Rocco Prestia of Tower of Power: Oakland Stroke
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- Опубликовано: 2 мар 2010
- Rocco Prestia, bassist for Tower of Power, performs the Oakland Stroke at Bass Day 1998, with special Guest David Garibaldi!
Excerpted from the "Bass Day 1998" DVD.
More information at HudsonMusic.com 
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Im so glad that I can still see and hear you when your gone. Rest in paradise dad. 💜
Your fathers memory will live on in all us bass players and musicians , he will never be forgotten as he was a treasure
🙏🏻❤✌🏻
Love & grts from Belgium. Your dad gives me goosebumps😮
Your father's legacy made him immortal. What a great man he was!
The tightest bass player to ever live, in my opinion. This was such a master piece of musical syncopation that nothing could ever duplicate it in my lifetime nor in the future.
Rip Rocco. One of the best bass players I've heard in my life.
RIP Rocco, not enough flowers were given to you brother...
Rocco and Garibaldi - a match made in heaven! It's amazing how relaxed they are when playing such complex patterns, and with such a strong but quiet groove. If there was a Mt. Rushmore for rhythm sections, they'd be front and center!
They make it look effortless.
Yes! Listen to that all day!
Rocco had that special something that playing with a B3 master requires. On the live version of Knock Yourself Out, there is a smooth transition from Rocco to Chester Thompson on the B3 bass pedals, the average person would never notice. You can hear this same trasition on Ebony Jam, how the two of them communicate is magnificent.
RIP, Rocco. Mount Rushmore of funk bassists, for me.
David Garibaldi and Rocco Prestia. Funk-tastic.
David Garibaldi steals the show! Goddamn
We dont ever hear these grooves anymore because nobody can play them! This is as tight and smooth as it gets
rest in peace Rocco Prestia
Well, kinda agree but I feel Anthony Jackson can outplay pretty much any human on earth
Rocco RIP BRO. CAN'T MANY Imitate you
The Jazz Avengers just stole this groove and riff and did a damn good job. ruclips.net/video/q0bo1_2tkt4/видео.html
@@Dunkaroos248 I love Anthony Jackson, a genius, but why always to compare ? music is not Olympics..
R.I.P. Francis Rocco Prestia 😥🙏🏼❤️
Thank you Rocco!🙏❤️🙏
RIP Rocco
One of my Musical heroes, RIP Francis Rocco Prestia.
RIP Rocco 🖤
Thanks David for the most difficult drum groove ever, I m still struggling 😡
REST IN POWER ROCCO.....FROM NORFOLK,VA
RIP Rocco thanks for the music
This video is about the great Rocco Prestia. However drummer David Garibaldi is just killing it! Throw in one of my favorite sax players in Lenny Pickett and I'm blown away!
RlP rocco we love you
Saw Tower of Power at a club in Coconut Grove back in the mid 80's. Rocco was at the bar having a cocktail before the gig started. I recognized him and bought him another. We sat at the bar and talked music until he had to leave to join the band. Very nice guy . Heaven's band is a lot tighter now !!!
wow-yeah love this Rhythm Section!!
RIP Rocco ¡¡
Love Rocco, such a cool cat.
This song is awesome. Rocco and Garibaldi impress. RIP Rocco.
R.I.P. Rocco
It looks so smooth, so easy. It is lovely to watch.
Rocco Prestia shows us why he may be the most important bass player of all time.
Man Rocco is very missed in the Jazz Fusion Funk world I don't know what to say RIP brother maybe one day when I go to the upper room one day we can jam🥁😎🥁
I love to hear these guys play without their usual horn section. You can really hear how tight these dudes are. What a glorious rhythm section. My Garibaldi signature snare drum sounds just like that. I love playing that snare drum!
RIP Rocco✌️🙏🎶
Rest in Power Francis. 😢
This is the grooviest thing ever filmed!!! Absolute funky perfection.
Rocco making it look like butter. RIP. Masterful
Rest in Pease Rocco you'll never be forgotten!!
I met him once. He was really nice.
FR Prestia with David Garibaldi ! Truly amazing! Will always miss Francis Rocco Prestia.
Prestia and Garibaldi hit this way out of the park -- its just too crisp and smooth! Heart-melting
RIP Rocco. DG and Rocco knew each other, both personally and Musically. David Garibaldi is a Cold Dude tho'. Mr. "Syncopation", at it's Best!!!!
David, Rocco, Lenny and Jeff, This is basically Tower of Power
Chester
SIMPLY BEAUTIFUL ... I can recall listening to the original recording back in 73-74 and imaging what David and Rocco and nem, were doing, physically. Thanks to the magic of youtube - I have lived to see and witness their fantastical antics - live ... thank goodness for technology and innovations -- David G and Rocco P - Tower of Power's living FOUNDATIONAL ROCKS ... rock-on brothers, rock on forever. TC
Same sentiment here. Great that RUclips etc. brings this stuff to us
RIP 🙏🏿 Rocco, you are truly unique and definitely missed!
Best rhythym section ever on this planet
That snare!
RIP ROCCO PRESTIA!
Lenny P.,David & Rocco= Priceless :)
Why would 13 people give this a thumbs down? Why would any ONE person give it a thumbs down?
Rip Rocco
I was thinking the exact same thing! Dave is a friend of mine. He sat down with me after a Sam Ash clinic,fall of '96,in Miami. On two raggedy little drumsets,he showed me the whole catalog,plus all of his latest stuff. What a cat!
This is the magic...no need for anything else.
have you heard that young buck Cody Wright ? he’s kinda like Jaco !
Wow it's a great rythum section!!
Damn..🥁😎🥁..
Amazing. Great. Wonderful. Soulful. Funky.
D G !!!
Tight!
Tight as a clenched fist!
totally awesome....all thses guys are unbeivlable
I love how David accents those two guitar stabs at the end of the phrase with his snare. It's amazing how so much detail and thought can just feel so easy, fluid, and funky. He's still one of my biggest influences.
Rocco said in his video, he didn't know where to come in on that song until he heard dave hit the high hats twice
What a sound he gets from that snare drum. NICE and FUNKY!
I like it
Awesome TOP
He is BASS. My hero.
The one and only Francis "Rocco" Prestia. RIP
the best
Just a perfect example showing that funk and perfect groove in general does not require slapping (as do millions of Larry Graham or Louis Johnson imitators/wannabes)
tight!
RIP ROCCO 🙏🙏🙏
RIp Rocco Prestia
great
Saaaaaaaweeeeet !!!!
R.I.P. Rocco また一人換えのきかないプレイヤーが天に召された
This is not Squib Cakes - it is called The Oakland Stroke
HOLY MOTHER SHIT
Bump City, Bumpty Bumpty Bump.
That bass is so fricken tight.,
Funky..funky.Funky
RIP.
Dave drops the ball round 30 seconds in but just clicks back in the grove like nothing what a player man. cool as ice
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Rup Monsta ?
Jeff Porcaro Groove
He's being ridiculous. The long fill garibaldi does around the 0:30 mark and return to the groove after the 1 is just a microscopically tiny bit sloppy. You have to listen to it like 6 times to even realise what he's on about. If he's thinking of that. Because nothing else besides that little moment stands out to me in the slightest way.
If you listen to David explain this grove, how him and Rocco developed it, you would understand the fill is the whole point of this grove. The grove is about sounding like the 1 is anywhere but the 1, microscopically or otherwise.
He's playing that ridiculously fast part - and it's all right hand, the left hand looks easy.
Now that's skill.
@calism23 that's a lot of DVD's they'd have to fix!
Play that kind of soul...
The groove is David Garibaldi !
not only the song tittle, even the rocco's name has been changed
Me like
this is the cleanest sounding version on youtube.
Yeah wrong name but only fault is its too short
😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
so this is a silly question but my buddies were seriously debating it, what exactly is the "Oakland Stroke" is it a guitar pattern? a dance? a drumbeat?
***** haha for sure. its interesting that for such a well known song and groove there's literally no information about the "Oakland Stroke". Guess it just adds to the wonder that is TOP
I guess it's the groove as a whole, it's fuken sik
kfdisawesome Geribaldi says they had been toying around with this beat for a while and when they were tracking the album, need some more material. So when he started playing told the bass not to play during the open hi hat part. Everything else was build around that. The name was thought up by Doc and Emilio.
Song name Fail.
Yeah its in 4/4 but they are changing the accents listen to the snare how the count is going its very tricky
the awkward moment where you can't hear the bass
Hey that boss stroke, that's called the Oakland Stroke!
Does anyone understand the time signature here? Is it just 4/4 with crazy accents? Help a brother out.. I cannot get this for the life of me.
Yep, just straight up 4/4, the snare accents on upbeats
It's a different kind of groove for sure. Rocco doesn't play the root note on 1, which we might expect. Instead, he drops it in the slot on the 3rd 1/16th note of the 4th beat. Pun intended.
@saxshooter Ah, I see what you're saying. I guess they got they got it wrong on the DVDs. Not to sound sarcastic but Squib Cakes has that part in the middle of the keyboard solo where they say "Squib Cakes" a few times. Check it out: ruclips.net/video/rDdBgxGUcOg/видео.html
Here's another good one where Paul Shaffer rocks it out with them on David Letterman:ruclips.net/video/GvdSYKSYUSc/видео.html
I don't know, maybe you knew that. At least you've got more some good links to enjoy now.
Я надеялась ни ритм-секцию с Prestia, но тоже впечатляет чёткостью и слаженностью.
Presita? o.O
@amsku125 lol that's trueXD. A roundhouse kick will punish me for my blasphemy.
get the funk outta here man, this shit is amazing! LOL
Oakland Stroke, just like it says at the start of the vid! ;) not SC....
Darn, this is good, but I was hoping for Squib Cakes
As thmsjordan pointed out, this is Oakland Stroke.
You ought to change the title
Lenny
what does squib cakes mean or what?....lol
🦀 cakes squib substituted
"Fingers" Prestia