*** LP ： Japan 1972 / Warner Brothers / P-8262W ***
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A / A / DJ
ジャケット：ごくわずかな経年の疲れのみ、ぴんとした美品です。
ディスク：新品同様極美品です。
2つ折り歌詞／解説付属。

ベイエリア・ファンクの雄、タワー・オブ・パワーの2作目「バンプ・シティ」。
炸裂するブラスもすごいけど、ドラムとベースを追いかけてるだけでも思いっきり癖になります。
メジャー移籍第一弾。最初期の名作！

日本盤。
貴重な白ラベルの見本盤です。美品です。
中村とうようの解説が素晴らしいです。



[A]
You Got to Funkifize - 4:31
What Happened to the World That Day- - 4:11
Flash in the Pan - 3:34
Gone (in Memory of Jacqueline Mesquite) (Greg Adams, Skip Mesquite) - 3:41
You Strike My Main Nerve (Kupka, Castillo, L. Williams, L. Gordon) - 2:52
[B]
Down to the Nightclub (Kupka, Castillo, David Garibaldi) - 2:43
You're Still a Young Man - 5:35
Skating on Thin Ice - 3:48
Of the Earth - 4:30
All songs Written By Emilio Castillo and Stephen Doc Kupka unless otherwise noted.

Rick Stevens - lead vocals
Skip Mesquite - first tenor saxophone, flute, vocals (lead on Gone)
Emilio Castillo - second tenor saxophone, vocals
Greg Adams - trumpet, flugelhorn (solo on Gone), French horn, piano (on Gone), vocals[3]
Stephen Doc Kupka - baritone saxophone, vocals
Mic Gillette - trumpet, trombone, French horn, vocals
Willie James Fulton - guitar, vocals
David Garibaldi - drums
Francis Rocco Prestia - bass
Brent Byars - conga drums, vocals
Jay Spell - piano (on What Happened To The World That Day, You're Still A Young Man, and Of The Earth)
Memphis Strings - arranged and conducted by Greg Adams on What Happened To The World That Day-, You're Still A Young Man, and Of The Earth