Chicago - Live at Harbolights 1998 (Full Concert)
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- The legendary rock band with horns, Chicago, performs live at Harborlights in Boston, MA on July 7, 1998. This show was aired live on Pay-Per-View along with an opening set from Daryl Hall & John Oates.
In 1998, Chicago was: Robert Lamm, Bill Champlin, Jason Scheff, James Pankow, Walt Parazaider, Lee Loughnane, Tris Imboden, Keith Howland.
Set-List:
Dialogue
Make Me Smile
Colour My World
You're The Inspiration
Free
If You Leave Me Now
Feelin' Stronger Every Day
Saturday In The Park
All Roads Lead To You
Just You N' Me
Beginnings / Tris Imboden Drum Solo
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
I'm A Man
Hard To Say I'm Sorry/Getaway
In The Mood
25 Or 6 To 4
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This brings back memories of happier and more care-free times that it almost brings a tear to my eye.
Three yrs before 9/11 when the world changed forever. And Clinton was in office, economy was doing great, no wars.
I'm Elizabeth Marie Gilmore I love this music from day one
That flute solo during Just You N Me was epic! Walt Parazaider we miss your talents.
I saw Chicago once. It happened to be this tour. This song and the solo are what I remember the most.
I Will Always Miss Walt!!
Except it’s supposed to be a sax solo, not a flute solo.
@@johnbramseyWalt use to switch it up. I've seen him use both in concert.
Walt had to retire for health reasons. Those guys are old now.
I joined them on September 1st, 2024 in Concord /CA/US with EWF. . Without Terry Kath (R.I.P.) and Peter Cetera I miss something.
I think a lot of these people didn’t realize they weren’t watching the original band. I saw these guys in ‘96 with Crosby, Stills & Nash. They were tight but I couldn’t help thinking about Peter, Terry and Danny.
I think what we now recognize 56 years after the band’s beginning, is that what endures are the songs. 1996 - four original members. 2015-present - three originals. If the music sounds good, the fans will be happy. Period.
I’m glad I stumbled upon this concert, I forgot I was actually at it with my wife. It was a terrific show now that I remember.
This was their longest running lineup.
Pay-per-View concert in Boston-- the same night Boston was hosting the MLB All-Star game.
Nice sound mix!
2 radio guys did a pre-show interview with Lee, Walt, Jimmy, and a separate interview with Robert, Bill, and Jason. Good stuff! 😂
Lee on trumpet with 25 or 6 to 4 man he’s got chops especially they’re playing over hour sets with consecutive playing
Nice concert ! Thanks for adding and creating your channel. Huge Chicago fan !
This was pay per view on Direct TV Hall and Oates opened.
i saw chicago @ jimmy hendrick on tour chicago was the warm upband 2 of the best guitar player @ on time in ba;timore md in the eary 1970s
I was there and got backstage, met all of them except for Robert
Not surprising. At the Chicago convention in 2006, I got my photo with everyone in the band except for Robert.
The best for long time!
1:06:51 Hard to say I’m sorry
0:23:24 If you leave me now
0:47:13 Beginnings
1:02:11 I’m a man
1:17:43 6 to 4 or 25
Aquí hay gente que no puede superar la caída de un imperio que les acomodaba a ellos y ver levantarse a otro imperio que le acomoda a gente mas joven. No importa quien haya sido mejor, lo que importa aquí es quien logra mantener este imperio vivo y brillando y sus nuevos integrantes hacen eso y mas y han logrado que la juventud tenga ganas de escucharlos y no puro viejos apolillados...si los antiguos ya no están supérenlo hay que seguir adelante.
I love Chicago, my all time favorite band but I never cared for Bill’s exaggerated vocal phrasing, way over the top!
colour my world
Seen Chicago and Blue Oyster Cult in 73 In B'ham Alabama I was with a Classic Rock Radio station DJ WOW...!!! B.O.C.Opened for Chicago ticket prices
$6:50😎✝️✌️☮️🇺🇸🎶🎶🎶🎶
$6.50 was a lot back then, what was minimum wage? $1.25?
There is some great musicianship here. I really think Howland, Schiff and Champlin were/are very talented. Imboden is awesome. But it's a different band. Not always perfect. Those horns never get old.
*Scheff
Bill never met a song he couldn't OVER sing.
It is very very annoying. Strange he doesn't realize that. The original is so good. So so good. Clean and straight forward. That is the way to do it.
@@linlasj You are so right..... I've caught one of their old concerts just yesterday, and I thought to myself if I were an original member of that band, I would have told him "sing it just like the record!!!!!"
This is terrible
@@linlasj I heard an interview with Bill and he acknowledges he changes the arrangement of many of the songs because he is tired of singing them night after night and say's he can sing it as he damn well wants. Bill is actually more talented than Jason by a mile and I think he's actually a better keyboard player than Robert Lamm. Bills just kind of his own person and doesn't mind giving a big middle finger to the original members of Chicago and his critics, lol.
@@mattparker2323 well. Imho that contitutes an artist I do not want to listen to...
Soy fan de está banda desde los diez años, he tenido la oportunidad de ir aproximadamente a diez conciertos, los conozco en persona y este es uno de los mejores conciertos que me ha tocado escuchar de la mejor banda del mundo.
Hermosa e inolvidable Banda ❤
Well at least you know this was really live…
It is immensely annoying that people always criticize Jason and Bill. Wake up for life, Chicago lasted a large part because of their enormous effort to always compose new songs and sing songs that many times were not for their vocal range. While, Robert, Jimmy, Lee, Walt just wanted to keep the original keys of the 80's era songs to be able to put their instruments and transform the hyper creative arrangements into old and boring ones. And this is not a banal criticism. What did Chicago bring back after the Now album? Which alias is a Jason composition, the only unpublished alias composed for the album
Because just like their current album which features the new lead singer, all the songs that Robert, Lee, Jimmy wrote are from the 90's and 80's, are these the geniuses? For me, they are more lazy than anything else and in fact the current Chicago album, brings gigantic references to the era Cetera ballads, pop ballads Jason and Bill's AOR and the new singer Neil had to interpret all of this alone and you can still hear it on some uncredited vocal tracks by Jason and Bill.
Chicago wanted to go back to being Jazz and forgot that for the world its ballads are the reason for its famous success.
The most ''recent'' music Robert has brought to the new album is from the late 90's with Bobby from Toto on backing vocals. What will he claim this time? That the band's new producer took away his creativity like he did with Foster?
LISTEN to if this isn't love and notice the arrangement, it's a totally mixed song from the 80's and with a half Bill/Jason line, in the AOR style. One of the best songs on the album and you can clearly see how much the new vocalist had to use Bill's style for the AOR song and Jason's softness to sound pop too.
Chicago had the best musicians, nobody did vocal arrangements like Bill, nobody played bass like Jason, Bailey or Keith were great guitar players BUT, they all need to be under the wings of the lords I can only play Beginning and his horns
By the way, the song from the new album called: Our New York Time is a ridiculous copy that Robert made of Beginning. Has he really lost his mind? It's a lie, he just wants to profit from the songs that Cetera made, that Jason made and the last ones that were in the top 10 in Bill's voice. What alias, they never played live again.
Chicago lost members who kept creativity, ideas, musicality in the band, to be lazy to always play the same songs, without even changing the sequence in the setlist
chicago (the band)
Can you redo this video with a louder volume? I have to crank the sound to MAX on all my devices just to get a decent sound level?....
For all the haters this is my favorite Chicago mix. Jason Scheff is a way better bass player. And quite the singer as well. Bill Champlin is quite the musician and singer as well. Terry Kath was the soul of the group but still he wasn’t the guitarist that they had here, for the time yes, but not on the level of here. Stop the hate, this group was AWESOME!!!
Your comments are so wrong, they scream of sarcasm.
Weak bait, troll.
Yes, indeed!!!!
Personally I've never yet seen a Chicago line-up that I can find fault with. My favourite other than the original, though, is probably the Pardini/Coffey/Hermann/Reyes Jr line-up.
I Agree , this is as close to the original Chicago as it gets, I’ve seen them many times. Great concert.
THIS WAS THE BEST LINEUP, TODAY ONLY 3 OF THEM STILL IN THE BAND. I QUIT LISTENING WHEN THEY FIRED BILL CHAMPLIN……. THEN THE DOMINO EFFECT HAPPENED🤮
Agreed, they were on fire here, although Coffey was amazing with them. But now it’s no good.
@@Cmssmc1960 I do agree. Jeff did a great job replacing Jason! It would have been more forgiving if Bill left on his own. Ive listened to Bills solo stuff forever
Me too Chris. Your right, Coffey did a good job … maybe even better than Jason. I’ve listened to Bills late 70s and 80s stuff too. Check out some of Jay Graydons albums. Bill and Joseph Williams from Toto have great stuff. And also Champlin, Joseph and Peter Friestedt have sown great newer music too.
They didn't fire Bill Champlain he left to start a band with his wife and son and their friends.
@@frank8235 that is totally false. They fired him in 2009. You need to listen to interviews with him on podcasts. I’ve listened to about 10-12 interviews and he tells the same story. Yes , he is doing collaborations with his wife. Also with Joseph Williams and Peter Friestedt. And many others including CTA. California Transit Authority with original Chicago drummer Danny Saraphine… by the way, in great friends with the bassist Travis Davis. And I’ve met both Bill and Danny. Gotta do better than that son
will someone please tell me the name of the guitarist,,i luv this guy
Keith Howland who was with the band for 27 years
muy buen guitarrista y creativo 🦻🦻🦻🦻
that's when chicago was a band
I have a question for you Chicago fanatics: I saw another concert with this basic lineup, and Howland sang "If You Leave Me Now." Did they take turns, or did Howland start doing it at some point?
yo la he escuchado muchas veces por howland y créeme la canta muy bien.
Keith and Jason took turns with it. Same with "Old Days."
@@AllisonDancerChick1982Yes, and it told me that Jason was faltering as a vocalist when he couldn’t sing those songs. Philip Bailey does a great job on If You Leave Me Now, though.
@@johnbramsey I love Jason's voice, I know he wasn't perfect. And yes, Philip Bailey does a fantastic job with If You Leave Me Now.
Jason had to sing all the Cetera parts, that can be taxing. He had to conserve his vocals so they probably had Keith sing some of the other Cetera songs even though he's not a tenor.
23:24
Best encore of myaiciana was rhis lineup
Jason and Bill are like nails to a chalkboard. Just sing the damn tune like the original recording. Jason can't keep a tune and bill scat's constantly. They are both decent musicians but gosh I miss Peter and Terry. Especially Peter. The current Peter songs vocalist is actually the best they've had since Peter.
Like I Already Said ROBERT Is The Best Singer In The Band Here!!
I personally like Jeff Coffey, I think he does a great job.
I actually like Ray Hermann better than Walt Parazaider as the woodwinds specialist. Sorry.
Truth be told Walt Parazaider was a terrible improvisationalist. He didn't know how to structure a solo, with a beginning, a middle, and an end. He just strung a lot of repetitive scale runs together with no form, no connective phrasing, and his scales were just the same thing over and over and over. The solo on the recording was better than anything he played live, but that's because it was scripted. He put in a lot of body language and theatrics to make it appear to the uneducated audience that he was doing something good, but any musician listening to it knew that he was stinking it up. Hermann is a lot better.
Only Bill Champlain is talented enough to chew gum whilst playing an instrument.
I daw them in 2019, they were better. Where are the three original ones. The only guy I barely recognize is Robert Lamb. The trumpet player is a different guy, as well as the sax player since 2019.
Hi Kathy, in this video we still see James Pankow on trombone, Walter Parazaider on sax, and Lee Loughnane on trumpet (with super-gelled hair). Robert Lamm too, as you point out.
Lee Loughnane is the only trumpet player they ever had.
Two words: Sound Check
Having a loud brass section on stage and the trombone all over and sooooo loud...seriously hard for sound control on vocal mics nearby.
Who's the guitarist here?
@scronx Keith Howland
@@thechicagocompletist5164 Whoever he is.
@@bobburroughs6241 He's been with the group for a very long time.
@@bobburroughs6241 - He was with Chicago for 27 years, and worked his ass off to pay respect to Terry Kath, while entertaining millions of fans. Why the disrespect?
@@CoasterQ And he just left the band after 30 plus yrs.
Champlin takes Chicago to "Chumpland"
Anything after Jan 1978 isn't Chicago anymore as hard as they tried.
Ok, call them something else. Whatever you call them during this period, they were still a great band.
You mean after TK's death. He was the soul of the band but Chicago remains a great band with adjustments 👍👍
Shut it
But who sang all the hit songs? To me, Chicago didn't sound like Chicago until after May 1985 when Peter left. I didn't even know about Terry until later after I became a fan of 80s Chicago. And Jason and Bill kept them going for another 5 yrs then they were done.
@@lamarravery4094 I grew up listening to Chicago XX (Greatest Hits 1982-1989), which became my favorite album when I was 7 so, for me, Jason and Bill are as much part of Chicago as Peter and Bobby. I don't get why people can't accept the fact that good music is good music. Just like with Genesis; that they changed their style doesn't take away from the great music they put out during the 1980s.
After a tragic day in 1978, IMO Robert should be the only one to sing Colour My World. When Bill sang it, it was a total disaster.
He makes anything a disaster...glad he quit the band...
@@linlasj Was he chewing gum through the whole show? Very professional.
@@linlasj He was FIRED !
Yes, there is such a thing as "overimprovising".. Bill is a perfect example of that.
@@marymoe77471 he thought he was too good to be with Chicago once the babd stopped coming out with major hits...
I like Bill's voice but his "over singing" is SO evident and a little annoying in this concert. Does anyone know why/what happened to make Bill leave the band?
You just answered your own question. Over singing.
Is it me or does it look like a poor imitation of a long gone great rock n' jazz band ?
Early 70s Peter Cetera and Terry Kath, I miss you so much... and the rest of the former band !
Unfortunately, time doesn't stand still, people move on and get older.
@@lamarravery4094
And some unfortunately died way too soon.
Have a nice Chicago early years entertainment🤘
Dreadful, out of tune posers. Nothing after '74. Leonid & Friends do it better now.
Thankfully we have recordings of the earlier band.
You're insane.
Tell Me Another Good One.
Interesting. I'm more like nothing after 89 or so. But I mean it's still a bunch of the original members playing here so it's like why not... Bill champlin on the other hand although I'm a big fan of his solo stuff, he's really doing too much here. Overseeing. Those headphones seem to be reinforcing in his head that this is what he's supposed to be doing. still better than 80+ pct. of existent pop music.
Bill Champlin = too many riffs (now get off my lawn!).
Champlin is unlistenable here. Pardini wasn't bad but anyone is better than Howling Bill
Totally DISAGREE. If it weren’t for Danny bringing in Bill. And Bill telling Danny to get Foster for a producer … Chicago would be in the food line
@@chrisseidner251 in my humble opinion, Bill Champlin, in the beginning years versus the later decades, were two completely different stories.
@@AaronOsheroff I’m not following what your saying 🤔
Bill's singing ability declined starting in the early 90s.
@@frank8235 so different than on the 16/17 tours.
Jimmy Pantload still trying to shoehorn a trombone into a bad rock band
Horrible
Chicago, what a band , what a band .