Oh stop. "Cetera wanted to be the star …" Cetera WAS the star after Kath died. But he got tired of living out of a suitcase and carrying the band on his back. He's just exactly as successful as he wants to be and he tours when he damn well feels like it. And when he's not, he's chillin in Idaho. Sounds like a good life to me.
Peter went on and produced more new stuff than Chicago ever did or will after he departed.......It just goes to show Peter is a never ending source of talent. Chicago is still doing their thing, which is fine, but, PC's voice can never be duplicated.....RIP Terry......
I fell in love with Peter Cetera when I saw Chicago and the Beach Boys in Madison Square Garden in NYC many years ago. Chicago was never the same without Peter and the great Terry Kath
Growing up as a teenager in the 90s I'm a Peter Cetera fan I know him then as a balladeer.I just discovered recently by watching some of his videos from Chicago that his a rock/bass/guitar player.Gosh I even like him more and more.
You chicks are totally right. I can't believe how good the bass lines were and how much they're not mentioned as a intrical part of this classic part of tbose five albums, enough. 1973 kid here, but the dude could be equal to Terry Kath and Robert (Bobby) Lamb, plus that horn section, insturmentally then. He's not exactly just 1980s Peter Cetera. He is doing stuff great that case before that and I'm a fan of handful or so albums of the theirs
it's really thinning in the back now! I notice he's keeping it longer all around. Would rather see it a little shorter, to me, doesn't show as much! Don't want to look like Trump! LOL I'd love this guy even when he is bald! Been a fan since I was 6!!!
I have to admit, I was surprised to hear him even mention Chicago, let alone give kudos to them and Robert Lamm. I thought Peter refused to speak about them. But then again, I'm one of "those fans" who wants a Chicago reunion tour with Cetera.
Peter deserves credit .l believe he is a good man .that is what his life showed then and I believe now.outstandig musician.outstanding voice outstanding writer of songs
Peter is definitely confident. You need to have a bit of an ego to be in the business he has been in most of his adult life. He did happen to vocalize the lions share of Chicago's original hits. However one of my favorite things with Peter was the way his voice blended with Terry Kath's voice. That for me was a major part of the unique Chicago sound. When Terry was gone, a part of Peter's contribution to the band, as a whole, was lessened a little bit.
Yes, Terri was fabulous but I also think that Bill chaplain had a very distinctive voice. Regardless, Chicago was HUGE and they defined the 70's and 80's.
It was gracious of him to pay tribute to Robert Lamm towards the end. Despite all the bad blood that likely still remains since the HOF fiasco, for their sakes, I hope they can bury the hatchet once and for all before they meet their maker. Petty jealousies and resentments just aren’t worth it after all that they achieved together.
I seem to be finding more interviews right now where I get more of a sense of Peter's hesitancy about being outside Chicago. It's funny how you change your view as you get a little more confident. In some interviews, he honestly admits he wasn't really that strong a person. He needed this band when he needed it but he simply stayed too long at the fair. And that's kind of sad. I think we don't realize that for a LOT of really talented people. But hopefully you LEARN how talented you are. roo
He has such a strong Chicago accent. My cousins from Michigan have the same accent. We'd always tease them about saying, naht and haht instead of not and hot. You can notice it in Chicago songs too. Of course if you are from those places, what I'm saying will be meaningless. lol
I love Peter's Chicago accent. I live in Michigan and I agree that he does speak with a northern mid-western accent like we do here in Michigan. I have noticed his accent also in some of the older Chicago songs from the 70's. I think his accent also makes his singing voice so unique.
Never happened! Chicago band gets inducted into the Hall of Fame and he refuses to simply sing a song in a key he wasn't comfortable with and instead of working it out, he refuses to perform with them. But it sounds like they got jealous and ultimately the fact is they refuse to let him have a solo career and be with a band, which was a stupid Choice even though I'm NOT INTO POST TERRY KATH CHICAGO
As a bassist/vocalist myself, I was a HUGE fan of PC in Chicago - a brilliant bassist, a unique vocalist in in a band, but too intense as a solo vocalist (personal opinion).
of course peter has to respect robert lamm. their daughters are cousins, right? i mean they both married the nini sisters, so in a way peter and robert are somewhat related.
How about you sit down and listen to YOURSELF? Let's see a picture of you. Peter Cetera great singer and song writer....Chicago ruled back then. I bet you weren't even alive yet.
About five years ago I saw Cetera being interviewed on Fox News Channel with Bill McHuddy. Bill wanted to go down memory lane and talk about the Chicago years. McHuddy being a stubborn interviewer asked a few moments later about his Chicago days and Cetera got mad and said "Interview over" and got out of his chair. He did rise to stardom with Chicago. If it were not for Chicago, he would have no solo career.
If it wasn't for Cetera's voice/songwriting and later teaming up with David Foster in the 80s. The members of Chicago would've been an easy instant distant memory .
@LostMyMojo100 Yup. Artistry ends where pandering begins. Thou shalt not pander to the audience for any reason whatsoever. Real music like early Chicago lifts the audience up to a higher level if they can challenge themselves to dig it. Kath would have either quit the band, forced the others to stay true to their progressive jazz-rock roots or decided with the rest of the group that he liked money & cocaine better than music. Even the best & least sappy pop songs they wrote were in the 70s.
Peter is certainly good, however the last few years nothing new. Chicago was good with him doing a solo and Chicago. I think David Foster broke them up, thinking it was the best for both. Not sure it was, however they both are successful
thats the totally wrong way to look at it though. this was a band so into the music at one point and it got turned into that fatal 80's mess for the band. thanks to pete chicago became a band you hear at weddings. dont get me wrong the songs were amazing, but thats not for chicago, and im sure they didn't quite like it, nor NEED that money.
This guy is so full of himself! He had a career with Chicago but wanted to be the Star. David Foster talked him into leaving the band for a solo career. He had some success but he was never as great as he was on CTA and the first ten Chicago LP's. Check it out! It's the same old story. "The Glory of love" is a terrific song if you were 10 - 16 years old back in 1986. David Foster has about as much class as a truck load of fermented cow manure.
he should have never left chicago. in my opinion- he lost it all but i think it started well before he left. probable right around when kath died. maybe a couple of years after that is when it really accelerated. peter cetera before 1980: super sexy talented special spectacular petera cetera after 1980: boring ordinary lame snobby
Oh stop. "Cetera wanted to be the star …" Cetera WAS the star after Kath died. But he got tired of living out of a suitcase and carrying the band on his back. He's just exactly as successful as he wants to be and he tours when he damn well feels like it. And when he's not, he's chillin in Idaho. Sounds like a good life to me.
I think he's absolutely gorgeous. He keeps getting better with age, just like fine wine!
I agree. Peter has always looked younger than his age over the years. He is still a good looking man even at the age of 74.
Peter went on and produced more new stuff than Chicago ever did or will after he departed.......It just goes to show Peter is a never ending source of talent. Chicago is still doing their thing, which is fine, but, PC's voice can never be duplicated.....RIP Terry......
what? more new stuff than Chicago ever did? Seriously?
You obviously haven't followed Chicago enough since Chicago 18 to realize just how much they did after Cetera left!
I fell in love with Peter Cetera when I saw Chicago and the Beach Boys in Madison Square Garden in NYC many years ago. Chicago was never the same without Peter and the great Terry Kath
that is so true , we miss that band
Growing up as a teenager in the 90s I'm a Peter Cetera fan I know him then as a balladeer.I just discovered recently by watching some of his videos from Chicago that his a rock/bass/guitar player.Gosh I even like him more and more.
Anna Fernan me too
You chicks are totally right. I can't believe how good the bass lines were and how much they're not mentioned as a intrical part of this classic part of tbose five albums, enough. 1973 kid here, but the dude could be equal to Terry Kath and Robert (Bobby) Lamb, plus that horn section, insturmentally then. He's not exactly just 1980s Peter Cetera. He is doing stuff great that case before that and I'm a fan of handful or so albums of the theirs
This guy still has an amazing head of hair... lucky bastard
it's really thinning in the back now! I notice he's keeping it longer all around. Would rather see it a little shorter, to me, doesn't show as much! Don't want to look like Trump! LOL I'd love this guy even when he is bald! Been a fan since I was 6!!!
Peter Cetera RULES!
Just gorgeous I have five favourite singers and he is one of them just love love love him❤
despite however sappy/happy/crappy he got when he went solo, whenever i hear him belt out his part of "i'm a man", all is suddenly forgiven ;p
I have to admit, I was surprised to hear him even mention Chicago, let alone give kudos to them and Robert Lamm. I thought Peter refused to speak about them. But then again, I'm one of "those fans" who wants a Chicago reunion tour with Cetera.
Peter deserves credit .l believe he is a good man .that is what his life showed then and I believe now.outstandig musician.outstanding voice outstanding writer of songs
class pure class and still so damn handsome for his age and last but not least NO WEDDING RING YEAH BABY!!!!!!!!
Que lindo!!
Great interview... What a man
Peter is definitely confident. You need to have a bit of an ego to be in the business he has been in most of his adult life. He did happen to vocalize the lions share of Chicago's original hits.
However one of my favorite things with Peter was the way his voice blended with Terry Kath's voice. That for me was a major part of the unique Chicago sound.
When Terry was gone, a part of Peter's contribution to the band, as a whole, was lessened a little bit.
Yes, Terri was fabulous but I also think that Bill chaplain had a very distinctive voice. Regardless, Chicago was HUGE and they defined the 70's and 80's.
Wow, the background sounds are really unfortunate for this interview.
Mr CETERA always grab!
Foster was in the band Skylark and had a hit with the song 'Wildflower' look it up...
It was gracious of him to pay tribute to Robert Lamm towards the end. Despite all the bad blood that likely still remains since the HOF fiasco, for their sakes, I hope they can bury the hatchet once and for all before they meet their maker. Petty jealousies and resentments just aren’t worth it after all that they achieved together.
I seem to be finding more interviews right now where I get more of a sense of Peter's hesitancy about being outside Chicago. It's funny how you change your view as you get a little more confident.
In some interviews, he honestly admits he wasn't really that strong a person. He needed this band when he needed it but he simply stayed too long at the fair.
And that's kind of sad. I think we don't realize that for a LOT of really talented people.
But hopefully you LEARN how talented you are.
roo
He has such a strong Chicago accent. My cousins from Michigan have the same accent. We'd always tease them about saying, naht and haht instead of not and hot. You can notice it in Chicago songs too.
Of course if you are from those places, what I'm saying will be meaningless. lol
I love Peter's Chicago accent. I live in Michigan and I agree that he does speak with a northern mid-western accent like we do here in Michigan. I have noticed his accent also in some of the older Chicago songs from the 70's. I think his accent also makes his singing voice so unique.
Robert Lamm sang Saturday in the Park... Terry Kaths voice also rules.
Well he surprisingly sounds like he's softening on his old band and bandmates. I guess it might be possible to see the old Chicago rise again.
Never happened! Chicago band gets inducted into the Hall of Fame and he refuses to simply sing a song in a key he wasn't comfortable with and instead of working it out, he refuses to perform with them. But it sounds like they got jealous and ultimately the fact is they refuse to let him have a solo career and be with a band, which was a stupid Choice even though I'm NOT INTO POST TERRY KATH CHICAGO
It must be nice to work because you want to not because you have to.
That would make Peter and Robert brothers-in-law, wouldn't it?
i saw Chicago in El Paso back in 1975
As a bassist/vocalist myself, I was a HUGE fan of PC in Chicago - a brilliant bassist, a unique vocalist in in a band, but too intense as a solo vocalist (personal opinion).
ya man, I was with you till you dissed Kath. but I guess it's mainly because CTA and the later Chicago are essentially two different bands.
of course peter has to respect robert lamm. their daughters are cousins, right? i mean they both married the nini sisters, so in a way peter and robert are somewhat related.
Unless Terry rises with them, I don't see it happening.
How about you sit down and listen to YOURSELF? Let's see a picture of you. Peter Cetera great singer and song writer....Chicago ruled back then. I bet you weren't even alive yet.
I was kinda hoping is speaking voice was like his singing voice... :D
was it David Foster who released the love theme to the movie Tootsie?
PITER TETERA)
Play the bass!
I was gonna post the same words as you, then I saw your post. This guy has some issues.
Thought he hated horns ?
Hey Peter, Rod Stewart called, he wants his hair back.
You're theeeee in-spuurrr-ation.....Is a song I wrote when I.....wasn't such a boring old windbag.
About five years ago I saw Cetera being interviewed on Fox News Channel with Bill McHuddy. Bill wanted to go down memory lane and talk about the Chicago years. McHuddy being a stubborn interviewer asked a few moments later about his Chicago days and Cetera got mad and said "Interview over" and got out of his chair. He did rise to stardom with Chicago. If it were not for Chicago, he would have no solo career.
If it wasn't for Cetera's voice/songwriting and later teaming up with David Foster in the 80s. The members of Chicago would've been an easy instant distant memory .
Peter needs his hair to get longer again...
I agree - I loved the longer hair on him.
He may have produced more stuff than Chicago, but where is it? who has heard abour it? I never listened to it apart form the karate mellow kid thing.
All I hear is ME ME ME ME ME
Well uh, it IS a INTERVIEW... 🤔
@LostMyMojo100 Yup. Artistry ends where pandering begins. Thou shalt not pander to the audience for any reason whatsoever. Real music like early Chicago lifts the audience up to a higher level if they can challenge themselves to dig it. Kath would have either quit the band, forced the others to stay true to their progressive jazz-rock roots or decided with the rest of the group that he liked money & cocaine better than music. Even the best & least sappy pop songs they wrote were in the 70s.
Peter is certainly good, however the last few years nothing new. Chicago was good with him doing a solo and Chicago. I think David Foster broke them up, thinking it was the best for both. Not sure it was, however they both are successful
thats the totally wrong way to look at it though. this was a band so into the music at one point and it got turned into that fatal 80's mess for the band. thanks to pete chicago became a band you hear at weddings. dont get me wrong the songs were amazing, but thats not for chicago, and im sure they didn't quite like it, nor NEED that money.
Cetera was great with Chicago but i never liked his solo stuff
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This guy is so full of himself! He had a career with Chicago but wanted to be the Star. David Foster talked him into leaving the band for a solo career. He had some success but he was never as great as he was on CTA and the first ten Chicago LP's. Check it out! It's the same old story. "The Glory of love" is a terrific song if you were 10 - 16 years old back in 1986. David Foster has about as much class as a truck load of fermented cow manure.
he should have never left chicago. in my opinion- he lost it all but i think it started well before he left. probable right around when kath died. maybe a couple of years after that is when it really accelerated. peter cetera before 1980:
super sexy
talented
special
spectacular
petera cetera after 1980:
boring
ordinary
lame
snobby
Wtf??? David Foster is responsible for more hits than Chicago and Cetera combined! Define the word "artist"
Peter was the weakest link between Terry and Robert.... Too softy for my taste of the real Chicago sound from CTA to Chicago VII.