My wife has been a huge Chicago fan since she was a teenybopper so we went to see Chicago in the round at the Westbury Music Fair on a Saturday night in 1982. Peter Cetera was still in the band at this point (he left in July, 1985) which makes this concert particularly distinctive for me since there have been numerous Chicago concerts and personnel changes after his departure that I have experienced in person through the years. Chicago is a great and influential band that somehow does not get its appropriate due as unique trailblazers in the history of rock and roll. I just purchased the massive box set Chicago at Carnegie Hall Complete from Rhino Entertainment which should be landing at my door any minute now. The band rarely ever leaves the road, and the pandemic did slow them down for a spell, but they are back on tour this summer at a shed near you.

In the Country

Rock on!

GQ