Wednesday, December 9, 2020

Blood, Sweat and Tears - Woodstock Festival, Max Yasgur's Farm, Bethel, NY, 8-17-1969

I just posted the Band's performance from the famous 1969 Woodstock Festival. I mentioned in that post that the sets of most of the famous artists at Woodstock have been officially released as individual albums, but a few have slipped through the cracks. I'm posting the skipped ones that I like. The Band was one, and Blood, Sweat and Tears is another.

In my opinion, the first two Blood, Sweat and Tears albums are excellent. Their second album, simply called "Blood, Sweat and Tears," was hugely commercially successful in 1969. But for whatever reason, they quickly declined in both critical and commercial popularity after that. I'm mainly interested in what they did in 1968 and 1969. But there haven't been any official live albums from that time period, Even the bootlegs from that time are few in number and just average sounding audience recordings. So this Woodstock recording is very welcome, since it's in great soundboard quality.

The concert is 53 minutes long. Their set was a fine performance, containing all their best known songs from that time.

01 talk (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
02 More and More (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
03 Just One Smile (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
04 Somethin' Comin' On (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
05 I Love You More than You'll Ever Know (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
06 Spinning Wheel (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
07 Sometimes in Winter (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
08 Smiling Phases (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
09 talk (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
10 God Bless the Child (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
11 talk (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
12 And When I Die (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
13 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Blood, Sweat & Tears)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15252599/BloodSweatT_1969_Woodstck_Festival__8-17-1969_atse.zip.html

The album cover photo is from the concert in question. Not all of the many band members are seen.

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7 comments:

  1. loneillDecember 11, 2020 at 3:42 AM

    In 1970 BS&T went on a tour of eastern Europe that was sponsored by the US Department of State. Back then, there was probably no faster way to lose credibility with your audience than to cooperate with the government.

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    1. PaulDecember 15, 2020 at 4:02 PM

      The band definitely had a hipness credibility problem. Check out this album cover - the lead singer is wearing a three-piece suit! At Woodstock! (facepalm)

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    2. Sax and GuitarJanuary 16, 2022 at 9:16 PM

      David Clayton-Thomas is wearing leather trousers and a leather-fringed jacket in this album photo. Very appropriate for the era!

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    3. PaulJanuary 16, 2022 at 10:19 PM

      Hmmm. You might be right. Perhaps I changed the photo at some point.

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  2. artlazarusDecember 11, 2020 at 5:00 AM

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  3. artlazarusDecember 11, 2020 at 7:26 AM

    Talk about losing credibility...the other way is through the loss of musicianship, especially the departure of Kooper and Brecker and adding ersatz jazz frontman Clayton-Thomas to the lineup. It's painful to listen to his vocals on Kooper's tunes (#3 and #5). The standout here is Katz' melancholy "Sometimes in Winter." Anyway, thanks for the great Woodstock posts.

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  4. MASTERCOCKSMITHAugust 5, 2023 at 9:25 PM

    5 artists at WOODSTOCK wore leather fringe: DCT, JIMI,DALTRY, GRACE & SLY.

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