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.
the middle of the night, you haven t slept, don t clean your guns, don t mess around with your guns, just go to bed. and terry said hey, look, man, i know what i m doing. and apparently, terry took the clip out of the gun, showed him that there was nothing in the clip, but apparently there was still a round in the chamber. terry was just fooling with the gun. and the gun went off. boom. died instantly. and it was really, really hard news. i didn t believe it. and i believed it when i went to the wake and he was laid out in the casket. and the thing that really hit me
this is not one of 100 shows, but it is the most special shows of their career. can you dig it yes, i can i have been waiting such a long time life has many ups and downs and i have been blessed with three things that never failed me, my music, my trumpet and the guys in the band. walt, danny, lee, james, terry. whenever i performed saturday in the park there is a line i sing about a man playing guitar and i always give a quick look up for the heavens to say hi. a man playing guitar i am still working through losing terry. my earliest recollections they were playing in those days
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.
of our moments together i didn t have to have a sing off. that was ray charles. that was terry gatt. color my world with hopes of loving you i got a phone call and it was jimmy. he said, i got an idea for a movement of the ballet. let s slow it down and get a little let s get pretty. simple, brief, a little romantic interlude between make me smile. and agitato. da, da, da, da, da, da. which was another, you know quizzically, he looked at me out of the corner of his eye i said, what do you think?