Blood, Sweat And Tears 3

Blood Sweat & Tears | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (December 16, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Columbia
• Copy Protected
• ASIN: B0000024W8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #39,959 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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23 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Rotten insert and questionable mastering, October 30, 2001

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Elwood Conway "elwoodc" (Frankfort, KY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood, Sweat And Tears 3 (Audio CD)

What a great LP. Diverse and exciting, this is every bit an equal to their previous recording. But the CD reissue has problems. On THE BATTLE, CBS has chosen to try to eliminate tape hiss during the harpsichord solos and it sounds very muffled. In fact, I question whether the original master was used at all, especially when I A/B this CD with my original vinyl.
The BIG travesty, especially for a "collector's Series" is that NONE of the cool photos from the original gatefold LP are included. Neither is the back cover which had the reflection of the front cover shot. Very poor decision making on CBS' reissue department. Maybe they will get it right on an SACD release!!!!!

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A True Classic, But Who Forgot The Liner Notes ??, October 27, 2000

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C. Law "Charlie Law" (Las Vegas, NV USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood, Sweat And Tears 3 (Audio CD)

This is one of my favorite BS&T albums. (The others being the 2nd album, "Nuclear Blues" and "New Blood"). The musical ideas are pretty diverse and the arrangements are always terrific. Sure, there's great material here (Gerry Goffin & Carol King's "Hi-De-Ho," James Taylor's "Fire & Rain," Laura Nyro's "He's A Runner" and Joe Cocker's "Somethin' Comin' On"), but it's the ARRANGEMENTS which always set BS&T apart and made their work sound so GREAT!! Not a lot of people know, because the arranger credits don't appear on their albums (except for those by members of the group), but BS&T had some MAJOR LEAGUE arranging talent help them. Guys like Bill Holman, who wrote for everyone from the Fifth Dimension to Woody Herman and Stan Kenton. On the subject of CREDITS, I agree with one of the earlier reviewers. Couldn't they have printed BOTH SIDES of the jacket to show the musicians, writers, producers & running times ?? What the hell happened to Columbia Records after Sony, anyway ?? The band is the same group as on the 2nd album: Bobby Colomby,drums/ Jim Fielder,bass/ Dick Halligan,keyboards, trombone & flute/ Steve Katz,guitar/ Jerry Hyman,trombone & vocals/ Fred Lipsius,piano & alto/ Lew Soloff & Chuck Winfield,trumpet/ and of course, David Clayton-Thomas, vocals and front-man.

Some of the best arrangements they ever did are Dick Halligan's adventures with the Stones' "Sympathy For The Devil," which developed into a major work in (9) movements with everyone's help; also David's tune "Lucretia Mac Evil," likewise augmented by the group into "Lucretia's Reprise" and Tony Klatka's amazing juggling act on "40,000 Headmen," which blends a varese by Capaldi with a Steve Winwood song and ties them together with a little Bartok and a riff by Thelonius Monk !! (Try THAT, you music theory students!!). To my ears, this album was the peak of the group before DCT's first departure. If you love BS&T or music of the 70's, this was a LANDMARK album in rock and roll, jazz and pop, just like the self-titled album before it. BUY THIS if you don't have it... (you can borrow the liner notes from some ol' fogey who still has the VINYL, and COPY them). It's WELL WORTH THE INVESTMENT of your money and your listening!!!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A masterpiece ruined by poor remastering, May 20, 2005

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J. Cummings "artgeekseattle" (Seattle, WA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blood, Sweat And Tears 3 (Audio CD)

I have fond memories of this album from when I was a teenager. I had read the reviews on Amazon that complained of a lousy remastering job, but thought "how bad could it be?". Well... it's bad. It's really bad. The sound is really flat and dull. Now I wish I had purchased the mobile fidelity version for 4 times the price of this piece of crap.

I still think the music is great though. The arrangements and musicianship is top notch.