“The music on Thursday was, finally, amusingly mindless, although the Beach Boys were more amusing and Chicago more mindless,” wrote New York Times critic John Rockwell in his review of the tour. Uniting them for a tour made a lot of sense since they appealed to a similar demographic, even if the critics weren’t always blown away by the show. He not only managed both bands during this era, but he even played bass with the Beach Boys on the road. The common thread between the two acts was veteran music producer Jim Guerico. Chicago were at their commercial peak, and the Beach Boys were suddenly a hot commodity after years of struggle thanks to an exploding Sixties-nostalgia movement.īrian Wilson and Chicago Announce Co-Headlining Summer Tourįlashback: Paul McCartney Sings 'Get Back' With Tina Turner, Elton John, and Phil Collinsįlashback: Miley Cyrus Performs 'Walking in Memphis' With Marc Cohn This might seem a little familiar to any Beach Boys or Chicago fans who were around in 1975 for the Beachago tour when the two bands teamed up for a successful run of arena gigs.
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