Well known jazz-rock band Blood, Sweat & Tears is celebrating its 40th birthday this year by welcoming co-founder Steve Katz back into the group for the first time since 1973. Steve, who plays guitar and harmonica (he's on the right in the second picture, which along with the logo are courtesy of the B, S & T website) started out in the Even Dozen Jug Band with John Sebastian and Maria Muldaur and 9 other people, then joined B S & T founder Al Kooper in The Blues Project before starting B, S & T, which was named after a Johnny Cash tune.Steve's bio, and other B, S & T info, at their website here:
http://www.bloodsweatandtears.com/SteveKatz.html
And here's an interesting B, S & T story from the late 1960s with an NRBQ twist. Thanks to Q-lister Bobby Lloyd Hicks, who plays with Dave Alvin and The Blasters, for this bit of trivia:
" a 60s CBS artist [ [I've since learned it was Terry Adams] was a big fan of Thelonius Monk. While passing an office one day at CBS he noticed a cover for a new album called, "Monk, Sweat & Tears". So enraged was he by the idea of his idol consorting with this band he took out a knife and cut a message into the cover saying it should not come out and then stabbed the cover for good measure. Must have worked as it never came out."
I did some research and found the connection between Monk and B, S & T-Harry Colomby, the older brother of B, S + T original drummer Bobby (who still owns the B, S + T name) was Thelonious Monk's personal manager at the time. We're still trying to figure out if the "M, S & T" album ever came out...
