Blood Sweat & Tears or If?
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Topic: Blood Sweat & Tears or If?
Posted By: Gandalff
Subject: Blood Sweat & Tears or If?
Date Posted: December 25 2010 at 06:31
Both bands are certainly great Jazz Rock brass based combos. 
Who´s your favourite? The American band with long name, more well-known, more melodic, perhaps even commercial? Or the British band with short name, less well-known, less melodic, less commercial?  ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 25 2010 at 07:24
| Both are very good bands but I favor IF a little more. |
Posted By: snobb
Date Posted: December 25 2010 at 07:48
Chicago debut  From above - If.
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Posted By: bov
Date Posted: December 25 2010 at 08:28
| What If? |
Posted By: friso
Date Posted: December 25 2010 at 08:37
| ay don't know If.. BST is a mediocre, but enjoyable band however. |
Posted By: akaBona
Date Posted: December 25 2010 at 08:48
| BST |
Posted By: Baggra
Date Posted: December 25 2010 at 09:01
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If your lauding BS&T then you dont really know much about the panoply of hornrock bands , do you.
In '67 Columbia made a MAJOR launch for the first BS&T lp - something they had not done for ages for any jazz.
Thats because BS&T was the "new thing". The big compromize.The "jazz" move towards pop & rock.
From the "Child Is Father To The Man" lp can you listen to that Laura Nyro cover without laughing?
This band had nothing to do with fusion. Instead they distanced rock FROM jazz.
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: December 26 2010 at 03:11
------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Baggra wrote:Posted By: Johnnytuba
Date Posted: December 26 2010 at 09:19
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Blood sweat and tears, without hesitation ------------- "The things that we're concealing, will never let us grow. Time will do its healing, you've got to let it go. |
Posted By: Baggra
Date Posted: December 26 2010 at 09:55
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I dont vote in niggling polls that offer only two candidates when there are ( in this case) at least 25 worthies.
(Still, the outcome would still be the same since of those 25, IF would likely top all.)
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 09:36
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Thanks. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 11:43
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Chicago before they went all Top 40. BST. |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 11:51
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I don´t know Chicago. They didn´t convince me from several You Tube tracks.
Besides, that poll isn´t about them. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 16:47
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Posted By: Intruder
Date Posted: December 27 2010 at 18:08
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I can't understand the knocking the first BST album gets.....it's a stone classic! Don't know what genre you'd attach to it, but it's just an excellent group effort. Al Kooper!
I'd put If a bit ahead of BST 'cause after their first album, BST drifted off into an ocean of schlock. ------------- I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there..... |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 01:50
Randomly, 70´s and 80´s records. Didn´t thrill me at all. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 03:21
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Posted By: Atavachron
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 03:33
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BTW has anyone heard Dick Halligan's film scores? They're terrific, e.g. The Owl and the Pussycat from 1970 (out of print but old vinyl still around) |
Posted By: XTChuck
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 10:54
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BST for sure.
I thought If were average at best. Didn't one of their drummers go on to play with Ted Nugent?
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Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: December 28 2010 at 21:07
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Hi,
I'm not sure that people have given a fair listen to IF in order to vote on this properly ... for musicianship and compositional design, I would vote for IF every day ... for a couple of hits on the radio and one excellent album, it's hard to not think BST as a good band ... but they were not as well defined as IF was.
Two other bands of similar design, also very good in my book ... were Ides of March and the Canadian band Lighthouse. Both had a hit in radio, but Ides of March's first album is magnificent and quite progressive ... except that horns are not progressive ... keyboards are! ... so GreenEyedLady will have to get it instead, I think! ... shucks ... that's SugarLoaf! ... bet these guys never even heard Mason Profit either! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 04:21
So, let create your own poll with this two bands. To be honest, I don´t know them. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: XTChuck
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 08:19
Mason Proffit???? Not prog - not even close
Sugarloaf......well.....some prog sounding tunes on their first 2 LP's. Not sure about what they did after that.
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Posted By: dwill123
Date Posted: December 29 2010 at 11:01
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When the next poll is assembled please include Dreams (Jeff Kent, Billy Cobham, Randy & Michael Brecker, John Abercrombie, Barry Rogers, Bob Mann and Will Lee).
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