Keyboardist From Famous Band Chicago Rides Sun Metro

Famous Chicago keyboardist Robert Lamm decided to take a ride on a Sun Metro bus on Tuesday afternoon while he was in town for a concert at the Plaza Theater later that night.

Sun Metro officials said bus driver and longtime Chicago fan Ricardo Novoa greeted Lamm by name as he boarded the Route 10 bus.

Novoa said the famous musician boarded the bus on Mesa Street.

Aside from being the pop band’s keyboardist, Lamm wrote many of the band’s biggest hits, including “Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?,” “Beginnings” and “Saturday in the Park.”

Novoa said he was even able to take a picture with Lamm, and after the warm greeting, was given a backstage pass to the concert later that night.

Novoa attended the concert still in his Sun Metro uniform and was able to talk with various band members including drummer Tris Imboden, who Novoa has known personally since 2007. Imboden and Novoa took a picture together, and Imboden gave him the drumsticks he used at the concert.

“Everybody in the band especially Tris, the drummer, was laughing so hard when Robert told the story [about] how I stopped opened the door and called him by his name,” Novoa, a drummer during his free time, recounted. “He was so impressed. They’re from out-of-town and I, as a Sun Metro employee, as well as a city of El Paso employee, am an ambassador for the City.”

Officials with Sun Metro said they were refreshed that a celebrity was living a car-free life and encourages everyone to give the bus a try.