Tell me, tell me, if you think you know. The pride of Oakland, CA. Here is more on the band: Tower’s musical odyssey actually began in 1968 when Emilio...
Category - Funk
The version of “Shout” embedded below is the Saturday Night Beech-Nut Hour hosted by Dick Clark. The first two or three seconds are priceless if...
Low Rider, above, doesn’t start until about a minute and half into the clip. It is interesting to watch Don Cornelius hold court, however. War has a...
Thanks to my friend Tim for letting me know about Robert Randolph and the Family Band. A couple of paragraphs about the band’s new album, We Walk This...
Something had been missing from this site. I couldn’t figure it out. It finally hit me: Falco singing “Der Kommissar.” Here are the...
I look for any rationale for playing great tunes. So, happy 58th birthday, Mark Avsec. Avsec was the keyboardist in Wild Cherry, whose Play that Funky Music...
I don’t really understand it, from the spaceships landing and the guy in the diaper, but it all is very funky and the musicianship is great. Believe it...
I can’t think of a performer as intense as James Brown in terms of both talent and personality. There really isn’t anyone close. And it...
