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Media Type: CD
Artist: TOWER OF POWER
Title: LIVE IN LIVING COLOR
Street Release Date: 01/10/1989
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

Track Listing

1. Down to the Nightclub - Tower of Power, Tower of Power
2. You're Still a Young Man
3. What Is Hip?
4. Sparkling in the Sand
5. Knock Yourself Out

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #44245 in Music
• Brand: Tower Of Power
• Released on: 1990-10-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .20 pounds

Customer Reviews

The Best Live Album...EVER
I first heard this as an LP back in 1975 sitting in the living room with a guitarist friend. We both sat there in awe of the incredible musicianship. You can listen to this album 20 times and on the 21st time you will hear something new. The album is full of standout performances: the horns, the tight vocals, incredible solos and arrangements. And the rhythm section had some of the the best players alive.

For those who don't know it, David Garabaldi is considered one of THE most influential drummers alive. His style of playing really created the funk/ fusion genre. I heard Francis Rocco Prestia credit Garabaldi for helping to shape his bass playing style. With Bruce Conte on guitar, Prestia on Bass, and the incredible Chester Thompson on keyboards they comprised the tightest rhythm section on the planet. I have played this album for my son's friends who think they can play some music. They all stand there shaking their heads in total disbelief. Get this album. You won't be disappointed.

The Tower Does It Best On Stage
The first Tower Of Power recording this reveiwer ever
listened to is still the best! One of the tightest Soul bands
to ever hit the stage proved their virtuoso chops with a fan-
tastic concert.
TOP was always known for having the "best horn section in
the business (to quote Paul Shaffer of Letterman fame)", but
the rhythm section has to get its props, too.
Arranger/trumpeter Greg Adams has a great solo on "What Is
Hip?", using his microphone as a mute, and lead trumpeter Mic
Gillette shows off his steely trumpet sound on the intro to
"You're Still a Young Man". Guitarist Bruce Conte thrills con-
stantly and his vocal on "Sparkling in the Sand" makes one won-
der why he wasn't featured more often as a singer.
The 23-plus minute "Knock Yourself Out" features a very
long but very inventive Lenny Pickett tenor solo, plus shorter
solos by the rest of the horns, including guest trumpeter Bill
Lamb. Organist Chester Thompson essays a funky solo using his
Clavinet and the ARP string synthesizer, backed by Conte, bassist extraordinaire Francis Rocco Prestia and one of the
best funk drummers, David Garibaldi.
This CD is a fine introduction to the sound of Tower Of
Power.

THE Best "Live" album........Period!
I first heard this album in 1977...lemme tell you, finding good funk and soul up in Maine at that time wasn't easy! But as soon as I heard the band tear into "Down to the Nightclub", my ears opened like a parachute. I then proceeded to wear that album out playing it for my friends, who then demanded multiple listenings. We were all music majors in college by the way. This recording stands only with 1 other "live" album...that being "Waiting For Colombus" by Little Feat (that features the TOP Horns BTW).....as THE best live album you will hear, and the best representation of TOP you can get. Almost all of their albums stand out on the frontline of funk and soul, but this is the one to get if'n you can get only one. Monster horns, a rhythm section that locks it up tight, and Hubert Tubbs cooks it all down to a bubbling pot of steaming funk-gumbo that if you aren't stomping your feet by the 3rd cut....you're six-by-six brother!! And this features THE definitive cut of "What Is Hip" BTW........