Favorite Chicago/Cetera studio bass performance?

I was never much of a post-Kath Chicago fan, but I think their first four studio albums are absolutely incredible, especially when you consider that the first three were double LPs released in a two year period--6 albums of great material in less that 24 months. Is there another band that had a similar explosion of output?

Hard to pick a "best" for Cetera, but I picked the first album mostly for that opening riff on I'm a Man.

 

CTA.

For the jams, especially backing TK's awesome guitar work with great melodic lines.

Def opened my ears.

I was fortunate to have played in a rockin' horn band for a couple of years that covered a bunch of their tunes from I and II. I copped his clean tone by using a pick and gigging a Fender Jazz into a Sunn 2000s with JBLs.

 

So here's a technical question I've always pondered. At the beginning of "Listen," Kath hits a note that is sustained for 14 measures. How'd he do that?

 

Plucked the string really hard? A delay effect?

 

Probably something he learned to do when experimenting with Free Form Guitar.

He used preamp distortion into the board and/or his rig, IIRC. And Probably a studio compressor.

 

I used to do it with my Les Paul, and a 4 x 12 Acoustic. You simply touch the head of the guitar to the speaker mounting board, and BINGO!! Instant feedback! I think I was using an Eectro-Harmonix distortion box, but that's all.

 

Posting this one because it may be...obscure?
My senior year/high school (1975), a local horn band played this at a dance & they nailed it. Loved it ever since.


FYI: LeeNunn has a transcription in the Tablature & Notation Forum.

 

Their debut would be a desert island album for me. Side A is just a killer...then Side B opens with "Questions 67 & 68".

 

Plus a bit of acoustic feedback probably

 

I was listening to the second album last week because I bought the remix version, awesome playing on the whole disc.

 

While "What is the World Coming too" is probably my favorite of all of Peter Cetera's parts. Chicago V to me is the opus of Cetera's playing, Dialogue, State of the Union, While the City Sleeps, Saturday in the Park And Hit by Varese and All is well are all magnificent bass lines.

 

CTA (first album) has some killer bass lines in it. That gets my vote.

 

Chicago V because I was always smitten by Dialogue I and II.

 

Has anyone ever noticed how much the lead singer of Survivor sounds like Peter Cetera on "Eye of the Tiger"?

I really admire his work with Chicago. I particular like his later years with the band, just before he left. Or should I say the second half of his Chicago period.

 

...another somewhat obscure one-


Jammin'!

 

Apparently,, this is the 1st L&F cover...and it grew from there. Leonid on keys.