Kooper hoped to raise enough cash to get to London (where he would put such a band together) through a series of gigs involving some big-name friends in New York. He'd been toying with the notion, growing out of his admiration for jazz band leader Maynard Ferguson, of forming an electric rock band that would use horns as much as guitarists and jazz as much as rock as the basis for their music. Al Kooper (born February 5, 1944, Brooklyn, NY) was an ex-member of the Blues Project, in need of money and a fresh start in music. The roots of Blood, Sweat & Tears lay in one weekend of hastily assembled club shows in New York in July of 1967.
Then again, considering that none of the founding members ever intended to work together, perhaps the group was "lucky" after a fashion. It could almost sound funny, talking about a group that sold close to six million records in three years and then squandered all of that momentum.
Series of internal conflicts and grotesque career moves.
No late-'60s American group ever started with as much musical promise as Blood, Sweat & Tears, or realized their potential more fully - and then blew it all in a
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