So Very Hard to Go
What's up!! This is my first posting on this site. Been a fan since the self-titled album of 1973. I was 12 yo and living in Panama City, Florida when I heard "So Very Hard to Go" on the radio and...
View ArticleMy first time.....
Atlantic City......House of Blues.....last year I was never a fan, but went with my husband . I figured how bad could it be. And I got to go away for the weekend. Wow, words can't describe the...
View ArticleWhen was your first TOP Injection?
Mine was in the winter of 1974 at the Pensacola Municipal Auditorium in Pensacola, Florida. My barracks roommate at Naval Air Station Pensacola was from the south side of Chicago and says; "Dave, you...
View Article1973
How blessed can one person be! 1973, San Diego USD Campus,.. Multi-Group Festival with Cheech and Chong as the headliners. This was the time of " The Classic Tower of Power Lineup ",.. I was only 12...
View Article1974 U.C. Santa Barbara KNOCK YOURSELF OUT!
It was 1974 and I was a freshman at U.C. Santa Barbara. In our dorm, there were a bunch of guys from Northern California who let those of us from SoCal know about this killer band that was coming to...
View Articleyoung fans in europ
Hello bumsters, It's right. The fans in europe become younger and younger. http://vids.myspace.com/i...dual&VideoID=41640440 Let's get funky Stefan
View ArticleFillmore East-April 3rd 1971
I went to the Fillmore East as we often did back then and had a $5.50 RD row center seat to see Santana. Little did I know that the opening band that night would change my life. TOP came out to open...
View ArticleWhen, where, etc.
I first heard of Tower of Power early in 1971 on Santana III release ' Everybody's Everything' - I believe Neil Schon (Journey, etc) was introduced to the world on this album as well. Discovered and...
View Article1974 and still enjoying
I purchased TOP TOP in 1974, I was 17. A band I joined was doing This Times its Real and few others. Its too long ago to remember much more detail. I just finished watching the DVD of the Ohio live...
View ArticleLike a Ghost...
Tower of Power really did appear in my life like a ghost...They just took over one day with an unidentified spirit. I must admit, as I put a little thought into it, it was a keyboardist named Daille...
View ArticleSummer of '74...I've never been the same since!
Wow, so many of us have been fans for such a long time. I was 16 in '74 visiting my grandmother in Oroville. A boy I knew put on Back to Oakland. I played trombone in school (still do), but got...
View ArticleLife Was Good!
In 1974, I bought my first house in an industrial part of town in Canton Ohio. America made things then.This was after college and having sold my drums (stupid!). Mtg was $50.00 a month. I had a nice...
View ArticleMy first time with t.o.p.
hi all here on the board, I'm with t.o.p. since I've heard a CD of them after a concert in Freiburg (south of Germany) at the legendary Jazz Haus in 1991. I worked there as a stage hand and I've...
View ArticleMy first TOP exposure
It was around 1976 when I have enough comprehension to music (although my mom keeps telling me when she was pregnant with me I always kick her tummy everytime a radio is on), the first time I heard So...
View ArticleFirst Time Live in NY. and expect to see in Korea again!
I've seen the T.O.P's great live at B.B.King's Blues Club NY on Wednesday, August 24, 2005. At that time, I was staying NYC for studying English. I found the fact by chance that the live show is about...
View Article1973
In 1974 I was 8 years old and I have three older brothers who at the time were 20, 19 and 17 and all of them were horn players. Their 11 piece funk/soul band would rehearse at our house and they...
View Article1992 ish
I was at a Tab Benoit concert in Beaumont, TX somewhere around 1992. After the show I was chewing the fat with Tab...(he's cool that way and down to earth). I asked Tab what he thought about Albert...
View Article1st Tower Concert--1971
Saw Tower in Nov., '71, SF, just off a NAVY ship at Winterland--Tower played with a bunch of bands--"Joy of Cooking" was 1 band. &nbs...Read More
View Articlemany many memories
just listening/enjoying the 40th - just knowing they will be in Minneapolis in Dec has me in a mood. I met the Conte cousins back in 77, I remember either Bruce or Vic asking me, "everybody thinks...
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