East Bay Grease

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East Bay Grease
East Bay Grease.jpg
Studio album by
Tower of Power
Released1970
StudioMercury Recording Studios, San Francisco
Genre Soul, R&B
Length41:35
Label San Francisco/Atlantic
Producer David Rubinson
Tower of Power chronology
East Bay Grease
(1970)		 Bump City
(1972)
Singles from East Bay Grease
  1. "Back on the Streets Again/Sparkling in the Sand"
    Released: 1970

East Bay Grease is the debut album by the soul and funk group Tower of Power, released in 1970. [1] The band was one of the early music groups to be signed by Bill Graham's Fillmore Records, which released the LP. [2] [3]

Contents

The album shows the band at an early stage of development, trying out several lead singers including Rick Stevens who soon left the band (1972) because of heavy drug abuse. [4] In a retrospective review, music historian Rickey Vincent said the album contained "sloppy and raggedy horn-heavy R&B." [5] Drummer David Garibaldi later said that his playing style was undisciplined during this time, that the album showed his "rough edges". He began private drum lessons with a Bay Area drum teacher named Chuck Brown, and polished his technique in time for the improvements to be heard on 1973's Tower of Power album. [6]

The album was released on CD in 1992 by Rhino Records.

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Track listing

All selections written by Emilio Castillo and Stephen Kupka, except "Sparkling in the Sand" by Emilio Castillo, Stephen Kupka and Lawrence Lopez. [8]

  1. "Knock Yourself Out" - 7:08
  2. "Social Lubrication" - 7:28
  3. "The Price" - 6:09
  4. "Back on the Streets Again" - 5:50
  5. "The Skunk, the Goose, and the Fly" - 5:55
  6. "Sparkling in the Sand" - 9:06

Personnel

Production credit [9]

Technical

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  3. 1 2 "Tower of Power Founder and Trumpeter Mic Gillette Dead at 64". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2017-06-29.
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