RAD. Gotta Be / Come my way - Sedsoulciety Recordings - 7" Last 1

It was the San Francisco Bay Area where Herbie Hancock founded his Headhunters. It was the San Francisco Bay Area where Prince recruited Sheila E., Rosie Gaines and Larry Graham.

Bands and artists such as Tower Of Power, Sly & The Family Stone, Meshell Ndegeocello and Santana came from the San Francisco Bay Area, and Rose Ann Dimalanta, or rad.for short,

also originated from the San Francisco Bay Area. A Heavy Dose Of Oakland Funk – rad. did what she promised. Her 2nd album “gotta be" (1994) had all the ingredients that made the funk heartbeat

faster and the legs fidget: razor-sharp breaks, excellent hooklines, staccato clavinet and organ licks, driving bass lines, forward oriented drum grooves and a voice tofall in love with.

For these remastered two songs, she back then recruited her colleagues from the Syncopated Funk Champions League. Guitarist Ray Obiedo played in Herbie Hancock's band and

with George Duke during the "Thrust" era. The percussionistMichael Spiro worked for Ella Fitzgerald, Bobby McFerrin and Carlos Santana, Bobby Vega played the base for BoDiddley, Booker T,

Santana, Tower of Power, Etta James, Sly Stone and Jefferson Starship to name a few. Beside thefuzz guitar solo of mega funk star Roger Troutman on Come My Way, it is David Garibaldi and the

Tower of Power Horns who add the undeniable quality of this two funk classics now pressed on 7“ vinyl for the first time ever… 

LINE UP:

KEYBOARDS & VOCALS – RAD., GUITAR – RAY OBIEDO, GUITAR [FUZZ GUITAR ON COME MY WAY] – ROGER TROUTMAN, BASS – BOBBY VEGA, CONGAS – MICHAEL SPIRO, DRUMS – DAVID GARIBALDI

HORNS – TOWER OF POWER HORN SECTION, TENOR SAXOPHONE - EMILIO CASTILLO, TRUMPET – GREG ADAMS, LEE THORNBURG, TROMBONE [MARCHING BONE] – LEE THORNBURG, 

BARITONE SAXOPHONE – STEPHEN 'DOC' KUPKA, ALL HORNS ARRANGED BY – GREG ADAMS, WRITTEN/COMPOSED/ARRANGED/PRODUCED BY - MICHAEL KIRSCH & ROSE ANN DIMALANTA