@carolvillines7616 He was supposed to meet up with people that night to start work on his solo album. He was also having a house built in Malibu. Definitely not suicidal.
Ya - I played / lived with the two younger Cetera Brothers in the 70's. Our band heard about Terry as soon as it happened. We were also a rock band with a good horn section - it was shocking & tragic. He was the after burner of Chicago..
I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area in the 60s and 70s, and we were just taking it for granted that these bands were always incredible! Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Frozen Noses, etc., so fun! Still great today.
I was laughing so hard during the part of the video that tells the tragic story of Walter Parazaider, the original sax player of Chicago but showing a video clip and photos of the new saxophonist instead. This is so wrong and misleading.
Most of the band went through their phase of substance abuse at one time or another. I wasn't aware about Walt and Keith's situation. Keith was the best guitarist to channel Kath. I don't recognize but 2 members of the band any longer, but as Lamm once said, EVERYBODY in this band is replaceable. Danny is doing great justice to Chicago with California Transit Authority and he still has his unmistakable chops. Perhaps we'll get to see more autobiographies from surviving members in the future.
Terry had zero alcohol in his system and trace amount of cocaine in his tox screen. Nothing else. Not even an aspirin. Which was surprising having been at a party. But perhaps because he was starting his solo album that night he intentionally wanted to be focused. Just a lie he was drunk or high when he died. Or was playing Russian Roulette.
Sorry to hear about Keith's accident. He was their best guitarist after Kath. He had a long ride though. And I never heard of Jason's drinking problem, glad he nipped it in the bud, Jason's a pretty awesome dude.
They talk about Walter Parazaider but those pictures most of them are definitely not Walter Parazaider. When people rush putting a bio together, somehow they get sloppy and messed them up.
I love Chicago (the original band with Terry Kath)…I so wish that the three original members that are left ( Robert Lamm , Lee Loughnane , & James Pankow ) could write a book about Chicago. I know HBO a few years ago had a documentary (Now More Than Ever). I also wish their former producer/manager James William Guercio, Walter Parazaider- if he can get help and Peter Cetera could write a book as well. I don’t know if we’ll ever know the whole truths. I would like to know if Peter and Terry got along well. I’d like to know what Chicago thought of other new bands that came out around the same time as them as, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, & The Eagles… There was an interesting book that came along with the 1991 Chicago box set titled (Group Portrait)…. Peter Cetera takes part in this book .. He talks about his tenure with Chicago. He mentioned when they recorded the song (Lowdown) off of Chicago III Terry said something like “ Don’t ever tell anybody I played on this song” Peter felt like Terry played with (Peter’s quote from the book) “ I don’t give a shit attitude”. I don’t want to miss quote anything, but that’s what I remembered... Peter did not have anything else negative to say… Speaking of (Lowdown) I do kind of hear what Peter was saying, it seems like it was one of the only Chicago songs that Terry kind of played differently…I wish Danny Seraphine & Laudir de Oliveira could of partaken in that book as well.. James William Guercio their producer/manager also partook in the book. I wish they could’ve done a Christmas album during those years (1969-77).. As far as Bill Champlin ,I am sorry for the loss of his son. I saw him give an interview on a RU-vid channel titled (Rock History Music) … He seems like a down to earth nice guy. I was not really a fan of Chicago the period he was in the band though.
Love this band...even have one of THE 8 TRACKS from my early teens. I did lighting production for them in 1991 in a club in Lancaster Pa and got them to sign it!!!! ✌️😎✌️ ROCK ON 🎶🎶🎶🎶
I will never forget where I was when I heard of the tragic death of Terry Kath as I was at a friends house. Chicago was never the same without Terry in my mind! In my opinion they were never the same for me anyway. I highly doubt he meant to kill himself like some have said.
@@lamarravery4094 Can you imagine what we fans missed out on? From what I know about the new project Terry was working on, it would have been a Blues Rock project fronted by Terry. Think SRV before SRV and that's what it would have been.
@@redbarchetta8782 Who knows how successful it would've been. Lamm's solo project wasn't a commercial success, either. A blues rock album in the disco late 70s, might be out of place.
No he didn't mean to as I said there were a few people there he literally forgot there was a bullet in it plus it was a party so he was not sober and his last words were don't worry ir's not loaded thats not the words of a man about to intentionally shoot himself
Peter Cetera got a big break when he had 4 marines attack him and broke his jaw. They didn't like hippies and Peter Cetera had the long hair. Anyways he had his jaw wired. After that his voice changed and he had the perfect voice
You show pictures of Bill Champlin in the late 80s when he was the main lead singer of their hits, when discussing Jason Sheff, who was the other lead singer at that time. The super long mullet with the gown & glove dressed girls is Bill, not Jeff.
I compared this band with the Temptations. Both bands had a baritone and a falsetto. In this case, Chicago had Terry Kath (baritone) and Peter Cetera (falsetto) and The Temptations had David Ruffin (baritone) and Birmingham, Alabama's Eddie Kendricks (falsetto). They're no longer in their respective bands although Cetera is still with us to this day.
