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>> my playing rhythmically was a lot like terry's. >> chris had some of the inside guitar stuff. terry was a great rhythm guitar player outside of a great soloist and great singer. >> there was no leader in the band but in terms of the driving force. >> replacing terry kath was no easy task. >> there's no touching terry, i knew that. everybody else should know it. they would have to get used to somebody else's plan. ♪ ♪ thunder and lightning, did you know our love would end this way ♪ ♪ but that's okay, no time, no place, it's one more game ♪

He got physically in shape. he was focused. he was really kind of like a new man. ♪ hold me now ♪ it's hard for me to say i'm sorry ♪ >> there was never any one face in the band. but it became all about peter. ♪ after all you've been through ♪ ♪ i will make it up to you >> the focus changed. there were videos. ♪ i promise you >> when we went in to record videos the director would say, who's the leader? what do you mean? there is no leader. 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 ceter...

Knees. the phone was ringing and i don't know why, but i t the word that he had passed away. that was one of the worst days of my life. >> it was at don johnson's house, our keyboard tech. he did drugs with terry, and he partied with terry a lot. >> he was cleaning his gun. this was a little automatic pistol. donny johnson kind of squawked at him about it's the middle of the night. you haven't slept. don't clean your guns. don't mess around with the guns. go to bed. terry said, hey, look, man. i know what i'm doing. apparently terry took the clip out of the gun, showed him there was nothing in...

And i have been lessed with three things that never failed me. music, my trumpet and the guys in this band. >> walt, danny, lee, james, wh saturday in the park, i think about a man playing guitar. i give it a quick look up to the heavens to say hi. >> i'm still working through losing terry. >> my greatest recollections is when they were playing in those days and they played six sets. they worked hard and it's ironic because nothing's changed. that was how they started and they continued on.

Lakers game. i got a phone call from our manager. >> he did one of those, are you sitting down things. he said, terry's dead. [ voice breaks ] obviously, it still hits me. >> 25 days into the new year and the front line of the rock and roll ranks are depleted again. the lead singer of chicago, terry cath is dead. >> what? >> i didn't believe what i heard. >> i just -- i almost -- i got up and i almost fell to my knees. the phone was ringing and i don't know why, but i got the word that he had passed away. that was one of the worst days of my life. >> it was at don johnson's house, our keyboard...