Earthquake Relief Benefit, Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland, CA, 11-26-1989, Part 4 - Cold Blood

Here's Part 4 of the 1989 Earthquake Relief Benefit concert in Oakland, California. This is a set by Cold Blood.

Cold Blood was another band at this concert that was most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this case, they released albums between 1969 and 1976, and then broke up. The main star of the band was lead singer Lydia Pense. She suspended her music career for most of the 1980s. However, she revived the band in 1988, which was fortunate timing for appearing at this concert.

This album is 22 minutes long. 

01 talk by emcee (Cold Blood)
02 You Got Me Hummin' (Cold Blood)
03 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Cold Blood)
04 Baby I Love You (Cold Blood)
05 Down to the Bone (Cold Blood)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FTveeJfd

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7SMyRs4d0h8YXFS/file

The cover image of Lydia Pense is a screenshot I took of a video from this exact concert.

Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 6-30-1971, Part 2: Cold Blood

Here's the second set from the first day of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set features the band Cold Blood.

Generally speaking, I haven't posted as much music as I have ready for posting due to the hassles of making the cover art and/or writing the write-ups. For instance, I've had these Fillmore West albums ready to go for a year or two, but never got around to actually posting them until now. The cover art needs to happen regardless, but to help things along, I'm going to try to keep the write-ups to a minimum. Instead, I'll lean heavily on information from Wikipedia.

Here's how Wikipedia introduces this band: "Cold Blood is a long-standing R&B horn funk band founded by Larry Field in 1968, and was originally based in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. The band has also performed and recorded under the name Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, due to the popularity of their lead singer, Lydia Pense." 

Here's the rest of their Wikipedia entry, if you want to know more: 

Cold Blood (band) - Wikipedia 

One song, "I Just Want to Make Love to You," appeared on the "Fillmore - The Last Days" album. Everything else here is unreleased. However, all the sets from the five final days of concert at the Fillmore West were broadcast on local radio stations. (Specifically, KSAN, KSFX, and KMET.) As a result, they all have been bootlegged, with excellent sound quality.

This album is an hour and 18 minutes long.

01 You Got Me Hummin' (Cold Blood)
02 talk (Cold Blood)
03 Too Many People (Cold Blood)
04 talk (Cold Blood)
05 Lo and Behold (Cold Blood)
06 talk (Cold Blood)
07 Let Me Down Easy (Cold Blood)
08 talk (Cold Blood)
09 Monkey on My Back (Cold Blood)
10 talk (Cold Blood)
11 Real Good Thing (Cold Blood with the Stanton Brothers)
12 Watch Your Step (Cold Blood)
13 talk (Cold Blood)
14 Shop Talk [Instrumental] (Cold Blood)
15 I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free (Cold Blood)
16 Understanding (Cold Blood)
17 I Just Want to Make Love to You (Cold Blood)
18 I'm a Good Woman (Cold Blood)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Ei9CNDgV 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/ZOM9affn3Lizpgs/file

The cover image shows Lydia Pense, the lead singer of Cold Blood. I believe it comes from this exact concert, but I could be wrong. (It's been a long time since I made the cover art for all the albums in this series.)

Cold Blood - Live at the Record Plant, Record Plant, Sausalito, CA, 7-2-1974

Here's an episode of the "Live at the Record Plant" radio show. This one features the band Cold Blood.

Perhaps you haven't heard of Cold Blood, because they never had widespread success. I wasn't that familiar with them myself. But I heard this, since I want to post all the "Record Plant" episodes I can find, and I was very pleasantly surprised. They were a "jazz rock" band with a horn section, similar to early Chicago, or Tower of Power, or Blood, Sweat and Tears. But they had a female lead vocalist, Lydia Pense, who was reminiscent of the vocal talent of Janis Joplin. In fact, when Cold Blood started out in 1968 and was looking for a lead vocalist, it was Joplin who found out about Pense and recommended her to the band.

So that horn section plus soulful female lead vocals was a powerful combination. The problem was, they never had a hit single to bring them to wider public attention. The closest they got was in 1970, when their cover of a Sam and Dave song, "You Got Me Hummin'," made it to Number 52 in the U.S. singles chart, missing the all-important Top Forty. One key problem was that the band did very little songwriting of their own. But they had a knack for finding good cover songs that weren't overplayed. Pense had the looks, voice, and stage presence to be a big star. I think she would have been, had her band been signed to a record company that gave the band top material and promoted them well.

The band's first four albums, released from 1969 to 1973, are considered their best. Then musical trends started to change in the 1970s, and the band broke up in 1976. Pense suspended her musical career to raise a daughter. But she reformed the band in 1988, and they are still going as I write this in 2025. Here's their Wikipedia entry if you want to know more:

Cold Blood (band) - Wikipedia

The music is unreleased. The sound quality is excellent. 

This album is 58 minutes long.

01 Valdez in the Country (Cold Blood)
02 Too Many People (Cold Blood)
03 Under Pressure (Cold Blood)
04 Feel So Bad (Cold Blood)
05 talk (Cold Blood)
06 When It's Over (Cold Blood)
07 talk (Cold Blood)
08 Simple Love Life - Consideration (Cold Blood)
09 Funky on My Back (Cold Blood)
10 talk (Cold Blood)
11 Down to the Bone (Cold Blood)
12 Simple Love Life [Reprise] (Cold Blood)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/5nF8NJSj

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/vV8c4a9aS6VgEuC/file

The cover photo is a screenshot I took of Lydia Pense singing with the band on the "Underground" TV show in 1972. It was rather low-res, so I used Krea AI to sharpen it up some.