Oh my, I'm a Blood, Sweat & Tears diehard, I have everything from them plus what David Clayton-Thomas has done since. They are my favorite horn rock band - Chicago became too ballady after a while and Tower of Power were too funky for my taste. I also thought BS&T's horn arrangements were the most daring/cutting edge.
Good as DCT as their second frontman after Al Kooper was, I also liked his successor/predecessor (when DCT returned), Jerry Fisher, great singer (if none of DCT's stage charisma):
And then there was of course the short-lived phase of the "two Jerrys", when Jerry LaCroix from Edgar Winter's White Trash joined and sang co-lead with Jerry Fisher.
Let's not forget Al Kooper, no BS&T if it hadn't been for him.
Of course, the many frontman changes did the band no commercial favors (nor the stupid decision to not let themselves be filmed at Woodstock or tour Eastern Europe on some CIA-funded venture in the Cold War). And they didn't have an abundance of songwriters either (though DCT was responsible for some of their greatest hits like Spinning Wheel), they were in essence arrangers, but very good ones.
Anyway, nice to find someone here who dug them too. With Dave, I always detect an undercurrent between the lines when he mentions BS&T, I do believe that Herr Westheimer thought/thinks them perennially uncool!
Or as Joey Ramone once commented while damning the pre-Ramones NYC rock scene of which BS&T formed a part:"
overweight muso's music".