Cetera on a slothead

[Hornisse]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjVMFHSp47g&feature=player_embedded

Saw this one and you can hear some nice mudbucker + pick goodness.

[fur85]

Good post. I dig that mudbucker sound. Great playing too.

[Pilgrim]

The thing that strikes me about bands like Hugh Alpert's TJB, Chicago,  and Blood Sweat & Tears is that they are all SO TIGHT sounding.  Their brass section often sounds like one poly-tone instrument.  It's just incredible to hear people who can play with precision like that.

[Dave W]

Are we sure that's a live performance? Sounds like a studio version for a TV special made to look like a live performance.

As always, I could be wrong.

[Psycho Bass Guy]

That's live for real. Of course I can't be 100% sure, but it looks legit to me.

[godofthunder]

 I remember when that aired.

[fur85]

I had that same thought about whether or not it was live. It's so tight. However, it looks like it's mic'ed to record a live performance, not for the audience. It probably sounded like crap to the dancing people. But the vocals are a little too perfect and I wonder how they could all hear each other well enough for those tight harmonies, I don't see any monitors or in-ear systems. My bet would be that they recorded it live and overdubbed some tracks in the studio.

[godofthunder]

There were no in ear systems! lol

[patman]

I too thought the vocals sounded too good.

[Dave W]

I had that same thought about whether or not it was live. It's so tight. However, it looks like it's mic'ed to record a live performance, not for the audience. ...

That makes sense to me. I don't think it's just a lip-synch of the record.

[Denis]

Chicago is one of those bands to which I could never warm up. The bass does sound good in that clip though.

[uwe]

I preferred Blood, Sweat & Tears when it came to horny rock, but Chicago had their moments before they got too syrupy and Peter Cetera discovered the perceived beauty of synth bass. He also sang too much in his late phase with the band, I preferred the other lead voices in the band they had, Cetera gets on my nerves after three tracks.

[patman]

I would like to listen to a copy of that very first album again...

[Hornisse]

That makes sense to me. I don't think it's just a lip-synch of the record.

Yeah, the bass part is not exactly like the CTA version.  I still love that first record, especially Terry Kath's singing. 

[Stjofön Big]

Terry Kath, was that the guitarist who shot himself? He was the one, in my opinion, who gave that boring outfit some blood. He had the voice, and would, at times, play a mean guitar. The rest of them felt like they were just out of music high school. I doubt anyone of them, maybe with the exception of the drummer, would get a gig with Jerry Lee.