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DG is is soo tuff that legend has it; He got hit by a train crossing Embarcadero in front of Yoshi's Nite Spot in Oakland! Yeah, he didn't make the gig... but he did damage to the train!!!

 

 

 

 

 

Still be diggin' on James Brown...

 

 

 

 

49 Years... the baddest band in the land... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke because Tower ain't in it!! Why not?

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In 1968 I saw Jack DeJhonette @ Fillmore West with Miles Davis, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, Airto... That pretty much changed my life...

 

 

Then when I could sneak into clubs I got to sit in front of Elvin Jones and get my consciousness expanded. I got to see him many times and even talked to him. Sweet, humble and real...

 




 
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I feel so lucky to have gone to see Tony Williams @ the old Yoshi's on Clarmont in Oakland. I parked my VFR Interceptor in the back lot behind the dumpster and taking my gear off. Up drives Tony in a White Mercedes 500SEC, get's out wearing a white linen suit, White Buck Shoes, white Panama hat, smoking a big Cuban cigar. I go, Hey, Mr, Williams, gettin' ready to burn some tunes tonight? He takes a big puff and says, We'll be Smoking, and blows out a hit. Incredible show. I go in to sit at my reserved table and Carlos Santana and Cindy Blackman are sitting there instead. Yoshi's Son the manager moved my ticket to another great table, then comped my restaurant/bar tab for me. Unreal music... Three weeks later Tony williams was dead.

 

 

Cindy...

 

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49 Years... the baddest band in the land... The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a joke because Tower ain't in it!! Why not?

 

One would argue it's that the Tower of Power isn't a rock band, but James Brown himself was inducted into the Hall of Fame at the very first ceremony in 1986, so....? You make a good point.

 

Looks like you're a disciple of the skins. Do you play?

 

A good buddy of mine used to live in a loft condo in Jack London two blocks from the new Yoshi's. Many a bent evening spent there.

 

Complex rhythm you got to give it up for this. Saw Horacio at Carnival SF and at the Fox in Oakland

 

 

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I went to a Ludwig drum clinic In 1962 with Joe Morello, Dave Brubeck's drummer who played on the seminal jazz recording Time Out, with the Top 40 Radio hits Take 5 AND THE "B" side of the single, Blue Rondo ala Turk. There was a 21 year old drummer named Mickey Hart who's father owned Drum World in San Carlos, Ca. Mickey was a jazz cat with pointy Beatle Boots, a shark skin suit and razor cut hair. He and Joe Morello took a pair of 2B sticks and played two big marching snares on stands together. They demonstrated all the rudiments open/closed/open and them played a bunch of rudimental contest solos like Coneticut Half-Time and burned them down loud as fuck.

 

A few years later, prolly the Spring of '69 I saw a concert at the Family Dog @ the Beach... the old roller rink by Playland by San Francisco's Ocean Beach. The bill was Quicksilver Messenger Service, The Youngbloods and the Greatful Dead. It was the first night that the Dead had 2 drummers, first gig for Mickey Hart.

 

I have been hearing and seeing the best drummers in the world for 50 years. I have bought a lot of tickets and stood in a lot of lines. One of the baddest drummers in the world is Billy Cobbham. I got to see him play with Mahavishnu Orchestra Spring of 1970 at the Berkley Community Theater. That shit just changed everything.

 

 

So, I have seen cats from Art Blakey to Dave Weckl... and Roy Haynes has consistanly blown my mind. Cat is in his 90's now and plays his ass off. Roy is one of my last living links to Coltrane...  dig Jack talking about Roy...

 

 

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Dude, you've been around the world twice right in the Bay Area. I would have loved to have been around back then. My down stairs neighbor in North Beach used to manage the Purple Onion and the Hungry Eye back in the late 50's through the 70s. That guy told some amazing stories. Damn I wish I could a been there.

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I love Michele Camillo! I've been following him for years. Seen El Negro and bunch too. So listen, I grew up in the Mission. Short story, I played in a band with  percussionist Jorge Bermudez who went to Balboa High with Karl Perazzo and  Raul Rekow. They got box seat tickets to see the Giants and the Braves. They had an extra ticket so I got to sit next to Armando Peraza. He told me stories about playing semi-pro ball in Cuba and coming to New York and playing Bongo with George Shearing and all the shit that is history.
 


 
When I lived in Redwood City, Jorge and I played in a band with drummer Jimmy Sanchez, he was tight with all those guys too. Armando bought a house near Jimmy when Raul, Karl and Armando were in Santana. One Saturday afternoon I went to Gelb Music and Armando was sitting in the drum studio playing two drums. He was so fucking loud, and he was an old man! Jimmy says, but his hands aren't even taped. Mongo Santamaria loud, Giovani Hildalgo loud. So lucky to get to hang out with this legend, still have the Giants vs, Braves ticket stub!
 
 
 
But Raul was just unreal. i so fucked it. I was in the Bay Area when Raul had his 60th birthday party in Redwood City at the Fox. A bunch of my friends played and went. I was in Half Moon Bay and too burnt to drive... RIP Raul.
 
 
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I'm so lucky to have come up geting "Experienced". I'm looking for recordings of Hendrix @ Winterland. I went Friday night. the ticket was $3. Not long after that I saw Cream @ Fillmore and then This concert @ the Oakland Coliseum Fall of 1968. We were listening to this stuff with Virgin 1960 Top 40 Radio ears... not our Jaded-azzed 2017 Ears. Listen to Clapton's playing... were you playing that much guitar in 1968?  haha  and Ginger Baker? Wasn't nobody that was playing that much drums... so much so that this defined a genre. of "Jazz-Rock, because of the lengthy improvised ensemble playing. And loud as anybody... Hendrix loud, Who loud. Burn a fattie and fall back in time. When you could cop a bag of weed on Haight Street,  for $10 and 4 way orange barrels for $2 that everybody just dropped the whole thing...  Who knew? Hey, let's go to Fillmore and see Led Zeplin Friday night? 

 

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What are I listening to? I was down in front of this two years ago.  Always listening to drummers... for 25 years. BB King's drummer Tony "TC Coleman and Bobby Blue Bland and James Brown before that. My buddy John Mazzaco is on bass. Chris Ingram is still 16 years old... this year he was just incredible. Must be in the DNA, his Mother is Riley King's sister.

 

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