Cold Blood (band)
| Lydia Pense and Cold Blood | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Oakland, California |
| Genres | Rock, Urban contemporary, Blue-eyed soul |
| Years active | 1969–present |
| Labels | San Francisco/Atlantic (1969); Reprise (1972); Warner Bros. Records (1974); ABC (1976); Dig Music (2005) |
| Associated acts | Tower of Power, Sons of Champlin, Donny Hathaway |
| Members |
Lydia Pense Steve Salinas Steve Dunne Mike Morgan Evan Palmerston Rich Armstrong Rob Zuckerman Donny Baldwin |
| Past members |
Rock Hendricks |
Rock Hendricks
Larry Field
Danny Hull
Larry Jonutz
Pat O'Hara
Raul Matute
Jerry Jonutz
David Padron
Rod Ellicott
Frank Davis
Sandy McKee
Alex Sarmiento
Cold Blood is a long-standing R&B horn funk band founded by Larry Field in 1968 and originally based in the San Francisco East Bay area. They have also performed and recorded under the name "Lydia Pense and Cold Blood", due to the popularity of their lead singer, Lydia Pense.
The band first came to prominence in 1969 when rock impresario Bill Graham signed them after an audition and they played the Fillmore West in San Francisco. Pense has been compared to Janis Joplin, and it was Joplin who recommended the audition to Graham.
The band has often been compared to another long-standing popular Northern California group, Tower of Power, and like Tower of Power they were rare in that they featured a horn section in addition to guitar, keyboards (usually featuring a Hammond organ and Leslie speaker), bass and drums. The Tower of Power horn players have performed with Cold Blood on a regular basis since the early 1970s. Skip Mesquite and Mic Gillette have been members of both Tower of Power and Cold Blood. Their fan base also overlaps with the Sons of Champlin, although their musical styles are quite different.
Their initial four albums, Cold Blood (produced by David Rubinson), Sisyphus (produced by Fred Catero), First Taste of Sin (produced by Donny Hathaway), and Thriller (produced by David Rubinson) remain their best known work. The band disbanded in the late 1970s, reformed in the 1980s and stabilized with its current membership in the 1990s. Cold Blood continues to record and perform today, and some former band members such as Raul Matute (and some from Tower of Power) appear on the band's most recent album.
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