(Note: Please place tongue firmly in cheek before reading.)
I follow a YouTube channel called Jamel_AKA_Jamal. He actually has two channels; the one I watch the most belongs to a genre of YouTube videos called "reaction videos". These are videos where people, usually people who were born in the '90's, or the '00's, listen to music from the '60's, '70's, and '80's that they've never heard before. The video shows their reaction to the music.
I enjoy Jamel's reactions. During Christopher Cross' "Ride Like the Wind," he paused the song at one point and said, "You mean he's on the run from the law? With my man Michael McDonald?" I was laughing because I'm at the age where I remember it being played on the radio constantly.
Recently, he pulled up a video of Chicago's "25 or 6 to 4", played live at Tanglewood in 1970. This is the original lineup of Chicago, with Terry Kath on guitar. In the middle of the song, there is a near-epic guitar solo, and when you have the chance to play it live, you can go at it however you want.
Which he did.
Terry Kath nearly destroyed his guitar during his solo. At one point, Jamel commented, "He's possessed!" (Legend has it that Jimi Hendrix said that Terry Kath was a better guitar player than he, Jimi, was. I will agree that Terry is severely underrated as a guitarist.)
He jammed, and jammed, and at one point even the horn section stared at him in awe.
In the middle of the jam, my son walked into the room and asked who that was.
I told him, that's Chicago, and it's a rock group your mom really enjoys.
He left the room, and came back after the video was over.
Do you know what he said in response to one of the greatest guitar solos ever, played by one of the greatest guitarists ever?
"Boy, that band sure was loud."
That was it.
Chalk up one parental failure in the books, with appropriate sound effect.
Maybe he and Jamel need to have a few reaction video sessions together!
Just my .04, adjusted for inflation.
