Kim Mitchell interviews David Clayton Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears
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- Kim chats with David Clayton Thomas about beating The Beatles out for a grammy award, Woodstock, and David's upcoming show with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
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One of the most down to earth guys you could ever meet in your life. Class act!
One of the best bands that ever existed. BS&T. Thanks David for all the wonderful music.
David Clayton Thomas, your voice is beautiful, I love your music.
My Dad was a buddy, musician colleague and neighbor of David's before BS&T when he fronted The Shays in the early 60s Toronto club scene. Years later, my Dad's band played David's wedding reception party in the early 70s. Wishing him all the best @ age 82.
One of the best voices in ROCK AND ROLL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! KIDS, if you don't know who this man is,..... then, GET EDUCATED!!!!!!
For sure. If you're a true musician, you've got to dig this great singer's life and times up and learn.
IMO, one of the greatest singers ever!
Hear Hear! Amazing voice
From one of the greatest groups of the 60s-70s, who owed as much to Thelonious Monk as they did to mainstream rock!
Blood sweat & tear ..one"s of my favorite band..
He's sing and smile a the same time ...
His voice is so much deeper when he sings.
guy has a whole lot of class!!
Kim Mitchell go for a soda
WOW--What a great person & a fantastic vocalist.
Saw Blood,Sweat & Tears with David in leather pants in the 60's in Melbourne,Australia,at a venue called Festival Hall & they were incredible.
I´m from Mexico ( VERACRUZ ) and gladly I can say THIS MAN HAS THE VOICE
Soy de Mexico ( VERACRUZ ) y orgullosamente digo ESTE HOMBRE ES LA VOZ
GREAT RANGE, GREAT QUALITY, GREAT SPELLING, GREAT VOICE AND THAT´S IT
GRAN RANGO, GRAN CALIDAD, GRAN FRASEO, GRAN VOZ Y ESO ES TODO
There will never be a collaberation of a producer and a band like The Beatles and George Martin. Both are pure genuis.
B.S.& T. is still going Strong on TH-cam Thank you Guys for posting this video & showing your love thru your music I've got some of your 1st albums and my my husband was Frankie L and I met you in Marietta, Ga in the 80s. Love you Guy's🥀☝️
I've actually met David Clayton Thomas, I saw him preform and he autographed my ticket.
one of the great singers in popular music for my $ and let's not forget the band
I'm always intrigued by ths difference between a singer's talking voice and singing voice. Here it is really striking. I could never imagine David's singing voice inferred from this. Because it is so big and resonant and deep. It's as if he's transformed on stage.
David Clayton Thomas is one of Canada's greatest musicians. Kim Mitchell is too - and speaking as someone in the industry, he is a great interviewer.
Heard his songs great stuff
I don't know his name, but this old dude is a musical icon. I wish I could be a Rock Star🌟 Like this Cool Dude🎵🎶
David Clayton Thomas was the reason I still make a living
David is a Canadian LEGEND.
"Blood, Sweat and Tears", by Blood, Sweat and Tears, featuring David's vocals was considered to be "The Bible" of college music majors, back in the late 60s and early 70s. I bought a gold disc CD of the album, and asked David to sign it after a B,S,&T concert, several years ago. He refused and looked the other way. There goes another one of my heroes.
I waited outside for 1.5 hrs in freezing cold to get autograph from Yngwie Malmsteen
He declared he would sign no autographs although there were only a few of us who had stayed so long.
I declared, very loudly, that I'd never buy another album.
Worked like magic. he signed everyone's autograph. ha!
I waited outside for 1.5 hrs in freezing cold to get autograph from Yngwie Malmsteen
He declared he would sign no autographs although there were only a few of us who had stayed so long.
I declared, very loudly, that I'd never buy another album.
Worked like magic. he signed everyone's autograph. ha!
In some ways you were lucky. David was known to be a brawler in bars.
Blood Sweat and Tears were at their best with this guy on the mike. I just wish they would re issue Brand New Day and this time on CD.
Not a great album, but I'd like to have it, too. Especially liked what I think was the last song on the album, Billie Holliday's "Don't Explain".
@@77barrymac I really loved that album. Since I didnt follow BST in their earlier albums before this, This has been my favourite
beatles the best and David and your Blood very good and good man
This is when you could understand what their singing and actually hear the real voice remember this was back in analog no digital remix so you heard the real deal boy do I and many oldies like me miss analog records tapes cds were great for awhile but you miss the actual feel of the song and I know I'm not alone
Greatest!
Hey!! Dave-alias Sonny & the Shays. Remember Pat, Marilyn & Mary from Bathurst St. We pressed your pants so many times before your gigs. Marilyn did the best job. We 3 girls were from Fenelon Falls where you met us (along with Greg). You must recall playing upstairs at the arena in Fenelon. Roger the Lodger who was the worse agent anybody could have & he flopped on our couch more than once. Remember the Hawks Nest with good 'ol boy Ronnie. At one point in my life he was my neighbour in Mississauga. I know this interview was in 2010 but I still remember all those crazy times on Yonge St & Yorkville. My ex-husband bow has a fancy office at the corner of Cumberland & Yorkville. Hope you can still recall who we all were.
My Mom introduced me to this group 👄❤☝️👈
Nice. would love to hear more!
I always thought DCT and Jay Black and Gary Puckett had the 3 best pop vocals of the late 60's and early 70's.
I grew up with The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Chicago, Cream, Dave Clark Five, Blood, Sweat & Tears, etc. Vis-a-vis the rest of the voices of the time, I think David Clayton Thomas and Mike Smith (Dave Clark Five) were the best voices in Rock'n Roll.
In addition to that Thomas appears to be, for a rock stars, an affable and congenial man.
Love you guys!
Great he mentioned the influence the Beatles had on musicians. It wasn´t the Stones, the Who or any other Band of the 60s which could attract real musicians.
@Anonymusum WTF????? What a ridiculous thing to say.
@@randysteele6741
You´re obviously not a musician. But making music and only listening to it is a big difference.
@@anonymusum Oh, I'm very much a musician, going on 60 years, with time in a music school and bands and orchestras of all types. What a stupefying level of arrogance to think that only schooled musicians are "real" musicians. Possessing an open ear and a molecule of humility should have cured you of that nonsense, but your nauseating elitism hasn't allowed it.
@@randysteele6741
So you think that you are just as educated as a academically educated musician? And you call me arrogant, but who is really arrogant? Would you tell your MD the same if he has a different opinion than you? Would you argue with a mathematician about a formula and tell him that he´s wrong? You amateurs are all the same all over the world.
@@anonymusum Ultimately, what really matters is the music, not the formal educational level of the musicians. Some of the greatest music ever made, music that not only touched the heart and mind but was so powerful it became a social force that literally changed the world - blues, jazz, rock, folk, country and countless other styles - was created by people with no formal music education and delivered by self-taught players of mind-boggling talent. Music is for everyone, too powerful and truthful, too expansive and liberating to be defined solely by effete, small-minded bigots such as yourself.
thanks david
I always felt Got To Get You Into My Life (1966!) influenced many people with the great horn arrangement.
njkeith That was Earth Wind and Fire and not Blood Sweat and Tears FYI.
@@misterl19 BS&T also did a version of 'Got to get you into my life' in '75...
0:03 DCT is being diplomatic here because the DJ was refering to BS&T 2 going to number 1
His speaking voice and singing voice is like Wally Cox and Ted Cassidy (Lurch)
You're so SMART!!!
I NEVER understand why Earth Wind & Fire got so much attention in comparison to Blood Sweat & Tears. I’m Not interested in EWF but LOVE so many BLOOD SWEAT & TEARS songs & requested AND WHEN I DIE to be played at my Memorial when I pass.
DCT is a legend
1:05 that was the Byrds
He doesn't quite talk the way he sings. I expected someone who talked like Winnie The Pooh--or Kenny Rogers
"Nobody got paid". So says DCT. This is the first time in over 50 yrs since woodstock that I have heard such an accusation. Responses that say there is truth to that are welcome.I do know there were bands that insisted on being paid prior to performing, and yhe promoters "scrambled" to pay them.
0:30 turn off your mind relaxe and float down stream with tape loops and sitar
The Who got paid BEFORE they played apparently, or else they wouldn't go on.
I got another similar cool story. My Dad's former bandmate became President of the Toronto Musicians Association in the late 60s. All artists who played Canada back then had to pay a premium to each city's Association as mandated by law before they could perform. Jimmy Hendrix & Mgmt. refused to pay before his concert @ Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto May 03/69. My Dad's buddy said he almost came to blows with Hendrix before the show over this unpaid premium.
Hendrix backed down and ultimately paid the shot.
I got the sense KM didn't have a clue
and i guess getting crap from cfrb eh
Befittingly, everything he says reeks of his own lack of musical education.
As for his having grown up with Aretha Franklin, Franklin never came close
to cracking the top 50 until l963, and didn't score with her fit serious hit
until l967 . . . when Dave was 25.
All those cats in Motown and Philly (Kenny Gamble and Thom Bell, for example)
weren't musically educated. Wake up, Dave, or is it too late?
@Tony Smith. Thank god most of the great rock musicians never saw the inside of a music conservatory.
The only bad thing with BS&T Is how Bobby Columby really did their founder Al Kooper dirty,love David Clayton Thomas but what Columby did to Kooper was disgraceful
Also David no BS&T without the legendary Al Kooper.