04-10-2016, 12:05 PM
I think I have horny ears.
I love the sax, trombone and trumpet -- and the lyrics and vocals (especially Lamm's on Beginnings) -- on the debut Chicago Transit Authority album and other early releases. Terry Kath on guitar was effin' magic and Chicago's drummer kicks ass too.
I still sometimes listen to that album. Bunch of great college musicians, stoners, and political activists making "rock and roll music with horns."
(^ Peter Cetera in the plaid shirt, haha.)
I don't own anything by Chicago after Cetera took the central role and the band relegated or dropped the horns. They had a lot of commercial success with the ballad format though and did it well, just wasn't something I'd wanna hear outside the occasional radio play.
I love the sax, trombone and trumpet -- and the lyrics and vocals (especially Lamm's on Beginnings) -- on the debut Chicago Transit Authority album and other early releases. Terry Kath on guitar was effin' magic and Chicago's drummer kicks ass too.
I still sometimes listen to that album. Bunch of great college musicians, stoners, and political activists making "rock and roll music with horns."
(^ Peter Cetera in the plaid shirt, haha.)
I don't own anything by Chicago after Cetera took the central role and the band relegated or dropped the horns. They had a lot of commercial success with the ballad format though and did it well, just wasn't something I'd wanna hear outside the occasional radio play.