If You Like Funk: Check Out Vulfpeck

Astewart8944

Nice to see you taking an interest and interacting with your kids music and expanding both of your musical  tastes.  I love hearing new stuff.  I too thought it was reminiscent of the Jackson Five and like your reference to the Brothers Johnson (Strawberry Letter 23 - still love that song).

Shadorne has given you some great suggestions and he  may be the only person I know who is close to me as far as being a funky horn band fan affocianado.    First, you may want to introduce your kids to my all time favorite band and first on Shardone’s list, Tower of Power,  BTW, flying to Oakland this weekend to see their 50th Anniversary show and it will be my 104th seeing them live.

Have your kids listen to this:
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=oakland+stroke&go=Search&qs=n&sp=-1&pq=oakland+...

To add to Shadorne’s list:
Five Alarm Funk
Heavy Metal Horns
Here Come The Mummies
Jack Mack and the Heart Attack
Phat Phunction
Sante Fe and the Fat City Horns
Trombone Shorty
Sage
Prime Time Funk
Sons of Champlin
Buddy Mile
Boston Horns
Mandrill

Keep listening and keep sharing,

Frank

PSS. - first, I apologize to everyone on this thread if it looks like I am highjacking it as I am not wanting to.  I am just such a huge TOP fan and so enamored with them even 50 years after first hearing them as a young teenager, and just found the clip I was looking for.  I hope everyone will endure it and listen not just to how funky the band is but listen to Lenny Pickett’s solo - to me, his not not only the funkiest sax player on earth,  it he is sick his range is so crazy and he circular breaths a note so high that when he ends the circular breath g he bites if off up in dog whist territory.

asterwart8944 and everyone, sorry if I overplayed this but I thought people might reLly like this clip of the tightest band on the planet.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VylNyo_OOU8#fauxfullscreen

PS - the funkier than all get out sax  player in that clip of Tower of Power was Lenny Pickett who was only 19 years old at that time they recorded that album.  He was just 17 when he joined Tower of Power and when they hit it big in 1971 and were playing stadiums in the early 70s.  For the last 30 years or so he has been the leader of the Saturday Night Live Band.  His range is not to be believed (has been since age 16) and he can play up in the stratosphere like no one I’ve heard.  I think dogs coming running he gets up so high.

Shadorne, I couldn’t agree more.  Not only is Back to Oakland my favorite album of all time but I  also I totally agree on Chester Thompson.  His timing, ability to keep intensifying a groove, his foot pedal work and his ability to play off Rocco and Garibaldi was just sublime.  Throw in Lenny Pickett and I am in soul/funk/music heaven.

My all time favorite is Squib Cakes.

Al

I am so glad to be able to share some music with you and others here and glad your boys may like Five Alarm Funk. I see others have echoed a few from my list and that makes me so happy others are listening to these great groups.

i was fortunate today to have received Tower of Power’s first new CD (of original new music not a compilation) in nine years. I got it two days before it comes out on Friday (their label Mack Avenue Records is in Detroit right by my office) and it is truly fabulous!  It’s called “Soul Side of Town”

FIFTY YEARS together and they haven’t lost a beat.  Check it out and it comes on vinyl too for us LP guys!

Truly enjoyed and appreciated your post and this thread Al.

Frank

Thanks for reminding me about the Headhunters LP Frogman.  I have not dusted that LP off and played it in quite a while so it was great hearing it again.

I bought that LP in 1973 and the funk band I was in back in the day played the opening track in our first set in the club days (during my brief but wonderful career as a musician cut short by an accident).

Well, tonight is the night I get to see and hear Tower of Power’s Offical 50th Anniversary concert in Oakland CA with many of the alumni.  Lenny Pickett and Chester Thompson will be there and it will be amazing when they all play together.   Music so fresh and exciting after half a century -  and it never grows old or stale to me.

Cheers,

Frank

Thank Al.  Will do.  And Al?  Thanks again for this thread.

Isn’t this hobby, the end, all about the MUSIC?  

Chazro, great stuff.  Gotta get me soma dat Honeydrippin new (old) music!

Gotta run, it’s off to the Fox Theater to hear the most outrageous Oakland soul/funk band of all!!!  

Funk the Dumb Stuff !!