Blood, Swear & Tears were blackmailed by the Nixon admin.

[TeamProg]

According to a new film.


Interesting.. I never heard about this. I figured that they just fell out of popularity like a lot of bands. The public is fickle.

I don't at all remember any kind of backlash against them. I just grew away from their pop songs.

The under 30 crowd wasn't so much anti-Red as anti-war. This doesn't smell right.

Looks like they're milking the victimhood for everything they can. Very American!


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https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/what-the-hell-happened-to-blood-sweat-tears-film-early-victim-cancel-culture-224832480.html

[Walleye]

1. I saw them perform at the Hollywood bowl back then

The opening act, believe it or not, was Miles Davis and his large band. I became a jazz fan after that

[Eugene]

2. That kind of blackmail is kids' stuff in the catalog of Nixon's abuses.

The musicians were naive and they were pawns in a political chess game.
The feds had leverage. They used it. The band paid a price.

From the Rolling Stone:

This is the story BS&T finally tells 50 years later in the new documentary, What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears? (premiering March 24 in New York City and March 31 in Los Angeles). It includes the revelation that, according to the group, they were forced to do the tour or their frontman David Clayton-Thomas — a Canadian citizen with a petty criminal record as a teenager — would be deported. But the film, directed by John Scheinfeld, is also an archival marvel, offering a comprehensive look at the tour and its aftermath with newly-discovered and remastered concert audio, as well as 53 minutes of unreleased video intended for a contemporaneous documentary that wasn’t just scrapped, but buried under still-unexplained circumstances.

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But a bad taste still lingers, he adds: “I resented what happened to us. I lost a lot of friends and we lost a lot of [our] audience. And we couldn’t say anything about it.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/blood-sweat-tears-iron-curtain-tour-movie-1234700472/
https://archive.is/EwRT3

[TeamProg]

3. Couldn't say a thing? Why?

""But a bad taste still lingers, he adds: “I resented what happened to us. I lost a lot of friends and we lost a lot of [our] audience. And we couldn’t say anything about it.”""

So what, your singer got in trouble once. Big deal.

The tour behind the Iron Curtain was public info..