This is my first (and very likely last) article commemorating Valentine’s Day, and we’ll be celebrating the occasion with a look at the outro to Tower of Power’s “Just When We Start Making It” from Back to Oakland, which is, at large, one of my favorite albums, not just as a drummer (although being a…

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We’ll be talking about David Garibaldi this week, mainly because I got a chance to see Tower of Power at Red Rocks back in July: In case you weren’t sure: yes, they still got it. Not even a train can stop the Tower. I guess this post is a bit overdue, but it took a sec to…

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Here’s a cool little moment from the first Tower of Power album, East Bay Grease, where drummer David Garibaldi exchanges 2‑bar solos with guitarist Willy Fulton at the end of track 3, “The Price.” If you want even more David Garibaldi, he released a collection of sheet music about four years ago: drum transcriptions he made himself…

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