PETER CETERA - My musical journey

you Oh you need know my phone in me too Hey you're the me to be you spell or enjoy to announce the grammy-nominated singer and you member of the Rock and Roll Hall of playing please put Union together one more time for the one and only mr. Peter Cetera Peter I don't know where to start okay I don't know where to start first of all I want to thank you also on behalf of the whole audience of the Swiss audience for this amazing amazing high energetic show with your songs they sound better than ever you got a fantastic band thank you well needless to say it it makes everything better when the crowd is so good you guys were awesome crowd and yeah the band is you know I tell people when you when you come to hear the show I feel sorry for people that either didn't know about the show or didn't care or didn't come because they miss it's a great band and that's what makes it fun you know so it is no it is no joke but it is actually you first time in Europe and first time in Switzerland I mean it was a hard time getting up oh yeah first time it's whistling first time in Lucerne how did you like Lucerne so far I loved it everybody's been so nice and yeah I mean it's beautiful we is a big difference when you tour in the States on you and you go to Toledo or whatever and then you come to Lucerne it's just beautiful I just you have just been to to Sweden to Stockholm and did a show there that's how it looked and you you played an amazing location called the circus so help us to show in the circus yeah it was amazing that the circus actually is right across this is something nobody knows right across from the circus that's that's it what a wonderful place there's a ship called the Vasa that's if you ever go to Stockholm you must go see the Vasa so it's a it's a fabulous relic from the 1400s so now that your experience to be shows in Europe is the European crowd any different than the crowd around the globe and the rest of the other countries that you play well I mean I think everywhere you go I you always wonder if everybody is going to know your songs or remember you or or you know and especially coming here because I haven't been her but in the end I think the people show that they love the songs and that's what makes the crowd so good and that's what makes us on stage feel good - so you're a brand-new member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame what does this price what what does this price personally mean to you to receive that honor you know it's kind of a mixed thing I mean I felt that Chicago we should have been in years ago and well so there was kind of a little personal vendetta going on that kept us out and so it was a little bittersweet being inducted now but yeah we are in and them I just chose not to go it's you know it's a I haven't been with the group in all these years and it's you know people ask me well are you gonna get back and do this you know and it's sort of like asking somebody to get back together with your ex for the night and film it you know and I thought it was better perhaps not to go so what I want to know where where is the surprise to understand that Peter Cetera is home where you put it this price this award well strangely enough they did when they mail it to me I had more fun taking it around who I live in a small town in Idaho Sun Valley Idaho and I had more fun taking that thing around had it on the on the floor of my car and I see somebody you know friends of my night stop and go hey give her you ever seen one of these before and in the process of a couple of days after I got it I the statues got a scratch in it and the base is kind of cracked so they're going to fix it but alright alright sorry now you mentioned a very big inspiration for myself as well but also for you a guy that you work with many many years still work with him and that's David Foster and I'm I I heard the story that the song you're the inspiration you were inspired to write the lyrics for your inspiration Italy what's the story behind this song well like I say uh David at the time was recording Kenny Rogers who was a big star and he called me up and asked me if I wanted to write a song for Kenny Rogers so I started the song and then left for Italy and actually when I was in Rome and the the original words were something like you should you should know like Michelangelo I mean there were things like that very I was very inspired and ended up changing some of the words and you go right alright now I want to talk about of course all the amazing artists that share from time to time the same stage with you some of them we see them here the best of the best most most recognized artists of all kinds including a late Natalie Cole of course so what I want to know how is it for you personally to be on stage to do this amazing show with David Foster and friends all over the world in Asia how is it to be on stage like when you when you stand in the line and and just as greatest singers of all time standing with you that that show right there was the first one we ever did that was at Mandalay Bay I think I think is and I'm going back with David I'm going back to at the end of September for a week in Florence with with Andrea Bocelli and doing some there too you know it's you don't have a chance to meet a lot of people in the business because you're going this way and they're going that way you know actually David Foster played a very big part because back in the Chicago you know I mean Chicago was together a long time and we had you know ups and downs you know that's the way the business goes and he was responsible when Warner Brothers suggested we use him and for some reason David and I clicked right right immediately and wrote the whole batch of songs you know stay the night you're the inspiration hard to say I'm sorry glory of love and and it sort of put Chicago back on top and then later you know I when I went solo you know I had a some success early on and then I didn't I I didn't really have a record company behind me or manager and I sort of got discouraged and I saw I wasn't working for a while and David actually called me up and said hey would you like to sing I'm doing this thing with the symphony and stuff and that's how I started again on that show right there and even to this day I still do a symphony show I take my band we take then we do it unplugged with Symphony charts it's amazing show so maybe the next time we'll bring the symphony show this with Dylan tastic that would be fantastic yeah I grew up that's not the house I don't know what I was always but but yeah the south side of Chicago so I know this when they were a small guy your hair still looked looks the same like it does today and so others very cute this very choice pretty cool and I yeah you still are a very good-looking guy and then later on now you know but I thought you know it's not fair that I show pictures of you in that age you know at least I have to show some of mine that's me that's little Phil to say mate you would have been best buddies Peter and Phil now you come from a very music I'm very cute very good cute yeah I have some ideas for some songs Peter and Phil there you go great you come from a very musical family have two brothers they're also very gifted musicians that is Kenny Tim and of course yourself and my my brother Tim in the middle actually years ago played with Ricky Nelson's band that's right oh yeah there you go yeah and my brother Kenny now still works uh he actually plays I I sort of talked him into doing a Chicago tribute ban which he does he goes on the road with that and he also does a he also plays an ego tribute band so he's yeah and then he sings with me sometimes too Kenny actually toured with the Chicago I brought him on the road he was on the road during Chicago seventeen for about a year year and a half and he actually sang backgrounds with me and you're the inspiration and hard to say I'm sorry so why did you choose the bass guitar because it had four strings and I thought hmm might be easier with four strings I don't what time did you start to play the bass first well I actually I wanted to buy a guitar when I was younger but my parents my parents wouldn't let me so I had a play an accordion looking at the last polish accordion player from the south side of Chicago and then when I went to high school I met this fellow who was a guitar player and he lets start a band so I went and I bought a cheap base and that base right there was probably the worst piece of garbage I ever played it looked great but that's the only time I ever touched it it was horrible before the glory is of course with jacoba and the Peter Cetera years you were in this band called the exceptions we were the best we were the best there wasn't in Chicago and in the Midwest we were sort of a we were sound alike you know you had a play gotta play top 40 songs to work and we were the best your big Beatles fan right yeah and there's a story I heard that when you met Paul McCartney and you were so nervous that you forgot who turned your own name yes corrected I did I forgot I forgot my name but he didn't was it thank you Paul actually there you go there you go that's that that's actually a picture I took at at the Beatle show I saw the Beatles twice live and I mean I still get chills when I think about it and this was the second this was the third tour in Chicago and we I paid scalper tickets and I think the scalper tickets were like $50 and you could see they were really good seats and the Beatles came on and I think I not sure they started with she's a woman or something and up until then the PA was just beautiful every group that was on sound great the Beatles came on you know Allen and boom they went under she's a woman and the PA blew up my Llano gave me present my honey BAM the PA blew up so for the rest of the show you could barely hear them even when they talk you could hear the music but I didn't care because I was that close to the Beatles for all those music lovers if you've never heard how the exceptions sounded your your funny funny group and we have some footage from the very very early days and I'm sure you're gonna enjoy that with us where in the hell did you find that picture original record of the exceptions yeah ah will there ever be a comeback show with the exceptions ah there we are with our suits yeah yeah yeah well I I've actually I've seen everybody just within the past couple years it's very funny we were a fantastic group actually we were very very good girl well maybe you should think about the reunion hey I don't gonna bring you guys over here to help us right so again with the exceptions you know there was a period when we were very very hot and platon I think we were the first people to play Madison Square Garden five nights in a row and and we played the forum many nights in a row so there was you know there was exciting times with it yeah sure do you regret that you couldn't go onstage in Madison Square Garden and took a selfie selfie well now that I see all the pictures you found I don't think I needed a selfie my lord you know why I showed this picture your green suit that's a nice story your green suit was stolen once right and years later yeah what years later you find your green suit somewhere issues well what's the story guy dad the fellow that made that suit is Manuel Manuel the tailor he's a very famous tailor and he used to work for somebody called nudie who is even more famous and nudie became famous he made Elvis Presley's gold amaze suit and then he proceeded to make all the rhinestone suits for all the what the country singers right and Manuel was his tailor so years ago Manuel made that suit for me a bunch of other suits and subsequently he moved to Nashville where he's now the biggest he still makes the suits for the country stars and so years ago I had a bunch of things stolen out of a wardrobe case and I actually forgot what was stolen and I would say six months ago I went into his store to get something to go on the road and he says a Mesa I have something for you look and I turned and there's that suit and I went what in the heck and sure enough and I said where did you get this and he bought it on eBay so my questions that did you buy it back or still in the shop it's in his shop uh and I said all right look long as you could put up a sign that says on loan from Peter Cetera because I couldn't ask for back but I'd like to know who he got it from him mm-hmm but yeah it's very funny I still held that that Fender bass I still have it in that bass when I first bought it it was a sunburst and then I had had a friend of mine Paine who was an artist painted it psychedelic we painted it white with flowers that was the hippy days and then I stripped it down to bare wood varnished it and then had it painted white and I still have it and still painted white and that's a still have that Pacey you know I love it you know so Peter before you leave feather since you are here I want to pay a tribute to and to you tonight and it's a great honor to play the song of my own version okay everybody needs a little time away I heard the same from each other even love receipt a holiday far away from the one that I love hope now it's hard for me to say I'm sorry I just want you to stay all that we've been through I will make it up to you Primus 2 after all it's been said and done you just a part of me I can live Oh after all the dreaming through I will make it up to you I promise you after all desperate synonym Saturday a part of me jazz a part of me picture you are a part of me just a part of me I can let's go you thank you so much for coming to that feature pictures Matera thank you so much Peter Cetera our Festival on the town

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Length: 22min 26sec (1346 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 09 2016