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The Very Best of Tower of Power: The Warner Years
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The East Bay Archive Volume I
:Album Description:The East Bay Archive Volume I is the first in an archival series of original re-mastered live recordings coinciding with the bands 40th anniversary. Handpicked by TOP's founding and current member David Garibaldi, Volume I is a live double disc release featuring TOP's performance at K-K-K-Katy's in Boston in April of 1973 and includes TOP classics 'You're Still a Young Man,' 'What is Hip,' and 'So Very Hard To Go.'
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Back to Oakland
: :Formed out of various Oakland-based bands in the early '70s, Tower of Power was the West Coast answer to the various rock horn bands popular during that period. But where their rivals relied on catchy horn charts and bland lyrics (Chicago instantly comes to mind), Tower of Power was funkier, grittier, and a lot greasier than any of their contemporaries. Back to Oakland isn't one of their strongest albums. After two promising openers, 'Oakland Stroke' and 'Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream,' the set slips into more shapeless ...
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Live and in Living Color
: :Formed out of various Oakland-based bands in the early '70s, Tower of Power was the West Coast answer to the various rock horn bands popular during that period. But where their rivals relied on catchy horn charts and bland lyrics (Chicago instantly comes to mind), Tower of Power was funkier, grittier, and a lot greasier than any of their contemporaries. Back to Oakland isn't one of their strongest albums. After two promising openers, 'Oakland Stroke' and 'Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream,' the set slips into more shapeless ...
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Tower of Power
: :Formed out of various Oakland-based bands in the early '70s, Tower of Power was the West Coast answer to the various rock horn bands popular during that period. But where their rivals relied on catchy horn charts and bland lyrics (Chicago instantly comes to mind), Tower of Power was funkier, grittier, and a lot greasier than any of their contemporaries. Back to Oakland isn't one of their strongest albums. After two promising openers, 'Oakland Stroke' and 'Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream,' the set slips into more shapeless ...
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Soul Vaccination: Live
: :Formed out of various Oakland-based bands in the early '70s, Tower of Power was the West Coast answer to the various rock horn bands popular during that period. But where their rivals relied on catchy horn charts and bland lyrics (Chicago instantly comes to mind), Tower of Power was funkier, grittier, and a lot greasier than any of their contemporaries. Back to Oakland isn't one of their strongest albums. After two promising openers, 'Oakland Stroke' and 'Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream,' the set slips into more shapeless ...
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In the Slot
: :Formed out of various Oakland-based bands in the early '70s, Tower of Power was the West Coast answer to the various rock horn bands popular during that period. But where their rivals relied on catchy horn charts and bland lyrics (Chicago instantly comes to mind), Tower of Power was funkier, grittier, and a lot greasier than any of their contemporaries. Back to Oakland isn't one of their strongest albums. After two promising openers, 'Oakland Stroke' and 'Don't Change Horses in the Middle of the Stream,' the set slips into more shapeless ...
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What Is Hip?: The Tower of Power Anthology
: :Tower of Power blew--literally--out of the Bay Area's early-'70s scene at a time when hip black and white tastes were further diverging. The horn-heavy ensemble managed to find an audience of album buyers on both the soul and rock sides of the divide, though. The first disc of this chronological two-CD retrospective of tracks made between 1970 and 1997 holds most of the highlights--notably the wise, intensely grooving title track, which has only gained cachet in the quarter-century since its release, and 'So Very Hard to Go,' one of the classiest ...
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Urban Renewal
: :Tower of Power blew--literally--out of the Bay Area's early-'70s scene at a time when hip black and white tastes were further diverging. The horn-heavy ensemble managed to find an audience of album buyers on both the soul and rock sides of the divide, though. The first disc of this chronological two-CD retrospective of tracks made between 1970 and 1997 holds most of the highlights--notably the wise, intensely grooving title track, which has only gained cachet in the quarter-century since its release, and 'So Very Hard to Go,' one of the classiest ...
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Bump City
: :Tower of Power blew--literally--out of the Bay Area's early-'70s scene at a time when hip black and white tastes were further diverging. The horn-heavy ensemble managed to find an audience of album buyers on both the soul and rock sides of the divide, though. The first disc of this chronological two-CD retrospective of tracks made between 1970 and 1997 holds most of the highlights--notably the wise, intensely grooving title track, which has only gained cachet in the quarter-century since its release, and 'So Very Hard to Go,' one of the classiest ...
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