Deb and I attended our first outdoor concert since watching the Doobie Brothers and Santana at White River in Auburn over two years ago. We couldn't have picked a better one than Chicago.
It was a full house as it took us about an hour to get through the line. We were staying at a hotel in Bothell and got a Lyft ride to the venue. We had a picnic on the grounds of Chateau Ste Michelle. Concert goers complimented us on the spread that we put out.
Chicago is a band that I have wanted to see for decades. The band's beginnings were in the 60s, their hitmaking really began in the early 70s, at first as a horn heavy Rock band and evolving through the '80s as a pop ballad group.
There are three original members in the band. Keyboardist Robert Lamm, trombonist James Pankow, and Trumpet player Lee Loughnane. Two early key members are gone, Guitar player Terry Kath who died tragically in 1978 and Peter Cetera, who went on to a very successful solo career.
It would take all night for the band to play their entire song catalogue, but they did cover what seemed like all of the bands most popular songs. They played Make Me Smile/Color My World in the early part of the first set and 25 or 6 to 4 in the finale. They included songs from the ballad heavy 1980s like Hard Habit To Break.
All told, it was a fun and memorable evening.
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