[Pelham]

Hendrix, Chicago ping

[Mean Daddy]

Hendrix said Kath was one of best guitarists he had ever seen play. There are several YouTube videos with Kath just shredding it on Chicago tunes.

[redfreedom]

I think a person had to be high on dope to appreciate his so called music. I rate that crap in the same toilet as Janis Joplin’s screeching.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Terry Kath was a great guitarist. He was also remarkably talented at composing music.

He was a bit like Rock and Roll’s Mozart.

[bwest]

Chicago’s first seven albums rank among the greatest albums of the rock era. The rest, not so much.

[Dan Zachary]

Terry improvising while drummer adjusts his drums. Middle of song he goes into a blistering solo with his eyes shut. Just unbelievable....

Youtube link

[sjm_888]

Thanks nickcarraway.

[montag813]

Terry [Kath, Chicago’s guitarist] was nervous around him and he was nervous around Terry.

Terry should have been more nervous around guns.

[JParris]

Terry [Kath, Chicago’s guitarist] was nervous around him and he was nervous around Terry. They didn't know how to approach each other.

My guitar teacher was a very talented rocker from the late 50's, early 60'. He told me guitar pickers were similar to gunslingers back in the old west. They always watching the other guy and never want to show their best stuff thinking "he may be better than me."

[frank ballenger]

Thanks for posting this.

I saw Jimi Hendrix including his setting his guitar on fire. Had the feeling he was trapped into a routine of doing that to please the audience again and again. An assistant brought a different Stratocaster to hand to him and we knew that meant the show was ending soon.

Eric Clapton said just before Hendrix died he had brought a special guitar as a gift and tribute and was going to hand it to him but the stage was set up with no stairs on the left near his front row seat. Only the right had stairs. The security and crowd cut him off. So he thought, darn it, I’ll have to give it to him tomorrow. But he had died by then.

[KevinB]

Terry Kath was a beast on guitar.

25 or 6 to 4.

[Psalm 73]

I think the closest Hendrix ever came to a Chicago-style improvisational studio work was Electric Ladyland.

Just the list of musicians making cameo appearances on that recording is wild.

And the free-flowing style of "Voodoo Chile" and "1983" is similar to what CTA did with "I'm a Man" and "beginnings".

Of course, "you'll never hear surf music again..."

[LouAvul]

Toward the end of Hendrix's career, I have read he was stoned most of the time. Played very poorly. Drug addiction is no joke.

We had some great music in that era, but that whole demographic congregated on the basis of dope. And nearly has ruined an entire generation.

Now, thanks to stupid libertarians and woke trash, the hippy's grandkids are having to deal with it.

[bankwalker]

another clickbait headline ...

[af_vet_1981]

I'm a Man


Back when all the good music coming out of Chicago was not the Blues and men were not confused about their gender ...

[OKSooner]

You might like this thread.

[dfwgator]

My favorite concert vid of all-time

Chicago Live at Tanglewood (1970)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_oAoSZ2y1cw

And Danny Seraphine was a monster on drums.