Blood Sweat And Tears

Trecho histórico no texto lavrado – remastered album sleevenotes – por Ian Anderson na versão remasterizada (2001) de meu “Stand Up” (1969):

“This was a great start to our careers in the USA and Reprise/Warner Bros. began to take us seriously as new contenders for the US charts.

Led Zeppelin kindly invited us to open for them on their first arena tour later that year and the Stand Up material was given a good workout to thousands of potential fans across the states. We supported the MC5, Blood Sweat And Tears, Grand Funk Railroad and many other innovative and exiting acts that year, but it was the Zeps who showed us the way and so to them I really must dedicate this remastered Stand Up, complete with the addiction of some of the other songs which were recorded around the same time.

The perennial ‘Living In the Past’ was recorded, part in New York and finished in LA, as the result of our manager Terry Ellis urging me to come up with a hit single for the UK during our absence in the USA that summer.

Of course, I didn’t really expect the song to be a hit since it was in an odd time signature (5/4) but somehow it caught the fancy of the UK audience and the BBC, so our survival in the UK was assured for a while at least (…)“