Chicago Transit Authority

Chicago Transit Authority
"Chicago"
Upon the band's 1967 inception, they were initially called "The Missing Links". Then according to Robert Lamm  changed its name to "The Big Thing" (occasionally performed in areas outside Chicago and Milwaukee as "The Big Sounds" due to some venues complaining about the double entendre that the name "The Big Thing" also alluded to), before adopting the moniker The Chicago Transit Authority when producer James William Guercio took them on in 1968. Fusing brass and jazz with a soulful rock and roll feel was their trademark. Read more in WIKI.

 

Terrible Camera Work!





Terry Alan Kath (January 31, 1946 – January 23, 1978)

Born in Chicago, Illinois, Terry Kath was the original guitarist and founding member of the rock band Chicago. He died in early 1978, eight days before his 32nd birthday, from an unintentional self-inflicted gunshot wound. Around 5 p.m., on January 23, 1978, after a party at roadie/band technician Don Johnson's home Kath took an unloaded .38 revolver and put it to his head, pulling the trigger several times on the empty chambers. Johnson had warned Kath several times to be careful. Kath then picked up a semiautomatic 9 mm pistol and, leaning back in a chair, said to Johnson, "Don't worry, it's not loaded". After showing the magazine to Johnson, Kath replaced the magazine in the gun, put the gun to his temple, and pulled the trigger. There was a round in the chamber, and he died instantly. Read more in WIKI.
                                                                      


"Tell Me" sung by Terry Kath from movie soundtrack
 

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Fillmore West
August 1969
Incomplete Soundboard