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  • Chicago was great but all good things come to an end one way or another. Nothing lasts forever.

  • Oh stop. "Cetera wanted to be the star …" Cetera WAS the star after Kath died. But he got tired of living out of a suitcase and carrying the band on his back. He's just exactly as successful as he wants to be and he tours when he damn well feels like it. And when he's not, he's chillin in Idaho. Sounds like a good life to me.

  • This guy is so full of himself! He had a career with Chicago but wanted to be the Star. David Foster talked him into leaving the band for a solo career.  He had some success but he was never as great as he was on CTA and the first ten Chicago LP's. Check it out! It's the same old story. "The Glory of love" is a terrific song if you were 10 - 16 years old back in 1986. David Foster has about as much class as a truck load of fermented cow manure.

  • Cetera in late 60s/early 70s was cool. Now he's just a washed up has been who's forgotten his roots and where he came from.

  • this nigga is JACKED UP

  • As a bassist/vocalist myself, I was a HUGE fan of PC in Chicago - a brilliant bassist, a unique vocalist in in a band, but too intense as a solo vocalist (personal opinion).

  • This guy still has an amazing head of hair... lucky bastard

  • I live in Chicago...I grew up during "his" heyday...this guy is a dick...he doesn't know the meaning of the word "band"....they all became famous because of the great music they all contributed to...and it pretty much ended when kath died...I don't give a shit about #1 hits or anything, it's about making great music... and that's what they did before Terry died...peace...

  • @LostMyMojo100 Yup. Artistry ends where pandering begins. Thou shalt not pander to the audience for any reason whatsoever. Real music like early Chicago lifts the audience up to a higher level if they can challenge themselves to dig it. Kath would have either quit the band, forced the others to stay true to their progressive jazz-rock roots or decided with the rest of the group that he liked money & cocaine better than music. Even the best & least sappy pop songs they wrote were in the 70s.

  • @metamorphosis67 ??????! WTF Dude?

  • @LostMyMojo100 I don't agree at all, Cetera made a great contribution to Chicago. We should appreciate that. Eventually, McCartney went his own way also and his sound also continued to change. I mean the band crumbled when Kath died, thing change. Life cahnges and Cetera is a "melody" musician. I also prefer his stuff with Chicago but always wish him the best. So the "D_ck" here is you.......and then you sign out with Peace? A little hypocritical don't you think?

  • agree i am not a lover of the Foschild i did like him in chicago 1-10 solowork was a little redundant. But even though i love jason scheff i cant say i dislike Peter Cetera

  • You're not articulate. Nor have you been anything sice Robert and gang.

  • "Remember him?" oh, brother.

  • None of their early singles went to number one until Chicago X in 1976, when Cetera's ballad "If You Leave Me Now" climbed to the top of the charts and remained there for two weeks. The fans wanted Cetera, no doubt. Most of the popular songs were either sung by him, or were collaborated with him. There were many phases of Chicago, and Peter Cetera just so happened to be in the middle where it thrived. His own efforts are great for a solo career, he earned his own place in the music world.

  • Personally I have very little against people who are snobs and full of themselves. I find them amusing. I'd rather have that than a pleasant and cool psychopath who would stab you in the back. People who don't hide their true selves, they earn my respect. But I think I wouldn't stand being around this guy for too long.

  • um...Pete's wrong...the first #1 hit for Chicago was "Make Me Smile"...Cetera is a bullshitter who's an egotist.

  • @FEDivineDragonGirl Cetera's RIGHT!! Make Me Smile peaked at No. 9 in Billboard and although they had numerous other hits - it wasn't until Chicago X with 'If You Leave Me Now' when they DID hit No.1 in '76 and it WAS an international hit - reaching the top in close to a dozen other countries. Just thought you should know....

  • Loved Chicago's orginal line up..As great as Pete was in the early years of Chicago, the day it was over for them was in early 1978 when Terry Kath shot himself. Is Pete just a little bit full of him self here ??..

  • I love this man... His solo stuff kickes ass and I listen to his discs all the way through. I have listened to this man since I was 4 years old... Anyone that says that he is nothing without Chicago is full of SHIT... Chicago woud be nothing without him... When he left Chicago was never the same... Peter's voice is a one of a kind and can NEVER be duplicated.....

  • I was kinda hoping is speaking voice was like his singing voice... :D

  • i saw Chicago in El Paso back in 1975

  • For the 1st time in my life i see Peter TALKING, seriusly! After years and years listening to him singing only, that's not joke

  • Wow, the background sounds are really unfortunate for this interview.

  • I hated the Cetera/Foster era of Chicago.

  • That means u dont like chicago

  • Cetera was great with Chicago but i never liked his solo stuff

  • kimberkley is right. He should've never left Chicago. This interview? -bore, bore, bore with boorish answers. ' I thought Robert Lamm WAS one of the great songwriters of the 20th Century.' Snobby is right. Let's be sure to bring up Glory of Love and make sure it's mentioned as an Oscar Nominee. Toot his own horn. Oh that's right: Peter never liked the Horns. He would've been nothing w/out Chicago.

  • @libralady1010 He had had enough. It was time for him to go and do other shit. Work with other people. The parting was amicable. More time has elapsed since his departure than the entire time he was with the band.

  • Peter Cetera is very professional. He is a very class act.

  • he should have never left chicago. in my opinion- he lost it all but i think it started well before he left. probable right around when kath died. maybe a couple of years after that is when it really accelerated. peter cetera before 1980:

    super sexy

    talented

    special

    spectacular

    petera cetera after 1980:

    boring

    ordinary

    lame

    snobby

  • I think he did not forget chicago from one of his concert I heard him mention "my years with chicago" I think thats ok maybe he learned to look back from his roots he will always be a part of chicago.because that's when I learned what a great band and a singer PC is just don't forget to lookback and be humble idol because god gave you this gift and one of those gift is with the band ;)

  • This guy is a total putz. Why would anyone want to do this third rate housewife music dreck when he could do "Dialogue", "Feelin' Stronger..." and "Questions 67 & 68." Now he acts like he did Chicago a favor by being a part of the band. I just can't deal with this self absorbed knucklehead.

  • Peter Cetera RULES!

  • Peter is certainly good, however the last few years nothing new. Chicago was good with him doing a solo and Chicago. I think David Foster broke them up, thinking it was the best for both. Not sure it was, however they both are successful

  • Jimmy and Robert stated that they're almost positive that David Foster was driving a wedge between Pete and the band way before Peter actually split in '85. I think you're right, he thought it was best. But I think he wanted to be an artist along with Peter...sort of live off his name. But David Foster will never be an artist.

  • Foster will never have the artistic success as a performer.... But he is one of the great song writers of the late 20th century.

  • Peter Cetera Rocks...I saw him in concert last month in Toledo......trauly a great entertainer.....

  • About five years ago I saw Cetera being interviewed on Fox News Channel with Bill McHuddy. Bill wanted to go down memory lane and talk about the Chicago years. McHuddy being a stubborn interviewer asked a few moments later about his Chicago days and Cetera got mad and said "Interview over" and got out of his chair. He did rise to stardom with Chicago. If it were not for Chicago, he would have no solo career.

  • Peter went on and produced more new stuff than Chicago ever did or will after he departed.......It just goes to show Peter is a never ending source of talent. Chicago is still doing their thing, which is fine, but, PC's voice can never be duplicated.....RIP Terry......

  • He may have produced more stuff than Chicago, but where is it? who has heard abour it? I never listened to it apart form the karate mellow kid thing.

  • @ceterababe Excuse me every Cetera solo album sounds like the one prior to it. He has been singing the same song since 1986 and that is mindless cheesy inspid ballads. Both Cetera and Chicago havent been the same since Cetera left. Matter of fact they havent been the same since Terry Kath died.

  • This guy loves to hear the sound of his own voice...what an egomaniac. For me, his solo music is flat, dull, one-dimensional, super commercial. The sickeningly sweet bubblegum sound of Pete Cetera is so predictable. As for his time with Chicago, he was only ONE of the three voices of that band...in my opinion, the least significant of the three. When it came to vocals, Bobby and Terry smoked Pete's whining. Oh well...one man's ceiling is another man's floor.

  • peter is the best singer to come along ever ive been a fan of his from day one im very upset was in tears to see how much your comment hurt me cause if it was not for his music his songs i wood not exissit today im very happy peter shoulded me the wa to know deep inside my soul music songs do help u get b when the many situations are almost near gone

    i lsot my dad to cancer and listening to his songs did not help me forget him but it carried me along the painfull stages .

  • If you are in tears over a youtube comment, God knows what may happen in your relationships.

  • Peter is definitely confident. You need to have a bit of an ego to be in the business he has been in most of his adult life. He did happen to vocalize the lions share of Chicago's original hits.

    However one of my favorite things with Peter was the way his voice blended with Terry Kath's voice. That for me was a major part of the unique Chicago sound.

    When Terry was gone, a part of Peter's contribution to the band, as a whole, was lessened a little bit.

  • @andrewattsup Truer words were never spoken but i must say Cetera did get to sing lead on some very good non Chicago hits

  • I have to admit, I was surprised to hear him even mention Chicago, let alone give kudos to them and Robert Lamm. I thought Peter refused to speak about them.  But then again, I'm one of "those fans" who wants a Chicago reunion tour with Cetera.

  • Someone please get a bat a whack this idiot now.

  • and... such as.. the ... Iraq.. ans maps for.. the South Africans... such as...

  • Nothing that great about Kath anyways.He as great on the Guitar,but never suited to Chicago

  • Your commentary was great until I read this one. One is left to speculate as to your motive but you do a great disservice to those of us who really enjoyed what Terry Kath brought to Chicago. Your snide remarks do diminish a legend; just yourself.

  • I stand

  • ya man, I was with you till you dissed Kath. but I guess it's mainly because CTA and the later Chicago are essentially two different bands.

  • What are you wankers tossing about.For gods sake.The interview is for him.He has not bragged or done the me me me thing as one nitwit mentioned.And the dickhead that said,"he sure is s talker",what a wanker,What sort of inverview would it be if he did not talk?Daa,then you would call him an arogant snob because he did not talk,Wanker.

    You are all to thick and ignorant to realise how dam annoying that LOUD music must be in the background and how hard it is to concentrate,he never said a thing.

  • All I hear is ME ME ME ME ME

  • I was gonna post the same words as you, then I saw your post. This guy has some issues.

  • You're theeeee in-spuurrr-ation.....Is a song I wrote when I.....wasn't such a boring old windbag.

  • lmao

    I think he needs a kiss

    men in glasses are hot

  • boy he sure is a talker

  • Im disappointed he didnt mention his singing partner Terry Kath in Wishing you were here. Peter is a great singer, I love the way he plays with his guitar. He mentions Robert Lamm as a great artist, that's great, but what about the great Terry Kath back then.

  • things I love about Peter Cetera I love a little more Chicago to listen too. Love ya Pete

  • Istandbyme you talk absoloute shite you gotta be the biggest ballsack ever, Peter is a legend you dicksplash.....his voice is great and his bank balance is huge because of the talent......now go shove youre head up a dead bears bum......dick head,,,,

  • well istandbyme had the right idea just didn't come out with it right lol. yeah peters pretty much a huge dick. huge talent dont get me wrong. he made those ballads for chicago catchy and listenable, but its also him that put the band in that position cause of if you leave me now and then bailed on the band that made him famous? asshole and a half right there. its a shame. i dont think ive hated and loved an artist like cetera lol

  • Those ballads sold more records for Chicago than any others, you ask the rest of the band and their bank managers and see if they complain.....

  • thats the totally wrong way to look at it though. this was a band so into the music at one point and it got turned into that fatal 80's mess for the band. thanks to pete chicago became a band you hear at weddings. dont get me wrong the songs were amazing, but thats not for chicago, and im sure they didn't quite like it, nor NEED that money.

  • "You're The Inspiration" ended up being a great song...I wish Kenny Rogers would have cut it. But with the ORIGINAL lyrics, like "You should know...Michaelango..," no wonder Kenny turned it down!!!

  • "You're The Inspiration" ended up being a great song...I wish Kenny Rogers would have cut it. But with the ORIGINAL lyrics, like "You should know...Michaelango..," no wonder Kenny turned it down!!!

  • Oh and yeah he had major maxi lo facial surgery to fix his underbite. Check him out in the 80's-he looked more like a nome.

  • Robert Lamm sang Saturday in the Park... Terry Kaths voice also rules.

  • How about you sit down and listen to YOURSELF? Let's see a picture of you. Peter Cetera great singer and song writer....Chicago ruled back then. I bet you weren't even alive yet.

  • not sure to give you thumb up or dow.Kath,I agree,Cetera,I do not

  • I totally agree!

  • IF you were mature...you would not even look at a person and use the labels "fag" or "ugly." Go back under the bodhi tree to meditate... Ooommmm......

  • great interview by peter cetera but the band did get annoying and way to loud.

  • While the chances of either are extremely remote, I could see PC collaborating with Robert Lamm on a song or an album or something before ever going back to Chicago as a whole. Me thinks the real conflict in that band,judging from comments in various interviews over the years on both sides was b/w PC and the horn section. Cetera really seems to have a great admiration for Lamm's songs though.

  • He has such a strong Chicago accent. My cousins from Michigan have the same accent. We'd always tease them about saying, naht and haht instead of not and hot. You can notice it in Chicago songs too.

    Of course if you are from those places, what I'm saying will be meaningless. lol

  • Peter needs his hair to get longer again...

  • of course peter has to respect robert lamm. their daughters are cousins, right? i mean they both married the nini sisters, so in a way peter and robert are somewhat related.

  • That would make Peter and Robert brothers-in-law, wouldn't it?

  • could they mabye do the interview somewhere esle so the effing band in the backround tunning does not drown him out lol geeez...otherwise awesome interview

  • Well he surprisingly sounds like he's softening on his old band and bandmates. I guess it might be possible to see the old Chicago rise again.

  • Unless Terry rises with them, I don't see it happening.

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  • Peter Cetera certainly got only better looking with age. he was kind of scrawny in his youth and now he looks fabulous. he's in great shape also.

  • Did you see him during the mid 80's? He was past his musical prime then, but at his peak for good looks. But then again, so was everyone else back then. Haha.

  • Dull.

  • Hi from the Philippines,Peter is my favorite singer.Hope he has a chance to come in my country.

  • Hey Peter, Rod Stewart called, he wants his hair back.

  • I'm from Caracas, Venezuela.

    even I'm so far I can't deny I love Peter Cetera's music a lot. he's the best singer ever!

  • Oh man, I though I was old. He's really old now. Almost 64 years old.

  • He's still as talented as ever and hasn't slowed down a bit. It wouldn't matter if he was 25 or 64. :)

  • Thanks for posting this! Good to see and hear Peter again ( still wishing he and Chicago could reunite for a tour or a one-off concert ). Peter was also a hell of a bass player, especially on the Carnegie Hall remaster that came out last year.

  • class pure class and still so damn handsome for his age and last but not least NO WEDDING RING YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!

  • I think he's absolutely gorgeous. He keeps getting better with age, just like fine wine!

  • Play the bass!

  • Thanks. I'd never seen him interviewed before.

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