![]() You can call it a renaissance, or the newest version of… but it is simply Blood Sweat and Tears at its best“. What endures today is the evolution of that concept… along with an amazing roster of the most talented and entertaining musicians we have ever had.īS&T has never stopped touring. The most commercially successful version of the band was in fact, our second line-up. Over the years more than a one hundred and seventy-five musicians have flowed through the ranks of the various iterations of the BS&T. These are the ideas that formulated the concept of BS&T Horn arrangements were not an afterthought, they were fully integrated into the songs themselves, some written by band members and others that would come from many different resources. Then, two or three example sentences (3) are provided to illustrate how the idiom is used. Instead of incessant whiny guitar interludes, we would have improvised, spontaneous jazz solos. The idiom (1) is given first, followed by its definition (2). “Blood Sweat and Tears was born from a selfish notion that we could combine the sophistication and musical skill level of jazz music with the energy and universal appeal of rock vocal music. When was the last concert at The Bowl Sugar Hill The last concert at The Bowl Sugar Hill was on August 03, 2019. A classic and unforgivably forgotten film set during the worst conflict in history. Then seeing a cross cut with a Soviet and German dying at the same time. ![]() The editing during the battle scenes are absolutely superb as we see Soviet soldiers in slo mo, Germans in real time, cutting back to Soviets in real time then Germans in slo mo. ![]() CROSS OF IRON has a much better script.Maybe the battle scenes of SPR are slightly more gory but at best they`re only as good as the ones in this film. I sometimes watch SAVING PRIVATE RYAN but I only watch the first half hour and last half hour `cos the middle of SPR is totally tedious. I also find the script perfectly paced, CROSS OF IRON lasts nearly two and a half hours but no matter how many times I watch it I never find it dragging in any way. ![]() Guess if you travelled a thousand years` in the future we`d still be hearing that. I was not responsible " Something that has been said a lot of times during the last century, and the century before that, and the one before that. But notice the couple of ironic touches in the film where people say the excuse of " I obey orders. That`s one of many good aspects of the script, it`s so thoughtful and with one exception it doesn`t show any of the Germans as out and out idealogue fascists. He dislikes the Nazis almost as much as Steiner does. It`d be all too easy to have Schell as a goosestepping Nazi, but Schell`s character is a Prussian aristocrat opposed to fascist egalitarianism. James Mason is also good, though you have admit has Mason ever been bad ? but the best performance award goes to Maximillian Schell as the villain of the piece. For the first time in his career he shows he has presence and probably gives his best performance in any film. James Coburn, star of many a forgettable lightweight caper movie is perfect as the cynical Sgt Steiner. This is an intelligent anti war classic and I never get bored with it. I first saw CROSS OF IRON in 1983 and have seen it umpteen times since then. From the first ensemble in the late sixties practicing in a loft on Bleeker Street in New York’s Greenwich Village and having crowds clapping on the street below between songs, founding member and drummer Bobby Colomby knew. Off the top of my head I can think of only 3 American / European movies to be set on the Eastern front: ENEMY AT THE GATES, STALINGRAD and CROSS OF IRON. Blood, Sweat & Tears is not the first band to ever use a horn section, but they are the first to fuse it with rock, jazz and some blues thrown in for good measure. Alas however western film makers seem reluctant to acknowledge this. Something that seems very unlikely to be exceeded. IF you look upon the war between Hitler and Stalin as being separate from all the other campaigns of conflict in the second world war then the campaign in Eastern Europe is the bloodiest conflict in the history of mankind. From June 1941 to the final battle of Berlin in April 1945 the conflict between the Nazis and red army cost the lives of 35 million people. When Nazi Germany invaded The Soviet Union in 1941 it led to the worst carnage in human history.
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