“What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?” Releases March 24
- “I believe the music we made then holds up today,” Bobby Colomby says
A Woodstock-veteran band plays gigs behind the Iron Curtain in Yugoslavia, Romania and Poland.
What could possibly go wrong?
For Blood, Sweat & Tears, everything.
“It just made them look uncool,” music journalist David Wild says in the trailer for “What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat & Tears?,” which premieres March 24 in New York and Los Angeles prior to wider release.
“Going to Eastern Europe was not going to be forgiven by the counterculture.”
Directed by John Scheinfeld, the film tells the story of the unlikely, State Department-sponsored tour, the countries’ violent reactions to American music and its impact on BS&T.
It was apparently a career-killer for the band, which still performs with only drummer Bobby Colomby remaining from the original lineup.
“I think we were naive,” David Clayton-Thomas says of the trek. “I don’t think we realized how it would bounce up and bite us.”
“There was an underlying reason why we did this tour,” guitarist Steve Katz says. “We were blackmailed.”
Bad juju aside, the movie also brings up some good memories for Colomby, who called the audio - the soundtrack is due April 21 - and video footage “fascinating.”
“I believe the music we made then holds up today,” the drummer said in a statement.
