Rick Stevens RIP in Heaven. One of my favorite singer and songs when I was 20 years old back in 1972. Now, I'm 71 and I'll be 72 years old in a few months and I still love this song!!
So happy to see he was able to come back and sing his song before he passed away everybody else was singing his song but can't nobody touch him he owned this song.
I LOVE THIS SONG!!! I WAS BORN IN 1973 MY MOM PLAYED THIS SONG ALL THE TIME!!! GOD IS GOOD ❤ REST IN PEACE RICK STEVENS!! ❤ YOUR VOICE IS AMAZING ONE OF A KIND!!!❤💝
Amazing ! After being in prison for so many yrs , yes he came back singing with his wonderful voice. I just love this song and hearing it makes me remember my young days when I was in school ! RIP ...u r now singing in heaven with the angels
Rick never lost his flair. So great to see him back with the East bay Grease!!! Today's musicians, learn from your elders...it's the music, not the show...
ON me and what ended up as my wife for 22 years went to a club and requested this song to dance to. Believe it or not the DJ said that he didn’t know this song (Loser) any way I went to my car and got the CD and we had our first slow dance. It was beautiful, I remember it like yesterday. My wife passed away Nov 2, 2018. I miss her so much. Thank you for this song Power of Tower. You guys will always be part of the love story called Rick and Adela. Thank you guys.
I saw Rick when he was the man with TOP as they backed up CCR in San Antonio, Texas in 1972. God bless his even thought he made such a bad mistake, all is ok now with God and his forgiveness.
Wow. That was great. Those horns still sound crisp, backing vocals sound smooth, lead vocals still on point. 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 "...what it means, when comes to you with his little heart in his hands...just to love you."
The Real vocalist of You’re still a Young man. His voice is robust and clear as it originally was. Rick Stevens was magic, May he rest in heavenly peace.
I was just happy that he was able to come back and sing his song. The song Steal brings me to tears. It's March 22nd 2020. Nobody could touch Rick's vocals on this song
So gifted, and redeemed in his later years. This made me cry because he had one the all time great voices, you could pick him out immediately. Like a great guitar riff from David Gilmore or Eddie Van Halen. T.O.P. Showed such class and the power of forgiveness, to let him shine again. Thank you T.O.P. For making my childhood dream come true…
Amen. I remember listening to his original recording of this song in the 60's when I was in Junior High. A sad waste of talent but in the end I'm happy that TOP made this happen for him.
I was there too, but not in tears. Back in the day I was one of his many girls. I had stopped going to see him in prison and moved on. I wasn't sure he even remembered me. He did. I brought him pictures of us back in the day. He was so excited about the pictures he ran off and started showing friends and family. Left me standing there. Lol!
I remember when my cousin went to the Battle of The Bands in Sacramento (or is it San Francisco), anyway he saw Tower of Power perform this song and they won the Battle and ended up getting a recording contract....he was so excited about their music. They still have that sound that gives you chills when you hear them perform...Love Tower of Power!
I saw top in 72 with Rick singing this song at the filmore,fantastic Just as good 40 yr later. Of all the singers no one comes close to Rick Steven's. Thanks for sharing the stag and letting him relieve a beautiful period in his life before cancer snuffed it out.
Growing up with this song, my bad I always thought Lenny was the OG on this song. Boy was I blown away when I found out it was Mr. Stevens. Yes, Rick Stevens sang the hell out of this song.
This brings back a lot of good memories of the 70s when groups like Oakland’s Tower of Power-who originated the East Bay Grease sound genre, of heavy brass funk/rock/soul music-WAR, Blood Sweat & Tears, Chicago, others produced many hits. Great original sound.
Rick Stevens, the best it’s too bad life’s situation’s take us away. I’m glad he found God and found recovery towards the end of his life. What a great talent. Like Emilio said, it’s all because of Bill W
Glad I got to see Rick with TOP in San Mateo in 2012. I knew he was out and about but not sure if he was gonna be there. Rest In Paradise Rick Stevens🙏🏼
I was in Vacaville with Rick Stevens in 1991. He was an office clerk and I was a tier tender in v-wing. I was only doing a 90 day opt. Rick was facing appeals and gathering documents and doing what he had to do to get to this night. He's still a young man.
T O P was and is the Best..the new lead singer is very good but nobody, NOBODY sang that song with the passion that Rick Stevens did. Arguably the Best Soul/R & B singer of all time! ..rip Rick
TOP is timeless! If you like this video, you need to watch Larry Braggs' last song with TOP and his duet with Rick Stevens. Great moment in TOP history!
I saw him and met him at a nightclub in San Francisco in 1975 and heard him do this song. I'll remember it for the rest of my life. He'd been kicked out of TOP by that time, and shortly thereafter, he went to jail for a long time, which made me very sad. What an incredible talent.
Shows you what kind of guy's the members of T.O P. Are, letting Rick put in the pocket just one more time. God bless everyone in T.O P. past and present , for giving something all the gold in the world can't buy , the best music ever made.
Thank you very much billy box for uploading this clip. I was in the audience too during one of those Yoshi's show. Like others that evening I was smiling and in tears, feeling the nostalgia and real time history simultaneously during this encore surprise (at least it was to me). Thanks brother. VHS Class of '74.
The entire band is beyond ... beyond. The current lead singer from the 50th Anniversary Special, l was sceptical at first. Boy, did Castillo find the ideal artist !! Somehow, he has the talent, spirit, Tower essence that will hopefully keep the gang going forward for another soulful 50 years, at least 50 more shows more. Big love 😍
He is/was Black. I knew him. I am about the same complexion with wavy hair and I am Black. We used to joke about having kids, saying they would be racially unidentifiable.
SAAANG BABY, YOU DID THIS. SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. I LOVE IT. SO MANY BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES. THANK YOU FOR ALL THEM. REST PEACERULLY IN PARADISE 💞🙏🏾⚘🙏🏾💞
I was in the 6th grade when this song came out. My Mama said he had the sexiest voice ever. I'm a huge fan. I always said that Lenny Williams wasn't the original singer of that song so I Googled it and found out about Rick Stevens. R.I.P. to the man with the greatest voice ever.
The 70's at Parkers in Seattle Washington was some of the best years of my life meeting and spending a lot of time with the best musicians on the planet. Thanks again for ToP!!!!
Rick Stevens RIP in Heaven. One of my favorite singer and songs when I was 20 years old back in 1972. Now, I'm 71 and I'll be 72 years old in a few months and I still love this song!!
GOD bless you brother
8 tracks n baseball cards beautiful thanks again for your talent along the tower power
72' l was 20 also, had this song, beautiful lady with me and whole life still to come! These guys will always be my best memories of that time!
So happy to see he was able to come back and sing his song before he passed away everybody else was singing his song but can't nobody touch him he owned this song.
AMEN to that that was His song!
He owned it!!
Just Great!!!
I LOVE THIS SONG!!! I WAS BORN IN 1973 MY MOM PLAYED THIS SONG ALL THE TIME!!! GOD IS GOOD ❤ REST IN PEACE RICK STEVENS!! ❤ YOUR VOICE IS AMAZING ONE OF A KIND!!!❤💝
Pretty good singer for sombody in their 70s . You’re still a young man. Now you’re singing in heaven. Thanks for the music.
Amazing ! After being in prison for so many yrs , yes he came back singing with his wonderful voice. I just love this song and hearing it makes me remember my young days when I was in school ! RIP ...u r now singing in heaven with the angels
Rick never lost his flair. So great to see him back with the East bay Grease!!! Today's musicians, learn from your elders...it's the music, not the show...
I love the way he sings this song. Very soulful and charming and engaging. just Beautiful. R.I.P. Rick Stevens
RIP Mr. STEVENS, I grow up listen to this in the 70s will always be one of my favorite songs. Classic.
Me, too. It's a great number, God bless Rick Stevens, he did some bad things in his past, the Good Lord will be the final judge.
The best voice ever.R.I.P. Rick Stevens.💔
They don’t make Music like this anymore! One of my Favs ♥️
ON me and what ended up as my wife for 22 years went to a club and requested this song to dance to. Believe it or not the DJ said that he didn’t know this song (Loser) any way I went to my car and got the CD and we had our first slow dance. It was beautiful, I remember it like yesterday. My wife passed away Nov 2, 2018. I miss her so much. Thank you for this song Power of Tower. You guys will always be part of the love story called Rick and Adela. Thank you guys.
No one can sing this like Rick, u cannot top the original. That band is so awesome, yeah man.
Such a beautiful, timeless song...
I saw Rick when he was the man with TOP as they backed up CCR in San Antonio, Texas in 1972. God bless his even thought he made such a bad mistake, all is ok now with God and his forgiveness.
That was beautiful!!!This song has nothing but good memories for me!
Rick sung that classic
1973 I was dancing to this song in the club! Love this song 🎵
Wow. That was great. Those horns still sound crisp, backing vocals sound smooth, lead vocals still on point.
👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
"...what it means, when comes to you with his little heart in his hands...just to love you."
TOP-SF Bay Area GOLD!
The Real vocalist of You’re still a Young man. His voice is robust and clear as it originally was. Rick Stevens was magic, May he rest in heavenly peace.
Introduction of the instruments to this song is breath taking!!!!! Forever a hit song!!!!
some good ass sounding brass section/sax/woodwind.....
Me & my husband loved this band. My husband & Rick are both gone now. I hope Rick sang it for him in heaven
They still. Sound so good!!! 👊👏🙏Rip my man
That s so timeless..bring me to tears...reminds me of days gone past
I was just happy that he was able to come back and sing his song. The song Steal brings me to tears. It's March 22nd 2020. Nobody could touch Rick's vocals on this song
Right? R.I.P. to the best voice ever..Rick Stevens. Singing up in Heaven.
So gifted, and redeemed in his later years. This made me cry because he had one the all time great voices, you could pick him out immediately. Like a great guitar riff from David Gilmore or Eddie Van Halen. T.O.P. Showed such class and the power of forgiveness, to let him shine again. Thank you T.O.P. For making my childhood dream come true…
Amen. I remember listening to his original recording of this song in the 60's when I was in Junior High. A sad waste of talent but in the end I'm happy that TOP made this happen for him.
Back in the day in Boulder CO, at Tulagi's, saw them a few times when Rick was the lead singer before his downfall. RIP Rick!! No one did it better!!
What a Kind and Well-Deserved Tribute, to The Man, who put this Iconic Sound, 'On the Map'! Rest In Peace, Rick Stevens.
I was so lucky to have seen Rick sing this song with TOP at Yoshi's in I beleive January 2016. I was in tears.
I was there too, but not in tears. Back in the day I was one of his many girls. I had stopped going to see him in prison and moved on. I wasn't sure he even remembered me. He did. I brought him pictures of us back in the day. He was so excited about the pictures he ran off and started showing friends and family. Left me standing there. Lol!
I would like to apologize to the people who told me it was Rick Stevens and not Lenny Williams sing on the remastered version. My bad
I was at that show too. He had on white suit. He was always my favorite TOP singer.
Rick -- still got the chops!
RIP Rick
Simply incredibly amazingly beautiful!!! Love "Rick Stevens" RIP Angel in Heaven.❤💜🙏🙏🎸🎷🎺🎤🎧🎼🎵🎶🎙🎹
it goes to show you YES YOU CAN COME HOME AGAIN everybody deserves another chance
Gracias Mil !! T of P fan since 1973. Costa Rica.
TOP fan site 1969 with their first album Easy Bay Grease with their 1st lead singer Mr. FULLER
Hail to Rick Stevens a great vocalist and 1st lead singer for Tower of Power!
His singing and the band brings chills down my spine. Fabulous performance.
I remember when my cousin went to the Battle of The Bands in Sacramento (or is it San Francisco), anyway he saw Tower of Power perform this song and they won the Battle and ended up getting a recording contract....he was so excited about their music. They still have that sound that gives you chills when you hear them perform...Love Tower of Power!
...then we bought their LP's at Tower Records by Fisherman's Wharf :)
Great story!
So awesome to hear this song. TOP continues to deliver great sound!
Way beyond awesome!!!! What an incredible performance!!!! R.I.P!
Rest in peace, Rick Stevens.
Love and light my brother... R.I.P.
I saw top in 72 with Rick singing this song at the filmore,fantastic
Just as good 40 yr later. Of all the singers no one comes close to Rick Steven's. Thanks for sharing the stag and letting him relieve a beautiful period in his life before cancer snuffed it out.
Growing up with this song, my bad I always thought Lenny was the OG on this song. Boy was I blown away when I found out it was Mr. Stevens. Yes, Rick Stevens sang the hell out of this song.
Tears . . . . ⚘
This brings back a lot of good memories of the 70s when groups like Oakland’s Tower of Power-who originated the East Bay Grease sound genre, of heavy brass funk/rock/soul music-WAR, Blood Sweat & Tears, Chicago, others produced many hits. Great original sound.
TOP-SF BAY AREA GOLD!
Rick Stevens, the best it’s too bad life’s situation’s take us away. I’m glad he found God and found recovery towards the end of his life. What a great talent. Like Emilio said, it’s all because of Bill W
Glad I got to see Rick with TOP in San Mateo in 2012. I knew he was out and about but not sure if he was gonna be there.
Rest In Paradise Rick Stevens🙏🏼
I was in Vacaville with Rick Stevens in 1991. He was an office clerk and I was a tier tender in v-wing. I was only doing a 90 day opt. Rick was facing appeals and gathering documents and doing what he had to do to get to this night. He's still a young man.
One of My two Favorite Tower of Power Song's,,, the Other is So Very Hard to Go!!!
Wonderful singer
Great singer
Just so damned good! What a shame to lose a talent like rick.
T O P was and is the Best..the new lead singer is very good but nobody, NOBODY sang that song with the passion that Rick Stevens did. Arguably the Best Soul/R & B singer of all time! ..rip Rick
Rest in peace my brother 🙏 thank you for a well done
and the the memories
Yes, he still had it. The soulful voice. He sang with so much feeling. May he rest in peace. He was dealt with a tough situation but, he conquered it.
Besides Lenny, Rick was my Fav TOP Singer!
So wonderful to feel the old feelings
TOP is timeless! If you like this video, you need to watch Larry Braggs' last song with TOP and his duet with Rick Stevens. Great moment in TOP history!
I saw him and met him at a nightclub in San Francisco in 1975 and heard him do this song. I'll remember it for the rest of my life. He'd been kicked out of TOP by that time, and shortly thereafter, he went to jail for a long time, which made me very sad. What an incredible talent.
All credit to Emilio Castillo for making this possible for Rick great talent great band..
Superb!! Rih Mr. Stevens
I remember TOP performed in my HS Auditorium @ 1972/73? singing "Sparkling in the sand", You still a young man" etc.. Great memories!!!
Time flies. I was in high school when I heard this song, love it and in college So very hard to go was always on the radio. Reminiscing 🤔
That voice!! RIH Rick. I wish I could have heard you in person. Maybe on the other side. ❤️
Shows you what kind of guy's the members of T.O
P. Are, letting Rick put in the pocket just one more time. God bless everyone in T.O
P. past and present , for giving something all the gold in the world can't buy , the best music ever made.
Awesome performance!!
God bless him
That was smooth. Glad to know mr. Stevens had some sort of redemption before he passed.
Thank you very much billy box for uploading this clip. I was in the audience too during one of those Yoshi's show. Like others that evening I was smiling and in tears, feeling the nostalgia and real time history simultaneously during this encore surprise (at least it was to me). Thanks brother. VHS Class of '74.
The entire band is beyond ... beyond. The current lead singer from the 50th Anniversary Special, l was sceptical at first. Boy, did Castillo find the ideal artist !! Somehow, he has the talent, spirit, Tower essence that will hopefully keep the gang going forward for another soulful 50 years, at least 50 more shows more. Big love 😍
A very powerful and beautiful song.With the best horns in the world.
I've been listening to this music since the 60s, and it never grows old! God bless Tower of Power!
nothing like the original studio recording. that track is still unparalleled....
Beautiful thanks for these memories R.I.P. Mr Rick Stevens
Thank you for posting this♥️
Thank God he got out of jail...in time to sing this once again..I thought he was black.
Mixed race.
He is/was Black. I knew him. I am about the same complexion with wavy hair and I am Black. We used to joke about having kids, saying they would be racially unidentifiable.
SAAANG BABY, YOU DID THIS. SOUNDS ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC. I LOVE IT. SO MANY BEAUTIFUL MEMORIES. THANK YOU FOR ALL THEM. REST PEACERULLY IN PARADISE 💞🙏🏾⚘🙏🏾💞
I saw them is 69 and they still today make me smile!!
That song reminds me of basic training at Ft Ord Calif, 1972
Awesome!
If you out front for the TOP. you better bring it and you did you've moved on brother but your music lives on.🙌
God I love this
he still got it!!
Phenomenanol
I was in the 6th grade when this song came out. My Mama said he had the sexiest voice ever. I'm a huge fan. I always said that Lenny Williams wasn't the original singer of that song so I Googled it and found out about Rick Stevens. R.I.P. to the man with the greatest voice ever.
Definitely a classic! I love this song so much!
A very "OZ" like moment. Glad to see Rick made it back to "Kansas" (Oakland) and there was a happy ending just like in the movie
The sax player in the middle looks like he cannot beleive hes playing with T O P and the late great one...check him out you guys !
I believe that’s Stabe Wilson
I know 😊 Hes like pinch me cause this cannot be real
The sax player next to him and to touch him.Like dude you stay focused ..bro
God is very power with a out doubt 🎷🎺 RIP 🙏
Beautfull! good sound!!
Thank you billy box my favorite song of all time he sounded amazing.
I SAW THESE GUYS 5 TIMES.NEVER A DISAPOINTMENT❗
Ultra Massive boys!
TOP all-time fav group. Rest in peace Bro
Best vocalist of tower of power
Lenny Williams was the best, hands down
@@thecounselorace621 I agree.Rick wasn't in the group long enough to prove that he was the better singer..he was in jail.
Tight!
great performance.
Real music!
Thank you for posting this
"Raspy Rick" it is.
Love hearing original
Amazing
The 70's at Parkers in Seattle Washington was some of the best years of my life meeting and spending a lot of time with the best musicians on the planet. Thanks again for ToP!!!!
I got chicken skin when he sang “back once again”… so glad he made it back