East Bay Grease

Tower Of Power | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 1992)
• Original Release Date: 1971
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Rhino
• ASIN: B0000032XU
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,134 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Knock Yourself Out

2. Social Lubrication

3. The Price

4. Back On The Streets Again

5. The Skunk, The Goose, And The Fly

6. Sparkling In The Sand

Editorial Reviews

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Media Type: CD
Artist: TOWER OF POWER
Title: EAST BAY GREASE
Street Release Date: 11/10/1992
Domestic
Genre: SOUL/R & B

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Original!, October 5, 1998

By 

G. Chin (Berkeley, CA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: East Bay Grease (Audio CD)

Tower's debut album. Lots of gritty vocals to go with tight horn section. Broke ground as a multi-hued big band out of Oakland/Berkeley that was special then and is still funky today. Much of this album is on the raw, unpolished side, with one exception, the ballad Sparkling in the Sands. When this album came out I was in high school and my buddies and I played that cut so often we practically wore a hole through the record! All Tower's true believers have this album already, but any of you newer converts, pick it up. This is where it all started!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An Ultra Greasy Listening Experience... ! ! !, November 5, 2000

By 

Eddie Landsberg "My 10th year as a reviewer !... (Tokyo, Japan) - See all my reviews
(TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (VINE VOICE)   

This review is from: East Bay Grease (Audio CD)

This album sounds very different than most TOP albums, so if you're used to that stickier East Bay Grease they'd develop once hitting the big WB you may have to listen with a different mindset.

The sound on this album *IMHO* is a big "blacker" a bit more late '60s/early '70s feeling, and definitely shows their ties to COLD BLOOD, another band DEFINITELY worth checking out. In many ways tight, but not as tight as they'd come to be, yet they compensate with soul splattering ENERGY. - - The closest you've probably heard TOP to this "sound" is on their BUMP CITY album, when they went back to a dirtier and grittier sound.

FUNKATEERS will love this album. TOP fans (and their following of brass ensemble students turned on by hip instructors) will be split between Love It/Hate It... however, *IMHO* its one of their best and they still perform many of the songs in their show today.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Most raw, most funky, October 23, 2001

By 

Joe Craig "Joe" (London UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: East Bay Grease (Audio CD)

This is ToP at their earliest, earthiest best. The horns may have got slicker, the tunes tighter, and you can choose you favourite vocalist, but for dirty funky blow-outs, you can't beat this album. i know some people who are really big ToP fans, but they still don't own this album for some reason, and they are really missing out. As the title suggests, this is the greasiest, grooviest, greatest stuff they recorded.