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7"
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SCR 7001EP
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"It was the San Francisco Bay Area where Herbie Hancock founded his Headhunters. It was the San Francisco Bay Area where Prince recruited Sheila E., Rosie Gaines and Larry Graham. Bands and artists such as Tower Of Power, Sly & The Family Stone, Meshell Ndegeocello, and Santana came from the San Francisco Bay Area, and Rose Ann Dimalanta, or rad. for short, also originated from the San Francisco Bay Area. Her second album gotta be (1994) had all the ingredients that made the funk heart beat faster and the legs fidget: razor-sharp breaks, excellent hooklines, staccato clavinet and organ licks, driving bass lines, forward oriented drum grooves and a voice to fall in love with. For these remastered two songs, she back then recruited her colleagues from the Syncopated Funk Champions League. Guitarist Ray Obiedo played in Herbie Hancock's band and with George Duke during the Thrust era. The percussionist Michael Spiro worked for Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby McFerrin, and Carlos Santana, Bobby Vega played the base for Bo Diddley, Booker T, Santana, Tower of Power, Etta James, Sly Stone, and Jefferson Starship to name a few. Beside the fuzz guitar solo of mega funk star Roger Troutman on 'Come My Way,' it is David Garibaldi and the Tower of Power Horns who add the undeniable quality of these two funk classics now pressed on 7" vinyl for the first time ever."
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