Suggested by Al, the unnamed band become Blood, Sweat and Tears. They recorded: "I Can’t Quit Her", "My Days Are Numbered", and the Al Kooper-Tony Powers collaboration "I Need To Fly") Al hired two studio trumpet players and overdubbed them to sound like four.
They would be used to shop the as-yet unnamed new band. September 1967 Regent Sound Studio’s Inc., New York City, NYĪl Kooper took only Bobby Colomby and Jimmy Fielder into Regent Sound to cut three demos for his publishing company 'Sea-Lark Music'. UNNAMED REHEARSAL BAND (AUGUST 1967 - SEPTEMBER 1967) Lipsius was a music major who has studied classical music in New York and at Boston’s Berklee School of Music, before joining a Canadian big band. Friday, November 19, 1943, New York City, NY) on alto sax and piano (he was also a music arranger). Nonetheless, his pickup band sounds great, so he, Steve, Bobby and Jimmy decide to form a “real” band where they would add horns, like Al wanted to do since his last days with The Blues Project.Īl, Steve, Bobby and Jimmy began their search for the horn section and the first addition to their as-yet unnamed new band was Colomby’s friend Frederick 'Freddie' Lipsius (b. According to Al Kooper, his old pals Judy Collins, Eric Andersen and Paul Simon were to do a set on the first night, but none of them actually showed up)Īl Kooper makes very little money from the “benefit” gigs due to excessive expenses, and gives up the idea of moving to London. Also on the bill: Jack Adrews (27), plus many other guest artists.
July 27-29, 1967 Cafe Au Go Go, New York City, NY (2 shows each night. They worked up most of the new material Al had written, plus some old “hits” of The Blues Project.ĪL KOOPER'S LIVE BACKING BAND (JAUGUST 1967) James Thomas Fielder, Saturday, October 4, 1947, Denton, TX) formerly of Tim Buckley, Buffalo Springfield, and The Mothers Of Invention. Wednesday, December 20, 1944, New York City, NY) formerly of Odetta, Eric Andersen, and Children Of Paradise, and Jim 'Jimmy' Fielder (bass b. Wednesday, May 9, 1945, at 3:00am, Brooklyn, NY) formerly of The Blues Project, Robert Wayne 'Bobby' Colomby (drums, vocals b. He also decided to get a pickup band together for the upcoming gigs and bring in Steve Katz (guitar, vocals, harp b. Alan Peter Kuperschmidt, Saturday, February 5, 1944, at 12:15pm, Brooklyn, NY) had decided to move to England and chose to throw a “benefit” for himself at the New York's Cafe Au Go Go, because he needed to raise money for a one-way ticket to London to start a solo career. The Blues Project and Bob Dylan's former organ player Al Kooper (b. July 22-26, 1967 140 Waverly Place, New York City, NY (Rehearsals at Al Kooper's apartment.
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