Our Final Week - The Closing of the Fillmore West, Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 7-4-1971, Part 1: Tower of Power

Here's the first set from the fifth day out of five days of concerts that closed the Fillmore West venue in San Francisco in 1971. (See my write-up on the Boz Scaggs set for general information about the closing.) This set features the band Tower of Power.

Here's what the Wikipedia introductory paragraph has to say about the band:

"Tower of Power is an American R&B and funk band and horn section, originating in Oakland, California, that has been performing since 1968. The band has had a number of lead vocalists, the best-known being Lenny Williams, who fronted the band between early 1973 and late 1974, the period of their greatest commercial success. They have had eight songs on the Billboard Hot 100. Their highest-charting songs include 'You're Still a Young Man,' 'So Very Hard to Go,' 'What Is Hip?,' and 'Don't Change Horses (in the Middle of a Stream).'"

Here's the link to the full entry:

Tower of Power - Wikipedia 

This, the final night of the concerts closing the Fillmore West, had some of the biggest name acts. That was less so for Tower of Power. In a couple of years they would become pretty big, but they were relatively unknown in 1971. At the time of this concert, they had only released one album, "East Bay Grease," which barely missed the bottom of the Top 100 on the U.S. album charts in 1970. 

However, the band was already playing songs that would appear on their next album, "Bump City," released in 1972. Specifically, they played "Skating on Thin Ice," "You Got to Funkifize," and "You're Still a Young Man" from that album. "You're Still a Young Man" would prove to be the band's breakthrough hit, making the Top 40 in the U.S. singles chart in 1972.

On song from this concert, "Back on the Streets Again," made it onto the "Fillmore - The Last Days" album. Everything else here is unreleased. 

This album is an hour and 27 minutes long. 

01 talk by Bill Graham (Tower of Power)
02 Let a Woman Be a Woman, Let a Man Be a Man (Tower of Power)
03 talk (Tower of Power)
04 Social Lubrication (Tower of Power)
05 talk (Tower of Power)
06 Back on the Streets Again (Tower of Power)
07 talk (Tower of Power)
08 You're Still a Young Man (Tower of Power)
09 talk (Tower of Power)
10 Skating on Thin Ice (Tower of Power)
11 talk (Tower of Power)
12 You Got to Funkifize (Tower of Power)
13 You're Gonna Need Me (Tower of Power)
14 The Skunk, the Goose, and the Fly (Tower of Power)
15 talk (Tower of Power)
16 Sparkling in the Sand (Tower of Power)
17 Knock Yourself Out (Tower of Power)
18 Don't Fight It (Tower of Power)

https://bestfile.io/en/4L04sEP9T7WsufH/file

Don't look too closely at the cover! It has issues. It's a screenshot taken from this exact concert. However, the source was a low-res video, and due to the number of people involved, the level of detail per person is quite low. Still, I guess it's better than nothing.