Is "Free Form Guitar" Listenable To Anyone Here?
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Maybe guitar nerds would like this but to me it sounds pretty bad.
My daughter has a cheap electric guitar and a tiny amp and she’s not great but she sounds better.
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The Chicago Transit Authority is a brilliant album and Terry Kath was an incredible guitarist but I find Free Form Guitar to be a bit trying.
shareI agree. If it was 2 minutes, fine. I love his playing on "Poem For The People" -- those jazz licks killed in between Robert's fine vocals.. "25 or 6 to 4" goes without saying. Robert wrote it, Peter sang it, and Terry killed it! I also love his funky playing, especially when they got Laudir, which is my favorite line-up. I also love Chicago VII and VIII the most.
Here's a free Director's Cut of ""The Terry Kath Experience" his daughter directed, and did all the interviewing. It's also the one and only time Peter Cetera participated in anything related to Chicago.
https://vimeo.com/578047732
Thanks for posting. I saw the original cut, didn't know there was a director's cut out there.😎
share10/10 for making noise.
shareI made a thread for ranking favorite Terry Kath solos.(Unfortunatly despite multiple bumps it didn't get any responses🤥) FFG isn't one of them. I would imagine it not appealing much to non-guitar players, (& even some guitar players too) but it's far more listenable than something like, say, "Metal Machine Music"😱.
Anyway, the thread I mentioned-
https://moviechat.org/nm0441256/Terry-Kath/6344e3582113c916f262015d/Top-5-Terry-Kath-Guitar-Solos
I've played guitar for about 40 years now and this just didn't do anything for me. Like others have said, I love Terry Kath's guitar playing (and especially his voice...it may not have been "technically perfect," but it hit the spot for me), but not this.
I would put this in the same category as "Revolution #9" by The Beatles. Artists back then were really experimenting with sounds/feedback (thank The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix for a good chunk of that) and, while I appreciate what they were going for with these, I just don't think they worked.
Wow, 40 years. I'm curious what you think of the guitar on "Poem For The People"
https://youtu.be/w_Vy3CKaEd4
Hello...first of all, I like your username. Bill Hicks was an interesting comedian for sure...RIP.
I was not all that familiar with "Poem For The People," but I really like it and I think Kath's playing is superb. He was such a smooth, fluid picker. His playing adds to the song, but supports the vocals/other instruments (That's not always easy to pull off). He showcases both his lead and rhythm playing here (He had a real "jazzy streak" in him, it seemed). I can see why Jimi Hendrix was such a big admirer of his playing.
One thing that I find remarkable about Kath, Hendrix, Duane Allman, et.al., is how relatively short their guitar-playing lives were, yet how much and how quickly they mastered the instrument. According to Wikipedia, Kath started playing guitar around 13-14 and died at age 31. It's amazing to me how he must have just "gotten it" not long after he started playing. And his singing voice was great, I thought. I first became familiar with "80s-era Chicago," and it wasn't until quite a few years later that I learned about Kath. What a musician he was and gone way too soon, unfortunately. 😢
I first became familiar with "80s-era Chicago," and it wasn't until quite a few years later that I learned about Kath
'80s era Chicago".......ugh!😱
As a child of the 70s I was familiar with all the radio hits, but outside of 25 or 6 to 4, I didn't really think of them as a guitar band. It wasn't until the 80s that I started getting deeper into the 70s albums & stuff like Sing A Mean Tune Kid & the non-radio tracks on the CTA debut that I began to really appreciate the band more & Kath particulary more. I was struck by just how tight he was with his Rythym guitar playing & how locked in it was with Danny & Peter (who, for all the crap he ended up getting into musically, remains one of the most underrated and overlooked rock bassists of all time). James Pankow, in the documentary, tells the story about the song "Introduction", how Terry showed him how the song goes, & Jimmy being awe struck by how he had come up with such a complex arrangement with multiple time signatures, key changes etc all in his head. The mark of a true musical genius. Who knows what he could've accomplished if he had lived longer. share
@ mxtmind and BillHicksFan: I enjoyed reading your posts. I can definitely understand how someone who was familiar with 60s/70s-era Chicago would find the 80s-era Chicago to be disappointing. I also liked what you said regarding Peter Cetera....just a very talented musician.
While I would agree that Chicago really wasn't the same band after Terry Kath died, I still like a lot of their 80s-era music. I think "Love Me Tomorrow" is a great song (especially with the "classic Chicago ending"). "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" was probably their first song I remember hearing and I still like it (again, another "classic Chicago ending"). And I have a lot of nostalgia over "Look Away"...I was in college when that came out, so it has that going for it, and I like the guitar playing as well. I think it's a very nice song.
Having said all that...they weren't the same after Kath passed away. Gone way too soon and a big loss to the music world for sure.
My original username is actually MortSahlFan, but it didn't work for some reason, and made this.
I HIGHLY recommend checking out Chicago, but chronologically. I've had "phases", but earlier this year, I did just that, and I thought, "I don't remember this" and who knows. Sometimes you think you've heard an album, but maybe just recognized a few songs. Quite an experience!
There was this video on YouTube that focused on all the musicians who died between 1970-1980, and the list was endless. Lots of talent went down the drain...
Here's a free, recently uploaded documentary made by Terry's daughter, The Director's Cut. She adds some Cetera interview extras, Caribou, current members, and narrates these 8mm video he took on the road)
https://vimeo.com/578047732
Not to my ears. Sounds more like someone warming up or checking whether they're in tune or not. But then, I'm not a fan of electric guitars. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
shareTry listening to disc 3 of Arc Weld by Neil Young - it’s basically 45 minutes of feedback.
shareright, or Lou Reed.
Neil got sued for "sabotage" (something like that)
Neil Young got sued for not sounding like Neil Young, lol: -
https://lateralaction.com/articles/neil-young/
another John Fogerty!
"Zanz Kant Danz"... man, Fogerty had to go almost a decade without recording/releasing, because it would have all gone to him. But not the other guys.
That was one of the biggest ironys of the 80s: Fogerty getting sued for sounding too much like himself, & Young getting sued for NOT sounding like himself!!
But Neil Young's entire career has been about doing what ever the fuck he wants to do😎
As a piece of music is rubbish:
But if you want sound effects of a modified car meet up with people racing about and showing off doing burn outs, drifting and revving there engines this is it.
I think someone took a corner too fast at 0:46