Blood Sweat & Tears (early prog)
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Topic: Blood Sweat & Tears (early prog)
Posted By: riverking
Subject: Blood Sweat & Tears (early prog)
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 08:23
 Maybe , Al Kooper could of went either way.But he didnt.
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Posted By: Carakhallo
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 11:00
I am listening these days the album "Blood, Sweat and tears". I LOVE IT
!!! It's one of my all-time-favourites. It's not prog, but the songs
have constat rhythm changes from soul to jazz, blues, latin jazz... and
so on. Great musicians also! A very impressive album, those guys were
ahead of their time, 1968.... 
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Posted By: riverking
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 13:38
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Carakhallo::: Try ""Child is father to the man''''
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 14:03
| Progressive for sure: then called rock jazz or brass rock. Simply the hybrid of rock, jazz, blues would have been the creditials necessary for progressive music. And as I've written elsewhere on PA, brass rock is/was a sub-division of jazz rock fusion (perhaps more rock than jazz - but the line-up did include some well known jazz musicians, e.g. Lew Soloff), tself a sub-division of prog rock. |
Posted By: Carakhallo
Date Posted: February 15 2006 at 14:18
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Maybe you're right, Dick, or proto-prog maybe? "Blood Sweat & Tears" was the first record that I had to listen more than twice to understand and like it. I was listening mostly to the Beatles then (at the age of 12 or so). I will try to get their first record, riverking, since many people tells me it's their best. I can't beleive it can be better than the second one!! |
Posted By: kingofbizzare
Date Posted: March 04 2006 at 17:34
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I've only heard their first two albums along with a handful of other tracks. My dad is a huge fan of horn rock, so I got to see them in concert a few years ago. Very entertaining. For the second half of the show, they were backed by a full orchestra. ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/kingofbizzare/?chartstyle=asimpleblue5"> 
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Posted By: ANDREW
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 08:34
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One of the best jazz-rock bands of that period. Which is their most progressive release??? "Mirror Image" (1974) IMO. |
Posted By: DallasBryan
Date Posted: March 05 2006 at 19:20
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Blood Sweat and Tears - 3 has many good songs
and believe it or not some ELP like moments about 1970, Al Kooper and David Clayton Thomas were true innovators. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 03:05
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IF BS&T was to be included, we would have to do the same with Chicago , Elecric Flag and If ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Eetu Pellonpaa
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 05:20
Included or not, their second LP is great! 
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Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: March 06 2006 at 11:51
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Said it before, I have no problems with that - except we would get into a lot of dross from Chicago wrt their later catalogue. And add to your list Chase, Heaven, Satisfaction, Ides Of March(?), Tower Of Power, Cold Blood and as we shift toward jazz funk fusion end of brass rock/funk, add AWB, Dreams, Brecker Brothers............................................. Funkadelic, Kelvynator and even Earth Fire & Wind*
*Actually check out the recent DVD release of Chicago & Earth Fire & Wind In Concert, for both some pleasant surprises, and some teeth grinding moments |
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