18/04/2021

Tower Of Power "50 Years Of Funk & Soul - Live At The Fox Theater, Oakland, CA, June 2018" (2021) -Funk-



Label : Mack Avenue Records II, LLC


États-Unis CD 1
01 - Stroke (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
02 - Ain't Nothing Stopping Us Now (Emilio Castillo, Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & David Bartlett)
03 - You Ought To Be Having Fun (Emilio Castillo, Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Hubert Tubbs)
04 - Soul With A Capital S (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
05 - Stop (Jerry Cortez & Emilio Castillo)
06 - You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Frank Biner & Emilio Castillo)
07 - On The Serious Side (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
08 - Just When We Start Makin' It (Emilio Castillo, Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Lenny Williams)
09 - Soul Vaccination (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Emilio Castillo)
10 - What Is Hip? / Soul Power (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Emilio Castillo & David Garibaldi)
11 - Do You Like That? (Emilio Castillo & Mark Dolin)
12 - Drop It In The Slot (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)

CD 2
01 - Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)? (Emilio Castillo, Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Lenny Williams)
02 - Maybe It'll Rub Off (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Emilio Castillo & Chester Thompson)
03 - Don't Change Horses (Lenny Williams & Johnny Watson)
04 - Squib Cakes (Chester Thompson)
05 - On The Soul Side Of Town (Emilio Castillo & Leo Sacks)
06 - Diggin' On James Brown (Medley): Diggin' On James Brown / It's A New Day / Mother Popcorn / There It Is / I Got The Feelin' / Diggin' On James Brown Reprise (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Emilio Castillo & Ken Kessie) / (James Brown) / (James Brown) / (James Brown) / (James Brown) / (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Emilio Castillo & Ken Kessie)
07 - So Very Hard To Go (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
08 - Knock Yourself Out (Stephen 'Doc' Kupka & Emilio Castillo)
09 - You're Still A Young Man (Emilio Castillo & Stephen 'Doc' Kupka)
10 - Souled Out (Emilio Castillo, Stephen 'Doc' Kupka, Marlon McClain)

DVD
Set One (52 mn)
Set Two (65 mn)
Bonus Song (13 mn)
Bonus Features (16 mn)
DVD Total running time - 146 mn


Executive Producer for Tower Of Power's 50th Anniversary : Tom Consolo
Music Producers : Joe Vannelli & Emilio Castillo
Recorded at The Fox Theater - Oakland, CA - June 1 & 2, 2018
Recorded by Mark Hornsby, Jimmy Blankenship & Nathan Heironimus from Sweetwater Studios, Fort Wayne, IN
Recording Supervised & Mixed by Joe Vannelli
Mixed at Blue Moon Studio, Agoura Hills, CA
Mixing Supervised & Assisted by Emilio Castillo
Set Up at Blue Moon Studio, Assisted Joe Primeau
DVD Audio Mastered by Joe Vannelli at Blue Moon Digital
DVD Authoring by Rich Winter at Blackbird Digital Studios
Party Assembly for DDP & Adm by Harold LaRue Mastering
CD Mastered by Bernie Grundman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, Hollywood, CA
Executive Producers for Mack Avenue Music Group : Gretchen Valade & Denny Stilwell
Senior Director of A&R : Will Wakefield
VP, Creative Services + Production : Maria Ehrenreich
Product Manager : Matthew Jurasek

Tower Of Power :
Emilio Castillo : Bandleader, 2nd Tenor Sax, Background vocals ; Lead vocals on "Diggin' On James Brown", Partial Lead vocal on "You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous" & "Maybe It'll Rub Off"
Stephen 'Doc' Kupka : Baritone Sax
Francis 'Rocco' Prestia : Bass on "Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)?", "Maybe It'll Rub Off", "Knock Yourself Out" & "You're Still A Young Man"
David Garibaldi : Drums
Roger Smith : Keyboards, Background vocals
Tom Politzer : 1st Tenor Sax, Background vocals
Adolfo Cortez : Guitar, Background vocals
Sal Cracchiolo : Lead Trumpet, Flugelhorn, Background vocals
Marcus Scott : Lead vocals on All Tracks except "Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)?", "Maybe It'll Rub Off", "Knock Yourself Out" & "You're Still A Young Man"
Marc van Wageningen : Bass on All Tracks except "Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)?", "Maybe It'll Rub Off", "Knock Yourself Out" & "You're Still A Young Man"

Tower Of Power Alumni :
Chester Thompson : Hammond B3, Clavinet
Lenny Pickett : Tenor Sax
Bruce Conte : Guitar on "What Is Hip? / Soul Power" & "Squib Cakes"
Ray Greene : Trombone

Additional Musicians :
Dave Eskridge : Horn & String Arranger, Additional Keyboards
Melanie Jackson : Background vocals
Tony Lindsay : Background vocals
Tower Of Power Strings on "You Ought To Be Having Fun", "You're So Wonderful, So Marvelous", "Just When We Start Makin' It", "Do You Like That?", "Can't You See (You Doin' Me Wrong)?", "On The Soul Side Of Town", "So Very Hard To Go", "You're Still A Young Man"