The first record was the real mind blower . The second , after they had to take off the "Transit Authority" part contained 25 or 6 to 4 .Wonder where that went on the charts . Saw them two times . Once at the Fillmore West in SF . Two sets . Again at a McGovern benefit at the SF Civic .Rockig band .
@cuninglinguist "25 or 6 to 4" hit the Top 5 in `70; think it hit maybe #4, but I know it hit the Top 5. AND I can play it on bass. Somethin like an obsession, that song!
how come this video has only 1,000,000 views? people who like classic rock are going to jb and lady gaga vids just to dislike them. the thing thats bad about that is whenever you click on the vid, it counts as a view. instead of going to the crappy music videos of today just 2 clik the dislike button, lets try 2 get all the rock videos 1,000,000,000 views
I was 13 when I first heard Chicago, there were beatles n stones and lots of other musical insects around late 60's early 70's. in three days time I'll be old :-), but this music still inspires me
They are still the best, pitty those whose never enjoyed them
To the 66 who dislike this video, may you some day understand the brilliance and power of Chicago. Until that day comes, may you enjoy the simplicity of your feeble minds.
Ok, let's not hate on Pete. If you notice, he's right in there with everybody else in this video. Their style just changed over the years. It's just shows the wide range of styles these guys are capable of playing. And playing very, very well. Chicago is one the greatest groups of all time and very underrated in my opinion.
DEAR GOD THEY JUST JAMMED!!!! .For Most of 2days youth who have NO CLUE what real music and musicians sounded & looked like....This would be the perfect place to start taking notes!!! R.I.P. Terry K !!
I actually get a little angry watching this performance because this was Chicago at their absolute best; a great, & for the era, unique rock & roll band. Even before Terry's death, they were sliding into crap mode, & "crap" isn't nearly strong enough. To paraphrase Mark Knopfler, "it ain't what I call 'rock and roll'." I saw them 2X, in 70 & I believe 71 or 72. They were fantastic. I wore the grooves off their first 4 LPs. RIP Terry; you, and the band, deserved a better fate.
The best and most skillful musicians of all time, Chicago. Everybody knows their parts. No one misses up. Chicago is one of the longest running and most successful pop/rock and roll groups.
This could easily have been a version by Santana if you didn't look. Totally overblown and cliched singing and playing, which didn't improve the Spencer Davis original.
@jaggerfan23, you can say that about any number of artists from the '60's and early 70's. Not just Chicago, but Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Steve Winwood, Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder-all these people were creating and performing great music at one time. Then, starting in the late 70's-early 80's; they were all producing mediocre, banal pop and rock crap. What the hell happened??
@lennonzappa7: I don’t know what happened to them. However, what I now is that Rock and Roll is, in fact, the under layer, the core, even in today’s pop music. We may not hear it as such, but is there. Without Rock and Roll, these people would not be here today. Some pop musicians today, do not know what hit them, Rock and Roll has had a tremendous impact in their lives. There seems to be a teen genre out there that finds Rock and Rock and Roll music extremely intriguing.
@fielderty Good question, Sons of Champlin were great, too. Too bad Chicago were already producing corporate pop crap by the time Bill Champlin joined them.
I LOVE old Chicago... They just weren't the same after Terry. This is a perfect example. Their chemistry was amazing..They could just jam and jam and you could FEEL it. They had some great songs afterwards but Nothing measured up in my opinion..
I don't know if Hendrix really called TERRY KATH the Greatest guitarist he ever heard , but one thing is DAM SURE , the MOFO was a KICK ASS, PHENOM Master Guitar Player and probably the Best player most people never heard of ...
Terry Kath, Pete Cetera,and Danny serafine back when Chicago was a great band, then some idiot exec said listen to the idiot singer from California who tried to take over, sure they did Look aqay,but Chicago fans were starving for something, since then the three founding members no longer want to come back kath cant, ...and the idiot manager of the band can only keep saying lets make another greatest hits, I think their onthe 15th ghits .all with Kath,Cetera,Serafine....get the point?
They put up that stupid banner bragging about discovering this unknown footage and then they screw it up by not taking the freakin' thing down and out of the way. Sheesh...and it's Terry frickin' Kath on guitar...
Always loved the keyboard player... cowbell-er is the horn guy that used to go shirtless. Peter Cetera playing guitar - I always thought he joined later...
@coldshot5555 well, Terry was incomparable back then.. but also the percussion here I think is much better than sorry pete yorks drumming, and I love Peter's voice, which in a certain way could be compared to Steve Winwood's tenor.. anyway both bands were certainly among the best ever imo
@MrDeitschland Yes I agree, I grew up in Chicago, formed a band with 4 horn section got popular. we played all the CTA Chicago stuff...and I moved...in 1970...I shouuld have waited for the internet....after I moved I could never find enough good musicians in one spot to form another band...but Chicago inspired so many garage bands into being they were GREAT!
Mona Lisa was fine alone, but if you showed her standing next to the Century and Sepulveda Boulevard signs at 11PM, you might get the wrong idea! Too many cooks spoil the tune! Stevie Winwood's version is GREATLY superior! I would have reworked "toilet trimmed in chrome!" Ha! Ha!
Wow! The boys are all there, Peter, Terry, Jimmy, Danny, Bobby, Lee and Walt rockin' out. What a jam session! God bless you boys. You were the best that ever was.
I got my friend onto Chicago from this song - he always thought they were a lovey-dovey band and thought they sang Glory Of Love! Boy was he wrong and the guy thanks me a million for it! :D GOOO CHICAGO!
from carol garcia in wilmas califas chicago rocks their the best so so good so many good times i remember when my sister got her first car in in 70's it was a 55 chevy i use toget in an listen to the radio and i was to young to drive but i use to play the radio and i would play her 8 tracks and listen to chicago i use to love listening to these guys i love them eveybody enjoy they rock
@icreatednothing Yep same band, when they still rocked! This here is one fine piece of audio/video history! This was way before Peter Cetera moved them into the "Easy Listening/Pop format" crap. Amazingly enough, though, it WAS "If You Leave Me Now" that finally gave them their first #1 hit in the U.S. and the U.K. after their TENTH album, no less. They had put out so many other GREAT songs before that "snoozer". Talk about a slap in the face; but that's how the music biz is, unfortunately.....
Unbelievable live stuff....today's Rap & Lip Synch is crap. Terry pays without one of those modern-day footboards. Guitarists now have a truckload of special effects....Terry just used a WahWah and cranked up the amps to "pat pending." (Thanks, Billy G.)
The driving no holds bared sound that comes when your young. The difference between average and great is musicianship which comes from hard work at the beginning of a career. These guys were hard workers and still around today.
@Trace631 That's Jimmy Pankow on cowbell at 0:14; you may not recognize him there, since he is usually on trombone. John Lennon never played/sang with Chicago.
@carina2244 I would have been surprised if it had of been Lennon, I never heard o him stepping out of the Beetles, but I confess I could be ignorant on that point too. Thanks for bringing me up to speed on Pankow
@Trace631 Hi, I should qualify my comment. To my knowledge, Lennon didn't play with Chicago in public; that doesn't mean they may not have gotten together privately. I know the groups were together at least once at a party at Paul McCartney's house. One can only imagine (no pun intended) how great a Beatles/Chicago jam might have been. Nice to meet another fan. Cheers! Carina
its amazing how incredably they play together. I saw them in Oakland coliseum Day on the green. What an experience. I love Terry Kaths voice. The whole band is amazing should be in rock and roll hall of fame. They were true musicians.
I remember riding around in my 63 plymouth listening to this song full blast on my brand new 8 track tape player. aahh to be back thier again.When music" WAS" music. ROCK ON SENIOR CITIZENS, ROCK ON.
暴れるﾃﾘｰ･ｷｬｽのｷﾞﾀｰ!～若き躍動ｼｶｺﾞの猛威～TVﾗｲヴより必殺ｽﾍﾟﾝｻｰ･ﾃﾞｲヴｨｽ･ﾅﾝﾊﾞｰ～"I "M A MAN"
blackandtanful 16 hours ago
66 deaf people here. This is perhaps among the top five rock songs of all times. Idiots.
akthom 1 day ago
They were good when they made this! but there music lost its rock edge later.
waynederland 1 week ago
DAMM !!!!! GOOD !!!!!!
thundermoon123 2 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
who are the 66 people that DISLIKED THIS
kennyplay 3 weeks ago
@kennyplay - probably Cuntoeknees folks - you know the toe and the knees , but dont tell me the first one !
romalondra 4 days ago
This is like a salsa band with a rock and roll lead guitarist and blues lyrics.
TheMrDeegs 3 weeks ago
The first record was the real mind blower . The second , after they had to take off the "Transit Authority" part contained 25 or 6 to 4 .Wonder where that went on the charts . Saw them two times . Once at the Fillmore West in SF . Two sets . Again at a McGovern benefit at the SF Civic .Rockig band .
cuninglinguist 3 weeks ago
@cuninglinguist "25 or 6 to 4" hit the Top 5 in `70; think it hit maybe #4, but I know it hit the Top 5. AND I can play it on bass. Somethin like an obsession, that song!
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@cuninglinguist you should check out 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago and Earth Wind and Fire Live at the Greek Theater-it rocks-ebony and ivory!!!
innervisions69 2 weeks ago
I used to be a man... But then I took an arrow to the knee.
andyFOAT 3 weeks ago
more cowbell!
MrHivmannen 3 weeks ago
Damn we miss you Terry
paperboy6996 3 weeks ago
Gotta love the "Yeah Petey!" at the beginning.
MrCirrusMinor 4 weeks ago
Great jams from a long time ago. Kids nowdays need to listen to more of this
0bj6felines 1 month ago 2
Hey, tell the band we need more cowbell!
Pfantasticjohn 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
I LOVE YOUTUBE!
knot4u11 1 month ago
GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
MrNIO888 1 month ago
how come this video has only 1,000,000 views? people who like classic rock are going to jb and lady gaga vids just to dislike them. the thing thats bad about that is whenever you click on the vid, it counts as a view. instead of going to the crappy music videos of today just 2 clik the dislike button, lets try 2 get all the rock videos 1,000,000,000 views
zachisaniceperson 1 month ago 2
WTF???? Cannot believe this is the same Chicago...
partyinamsterdam 1 month ago
I was 13 when I first heard Chicago, there were beatles n stones and lots of other musical insects around late 60's early 70's. in three days time I'll be old :-), but this music still inspires me
They are still the best, pitty those whose never enjoyed them
tykehx3 1 month ago
This was one of the greatest ever. God rest his soul. I miss you Terry.
DAYPOW 1 month ago
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To the 66 who dislike this video, may you some day understand the brilliance and power of Chicago. Until that day comes, may you enjoy the simplicity of your feeble minds.
huskerspew 1 month ago
Kicked butt , never the same after they changed .
oldplatterman 1 month ago
Nice to see Terry and the boys before they dropped the "Transit Authority" and jumped the track. Thanks very much for sharing.
13loomisst 1 month ago
Was Peter Cetera in this vid? Man these guys are awesome. Nothing like it today. Busy stage!
TheRelger 1 month ago
Un pezzo storico.
archpzag 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Yes, by The Spencer Davis Group. Writn by Stevie Winwood..
MsGunslinger53 2 months ago
Jesus H Christ. Are you people listening to me? MORE FUCKING COWBELL!!
smokiebird06 2 months ago
Ok, let's not hate on Pete. If you notice, he's right in there with everybody else in this video. Their style just changed over the years. It's just shows the wide range of styles these guys are capable of playing. And playing very, very well. Chicago is one the greatest groups of all time and very underrated in my opinion.
osualum85 2 months ago
Simply the best!
SuperWebnews 2 months ago in playlist DE VOLTA PARA O SUCESSO
素晴らしい！
tobitto1 2 months ago
as a kid growing up in the early 70's, I remember a version with a long drum solo, can anyone help me ?
MultiGubgub 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
@MultiGubgub This is it. The long drum solo is on the album version. Album is called Chicago Transit Authority.
deb83843 2 months ago
This song is originally UK's Spencer Davis Group though, right?
WaltHawtin 2 months ago
More Cowbell!
'cause I'm a man!
TheFhink 2 months ago in playlist Favoriten von TheFhink
Awesome
jazzjanne1 2 months ago
NOW THIS IS REAL MUSIC!!!!!!!!
TheBrutus50 2 months ago
CCCCCCOOOOOOOWWWBBBBELLLLLLL!
kodiakfred140 2 months ago
simple and easy to explain. this song kicks assss.
rm25088 2 months ago
DEAR GOD THEY JUST JAMMED!!!! .For Most of 2days youth who have NO CLUE what real music and musicians sounded & looked like....This would be the perfect place to start taking notes!!! R.I.P. Terry K !!
srphockey11 3 months ago 2
@srphockey11 Yes...and these are the most rocking men ....ever!!!! They rock like no-one else !!! Take notes....kids ! This is a real band !!!!
lakeladymel 2 months ago
I actually get a little angry watching this performance because this was Chicago at their absolute best; a great, & for the era, unique rock & roll band. Even before Terry's death, they were sliding into crap mode, & "crap" isn't nearly strong enough. To paraphrase Mark Knopfler, "it ain't what I call 'rock and roll'." I saw them 2X, in 70 & I believe 71 or 72. They were fantastic. I wore the grooves off their first 4 LPs. RIP Terry; you, and the band, deserved a better fate.
desertswo 3 months ago
10/27: Waves and Smiles ~^~
WindHarps 3 months ago
No busted strings. Just a perfect master piece, I'm a man (a concept somewhat left behind by a significant number in today's youth)...
Montery12 3 months ago
The best and most skillful musicians of all time, Chicago. Everybody knows their parts. No one misses up. Chicago is one of the longest running and most successful pop/rock and roll groups.
Montery12 3 months ago
This could easily have been a version by Santana if you didn't look. Totally overblown and cliched singing and playing, which didn't improve the Spencer Davis original.
m06een00 3 months ago
Los amare por siempre.
Maribel1309 3 months ago
Record companies that just wanted quanity over quality. Look what happened to Grand Funk.
chuckdiann 3 months ago in playlist chuckdiann's favorites
@jaggerfan23, you can say that about any number of artists from the '60's and early 70's. Not just Chicago, but Tina Turner, Aretha Franklin, Steve Winwood, Billy Joel, Elton John, Stevie Wonder-all these people were creating and performing great music at one time. Then, starting in the late 70's-early 80's; they were all producing mediocre, banal pop and rock crap. What the hell happened??
lennonzappa71 3 months ago
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ohmyliver01 3 months ago
@lennonzappa7: I don’t know what happened to them. However, what I now is that Rock and Roll is, in fact, the under layer, the core, even in today’s pop music. We may not hear it as such, but is there. Without Rock and Roll, these people would not be here today. Some pop musicians today, do not know what hit them, Rock and Roll has had a tremendous impact in their lives. There seems to be a teen genre out there that finds Rock and Rock and Roll music extremely intriguing.
Montery12 3 months ago
@fielderty Good question, Sons of Champlin were great, too. Too bad Chicago were already producing corporate pop crap by the time Bill Champlin joined them.
lennonzappa71 3 months ago
Good tune awkward white guys with no rhythmic chops sorry chitown RIP Terry Kath the only good musician bad gunsmith
mla1057 3 months ago
Good tune awkward white guys with no rhythmic chops sorry chitown RIP Terry Kath the only good musician bad gunsmith
mla1057 3 months ago
Terry Kathy was most certainly of the very best
stratdem 4 months ago
I LOVE old Chicago... They just weren't the same after Terry. This is a perfect example. Their chemistry was amazing..They could just jam and jam and you could FEEL it. They had some great songs afterwards but Nothing measured up in my opinion..
rayman0409 4 months ago
62 people are not a Man
coketherealthing 4 months ago 27
I loved them back then and i love them more for their great accomplishments to the arts! Fantastic. They don't make bands like these guys today!
41223978 4 months ago
/watch?v=cpLHGHA-Qqw isos kai to apolito klepsimo.
lazos69 4 months ago
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coketherealthing 4 months ago
@coketherealthing Autotune. THAT'S what this world has come to.
ChopstickBrando 4 months ago
I gotta fever and the only cure for it is ......More Cowbell!!!!
KELLYOBRIEN77 4 months ago 2
@KELLYOBRIEN77 try Jimi Hendrix's Stone free :)! /watch?v=JnGOARFOQV0
kelders0 4 months ago
This tune has plenty of cowbell.
JetSetDiva 5 months ago
ADIOS Steve!
We do not need a business landscape that cuddles my products or nothing.
We do not need shoddy workmenship, where rap a rubber-band around it is acceptable.
We want products that fit like a honest handshake.
We want American boots on the ground, pushing alternatives.
WE WANT OUR RIGHT TO ROAM FREE!
Arturo82001 5 months ago
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chocolatedonut31 5 months ago
this is the very first Chicago make in 1968-69
nocowboyfan1 5 months ago
Good HARD rock just doesn't get any better than this.
MrNightOwL100 5 months ago
Le must des groupes; années 70 déjà
rodixiet 5 months ago
This got me on my feet! :o)
artec0 5 months ago
now thats the chicago i remember
mojorsn2 5 months ago 2
Terry's gunshot? can't even stop that music to go through generations. LEGENDARY.
broehrigable 5 months ago
WAY better then the original.
ThugsRscarySoIcarry 5 months ago
I don't know if Hendrix really called TERRY KATH the Greatest guitarist he ever heard , but one thing is DAM SURE , the MOFO was a KICK ASS, PHENOM Master Guitar Player and probably the Best player most people never heard of ...
franz909 5 months ago
Friggin' unbelievably raw & beautiful song! Terry is so under-rated....so talented and missed!
ghwoods1 5 months ago
The title for this song was named after the fact that Terry Kath is in fact, A MAN.
chrisdgoldie 5 months ago
@chrisdgoldie Actually it's a Spencer Davis Group song and Steve Winwood was the man in question...I guess...but Terry is the man as well!
postyesterdayman 5 months ago
Men At Work
clyde4901 5 months ago
Terry Kath, Pete Cetera,and Danny serafine back when Chicago was a great band, then some idiot exec said listen to the idiot singer from California who tried to take over, sure they did Look aqay,but Chicago fans were starving for something, since then the three founding members no longer want to come back kath cant, ...and the idiot manager of the band can only keep saying lets make another greatest hits, I think their onthe 15th ghits .all with Kath,Cetera,Serafine....get the point?
MrStoney2011 5 months ago
Tout simplement MAGNIFIQUE
CARUCRIS 6 months ago
Needs more cowbell HAHAHAHAHA!!
tobylou8 6 months ago
They put up that stupid banner bragging about discovering this unknown footage and then they screw it up by not taking the freakin' thing down and out of the way. Sheesh...and it's Terry frickin' Kath on guitar...
1953taggie 6 months ago
i remember this was popular when i had a dish washing job at a night club that served mexican food, and it was so gooood! and so was the food!!
m1kewithaone 6 months ago
no wonder i couldn't find this, i thought it was by rare earth!!!
m1kewithaone 6 months ago
Who is the guy playing the banjo?
329legal 6 months ago
High School dances!
Always loved the keyboard player... cowbell-er is the horn guy that used to go shirtless. Peter Cetera playing guitar - I always thought he joined later...
MorganHillChristine 6 months ago
@MorganHillChristine Peter Cetera plays bass... and he was pretty good back then!
MrDeitschland 5 months ago
There's no rock & roll hall of fame if CHICAGO is not in it!
kybluewhite 6 months ago
A Giovanni! Quanto mi manchi, vecchio amico mio.
DaviMax 6 months ago
Real music is this!!!!
Pacoy69 6 months ago
too fn amazing
animascat 6 months ago
1971!
pjallmarbinks 6 months ago
music made sense
Syzygy60 6 months ago
1974
Syzygy60 6 months ago
when i became aware
Syzygy60 6 months ago
is 70 I was 14 when i heard it,74
Syzygy60 6 months ago
what year is this?
Syzygy60 6 months ago
oh I forgot they all look like that
Syzygy60 6 months ago
that's Terry Kath looks like a Ramone with long straight hair
Syzygy60 6 months ago
1st real rock song i learned as a drummer,the older kids turned me on lol
Syzygy60 6 months ago
omg has tobe one of the first
alwayssme 6 months ago
This is so cool...Was my #1 for a long time...easy to play too....
coldshot5555 6 months ago
steve winwood surely got pale when he listened to chicago's opus of his tune
MrDeitschland 6 months ago 10
@MrDeitschland Winword is missing that great lead guitar for one...
coldshot5555 6 months ago
@coldshot5555 well, Terry was incomparable back then.. but also the percussion here I think is much better than sorry pete yorks drumming, and I love Peter's voice, which in a certain way could be compared to Steve Winwood's tenor.. anyway both bands were certainly among the best ever imo
MrDeitschland 6 months ago
@MrDeitschland Yes I agree, I grew up in Chicago, formed a band with 4 horn section got popular. we played all the CTA Chicago stuff...and I moved...in 1970...I shouuld have waited for the internet....after I moved I could never find enough good musicians in one spot to form another band...but Chicago inspired so many garage bands into being they were GREAT!
coldshot5555 6 months ago
@MrDeitschland pale green actually. green with the cash he was making on the tune haha.
kickstar1 4 months ago
Mona Lisa was fine alone, but if you showed her standing next to the Century and Sepulveda Boulevard signs at 11PM, you might get the wrong idea! Too many cooks spoil the tune! Stevie Winwood's version is GREATLY superior! I would have reworked "toilet trimmed in chrome!" Ha! Ha!
sixtiesrockboy 6 months ago
Terry Kaths come along only once every generation or so. Sure glad he came along in my generation.
smokiebird06 6 months ago
Careful with that axe!
deltanine100 6 months ago
my fav Chicago video..this is badddddddddddddddd
MOSKII58 6 months ago
fabuleu
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edgar0001 6 months ago
crazy!!
TheZuzuo 6 months ago
Uh are there like two different Chicagos or somethin? I was hearing all this fruity shit, then they have like this and 25 or 6 to 4 im confused
Bachra15 6 months ago
Chicago came out of the music department at DePaul University.
The same music department that produced Ray Manzarek of the Doors.
Pretty good legacy.
Philtration 7 months ago
82 brtain dead idiots. If you don't like this you should be listening to Bach.
skipper8257 7 months ago
Groovy! :D
clh81 7 months ago
OMG! THAT WAS F'EN AWESOME!!
sandyland212 7 months ago
Absolutity the greatest
jimbo15421 7 months ago
Terry Kath was the man.
gearguitarguy 7 months ago 2
Wow! The boys are all there, Peter, Terry, Jimmy, Danny, Bobby, Lee and Walt rockin' out. What a jam session! God bless you boys. You were the best that ever was.
skeena59 7 months ago 2
Outstanding, Terry had bigtime talent. they had 3 lead singers, excellent.
dezertfox4323 7 months ago
I got my friend onto Chicago from this song - he always thought they were a lovey-dovey band and thought they sang Glory Of Love! Boy was he wrong and the guy thanks me a million for it! :D GOOO CHICAGO!
brilliantos 7 months ago
This was the best Chicago LP, Chicago Transit Authority
zbestwun2001 7 months ago
Is it safe to say that Chicago stopped rocking when Kath took himself out .. what a waste
getthedoggie 7 months ago
Amazing, Really amazing. I mean wow, they had TV in 1970???
circusitch 7 months ago
I've got a fever... A fever for more cow bell :)
jeremybg7 7 months ago
@jeremybg7 guess what!! i got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell!!
graphicartist2k5 7 months ago
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Kicks rock and roll ass!!!
Tacomadome24 7 months ago
I NEED MORE COW BELL!!
bartokdjm 7 months ago
sacrés souvenirs les ptits gars !!!
POPAVIDEO 7 months ago
from carol garcia in wilmas califas chicago rocks their the best so so good so many good times i remember when my sister got her first car in in 70's it was a 55 chevy i use toget in an listen to the radio and i was to young to drive but i use to play the radio and i would play her 8 tracks and listen to chicago i use to love listening to these guys i love them eveybody enjoy they rock
liliaG22 7 months ago
Spencer Davis made it great... too. THIS, however, is their own, and truly sublime.
Catlovertea4 7 months ago
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One of the greatest bands of all time. The guitarist (Terry Kath) was so totally awesome! To bad he didn't check his gun. :-(
NousChristou 7 months ago
One of the greatest bands of all time. The guitarist (Terry Kath) was so totally awesome! To bad he didn't check his gun. :-(
NousChristou 7 months ago
Παναζία μου!!!
Loukoumias 7 months ago
If Chicago isn't in the Hall of Fame, then it ain't no Hall worth seeing. seriously, this is one of the top ten bands of all time.
Ansular 7 months ago
Wow!!, Ive never seen this chicago, is it the same chigago of "if you leave me now"?
icreatednothing 7 months ago 5
@icreatednothing Yep!
Jackhammer69able 7 months ago
@icreatednothing yes it is!
boso54 7 months ago
@icreatednothing Yes, shocking isn't it? Get the first album 'Chicago Transit Authority.' Brilliant.
postyesterdayman 5 months ago
@icreatednothing you bet !
vientoenpopa3 5 months ago
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Revolution1117 5 months ago
@icreatednothing Yep same band, when they still rocked! This here is one fine piece of audio/video history! This was way before Peter Cetera moved them into the "Easy Listening/Pop format" crap. Amazingly enough, though, it WAS "If You Leave Me Now" that finally gave them their first #1 hit in the U.S. and the U.K. after their TENTH album, no less. They had put out so many other GREAT songs before that "snoozer". Talk about a slap in the face; but that's how the music biz is, unfortunately.....
Revolution1117 5 months ago 12
@icreatednothing I didn't realise either - the Wikipedia article makes interesting reading Chicago_(band)
speedintraffic 4 months ago
@speedintraffic I got to see them in Concert at Dallas Memorial Auditorium. SO GOOD! Now THAT was music, none of that synthesized auto-tune shit.
Rest in peace, Terry Kath.
CaptKundalini 4 months ago
its an absolute travesty that they are not in the RR hall of fame!!!!!
27wingnut 7 months ago
KATH
Scumbagization 7 months ago
What, Huh? What was the question?
MrMusicalsoul 7 months ago
Totally what I was listening to........PLAYING THE RECORD OVER AND OVER AND OVER
Hyperlink4321 8 months ago 2
@Hyperlink4321 and u are in good company. I listen to it all the time
MiGrm9 7 months ago
Unbelievable live stuff....today's Rap & Lip Synch is crap. Terry pays without one of those modern-day footboards. Guitarists now have a truckload of special effects....Terry just used a WahWah and cranked up the amps to "pat pending." (Thanks, Billy G.)
lockwpa 8 months ago
Unbelievable live stuff....today's Rap & Lip Synch is crap.
lockwpa 8 months ago
Pure Power + Pure Talent = Masterpiece!
MrNightOwL100 8 months ago
Here is the original:
Steve Winwood as part of the Spencer Davis Group, live version early 67, just before Steve leaving to form Traffic:
.../watch?v=AzN0mMx-sJg&feature=related
Miwof 8 months ago
woooaaa. "true musicians" isn't the word here. And I'm lookin' for all that percussion solo. Is that on "Beginnings" - can't find it.
Catlovertea4 8 months ago
Saw them do this in a long,about 15 min version. WOWWWWWWAt the Denver colesium early 70's. One of the best covers ever!
hockeyman1956 8 months ago
The driving no holds bared sound that comes when your young. The difference between average and great is musicianship which comes from hard work at the beginning of a career. These guys were hard workers and still around today.
tkau8 8 months ago
Real music here.......No Lady Gagup....lol
melodymaker65 8 months ago
and these guys aren't in the rock n roll hall of fame, something is seriously wrong!
panhead58ful 8 months ago
Rock/Jazz fusion, awesome, the lineage of the artists, from group to group still incredible.
73egp 8 months ago
Is this really the same Peter Cetera that, only 17 years later; would be performing sappy duets with Amy Grant and Cher??
lennonzappa71 8 months ago 2
@lennonzappa71 Sadly, yes.
anthrax2525 8 months ago
MORE COW BELL!!!
killdaclownz 8 months ago
At :14 looks like john Lennon playing Cow bells,on the fadeout the voice over is British accent, maybe it is J.L. I don't know What do you think
Trace631 8 months ago
@Trace631 lol yeah kinda does good catch
WVGUITARWORLD 8 months ago
@Trace631 That's Jimmy Pankow on cowbell at 0:14; you may not recognize him there, since he is usually on trombone. John Lennon never played/sang with Chicago.
carina2244 7 months ago
@carina2244 I would have been surprised if it had of been Lennon, I never heard o him stepping out of the Beetles, but I confess I could be ignorant on that point too. Thanks for bringing me up to speed on Pankow
Trace631 7 months ago
@Trace631 Hi, I should qualify my comment. To my knowledge, Lennon didn't play with Chicago in public; that doesn't mean they may not have gotten together privately. I know the groups were together at least once at a party at Paul McCartney's house. One can only imagine (no pun intended) how great a Beatles/Chicago jam might have been. Nice to meet another fan. Cheers! Carina
carina2244 7 months ago
this is awesome, will this type ofmusic ever come back
pardyman22 8 months ago
damn that really hits it!
thank you!
MrNightOwL100 8 months ago
Best quality early CTA video I've seen!
Delmarvellous 8 months ago
its amazing how incredably they play together. I saw them in Oakland coliseum Day on the green. What an experience. I love Terry Kaths voice. The whole band is amazing should be in rock and roll hall of fame. They were true musicians.
wildthing3722 8 months ago
I remember riding around in my 63 plymouth listening to this song full blast on my brand new 8 track tape player. aahh to be back thier again.When music" WAS" music. ROCK ON SENIOR CITIZENS, ROCK ON.
ironbutterflyist 8 months ago 31
@ironbutterflyist this is a cover but still it rocks!!! Chicago was so inventive!!! I LOOOOVE THE EARLY YEARS!!!
MichaelHansenFUN 6 months ago
@ironbutterflyist Now THERE'S a KINDRED spirit! Luv 'ya!!! Aren't they STILL the BEST ever???
tonyde52 6 months ago
@ironbutterflyist Well yur right , but don't count us as senior citizens yet.
phobias1000 6 months ago
@ironbutterflyist what's wrong with justin beiber in a nissan micra at a more sensible volume? ;)
el6caballo6oscuro6 6 months ago
cooolllllllllllllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SuperLuMaia 8 months ago