The U.S. vs. John Lennon“[Blood, Sweat & Tears drummer] Bobby Colomby and I happened to be chatting back in February and I asked him the question that became the title of our film,” John Scheinfeld tells. “The story he shared sent chills through me as I connected it with what happened to John Lennon, as I chronicled inas well as the efforts of the current administration and its supporters to stifle dissent.
“BS&T’s story is unique,” he continues, “in that the band was being squeezed from two sides: the U.S. government as it attempted to suppress/check/curb the band’s outspokenness against Nixon and the Vietnam War and then the mainstream and underground media that accused them of selling out and being a token of the same government they had spoken against…without knowing all the facts.”
Check out an exclusive clip from the movie that shows Blood, Sweat & Tears bassist Jim Fielder speaking at a State Department Reception prior to the tour, guitarist Steve Katz and Colomby talking politics with students in Communist Yugoslavia, and footage of the band playing “Something’ Comin’ On.” The movie is still in production and producers are looking for photos and memorabilia of the band from 1968 to 1971. Anyone with that material can submit it to the movie’s
Cocaine. That's what happened.
They sucked ass then; they suck ass now
What goes up - must come down...
Why aren’t they in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, yet?!
They re-formed under the name TheReplacements
SpinningWheel worst song of all time…who’s with me.
David Clayton Thomas...a one-of-a-kind voice!
I was just surprised to learn that davegrohl was also in Blood, Sweat, & Tears.
Great band
Will it talk about what went up and what went down?
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