9. Blood, Sweat And TearsBlood, Sweat And Tears
What they did with the horn section and the rhythm section was just amazing. And then the singer! I mean, I was tripping listening to that stuff! Blood, Sweat And Tears and Chicago Transit Authority, you couldn’t beat it. And it all wound up helping me develop what I was hearing [in my head]. Anything that I wrote, or anything that I’d come up with, Blood, Sweat And Tears – because of he rhythm and horns – were always in the back of my mind. The arrangements and the hits just blew me away.
I wouldn’t say that I wanted to push what they were doing any further, but I wanted to do it in my own way. Nobody could it no better than them. It wasn’t about trying to out do them doing what they do, it was more about finding my own space with what I heard. It wasn’t about trying to be them because you just can’t. They had it down to a science. It was a signature sound and when they played together you knew it was them.
