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could to pay the rent. >> we just happened to play the whiskey go go, and jimmy had a camera and took some pictures of the chicago transit at the cta on t marquee at the whiskey. and when i go by there, i think of jimmy and i standing there. in the middle of sunset boulevard. >> we were opening for bb king or something like that. albert king. walter turned around to walk out, he probably -- he might have told you this story. >> i got a tap on my shoulder, and i turned around, i was putting one of my saxophones away. it was jimi hendrix. he called me by name, and he said, well, the horns are like one set of lungs. your guitar player is better than me. >> the horn section, it sounds like one set of lungs, and a guitar player that's better than me. >> he said that terry plays better than him. [ laughter ] >> first you have to realize, we were already listening intensely
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and function properly as a band. >> those six guys in that room that stayed together and was special for such a long time, longer than the shelf lives of all the one-hit wonders and somewhere in between that glitch happened and i'm really sorry for it. >> people are always going to know me for -- as the drummer of chicago. i mean, it's ironic. i mean, they still bill me as chicago's danny seraphine. ♪ >> once danny was gone and chris came in, i think all of us thought hey, we'd better all, you know, shape up. >> they really made me feel at home. they also said you don't have to do what danny did. >> since chris has joined the band, i talked about never having to worry about where one is. i never had to worry about where one is. >> what's the line about a writer writes always? and i think a musician plays and performs always.
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♪ how could we let it slip away ♪ ♪ >> this is what you dream about. it doesn't always come in the form you wanted to. we've already had tons of success with different styles of music. we were able to do whenwhat we wanted. >> the process was bifurcated. we used the band. if you listen to "if you leave me now," it's bobby on the drums and everything else peter and i did. >> those of us who were kind of being in a rock band were looking at each other sideways saying what is this? why are we doing this? >> those songs were not chicago songs. those songs were peter songs. >> i think the person who was most affected by it was probably terry kath. because he did not want to go there. he did not want to go to ballad land. >> the height of his frustration occurred after we recorded chicago 7,
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♪ ♪ if you leave me now ♪ ♪ you'll take away the biggest part of me ♪ ♪ ooh, ooh, ooh no, baby please don't go ♪ >> perception from radio or the public or critics is that we think a certain way. we think -- they read something into what we're doing that may not exist. >> okay. this band is this and it's -- this band is an r&b band. oh, chicago, now we see what they are. they're a ballad band. ♪ a love like ours is love that's hard to find ♪
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them, chicago, into the rock 'n roll hall of fame. ♪ >> it is a milestone. thank you for finally inviting us into your house. >> for me when you say who the greatest american band, you are going to say the eagles, beach boys, chicago. ♪ saturday in the park ♪ ♪ i think it was the fourth of july ♪ >> this band started on february 15th, 1967 when we played for the first time in my basement. we never thought we'd be standing up here at this time. ♪ people dancing ♪ ♪ people laughing ♪ ♪ a man selling ice cream ♪ >> they deserve to be in the hall of fame and finally in the hall of fame.
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six sets, and they always work hard and like you say, it is kind of ironic, because nothing has changed and that is basically how they have started and continued on. they love to play, and they love to perform. >> i'd like to thank our manager, peter schivarelli who has believed in us for well over 30 years. and i'm biased because i am from chicago and 12th and pulaski you are the heart and gold. you have found a way to keep us working for almost 50 years. thank you, peter. we love you peter. >> he is like the energizer bunny, and he just keeps going and going and going. >> and people bring it up, they have been around a long time and what is the secret? even with the additions that had to be brought in due to departure or death they were guys that worked in harmony.
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and i think that's what we do. that's what this band is about. we'll be in there somewhere in the index under c, chicago. >> hopefully. >> those guys, man. all of them. just have this uncanny ability and do reinvent themselves. and what they hear, what their muse tells them or whatever. you know >> i think everyone genuinely cares about each other. we spend more time with each other than we do with anybody else. i think that's just a thing that's kind of grown over the years. >> the brain works perhaps more efficiently with facts with bullet points. it's obviously a very different experience to have lived through history. to me it's been one very long sweep. >> nobody has had successful years consecutively for 47 years. nobody. nobody. nobody.
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these guys really know what they're doing. ♪ >> while all the while we were in contact with jim guercio. >> i first became involved in chicago in college. >> saw there was no way for this to be successful without total commitment. >> he had the idea of building a management company, and he called it his creative community. i think his business tactics definitely had a hand in our creation and our success. >> he envisioned everything sort of being under one roof >> and when the time was right, we brought them to los angeles. ♪ the stars were aligned. we were supposed to do this. we were just meant to be. >> we all lived in a little house under the hollywood freeway. our bedrooms were various rooms,
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coming group called chicago. it's destined for number one or something like that. ♪ ♪ children in the park, they don't know ♪ i'm alone in the dark even though ♪ ♪ time and time again, i see your face smiling inside ♪ ♪ i'm so happy, yeah, yeah, yeah ♪ ♪ that you love me ♪ >> wow, this is cool, you know. they're going to play the ballet on the radio. how can they play something that long? >> at that time am radio, the jungle warfare of music. >> am radio, you know. >> i think if you had a cut
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