Blood, Sweat & Tears
Blood, Sweat & Tears is an American jazz rock band, active since 1968. They fused rock, blues, pop music, horn arrangements and jazz improvisation together.
The group was produced by James William Guercio. Bassist Jim Fielder originally played with Frank Zappa's Mothers Of Invention.
After falling out with Herb Cohen Blood, Sweat & Tears' manager Bennett Glozer briefly became Zappa's manager in 1977.
Zappa references to the group
Zappa mocked Blood, Sweat & Tears a few times in his work.
In I Could Be A Star Now Don Preston is informed by Jeff Simmons that he is wasting his life in Zappa's band and that he "could have been writing (...) far out exciting blues with Blood, Sweat & Tears."
In the Dub Room Special the Mothers all perform Approximate without actually making a sound. Zappa then informs the tv audience: "That's the way Blood, Sweat & Tears would do it, only there would be a tape running in the background."
