Tower of Power with Average White Band to Play bergenPAC, 4/21
For close to five decades, Tower of Power has delivered the best in Rhythm and Blues music. To date, the group has featured over 60 different members in its many incarnations since forming over 40 years ago. They have recorded with Elton John, Smokey Robinson, Rod Stewart, Dionne Warwick and have influenced a generation of musicians. The horn section from Tower of Power has made guest appearances with The Monkees, The Grateful Dead, Santana, Cat Stevens, Elton John, Jermaine Jackson, Rod Stewart, Jefferson Starship, Huey Lewis and the News and Aerosmith, among many other recording artists.
The band is recognized as having some of the finest rhythm and brass sections in the world of funk music. Their first record, East Bay Grease, helped to define the East Bay. Bump City, their 1972 debut was a hit on both the Billboard 200 and the chart's R&B Albums chart, and netted them the hits "You're Still A Young Man" and "Down To The Nightclub." The decade of the 1970s were a boom period for the group, who hit with radio classics like "So Very Hard To Go" and "What Is Hip?" and the band has continued to tour and record over the years with their latest project Hipper Than Hip being a live flash back to their 1974 tour.
Their signature song "So Very Hard to Go" was featured in the film soundtracks of "City of God (2002)" and "Semi-Pro (2008)". The band appeared on Josh Groban's 2006 album "Awake." In 2013, Ray Greene joined the band as new lead vocalist performing with the band for the first time on New Year's Eve in Lincoln, CA. Tower of Power joined Journey and the Steve Miller Band for San Francisco Fest Tour in 2014 for the first time ever.
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