Tower Of Power – East Bay Grease LP 180g Music on Vinyl Audiophile OOP NEW
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Tower Of Power – East Bay Grease LP 180g Music on Vinyl Audiophile OOP Brand NEW
This is a must Funk/Soul recording from Oakland original release 1970 this 2022 Import kicks it up a notch with killer sound
Fantastic pressing, so wonderful to hear this new on vinyl.
This is a classic record, often overlooked, thank goodness as it keeps the prices down. I've owned at least 4 copies of this and whenever I am rebuilding my collection, due to multiple instances of my own negligence, this is among the first albums I get. I have nothing else to say than it is magnificent and should be regarded as a national treasure.
East Bay Grease is the debut album by the soul and funk group Tower of Power, released in 1970. The band was one of the early music groups to be signed by Bill Graham's Fillmore Records, which released the LP.
The album shows the band at an early stage of development, trying out several lead singers including Rick Stevens who soon left the band (1972) because of heavy drug abuse. In a retrospective review, music historian Rickey Vincentsaid the album contained "sloppy and raggedy horn-heavy R&B." Drummer David Garibaldi later said that his playing style was undisciplined during this time, that the album showed his "rough edges". He began private drum lessons with a Bay Area drum teacher named Chuck Brown, and polished his technique in time for the improvements to be heard on 1973's Tower of Power album.
Tower of Power is an American R&B and funk based band and horn section, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing since 1968. The band has had a number of lead vocalists, the best-known being Lenny Williams, who fronted the band between early 1973 and late 1974, the period of their greatest commercial success. They have had eight songs on the Billboard Hot 100; their highest-charting songs include "You're Still a Young Man", "So Very Hard to Go", "What Is Hip?", and "Don't Change Horses (in the Middle of a Stream)"
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