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Soul Vaccination: The Tower of Power Live: Soul Vaccination: The Tower of Power Live

by C. Michael Bailey
October 1, 1999

You’ve Got To Funkafize. Two LPs that I wore out as a teenager were Tower of Power’s East Bay Grease and Bump City. I was not that great a fan of Motown, Memphis, or Muscle Shoals (that came later), but I really dug this gritty urban, West Coast funk. I followed these guys: Lenny Pickett going to Saturday Night Live, personnel changes and personal problem. I was totally jazzed by the famous horn section’s appearance on Little Feat’s Waiting for ...