Video News CNNChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out whats happening in the world as it unfolds. Tower of Power News and Updates As many of you already know David Garibaldi and Marc van Wageningen were seriously injured January 1. Yoshis in Oakland, CA. They were crossing the street in front of Yoshis and were hit by an Amtrack train. According to unverified reports, there was a freight train that had just passed and a group of pedestrians were starting to cross the street but another train was coming from the other direction that they did not see. This is unverified information, more on the actual accident as information is available. David and Marc are both home recovering from their injuries. David is expected to return to the band in November. For now, former member Herman Matthews is on drums. We will keep you updated here and on the bands Facebook page Latest Interview With Emilio Castillo. A FEW MINUTES WITH Emilio Castillo of Tower of Power. By Don Wilcock. Tower of Power, the urban soul horn band playing the Cohoes Music Hall on Thursday night November 1. Founding member and tenor saxman Emilio Castillo says theyre recording it using the Michael Jackson method you record 2. Youre Still A Young Man was the first song Castillo wrote with his songwriting partner Stephen Doc Kupka. Castillo was 1. 8 in 1. Sharon, a 2. 4 year old caught between loving this kid in a Bay Area soul band and being abused by a Vietnam veteran with PTSD. We were like pinballs in a pinball machine, Castillo explains, just kinda bouncing off the walls. We didnt know why we did what we did or why we were the way we were. We were just sort of driven by our emotions, and I lived that way until I was 3. That was the year he got sober, but he did a lot of blow before that happened, and it wasnt all through a sax. 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David Garibaldi and Marc van Wageningen are both recovering As many of you already know David Garibaldi and Marc van Wageningen were seriously injured January. Watch breaking news videos, viral videos and original video clips on CNN. We live in this small encased world, especially when you start to, quote, make it. We never thought about what we were gonna do when we matured because it was all handed to us as children. Like we knew there was nothing we were ever gonna do besides play music. I mean I never thought for a second, Boy, what will I do with my life I mean, I knew I was gonna play music it was gonna be the band. More than 6. Bill Graham. Graham was the most volatile and aggressive major domo of the psychedelic era with Fillmores East and West and two record labels. Tower of Powers tenure with Graham is an amazing story if for no other reason than the band didnt fit into the type of acts Graham booked. We were not in that clique with all the psychedelic bands Quicksilver Messenger Service, Jefferson Airplane, Santana, Big Brother the Holding Company. We were known as a good dance band, but we played good soul music, and we were very committed to being really accurately soulful and then we became original. Tower of Power played a Tuesday night audition at the Fillmore West when they were at the end of their rope in 1. I/5168z-CmCXL._SX940_.jpg' alt='Watch David Brent: Life On The Road Online Mic' title='Watch David Brent: Life On The Road Online Mic' />Tickets for Concerts, Sports, Theatre and More Online at TicketsInventory. They had been blackballed by the clubs after an underage bust by the Alcoholic Beverage Control, and Castillo was running out of time on his parents ultimatum that he return to Detroit if he couldnt make it as a musician on the West Coast. They were the last band of five to go on stage at the Fillmores weekly audition show. Theyd waited a year with virtually no gigs for this opportunity. We had velour shirts, and all the velour was worn off, and there were roach burns in all the shirts. We walked out, and people just turned around and started walking out. They didnt know what we were, but we hit with this James Brown song called Open the Door, and we were doing it instrumental style. We were just drilling it, man, and it was like somebody said, About face Everybody turned around and started walking back in. We were about half way in, and the horns were going he scats, and I saw this head stick out of the back room. It was Bills office, and he. Bill Graham signed the fledgling band to a publishing deal, a management deal, a booking deal and a record deal. The relationship was extremely volatile with the band nearly coming to blows with Graham over issues, some of which were clouded by the groups drug abuse. Graham had them locked into a contract that left him holding all the cards. We would plead our case, and wed start, Bill, were really sorry. We didnt handle it right. We were disrespectful, but please, we just want to get on with our career. Then, hed go, Well, boys, I hear ya, and I just. Castillo begins unintelligible screaming. And he had this office that was all glass windows, and outside were rows of desks with these girls. When he screamed at you he would stand up, and then he would point down at you, and hed be screaming and pointing at you at the top of his lungs, very loud. And the girls would be looking in on us, and wed be shrinking while hed be growing, and wed go, OK, Bill, and wed leave. Well see you next Monday, Bill. See you, boys. And we did that for almost a year. After years of successful singles, like So Very Hard to Go, This Time Is Real and Dont Change Horses In the Middle of a Stream in 1. Graham had mellowed towards the band. He had us play his Christmas party. When wed done sound check and everybody had split, I was sitting there, and he walks in and sits down next to me and says, Im going to say something, and I dont want you to talk. I got nervous. And he says, I know you guys have been having a difficult time. Lets just say I had a good roll of the dice this year. Im going to give you this envelope, and I want you to take it and keep it. Its for you. You can keep it for yourself. You can split it up with the guys, whatever you want. Watch House Season 4 Episode 10 Online Free there. Dont say a word, and Im still paying you for the gig, and merry Christmas. And he gives me an envelope with 1. Ten thousand dollars in 1. And the guys came back before the gig, and there was a pool table in the back room in the dressing room. I threw the 1. 0,0. I said, Merry Christmas, boys, and we all split it. And he still paid us for the gig. Tower of Powers signature hit is What Is Hip from 1. If you think you know what is hip, the passing years will show what is hip. The definition of hip has changed thousands of times since 1. Castillo is eternally hip. He told me in 2. 00. Weve got legs because were not in. Were not following a trend. Were not setting a trend. Were not a trend thats gone by. Were just who we are. We stay true to our sound, and theres a certain segment of the public that really relates to that kind of music. I asked him in our current interview if he thought he was prescient with that song. I dont know that we understood that. We had a gift. God gave us a gift that we were using, and there were three people on the composition. There was me and David Garabaldi, my drummer, but the main guy was Stephen Doc Kupka, my songwriting partner, and he plays baritone sax, and hes the one who came up with that title. He said, I want to write a song called What Is Hip And I go, What is hip What does that mean He started to explain it. I go, Oh, OK, and then we just sat down and hashed it out. We just kinda talked through the story, and it just happened. But I dont know that we were completely cognizant of the fact that we needed to write to a certain level to make us different. We were just writing. We were just creating any way we could.