Friday, October 10, 1975
University Daily Kansan
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Chicago nostalgia pleases crowd
By BILL KATS
Reviewer
In the late 1960s, Chicago stood at the rear of a movement that eventually led to the development of the
The movement was initiated by Al Kooper's original Blood, Sweat and Tears. Kooper's idea was to combine a jersey and a section with a standard rock 'n' roll band.
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The result was distinctive. Horn sections were no longer relegated to simple rhythm and blues style backgrounds, and indicate movements were constructed around them.
Citahook took the concept and explored it further, loosening up the rhythm section and creating a rock setting for the brass to play in.
The band gained virtually instant critical and popular fame with its first two albums "Chicago Transit Authority" and "Guitarist Terry Kath experimented with guitar feedback. The band's guff vocals gave it a gut appeal.
Indeed, the band has changed little in basic format since its primal beginnings.
Chicago is essentially the same group it was at its genesis. Only percussionist Laurid de Oliveira has been added to the original seven-man band.
Last night, Chicago scored with a battery of commercially popular songs at Aller and 7,000 was treated to what trombonist James Pankow called "primal Chicago."
Many of Chicago's newer tunes, which have attained wide recognition, retain most of the same elements present on its first albums.
Some of the newer songs received only polite applause, despite Pankow's pleading that they were a bit "ugly."
Last night, however, much of the crowd response was elicited by its old and proven songs "Dems Anybody Really Know Me" and "Colour My World." Me Smile" and "Colour My World."
The band couldn't stimulate the crowd during the first hour, but seemed to be on during its second hour after a brief intermission.
There are indications that the band is now
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past its creative prime. Many of the tricks Pankow said Chicago would deliver last night were little more than glosses of standard rock 'n' roll.
But Chicago still has tethered musicians and is capable of generating excitement.
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Of all American bands, Chicago is the one you would probably pick if you wanted your guitar to sound like that.
They avoid the theoretical trappings of many of the new rock acts. Not a trace of
Staff Photo by GEORGE MILLENER
Chicago's Lamm
Chicago's Robert Lamm gives extra effort with "Beginnings" during the group's Thursday night performance at Allen Field House.
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glitter or eyeliner was seen on stage last night. Kath, with his Kansas City Chiefs jersey, looked convincingly like a refugee from a football summer training camp.
The only glitter on the stage came from a large script plexiglas "Chicago" outlined in small white lights that hung behind the band.
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The group's last time, "5 or 6 or 4," for several the crowd standing and cheering for several men.
The band relied to the thunderous plea, playing an encore of two songs: the Beatles' "Got to Get You Into My Life" and "Feelin' Stronger Every Day."
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