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Topic: Lydia Pense

With thanks to BJJ, without whom I'd still be in the dark. cool

From youtube -

Lydia Pense and Cold Blood are Bay Area music pioneers with an amazing history and an exciting future. Lydia and the band debuted when the Fillmore was at its peak as one of the nation's musical Mecca's. Owner Bill Graham was so impressed with Lydia's voice and the sound of the band that he immediately signed Cold Blood to his new record label. During the span of six original late-60's, early-70's albums, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood helped, along with Tower Of Power, forge their own specific brand of funk/soul and R&B which came to be know as East Bay Grease. That music still holds up today, proving that great music is timeless and will continue to inspire generations to come. Lydia Pense and Cold Blood packed the San Francisco Ballrooms in their heyday, but that was then and this is now. In the now, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood still fill halls with cheering, dancing, foot-stomping fans. Far from fading over the years, Cold Blood has flourished.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=3XQWP9ZGpRY& … re=related

More as we find them...maybe move some links over from the 'what are you listening to' thread'.

Unless I'm hallucinating, there appears to be a nekkid young lady walking right to left at about 50 seconds. big_smile

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2 Reply by bigjeffjones (edited by bigjeffjones 2008-03-12 14:55:51)

  • From: Edgewater, FL
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Re: Lydia Pense

Tower of Power from Oakland.  Cold Blood from San Francisco.

Magic from 69 to 74...Ruled over by Sly.  Poor Bobby Womack.

That's why I'm the funky dr of love.  Listening to this stuff will put some funk in your blues stew.

EDITZ:  Forgive me spaceman.  Billy Preston RIP.

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3 Reply by Amsterhammer (edited by Amsterhammer 2008-03-13 01:27:47)

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Re: Lydia Pense

Lydia being Aretha-ish.

*the correct link will appear here when I have time to find it*

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  • From: Benicia, Ca.
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Re: Lydia Pense

bigjeffjones wrote:

Tower of Power from Oakland.  Cold Blood from San Francisco.

Magic from 69 to 74...Ruled over by Sly.  Poor Bobby Womack.

That's why I'm the funky dr of love.  Listening to this stuff will put some funk in your blues stew.

EDITZ:  Forgive me spaceman.  Billy Preston RIP.

Sly's roots were in the North Bay town of Vallejo. There's one other band from that era and genre still makin' some noise, from Marin County, The Sons Of Champlin. Bill Champlin has been a member of Chicago for over twenty years as well.

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Get de funk out my face!!!!!!

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  • From: Clackamas, Oregon
  • Registered: 2006-04-22
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Re: Lydia Pense

Hey JDawg:

You are so right about the Sons of Champlin. They are still rockin. They played The Roseland Theater in Portland about 2 years back. It was a double bill with Lydia Pense and Cold Blood. Amazing show that highlighted the Bay Area Summer of Love era.
That darm Lydia still can shake it with the best of them. Her voice still blasts out there.
The last show with Lydia that I took in was at Lefty's Blues in Salem Oregon. They just bout blew the roof off of this small club.
Kids these days don't know what they missed in the 70's

RocknRon

Two kinds of women in this world. Theres naughty and there's nice
Any man will tell you that one is a virtue
And the other is a Vice.
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