May 20 1971

[datasuspect]

The bassist and lead singer for the band Chicago undergoes five hours of emergency surgery after getting jumped at a Cubs-Dodgers baseball game. Peter Cetera winds up losing four teeth because some guys decided that his hair was too long.

[abq e streeter]

1. at the game ? or near Wrigley? I don't remember hearing about this at the time

Surprising because there were lots of longhaired guys at Cub games in those days, in fact, the bleachers used to wreak of pot smoke because it was so openly done back then. Neighborhood was pre-gentrified and still kind of rough though. Even tripping out in right field was pretty open; I can remember a couple of different occasions around then that a group of guys would be yelling at their buddies three or four rows away "hey, you guys hallucinating yet" . Guess that was a rough Saturday in the Park for Cetera though.

[datasuspect]

3. it was at a game

in the bleachers if i remember correctly.

chicago was still violently blue collar back then.

his long-haired ass was probably lipping off anyway.

or maybe it was preemptive retribution for his solo career in the 80s.

[no name no slogan]

2. Terry Kath dies, yet Peter Cetera lives

There is no God.

[Bunny]

4. There's simply no comparison between them, is there?

:hi: you!

[no name no slogan]

6. Hey!

How're you holding up? :D :pals:

[Bunny]

12. Pretty well, all things considered.

I think... :pals:

[Bucky]

5. Meh. Dead people always seem cooler.

[no name no slogan]

7. Yeah, that's true, but Terry Kath never made

shitty solo records in the 1980s.

[Bucky]

9. Sure, but that's because Terry Kath never made

it to the end of the 70s.

[Richardo]

8. You said it brother

If you ever wanted to know what warm Karo syrup would sound like if it sang, listen to Peter Cetera x(

Humorous note: The NPR station was advertising his appearance with the Houston Symphony, and in the three announcements I heard they never pronounced his name correctly: Peter CETera. Peter Certa. Peter Centera. Hilarous. I can imagine his publicist tearing his own ears off.

[no name no slogan]

10. That would be worth listening to

God, I loathe Peter Cetera. He was one of a cast of several who made early 80s pop radio unbearable. Every time I hear him I'm teleported back to junior high.

Maybe someday they'll find a cure for Peter Cetera. Until then, we must be ever vigilant.

[mitchum]

11. There was also a member of Edgar Winter's White Trash who was stomped to death...

in a bar for having long hair around that time.

It's amazing that a very short time later those same type of cretinous rednecks adopted long hair