Consumer Guide Album

Tower of Power: Live and in Living Color [Warner Bros., 1976]
I guess they really are hot live if it comes across on the live album--the uptempo numbers have real edge, and Lenny Pickett's long honk on the 23:40-minute "Knock Yourself Out" is such a gas it makes the ensuing organ solo endurable. But Hubert Tubbs just isn't Lenny Williams--he makes the appropriate vocal sounds at the appropriate junctures, but that's all. This ruins the ballads, never a strong point. And Lenny Pickett's tweets don't add much either. B