Whenever I hear Terry I just try to imagine what could have been.

Kath’s 25 or 6 to 4 solo from this concert is 🔥🔥🔥

@wadehines9971

11 ай бұрын

it is obscene to not react to it

@Kerz300

9 ай бұрын

@@wadehines9971Nick n Lex need to work this into one of their reactions……😃

..."what they were doing to music"- this is a perceptive thought, as they were totally creating a new sound at this time- the most explosive in rock history.

Terry Kath was such a badass. When Jimi Hendrix sings your praises, you're something special. Chicago was at its best during the Kath era. They weren't the same after his passing.

Sheesh, Terry Kath had an amazing voice.

Thanks JK. Still think Chicago Transit Authority was the greatest debut album all time. Terry Kath era HUGE thumbs up. Great selection, great listen.

@rayberry4261

6 ай бұрын

The bass player, Pete Cetera had the best voice in the band. Listen to 25 or 6 to 4.

During this era there were seven members, all in their prime. They had played together for years in and around greater Chicago as a music hall/ dance band before writing and recording their own music. They had all developed serious chops by the time they started calling themselves the Chicago Transit Authority in 1967.

I remember when I first bought Chicago II, it took me forever to get past Movin In & In the Country because I kept repeatedly playing each one..

Love Terry Kath.. That's when Chicago was at their best

Thank you for the great reaction, Nick! The whole Tanglewood concert is awesome. If you love Terry (as we all do), you should absolutely check the live version of "25 or 6 to 4" of the same concert. He's killing it!

As they are still touring today with Robert Lamm (keyboards/vocals) James Pankow(trombone) and Lee Loughnane (trumpet). They still perform the whole suite of Ballet for A Girl in Buchannan today ... Lee usually does the Colour My World vocal as a tribute to his friend Terry.

I'm watching "Ballet for a Girl in Buchanan" with tears in my eyes. It's just that amazing!

You hit the nail on the head Nick when you mentioned Bach. Interviews with James Pankow the composer of that long piece admits that he was very influenced by the Brandenburg concertos when composing that suite. My first show of Chicago was 1972. They were premiering Saturday in the Park (fifth album) I had front-row and then when the crowd rushed the stage we abandoned our front row seats and stood right in front of the stage just below the great Terry Kath. ✌️😎

A bunch of these guys were music majors. So they knew what they were doing before they came together as Chicago. Their live shows are still very professional, clean, and amazing!

James Pankow quotes Jimi who was touring with them as coming up to him and saying "I dig your band...your horn section sounds like one set of lungs...and your guitar player is better than me." The video is on here. Also look closer. He is playing upstrokes down stroke and any other stroke you can think of. One of the keys to Terrys playing is his RIGHT HAND. A masterful right hand. A SOULFUL right hand.

You need to watch from this concert "25-6 to 4 with your mouth hanging open!

You HAVE TO SEE 25 or 6 for Terrys earth shattering solo, from this same show, Tanglewood, 7/70. Acclaimed by many as one of the greatest guitar solos of all time.

The first track on the first album, "Introduction", showcases each of the members' individual strengths. It foreshadows everything that was to come and it's my all-time favorite Chicago song. Well done, Nick. A+

@NicknLex

11 ай бұрын

We did react to introduction. You can watch the video. Plus I pulled up introduction live in this reaction.

@michaelp.7893

11 ай бұрын

@@NicknLex Yeah, I knew that. My comment was really for the other people watching.

@daveburns3886

9 ай бұрын

It said this is us - and it’s nothing like you’ve heard before!!! INTRODUCTION

I wore out my copy of Chicago II when I was 12 and reading Sci fi books while listening during the summer. Still a great album. Great marathon! 😊

I hope you will listen to this with your better half. Start with "Introduction" which was their first song of the first album that you already heard together, then go "Ballet". Dim the lights and listen... She will love it.

@NicknLex

11 ай бұрын

Alexia and I reacted to Introduction. It's on the channel. Thanks so much for watching

Just a few comments: The sax solo in Movin' In is one of my all time favorites. In The Country is probably my favorite Chicago songs - every thing about it just rocks. From Terry Kath's vocals to Danny Seraphine's incredible drum fills, to the absolutely righteous guitar riff at the end - Wow, must wow. I have played the sax/flute part on Ballet for a Girl in Bucannon a few times. My favorite part is watching the people dancing have their arms and legs fly off during the 9/4 part at the end. Finally, while the audio was crappy (what the hell, it was the seventies - watch the guy crawling around on stage trying to fix the drum mics), I was really pleased to see that there is a live version of Introduction. Thanks for all this!

If you watch this whole concert Terry picks both up and down. He does whatever the song calls for. What a talented band!

Nothing but smiles from me... These are my boys. Only wished I could have seen Alexa react....🔥🔥thanks Nick

Unbelievably Great band full of monsters. Nothing compares to early Chicago nothing. Losing Terry Kath really changed the magic. PeterCetera’s bass playing is so underrated. I remember hearing the news and being devastated. Great to see Nick react to the video. I never regrettably got to see them. The videos are so good for the er they were made. Fantastic marathon JK. Simply fantastic. 👍👍

@daveburns3886

9 ай бұрын

I loved and saw them but I was born in 61 so I missed Terry.. as we all do to this day.. phenomenal talent

Incomparable period for this ensemble . "Can't Miss" albums became routine for these Maestros . Terry Kath Era defines brilliant compositions intersecting virtuosity . Utterly timeless .

Terry Kath singing Make Me Smile...that's enough right there.

@rghilino6734

11 ай бұрын

Not to mention him singing Colour My World...amazing.

Thanks JK. I LOVE early Chicago!

Same concert “25 or 6 to 4” best guitar solo EVER!!!!

Can’t go wrong with a Terry Kath marathon

Early Chicago is just great!!!

Early 70s Chicago we’re really something special A major change after Terry Kath passed away in 1977 This stuff is pure gold! Hey Nik, you owe us a review of the Kansas show this past weekend!! 😆🎸🎵

This concert is amazing, everytime I start it I always watch the whole thing. I suggest you do that, from Bill Graham's intro to the encore. This crowd loved them, as do I. My all-time favorite album is the 1st CTA. None better.😎👍👍👍👍👍

The Chicago logo was a hybrid of Coke and Ford! Ergo Chicago, the city where all but one of the band members were born and raised. The original band were seven members: Danny Seraphine (drums), Robert Lamm (keyboards), Terry Kath (guitar), Peter Cetera (bass), Jimmy Pankow (trombone), Walt Parazaider (sax and flute), and Lee Loghnane (trumpet).

Nik regarding, Blood, Sweat and Tears, the guitarist is Steve Katz; whom is a very fine blues player, evidenced by the track, off their first album, I Love You More Than You’ll Ever Know.🙀

Thanks, Nick, especially for the extra song on a long video. Spotify breaks up the medley into individual sections on Chicago Ii, so I thought this would be preferable. Also been thinking about Terry Kath, who really shines in the live performance. The most senseless death in the history of rock and roll (basically showing a friend that a gun wasn’t loaded, when it really was). The whole group is so young and vital here. But the music still sounds fresh, more than 50 years later!

@scottanderson8420

11 ай бұрын

Great stuff Jk terrific lineup of songs and videos.

@JKonstage

11 ай бұрын

@@scottanderson8420 Thanks, Scott!

"The song "Introduction" originally opening their first L.P. but opening song at Tanglewood has one of the most awesome solo breaks they ever performed... Kath literally shreds with such precision and was in the zone... as a jazz guitarist it's totally mesmerizing. You and Lex really need to watch that whole Tanglewood concert footage together. The clips you watched are recorded from a larger piece of footage is why the sound is not so great on introduction.

7 musicians...Trumpet, Woodwinds, Trombone, Keyboards, Guitar, Bass and Drums. Leads Singers are the Bass, Guitar and Keyboards!

Insane! Terry Kath. Plays like Jimi Hendrix, sings like Ray Charles. The greatest!

Ballet for a Girl in Buchanan is the best thing they ever did

Spot on young man.. This jazzy track is killer, they usually don’t deep dive into that genre.. standard ‘horns’ are the a trumpet, trombone and sax (reed of course) but those three were classically trained at DePaul university and could and did play many horn/ reed instruments in their songs - flute, piccolo, anything..

Chicago was my 1st concert 1975 Wichita Ks.; Henry Levitt arena for 3 hours,4 encores.Amazing awesome night,they were all on fire then. "We are running out of songs to play.." .Terry or Robert said that night.Was front stage or close to it. I paid for mine and a buddys of mines tickets that night.

CHicago started with Ballet For A Girl in Buckhannon at a concert. I told my wife " I can leave now. I am satisfied" Just an absolute masterpiece by Jimmy Pankow.

This melted my heart. What a great band. What a great time for music.

Tanglewood... great concert footage. Live was incredible (Toronto 1972).

Terry Kath wrote this entire thing all parts but he didn't read music so he memorized the entire thing insane.

Chicago was a SUPER GROUP and Terry Kath was a guitar god......

I saw Terry live over 20 times and always left shaking my head. He was a monster

My favorite band in high school- saw them 6 times between 1970 and 1975! Nick, I would love it if you and Alexia would react to "Ballet For A Girl In Buchannon" from the album. It really is perfection. Back in my high school days, "Color My World" was a very popular slow dance song. I learned to play and sing it by ear on the piano, playing the bass line in octaves with my left hand, and proceeded to teach it to many of my friends in choir. Buy Chicago II- the whole album is great! Thanks, JK, for bringing more Chicago into our friends' lives! 🎵❤️🎵 Debbie

To say Chicago was "ahead of its time" is both an understatement and dis-service to the talent and virtuosity of these people. I am so thankful now to have lived through the 70's when this level of talent was the norm, and not the exception. Their use of dissonance and resolution is phenomenal. The genius level can be compared to Bach, Beethoven, Motzart, et.al, and the song structure is more aligned with classical music than modern 12 bar blues, but it is not true jazz either. I used to sit at the piano as a broken hearted teenager plinking out "Color My World", wishing I had just a thimbleful of the talent that these guys had. Nice reaction.

Spot on.. all but Terry were classically trained , at DePaul university

probably my favorite album side, ever- total brilliance!

My favorite band when it was still all the regulars. I got to see them in ‘71 when I was in high school. They did a concert at the University of Notre Dame and it was less than an hour away. Just not the same after Terry died and Cetera went solo. But love all this stuff from the beginning of their career!

Chicago had 7 members and they were all very good musicians. They added an extra percussionist from Brazil in 1974. He'd be a member until 1980.

My favorite reactionaries! Thanks so much for your insight and knowledge AND APPRECIATION of musicians and 60’s, 70’s and 80’s especially

Thanks JK! And Nick, thanks so much for the extra song. Linked below, is a version with better sound, but crappier video, so as you said it must be what the camera mics are picking up. The one linked below seems to be getting soundtrack the sound board, if you choose to share with Lex and Marley. 🐶 kzread.info/dash/bejne/Yq6pmMyKgMSdmsY.htmlsi=fLgDGMLWb1QoReGc

In my top 5 albums ever!! Maybe top 3!!! Thanks Nick!!

Introduction was written by Terry.... Well sort of.... He couldn't read music so James Pankow wrote it down and he said that was when he realized the musical genius of Terry. I hope you have seen 25 or 6 to 4 from this same concert. Also I'm A Man. which was the encore.

This was great. I rarely find anyone reacting to "In the Country" and it is one of my favorites. Every song was great. I would recommend just watching the entire Tanglewood concert. I just wish there was more live footage of Chicago in their heyday.

Another favourite band of mine. Fabulous!

There will NEVER be a band on the same planet again 🤔

Nothing like some early Chicago. Hadn’t seen this concert footage so was a real treat. The sound on the Buchannon suite was great and so was the visual. Re Introduction it is always frustrating how the sound engineers never can get it right out of the gate with the sound though. You just don’t see performances like this anymore. Well I guess you can, but not in really popular music artists. Everything is sampled and auto-tuned, and I absolutely despise both effects. These guys were great singers and players; live or in the studio. Great marathon. PS… man based on Nick’s comments at the end a Hendrix marathon, including some live footage, is badly needed…

Just a great, great live band!

CHICAGO.. Is SCARY GOOD... : )))

Request for the next reaction 'Starlight by Oktaf Kanis' 🙏🏻

I love Chicago the band, I have been listening to them since 1970. My favorite is Terry. A song you might be interested in is Memories of Love written by Terry, very classical with three parts.

My first Chicago album when I was 12 ! it was so amazing i've been hooked 53 years.. I had Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall it was a 4 album set I think maybe 3.. Introduction Live was from there

I’ve enjoyed your takes for a long time, so I’m not too surprised how much you appreciate this- tanglewood is an awesome venue in western Massachusetts- my son played viola in a couple of orchestra summer programs on that very stage!!

Not a video, but if you want to hear a clear version of "Introduction" performed live go to their Chicago at Carnegie Hall album. First song on the first side, as it should be.

Yeah you say exactly what I’m thinking when I’m watching. Where does this come from and if you really think about it, this absolutely holds up today. Nobody is doing anything like this

Back then it would have been 8 or super 8 I'm guessing so that's all we had back then at least where I was. But yeah, fantastic live performance, watch the entire Tanglewood concert. Got to see both Chicago (twice, Kath and then 80s with the Beach Boys) and Kansas when they were first starting out in the early 70s in college.

They insisted on debut -CTA- be a double - unheard of!! Record company said - only if you take lower royalties - and then they insisted most of their first few were also doubles.. they had so many songs ready as they had 4-5 songwriters and waited so long to be ‘discovered’!!

Nick, if you do plan to buy Chicago II make sure you get the Steven Wilson remix cd trust me it blows away the original album and all cds prior.

25 or 6 til 4 at Tanglewood 👌💯

@Kerz300

10 ай бұрын

🔥 🔥 🔥

Three fabulous lead singers were nice too.. gave sound of the music variety (think Beatles, Fleetwood mac) on top of everything else they had..

First few years there were 7 members.. I think they added a percussionist in 1973, well after this album.

Terry Kath, the one guitarist Hendrix looked up to.

Similar, but a little more jazzy, was Blood Sweat and tears; before David Clayton Thomas, with Al Cooper.

Terry sounds like Van Morrison on Movin In

Terry may have been deaf by now. I know as a sound technician that putting my head right into the front of the drums is louder then the where drummer sits and his ears must ring after a show.

Love this reaction Nick. I was fortunate enough to see them two years after this. It was my first concert ever and I still remember every note (I wish) saw them ever year until 1978 right before Terry’s accident. I’ve seen them a few times since then and it’s not quite the same. Apologies to the others but he left a hole that no one could fill. On a side note Nick, you’ve developed a tick that I don’t think you’re aware of. When something really moves you, you have this habit of hissing “ssssss”. It really distracts from the experience because it lays over the top of the music. Just some constructive criticism, I hope you don’t take it the wrong way. Thanks!

Colour My world is the cut out that was popular at school dances. Also there was somebody else with a camera at Tanglewood. That is what you saw with ... Introduction... and why the sound is not as good.

Just imagine the band trying to fit on the stage at the Whiskey A Go Go.

Have you listened to Tommy Emmanuel yet? Greatest and most innovative acoustic guitar player on earth.

@NicknLex

11 ай бұрын

Yes of course. He is very impressive 👏

BTW, there is a better version of "Introduction" from Tanglewood. Much better sound.

you should do stevie ray vaun ,texas flood at the el macombo

I truly recommend the terry kath experience documentary Made by his daughter..

@9211goat

11 ай бұрын

don't mind if I did!

Whomever was working the camera on Introduction (the last song)...apparently took the brown acid. 🤪

Nick, there's a better sounding version of Introduction and the Ballet in the video link below. Introduction is the first song played and the Ballet is at the 1 hour 9 minute mark. And yes, the ballad part of the Ballet that you're referring to is Colour My World. kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaN10bWTYtyXk9o.html

This band was so good and definitely not the same without the writing, vocals and of course the guitar work of Terry Kath. They put out some good, commercial tracks after Terry and up until Peter Cetera and Danny Seraphine; left the band. From that time on, with the multiple member changes, they became a soft rock, top 40 genre music, type of band.

Nick, here's the link to the official full concert video. There are many videos from this show, some have different camera angles and different sound. The opening song is Introduction and you will notice the sound and camera angle selection is different from the Introduction clip you watched. kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaN10bWTYtyXk9o.htmlsi=8Ay7dkiloIlhHuq8 And yes, Terry Kath was a guitar and vocal GOD!

@OliverPeabody

10 ай бұрын

This would be a good full album reaction. ❤

the first 3 Chicago albums were double albums

@lamarravery4094

9 ай бұрын

Their 4th album was a quadruple album.

For me, the band's first six studio albums (No. 4 was live) were unbelievable. For me, they began to lose their steam after, before Terry's unfortunate death.

Full concert better sound for anyone who wants it is here. kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaN10bWTYtyXk9o.html

This tour was my first concert one state over in NY either the day before or after. I was never the same. Chicago lost there way after Terry's death and David Foster took over writing . He also stole Peter Cetera away from them. My opinion. They made some $$$$ I guess. I hope. Terry put the "Go" in Chicago. Watch him as musical director on the live show. They all look to him.

@lamarravery4094

9 ай бұрын

Chicago was burnt out after Chicago X with the touring and drugs, they lost their zest and their writing became mediocre. They were in a funk and their record company dropped them. David Foster comes in, gives them a new 80s sound and brings them back and they keep going.

Terry at times sings like ray charles

Nick, KZread has the full concert video. The sound mix is much much better. kzread.info/dash/bejne/kaN10bWTYtyXk9o.htmlfeature=shared

You need to listen the bands: National Health Hatfield and the North

You’re cute, but where’s Lexi?!🥴

@NicknLex

9 ай бұрын

I suffer from chronic back pain so it’s hard for me to sit for long periods of time! I’m here and loving you guys!! I’m also unexpectedly working this weekend so not making as many videos as I planned to! 💕

What a buzz kill. Why don’t you experience the music from beginning to end and enjoy it without interrupting.

@NicknLex

7 ай бұрын

Wish we could but then record companies can claim we are the cause for you not buying the album and Can block the video or even remove our channel from existence. Worth it? Nah. We’d rather pause.

Damn, Lee was so sloppy on trumpet in the Ballet. I was an avid Chicago fan from CTA till Terry died and I saw them 3 times in concert (first time in 1973 at MSG, with Springsteen as an opener!) but I never liked them live.