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@clifton892911 ай бұрын
You can't listen to Towef Of Power and not smile. Every instrument is played by masterful musicians. Tenor Sax, trumpet/flugelhorn, Killer Bass, Hammond B3, David Garibaldi on drums...Bam, Magic every time. The top shelf of music masters.
@realbser195611 ай бұрын
And let’s not forget David Garibaldi on the drums. Anyone with an appreciation for the drums knows that David is one of the GOATS of this or any other genre. A legendary band. 🔥
@ricksoto102511 ай бұрын
Yes!!
@alcambrola28347 ай бұрын
David Garibaldi officially announced his retirement 2 weeks ago. He said, "My body told me it was time." I'm glad we have him on record. Luckily, I saw him play in October.
@324cmac11 ай бұрын
You know what's great? When you are bopping to some great music that makes you smile and you know the band is having fun playing it. That's Tower of Power. Each musician is a master at their instrument plus they play with soul.
@scotto.483211 ай бұрын
WHAT A TRACK -- The tightest band in the universe here!
@markh290111 ай бұрын
Chester Thompson is the organ player. During his solo Rocco Prestia the bass player drops out and Chester is playing bass WITH HIS FEET using foot pedals. F*cking amazing. Also, there are 5 horn players - 2 trumpet, two tenor sax and one bari sax. There are 10 people in this band.
@maureenwagg530511 ай бұрын
Tower of Power was the most amazing and funkalicious band on planet earth back in the 70's. I miss this music. It was just jaw dropping and great. Haven't heard this one in a minute or two (decades). lol Still as fresh as ever.
@esdel195511 ай бұрын
Had a front row seat for these guys when they were just starting out. They opened for someone but all I remember is them. What a band.
@randyallaben990011 ай бұрын
Rock and Funk. Two greatest music styles. TOP was funk and musicianship personified!
@robertmiller920710 ай бұрын
TOP has been bringing the funk for over fifty years now and still nobody does it better. This track was composed by the legendary Chester Thompson who's also on the Hammond here.
@DominicSilva-bl4ge11 ай бұрын
My dad's favorite band. He's a keyboard player and loves Chester Thompson. I heard this record so much when I was kid. TOP is a force
@paularietta67447 ай бұрын
Grew up with TOP and have been fortunate enough to see them in concert a few times. Their musicianship is amazing but their stage presence is even better. To this day (at 68) hearing their music still get me up on my feet dancing. Love this band...and they're still performing! Wow.
@alcambrola28347 ай бұрын
Seen them almost 100 times. Never disappointed.
@Kuhladestkyicky3 ай бұрын
I think I saw them three t8mes before this album. East Bay Grease being their first. Great times! Winterland, The Fillmore and many small venues.
@genecase946411 ай бұрын
"You're Still A Young Man" and "So Very Hard To Go" were their two biggest hits but "You're A Diamond Sparlking In The Sand" has a special meaning to me. Not as polished as their later work but still beautiful. Edit: The song is just called "Sparkling In The Sand". I always seem to add "You're A diamond..." because she was. 🙂
@ML-un1oi11 ай бұрын
Nothing wrong with some funk on a Sunday. Great reaction fellas! Appreciate you 🙏 ❤
@marymargaretmoore903411 ай бұрын
Their horn section is legendary. "Sparkling in the Sand" and "You're Still a Young Man" are two bangers with vocals by TOP.
@scottsnyder272611 ай бұрын
This brought such a smile to my face. I have seen them a number of times live. Always an incredible show. Not too long until everyone’s on their feet moving. “Squib Cakes” typically the most requested song from audience. Lucky enough to be in front row one time - and it was rhythmic bliss!
@williamisenberger107311 ай бұрын
Earth Wind and Fire, Brothers Johnson among others always had one instrumental on their albums, well worth a listen. I would start with Runnin' from the mighty mighty elements of the universe
@davidcampbell417411 ай бұрын
East Bay Grease … love TOP. There are many songs by them that are reaction worthy. Try Down To The Nightclub, Soul Vaccination, You Got To Funkifize, and so many more. Thanks guys.
@blkbass195810 ай бұрын
This was it in Northern Cal in the 70’s. We loved TOP.
@MichaelB1234511 ай бұрын
One of their strengths is that Rocco was all class bassist, however Chester is also playing bass pedals on the B3. They are still amazing. Check out their live recordings they’re even more powerful.
@tonyguarascio490111 ай бұрын
I saw these guys when their first record hit the airwaves. Early 70s. I saw them again after 40 years, and now theyve been together for over 50 years and still jammin'. You owe it to yourselves to find some recent videos of them performing. They STILL got it goin' on! Thanks for doing this one! ( Check out " What is Hip" !)
@joesmith195711 ай бұрын
Everything you can say that’s great about TOP is true, and they played like this live too - and David Garibaldi on drums is the pocket master!
@neiss61611 ай бұрын
Chester Thompson, the keyboard player during his solo, is playing the organ and running the bass line with his feet on the foot pedals of the organ, Outrageous
@mamaflush994511 ай бұрын
This is a great album "Back to Oakland" was their fourth album released in 1974. "TOP" followed up with this album after their self-titled album and is their most successful album to date. But this album has a tougher funkier sound, and some have even said that this was an even better album. If you're interested in watching a live performance of them and that fantastic brass section, then check out *"Tower OF Power - Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream - Leverkusen Live - Medley Part 2"* Larry Braggs killed it on the vocals, but that 5-piece horn section is what took it over the top. (IMO) love me some horns. lol Yeah, instrumentals were such a big pert of the 60's and 70's, Jam bands were very popular, and a lot of damn good session musicians came from those eras too. Here's another band that I believe you've reacted to before and seemed to enjoy their work. This is nothing but pure funk magic, bro. *"Average White Band - Pick Up The Pieces (1977)"*
@pcraig138311 ай бұрын
The fluegelhorn solo at @ 3 mins is Greg Adams who was arranging his HS bands music while still in school, he holds a PHD in music as does the Funky Doctor on baritone sax. Btw, give some David Garibaldi monster beats a try. Great reaction. How bout something from their first album 'East Bay Grease'. Tightest 5 piece horn section... EVER.
@howard87385 ай бұрын
Saw them several times at the Bijou Cafe in Philadelphia. The roof was shaking
@stephenpreble244611 ай бұрын
That horn was probably the flugelhorn.
@alcambrola28347 ай бұрын
It is.
@lovethomassowell5 ай бұрын
Greg Adams on the flugelhorn
@ScottWDoyle4 ай бұрын
The flugelhorn, on the low end, can almost sound like a trombone. And at the upper hand, a slightly mellower trumpet. Greg Adams kills it here.
@Caheman18 ай бұрын
Been listening for 50 years. Love anything TOP!
@donniellama446311 ай бұрын
Snarky Puppy Lingus live in the studio is definitely worth checking out.
@mrnobody910411 ай бұрын
that gumbo was marinated in funk
@cowprez9 ай бұрын
They got it ALL bay bay!!! I've heard them live MANY times growing up the the SF Bay Area and they really stand out as one of the BEST soul-funk bands ever. Thanks for letting everyone hear them.
@cowprez9 ай бұрын
Check out "Knock your self out" - a new cut - EXCELLENT sound of what their up to these days.
@christianman7311 ай бұрын
In addition to their own incredible career, with the TOP band, of funky, soulful albums, the TOP horns have accompanied so many other great bands on their albums. For a while in the '70s and '80s, it seemed like the TOP horns were *everywhere* on so many albums! So many bands wanted them on their recordings, and rightly so. These guys could seriously play. The horns, and the larger TOP band, are *soooooo* tight and funky! 🙂
@jimmoore895111 ай бұрын
Since Airplay is listening to a lot of Elton John now, how about finding some Elton with the TOP horns…
@saxworthmusic11 ай бұрын
Featuring Lenny Pickett on the sax solo. He fronts the Saturday Night Live band now. They have another excellent instrumental song called Ebony Jam . Earth, Wind and Fire did some instrumentals early on too. There’s one called Africano. Also the Average White Band had a big instrumental hit with their song Pick Up The Pieces .
@IMCcanTWEESTED6 ай бұрын
I ran across an interview with 2nd Trumpet/Trombonist, Mic Gillette. Dude that plays the trumpet intro to "You're Still A Young Man." The interviewer asked him what "Squib Cakes" were and he said that was an inside term band members used to describe the fine shapely caboose of an exquisitely sexy lady. Greg Adams (lead trumpet) played this song's solo on a Flugelhorn which is keyed to a lower register-sounding, at times, like the upper register of a valve trombone. We lost Mic to a heart attack in 2016 at 64 years old. Then in 2020 we lost another original member-Francis Rocco Prestia who was the monster staccato finger funk bassist that ruled the rhythm section along with original drummer David Garibaldi. David gave his notice last month that he's "Off the Bus!" The original heartbeat of Tower of Power is gone. I'm sure they find adequate players to fill those spots. I've been a huge fan since 1970 being a Tenor Sax player myself.
@fusionfan688310 ай бұрын
Been a fan from day one and if you want to hear them at their epic best then listen to the version of their most famous track, What is Hip, on the album Live and in Living Color, it is a juggernaut!
@Frankincensedjb12311 ай бұрын
LOVE those old funk bands: TOP, Ohio Players, Earth Wind and Fire, Sly and the Family Stone, Average White Band ... Classic.
@isomer1311 ай бұрын
I love jam bands. Thanks, guys.
@jimmoore895111 ай бұрын
Back to Oakland… something the A’s, Raiders, and Warriors might never say but at least Oaktown still has TOP and that East Bay grease
@carlupthegrove42018 ай бұрын
Horns: Two Trumpets (doubling on Flugelhorn and Trombone) Three saxes: Bari and 2 Tenors. The incomparable Mic Gillette on Trombone, Trumpet and Fluegelhornl, The amazing Greg Adams on Trumpet and Fluglehorn Lenny Pickett on Tenor Sax, Chester Thompson on Hammond B3.... Rocco Prestia on Bass and Dave Garabaldi on drums.... Nothing like it.
@CANDOKNOWHOW11 ай бұрын
Tower of Power is Top Shelf Funk.. Primo Blend. But right up there with em is also The Meters from NOLA. Not sure if you two know their album “Rejuvination”, but it’s a bonafide psychedelic funk masterpiece in its own right. If you’re unfamiliar, you’d be doing yourselves a solid to dig in to it. I can’t get enough of it, every song is on point in my book. Some highlights I’d point ya to are the opening “People Say” and a track called “It Ain’t No Use”, but the popular cuts really juicy: “Hey Pocky A-Way” and “Just Kissed My Baby”! Pure 🔥 🔥🔥
@tobinharris810711 ай бұрын
I KNEW you would dig this one! So fun, so funky and such musicianship (added treat~the great "lyrics"). Thanks for reacting to it 👍
@jonathansmith374211 ай бұрын
29 Oct in Hartford. I can't wait. It will sure be Hip!
@vizzini58910 ай бұрын
Rocco Prestia, and Dave Garibaldi were one of the baddest rhythm sections of all time. One of my desert island songs.
@GBush-zq9fo6 ай бұрын
Bass was played by Chester Thompson on organ foot pedals.
@danielolson537810 ай бұрын
It's simply impossible to go wrong with these guys they're my biggest heroes!!
@markmurphy55811 ай бұрын
Best feel good music ever.
@johnwilkinson46833 ай бұрын
I heard a clarinet. It popped out of nowhere... with the horns... :)
@timgrady463011 ай бұрын
Legendary pulse . Defined the Jazz/Funk vibe .
@TheSteveDallas11 ай бұрын
Awesome song and a funky band!
@user-ls8zy4ce3s7 ай бұрын
squib cake is from the college of musical knowledge! The Doctor opens and closes the song! Then LP Lenny picket when he starts to play it's like he's saying , Here I go boys watch out! Garibaldi and CT jamming together let's talk about in the POCKET!!
@williamweiss612811 ай бұрын
TOP, man, top of the line. ❤
@Mr_Dopey11 ай бұрын
I strongly recommend reacting to the artist Justin Townes Earle. The video JustinTownesEarle-Silencing Heckler-Slippin' and Slidin' is a great intoduction to the man. Yuma, Ain't Waitin', Harlem River Blues, Lone Pine Hill, Boy Keep Movin', Louisiana 1927 are just a few songs I could listen to on repeat. He was the son a famous singer, and fought demon his whole life. Sadly the got him in 2020.
@jeffrubin584711 ай бұрын
Correct as you are about the bass player (Francis Rocco Prestia), without drums, you got nuthin. Drummers lead the band, drive the bus, navigate the land. These aren't "beats". David Garibaldi is one of the all time funk drummers (especially of his generation).
@deaniegarcia569411 ай бұрын
Love this band, have since 1974! Disappointing enough, never crossed paths, but maybe one day…..anything they play, I love! Loved your reaction, always do…I never fail to pick up some nugget…Thanks fellas! Cheers!
@garyrausch118411 ай бұрын
Great old school Hammond B3 organ solo
@billadkins515011 ай бұрын
Has such a great flow to it.
@mrwidget422 ай бұрын
The low-sounding trumpet sound is actually a fleugelhorn.
@ryanaltemose566811 ай бұрын
if u liked this song u guys gotta check out their song butter fried
@donlawson333011 ай бұрын
Channeling that classic NOLA funk for sure!
@TheSteveDallas11 ай бұрын
ToP is Oakland funk...
@CANDOKNOWHOW11 ай бұрын
You’re maybe thinking of The Meters. They’re NOLA Funk, and most DEFINITELY La and Chi oughta be checking out.. like the entire album “Rejuvination”.. especially “Just Kissed My Baby”, or “It Ain’t No Use”.
@user-hi1wm3fg3p5 ай бұрын
Chester thompson on hammond b3 and lenny pickett lead sax. Funky doc kupka too
@kentinatl11 ай бұрын
I need my skates..let's Go!!
@vicclement7 ай бұрын
Many don't realize that the organist is playing the bass pedals during his solo and the bass player is just hanging out.
@alcambrola28347 ай бұрын
According to Chester Thompson or CT, in conversation he was asked how Squib Cakes was named. He said he got the idea from watching a beautiful woman in tight jeans walk while her booty moved just the right way. I kid you not.
@user-hi1wm3fg3p5 ай бұрын
Best instrumental ever, ever
@gregrambo60611 ай бұрын
clean slate; an underrated track off the album tower of power. from this back to Oakland? Don't change horses is the standout.
@garyrausch118411 ай бұрын
These guys played on Little Feats live album
@Luke888611 ай бұрын
Great reaction, that's my favorite from them (:
@Michael-Philip11 ай бұрын
Tight but loose, Loosely Tight.. TOP
@metaphoria311 ай бұрын
Loved that dudes! I’m w ya about those groovy angular bassists lately
@kualua661211 ай бұрын
That’s Chester Thompson on keys and bass pedals at the same time!!
@caryd6711 ай бұрын
Chester Thomson was a drummer
@caryd6711 ай бұрын
@@Rock_Snob gotcha, thanks 😊
@dickash10039 ай бұрын
All you commenters above who gave props to Chester Thompson you missed the main props - Chester wrote Squib Cakes!
@jimmoore89512 ай бұрын
My old girlfriend sang in a band with Chester and said he would take long baths and write songs in the tub... much to the chagrin of those waiting for the bathroom
@aaacelebrations2 ай бұрын
Yay!! Props to CT!!
@v.208011 ай бұрын
Yes!!❤❤🎉
@Magumba_State11 ай бұрын
You guys should check out Cory Wong, his band has an insanely tight horn section! But ontop of that you guys should check out VULFPECK, Cory Wong is their guitarist and their bass player Joe Dart is out of this world, I'd reccomend checking out Disco Uylesse (Instrumental) they're like the 21st century's Tower of Power, guaranteed you guys would love it!
@chitownlee11 ай бұрын
Best horn section ever.
@alphaomega606211 ай бұрын
Back in the day people used to listen to music. These days people watch videos that have music in them...
@normanrose271111 ай бұрын
Here are a couple more scorching instrumentals by Tower of Power Spank-A-Dang & Ebony Jam
@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer11 ай бұрын
You guys should try some of the Beastie Boys funk instrumentals. Any song from The In Sound From Way Out would be great. Ricky's Theme or Groove Holmes would be amazing.
@Michael-Philip11 ай бұрын
I once asked them to do Beasties and they said they were familiar with them.. but most people don't realize how deep the Beasties cataloug is.
@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer11 ай бұрын
@@Michael-Philip if they listen to almost any radio, they have heard some of these songs used as transitions or interludes between segments.
@CANDOKNOWHOW11 ай бұрын
Well, truth be told, everyone oughta do themselves a solid and check out some stuff by the man himself: funkmaster organist Groove Holmes, just to know for sure what the Beasties shout out was about!
@VinzClorthokeymasterofGozer11 ай бұрын
@@CANDOKNOWHOW Absolutely.
@RonaldWilliams-qh7zc9 ай бұрын
Damn man y'all listening to some good music seriously Tower of power back to Oakland yeah that's a nice album everything on that album this is actually the only instrumental on this album Lenny Williams sings lead vocals on the rest of this album
@SonicProfessor_a.k.a._T._Andra11 ай бұрын
"Squib Cakes" ...while everybody is cookin' on blast furnace heat, no question; was ALWAYS known as "a drum clinic" by: David Garibaldi. -Personally, my fav. cut off of this album (if I had to pick ONE: which I DON'T!) has always been: "Don't Change Horses (In The Middle Of A Stream)" 🤘🤘 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 ...That's, probably, also, NOT just 'cause: T.O.P. slams on it, but, also, because it was written (co-written🤷🤔) by one of my favorite guitarists and artists of all time: The MFin' LEGENDARY: Johnny "Guitar" Watson 🤘🤘 Johnny "Guitar" Watson can funk Kraftwerk or Metallica with a neck-brace. He busts the best chops, licks, grooves -No dis on George Clinton, WHATSOEVER, or the funk of Godfather J.B. (although: personally??: if I had ever met him, I would have put him in the hospital, multiple times, just for the way he treated his family & women, in general! (never MIND: others in his life!)...-but we're going well beyond music, now...), but: Johnny "Guitar" Watson is the master! ...Even over: PRINCE (I believe!)!~ 🤘🤘 ...anyway: Yeah, I think Lenny Williams added (or altered🤷🤷) some lyrics for/on "Don't Change Horses (In The Middle Of A Stream)" [Lenny Williams being: THE BEST vocalist *and the ONLY GREAT one) that Tower Of Power eve had, I.M.O.!🤘🤘] and has a co-writing credit, ...but if you know Johnny "Guitar" Watson's funk and his grooves and his style ...you can hear his imprint all over that song! (Also: as far as I know: Johnny Watson never recorded "Don't Change Horses..." himself! -although I believe he did include it in live sets, at some points 🤷🤷.) - "Don't Change Horses (In The Middle Of A Stream)": SO funky that: Your girlfriend, from 8th grade, will look up your current number and phone you from Australia, because: she feels somethin' so bumpin' and stanky and can't explain it! ...if you play it! 😛😝😂😂😉....
@pescadote6411 ай бұрын
I often put videos in my queue to watch later. Not this one. Where are my headphones? 😎
@ricksoto102511 ай бұрын
This is East Bay! Grease!!
@benhinds297111 ай бұрын
Lenny Pickett from SNL band was in TOP.
@lesblatnyak594711 ай бұрын
Like I've been saying for 40yrs the suits have ruined music. Do you think Miles or Herbie would get a contract today. Love the big band brass sound
@Michael-Philip11 ай бұрын
could be two saxaphones a trumpet and a trombone.
@jimmoore895111 ай бұрын
Actually 3 saxes. What set their horn section apart was the Funky Dr. supplying the bottom on baritone sax.
@mikehudsonrocks95859 ай бұрын
Rocco!!!!!!!!!!
@benhinds297111 ай бұрын
There was a market for instrumental funk because of discotheques and clubs with dancing. Think about dub-step. No vocals. They're at a rave or whatever they call it now. You may know, if you are at a bar, that bar has to a cabaret licence for dancing also. So you may, technically, not be allowed to dance at the corner dive bar.
@davidallanhardin11 ай бұрын
You better wake up and release it.
@bobfunkytrainman54228 ай бұрын
LENNY PICKEETT SAX
@reedwilson64GTO11 ай бұрын
Try a 3 piece band. REVEREND HORTON HEAT "Wiggle Stick"
@jgsrhythm10011 ай бұрын
Sly Stone- Poet
@benhinds297111 ай бұрын
Could somebody please tell women that the bass player is the quarterback. Please.
@user-im5he7kg9u2 ай бұрын
Oakland
@user-hi1wm3fg3p5 ай бұрын
Fluegelhorn by greg adams
@michaeldowson698810 ай бұрын
Have you fellows checked out Booker T & The MGs yet?
@bobfunkytrainman54228 ай бұрын
HORNS
@michelefaucher418011 ай бұрын
I miss the organ the most. Where did it go?😢
@JuanMorales-vy5em8 ай бұрын
You want funk try playing this song by tower of power it's called funk the dumb stuff try it out please play it and find out for yourself how funky it is