Best 70's Horn Driven Band

[DODI]

Poll question: Best 70's Horn Driven Band

Myself, no favorite.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

1. I should've voted for B, S & T, not Chicago

but weren't they a 60's band?

[wryter2000]

2. Thank you

When I saw the thread, I cringed. "Another thread that ignores TOP." I was getting ready to blast you like Lenny Pickett and Doc Kupka blow their horns.

Anyway, a leetle story about Chicago. They were over in Scotland, taping with Elton John. Seems they couldn't get it right. Mimi Castillo gets a phone call in the middle of the night at his house in Oaktown, and it's Sir Elton, asking them to come over and fix things.

Thanks for honoring the best band in the whole world. :yourock:

[mwdem]

3. Chicago totally sucked live.

Not a huge fan of any, but TOP was the best.

[wryter2000]

4. Luv ya, mwdem

:loveya:

BTW, they had a new album out this year. "The Oakland Zone."

[mwdem]

10. Love you website, hon..

I'll have to start reading romance again!

[DODI]

5. Did you see them recently?

Carnegie Hall is one of my favorite live albums, that is from 1972. I wouldn't pay a dime to see them after Terry died.

[mwdem]

7. No...

Haven't gone to a concert in years.

[DenverDem]

13. I saw Chicago in '72 and they were awesome.

They had just released the Flag album, with the killer "Sing a Mean Tune, Kid", and they rocked ass. They have great music technique and back then they still had incredible passion. Of course as they aged so did their music, and I'm not into them now.

But back then, at the Music Hall in downtown Shreveport, they were the best thing I had ever heard.

Other good horn bands from back in the day:

Chase

Ides of March

and earlier in the East Texas/Lousiana region, one of my all time favorites, the old school blue eyed soul band, Sin Sity Soul!

[woofless]

14. I gotta agree.

I saw them in '72 as well, at American Univ. in Georgetown. Kick-ass day and they played for atleast 3 hours. Terry Kath just blew it out! Still one of my fondest memories after 30 plus years.

(That was a great summer. We also got to see Cheech & Chong and Cat Stevens.)

[Bunny]

6. Anybody who does NOT vote for Tower of Power

will need to see bunnyj OUTSIDE!! Now, sucker(s)!!! That's right, I'm talkin' to YOU!!!}(

[wryter2000]

8. Hey, bunnyj

You done found the stroke.

:yourock:

[Bunny]

9. Would that be the Oakland stroke?

;)

[wryter2000]

15. And You Know It eom

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[DancingBear]

11. Alright bunnyj!

just knock yourself out.... :)

"East Bay Grease" is THE horn album - discussion over.

[Richardo]

23. T.O.P. is the tightest band live I have ever heard

...with the 70s vintage EWF runners up.

Terry Kath Chicago is a sentimental favorite, as is David Clayton Thomas' BS&T... *sigh*

And I'm glad to see that someone remembered Chase!

WTG bunnyj and wryter2000! My TOP sistahs! :D :thumbsup:

[blondeatlast]

12. Tower of Power, then slightly behind is EW&F. nt

[Kat45]

16. Tower of Power. I saw them play in a bar back in 1973, when

I was in high school.

[CanuckAmok]

17. I love Tower of Power, but I voted for B, S & T...

Both are great, but Blood, Sweat and Tears have got such interesting and complicated horn arrangements, where T of P is more simple, and more about, well, power. Both blow my socks off, but for different reasons.

However, David Clayton Thomas has one of the best voices in Rock, so B, S & T wins by a nose, or in this case, throat.

[NightTrain]

18. I love EWF, but never really thought of them as horn-driven.

As such, I went with Tower of Power, baby! :bounce:

[kodi]

19. Chase.

before, as well as after the plane crash

[ulysses]

20. ToP

Oh, yes.

[BigBigBear]

21. I picked EWF

Chicago had the best tunes, and ToP had the best horns, but EWF had it all.

[King_Crimson]

22. Wayne Cochrane and the CC Riders...

All 6'7" of him....he was known as the "Blue-Eyed Soul King".... and his 15 piece brass band, 2 guitarists and 2 drummers! These cats were awesome, and I think he's still on the circuit! I first saw them at Indiana Beach in Monticello Indiana summer of 1970.http://waynecochranandtheccriders.com/ Check out his website...what a wild dude!