....to continue to Tower of Power...
Now this group is really horn oriented. even if you take out the guitar and keyboard player they still sound solid. the way dave garibaldi and rocco prestia mesh together in the same way as nile rodgers and bernard edwards generated the grooves for Chic. this band has changed members
several times but with the initial core of emilio castillo, stephen kupka and rocco prestia the sound is pretty much the same except sometimes for the use of drum loops, heavier drum grooves and songwriting input from others.
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Vintage tower of power: You're still a young man, What is Hip?, Sparkling in the sand (pogi jazz),Squibcakes, Soul Vacination, Don't change horses,
the newer sound: A little knowledge is a dangerous thing, Souled out, Soul with a capital S, Diggin' on James Brown, Sexy Soul,
Rocco Prestia is totally in a class of his own. his bass lines are best felt
rather than heard. totally unobtrusive and sometimes buried in the mix,
you know this guy is very busy. saying "Hey I'm taking the road less travelled, and I'll see you guys at the end".
one the things I like in "So far very hard to go" are those little blues licks
that are fingerpicked during the 2 first stanzas..
video's of this group are very rare, but there's this dvd recorded at germany where in you get to see this classic group in action.
sad to say wala yung pogi hits (he he he) pero enough to give you a visual taste of how a well-oiled horn section sounds like.
Average WhiTe Band and the Southside movement naman.
AWB's one hit is "pickup up the pieces" along with "Cut the cake" along
also with "Work to do". a british group of white guys also. yup they
faded into the 80's. but "Pickup the pieces" is still a funk groove that was
reworked by the Buddy Rich big band (Burnin' for Buddy) and also that
dutch sax sex siren Candy Dulfer. yeah it's great for jamming also since
it has about 3 chords...
Southside movement. a couple of afro-americans whose one hit was "Everlasting Thrill" and also they did a cover of what else? Pickup the pieces and also Stevie Wonder's ultrafunk hit "Superstition"
horn arrangements were oks lang (as if me alam ako sa ganito)
hopefully someone can relate to all this stuff....
i'm still racking my brain for brass / horn oriented stuff...
hhhmmmm The Brass Ring's "The Disadvantages of you" better known
as the Philipp Morris song or La LA LA LA......
next topic : Is Candy Dulfer a legit jazz performer? nevermind...
edit: just checked at amazon. Southside movement's instrumental
hit was "mud wind" 'Everlasting thrill" was a song.