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Mic Gillette, founding Member of Tower of Power, Dies at 64
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| Monday, January 18, 2016
| Evan Sernoffsky
Posted on 01/18/2016 4:00:34 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Glenn Frey...it’s been a very bad month.
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01/18/2016 4:01:55 PM PST
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Hildy
To: nickcarraway
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01/18/2016 4:02:47 PM PST
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CGASMIA68
To: nickcarraway
As a horn player, growing up in the 60’s and 70’s, Mic was one of my idols.
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The sax player(a white fella) was a heck of a dancer when he put down the sax. Hope it wasn’t him.
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01/18/2016 4:06:45 PM PST
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DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: nickcarraway; MeshugeMikey
Celebrity is a lethal disease.
Blowfly/Clarence Reid also is went yesterday.
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01/18/2016 4:07:21 PM PST
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a fool in paradise
(Obama is more supportive of Iran's right to defend its territorial borders than he is of the USA's.)
To: DIRTYSECRET
Nope. Mic played trumpet and trombone.
To: Hildy
I was just thinking about the great horn bands the other day, between Blood Sweat and Tears, Chicago, Tower of Power, The Memphis Horns, etc.
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01/18/2016 4:08:43 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: DIRTYSECRET
The sax player / dancer from way back in the day is Lenny Pickett. He has led he Saturday Night Live band for the past 20 years.
To: nickcarraway
Wow. Another Musician that was part of the tapestry of my and our youths. What is missing today? A band like this got airtime on FM rock even though they were Funk if you will, and got played with Skynrd, Hall and Oats, Ozzie, etc etc they all got airplay (especially the graveyard shift DJ's they played it all), no gubering program director was their to bust their chops ) Vs today, FM radio is a virtual wasteland.
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01/18/2016 4:09:27 PM PST
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taildragger
(Not my Monkey, not my Circus...)
To: nickcarraway
What is going on? So many, all of the sudden, within a week.
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01/18/2016 4:09:40 PM PST
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Duchess47
("One day I will leave this world and dream myself to Reality" Crazy Horse)
To: nickcarraway
Definitely hipper than hip.
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01/18/2016 4:11:22 PM PST
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Huskrrrr
To: nickcarraway
Just damn...
Saw Tower of Power in concert when I was in college. Great concert, REO Speedwagon was the warmup act. Their sound was unique, yet not appreciated by people I socialized with. Favorite song? Squib Cakes, hands down.
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posted on
01/18/2016 4:11:33 PM PST
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Night Hides Not
(Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
To: Huskrrrr
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01/18/2016 4:13:28 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: dfwgator
and don’t forget Sly and the Family Stone.
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01/18/2016 4:14:08 PM PST
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Pilgrim's Progress
(http://www.baptistbiblebelievers.com/BYTOPICS/tabid/335/Default.aspx D)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
I always appreciated horns. Perhaps the influence of my parent 30/40’s upbringing.
To: dfwgator
A trumpet player myself, I love those bands. I even liked how Huey Lewis and The News used horns too.
To: Blue Collar Christian
Robert Cray used The Memphis Horns on a lot of his records.
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01/18/2016 4:15:42 PM PST
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dfwgator
To: Hildy
God is getting a heck of a band together in Heaven for some reason.
To: nickcarraway
Seems early to mid 60s is the breaking point for entertainment figures this year for some reason
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