Chicago: The Terry Kath Experience
Dec 17, 2018 5:57:21 GMT
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Post by StrangeMagic on Dec 17, 2018 5:57:21 GMT
The highly personal documentary about Terry Kath's ground-breaking guitar style and early death is on Amazon Prime streaming. Michelle Sinclair packs a bundle of emotion and pathos into this well-made rock doc which intercuts family movies and photos with modern-day interviews. The interviewees include Chicago band mates and some of the best-known musicians in the business. Oh, wait, these guys are friends with the director's mother's partner, who knows the Beatles and the Heartbreakers and Joe Walsh and who else do you want in your movie, dearie?
Maybe it's because I know about family relationships, but I think this film opened a good sized window into the family's private life and emotional dynamics. There was quite a minefield around Terry Kath, from which his daughter doesn't shy away, but it seems many rifts have healed, and perhaps others have formed (involving Chicago the band, not the Kath/Lynne family).
Michelle portrayed her mother, Camelia Kath, as a warm-hearted, cheerful woman who is always thinking of ways to make the people who are important to her feel good about themselves. I bought it, so Camelia must be a great actress if she isn't that kind of person.
Jeff appears twice. His Brummie accent and usage of slang render him almost unintelligible to non-Brits. He looked good.
In addition to the personal and emotional side, there is a information about how Chicago became a band, where they cut their musical teeth, how they got their breaks and what shaped their music. The trained musicians in the band talk about their awe for Terry and his ability to write sophisticated, complex music without being able to read or write it. Trained musicians who worked with Jeff no doubt had the same type of admiration for him.
I hope you can find a copy or a streaming source.
Maybe it's because I know about family relationships, but I think this film opened a good sized window into the family's private life and emotional dynamics. There was quite a minefield around Terry Kath, from which his daughter doesn't shy away, but it seems many rifts have healed, and perhaps others have formed (involving Chicago the band, not the Kath/Lynne family).
Michelle portrayed her mother, Camelia Kath, as a warm-hearted, cheerful woman who is always thinking of ways to make the people who are important to her feel good about themselves. I bought it, so Camelia must be a great actress if she isn't that kind of person.
Jeff appears twice. His Brummie accent and usage of slang render him almost unintelligible to non-Brits. He looked good.
In addition to the personal and emotional side, there is a information about how Chicago became a band, where they cut their musical teeth, how they got their breaks and what shaped their music. The trained musicians in the band talk about their awe for Terry and his ability to write sophisticated, complex music without being able to read or write it. Trained musicians who worked with Jeff no doubt had the same type of admiration for him.
I hope you can find a copy or a streaming source.
, but we're OK. 
Apparently it's quite hard to see them with the naked eye, you need to be looking through a camera or other type of lens?