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| The East Bay Archive Volume I | 
| Artist: Tower Of Power
Label: Pra
Category: Music
List Price: $18.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (9 reviews)
Sales Rank: 20997
Format: Live
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 300201
UPC: 895333002018
EAN: 0895333002018
ASIN: B001CUXZV8
Release Date: August 26, 2008
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Disc 1
| • | Check It Out (Instrumental) | | • | What Is Hip? | | • | Clean Slate | | • | So Very Hard To Go | | • | You're Still A Young Man | | • | Soul Vaccination | | • | This Time It's Real | | • | Back On The Streets | | • | Don t Change Horses | | • | Knock Yourself Out |
Disc 2
| • | Main Nerve | | • | Get Yo' Feet Back On The Ground | | • | Sparkling In The Sand | | • | Both Sorry Over Nothin' | | • | Down To The Nightclub | | • | You Got To Funkafize | | • | Just Another Day | | • | Don't Fight It |
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Album Description
The East Bay Archive Volume I is the first in an archival series of original re-mastered live recordings coinciding with the bands 40th anniversary. Handpicked by TOP's founding and current member David Garibaldi, Volume I is a live double disc release featuring TOP's performance at K-K-K-Katy's in Boston in April of 1973 and includes TOP classics "You're Still a Young Man," "What is Hip," and "So Very Hard To Go."
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Never mind the audio quality! November 20, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As Mr Garabaldi said "Don't buy this if you're expecting a mixed studio product...this is raw..."garage" all the way"
The point is it really doesn't matter we have a window into early Tower of Power and just this should be enough and lets not forget that this from a personal collection. We should be grateful for it or it could be languishing in a cupboard somewhere waiting to be found. Come on guys!!!!
5 stars whatever the audio quality!
A great trip down Memory Lane November 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
First, it's amazing that this recording even exists at all. It's a blessing that it was released so that Tower of Power fans can enjoy an incredible live recording from the band's truly formative years. An earlier reviewer complained that the audio sounded like a 1970's cassette recording. It IS a cassette recording from the 1970's, courtesy of Tower of Power's drummer extraordinare David Garibaldi, who apparently amassed quite a collection of his own "bootlegs" of the band's rehearsals and concerts over the years on both cassette and reel-to-reel audio tape. The 2 CD set is from a concert at a tiny nightclub in Boston called K-K-K-Katy's on April 23, 1973. This is actually a live version of a "Greatest Hits" collection BEFORE the songs were even commercially released. The band's classic "Tower of Power" LP was released just about a month after this nightclub recording was made. For Tower of Power fans, it's a time travel experience smack dab into one of its most creative periods. Lenny Williams and Chester Thompson had only recently joined the band, and you can tell by his comments before and after songs that Lenny was just getting comfortable with the material and his role in the band. Yes, the audio isn't the greatest but David Garibaldi has already explained that here in two different posts. The club sounds like it only had about fifty people in it, and you can hear people's conversations, glasses tinkling, etc. from the audience during the show. As I already said, the songs they played that night were mostly unknown then. When Tower of Power plays these same songs today, their legendarily devoted fans go crazy but on this night in Boston, the audience gave them a warm reception but certainly not any standing ovations. Lenny's announcements from the stage as he introduced the songs are great to hear, and he also occasionally promoted the release of their "new album" in a month. You can also hear him say things like "Stick around for the second set" or "We're going to be here all week" (during their five night engagement). You also hear somebody (maybe a stage manager) admonish someone in the audience who was ringing a bell to knock it off because it was disrupting the music! Because this group lineup included Brent Byars on percussion, you hear congas and a tambourine, which is absent from later Tower of Power releases. Die hard fans will catch different phrasings in these songs over the years and subtle variations as the music evolved. Some songs, like "Don't change horses" are much slower than the studio releases or other live recordings, but most of the music is done at the original tempo. A couple of very, very minor gripes. Disc One fades in with the Chester Thompson composition "Check it out" (which sounds a lot like "Squib Cakes" from a much later recording. And CD #1 ends with a high energy and quite spirited version of "Knock Yourself Out" fading out, which kind of bothered me a little. CD #2 similarly begins with "Main Nerve" fading in, instead of starting from the beginning. I'm guessing that the tape was started late (which would explain the fading in) and the recorder may have run out of tape during "Knock yourself out" (which would explain the need to fade it out.) Garibaldi and the rest of the band released this special CD in conjunction with Tower of Power's 40th anniversary. Can anybody think of any other bands that are still going strong after 40-years? I can't. To wrap up: this isn't a perfect audio recording, but it's a real gem.
 A poor reflection of the ToP sound November 6, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
ToP's signature horn section and the band's unique sound get short shrift here. The quality is really a poor reflection on ToP, since it looks like ToP produced this CD itself. ToP has been and remains one of my favorite bands and it's painful to hear tinny, hissy music that obscures the horn section's sound that I love. And hat room was the lead vocalist in?
ToP should withdraw this CD and fix the sound quality, or make it very clear on the CD cover that the sound quality is atrocious. I'm trying to get store credit (didn't buy it from Amazon) or another ToP CD. REALLY disappointing CD. So on sounds quality, one star On music four stars.
 deja vu all over again October 16, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just read DG's comments on The Easy Bay Archive tracks and I just wanted to thank him for releasing his recordings. In spite of the imperfect sound quality...what a great way to document TOP's journey to
become one of the most phenomenal groups ever!!!! I was 15 yrs old when
I saw TOP (this is my favorite TOP lineup btw) live at a club in Baltimore in 1974 and was forever changed by the experience. The club was packed with people of all ages and races, they were all extremely excited and moved by the fabulous musicianship & pure joy that is TOP!!! Studio performances are key but the true measure of a great band is the live performance and TOP still brings the house down in person. Love the cd. Happy 40th!!
Not quite what I was looking for October 4, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The music is good but I agree with the other reviewers that say that the sound quality is not that good. When I listen to this CD, it sounds like I am listening to a cassette recording I made in the 70s. The music of Tower of Power will overcome the sound quality but it looks like the wait will be a little longer for a really good compilation CD from them. They were definitely one of the best bands of the 70s.
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