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Tower of Power

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Tower of Power is an American R&B-based horn section and band, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing since 1968. [1]

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Aaron Neville

Aaron Neville (born January 24, 1941) is an American R&B and soul singer and musician.

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Aerosmith

Aerosmith is an American rock band.

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Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now

Ain't Nothin' Stoppin' Us Now is an album by Tower of Power released in 1976, the band's first record on Columbia Records.

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Back on the Streets (Tower of Power album)

Back on the Streets is an album by Tower of Power released in 1979.

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Back to Oakland

Back to Oakland is the fourth album by Bay Area based band Tower of Power, Released in Spring 1974 on Warner Bros. Records.

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Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative

The Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO) (1984–2003) was an American company led by founder and owner Victor Conte.

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Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of San Francisco Bay in northern Alameda County, California.

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Bill Graham (promoter)

Bill Graham (born Wulf Wolodia Grajonca; January 8, 1931 – October 25, 1991) was a German-American impresario and rock concert promoter from the 1960s until his death in 1991 in a helicopter crash.

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Billboard 200

The Billboard 200 is a record chart ranking the 200 most popular music albums and EPs in the United States.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Bonnie Raitt

Bonnie Lynn Raitt (born November 8, 1949) is an American blues singer-songwriter, musician, and activist.

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Bruce Conte

Bruce Conte is an American R&B / jazz fusion guitarist, known primarily for his work with the band Tower of Power of which he was a member from 1972 to 1979, performing on seven albums and rejoining the band for live work briefly in 2006-2007.

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Buffalo, New York

Buffalo is the second largest city in the state of New York and the 81st most populous city in the United States.

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Bump City

Bump City is the second album by the soul/funk group Tower of Power.

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California

California is a state in the Pacific Region of the United States.

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Carlos Santana

Carlos Santana (born July 20, 1947) is a Mexican and American musician who first became famous in the late 1960s and early 1970s with his band, Santana, which pioneered a fusion of rock and Latin American jazz.

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Cat Stevens

Yusuf Islam (born Steven Demetre Georgiou), commonly known by his former stage name Cat Stevens, is a British singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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City of God (2002 film)

City of God (Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian crime film directed by Fernando Meirelles and co-directed by Kátia Lund, released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003.

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Cold Blood (band)

Cold Blood is a long-standing R&B horn funk band founded by Larry Field in 1968 and was originally based in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Columbia Records

Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Damn Yankees (band)

Damn Yankees were an American rock super group formed in 1989 consisting of Tommy Shaw of Styx, Jack Blades of Night Ranger, Ted Nugent of The Amboy Dukes and a successful solo career, and Michael Cartellone (then an unknown drummer who would later join Lynyrd Skynyrd).

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David Sanborn

David Sanborn (born July 30, 1945) is an American alto saxophonist.

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Direct (Tower of Power album)

Direct is a 1981 live in-studio album by Tower of Power.

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Disco

Disco is a musical style that emerged in the mid 1960s and early 1970s from America's urban nightlife scene, where it originated in house parties and makeshift discothèques, reaching its peak popularity between the mid-1970s and early 1980s.

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East Bay Grease

East Bay Grease is the debut album by the soul and funk group Tower of Power, released in 1970.

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Elkie Brooks

Elkie Brooks (born Elaine Bookbinder, 25 February 1945) is an English singer, a vocalist with the bands Dada and Vinegar Joe, and later a solo artist.

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Elton John

Sir Elton Hercules John (born Reginald Kenneth Dwight; 25 March 1947) is an English singer, pianist, and composer.

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Emilio Castillo

Emilio "Mimi" Castillo (born Sep 24 1950, Detroit, Michigan) is an American saxophone player and composer, best known as the founder of the band Tower of Power.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Eric Mercury

Eric Mercury is a Canadian singer, songwriter, and musician.

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Euge Groove

Steven Eugene Grove (born November 27, 1962), better known as Euge Groove, is an American smooth jazz saxophonist with a strong Top-40 background.

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Foreigner (Cat Stevens album)

Foreigner is the seventh studio album released by English singer-songwriter, Cat Stevens in July 1973.

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Frankie Valli

Frankie Valli (born Francesco Stephen Castelluccio, May 3, 1934) is an American singer and actor, known as the frontman of The Four Seasons beginning in 1960.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Graham Central Station

Graham Central Station is an American funk band named after founder Larry Graham (formerly of Sly & the Family Stone).

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Grateful Dead

The Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in Palo Alto, California.

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Heart (band)

Heart is an American rock band that first found success in Canada and later in the United States and worldwide.

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Helen Reddy

Helen Maxine Reddy (born 25 October 1941) is an Australian singer, actress and activist.

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Herman Matthews

Herman Matthews (born December 28, 1960 in Houston, Texas) is an American drummer and composer.

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Horn section

A horn section is a group of musicians playing horns.

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Hubert Tubbs

Hubert Tubbs is an American vocalist, singer and songwriter of soul, funk and gospel and has cooperated with a number of music acts.

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Huey Lewis

Hugh Anthony Cregg III (born July 5, 1950), known professionally as Huey Lewis, is an American singer, songwriter, and actor.

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In the Slot

In the Slot is a Tower of Power album released in 1975.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jazz-funk

Jazz-funk is a subgenre of jazz music characterized by a strong back beat (groove), electrified sounds and an early prevalence of analog synthesizers.

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Jefferson Starship

Jefferson Starship is an American rock band from San Francisco, California that evolved out of the group Jefferson Airplane following the departure of bassist Jack Casady and guitarist Jorma Kaukonen.

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Jermaine Jackson

Jermaine La Jaune Jackson (born December 11, 1954) is an American singer, songwriter, bass guitarist, and member of the Jackson family.

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John Lee Hooker

John Lee Hooker (August 22, 1912 or 1917; retrieved August 22, 2017. – June 21, 2001) was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

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Journey (band)

Journey is an American rock band that formed in San Francisco in 1973, composed of former members of Santana and Frumious Bandersnatch.

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KDIA

KDIA (1640 AM) is a radio station of Baybridge Communications in Vallejo, California.

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KMFDM

KMFDM (originally Kein Mehrheit Für Die Mitleid, loosely translated by the band as "no pity for the majority") is a German industrial band from Hamburg led by multi-instrumentalist Sascha Konietzko, who founded the group in 1984 as a performance art project.

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Larry Graham

Larry Graham Jr. (born August 14, 1946) is an American bass guitar player, both with the psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone, and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station.

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Lee Thornburg

Lee Thornburg is a trumpeter who has played with many artists, and also has been a member of Supertramp and Tower of Power.

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Lenny Pickett

Lenny Pickett (born Las Cruces, New Mexico, April 10, 1954) is an American saxophonist and musical director of the Saturday Night Live band.

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Lenny Williams

Leonard Charles Williams (born February 16, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and musician, best known for his work during the 1970s.

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Leukemia

Leukemia, also spelled leukaemia, is a group of cancers that usually begin in the bone marrow and result in high numbers of abnormal white blood cells.

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Linda Lewis

Linda Lewis (born Linda Ann Fredericks, 27 September 1950, West Ham, Essex, England) is an English vocalist, songwriter and guitarist.

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Little Feat

Little Feat is an American rock band formed by singer-songwriter, lead vocalist and guitarist Lowell George and keyboardist Bill Payne in 1969 in Los Angeles.

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Live and in Living Color

Live and in Living Color is a 1976 live album by Tower of Power and is their last album on Warner Bros. Records.

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Luis Miguel

Luis Miguel Gallego Basteri (born April 19, 1970) is a Mexican singer and icon in Latin America, often referred to as El Sol de México (The Sun of Mexico).

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Lyle Lovett

Lyle Pearce Lovett (born November 1, 1957) at Allmusic – Lovett's Genre and Styles.

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Marvin Gaye

Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.; April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984) was an American singer, songwriter and record producer.

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Mic Gillette

Mic Gillette (May 7, 1951 – January 17, 2016) was an American brass player, born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay.

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Michael Jeffries (singer)

Michael Jeffries is a rhythm and blues singer from Memphis, Tennessee, best known for his stint as a lead vocalist for the R&B/Soul band Tower of Power from 1978 to the Mid-1980s.

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Michelle Shocked

Michelle Shocked (born Karen Michelle Johnston; February 24, 1962) is an American singer-songwriter.

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Mickey Hart

Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist and musicologist.

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Monster on a Leash

Monster on a Leash is an album by Tower of Power released in 1991.

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Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human being with malice aforethought.

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Ohne Filter

Ohne Filter was a 45-minute live television program by German public TV station SWF featuring international pop and rock groups.

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Otis Redding

Otis Ray Redding Jr. (September 9, 1941 – December 10, 1967) was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, arranger, and talent scout.

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Paula Abdul

Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American dancer, choreographer, singer, songwriter, actress, and television personality.

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Pharoahe Monch

Troy Donald Jamerson (born October 31, 1972), better known by his stage name Pharoahe Monch, is an American rapper from Queens, New York.

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Phish

Phish is an American rock band that was founded at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont in 1983.

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Poison (American band)

Poison is an American rock band that achieved great commercial success in the mid-1980s through the mid-1990s.

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Power (Tower of Power album)

Power is a studio album by Tower of Power released in 1987 on the A&M Records-distributed Cypress Records label.

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Rad (musician)

Rose Ann Dimalanta, known by the stage name Rad (styled rad.), is a singer-songwriter and keyboardist from Oakland.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, commonly abbreviated as R&B, is a genre of popular music that originated in African American communities in the 1940s.

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Richard Elliot

Richard Elliot (born January 16, 1960) is a Scottish-born American saxophonist.

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Rocco Prestia

Francis Rocco Prestia (born March 7, 1951) is an American bassist, best known for his work with the funk band Tower of Power.

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Rod Stewart

Sir Roderick David Stewart, (born 10 January 1945) is a British rock singer and songwriter.

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Rufus (band)

Rufus was an American funk band from Chicago, Illinois best known for launching the career of lead singer Chaka Khan.

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San Francisco Records

San Francisco Records was a record label based in San Francisco, California, United States, that was founded by music promoter Bill Graham and music producer David Rubinson in 1969.

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Santana (band)

Santana is a Latin music and rock band formed in San Francisco, California in 1966 by Mexican-American guitarist Carlos Santana.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.

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Semi-Pro

Semi-Pro is a 2008 American sports comedy film from New Line Cinema.

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So Very Hard to Go

"So Very Hard to Go" is a torch song performed by American rhythm and blues band Tower of Power, issued as the second single from their eponymous third album.

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Sons of Champlin

The Sons of Champlin are an American rock band, formed in the late 1960s and from Marin County in the San Francisco-Bay area.

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Soul music

Soul music (often referred to simply as soul) is a popular music genre that originated in the African American community in the United States in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Soul Train

Soul Train is an American music-dance television program which aired in syndication from October 2, 1971 to March 27, 2006.

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Soul Vaccination: Live

Soul Vaccination: Live is the fourth live album by the soul/funk group Tower of Power.

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Souled Out (Tower of Power album)

Souled Out is a 1995 album by Tower of Power on Epic Records.

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Spyro Gyra

Spyro Gyra is an American jazz fusion band that was formed in Buffalo, New York in 1974.

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T.O.P. (Tower of Power album)

T.O.P. is a 1993 album by the soul/funk group Tower of Power.

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The Aquarian Weekly

The Aquarian Weekly is a regional alternative weekly newspaper based in New Jersey.

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The Brothers Johnson

The Brothers Johnson were an American funk, Motown and R&B band consisting of American musicians and brothers George ("Lightnin' Licks") and Louis E. Johnson ("Thunder Thumbs").

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The Doobie Brothers

The Doobie Brothers are an American rock band from San Jose, California.

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The Fillmore

The Fillmore is a historic music venue in San Francisco, California, made famous originally by rock promoter Chet Helms who introduced Bill Graham to the venue they both shared in the mid 60's.

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The Monkees

The Monkees were an American rock and pop band originally active between 1966 and 1971, with reunion albums and tours in the decades that followed.

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Time Life

Direct Holdings Global LLC, through its subsidiaries StarVista Live, Lifestyle Products Group and Time Life, is a creator and direct marketer that is known for selling books, music, video/DVD, and multimedia products.

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Toto (band)

Toto is an American rock band formed in 1976 in Los Angeles.

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Tower of Power (album)

Tower of Power is the third album release for the Oakland-based band, Tower of Power.

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Trumpet

A trumpet is a brass instrument commonly used in classical and jazz ensembles.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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Urban Renewal (Tower of Power album)

Urban Renewal is a Tower of Power album recorded in 1974 and released in 1975.

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Victor Conte

Victor Conte Jr. (born 1950 in Fresno, California) is a former bassist with Tower of Power and the founder and president of Bay Area Laboratory Co-operative (BALCO), a sports nutrition center in California.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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We Came to Play!

We Came to Play! is an album by Tower of Power released in 1978.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_Power

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