The Best Damn Band ever to come out of the US. I remember going crazy hearing them at "My Father's Place" in Roslyn, N.Y. They were completely incredible beyond that actually. They got me through the Dip Shit Disco 70's Now I listen to them at least three times a week. The absolute Ultimate.
played in a group that opened for TOP in Seattle, 1973. was kidding my band group that they were going to get smoked except for me, who played keyboards. TOP never had a keyboard player...until that gig. Chester Thompson, the original organist (B3 Hammond) debuted that evening. I got smoked!!! this is when TOP incorporated a keyboardist into their group. the rest is history!!! the best horn based group ever!!!
Trumpet solo was Jesse McGuire, who didn't stay with the group long. He's based in Phoenix, plays national anthems at their sports teams sometimes. MASSIVE, evocative sound, yet still creative enough to solo, as we heard. Really like this guy.
haha, @ 5:28 Emilio Castillio to the camera man: "I'm not playing, go film the other sax player, idiot!" This is so tight. It gets better every time I hear it. Garibaldi is the absolute funkmaster, and that keyboard solo was like he pressed the "demo" button. Best band ever!
@ww1664 Emilio is one of the band leaders. He sings some songs, but as a tenor player he is a 'section player', i.e., he plays in the written ensemble parts of the horn section (an important function in any band) but rarely solos.
@MusiqueLeTeddyZ "embouchure", the combination of facial muscles lips and teeth that connect the player to the instrument. It is a french term derived from the word 'bouche' (mouth), as in 'ferme la bouche' (shut your mouth).
We were just in Cancun at the Iberostar and at the Galaxy club they kept playing this on the video with no sound in the back ground. So I had to look up was Squib Cakes was. What this has to do with the whole Star Wars theme I will never know. lol.
@SaxyDan54 k wel i really cant explain the fireball at 3:05 cept there being a fire mechanism on the mic. And the "paper" u see is the mic attached to the trumpet, it looks a bit blurred vibrating from his sound.
What impresses me most about Jesse's solo is that he didn't go all Arturo Sandoval (who I love) and be a show off with his range in the upper register of the horn. Though the flame effect is still a nice touch
@damontoney How about Ellington's great sax section that played together for 27 or more years: Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves and Harry Carney (who got in nearly 50 years with the band starting in the late '20's)? Go listen to "The Great Paris Concert" on Atlantic Records to hear their sublime ensemble playing
Loved this since about 1978 on the radio quite frequently at KZSU Stanford. Please support getting Julian Assange back to his wife and two young sons (one is identical to him!) as 'Squib Cakes' is like controlled demolition, implosion, buildings dropping to the ground, like building 7 without any plane, down about 5 or 5:20 AFTER the BBC reporter announced that it had collapsed! The speed these three buildings came down was the same speed as when you accidentally drop your keys! Listen to successful engineer Richard Gage explain it at Architects and Engineers for 9 ll Truth! Listen to Eagle Scout award winner of 'God and Country' Christopher Bollyn explain it in Sweden. His wife teaches Sunday School there and they both have deep roots there. Bollyn has relatives who fought on both sides of the American Revolution. He is related to the ex wife of King Henry the Vlll, Ann. Get informed so your family isn't killed in the new location, new war, new 'shock and awe' killing thousands of innocent civilians and naive 18 year old Americans on the front line. Biden talks like 1984 in opposites of 'human rights' and 'women's rights' molesting his own staff member. See her interview on 60 Minutes Australia before it is censored. Best Wishes to All even if you hate me!
"Squib Cakes" was a term that funk trumpeter Mic Gillette (Tower of Power etc..) used to describe the backsides of lovely ladies. Learn something new everyday!!
@@TheSterny I haven’t listened back and was listening on my iPad but did everybody have custom chords for their solos? I wouldn’t put it past TOP to go that far! What a cool idea though even if it wasn’t. I have to go back and listen though. And yes “by ear” is the first way to learn things, my “audition“ at age 11 by my A-Call Hollywood session-musician father to learn bass was to listen to and immediately play the Bass intro to So What from Kind Of Blue on piano. I passed that test and he ¡allowed' it (as long as he didn’t hear a note of practicing, that is, haha! 😅)
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The Best Damn Band ever to come out of the US. I remember going crazy hearing them at "My Father's Place" in Roslyn, N.Y. They were completely incredible beyond that actually. They got me through the Dip Shit Disco 70's
Now I listen to them at least three times a week. The absolute Ultimate.
i freaking can finally play the intro to squib cakes on the drums. and im pumped
Me too. I'm a guitar player but it was totally worth learning!
played in a group that opened for TOP in Seattle, 1973. was kidding my band group that they were going to get smoked except for me, who played keyboards. TOP never had a keyboard player...until that gig. Chester Thompson, the original organist (B3 Hammond) debuted that evening. I got smoked!!! this is when TOP incorporated a keyboardist into their group. the rest is history!!! the best horn based group ever!!!
I could listen to Garibaldi and Prestia all day.
+Jeffrey Vincent yes
The women and the rhythm section first
Jeffrey Vincent absolutely
Amen, my brother.
I could to
The best funky band on the world!!!
Absolutely killer! Everyone in T.O.P is exceptional on their instrument, and a few have no equal.
Jus',,,,, "THE BEST!!!!"
David Garibaldi is still a master. I remember playing along with this tune to the original vinyl and trying to copy all his licks.
Gotta love The Funky Doctor Doc Kupta. Every concert I go to, TOP only sounds better and better. This band continues to stand the test of time.
David's solo: PERFECT!!!
David can write everything he plays
funkorgasAMORICAL ! IF ever i loose faith ,in the funk , i turn to these guys amen !
Trumpet solo was Jesse McGuire, who didn't stay with the group long. He's based in Phoenix, plays national anthems at their sports teams sometimes. MASSIVE, evocative sound, yet still creative enough to solo, as we heard. Really like this guy.
Dave Shelles thanks for the info!
Me too!
Every solo in this song is spectacular!
A concert on this level is heavy work. Wow!
j'adore il sont fantastiques garibaldi c'est le meilleur.merci pour ton petit mot bonne continuation.
Jessie McGuire and the flamethrower
Love it......
One of the sexiest sax solos ever!
Thank you John!
TOP's best number. The best horn section ever! Coming to San Diego Jan 4th.
Awesome...simply awesome. Video and sound quality are top notch. Thank you for uploading this fine video. T.O.P. RULES!!!
I have to thank my cousin for introducing me to TOP in the early 1970s. Saw them live and was hooked.
This jam ROCKS!!
haha, @ 5:28 Emilio Castillio to the camera man:
"I'm not playing, go film the other sax player, idiot!"
This is so tight. It gets better every time I hear it. Garibaldi is the absolute funkmaster, and that keyboard solo was like he pressed the "demo" button.
Best band ever!
...ohhhh I forgot about T of P. How I miss this level of MUSIC!
MY MIND HAS BEEN BLOWN
Tight! Nice jammin'. I saw them in 2012 and loved every minute.
Agree with what you guys said about Norbert (sax). Wow. I get chills every time I hear his solo. Nick Milo isn't too shabby on the keys, either.
Thank you John!
@@nstachel1 really great playing man
always needs more bari sax from Doc. Go Doc!!!!
Go David go! You are the best
A pure classic
I met Garibaldi after finishing his book and we e mailed a lot really cool guy all guys from U.of Maine saw him at the Drum Shop Portland Maine
Still the original guitar reigns supreme. Stood the test of time.
La suma de talentos da como resultado la unidad, y esa unidad es la que transmite el arte
go david!
Going to see them in Oslo this tuesday, so freakin' exited!:D
awesome trumpet solo
Norbert! You're a Beast!
Thank you Lee!
@@nstachel1 Hi Norbert! Rob Holland here bro! (Loved the 'gypsy' scales in the solo!)
Damn it.... I still have ways to go to catch up with them.
Love this stuff!
thee amazing Nick Milo...
great great great
Back To Oakland - Awesome band & album! ;)
for all you Garibaldi fans (drummers), his famous seven-a-diddles at 5:01. awesome.
Nice sound....
whoa that trumpet solo was on fire, literally
Nothing sounds like a real B3
Dave Garabaldi is an incredible drummer ... Soo musical and dynamic.
thank you very much sir! (;
Bloody awesome! What a tune!! What a band!!!
('part from the toss guitar solo recently unpacked from planet wank at about 1:40ish)
unbeaten sax solo by norbert stachel. hands down for this guy!!!
Yeah!
@ww1664 Emilio is one of the band leaders. He sings some songs, but as a tenor player he is a 'section player', i.e., he plays in the written ensemble parts of the horn section (an important function in any band) but rarely solos.
How great is that guy on the baritone sax
THAT, Sir, is the good Doctor...
And The Funky Doctor!
@MusiqueLeTeddyZ "embouchure", the combination of facial muscles lips and teeth that connect the player to the instrument. It is a french term derived from the word 'bouche' (mouth), as in 'ferme la bouche' (shut your mouth).
It is really the TOP Tower OF Power !!! :D
We were just in Cancun at the Iberostar and at the Galaxy club they kept playing this on the video with no sound in the back ground. So I had to look up was Squib Cakes was. What this has to do with the whole Star Wars theme I will never know. lol.
still listen2022🇯🇵❤
super banda...Dancing days....
Spittin fire!!
the woman in the front row hit by the spit bubbles from the Trumpet @ 3:41 is 😍
@bskkid4eva I don't know. but somewhere in these comments is the name of the DVD where you can find out, or check the TOP website.
@SaxyDan54 k wel i really cant explain the fireball at 3:05 cept there being a fire mechanism on the mic. And the "paper" u see is the mic attached to the trumpet, it looks a bit blurred vibrating from his sound.
siiiiiiiick
i ve got the dvd :P
Splendid! (And let's here it for party shirts!)
:F I ever get the chance of the Performance with the Tower of the Power is with the thanks and the lessons of the #pantherkungfu for the 55th@2021
What impresses me most about Jesse's solo is that he didn't go all Arturo Sandoval (who I love) and be a show off with his range in the upper register of the horn. Though the flame effect is still a nice touch
Great thing about their brand of funk is that they dont dress up to express their music. they let their music do their thing and it works !!!
@MegaPascal31 OMG SO DO I!!!
6:33 is so awesome.
That Bari is as good as it gets
Fuckin' amazing this is just fuckin' great music!!!!
agreed
@6:00, Mimi looks on stoically. Respeck for Norbert.
And at 6:25 he NS shows he knows and respects the Eastern European scales and techniques, he knows where he is and always is in the moment!
This group is can really funky stuff...Incredible....
@bskkid4eva I believe that's Norbert Stachel
@damontoney How about Ellington's great sax section that played together for 27 or more years: Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope, Jimmy Hamilton, Paul Gonsalves and Harry Carney (who got in nearly 50 years with the band starting in the late '20's)? Go listen to "The Great Paris Concert" on Atlantic Records to hear their sublime ensemble playing
💜🤘🏾
Hey, hey, hey Steve!
MASTERPIECE!!! ;)
good shit!!!!
Tightest hornsection on planet earth. The attack is unreal
All I can say is GOAT Greatest Of All Time, 3:05 on FIRE !!!!
6:19 to 7:08, fuckin' orgasmic SAX, holly shit men this man is awesome, Tower of power For Ever!!!
Who was the black trumpet player
@tenorman86 thats norbert stachel, not tom politzer
Is there a video of this I can buy, or a CD? I MUST HAVE!!!
Go, Rocco! Nail down that bottom end!!!
Incidentally, does anyone know what happened to Lee Thornberg? Is that him on stage right?
@goodfrnd877 Haha great horn isnt it?
@sabresfn2661 seriously was that light theres things flying out of his bell his whole solo
SUPERBNESS!!!!!!!
Loved this since about 1978 on the radio quite frequently at KZSU Stanford. Please support getting Julian
Assange back to his wife and two young sons (one is identical to him!) as 'Squib Cakes' is like controlled demolition, implosion, buildings dropping to the ground, like building 7 without any plane, down about 5 or 5:20 AFTER the BBC reporter announced that it had collapsed! The speed these three buildings came down was the same speed as when you accidentally drop your keys! Listen to successful engineer Richard Gage explain it at Architects and Engineers for 9 ll Truth! Listen to Eagle Scout award winner of 'God and Country' Christopher Bollyn explain it in Sweden. His wife teaches Sunday School there and they both have deep roots there. Bollyn has relatives who fought on both sides of the American Revolution. He is related to the ex wife of King Henry the Vlll, Ann. Get informed so your family isn't killed in the new location, new war, new 'shock and awe' killing thousands of innocent civilians and naive 18 year old Americans on the front line. Biden talks like 1984 in opposites of 'human rights' and 'women's rights' molesting his own staff member. See her interview on 60 Minutes Australia before it is censored. Best Wishes to All even if you hate me!
"Squib Cakes" was a term that funk trumpeter Mic Gillette (Tower of Power etc..) used to describe the backsides of lovely ladies.
Learn something new everyday!!
@Jundrami That, my friend, is just the high octane playing of Mr. Jesse McGuire!
Man, Jessie tore it up!!
Who is this keyboardist? He is excellent!
NORBERT !!
Solid bari sax.
Can anyone give me the changes on the sax solo? Love this version!
Use your ears. If you can't figure out the changes by ear, someone giving them to you won't do you any good.
@@TheSterny I haven’t listened back and was listening on my iPad but did everybody have custom chords for their solos? I wouldn’t put it past TOP to go that far! What a cool idea though even if it wasn’t. I have to go back and listen though. And yes “by ear” is the first way to learn things, my “audition“ at age 11 by my A-Call Hollywood session-musician father to learn bass was to listen to and immediately play the Bass intro to So What from Kind Of Blue on piano. I passed that test and he ¡allowed' it (as long as he didn’t hear a note of practicing, that is, haha! 😅)
For a second i thought it was Frank Gambale haha. Rocco Prestia is a monster
Jessie McGuire: a living legend!
BORN TO BE A TRUMPET PLAYER. NO, ANOINTED TO BE A TRUMPET PLAYER !!!!
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