From my youth, the Terry Kath experience:
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I believe every high school marching band played that song in the early 1970s.?ÿ I saw them in concert a couple of times.
Andy
Heard this at every high school dance I ever attended.?ÿ Rule number one was to know when it was coming and pick out a nice-smelling gal quick before someone else nabbed her because you were going to spend a LONG LONG time together.
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The standard band version ran around eight to nine minutes.?ÿ If they really wanted to slow it down for effect it could go over 10 minutes.
Remember dancing with my physics teacher's wife to this once during my senior year.?ÿ She was only 22 or so at the time and built like a brick (pottymouth) house.?ÿ That may have been 50 years ago but I haven't forgotten anything.
Saw chicago 2 years ago with REO. At the end of the show both bands played a couple of songs together which was outstanding.
We had really good high school bands and they played it for warm-ups at basketball games.?ÿ
Probably the best warm-up song ever. Sans the guitar of course.?ÿ
Music was different then, one song, one album would get played to death, it took me years till I could stand to hear anything off of Houses of the Holy, a guy would play it on a cassette player over and over on some long bus rides.?ÿ
That ruined a lot of good music, Cosmo's Factory, St. Pepper, Steppenwolf, how many times can you hear Born to be Wild before you want to smash the record.?ÿ
Now it's different, I can listen to anything, anytime, there were often gems that weren't played on the radio or much on the radio, it's nice to revisit that old music.?ÿ
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From my youth, the Terry Kath experience:
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The great Terry Kath. He is a criminally underrated guitarist. Love Chicago with Terry Kath.?ÿ
The story goes that when they were at the Whiskey a Go-Go, Hendricks stopped by to see them then went backstage and offered to take them on tour. Being a humble guy he declared Kath to be a better guitar player. He loved the horns and was going to collaborate with them but he overdosed and was gone. Kath mixed drugs and guns which didn't go well.?ÿ
It's still difficult to understand how the guys that did South California Purples went on to do You're the Inspiration.
Wonder if they still play some of those old tunes in concert?
i think that guy forgot to take his phone out of his pocket
So it was the phone, vibrating, that caused the...bulge?
The story goes that when they were at the Whiskey a Go-Go, Hendricks stopped by to see them then went backstage and offered to take them on tour. Being a humble guy he declared Kath to be a better guitar player. He loved the horns and was going to collaborate with them but he overdosed and was gone. Kath mixed drugs and guns which didn't go well.?ÿ
It's still difficult to understand how the guys that did South California Purples went on to do You're the Inspiration.
Wonder if they still play some of those old tunes in concert?
Yes, I've heard that story before. I'm also a Hendrix fanatic. Jimi was smart and humble enough to know that there were other great players out there. Kath also took inspiration from Hendrix. In fact, there is bootleg audio of Chicago doing a Hendrix tune before they "made it" to the big time.?ÿ
I saw Chicago in 1972 at FtWorth, shortly after that was Moody Blues and then the Rolling Stones
