Just picked up the Cetera BP issue...on the cover, he is playing a black Rick?!?
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Peter Cetera in Bass Player
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Just picked up the Cetera BP issue...on the cover, he is playing a black Rick?!?
I picked up Chicago V last Friday while visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you are right, DZIB. It is full of wonderful bass playing.
- Apr 29, 2004
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Another bassline of his worth checking out/rediscovering is "What's This World Comin' To?" from Chicago VI.... just brilliant...! 
This topic made me go dig out my old Chicago stuff, I through VII actually.....what fine music, and excellent bass playing, regardless of what some clueless people might say in another topic.
But what also surprised me was I forgot how POLITICAL this stuff was, them coming out of Chicago around 1968...
"The whole world is watching, the whole world is watching.." It was like a time machine back to the days of my youth (where I would never have dissed a guy like Cetera on a site like this, if they had sites like this way back then...)
But what also surprised me was I forgot how POLITICAL this stuff was, them coming out of Chicago around 1968...
"The whole world is watching, the whole world is watching.." It was like a time machine back to the days of my youth (where I would never have dissed a guy like Cetera on a site like this, if they had sites like this way back then...)
Ironically, I was coming of age and listening to all the early Chicago records concurrently to Pearl Jam's first 2 albums and to my ear they were saying the exact same things with just as much angst and creativity only 25 years removed.
The more the world changes, the more it stays the same...
The more the world changes, the more it stays the same...
some one who was there in 68, might beg to differ...just sayin, ya know....
PJ never had to worry about the draft...the draft made things MUCH different
" you are, you are on a plane now, and on your way up northhhhhhh...
Canada, is so far from where, you want to be..."
PJ never had to worry about the draft...the draft made things MUCH different
" you are, you are on a plane now, and on your way up northhhhhhh...
Canada, is so far from where, you want to be..."
I actually believe the war ending (along with Kaths death) actually hurt Chicago. Their music didn't have the same passion afterwards. It was like they needed something to believe in, to quote Brett Michaels. They were a very political group, certainly as political as any pop band during their era. The Viet Nam war effected EVERY college age kid until Nixon ended the draft. If you weren't going it was because you got a deferment (a lot of work for most kids), and everyone had a friend who went.
I picked up Chicago V last Friday while visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you are right, DZIB. It is full of wonderful bass playing.
Glad I could be of service, sir!!!
I picked up Chicago V last Friday while visiting the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and you are right, DZIB. It is full of wonderful bass playing.
Trust me on the Carnegie Hall set. It is a real "live" album. They kicked butt live. TRUST ME!!! I guarantee you will love it too.
Peace
Yes, its a real live album, but the band wasn't real happy with the recorded sound of that box set. James Pankow said the horns sounded like kazoos.
Anyway, here we are 35+ years later, still enjoying talking about this band. I was a fan, still like their early stuff (I was listening to the 1st CTA album last night, and heard Poem 58 for the 1st time in many years. Pretty wild stuff. Almost psychedelic.
Remember the critics just ripping them and their music apart in the music magazines and such? I remember one Rolling Stone review that said nobody in the band could really sing, so what did they add to the band? A conga player instead of a singer (Laudir DeOliviera). Also, the schmaltzy Chicago logo that they kept schlepping up their album covers with, stuff like that.
That logo was one of the things you could always count on...that & an album with more than 1 LP (until V came around).
Their 1st album has always been one of my favourite debut recordings...any genre.
Yes, its good. Well, most of it, IMO. As much as I liked Terry Kath, I didn't care for Free Form Guitar very much. And I didn't care for Liberation. Most of the rest is very listenable to me.
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A great live album to be sure.... but I always much preferred the 'Live in Japan' album from the same period. Check around for the CD on eBay etc...
LIJ is a great one too, although I prefer CH due to the fact I bought it when it was released in 1971. I got LIJ a few years ago. I guess it's the nostalgia factor.
As far as "Liberation" goes, It is pretty laborious until the end. It has a great climax. "Free Form Guitar" is aptly titled. If you like long guitar jams I guess it would be good. I'd rather listen to Kath's guitar work on "South California Purples" or "It Better End Soon".
