self-inflicted gunshot wound from an semiautomatic pistol. Substance abused was led to his shooting death.

  • @helentalia9923
    @helentalia9923 10 місяців тому +2

    I saw my home city Chicago band this Wednesday, August 16. 2023 in Prescott Valley, Arizona and let me say they were dynamite 🎺

  • @aprilgosa5779
    @aprilgosa5779 5 місяців тому +1

    Poor Walter and Bill

  • @jefflafond4618
    @jefflafond4618 9 місяців тому +4

    The second tragedy David Foster getting involved.

    • @waltersimmons946
      @waltersimmons946 5 місяців тому +1

      They had no choice. Foster gave the band new life and resurrected careers.

    • @kennethrussell1158
      @kennethrussell1158 Місяць тому +1

      And ironically. They were more financially and commercially successful during the Foster years.

  • @mirandak3273
    @mirandak3273 21 день тому

    You show pictures of Bill Champlin in the late 80s when he was the main lead singer of their hits, when discussing Jason Sheff, who was the other lead singer at that time. The super long mullet with the gown & glove dressed girls is Bill, not Jeff.

  • @user-to8pb1tu9j
    @user-to8pb1tu9j Рік тому +2

    いつもありがとうございます

  • @dartsport1974
    @dartsport1974 11 місяців тому +2

    I love Chicago (the original band with Terry Kath)…I so wish that the three original members that are left ( Robert Lamm , Lee Loughnane , & James Pankow ) could write a book about Chicago. I know HBO a few years ago had a documentary (Now More Than Ever). I also wish their former producer/manager James William Guercio, Walter Parazaider- if he can get help and Peter Cetera could write a book as well. I don’t know if we’ll ever know the whole truths. I would like to know if Peter and Terry got along well. I’d like to know what Chicago thought of other new bands that came out around the same time as them as, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, & The Eagles…
    There was an interesting book that came along with the 1991 Chicago box set titled (Group Portrait)…. Peter Cetera takes part in this book .. He talks about his tenure with Chicago. He mentioned when they recorded the song (Lowdown) off of Chicago III Terry said something like “ Don’t ever tell anybody I played on this song” Peter felt like Terry played with (Peter’s quote from the book) “ I don’t give a shit attitude”. I don’t want to miss quote anything, but that’s what I remembered... Peter did not have anything else negative to say… Speaking of (Lowdown) I do kind of hear what Peter was saying, it seems like it was one of the only Chicago songs that Terry kind of played differently…I wish Danny Seraphine & Laudir de Oliveira could of partaken in that book as well.. James William Guercio their producer/manager also partook in the book.
    I wish they could’ve done a Christmas album during those years (1969-77)..
    As far as Bill Champlin ,I am sorry for the loss of his son. I saw him give an interview on a UA-cam channel titled (Rock History Music) … He seems like a down to earth nice guy. I was not really a fan of Chicago the period he was in the band though.

  • @ricardojrmotos5503
    @ricardojrmotos5503 10 місяців тому +3

    I was laughing so hard during the part of the video that tells the tragic story of Walter Parazaider, the original sax player of Chicago but showing a video clip and photos of the new saxophonist instead. This is so wrong and misleading.

  • @mikeivey8169
    @mikeivey8169 11 місяців тому +1

    Kath was the man at least in the early days. Sort of lost interest in them when he passed. Cetera leaving was another devastating blow.

  • @kittoybig
    @kittoybig 3 місяці тому

    There are so many holes in your story that I laughed like never before. Thanks

  • @MrStalkerhunter
    @MrStalkerhunter 22 дні тому

    Was Keith Howland the one screaming "I'm addicted you" In the song.. "hard Habit to break" ?

  • @waltersimmons946
    @waltersimmons946 Рік тому +3

    They talk about Walter Parazaider but those pictures most of them are definitely not Walter Parazaider. When people rush putting a bio together, somehow they get sloppy and messed them up.

    • @BaltoD60
      @BaltoD60 8 місяців тому

      And Terry died at 31 not 32.

    • @waltersimmons946
      @waltersimmons946 8 місяців тому

      @elledeee1202 Right !!his birthday was a few days away.

  • @i.marchand4655
    @i.marchand4655 Рік тому +4

    I didn't even get 5 minutes in. It was NOT a game of Russian Roulette. Got to block you now.

  • @BaltoD60
    @BaltoD60 5 місяців тому +1

    Terry had zero alcohol in his system and trace amount of cocaine in his tox screen. Nothing else. Not even an aspirin. Which was surprising having been at a party. But perhaps because he was starting his solo album that night he intentionally wanted to be focused. Just a lie he was drunk or high when he died. Or was playing Russian Roulette.

  • @thomascollins1739
    @thomascollins1739 8 місяців тому

    Cetera also was involved in a baseball game in 1971, where he was beaten up by four US Marines.

  • @aprilgosa5779
    @aprilgosa5779 5 місяців тому

    Jason was great too

  • @NoahSmith-Tahle1217
    @NoahSmith-Tahle1217 Місяць тому

    Peter Cetera got a big break when he had 4 marines attack him and broke his jaw. They didn't like hippies and Peter Cetera had the long hair. Anyways he had his jaw wired. After that his voice changed and he had the perfect voice

  • @mrdave777
    @mrdave777 Рік тому +2

    That story on Wikipedia about Kath and his death. My gawd, I believe that is the Darwin Award. Drugs and alcohol are terrible.

    • @BaltoD60
      @BaltoD60 5 місяців тому

      He wasn't drunk or high. Autopsy said no alcohol and trace amount of cocaine below level to be high.

  • @aprilgosa5779
    @aprilgosa5779 5 місяців тому

    Terry's last words were "Don't Worry It's Not Loaded. it was a tragic accident he took the clip out but forgot there was a bullet inthe chamber

  • @aprilgosa5779
    @aprilgosa5779 5 місяців тому

    Without Walt Bill Terry Peter and Jason Chicago should just call it a day honestly especially without Bill Champlin

  • @spekterum
    @spekterum Рік тому +1

    wrong gun...

  • @aprilgosa5779
    @aprilgosa5779 5 місяців тому +1

    Terry was not playing Russian Roulette there was witnesses he genuinely forgot it was loaded

  • @goldbars777
    @goldbars777 Рік тому +2

    Mandatory oaths and sacrifices‼️

  • @alejandrorodriguez-do7rj
    @alejandrorodriguez-do7rj 5 місяців тому

    its seems that to old first fans cetera is the phil collins of this band

  • @amandahemstreet4369
    @amandahemstreet4369 Рік тому +1

    Please do a video on traffic life of the Backstreet boys

  • @jaap0e
    @jaap0e 6 місяців тому

    Tell me Terry

  • @meyerj75
    @meyerj75 Рік тому +2

    I compared this band with the Temptations. Both bands had a baritone and a falsetto. In this case, Chicago had Terry Kath (baritone) and Peter Cetera (falsetto) and The Temptations had David Ruffin (baritone) and Birmingham, Alabama's Eddie Kendricks (falsetto). They're no longer in their respective bands although Cetera is still with us to this day.

    • @kateskeys
      @kateskeys Рік тому +1

      AGREED
      We must have been born the same year

    • @meyerj75
      @meyerj75 Рік тому

      @@kateskeys 1975, the year the Temptations released "Shakey Ground" while Chicago released (oddly enough) "Old Days".

    • @lamarravery4094
      @lamarravery4094 9 місяців тому +2

      Cetera is a tenor.

    • @waltersimmons946
      @waltersimmons946 8 місяців тому +3

      @meyerj75 Cetera is a High tenor. In music 🎶 its called FIRST TENOR.

  • @dennisdennis1646
    @dennisdennis1646 7 місяців тому

    How do you play " russian roulette" with a semi auto ?

  • @bhaebe6671
    @bhaebe6671 Місяць тому

    If Terry had attended Alec's firearm safety course prior to this tragedy, he might be alive today.

  • @joeemerson8503
    @joeemerson8503 15 днів тому

    Bobert Lamm? crap video

  • @positivepsycho2932
    @positivepsycho2932 Рік тому +7

    Guns are never "unloaded!"