Idon't know of any horn section as treacherous as this...maybe Rick James horn section, now J B had a great section as well as earth wind and fire but TOP Ruled in my books.
@theDynamicSkunk ~ Lemme guess....trombone playah? You don't think the bari sax fills in the bottom layer? Thinking of Jimmy FaLLon's band..The Roots..they rock a trombone....I always listen for it..it just makes the cake sweeter to me..humm..after all these years..I wonder why TOP hasn't used one......~:o)
Anyone who watches/listens to this and doesn't shake their ass is dead. Awesome drums, bass, horns, vocals, harmonies and arrangement. Any musician watching this WANTS to play this in their band. Funk in the truest sense. The best YouTube post I have seen for about 2 years. Awesome.
Outstanding performance. Saw them in April 1973 at a basement club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stage maybe 12 feet wide and the whole band just PUMPING. Perfect venue. Sewer pipes across a nine foot ceiling and just drippppping hot. Lenny Williams had just replaced Rick Stevens on vocals and Bruce Conte had stepped in for Willy Fulton on guitar.
I was a bit bummed. Nonetheless, they COOKED for this seventeen year old who'd slipped in un-carded. Too cool and one of my musical highlights.
T.O.P THE ONE BAND THAT GROOVES AND IS HERE TO STAY FROM YESTURDAY AND REMAINING TODAY, SPARKING IN THE SAND, YOU OUTTA BE HAVEING FUN, BACK ON THE STREETS AGAIN, AND LETS NOT FOR GET YOUR STILL A YOUNG MAN.
i am kind of jealous of you people from the bay area. but i did get to see top in shaumburg il. two years in a row back in the early 80s. i was so close to them i could touch the drummer D.G.
The Oakland funk. Up Broadway to the tribune bldg. Out to the Coliseum where the A's and Raiders play. To quickway to get some of those grease burgers.
this music talks to me. The difference between the 70ties and now, we have way more bad music. When you see TOP, you wonder i can hear a difference, It is obvious it is damned quality... When something it is good that s all. And if there is so many rubbish coming out of the radio, saying you have to hear it because it is new, it doesnt make it good.
I wonder why i dont listen to radio and Tv anymore.
Extremely disciplined group they are. Garibaldi is so funky, yet has quite a light touch. He makes watercolors on the drums. They're all mazing musicians.
Funkifize is from the second album. I wanted to hear Back on the streets again from the first sixties album: the album cover that is black with hand holding a piece of chicken.
When I went to the Reno jazz festival in 1973 I saw one of the sax players from Berkeley high that would start playing for Tower of Power.
check out 'east bay grease' ... that was #1...still got the vinyl...only 6 cuts...filled up both sides with funk-so-funky-lakka bowl-legged donkey. also had 'the skunk,the goose and the fly'...on me oh my!!!!!
Damn, Rocco's so tight!
ATribeCalledBass 1 month ago
Damn rocco's so tight!
ATribeCalledBass 1 month ago
Idon't know of any horn section as treacherous as this...maybe Rick James horn section, now J B had a great section as well as earth wind and fire but TOP Ruled in my books.
esome11 2 months ago
no trombone... the horn section is so incomplete....
theDynamicSkunk 3 months ago
@theDynamicSkunk agreed haha, but there still sick cuz of the bari sax guy
DEADNIGHTWARRIOR93 2 months ago
@theDynamicSkunk so not true
giorgioacccc 2 months ago
@theDynamicSkunk ~ Lemme guess....trombone playah? You don't think the bari sax fills in the bottom layer? Thinking of Jimmy FaLLon's band..The Roots..they rock a trombone....I always listen for it..it just makes the cake sweeter to me..humm..after all these years..I wonder why TOP hasn't used one......~:o)
MissSusieQue1 1 month ago
Good Stuff !
lesanne2 3 months ago
T.O.P. the ''horniest'' group in America...!!!
stewgotz1 3 months ago 4
Funky Horn section..that's Tower of Power
ravindraju1 4 months ago
You GOT TO...
BusMaster007X 5 months ago
@BusMaster007X FUNKIFIZE!!!!
Blokeio 4 months ago
Anyone who watches/listens to this and doesn't shake their ass is dead. Awesome drums, bass, horns, vocals, harmonies and arrangement. Any musician watching this WANTS to play this in their band. Funk in the truest sense. The best YouTube post I have seen for about 2 years. Awesome.
funkfanNo1 5 months ago 3
The band is awesome, the song is awesome... Do you know what i want to say??? Awesome!!!! :)
AlexDelPieroAleAle 6 months ago 3
Sax solo is awesome.
AlexDelPieroAleAle 6 months ago
what a grrrreeeaat horn section, they are just burnin it on this song,
gabriel4838 7 months ago 2
A true original.
Regret to say, I'm glad Brent doesn't get to do it --- because he just cannot.
Emilio has it.
BusMaster007X 8 months ago 3
Badasses...saludos desde Me Xi Co
XE1GXG 9 months ago
LOVE Emilio Castillo...the best TOP frontman!!
Fo sho...it's in the soul!!
gingerough 9 months ago
Rocco 4 ever
gabrivinisallsilv 10 months ago 5
Outstanding performance. Saw them in April 1973 at a basement club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Stage maybe 12 feet wide and the whole band just PUMPING. Perfect venue. Sewer pipes across a nine foot ceiling and just drippppping hot. Lenny Williams had just replaced Rick Stevens on vocals and Bruce Conte had stepped in for Willy Fulton on guitar.
I was a bit bummed. Nonetheless, they COOKED for this seventeen year old who'd slipped in un-carded. Too cool and one of my musical highlights.
bendbadgersteve 10 months ago
TOP will go on and on and on......true funkateers never give up!
kax61 11 months ago
its in the blood!!!
myfootinurass 1 year ago
@myfootinurass : "In the blood.....In the blood"!!!
DRUMTOY2002 11 months ago
wonder if there is a version of this with BB king?
hetroman 1 year ago
tower of power is so damn good!
catiiiii1 1 year ago
I don't know what's tighter in this funk... the drums, the bass, or the bari sax!
KlioDucatillon 1 year ago
Emilio!!! he is the man!
corpsegrinder00891 1 year ago
@corpsegrinder00891 : Yes he IS!!!
DRUMTOY2002 11 months ago
I like this slower beat. Nice groove, better hard funk. On the ONE. Yes.
1220amsoulradio 1 year ago
What a powerful vocalist, pure soul & funk. I love it!!
reassert 1 year ago
Emilio's soul vocals have improved over the years.
Zeitgeist74 1 year ago
best TOP vocalist.. PERIOD!
Psitopa8hs 1 year ago
@Psitopa8hs yes!!!
nbwhy 1 year ago
How can you not like this kind of music?!?!?!...In response to the 3 dislikes I saw when I clicked on the video
Fretfreak83 1 year ago
Damn that bass line !!!!!!!!!
sergekites 1 year ago
Emilio is the bomb !
banteron 1 year ago
in all the years i saw them play round the bay, never saw emilio take lead vocals! very impressive.
dogstar1188 1 year ago
@dogstar1188
Damn, Mimi's the blackest soundin' white guy I've ever heard!
SaxyDan54 1 year ago 3
The bass line is so subtle... Is Rocco Prestia!
ChemiInquiro 1 year ago
funky like a butt lick monkey????
darude90 1 year ago
@darude90 like a bowed legged monkey
opti2007 1 year ago
T.O.P THE ONE BAND THAT GROOVES AND IS HERE TO STAY FROM YESTURDAY AND REMAINING TODAY, SPARKING IN THE SAND, YOU OUTTA BE HAVEING FUN, BACK ON THE STREETS AGAIN, AND LETS NOT FOR GET YOUR STILL A YOUNG MAN.
TheJamillemo 1 year ago
That might have been the best start to a solo I have ever seen.
tenorman86 1 year ago
Dedicated to the funky flips in my life! Yo, bro!
pilamikala 1 year ago
This is as funky as fuck
damnedcarrot 1 year ago
Delicious funkifization! Tenor sax outragerrific! Lead vocals blew my head off--wow!
tumerica 1 year ago
This stuff can add instant steam into ya. What a legendary band! Catch a AWB/TOP concert
stampedehero22 1 year ago
Damn thats funky...
denerfed 1 year ago
@denerfed you ought to hear the original recording on the album. it's so freakin' sick.
lovewalk101 1 year ago
best horns in the world! you can't get better than these guys.
5h4bby 1 year ago
just found out my university marching band is playing this in fall 2010!! im totally stoked! :)
c1rav83 1 year ago
@c1rav83 DAMN! thats cool as hell!
MrVerncoleman 1 year ago
i am kind of jealous of you people from the bay area. but i did get to see top in shaumburg il. two years in a row back in the early 80s. i was so close to them i could touch the drummer D.G.
MrVerncoleman 1 year ago
blanco chica por tu
TheMarcuspaul 1 year ago
it just make you wanna play the drums to this song
ricardodrumz 1 year ago
maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan, no one makes this shit any more.
mendoooz 1 year ago
mimi and his dudes own the world,not a tad less.
oakland420420 1 year ago
*gets funky like a bowlegged monkey* weeeeeeee! awesomeness !
opti2007 1 year ago
listen CRAZY FUNKY by minicillo
Valerio960 2 years ago
The Oakland funk. Up Broadway to the tribune bldg. Out to the Coliseum where the A's and Raiders play. To quickway to get some of those grease burgers.
IANBOT2 2 years ago
I Love Tower Of Power
Quiensabe3 2 years ago 21
this music talks to me. The difference between the 70ties and now, we have way more bad music. When you see TOP, you wonder i can hear a difference, It is obvious it is damned quality... When something it is good that s all. And if there is so many rubbish coming out of the radio, saying you have to hear it because it is new, it doesnt make it good.
I wonder why i dont listen to radio and Tv anymore.
stepsahead 2 years ago
Damn. That tenor solo...just...WOW.
newageanubis 2 years ago
full of soul and feeling !!!
Charrua5 2 years ago
Horns here equal perfection.........
jsbruzina 2 years ago 34
@jsbruzina i second that!!!!
opti2007 1 year ago
@jsbruzina. Perfect live performance. It seems a recording. Simply perfect
Sanzol 10 months ago 2
man, so funkehh.
CoD4CoNnEcTiOn 2 years ago 4
this song's fuckin awesome XD
dak828296 2 years ago
Going to see them in Albany July 30th! Can't wait!
fsharpie 2 years ago
Rocco is the man!
2matala9 2 years ago 3
OOOH I Love Tower Of Power!!! MMMmmmm! :D <3
Baltista0 2 years ago
It just does not get any better!
Great musicians, great charts, great vocals, great execution!
It IS in the soul!
johngsteel 2 years ago
Extremely disciplined group they are. Garibaldi is so funky, yet has quite a light touch. He makes watercolors on the drums. They're all mazing musicians.
minacciosa 2 years ago 3
well said. I'd die to have his ghost notes
jk1802 2 years ago
Awesome performance :D
muhki91 2 years ago
great drummer
great grooves
typical for david garibaldi
teddyschuen 2 years ago 4
Bluddy FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!
LiquidGold2 2 years ago
Just a rediculous groove....something that good should be outlawed!!
Kaliguitar 2 years ago 3
Then just call me an outlaw and step aside brother while I groove on thru.....
Hazafi4life 2 years ago
HELL.... YES!
thedman696969 2 years ago
Rock your soul:):):) Loamo "Chin Chin" Chente Anni Salute Ciao:):):)
WithMyLittleSpoon 2 years ago
Funkifize is from the second album. I wanted to hear Back on the streets again from the first sixties album: the album cover that is black with hand holding a piece of chicken.
When I went to the Reno jazz festival in 1973 I saw one of the sax players from Berkeley high that would start playing for Tower of Power.
IANBOT2 3 years ago
check out 'east bay grease' ... that was #1...still got the vinyl...only 6 cuts...filled up both sides with funk-so-funky-lakka bowl-legged donkey. also had 'the skunk,the goose and the fly'...on me oh my!!!!!
roaddawg49 2 years ago
1:19 is just funksex.
andrewirobinson 3 years ago 3
looks like a normal tempo, of the original aranged 70's record.
This one must be tha SLOW its ok!
Great performance!
DmitriMironov 3 years ago
ya a tad to slow, but still A M A Z I N G
Putts44 3 years ago
the tempo in this is slow as! ..but still love em haha
WolfeyWolf 3 years ago
Funky groove
etzelhof 3 years ago
so groovy!!!!
GREAT MUSIC !!!!!
Charrua5 3 years ago
cool sound on this one?
What year? see jeff is still there
nairnodrums 3 years ago
2000 No Jeff is no longer in band
taximan55 3 years ago
nice
elrockydelsiglo 3 years ago