Chester Thompson... what a great solo... and he does something all the other keyboard players with ToP never did. He plays the foot pedals... and kicks ass with bass riffs... while killing the keyboards. A true B3 player.
Chester Thompson’s Masterpiece! Baddest Studio band JAM Ever!!! And ‘Live’ on this I love seeing Lenny Pickett DANCE at the end of Chester’s solo! HAAAAH! Nothing like it!!!
Tower of Power is simply the best at their craft. Bar none. Lenny Pickett is a BEAST on the tenor. Can't believe wine glasses didn't shatter during his solos. Bruce Conte and Chester tore it up too. Tower simply owned Oakland at the Fox Theater. Can't wait for the DVD.
The GREASTEST American Funk-Soul band of all time by far...yes, even beyond James Brown's band, which some will say is blasphemy, but IMO the songwriting of TOP is beyond browns simplistic grooves.
@@davidgoldmanagency YOU went to too far when you say better than JAMES BROWN BANDS! HELL NO!!!! MACEO, FRED, BOOTSY, CATFISH, JIMMY NOLAN, JOHN STARKS, CLYDE THE FUNKY DRUMMER, JOE DUPARS, WAYMON THE TRUMPET PLAYER, SINCLAIR PICKNEY, ALPHONSO KELLUM, NO WAY.Ask TOP AND THEY WILL TELL YOU! JBS
Tightest horn band there ever was. Squib Cakes is a fav of mine. Been a TOP fan since they began. Lived in the Bay Area for a lot of years and East Bay funk/soul is the best. A lot of musicians came out of the area during that time, or thereabouts. Journey, Pablo Cruise, Doobie Brothers, Sly Stone, Santana and more, but TOP is absolutely tops! They need to be in the R&R Hall of Fame. So glad they're still touring. It's obvious they love what they do. Keep it going guys!
For Sure! They DECIDEDLY need to be in The ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME! Ain’t Nobody like them; at their HEIGHT & Even Now! Always KILLIN’!!! P.S. Glad Bruce Conte & Rocco got to be there! R.I.P. you irreplaceable ICONIC players you!!!👍🏽💔😢
Man, I've never heard a tenor player get as high as Lenny Pickett. Sure Marc Russo and Brandon Fields are great and get up there, but they're mainly alto players(Brandon does play more tenor now). Another person I'd like to add is saxophonist James Carter. He's another tenor player that can get way up there. But with Lenny, notes go into the stratosphere!
@kjwilkguitar Lenny could pop the reed. Self taught. In the old days he did that funky dance move. Cool shit. I hear a definite Jr. Walker influence with Lenny Pickett.
At 7:40 Chester mashed that high C and went back to the C bassline, Bruce knew where to follow and the horns dropped those 16ths eight bars later. Same as it ever was. *THAT* is a tight group.
America's All-Time Greatest Band Hands Down!! The musicianship, the originality of their music taking us ALL to places funk-groove-ballads have never taken audiences before. RESPECT!!! Bow To The Gods of Funk-Soul Music!! Happy 50th TOP, keep it going!!!!1111111
Emilio said it had been 15 years. When they started and I saw Chester was going to do the whole night I was really hoping for Squibcakes and they stepped up! Notice, during his solo Mark VW is NOT playing the bass. :-)
I heard them play it live in hamburg GERMANY, this April. I Love this Song so much - they Need to do More instrumental tracks, they have so many great ones in their repertoire
@@dgano Yeah, the alums would still play together from time to time, but Lenny Pickett left in 1981, and Chester left to join Santana in 1983. They've been gone for a while.
Well,having heard this 1974 Instrumental many times and Band line-ups,this definitely has got to be one of the best renditions ever, in my longtime fan days..
Really cool to see Lenny can still do his dance after all these years, first saw him do it at the Denver coliseum they were promoting the first album with Lenny Williams on vocals. I was 13 yrs old been hooked ever since!!
They were both there. ruclips.net/video/HF4uGoXG8mU/видео.html Rocco only came out and played about three songs. He didn't look well, even then. But it was great to see him taking part at least a little bit.
air tight....nothing better.!! CT layin' it down...burnin' up those 1/2 waterfall keys with his right hand and that LEFT LEG bringing the Leslie Bass to full throat. This is a Church Experience.! Partin' my hair the wrong way with all that air moving.!!!!
Guys, saw you in Grand Rapids in January. Out f**king outstanding. Sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you Froze my ass off. Worth every minute of it! Been a fan since 1970. first time in Virginia Beach Va, a loong time ago. Have most of the CD's. Saw you again in AC, a long time ago. TOP Love for ever!!!
My wife and friends with me attended your 50th show at the Scottish Rite on 10/19.All I can say is WOW! And I am still Diggin in James Brown! Fantastic Show .
i saw them live 1982 in philly at the chestnut street club on 38th and chestnut. in west philly near the university of penn campus. i worked 11pm to 7am and i went to work late to see their show. i got to work at 1.30 am and went to sleep drunk. nite shift was like that in those days. still great show by T O P
Arthur Zavala Couldn’t agree more. I don’t know of a better rhythm & lead player all wrapped up in one. Around our house, we call ‘Self Titled’ through ‘Havin’ Fun’ Tower “The ‘27 Yankees”
what's more impressive, to find a place in the ensemble for a 10th sound as huge as CTs - or that he opened a whole new window for the group as an ahem fusion band - about the funkiest this side of the Headhunters? right here they are at their best and there's no Marcus, no LW, no Michael Jeffries, no Rufus Miller out there in front. IMO great moments with Jeffries singing on CT-composed vocal tunes found on Dinosaur Tracks, We Came To Play, Back On The Streets, & Direct LPs - and on that last one the audiophile Sheffield Labs number, dig the Leslie recording they got on alternate take of Squib. very first sign of this to me was the track Mahdi The Expected One from Voco (Abe Kesh) Lights Out San Francisco compilation LP (although it took off Valdez in the Country maybe?)
I would love to see these guys in a concert with a line up with The late Miles Davis. John Coltrane. Chick Corea . Then Steely Dan. And some other fat jazz greats. Gotta love the sweet sound of Jazz.
So everyone says that Franco and Mr. G are the backbone of the group and I agree!! But I am a sax player without Lenny they are missing something when it comes to boogie!! He's the cherry on top!!!
Lenny Pickett, left TOP in 1981. However, in NYC, I would go see TOP a lot at the club "The Bottom Line." Lenny, would often join the band on stage. He had his own group, The Borneo Horns. He was also working as a sideman on SNL, before he became the leader. He might still do that today, when TOP are playing somewhere in Manhattan. I wouldn't know, I live in LA these days.
I would love to see and hear ? The Buddy Rich big band belt this tune with either Dave Weckle, Steve Gadd or Simon Phillips on drums and the band banging this tune out. That i feel ? Would make these guy's proud that a legendary big band belted this tune out.
He actually retired from Tower of Power, not drumming. He still intends to keep drumming, but he just couldn't keep up with the tour schedule any more. Yeah, bummer, but remember he's had hip replacement and got hit by a train and in a recent interview I heard him say he hadn't unpacked his suitcase in 28 years.
Me llama la atención como apura en el tempo Garibaldi. Supongo estamos de acuerdo que es el conductor de la nave, pero haciendo revisionismo, en muchos vídeos noto lo mismo.
Saw my first TOP show in a bar in San Diego in 1970. A fan ever since. See them every year if they're in the area. Traveled 2000 miles to attend their 50th anniversary show . Depeche Mode is in the R&R Hall of Fame and TOP isn't???? WTF!!! R&R, you need to funkifize or you can kiss my a--
TOP isn't really R&R. If there was a SOUL / R&B / JAZZ-FUNK Hall of Fame, they would certainly reign supreme there. I heard them for the first time in '72 outside Funky Quarters in San Diego. It was a 21 and up club and I was 18, so I couldn't get in. I just sat outside the front door and grooved like a MF. I heard Soul Vaccination for the first time and stayed for the second show so I could hear it again. I don't know if Lenny Pickett was part of the band in '72-it was probably still Skip Mesquite but I dragged my ass into work the next morning and lo and behold, KPRI FM was broadcasting the recorded 2nd show in its entirety. I headed down to WHEREHOUSE RECORS the week that 3rd TOP album released in May of '73. Funkiest horn arrangements I've ever heard. Even moer than James Brown's Famous Flames.
When is this Blu-ray coming out!? Man! Lenny's technique has always astounded me. Altissimo for years! And his dancing too! Good seeing Bruce Conte out there and playing so well. He either has battled or is battling leukemia. And Chester - what more can be said? This guy! He does more with his feet than most B3 players can do with their hands! Masters as their craft.
Bruce's bro Victor was in the band way back in the day. He's the founder and mastermind behind Balco, the lab that was in the middle of the steroids scandal involving many in major league baseball, and other sports.
Can anyone identify or name the original band members.....obviously see Emilio up front. Is David still back on drums? Doc....someone is saying Lenny also? Others?
David Winn See the liner notes to “East Bay Grease” for their original line-up. Their classic line-up: Lenny Williams, Lenny Pickett, Emilio Castillo, Doc Kupka, Mic Gillette, Greg Adams, Chester Thompson, Bruce Conte, Rocco Prestia & David Garibaldi. I would substitute Hubert Tubbs for Lenny Williams and David Bartlett for David Garibaldi but hey, that’s just me. I realize I am in the minority there.
@@jamesmiller8183 I saw a video of them from many years ago which had a front-man or vocalist, African American, who was just fantastic....the tune he belted out was What Is Hip?, and that ensemble in the video featured a really hot guitar player who just nailed the fast strum rhythm arrangement. They changed guitar players over time and also didn't they lose the vocalist too? But, yes, the names in your classic lineup, most of them jump out at me. Garibaldi got injured or ill and was out for a time as I recall. Many of the originals have retired or moved on in one way or anther. Wasn't Richard Elliott in there on sax? Greg Adams left, Rocco retired. Thanks for the resuscitating my memory.
Emilio, Doc, and David are the only originals in this video. Richard Elliot played from '86 to '89. Euge Groove played from '89 to '92. Rocco Retired in 2018 and he was only playing part time up to then. David Garibaldi has been back since 1998.
@@andrescen7577 I need to view Wikipedia to see who their guitar players were. They've had several, each one brought something a little different to the role/sound of the guitar instrumentation. Appreciated your clarification to David Winn. I love that performance where Richard Elliot was wailing on Boys from the Bay....he must have been making a special appearance after he had left.. A truly incredible band....with great players.
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Never thought I would see Lenny do his dance again! Brought back fond memories! TOP FOREVER!
Chester Thompson... what a great solo... and he does something all the other keyboard players with ToP never did. He plays the foot pedals... and kicks ass with bass riffs... while killing the keyboards. A true B3 player.
Chester Thompson’s Masterpiece! Baddest Studio band JAM Ever!!! And ‘Live’ on this I love seeing Lenny Pickett DANCE at the end of Chester’s solo! HAAAAH! Nothing like it!!!
Tower of Power is simply the best at their craft. Bar none. Lenny Pickett is a BEAST on the tenor. Can't believe wine glasses didn't shatter during his solos. Bruce Conte and Chester tore it up too. Tower simply owned Oakland at the Fox Theater. Can't wait for the DVD.
The GREASTEST American Funk-Soul band of all time by far...yes, even beyond James Brown's band, which some will say is blasphemy, but IMO the songwriting of TOP is beyond browns simplistic grooves.
And Lenny can still do the spin dance! Love it.
David Goldman In the jungle, Babe.
you are RIGHT!
@@davidgoldmanagency YOU went to too far when you say better than JAMES BROWN BANDS! HELL NO!!!! MACEO, FRED, BOOTSY, CATFISH, JIMMY NOLAN, JOHN STARKS, CLYDE THE FUNKY DRUMMER, JOE DUPARS, WAYMON THE TRUMPET PLAYER, SINCLAIR PICKNEY, ALPHONSO KELLUM, NO WAY.Ask TOP AND THEY WILL TELL YOU! JBS
Tightest horn band there ever was. Squib Cakes is a fav of mine. Been a TOP fan since they began. Lived in the Bay Area for a lot of years and East Bay funk/soul is the best. A lot of musicians came out of the area during that time, or thereabouts. Journey, Pablo Cruise, Doobie Brothers, Sly Stone, Santana and more, but TOP is absolutely tops! They need to be in the R&R Hall of Fame. So glad they're still touring. It's obvious they love what they do. Keep it going guys!
For Sure! They DECIDEDLY need to be in The ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAME! Ain’t Nobody like them; at their HEIGHT & Even Now!
Always KILLIN’!!!
P.S. Glad Bruce Conte & Rocco got to be there! R.I.P. you irreplaceable ICONIC players you!!!👍🏽💔😢
Lenny Pickett- the undisputed King Of Altissimo
Mark Russo, Brandon Fields who also player with TOP kill altissimo as well!
Saxy Ric, Richard Elliot!!!
Man, I've never heard a tenor player get as high as Lenny Pickett. Sure Marc Russo and Brandon Fields are great and get up there, but they're mainly alto players(Brandon does play more tenor now). Another person I'd like to add is saxophonist James Carter. He's another tenor player that can get way up there. But with Lenny, notes go into the stratosphere!
@kjwilkguitar Lenny could pop the reed. Self taught. In the old days he did that funky dance move. Cool shit. I hear a definite Jr. Walker influence with Lenny Pickett.
Glad to see Bruce Conte playing again with TOP for the last time as guest guitarist before he died months later.RIP IN PEACE.We miss your playing.
Smiling and dancing seeing this video. Lenny kicking it and dancing, CT, and Bruce back in the saddle. Hell yeah! Can’t wait for the DVD. 😄🎶
Love Chester Thompson work on the keyboard👏
At 7:40 Chester mashed that high C and went back to the C bassline, Bruce knew where to follow and the horns dropped those 16ths eight bars later. Same as it ever was. *THAT* is a tight group.
CHESTER THOMPSON !
OOOh YES !!!
CT forshort
America's All-Time Greatest Band Hands Down!! The musicianship, the originality of their music taking us ALL to places funk-groove-ballads have never taken audiences before. RESPECT!!! Bow To The Gods of Funk-Soul Music!! Happy 50th TOP, keep it going!!!!1111111
Being from the Bay Area I asked my husband to gift me with tickets to Tower of Power for my 72nd birthday. Oh the memories'!
I LOVES MY TOWER OF POWER 😍😍😍😍🎸🎸🎸🎸🎹🎹🎹🎹🎷🎷🎷🎷🎤🎤🎤🎤🎺🎺🎺🎺🎸🎸🎸🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎵🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸❤❤❤❤❤❤ I MISS ALL OF YOU GUYS. THE GOOD OL DAYS AT TOADS PLACE 😊😊😊
Man! When was the last time they did this tune in concert? With Alums Lenny Pickett and Chester Thompson... WOW! Thanks for the post!
Emilio said it had been 15 years. When they started and I saw Chester was going to do the whole night I was really hoping for Squibcakes and they stepped up! Notice, during his solo Mark VW is NOT playing the bass. :-)
I heard them play it live in hamburg GERMANY, this April. I Love this Song so much - they Need to do More instrumental tracks, they have so many great ones in their repertoire
Dude..you left out Bruce Conte !!!!
@@dgano Yeah, the alums would still play together from time to time, but Lenny Pickett left in 1981, and Chester left to join Santana in 1983. They've been gone for a while.
Smokin' D.G.on Drums Come on Doesn't get any Better! You got to Funk a Fize!!
Thanks for this post! Grateful for RUclips!
Lord....i could listen to that forever
Well,having heard this 1974 Instrumental many times and Band line-ups,this definitely has got to be one of the best renditions ever, in my longtime fan days..
Been following this band for years love their shows.
Really cool to see Lenny can still do his dance after all these years, first saw him do it at the Denver coliseum they were promoting the first album with Lenny Williams on vocals. I was 13 yrs old been hooked ever since!!
M&Ibooth, unlike athletes. Musicians can play for life.
@@irishpride8157 Maybe, but I can't do the "LP Dance" anymore. In fact, I pulled a muscle just writing this.
Rest In Love Bruce Conte..
What a unique sound and an amazing legacy. These guys are immortal.
When CT completed his solo and Lenny Pickett began his dance, no that took me back. Just damn funky.
Lenny Pickett’s DANCE is worth the price of admission! LOLOL! Cracked me up for DECADES!!!
Totally impressed how good a feed this is for a camera phone -- picture, sound, stabilization -- its amazing what phones can do today!
Oh MAN!! Lenny Pickett still got the moves!! LOVE T.O.P.!!!
Nice work man. Thank you for sharing with us.
Baddass
Great as Always. Just wish Rocco And Lenny were there to enjoy the gig.
Regards
They were both there.
ruclips.net/video/HF4uGoXG8mU/видео.html
Rocco only came out and played about three songs. He didn't look well, even then. But it was great to see him taking part at least a little bit.
Lenny Williams I was referring to. Thanks for the Quick Reply.
Thanks again
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Ah.... yes. But it was a lot of fun seeing Lenny Picket. :-) And it was great seeing Rocco one last time.
The amazing hyper altissimo control demonstrated by LP is astounding
Completely. And pitch perfect to boot! Apparently there were hundreds of hounds bounding toward the theater when he hit dog-whistle level.
@@Sam-hf8nq I used to catch them religiously in 73-78 at the Bottom Line in NYC, Lenny ruled at the time, the band were at the pinnacle
Pickett sounds like a @#$%ing whistling tea kettle!!!!! Nice work. Can't wait to see them in Aug
He just wants to be a lead trumpet player dude.....:-D
TOP = More than 50 years layin' down unrelenting grooves and delivering unparalleled funk !! ❤
air tight....nothing better.!! CT layin' it down...burnin' up those 1/2 waterfall keys with his right hand and that LEFT LEG bringing the Leslie Bass to full throat. This is a Church Experience.! Partin' my hair the wrong way with all that air moving.!!!!
Guys, saw you in Grand Rapids in January. Out f**king outstanding. Sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you Froze my ass off. Worth every minute of it! Been a fan since 1970. first time in Virginia Beach Va, a loong time ago. Have most of the CD's. Saw you again in AC, a long time ago. TOP Love for ever!!!
My wife and friends with me attended your 50th show at the Scottish Rite on 10/19.All I can say is WOW! And I am still Diggin in James Brown! Fantastic Show .
CHESTER THOMPSON ON FIRE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Best jam on planet earth 😎 only jam i've ever heard with bass sax. Sounds awsome !
The horns so good
Can't count the number of times I've seen TOP...never gets old or sounds tired.
Even Richard Elliott would have been impressed with the range of the tenor sax solo after 3:55
Amazing range!!!
RIP, Rocco Prestia.
Thank you TOP!!!!!!!
Sounds great...always love TOP
CT"s solo with conte & Garibaldi is killer
i saw them live 1982 in philly at the chestnut street club on 38th and chestnut. in west philly near the university of penn campus. i worked 11pm to 7am and i went to work late to see their show. i got to work at 1.30 am and went to sleep drunk. nite shift was like that in those days. still great show by T O P
brooks hill I loved the Chestnut Cabaret!
Absolutely awesomely KILLER
Tower of Power Power of God The Greatest SOUL band in the world!!!
Out if all guitar players TOP had Bruce Conte is the best.
Arthur Zavala Couldn’t agree more. I don’t know of a better rhythm & lead player all wrapped up in one. Around our house, we call ‘Self Titled’ through ‘Havin’ Fun’ Tower “The ‘27 Yankees”
Very underrated! To find your place in such a busy band without steeping on anybody is not easy but Bruce may be the best that ever lived at it.
Tower of power is the best that in are time and are still are.
I've witnessed the greatest bands to take the stage and Tower ranks up there with the very best bar none.
Just the best!
They have always been an believable band! Top of the line FUNKAY!! David Garibelli on drums is a master! They all are!
what's more impressive, to find a place in the ensemble for a 10th sound as huge as CTs - or that he opened a whole new window for the group as an ahem fusion band - about the funkiest this side of the Headhunters?
right here they are at their best and there's no Marcus, no LW, no Michael Jeffries, no Rufus Miller out there in front.
IMO great moments with Jeffries singing on CT-composed vocal tunes found on Dinosaur Tracks, We Came To Play, Back On The Streets, & Direct LPs - and on that last one the audiophile Sheffield Labs number, dig the Leslie recording they got on alternate take of Squib.
very first sign of this to me was the track Mahdi The Expected One from Voco (Abe Kesh) Lights Out San Francisco compilation LP (although it took off Valdez in the Country maybe?)
カッコいい🎵2018年6月1日Oaklandで観ましたよ。
I would love to see these guys in a concert with a line up with The late Miles Davis. John Coltrane. Chick Corea . Then Steely Dan. And some other fat jazz greats. Gotta love the sweet sound of Jazz.
I was there, and it so rocked!
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Chester Thompson is a "Beast" on that organ!
I’ve been fans of theirs since......45 years ago....
So everyone says that Franco and Mr. G are the backbone of the group and I agree!! But I am a sax player without Lenny they are missing something when it comes to boogie!! He's the cherry on top!!!
YEP!
You must mean Rocco and Garibaldi!
Lenny Pickett, left TOP in 1981. However, in NYC, I would go see TOP a lot at the club "The Bottom Line." Lenny, would often join the band on stage. He had his own group, The Borneo Horns. He was also working as a sideman on SNL, before he became the leader. He might still do that today, when TOP are playing somewhere in Manhattan. I wouldn't know, I live in LA these days.
Crazy good
mAD Funk! Best Soul band EVER!!
Sorry...forgot to mention - One of the tightest bands of all time - perfection!
Pickett dance is completed with a slow 360 which finishes as the horn chart comes back
Da Swirl & Twirl.
BC, LP & CT!!!
The e
Lenny is the only guy that can hit notes on a tenor sax that sound like they erupted from a piccolo.
Damn..... so good
And Lenny!
Say, group --- any of y'all know what the 50th Anniversary DVD release date might be?
Stir Fry Over Rice
This some real music.
Super banda .Ya no regresaron a México .Lastima
Put a Leslie on that Hammond B3... Oh my.
I see TWO Leslies right behind CT's bench seat. One wood finish, and the other black scuff-coat. I see them and hear them. Turn up your volume, steve.
How do you define TOP's music? Rock? Soul? Jazz? The answer is, YES
Chester came back!
Yeah Chester - Yeah Tower
I would love to see and hear ? The Buddy Rich big band belt this tune with either Dave Weckle, Steve Gadd or Simon Phillips on drums and the band banging this tune out. That i feel ? Would make these guy's proud that a legendary big band belted this tune out.
WTH... Lenny 'happy feet' Picketts back with them... wow!
Oh yeah, I was there too. With that string section in the back, that band never looked so good.
Slammin'.
There's another TOP song called like that, you know?
Luv dem cats
FYI PEOPLE -
Garibal 3:41 di retired in i think in March 2024
As a drummer, that really bummed me out!😢
He actually retired from Tower of Power, not drumming. He still intends to keep drumming, but he just couldn't keep up with the tour schedule any more. Yeah, bummer, but remember he's had hip replacement and got hit by a train and in a recent interview I heard him say he hadn't unpacked his suitcase in 28 years.
Chester ! 🤎🤍🖤💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🌈
Sounds like they got the bottom of that snare hecka mic'd
It was REALLY punchy at the show!
Nasty Bois
Good God!! Y'all. 😁
Me llama la atención como apura en el tempo Garibaldi. Supongo estamos de acuerdo que es el conductor de la nave, pero haciendo revisionismo, en muchos vídeos noto lo mismo.
OK. Who is the best band ever? Flip a coin. Tower of Power or Stevie Wonder? My coin came up Oakland.
Is that David on drums? It was pushing back and forth more than usual. IJS
Yes - it was Garibaldi all night long. Rocco only played a few tunes though - he didn't look well. I think that may have been his very last gig. :-(
***THIS*** IS HIP!!!
So, would ya rather have free tickets to an opera or tower of power ? 😎
WOW! So far, 27 people don't have a clue of what REAL music is!
Saw my first TOP show in a bar in San Diego in 1970. A fan ever since. See them every year if they're in the area. Traveled 2000 miles to attend their 50th anniversary show . Depeche Mode is in the R&R Hall of Fame and TOP isn't???? WTF!!! R&R, you need to funkifize or you can kiss my a--
TOP isn't really R&R. If there was a SOUL / R&B / JAZZ-FUNK Hall of Fame, they would certainly reign supreme there. I heard them for the first time in '72 outside Funky Quarters in San Diego. It was a 21 and up club and I was 18, so I couldn't get in. I just sat outside the front door and grooved like a MF. I heard Soul Vaccination for the first time and stayed for the second show so I could hear it again. I don't know if Lenny Pickett was part of the band in '72-it was probably still Skip Mesquite but I dragged my ass into work the next morning and lo and behold, KPRI FM was broadcasting the recorded 2nd show in its entirety. I headed down to WHEREHOUSE RECORS the week that 3rd TOP album released in May of '73. Funkiest horn arrangements I've ever heard. Even moer than James Brown's Famous Flames.
MAN is it tru DG will be playing drums???
When is this Blu-ray coming out!? Man! Lenny's technique has always astounded me. Altissimo for years! And his dancing too! Good seeing Bruce Conte out there and playing so well. He either has battled or is battling leukemia. And Chester - what more can be said? This guy! He does more with his feet than most B3 players can do with their hands! Masters as their craft.
Bruce's bro Victor was in the band way back in the day. He's the founder and mastermind behind Balco, the lab that was in the middle of the steroids scandal involving many in major league baseball, and other sports.
Scott Ertz Emilio has said Victor’s nickname was ‘The Walking Snake”
Also, is that Euge Groove on the front line I spy?
I was right in front of Rocco and CT when I saw them do this back in 78
So tight they need a torque wrench.
T.O.P. Pure Fire~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Chester T. on B-3~~~~~~ Funky
Sill smoke
Can anyone identify or name the original band members.....obviously see Emilio up front. Is David still back on drums? Doc....someone is saying Lenny also? Others?
David Winn See the liner notes to “East Bay Grease” for their original line-up. Their classic line-up: Lenny Williams, Lenny Pickett, Emilio Castillo, Doc Kupka, Mic Gillette, Greg Adams, Chester Thompson, Bruce Conte, Rocco Prestia & David Garibaldi. I would substitute Hubert Tubbs for Lenny Williams and David Bartlett for David Garibaldi but hey, that’s just me. I realize I am in the minority there.
@@jamesmiller8183 I saw a video of them from many years ago which had a front-man or vocalist, African American, who was just fantastic....the tune he belted out was What Is Hip?, and that ensemble in the video featured a really hot guitar player who just nailed the fast strum rhythm arrangement. They changed guitar players over time and also didn't they lose the vocalist too? But, yes, the names in your classic lineup, most of them jump out at me. Garibaldi got injured or ill and was out for a time as I recall. Many of the originals have retired or moved on in one way or anther. Wasn't Richard Elliott in there on sax? Greg Adams left, Rocco retired. Thanks for the resuscitating my memory.
Emilio, Doc, and David are the only originals in this video. Richard Elliot played from '86 to '89. Euge Groove played from '89 to '92. Rocco Retired in 2018 and he was only playing part time up to then. David Garibaldi has been back since 1998.
@@andrescen7577 I need to view Wikipedia to see who their guitar players were. They've had several, each one brought something a little different to the role/sound of the guitar instrumentation. Appreciated your clarification to David Winn. I love that performance where Richard Elliot was wailing on Boys from the Bay....he must have been making a special appearance after he had left.. A truly incredible band....with great players.
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..CT..!!