chicago beginings

[ruedydude]

My favorite Lamm performance of Beginnings. If he was high for this concert maybe he should relapse because he sounds damn good singing this song.

[panzerfile63]

DONNIE HOT LICKS DACUS WAS THE BEST GUITARIST IN CHICAGO

[itsstillfriday]

Lee is really STRONG on his solo!! Yay Lee!! :-)

[itsstillfriday]

Cetera is my favorite bassist!!

[igfyigfy]

This really is a GREAT song.. The live aud, the guys are like going out and doing the job... "Kiss. Daddys is going to the band now..."

[bds1167]

This was the first song on my wedding video.... divorced 8 years later... the kiss of death I guess

[xshellylynnx88]

Roberts always looks good in these videos..If I was there in 79 I would have been with him lol

[arhuxtable]

This performance couldn't hold a candle to the one from the June 8,1972 Tokyo Budokan show.

[adorablejaney]

nothing can! Those are priceless!

[drhey19]

Robert Lamm does not look like himself here!!!

[libralady1010]

drhey19: been mentioned before that I think you can give these guys a pass during this time. Terry had died a little over a year ago-1/1978-and this was 9/1979. They were still in a state of shock and grief. Also RL may have been going through domestic difficulties. Don't know. His voice had not completely recovered from the month before. They did-and still do-a LOT of touring. He looks and sounds great. Was always my favorite from the very "Beginnings" ! ;-)

[Lammfan36]

They all have aged well. is that Lee? (trumpet)

[estyle40]

NONE of us look like we did in 79. Trust me; I was 11!!!

[1navigator33]

looks drugged out

[bsharpinLondon]

They were drugged out during this period. I've heard Cetera say it

[WrestlingHeretic]

@bsharpinLondon

Lamm still has about three more years to go before he cleans up at this point. He missed out on the recording of Chicago 16 because he was in rehab. At least it stuck and he stayed clean after that!

[SEEVIEGEENIE]

PINE KNOB! The lawn, the hill, the ski slope , the kegs and the chicks oh the chicks.

The best!

[Calcium1857]

This song is on youtube in many different versions, and I love the horns in all of them, but in this particular version here, I really dig the guitar and drum work.

[dawnhasclass]

This video and the one for Searchin' So Long from this same performance show just how deeply Terry's death affected them. They look rough. It must have been so hard for them to go on without him. I will say that Peter's vocal performance with "Searchin" was really good. It's like he was trying to make up for Terry not being there to sing backup for him.

[bellwaboy62]

He was great on Happy Man at that show, too.

[cajones112]

Watching Kath kiss his little girl in this video was sad to watch, knowing he'd be dead a short time later.

[rodasalejandria]

Sorry, men, who give kiss his little girl was Walter Parazaider ( sax and flaute).

Donni Dacus Hair blonde an dres white) was replace to Tery Kath.

Terry you are alive forever and ever.

In Memoriam Terry.

[ibjamin5]

The band sounds good here. Seraphine is grooving!

[stuckincorona]

Danny is the kings of the drums. It's a shame he's no longer with the band.

[TheCeteraEra]

Just take a moment and pay attention to Peter's bass line in this. It's just killer!

Proud Fan of Chicago 1969 thru 1984.

The 'Cetera' Era.

[JTWRZK]

I think you can give these guys a pass at this point. Terry was a big part of this band. One day he is here...next he is gone. I would probably have stayed high to get through this time, too!

[bolt767]

Wow, great to see a vid with donnie dacus !! His contribution to Chicago is very under-rated and ignored but he had big shoes to fill after Kath died. How many of us would be able to take on that responsibility ?? I think Hot Streets is a great album and Alive Again is one of my all time favorite songs !!

[bryanbradford]

Terry Kath's voicw is sooooooo much better than Peter Cetera's it's not even funny - my VERY favorite Chicago tune - DJ Bryan Bee

[stuckincorona]

If you're referring to this particular performance, Terry Kath is not on the stage. He had died a year earlier. Robert Lamm (the keyboard player) does the lead vocals on Beginnings (he also composed the song). Peter Cetera is playing bass and singing backing vocals. This song is the third cut from their first album: Chicago Transit Authority.

[TheCeteraEra]

Cetera was wanting out of the band. Read somewhere that, if Kath hadn't died, he would have beat Peter to leaving the band first. It could be a mix of grieving over a lost bandmate and lack of enthusiasm over having a camera in one's face backstage. I don't really know. All I do know, is that in every other Pineknob preformance, Peter sure hides his sourpuss well, projecting instead a bass player giving it his all.

Proud Fan of Chicago 1969 thru 1984.

The 'Cetera' Era.

[arhuxtable]

The "Scheff" Era will never be anything like the "Cetera" Era. This is from someone who never was a big Chicago fan until recently.

[ThemanfromZambodia]

Pretty Tight arrangement considering. Dacus is a pretty good filler on the guitar and does not try to overdo it however there is one observation I hope people find comical . Don`t these guys look like Characters from the video game VICE CITY with the suits and that hair? HAHAHA!!! Love em though!

[screamfff]

Cetera had "Lead Singer" disease... How many Lead Singers does it take to change a lightbulb? One. Just hold the bulb & the world revolves around them. Problem is, the light went out when Terry died...

[bigsis2007]

LMAO!! I'd never heard that lead singer joke before. That was hilarious.

[rockyfanman]

That's what Eddie Van Halen said that David Lee Roth had (LSD - Lead Singer Disease) when they got really big in the early 80s. Now, they are doing fine and to be touring.

[phatbackbeat]

Eddie scared away alot more lead singers than Dave scared away guitarists. Eddie is an EGO Maniac !

[at90percent]

I saw Chicago in 1977 with Terry Kath and then the next year in 1978 without Terry. For some reason almost the whole concert Peter played with his back to the audience. He may have still been grieving, who knows?

[getchasumm]

please,,, someone must know why cetera was a sourpuss so often. I've noticed this many times in other video of this era. Was he wanting out (of the band) at this point?

i'm starting to think getting scheff wasnt all that bad, if cetera was perpetually like this! Comments anyone?

[sagsagleo]

don't know if he was a sourpuss-it might've seemed that way. He may have been. Or maybe this was just his way of getting into the ' zone' before a show. Some are relaxed-like Walt seems to be-some very focused to the point of looking p'off when they're not. He HAS been called the 'dissident member' in one interview seen on TV shortly after Kath's death.

[linco515]

I wish I could put it in words.....

[bigsis2007]

I noticed how everyone comes out smiling except for Peter. If you look at all of these old Youtube videos he hardly ever smiles. I wonder what that was about.

[bellwaboy62]

I think he was just focused. Watch the videos from this show where he is singing -- Searchin' and Happy Man, for two, he is smiling and relaxed and very confident. I think that was just pre-show jitters.

[boxfett]

great song I wish Robert would have continued writing.

[jkmehoff]

I think this was during the end of Roberts Drug Years

Today he is the Example of Health

[danmist]

Wow, Robert does not look healthy in this....

[tuttlemsm]

I was thinking the same thing. Right around this time his voice began to deepen too. Today he sounds more like Kath than he sounds like the guy who sang on CTA. Probably part aging, and partly in this lineup having two bonafide tenors (Cetera and Dacus) somebody having to be the lower voice.

[dacusrules]

This was filmed about one month after the ChicagoFest show in Chicago in 1979. Lamm's voice was completely shot for that show, as dacus had to help him along in singing this tune and the other's he sings. It looks like his voice still had not recovered at this point, not to mention he looks completely blown on something!

[freelancer28]

awesome vid! do you have this whole concert?

[sopranoppc]

yes..i have the whole lot.....most of which ive put on here...