lenny pickets solo must be one of the best solos youll hear any instrument , been listening to this since 1976 , stands alone really

@henryclemons9769

4 жыл бұрын

did u listen before then

@Marcus538

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I reckon that long solo held together + all the rest , top solo of anyone , not that it's good to compare

@Superflak

3 жыл бұрын

It was a phenomenal solo. The tuxedo with the top hat was a little over the top. And the dance! I get dizzy every time I relive it in my mind!

@andrewfuller5836

3 жыл бұрын

Lenny was, and is one of the Greatest Saxophone players on the Planet.

@sandiegoCA1965

3 жыл бұрын

The Coletran licks he works in as he funks out are just amazing and then the overtones at the end are just ridiculously technically difficult.

Saw Tower Of Power at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas in the early 1970s. After that concert I went out and purchased every Tower Of Power album I could find.

If you don't listen to this loud, and you're sitting still, there is something wrong with you

@Superflak

3 жыл бұрын

Brian Cavanaugh, my wife would slap me silly if she knew how loud I listen to this track in my car!!! 😆😅🤣😂🤪😎

@bak-mariterry5180

Жыл бұрын

@@Superflak My neighbors yell... TURN IT DOWN !..... But I keep turning the volume knobb the other way . 🤣🤣🤣

lets not forget the master of funk, David Garibaldi, one of the most technically proficient drummers on earth !!!!!!

One of the greatest Tenor solos EVER taken!!! EPIC!! LOVE the Pickett!!

@rayjr62

7 жыл бұрын

Lenny is a beast. A monster. A beastly beast.

@alexandra.willitts6988

4 жыл бұрын

............and playing what is BASICALLY a "bisbigliando" for 1 & 1/2 minutes straight between 8:55 - 10:23............(8^O

@robertdowler8105

4 жыл бұрын

Just Enuf and just too much.

@rickgraham786

4 жыл бұрын

EVER!!!!!

@birdword33

3 жыл бұрын

@@rickgraham786 That solo was nine minutes of bliss!

My parents helped organize this concert back in 76'. I've never stopped listening to Tower of Power. I never will.

@House-Mapscom

6 жыл бұрын

Lucky!

@danjuric622

6 жыл бұрын

Belisa Hennington, pretty cool. My mom bought me this album for Christmas along with other amazing albums around 1995. Timeless sounds. Great live album. Get the Soul Vaccination Live album released in 1998. Great energy like this. Garibaldi just rejoined and had so much to offer after being away for so long. Seen them several times. Seeing them again in March this year in a small place so the room will be shakin'! They've still got it!

@AMFUNKII

6 жыл бұрын

Will you marry me? ;^)

@robertdowler8105

4 жыл бұрын

I was there Da 4th row kid style. Age #21

@busterphenajo

2 жыл бұрын

​@@robertdowler8105 I was there, Sacramento Auditorium. age 19. Lenny's solo. Greg, and Chester's feet on them pedals. Holy Moly !!!! They was on Fire

Rest In Peace Bruce... August 8, 2021 Jimi Hendrix and Bruce Conte are the only reasons I picked up a guitar in the first place. Miss You Already...

why is this STILL so damn good? That Ct foot...

@robertdowler8583

4 жыл бұрын

He got out of politics.

@busterphenajo

2 жыл бұрын

Yup them feet blew my mInd, I never forgot them moments

LP and his unique style. After 14:00 CT in another dimension and the wah wah beyond 🎵

So many great comments, so much love for the greatest r&b, jazziest,funkiest group ever.EVER!!!

This was TOP at their best!!! This tune elevated my musicallity in my senior year in high school1976. Unforgettable!

Lets never forget Chester Thomson

@kellycorpening867

8 жыл бұрын

tower of power they are they're own category!

@yoyo103queenan5

8 жыл бұрын

that's right better known as C.T.

@rtnow1001

8 жыл бұрын

The greatest!!!

@janholder2286

7 жыл бұрын

I absolutely love TOP...and watching CT play, he is the best.

@MayorOfFunkytown42

7 жыл бұрын

Nobody plays the bass with their feet like CT.

I am glad to find all of you guys here!!!!!! We all have something in common We like and recognized the best band with the tightest Brass Section Ever!!!! Long Lives Tower of Power!!!!!!

Saw Lenny doin' this solo Live in Seattle - full white tux, dancing on stage while He was doin' this solo! Over the top!

Truly one of my all time favorite SAX Solos ever!

Now.... That is music..... Not some over synthesized computer generated shit that they call music today..... Thanks

Lead vocal by Hubert Tubbs. Talented singer that had some success in European markets, but sadly never really broke out very big. His tracks with TOP were very good.

It actually got funky when CT switched to the CLAVINET....--then goes bass pedal to the metal...B3....I’m just these guys are from my SF bay.....after CT ascends and makes it rain...ROCCO PICKS it right up....LORDY

This here is one reason why the '70s is the best era for music!!!

One of the greatest live cuts ever.

@woody95124

9 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

45 yrs ago I was 13 yrs old living in a group home in Aurora Ontario and my favourite 'staff', Leigh turned me onto this and I played the sht out of it. Both Leigh and this Band made me want to be the best version of me I could ever be. Best. Band. Ever.

R.I.P. Rocco. :(

Take a deep breath at 8:40, exhale at 10:40. Screaming Sax to end a solo like that. L.P.

@davidquidas961

8 жыл бұрын

+Ephraim Guyton - circular breathing there...

@alexandra.willitts6988

4 жыл бұрын

........and the longest "Bisbigliando" ever recorded on to any audio form........(8^O

Outstanding when LP does his solo it sounds like he is playing 2 or 3 different horns amazing . He plays a long solo (LP) Lenny Pickett, Long Playing. TOP has always my favorite band.

I was born and raised in Sacramento, and I remember when they came. East Bay Funk is among the world's finest and always will be!

@brendastephens5265

Жыл бұрын

Now this is what you call a jam session!

@mckinleysimmons5371

Жыл бұрын

What is the best soul group - TOP, from Mac.

@mckinleysimmons5371

Жыл бұрын

I miss the original members of TOP.

@mckinleysimmons5371

Жыл бұрын

I first got turned on to TOP at Salem Oregon - Armory.

Lenny Pickett, circular breathing, Amazing!

39 years of fun and fantastic funk .... i love it so much

Owned the LP, wore the album out. Lenny Picket, circular breathing. Amazing! Chester Thompson on Hammond B3. Amazing! I was raised in Boyle Heights , California. Born 1958 BC, (before computers).

@billytheweasel

8 жыл бұрын

+El Rey CT was BC too so NP bruh

@MayorOfFunkytown42

7 жыл бұрын

burned through 2 copies of the LP.

Nothing better than oldschool

This entire album is stellar! My favorite of all time. Perfect ending on Knock Yourself Out. I know two people that were there and am forever jealous.

Amazing solos from Lenny and Chester!!!!

One of the most is that it your the most The erryy sounds of keys bleed into the extravagant boom of expression in funk n style , waka waka waka wak oh come on down let’s hit this again n again pure perfection n Classic TOP , and don’t you forget it

One tight band ,I've seen them more times than I can remember

Such a amazing song . The sax is a masterpiece.

Pickett is simply a FREAK!!! Love it!!!

Never heard this before. Amazing! thank you.

Saw them in1977 @ UC Irvine Ca. The Bay area boyz put on great show... This song was funky and tight... Thank you Freddy for taking me and driving me there in your powder blue ford van... What is Hip? ToP forever!! Aloha Kimo

THE FUNK!!! Rocco Prestia for President!

@robertdowler8105

4 жыл бұрын

Marc VW V.P. 2020.

@robertdowler8583

4 жыл бұрын

Jerry Manuel for Speaker of the House.

Lenny Pickett is a tenor sax WIZARD!!🔥🔥🔥

Long Live The FUNK!!!

Unbefuckinglieveable. Lenny you are a freak and an inspiration.

@alexmurray1987

7 жыл бұрын

"unfunkingbelieveable" you mean

Y’all don’t realize how hard it is to breathe like that into a saxophone like that for that long and not pass out and that’s ok 🎷

Now.... That is REAL music.....

My favorite song on my favorite album. Live and in living color.They are my favs for dancing yah! Been listening going to concerts since 1975.

Love this album one of their best and so says DG as well. Some monster solos here from both Lenny and Chester. I so love this band my favorite what so ever got almost all albums.

true American STYLE MUSIC!!!!!!! oh how I miss this!!!!!!

i got out Marine Corp in1970, saw these guys in Seattle a few times, then met my lost 2 brothers bout 2o yrs ago went to Sacramento see youngest brother he called me in Vegas told me that TOP WAS PLAYING at fair grounds hus wife's bank help put together, got to go back stage take group picture with them, even though i bever met my brothers growing up amazingly we all had love for this group, seen them couple times at JAZZ ALLY in Seattle, i live in Vegas, si when they come here I'm there

@henryclemons9769

4 жыл бұрын

wow hell of a thang

Lenny is incredible!

PHENOMENAL !!!

My dad brought me here just got off the phone with him he is a sax man himself love the guy always a great time 🤌🏾🙏🏽❤️🎷💯

you go lenny you are the man

Man back in the days! this was the shit!

@henryclemons9769

4 жыл бұрын

still today 2020 and beyond.....6/13/20

Being from Oakland, and SF I grew up listening to these guys, they are the shit!

Saw TOP 3 times, last time I saw them at the , near Seattle in a bar restaurant - great night, before that PLU in Parkland WA.

so much fun, these guys...in '73 we got them to play our high school (CB) in sac...i think we paid them $175! got to dance the last song (you're still a young man) with a girl 2 years older than me. she was my total crush and simply an unforgettable dance, woman, AND band. i will always associate these cats with groove, funk, fun, and that magical romance. keep on truckin T.O.P.

Perhaps the greatest sax solo ever and you mean to tell me no one had a fuckin camera in the crowd????? Jesus Christ!!!!!!

REAL HORNS,

Awesome band ... the real deal .. Oak Town baby

I had this on 8-Track.... The sax solo was 2 channels long!!!!!

There never was or will be anything as perfect in modern music as this group.Absolute control and incredible artistry...Oh what has happened to sounds like this.

I swear every time I listen to this version I flip out. Between Lenny Picket's insane solo, Chester Thompson's insane B3 Hammond solo, and let's not forget that solo Mic Gillette (R.I.P) did with playing that high end solo on the trumpet and then switching to his Superbone Trombone which was amazing and insane. Going from. A Jet Tone mouthpiece over to a trombone mouthpiece was incredible. I saw Mic do that at a concert in Hartford. CT. This band is in a league of its own. All the band members are special.

Amazing. it that really CT playing the bass pedals during his solo??. Wow!

@mdsharp5d349

4 жыл бұрын

turns out yes it is! i was able to speak to CT after one of his shows at the SF Jazz Center. he said there are no lies during his solo, and the bass lines are all his - a combo of left hand and foot pedals. CT is a musical genius!

SICK!

My first ToP record......... holy and it sounds still fresh to me!

T.O.P, bad ma ma jamma's

Hubert Tubbs on the top!

Hes LP.. Hes Lenny Pickett!

Lenny...the man

Really, Really, Really Good Avantgarde And Jazz Music!

@henryclemons9769

4 жыл бұрын

most people will not understand

hubbert tubbs oooyeah

I concur 🤗

Damn best solo Lenny ever played!

Mi banda favorita de niño yeah

Awesome band,I saw them do this live in 77.LP !

I was going to Cal in the early-mid 70s and LP would play for spare change on Sproul Plaza. I had no idea who he was at the time but he would always draw a big crowd. He could hold a note for at least two minutes, which was impressive. This solo is even more so!

Vid of this would be awesome.

Thanks for this post! Grateful for KZread!

best horns ever!!!

@henryclemons9769

4 жыл бұрын

them chicago,brass construction,the j b's just to name a few

totattly awesome!

Funk! Like it was ment to be!

OoOoOoO That would be beyond awesome as well! Sometimes *only* the original will do; there are so many live versions of "Knock Yourself Out," but this is "The version my ears wanted." These are the EXACT Lenny Pickett and Chester Thompson solos I wanted to hear. Some tasty imports are a yummy idea as well! YESSSS

No se 9lviden de Greg Afams ecelente tromprtaM No se olvden de Greg Adamas excelente trompeta

What else needs to said except DAMMMMM!

So badass

love top

Music History 🎶

Lenny pickets tenor Saxaphone solo… 1:43 mins -10:23 mins … 8.8 minute horn solo… They were certainly not joking when they said “Knock yourself out “ Could it ever get any better ? That’s why Tower of Power is always THE TOP BAND ever ….!!!! FULL STOP 🛑…

@calhounbass

Жыл бұрын

Yep, my first love ❤️

Sacramento all day

unfrickin believlable...pickets talent

the bay area put out some very sophisticated funk and r&b groups.

@henryclemons9769

4 жыл бұрын

very yes

dayum!

...Oh what did this do to an innocent young man.?.?.? Where did all that time go.???.Let's do it all again..

still in 2018 and beyond.......9/1

Those of you who are coming here from "Top 10 saxophone solos in pop and rock"............... Listen to Lenny Pickett on the STUDIO version of Squib Cakes as well. It might be somewhere over here ----->>> ----->>> ----->>> ----->>>>>>>>

GOD BLESS YOU GOD BLESS YOU GOD BLESS YOU GOD BLESS YOU GOD BLESS YOU !!!!! THANK YOU FOR BEING THE FIRST TO POST THIS!!! OMG I FEEL LIKE IT'S CHRISTMAS! THANK YOU, YOU BEAUTIFUL SOUL!!!! I CAN DIE HAPPY NOW!!!!! GOD BLESS YOU! CAN I DRINK YOUR BATHWATER? DO YOUR DISHES? LOL THANK YOU --- MAN, YOU ROCK *ALMOST* AS WELL AS ToP!!!!!! WHOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOO! #EAR_ORGASM XD

Rocco is busting that bass,oh yeah real fuck'n musicians playing THEIR own instruments not sampling someone else music

That baritone sex!!! The Doctor!!!

Lenny Pickett! I took tenor lessons from his mentor

@andrewfuller5836

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, wheels wilson, Berkeley Bert. What a Great Person.

P U R E FUNK.....

LP Lenny Pickett.