Up next: More from the Tahoe Onstage interview with Emilio Castillo. 29 for Braggs’ final performance when Tower of Power performs the National Anthem in the Oakland Coliseum before a Raiders-Broncos football game. “We made it clear that if anything was going to happen with them, that they would have to move to the states,” Castillo said.Īppropriately, the band will go “Back to Oakland” Dec.
Castillo said singers from all over the world, including Japan and Europe applied for the position. But in the meantime he is focused on bonding with his band members.
While the band’s debut record in 1970, “East Bay Grease,” trumpeted its regional pride, many of the members now live out of the area, including Castillo, who resides in Scottsdale, Ariz., and Braggs who is in New Orleans. Now he’s finally getting his chance to do just that as the new lead singer of legendary funk/soul band, Tower of Power. “We weeded out the ones who weren’t even close and looked a little closer to ones that were in the ballpark and we then narrowed it down and then we auditioned those people.” “We started getting tons of people interested in the position and I had to screen them all,” Castillo said. So we kept it to ourselves and put some feelers out here and there.”Įventually, the job opening was posted on the Tower of Power website, where it remains, although a new singer has been selected and will begin at a New Year’s Day show, Castillo said. Their approach to everything, from writing to arranging, mixing to performing, is totally their own. The band’s rhythm section lays down a groove like no other. “He came up to us and said, ‘I am going to finish out the year and then I am going to move on.’ So we kind of kept it under our belts for a while because with us, you just think something and immediately it’s a rumor going around. Tower of Power For over 50 years, Tower of Power has been creating its own kind of soul and funk music. “Larry told us way back, early in the year when we were up in Seattle (play at Dimitrio’s Jazz Alley),” Castillo said. 30 in Harrah’s Lake Tahoe’s South Shore Room. His final Lake Tahoe performance with TOP will be Nov. Larry Braggs, whose first show with the band was in 1999 in Reno, is leaving at the end of the year. A new lead singer has been hired, bandleader Emilio Castillo confirmed with Tahoe Onstage. 3o at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe.ĭisregard the help wanted ad on Tower of Power’s website. Retrieved August 13, 2015.Tower of Power plays Nov.
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