Long live TOP!

[JazzGuitarGimp]

Watching the Tower Of Power 40th anniversary concert (again). Love these guys!

[Deric]

Bumpty, Bumpty, Bump..........

[Zippy]

Watching the Tower Of Power 40th anniversary concert (again). Love these guys!

Whew, I've been listening to them since their first record, I must be getting old(er) too.

Cheech and Chong were the opening act when I first saw the band.

Funk has staying power!

[ER]

Francis "Rocco" Prestia is the funkiest bass player ever.

Anybody that thinks you need to slap to play funky needs an education.

1977= TIGHT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0TUGeT9uUk

Oakland ain't what it used to be, saw some killer shows there back in the day. My first band recorded our first and only album there.

[vibratoking]

Rocco is a great bass player with technique that is full of idiosyncracies. He is the first bass player, that I am aware of, that so strongly emphasizes the ends of notes. His playing is so tight. He has his own technique.

[xtian]

Yeah! What Is Hip. All time fave!

[brewdude]

I love Tower of Power. I've seen them a half dozen times over the last 30 years. They are always great and Super tight. The first time I saw them was at a Tower Records aniversery in the early/mid 1980's.

I heard a story some time ago that when TOP first auditioned for Bill Graham, he told them to go home practice and come back and see him in another year.

[NickC]

Yeah, great band and "Rocco" is a great bassist.

Verdine White, bassist for Earth, Wind & Fire, is another outstanding bassist.