For over 50 years, Tower of Power has delivered the best in funk and soul music.\u201cWe were a Soul band called The Motowns.\u201d recalls Emilio Castillo. \u201cRocco was the bass player, I was there, and my brother was the drummer. I met \u201cDoc\u201d Kupka back in 1968, and gave him an audition. He came in the band, and we eventually changed our name to the Tower of Power.\u201d The reason for the band name change was that they had a specific goal in mind.
\nEast Bay Grease defined their sound and landed them with Warner Brothers. Bump City, their 1972 debut for the label, was a hit on both the Billboard 200 and the R&B Albums chart, and netted them the hits \u201cYou\u2019re Still A Young Man\u201d and \u201cDown to The Nightclub.\u201d The 70s were a boom period with radio classics like \u201cSo Very Hard to Go\u201d and \u201cWhat Is Hip?,\u201d and the band\u00a0continued to tour and record over the years. Castillo says their love of the stage is the same today as it was back in 1968.
\n50 years later, in 2018, they returned to Oakland to celebrate their landmark 50th anniversary. Tower\u2019s window-rattling grooves and raucous party spirit has been a balm for the soul throughout their half-century existence, but the release of 50 Years of Funk & Soul: Live at the Fox Theater couldn\u2019t have arrived at a better time.
\nThe band has long since surpassed Castillo\u2019s modest aspirations, traveling the world, enjoying hit singles on their own and backing legendary artists including Otis Redding, Elton John, Santana, the Grateful Dead, John Lee Hooker, Aerosmith, Bonnie Raitt, and countless others. In the process they\u2019ve defined an \u201cOakland soul\u201d sound as instantly recognizable as those from Castillo\u2019s hometown, Detroit, as well as inspirations like Memphis and Philadelphia.
\nThe future of Tower of Power is set out to be vigorous and dynamic, and will prove to be just that for fans around the world starved for the band\u2019s groove just the way Tower of Power likes it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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