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A Message From Tower Of Power

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Rocco Prestia

Rocco Prestia

From Tower Of Power:

 

A Special Message To Our Fans And Friends:

As you know, our beloved Rocco Prestia has been a part of Tower of Power since the beginning. He is the legendary bassist that has inspired countless musicians. His music has touched the lives of many, and will continue to do so. Everyone, he needs our help. Rocco is currently battling some health issues that require the immediate attention and concern of others. Rocco is in need of a kidney transplant, and it is crucial that a donor is found quickly.

Please help us in spreading the word. If you or someone you know is interested in being tested to possibly become a donor, please contact the following e-mail address: GiftofLife4Rocco@Yahoo.com. You will speaking to Eddie Hernandez, someone who has been through this process, and Eddie will answer any questions and concerns that you may have.

Please visit this page or our http://www.towerofpower.com/ for developing information.

Thank you. God bless, and lets keep the music playing.

The Monophonics Have A Kickstarter Project For New Tour Bus

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monophonics_600__90647Here is the Info and please help:

First of all, we’d like to say that we consider ourselves one of the luckiest bands we know to be able to do what we do. Last year we crossed the US several times, went to Canada three times and did a month in Europe to packed houses. 2013 promises to be even more fun and busy for us with two tours already booked for Europe, and several multi-week tours across the US and Canada.

Our current record “In Your Brain” has been extremely well received both here and abroad and we are very thankful and happy with how things are going on the creative side and as far a bookings are concerned, so we’d like to send out a big THANK YOU!! to all you folks who have come to the shows or have bought our records and merchandise.

As with adding stress to any system, the upswing in our activity (we were on the road 240 days last year and will have at least that many travel days this year) has made us painfully aware of the weakest link in the Monophonics road show – it’s our bus.

It’s a fact of life that, while being a musician is incredibly rewarding in many many ways, financially is not often one of them. Even though we are incredibly busy, ironically, at year’s end, we haven’t got much to show for it.

The largest single reason we’ve identified for our current financial situation is the fact that with repairs and gasoline, we spent well over $100,000 on our bus in 2012.

Should this campaign turn out well and we are able to get a Turbo-Diesel Mercedes Sprinter for 2013, we will save $60,000 in fuel alone, and that will go a LONG way toward getting us to our (and every musician’s) goal of actually making a living doing what we love so much, plus, it will have A WORKING HEATER AND AIR CONDITIONING!! We just drove overnight from Colorado to Wyoming and it was 17 degrees inside the bus!

Please give what you can. The rewards you see on the right are very cool, and we look forward very much to getting them to you, but there’s another reward that everyone who contributes will get: Our undying gratitude. We will know who you are and we invite you to please come introduce yourselves at shows so we can thank you personally.

With love and gratitude,

~ Monophonics

Kickstarter link: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/356819612/we-need-a-new-bus?ref=live

Monophonics Page Here at HDR: https://www.hdrbanddirectory.com/monophonics/

 

Doc Kupka’s (Tower Of Power)Tour Hat The ULTIMATE Tower Of Power Collectible Item Can Be Yours!

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One Of A Kind Auction at EBAY!!!

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Background:

Doc’s wife Yvonne received a liver transplant on Dec. 28, 2010. Yvonne was finally able to go home from the hospital on March 28, 2011, three months to the day after her transplant surgery! The in-home care and recuperative process continues to this day.

The Kupka Family is extremely grateful for the contributions that have enabled them to pay a portion of the medical expenses but additional funds are needed for continued medical care, rehabilitation and medications.

In this first ever offering of an iconic Tower Of Power collectible of this significance you have a unique opportunity to own a piece of Tower Of Power history.

Doc Started wearing his trademark Fedora in the early 1980’s.  Doc buys his hats at The Berkeley Hat Co. located at 2510 Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, Ca. 94704  (510-549-2955)  and usually gets about 1 year out of the hat before it is retired.  The HAT travels in it’s road case and one time on tour in Europe it was misplaced for a couple of days and created quite a commotion.

Included in this auction are two tickets to a TOP show during the next year at a venue in your area and a chance to meet Doc and the rest of the band and take some photos with them. A certificate of authenticity on Tower Of Power stationery will be included with the hat, as well as free shipping in the Continental US.  Shipping to other countries is available at an additional cost.

EBAY Auction Link : Doc Kupka’s Hat

TOP Ten good things about doing a hometown gig (TOP is doing 6 nights in Oakland at Yoshi’s) BY: Al Carlos

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10.You can go home for lunch.

 9. A special, former member section, that seats 600 lying dudes.

 8. House shoes and pajama bottoms during sound check.

 7. Girls who wouldn’t date you in High School look like Betty White.

 6. Wives can see for themselves that many of the fans are no threat to steal their man.

 5. On the other hand, single members can catch major Babe rides home.

 4. You can put Madden on pause, do the gig, then come back and finish the game.

 3. You can get what you want, since you know where to find it.

 2. Everybody claims to know you.

 1. Your memory is so bad after all these years, you believe them.

 

New Music From Bononia Sound Machine plus Current Playlist

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We have new music from Bononia Sound Machine.  They have a new live CD out titled “Thank You For The Party” and we now have three songs from this CD in our current playlist.  The three songs are So Very Hard To Go, You’re Gonna Need Me, and a James Brown Medley.  For more information on “Thank You For  The Party” go to Bononia’s web site highlighted here in red Bononia Sound Machine.

Our complete current playlist is as follows (artist order not order of play):

***Ain’t No Thang/Late Nite Party Boys
***Al Kooper/Id Rather Be An Old Mans Sweetheart (Than A Young Mans Fool)
***Ambergris/Play On Player
***Andreas Aleman/Give me that funky stuff
***Andrew Neu/The Nut
***Andy Dewitt/Better Chance It
***Anna King/That’s When I Cry
***Anthony Setola/Oakland And Back
***August/634-5789
***Average White Band/Oh, Maceo
***Back To Basic/No Mumbo Jumbo
***Band Of Oz/Smoke From A Distant Fire
***Barela/Can You Ever Think
***Barry Danielian/My Brothers Keeper
***Beaufunk/Change Gonna Come Fa Bette
***Betty Wright/Shoorah! Shoorah!”
***BIG HORNS BEE/Vamp Intro (Reprise)
***Big Mouth/Too Many Women [Live] ***Bill Bergman & The Metro Jets/The Metro 3:30 A.M.
***Bill Champlin/Stone Cold Hollywood
***Bill Champlin/In the Stone
***Bill Evans/Cool Eddie
***Bill Kings Rhythm Express/Track 1
***Bill Withers, G Washington/Just the Two of Us
***Billy Reed & The Steet People/Grease Piece
***Bing & The Bingtones/Funk With Me
***Björn Skifs/Sad Saturday Night
***Blast/Do it ’till dawn
***Blood, Sweat & Tears/Spinning Wheel
***BlowZone/Ode To Billie Joe
***Bob James/Farandole
***Bobby Caldwell/What You Won’t Do for Love
***Bobby Purify/Somebody’s Gotta Do it
***Bobby Wayne/Soul Station
***Boneshakers/Cold Sweat
***Boney James/Contact
***Bononia Sound Machine/James Brown Medley
***Bononia Sound Machine/You’re Gonna Need Me
***Bononia Sound Machine/So Very Hard To Go
***Bradley Leighton/She’s Gone
***Brandon Fields/Butterflies Talk
***Brecker Brothers/Skunk Funk
***Brian Culbertson/The House Of Music Ft. Larry Graham & Ronnie Laws
***Brooklyn Funk Essentials/Bop Hop
***Brooklyn Soul Organization/Trouble in the house
***Bruce Conte/Best Friend
***Bull City Syndicate/You Make Me Feel
***Bump Kitchen/Big Ol’ Bones
***Butch Harrison/Butch’s Blues
***Candy Dulfer/Valdez In The Country
***Carmen Grillo/Dr. In The House
***Chad Rager Groove/Groovin Hard
***Charles Bradley/Heartaches And Pain
***Charles Wells/My Little Feel Good
***Charles Wright/Love Land
***Chase/Open Up Wide
***Chester Thompson/Mr. T
***Chicago/25 Or 6 To 4
***Chickenhawks/Pocky Way
***Chilly Bob/Soul A Plexus
***Chops the Band/Scrapple And Grits
***Chris Cain/I Need a Woman to Treat Me Right
***Chuck Loeb/Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight
***Chuck Mangione/Feels So Good
***Clas Yngström’s Big Band Experience/Crosstown Traffic
***Cold Blood/Down To The Bone
***Cracked Ice/New Shade Of Bue
***Craig King/Feelin’ Like A New 45
***Danny Weis/Graham Street Shuffle
***Danser’s Inferno/Inferno
***Darrell Nulisch/My Baby’s Gone
***Dave Brubeck/Take Five
***Dave C. Norman/Pick Up the Pieces
***Dave Koz/The Dance
***Dave Murphy Band/Right This Moment
***Dave Weckl Band/Tower Of Inspiration
***David Clayton – Thomas/Mornin’ Blues
***David Mann/Urban Eyes
***David Sanborn/Brother Ray (Feat. Derek Trucks)
***Delbert McClinton/New York City
***Delta Wires/Big Leg Woman
***Dennis Taylor (sax) – with Delbert M/Since I Fell For You
***Doctor Funk/Can’t Fight The Funk
***Don Wise/Hey, Little Girl
***Doug And The Slugs/It’s Got To Be Monday
***Doug Johns/Up the Funk
***Down To The Bone/Urban Jazz
***Dyke & The Blazers/Let A Woman Be A Woman – Let A Man…
***Earl Thomas/I’ll Love You No Less
***Eddie Harris/Mean Greens
***Eddie Harris/Steps Up
***Eddit Floyd/Groove Me
***Electric Flag/Killing Floor
***Elvin Bishop/Medley(Let The Good Times Roll,A Change Is Gonna Come,Bring It On Hom E)
***Eric Bolvin/Panama Red
***Floyd Miles & Friends/Two against Them All
***Fontella Bass/Rescue Me
***Four 80 East/Loosey Goosey
***Francis Rocco Prestia/Double Identity
***Frank Biner/I Got to Be Frank
***Frank Wilson/Do I Love You
***Fred Wesley & The JB’s/You Can Have Watergate But Gimme Some Bucks And I’ll Be Straight (Parts 1 & 2)
***Freddy V./Rush
***GENE DOZIER & BROTHERHOOD/Hunk Of Funk
***Gerald Albright/Hey Young World
***Grant Smith And The Power/Keep On Running
***Greg Adams/Mahdi (The Expected One)
***Greg Adams/Back To Oakland
***Greyboy Allstars/Sandwich
***Heavy Metal Horns/Caught In The Middle
***Heavy Metal Horns/You’re Still A Young Man
***Herb Albert/Rise
***Here Come The Mummies/The Worm
***Horny Funk Brothers/Come Together
***Jaco Pastorius/Soul intro/The Chicken
***Jake Langley/Filthy McNasty
***James Brown/Hot Pants
***James Taylor/Whenever Your Ready
***Jason Mraz/Copchase
***Jazzkantine, Nils Landgren & Pee Wee Ellis/Schmackofatz
***Jeff Golub/Cold Duck Time
***Jules Broussard/Love Won’t Let Me Wait
***Julius Pittman & The Revival/Side Show
***Karl Denson/I Want the Funk
***L.A Carpool/Do It Again [Steely Dan Classic] ***Larry Carlton/Minute By Minute
***Lee Fields & The Expressions/Honey Dove
***Lighthouse/One Fine Morning
***Liquid Soul/This And That
***Little Beaver/Listen to My Heartbeat
***Little Mike & The Sweet Soul Music Band/Free Ride
***Little Milton/Some Kind of Wonderful
***Lon Bronson/Gimme Shelter
***Low Budget Blues Band/Can I Get a Witness
***Lydia Pense & Cold Blood/COLD BLOOD- LIVE -No Way Home
***Maceo Parker/Off The Hook
***Mandrill/Hang Loose
***Mark Dolin/The Parkin’ Lot Hang
***Max Carl & Big Dance/Show Me The Money
***MGB-Mic Gillette Band/Moondoggie
***Michael Grimm/Sit Down And Shut Up
***Michelle Shocked w/Tower of Power/Barefootin’
***Mingo Fishtrap/Rev. Mccarty’s BBQ Shack
***Monophonics/Loose Nukes (Ft. Karl Denson)
***Neal Kimble/You Sure Gotta Funny Way
***Nick Lane,/An Inside Joke
***Ole Børud/Backyard Party
***Ole Børud/Rock Steady
***OTiS/A New Addiction
***Papa Grows Funk/My Man
***Patrick Bradley/Time & Chance
***Phantom Blues Band/I Can’t Stand It
***Polyrhythmics/Pink Wasabi
***Ridin’ Thumb/Different Strokes – Different Folks
***RYAN FORET AND FORET TRADITION/TO LOVE SOMEBODY
***Santa Fe & The Fat City Horns/Turn Your Love Around
***Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings/Nobody’s Baby
***Spectrum/In The Space
***Steve Cole/It’s Gonna Be Alright
***Sunstroke PM/Monday Night Project
***Tad Robinson/Sunday Morning Woman
***The Bamboos/Crooked Cop
***The Blues Brothers/Soul Man
***The Bo-Keys/Work That Sucker
***The Bo-Keys/Got To Get Back (To My Baby)
***The Brand New Heavies/Country Funkin’
***The Buckinghams/Kind of a Drag
***The Budos Band/Mas o Menos
***The Burners U.K./Shining Star
***The California Honeydrops/When It Was Wrong
***The Commitments/Mr. Pitiful
***The Crusaders/Street Life
***The Dexters/Pass The Peas
***The Dirty Dozen Brass Band/Sissy Strut
***The Domino Band/Lets Stay Together
***The Doobie Brothers/Long Train Running
***The Edgar Winter Group/I’ve Got News For You
***The Funk On Me/Ur Momma Thinks 2 Much
***The Groove Hogs/Blues Is My Business
***The Ides of March/Vehicle
***The Lon Bronson All-Star Band/Syn City
***The Lon Bronson All-Star Band/I Wouldn’t Recommend It
***The Lon Bronson All-Star Band/At the End of the Day
***The Majestics/Medley-Philly Dog, Night Train, Shotgun
***The Soul Believers/The Popcorn
***Toler/Townsend Band/Full Time Fool
***Tom Scott/Walk A Mile
***Tower Of Power/Knock Yourself Out
***Tower Of Power/I Got The Chop
***Tower Of Power/You Ought to Be Havin’ Fun
***Wynton Marsalis & Eric Clapton/Layla
***Yoichi Murata/Positive Sign
***Zapp Zapp/Heavy Pooh
***Zen Blues Quartet/Powerful Stuff

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