In the Slot

Tower Of Power | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 14, 1993)
• Original Release Date: 1976
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Warner Bros / Wea
• ASIN: B000002KG0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #131,982 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tower of Power's best album - A Funk Masterpiece., December 29, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: In the Slot (Audio CD)

This, the last Tower of Power studio album before the disco era 1976-1979, is truly a masterpiece. Including "Ebony Jam", "On The Serious Side", "Just Enough And Too Much" and the ultimate party-disco-funk tune "Drop It In The Slot", this album shows Tower of Power from their very best side... Chester Thompson's clavinet and Hammond-solos, Lenny Picket's tenor sax... the legendary rhythm and horn sections, and the great great Hubie Tubbs on lead vocals. If I could give six stars I would.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Classic and Best TOP line-up, May 28, 2001

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musicmaniacfromNY (Long Island, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In the Slot (Audio CD)

Anyone who really knows TOP, knows, that Lenny Williams was the most incredible lead vocalist TOP has had, or will ever have. With that being said, new vocalist Hubert Tubbs had a tough act to follow, and filled the space admirably. His vocals on this album really are soulful, gruff, funky and moving. The songs here, 3 or 4 being instrumentals, are all first-rate TOP. The horn and rhythm section on this album is the BEST that TOP has ever had, period! Along with the albums "Bump City", "Tower Of Power", "Back To Oakland", "Urban Renewal" and "Live And In Living Color", this album is truly a gem among those other TOP classics!! And most important, it is funky like a mo-fo!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SUPERIOR-SOUNDING JAPAN 2008 REMASTER NOW AVAILABLE, September 15, 2008

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BOB (LOS ANGELES, CA) - See all my reviews
(TOP 500 REVIEWER)   

This review is from: In the Slot (Audio CD)

In 2008, WEA Japan released the entire WB Tower Of Power catalog in remastered form. All of the albums benefit from new mastering, and are worthwhile acquisitions for fans.

I found all of the remastered material to be superior to the Rhino 2CD "What Is Hip?" 1999 compilation set, except, surprisingly, for the material from the 3rd album, which sounds better on the Rhino.

Amazon does a haphazard job of stocking these remasters, so you may have to seek them from Japan-based retailers. Also, Amazon's prices are at least a third higher than buying direct from Japan, although shipping costs will cut into that percentage.

Here are the links for the `08 remasters:

East Bay Grease
Bump City
Tower Of Power
Back To Oakland
Urban Renewal
In The Slot
Live And In Living Color

Again, it's sad that American consumers have to obtain better sounding CD's from another country. WEA, and now WMG, have long maintained a corporate policy of not upgrading their catalog under the "they're-gonna-buy-it-anyway-so-why-waste-profits" philosophy, no matter that rival Sony has made a lucative business model out of remastering nearly the entire Columbia records catalog. Although this internal policy was mandated by the WEA regimes of the past, Edgar Bronfman, the current WMG chief, has maintained the status quo.

So, Tower Of Power now joins fellow WEA artists Jackson Browne, Ry Cooder, The Doobie Brothers, Tower Of Power, Neil Young, Van Dyke Parks, Little Feat, Van Morrison, America, Annie Haslam, Everything But The Girl, Roberta Flack, Todd Rundgren, Cold Blood and Paul Butterfield, just to name a few, whose catalogs either partially or wholly exist in better audio in Japan than here in the U.S.

It's a pathetic and frustrating situation.