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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-03:40:15

Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-03:40:15
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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-02:03:00

>> the club owners wanted us to play stuff that people could dance to and then drink. they would make money and, you know, hopefully fill the club. >> we started playing one song called "clouds" and we got fired because we did an original song. he wanted to hear top 40. >> it was exciting. really, we'd gotten the chance to hear what the band sounded like. ♪ i love you so ♪ >> we wore the suits and did the steps. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the club. we're going to warm it up. >> it was an entirely different attitude toward playing music. >> then eventually, we began to arrange those songs for the inspiration of chicago. that's when we got into some dispute. >> we'd get a call on a saturday night at 9:00 saying, this band, chicago transit authority, won't play the top 40 stuff. the kids hate it. we're getting rid of them at the next break. can you guys come down and

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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-02:57:00

>> here are three members from chicago. it's terry and there's peter and there's danny. welcome to the uk. can i start off with you, terry? where did you get the song from? >> well, you ought to start with him since he wrote this song. >> well, i wanted you to say that so i could get to you. peter. >> well, actually you should -- no, i did write the song. just from experience. >> somebody wanted out of your life? >> many times. i don't know. i just wrote it. i have no idea. >> so when peter presented the ballad it was like of course, you know, we're -- one of the things that chicago was about was let's record and write whatever we want, including songs that maybe not everybody in the band loves but hey, if you write a song we're going to do it. we're going to do it the best we possibly can do it because that's who we are. and because we know that that's not who we are and we know that as nice a song as it is it's just not -- you know, nobody's going to like it.

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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-02:38:00

>> success with chicago was truly phenomenal. ♪ "make me smile," "color my world," "25 or 6 to 4." >> we only knew sold out arenas, so we only knew success. we didn't know -- we didn't know failure, and we didn't know struggle. we were so busy that we didn't have time to sit down and say, we've done it. >> and in the meantime we were drinking. you know, i was drinking all the time, so ♪ >> why not? let's do that, yeah. dumb kids thinking, you know, we're indestructible. you know, live forever. >> we burned the candle. trust me. back in those days there was no internet, nobody looking over

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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-02:04:00

finish the night? ♪ if you break my heart, i'll go ♪ >> there would be the boys, packing up their stuff. they're pissed. we're thinking to ourselves, why don't they lighten up? why don't just play the, you know -- give them a little rolling stones. give them a little, you know, temptations if they want it. whatever. we're thinking, you know, they got to go their own way. >> terry came on stage at barnabys on state street in chicago. i think it was during the first tune. he just ripped the shirt, the coat, right off his back. and that was it. we went straight to hippie dom. >> we started doing original material, and there was a small group of people that dug it. ♪ come on, everybody ♪ >> kind of the legend around illinois. the chicago transit authority had been formed out of these local supergroups. >> we watched them play. we were all like, wow, these guys could really read music.

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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-02:45:00

community i always envisioned a recording studio as a place of destination where you could go and set your stuff up, get sounds, start recording and do it whenever you wanted. >> at that time columbia was forced to use their studios, and they were all union. i wanted to be free creatively from any technical constraints. >> tim visioned having a place somewhere where he could not be bothered by the outside world. it was a great concept actually. >> i think that was the devil's playground myself. ♪ >> our original producer built a ranch with the money that we made him. >> we got new success with chicago. i built the studio. it's the process i wanted, it's how i wanted people to conform

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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-03:24:00

one face in the band. but it became all about peter. ♪ after all that we've been through ♪ >> at first the focus did change, and there were videos. ♪ i promise to ♪ >> when we went in to record videos, the director would say, so who's the leader? what do you mean? there is no leader. you know, shoot all of us. "i can't do that. there's too many guys. there would be no focus." so guess what? they focus on the lead singer. and peter cetera became the star. ♪ couldn't stand to be kept away ♪ ♪ just for the day ♪ ♪ from your body ♪ >> so all of a sudden we have this new guy who's stepping to the front. and frankly, it's completely different than anything chicago was doing. ♪ far away from the one that i love ♪

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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-02:06:00

my bedroom was the dining room. each guy had a shelf in the medicine cabinet. each guy had a shelf in the refrigerator. god forbid you took somebody's food. >> the there were a lot of referees. >> whoever took the last shower got the cold shower. you drew straws every day you went to work. the home front. >> we went from clubs until we moved to l.a. and more and more people, you know, starting to become aware of the band and realizing that we were starting to become successful. >> we were straight out of playing, you know, bars in chicago, and we moved out to southern california, and here we ran into janice joplin. at the phil rm west. ♪ come on, come on, didn't i make you feel ♪ ♪ oh, like you were the only man i ever wanted and i ever needed ♪ >> she came in with this big entourage and she dropped her brush right at my feet, and she

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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-02:01:00

the inception of the band was an assembly of the best musicians i could find in the city of chicago. we actually discussed about making the best band we could possibly make, that the band would be a musical democracy. i said when you give me your hand, that'll be the contract. the only way you get out of it is to ask out or you die. >> i've always thought of chicago in terms of a family rather than eras. you know, in the span of 40 or 50 years, there are going to be changes. i don't care if it is a family or a band. there are going to be changes. the realization becomes, man, we're all replaceable. we're all replaceable. ♪

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Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-03:30:15

Now More Than Ever The History of Chicago-20220130-03:30:15
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