Hey JT, I love your new look, your curly hair looks very nice!!! I also enjoyed your "Stank-Face" look when you began to listen to just how "FUNKY" Tower of Power is!!! I know you loved that guitar, the bass, the horn section (best in the business), the organ, the drums & the vocals!!! This band is "super tight!!!
Tower Of Power-YES! Love to see people discovering TOP. An amazing band that I had the pleasure of seeing live. Many songs to discover by them, enjoy the funk and horns and general awesomeness.
Tower of Power from my hometown! Love their album "East Bay Grease." Please also do their songs "You're Still A Young Man" and "Sparkling In The Sand."
Thx! This song moves mountains! I loved your reaction! T.O.P. has changed some of their original members. Notably Lenny Williams who sang here! He was amazing! They can make you cry too! You groove!
Here are some more Tower of Power hits you might want to react to: "In The Slot," "So Very Hard To Go," "You're Still A Young Man," "Don't Change Horses (in the middle of a stream)", "Still Diggin' On James Brown" (A Tribute to The Godfather of Soul), "Soul With A Capital "S," "Soul Vaccination," "We Came To Play," "Squib Cakes" and "Down To The Nightclub."
Oaklands own Tower of Power. Not enough youtube reactions to TOP. Check out You're Still a Young Man, Only So Much Oil, Squib Cakes, So Very Hard to Go.
My favorite genres of music are Classic Rock and Classic R&B, from the 70's in particular. I highly recommend checking out the O'Jays. "For The Love Of Money" & "Back Stabbers" Peace Out 😊✌
Check out a live video, something within the last 30 years. I've seen them live several times. A T.O.P. show is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
She did not say it but she is thinking it. "WHAT THE Fu JUST HAPPENED"? A bunch of white boy's and a couple black dude's brought the house down. A good time to bring up my experience doing sound at the Kool Jazz festival in Oakland. We filled the Oakland Coliseum. Around 75 thousand seats. We had all the greats. BB, Aretha, Michael Jackson and on and on. The last act was Tower of Power. They were born, nurtured and bread in the Oakland hood. When they came on stage the crowd went crazy. This was our peeps! I was working the sound on stage when thousands of people decided to join us up there. I asked on my headphones what I should do and was told to beat them with the heavy mic stands. Of course I didn't do that. No one was there to do harm. They just wanted to dance on stage. So uplifting. A highlight of my life.
I thought the Sly - PGE - Chicago - BloodSweatTears were heralding a great new horizon for bands to consider. Instead, when music got THIS complex (ie, the demand for talented musicians!), dance clubs found computerization and live-venues replaced this Real Dance Music. We still have techno crap spewing out instead of ToP types.
Every day I am astonished how little black people know about their musical heritage. Is it a general dumbing down of all children, or a concerted effort to erase black people. I pray it is not the latter. I believe it may be the former. Why am I, the whitest person you may ever know, reminding of us this. Hmmmm....
It shouldn't be up to a white guy to memorialize black music. Or should it? Does it matter? Is this an indicator and proof that music transcends all bounds?
I'm 70 years old now darling. I've been there and done that. I so appreciate your take on the "New" classical music. Keep it up.
Wow sis thank you for your Reaction to one of my favorite Groups of all time ⏲️ one of most dangerous Horn sections
Hey JT, I love your new look, your curly hair looks very nice!!! I also enjoyed your "Stank-Face" look when you began to listen to just how "FUNKY" Tower of Power is!!! I know you loved that guitar, the bass, the horn section (best in the business), the organ, the drums & the vocals!!! This band is "super tight!!!
Tower Of Power-YES! Love to see people discovering TOP. An amazing band that I had the pleasure of seeing live. Many songs to discover by them, enjoy the funk and horns and general awesomeness.
Love me some Tower of Power my favorite band!! This is one of their most classic/famous/iconic songs!!
Good old Oakland soul music. Saw them live in the 70's several times...hot stuff.
Tower of Power from my hometown! Love their album "East Bay Grease." Please also do their songs "You're Still A Young Man" and "Sparkling In The Sand."
Just does my HEART good to see you ENJOY some REAL MUSIC 😊😎😎
Greatest Horn Section of All Time
One of the baddest jams in the land. So Groovy/Funky makes me wanna jump around.
Greg Adams plays a mean trumpet. He also went solo after TOP and did some very fine contemporary jazz music! Great musician!!
Thx! This song moves mountains! I loved your reaction! T.O.P. has changed some of their original members. Notably Lenny Williams who sang here! He was amazing! They can make you cry too! You groove!
Made my day knowing people still get it. "Sometimes hipness is what it ain't"
Love ❤️ Tower of Power.
Here are some more Tower of Power hits you might want to react to: "In The Slot," "So Very Hard To Go," "You're Still A Young Man," "Don't Change Horses (in the middle of a stream)", "Still Diggin' On James Brown" (A Tribute to The Godfather of Soul), "Soul With A Capital "S," "Soul Vaccination," "We Came To Play," "Squib Cakes" and "Down To The Nightclub."
Funk that can't be measured.
That one gotcha gotcha good ! You felt that one😊✅✅✅
Nice reaction to an extra chilly most song.
Request: Curtis Mayfield- If There's A Hell Below We're All Going To Go
Nothing like the bands back in the day.
SOLID baby Solid!
So Very Hard To Go, Youre Still A Young Man, Dont Change Horses, Diggin On James Brown.. Down To The Nightclub,
Funk with a wise message. 🎸❤️💯
The Classic Hit nearly a half Century ago.
Oaklands own Tower of Power. Not enough youtube reactions to TOP. Check out You're Still a Young Man, Only So Much Oil, Squib Cakes, So Very Hard to Go.
My favorite genres of music are Classic Rock and Classic R&B, from the 70's in particular.
I highly recommend checking out the O'Jays.
"For The Love Of Money" &
"Back Stabbers"
Peace Out 😊✌
When I listen to Tower of Power my neighbors do too.
Lucky enough to have seen them at The Roxy LA..1975ish...what a show they put on. 👍❤🤙
It's not just you girl. The 70's was a golden age of music, for all of us.
Ultimate Funk: Tight and loose at the same time.
Gotta check out a "live" version with Larry Bragg on Vocals.
GET IT JT SHAKE YO FRO DAT'S HIP !
Try the Chambers Brothers.
The 70's had those horn sections
3rd Album entitled Tower of Power. Lenny Williams the best lead singer the group has ever had 😊
Yeah...😎
I've seen them almost 100 times and I won't stop till I drop or they call it a day.
Oh Hell Yeah
they still tour like crazy and are still tight and awesome-see them if you get a chance
Down to the nightclub, funk the dumb stuff, soul with a capital S, your the most.
What is Hip?... The answer is always Tower of Power...Always...
“Skating on thin ice”, same album
Good song. Put it on a mix tape when I was a kid.
Here for that face. When it hits you. 🎉
SOUL VACCINATION
Check out a live video, something within the last 30 years. I've seen them live several times. A T.O.P. show is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.
Check out "Sould With a Capital S"!
I'm a huge TOP fan 64.5 years old
Check out Squibb Cakes & so very hard to go , Don't change horses
Let me know what you think
Check out the youtube video of them playing this live!
Can you kindly do a reaction to Billie Myers - Kiss the Rain (Live at TOTP) 1998
Damn you’re fine like the hair not hiding it anymore
She did not say it but she is thinking it. "WHAT THE Fu JUST HAPPENED"? A bunch of white boy's and a couple black dude's brought the house down.
A good time to bring up my experience doing sound at the Kool Jazz festival in Oakland. We filled the Oakland Coliseum. Around 75 thousand seats. We had all the greats. BB, Aretha, Michael Jackson and on and on. The last act was Tower of Power. They were born, nurtured and bread in the Oakland hood. When they came on stage the crowd went crazy. This was our peeps! I was working the sound on stage when thousands of people decided to join us up there. I asked on my headphones what I should do and was told to beat them with the heavy mic stands. Of course I didn't do that. No one was there to do harm. They just wanted to dance on stage. So uplifting. A highlight of my life.
I thought the Sly - PGE - Chicago - BloodSweatTears were heralding a great new horizon for bands to consider. Instead, when music got THIS complex (ie, the demand for talented musicians!), dance clubs found computerization and live-venues replaced this Real Dance Music. We still have techno crap spewing out instead of ToP types.
That bass kills me.
RIP Rocco Prestia. You will be missed.
Every day I am astonished how little black people know about their musical heritage. Is it a general dumbing down of all children, or a concerted effort to erase black people. I pray it is not the latter. I believe it may be the former. Why am I, the whitest person you may ever know, reminding of us this. Hmmmm....
excuse my transpositions. Jon
a fun newer song by them is keep your monster on a leash
It shouldn't be up to a white guy to memorialize black music. Or should it? Does it matter? Is this an indicator and proof that music transcends all bounds?