25 or 6 to 4 LIVE at Tanglewood - Chicago | College Students' FIRST TIME REACTION! 

FINALLY we are hitting this live performance!! It was well worth the wait, though it’s left us hungry for more Chicago, what should we hit next from them?! 🙌🏻🔥

This was the REAL Chicago. The band was never the same after the passing of Terry Kath, one of rock’s greatest guitarist. He was up there with Hendrix.

That footage shows what MONSTER of a guitarist Terry Kath is.

No flashing lights. No pyrotechnics. No autotune. Just pure raw energy by incredibly talented musicians. One of the best live performances ever. CHICAGO!!!!!

One of the GREAT guitar solos of all time. We lost Terry Kath far too soon. RIP.

The encore for this set is "I'm a Man" Where Terry Shreds for another 5 minutes.

And Rolling Stone magazine doesn’t include Terry Kath in their list of the Top 100 Guitarists ? That’s criminal.

Probably already said 37 times but this has got to be one of the greatest live performances and solos of all time. Thank you.

Peter Cetera is probably one of rock's most underrated bassists.

Terry Kath never has got the credit he deserves. One of the best ever.

Now that's how you mesmerize a crowd, folks! Terry Kath's solo is fantabulous!

Just the greatest live performance ever captured. They were all on fire. Tears.

Tanglewood is definitely one of the more underrated live shows ever. God rest Terry

James Pankow's mother is saying " finally trombone lessons that paid off".

Chicago wasn't the same after Terry Kath's death. He was the heart and soul of the band.

I love it! Back when bands or soloists had to sound great live, and not just on their studio albums. No autotune, no fancy effects or clean ups. Just REAL MUSIC. That's what a lot of the so called artists are lacking today.

Terry Kath is just mesmerizing. What a talent. Hendrix's favorite guitarist for a reason.

The one and only amazing Terry Kath melts the frets off his Strat during that solo. He didn't play through a guitar amp, he used a PA system in its place, just a wah pedal for effects, and that was it. Here he gives a masterclass on how to RULE during your solo without using all the tricks and gimmicks that players use these days, but how to express your heart and soul through your guitar. Great choice guys! Cheers!

I think the camera guy was just as mesmerized. He probably forgot he had a job. Best solo ever.

The drummer wasn’t “still setting up.” His bass drum mounted ride cymbal stand broke. He had to use the stand from his right side crash cymbal for his ride. They were still switching over when the video started.

"Make me smile" live at Tanglewood if you want more of the same. The guitarist sings lead vocal with his soulful "Ray Charles" type voice. Fantastic stuff.

Introduction off Transit Authority shows every side of the band.

RU-vid has been recommending The Terry Kath Experience, one of their free movies. It’s a documentary by his daughter, who was too young to know him before his passing. The impact he made, his band mates still emotional recollections and the sounds he created are a real revelation. Very well done. I highly recommend it.

It’s amazing that Chicago and Peter Cetera went from songs like this in the 70’s to the power ballads of the 80’s. Both are epic and it just shows the musicianship and how they were able to gravitate from one decade to the next:)

EPIC effing performance my Terry Kath, what a badass!!! These guys were musicians first and foremost. In a guitar driven band Kath would have been a household name.

Terry Kath is one of the greatest overlooked guitarists ever. Another great live track from Chicago is "Ballet For A Girl From Buchannon" from Live at Carnegie Hall.

There's only one choice for what's next and that's "Make Me Smile." On this tune, Terry Kath is lead vocals. I love Peter but prefer Terry. And it has some killer guitar work of course.

I never get tired of watching this. Whole concert is fire

My favorite band in the 70’s; yes, I’m old! First concert in 74 or 75 was Chicago, and saw them MANY more times, including 2 or 3 times with the great Terry Kath. You really can’t go wrong with anything from the first two albums; Side 1 of Chicago 2 (The silver album) is amazing.

Their cover of "I'm a Man" live from either the Tanglewood video or the Madison Square Garden live album will blow you away. Do yourselves a favor and check it out.

Tanglewood sounds like a cool name to me.

Kath: Just the amp, the guitar, the wah, and one incredible man.

I'm a little late to the party here, but if you guys want more Chicago like this? You should honestly just watch the entire Tanglewood concert. It's a really great representation of Chicago in their heyday. Also, I love what you guys are doing. Keep being awesome!

Love when the horn section watches Terry Kath's solo with amazed looks. And he takes off on the solo and basically tells the band to keep up if you can.

BEGINNINGS!!! There’s a Tanglewood performance or the studio version, both great. Same for Make Me Smile with Terry Kath on Lead vocals

The crazy thing is how they were dealing with equipment problems, jammed a bit and then blew right up into this fast paced crazy song. They didn't hardly need to think about it...

Tanglewood is a really beautiful concert hall in the Berkshire Mountains in Western Massachussetts! It's mostly for classical music, and you listen to music surrounded by fields, rolling hills, trees and mountains in the distance. Santana did an AMAZING performance there after Woodstock, including Soul Sacrifice (minus the hallucinations), and there should be a video of it floating around.

Just for its incredible message, Terry Kath, Chicago, “ Dialogue parts 1&2” never means more than it does today

You'll love their "Feeling Stronger Every Day" and "Make Me Smile"

One of the few bands i ever saw live that took flawless studio cuts to an even higher level when played live. Every.....single....song.

Chicago songs are our love story. Almost 50 years with children & grandloves! 🎼❤️🩷🩷🩷

This was back when bands like Chicago and the Doobie Brothers had these complex - but utterly rocking - arrangements with horn sections and percussion sections and back-up singers as well as the core group. They would do these phenomenal things on the studio recordings, but then you'd see them in concert and they were actually, and somewhat unbelievably, BETTER!!!! Amazing.

Tanglewood is the home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra and to several music schools. They host concerts, typically not rock concerts. So for Chicago to be playing there at the time was out of the ordinary.

Lol...I saw Jackson Brown at Tanglewood. He literally sat down with his legs dangling over the edge of the stage and talked to us all after his concert. Great guy!

I just saw this video for the first time the other day. Someone texted it to me and said, “is this the best guitar solo of all time?” I gotta be honest, I have a really hard time saying no. The energy is somehow past 11. This may, indeed, be the GOAT.

Make Me Smile (the album cut is over 12 minutes long) worth every minute. It's called "Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon"

One of my favourite old Chicago songs. “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?” Is another one. Early Chicago had the best song titles LOL

Humans playing raw music directly through the instruments with little to no alternation via effects. REAL Frikin Live MUSIC right there. One of the legendary bands of our time. CHICAGO

rarely have a guitarist and his guitar been so exquisitely FUSED.......that's the best word that comes to mind right now.........

Tanglewood was named after one of our famous American authors, Nathaniel Hawthorne, who wrote one of his most well known works, “Tanglewood Tales” a re-writing of Greek mythology for children, while living in a cottage on the estate that eventually became home to the Tanglewood music festival among many other events.

The most missed piece Chicago ever done was Introduction. No one makes a review video of it. It changes every minute and a half. It describes Chicago in the early days.Radio did not play it because it was too longer and unlike alot of their other music they did not make a shorter version.

Terry was like "Not set up huh? Well, the bus is leaving".

Tanglewood finally!! Same concert again “make me smile” next! that same guitarists voice will kill you!

What a fantastic performance! Terry Kath was such a brilliant guitarist, may he rest in peace. When you come back around to Chicago again, PLEASE react to “Wishing You Were Here” - Terry Kath on lead vocals, members of The Beach Boys providing harmony vocals for the chorus, and Peter Cetera singing the bridge. It’s absolutely sublime!

"Make Me Smile" live from the same show. Terry Kath sings as aggressive as he plays.

Every time I watch this guitar solo my hands are cramped for the next half hour.

TANGLWOOOD, “ make me smile” You get to hear the voice behind the guitar playing .. it’s . simply .amazing.

"I'm a Man" from this same show should be next up! And I need to add, the camerawork you spoke of is not his fault. He is doing EXACTLY what the director is telling him to do. It is much more the director and editors fault.

Terry Kath was absolutely of THE VERY BEST to EVER hold a guitar in his masterful hands...top 3!! If you haven't watched the documentary The Terry Kath Experience by his daughter, I highly urge y'all to do so!!

A million guitarists could play these notes. But it’s the ‘expression’ a guitarist plays with that provides its unique sound. If you watch Terry Kath’s body language during his playing, you can see his expressions consume his entire body.

Damn. I loved growing up in the 60's & 70's. My Dad and my aunts playing the music of those decades every day. I was so fuckin' lucky! Thanks for your reactions. They're priceless.

When first hearing Terry Kath play, Jimi Hendrix was quoted as saying that he thought Terry Kath played guitar better than he did. It was later on reported that Jimi Hendrix also called Terry Kath the “Best Guitarist in the Universe.”

Danny on drums is amazing on the studio version of "Feeling stronger every day". "Beginnings” was done back in 1969 but still great!

My first concert was in 1972 just after high school graduation, in Vancouver BC (I lived in the last town in America on the NW Canadian border). $5.00, festival seating. Pretty magical summer, spiced by background of being of Draft age for the Vietnam War and reading the lottery #'s in the paper with my friends. Starting at the University in Seattle in the fall.... Hell of a good show and one of the few bands I saw 👀 twice! "I'm a Man", live, should not be missed!

Damn, that was such excellence! Have loved this band since the 70's when I was young. Love that you guys give it such respect!

Hey guys.....60 year old guy self-proclaimed Chicago expert here.....avoid the love songs Here are songs where Terry Kath shreds: CTA album, 1969: Listen - sort and sweet rocker, with Kath front and center from the opening notes Poem 58 - a tour de force. Kath gone wild Questions 67 & 68 - brief but memorable guitar parts. Strong contender for best Chicago song ever Chicago II, 1970 You've done 25 or 6 to 4 already Make Me Smile has a ripping guitar solo but it's part of a 13 minute suite (Ballet For a Girl in Buchannon) that you won't want to showcase Chicago V, 1972: Now That You've Gone - no solo, but Terry Kath sings his lungs out and the brass soars. One of Chicago's best songs ever and only fans know it A Hit By Varese - experimental, trippy While The City Sleeps - my favorite Kath solo. Gloomy, eery, ominous rocker with a solo to match that tone Chicago VI, 1973: Feelin' Stronger Every Day - BEST Chicago song of all time. A summer hit. No solo, but the Kath transition from slow to fast song is peak Chicago. You can only avoid this song so long if you're going to do Chicago at all.

"Beginnings" from Chicago Transit Authority, Tanglewood or Live in Japan. They are all S-Tier. Maybe you could do the entire movie - "Live at Tanglewood".

I'm one of the biggest Chicago fans ever. Love them so much, have been to many concerts and I own every album they've ever put out. That being said, you folks need to do a search for Leonid & Friends and listen to their 25 or 6 to 4. They are the ultimate tribute band and if you know Chicago like I do, you'll see that they play the song note for note. Since all of the original Chicago guys (inlcuding me) are old dudes now, Leonid & Friends are a re-birth of Chicago. Catch one of their concerts. You won't be disappointed.

"Poem 58" from the debut Chicago Transit Authority album. This answers the question, "What would Terry, Peter, and Danny have been like as a power trio?" You will NEVER again not think of Cetera as a bass player. This song melts faces guaranteed.

Truthfully, when Terry Kath died I was selfishly crushed. He was the hard edge which Chicago needed to offset Cetera's softrock love songs preference. To this day, I love their first few albums. The following years, each time they had another commercial "sweet song" pop hit, I cringed... remembering when Kath was their leader & they had heart & soul.

I've seen this video dozens of times and Terry Kath's solo still takes my breath away. Every time I listen to it, I hear something new that surprises me. It's unreal.

Also y’all would really dig the studio version of Feeling Stronger Every Day…the musicianship is magical (especially Danny Seraphine just KILLING IT on drums)

Guys on the horns are watching Terry Kath in awe during the guitar solo. R.I.P. one of the greatest.

Hey A&A "Questions 67 and 68" by Chicago has everything, great brass, Terry ripping it and Peter's great voice. Anybody else agree?

You will never know the real power of Terri Kath until you listen to "Poem 58". An absolute monster guitar tune! ☮️

STRONGER EVERYDAY, starts out slow, then slowly builds to a rousing ending.

I'm a Man at Tanglewood. It shows all 3 lead vocalists singing & them using other instruments, very creatively. One of them, being a cowbell.

I'm a man, same concert. Very few rival Terry Kath. The soul of the man outshines just about anybody who may have better "technical" playing.

Make Me Smile - no question. Tanglewood or studio, they’re both phenomenal. Some of the very best of early Chicago and Terry Kath.

"I've Been Searchin So Long" is incredibly great

Way Make Me Smile from the same concert....awesome. You actually get to see Terry play his lead...

Thanks guys. Many feel that "Introduction" was Terry's masterpiece. He didn't read music....he'd tell James Pankow, the trombonist, what was floating around in his head, and Pankow would write the charts. Drummer Danny Seraphine was blown away by how elaborate the music was, and how the time signatures were ridiculously hard to play, etc. 25 or 6 to 4 was a GREAT choice. I agree with many others here that "I'm a Man," from the same show, should be next. Terry sings, as do Peter Cetera and keyboardist Robert Lamm.....and Terry, as the young guys say, "shreds." The rest of the band just has a blast. Or, the one I mentioned, "Introduction," also live from Tanglewood. You can't go wrong with either of those from the Chicago Transit Authority studio album either. Chicago was SO underappreciated by critics, as was Terry Kath. Used to piss me off. Acoustic guitar, lead guitar, vocals (His voice was so soulful, like a white Ray Charles almost). Too soon gone.....but thank you for this Wednesday morning surprise.

Check out "Introduction", the first song from the first album. Time changes, shredding, holy sheet!!!

You hear people talk about a band being "tight", well these guys were SO tight that Terry could start strumming his axe perfectly timed to when the others would finish getting set up and come in with him right on time, in sync, not breaking rhythm with each other, gliding into the song as smoothly as an Olympic ski jumper sliding down the ramp to the gold medal flight.

So glad you finally featured Chicago’s Tanglewood performance in July 1970. This was part of promoter Bill Graham’s Fillmore at Tanglewood series. Other acts were The Who, Santana, Jethro Tull, and Miles Davis (all on RU-vid). The video shown here is a different cut version from the official one you see on RU-vid which features Terry in center stage more than this one. One of the delights of Andy and Alex is experiencing their discovery of rock gems like Chicago who so many of us grew up listening to and watching. Since they showcase the best of the best, they can be forgiven for not knowing what and where Tanglewood is or it’s derivation (see earlier comments). We were there two years ago with 30,000 others to see James Taylor.

"Tanglewood" calls to mind unforgettable live performances by some of the greatest names in American music to me.

The point where you realize that the first part of the song is only there so the band can warm up to be the back up for the guitar solo.

RIP, Terry Kath-one of the best guitarists ever. Chicago when they were in their glory days, absolutely.

I had the honor of seeing Terry Kath 8 times and let me tell you, it was a mystical experience to see him play the telecaster and this was when you could smoke weed in the arenas. With Terry, no drugs needed.

Terry Kath, Peter Cetera, Robert Lamm, Danny Seraphine and the horns were freakin' amazing back in the day. Try Ballet for a Girl in Buchanon. That song will show every member contributing to their amazing sound.

That man, Terry Kath, is not even in Rolling Stone's Top 100 guitarists. He was Jimi's favourite guitarist.

Seeing the very young Peter Cetera is awesome! And of course the legendary Terry Kath!

most underrate3d band of all time

The story's been told before, but worth retelling. From the mouths of the bandmembers, Jimi Hendrix was taken by Chicago from the first time he saw them. He immediately asked them to tour with him. Hendrix not only thought of Terry Kath as an equal, but allegedly said that Terry Kath was a better guitarist. They have top notch musicians at every spot. While Terry Kath was the undeniable superstar, the original drummer is underappreciated, and Peter Cetera is great on the bass. Of course the horn section is one of the best. I saw them early this month, and the trombone player, trumpet player and keyboardist are original members. Also, what band has three legitimate lead singers - Cetera, Kath ("Make me Smile") and Lam ("Beginnings")? If you want to be blown away by their musicianship, try "Poem 58."

Never clicked so fast. Fun fact. Peter Cetera had his jaw broken at Dodger Stadium the yr before in 3 places. Which changed the way he sings. Make me Smile has Terry on Vocals🗣️🎸🔥

We have also been waiting an entire frickin' year for you guys to actually watch this video, and I totally agree, the camera work on this was less than stellar, but then again, this was 1970, when musical genius was often taken for granted . . . like, "oh, so Chicago just put out another iconic masterpiece hit ? . . . Oh well, ho hum." It's also funny how Terry Kath didn't give a rip whether the drummer's cymbal was right or not. It's like, "I'm gonna start riffing, and by the time I transition into the actual song, you better be playing those drums, cymbal or no cymbal. 25 or 6 to 4 waits for no man."

We just witnessed one of the greatest guitar players to every pick up the instrument. Terry Kath, ladies and gentlemen.

With Chicago, you can not go wrong with anything from their first 2 albums “Chicago Transit Authority”and “THE Chicago II” Both those albums are masterworks of blues-rock. It’s unfortunate (imo) that after “Chicago II” they devolved into a MOR singles band.

Im going to rebrand my home backyard stage, "Spicey Rock". Thanks Alex LoL

Tanglewood is beautiful. Saw the Allman Brothers there a million years ago, Dickey and Dangerous Dan Toler era. Hitched out there, got picked up by some bikers and rode out there in the back of a pickup. Was awesome, from what I can remember. Listening to Dickey bang out Blue Sky under a clear blue sky! I remember that.