Tower of Power (in Glenside, PA) - 6/02/98
At
9:35pm, Tower of Power came out and did an extra-funky set, full of slammin'
tracks.
Most
of the songs performed were:
·
Oakland Stroke
·
I Like Your Style
·
You Strike My Main Nerve
·
East Bay Way
·
Soul Vaccination
·
This Time It's Real
·
You Got to Funkifize
·
Willing To Learn
·
Soul With a Capital
"S"
·
Squib Cakes
·
Digging on James Brown
·
What is Hip?
ENCORE:
·
You're Still a Young Man
·
So I Got To Groove
HIGHLIGHTS:
·
Stephen "Doc"
Kupka did a wonderful baritone sax solo, while one trumpet player kicked
serious ass with his trumpet.....he kicked so much ass that large sparks literally
shot out from his trumpet and into the air!!!
·
"Soul
Vaccination" was DA BOMB......DAMN!! I wish I had my vaccination shot a
long time ago!!
·
"You Got To
Funkifize" is so freakin' funky, with Emilio Castillo on vocals......go
ahead, Emilio, with your bad self!
·
"You're Still a
Young Man" is so beautiful, so soulful......a wonderful Tower of Power
ballad!
·
The drum solo before the
tune "Squib Cakes" was very good!
·
Emilio was once again
singing lead vocals on "Digging on James Brown".... who said white people
can't be funky? A wonderful tune about a wonderful artist, The Godfather of
Soul!!!
·
The lead guitar solo was
EXCELLENT!!!
·
The best song, besides
"Soul Vaccination" was "What is Hip?"......DAMN!!! I know
what is hip......T. O. P. (they were hip back then and they are STILL hip!!)!!!
T. O. P. was over at 10:50pm, but they came back for an encore at
10:55pm......they played until 11:15pm.
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