Love the nod to TOP! A college roommate brought home East Bay Grease. Enough said!! I still go see them, and they are still really good!! Go see them, folks!!

Love Santana’s first album.

Hi Mazzy, I loved the 'Funk' video and was especially pleased when you showed Cold Blood, I love this band, and they had an excellent drummer; also love thee early Pointer Sisters stuff, right up to the 'Energy' album, produced by Peter Asher, where they did a great version of Steely Dan's 'dirty work' and others. Vol 2 is calling !!

Tower of Power! Oh man, I love putting on that live album. The horns are just _snappin_ on "What Is Hip?"!!

As Carmen McRae memorably ad libbed (Live at Sugar Hill), “what the squares call Frisco”.

Cheap Thrills is one of my favorite albums. As much as I hate to say, she probably needed to go solo. She was just too talented. But, as they say, it is what it is. Thanks for the Sly coverage.

Love Herb Caen. I have a typed, signed note from him from when I got an item into his column (Analog typewriter, that is). There was nothing more importantly required with one's coffee than his column every morning.

Pointer Sisters - "Yes We Can Can".... a MASSIVE TUNE!

Klaus Voorman’s Santana cover is awesome. How much friggin’ talent could Hamburg Germany hold in 1962?

What a great set of records! Ahh, my youth. There's an old movie house in downtown Monterey, that I caught, Top as the self-titled came out. Also, earlier, saw Taj with The Sons of Chaplain, Elvin Bishop and Doobies around the Captain and Me. After years off, they are doing it there again. Any Boz is great music. Thanks so much!

Santana was a monumental debut imo. Loved Sly and Tower of Power. 🎶😎

man..i had a gigantic poster of sly and the family stone on my wall back in the day.. listened to 'hot fun in the summertime' like it was my soundtrack...tower of power 'what is hip'..another classic..pointer sisters 'yes we can can'..and janis..what needs to be said..great stuff.. and for your store..i'm waiting for you to make a coffee mug that says 'there's always room', a quote you once said about the idea of having too many records..i'd buy it... be well my friend.. peace always..rocky

Excellent Santana Janis joplins tower power. Who could ask for more. Oh yeah, you had more oh great.

Nice selection of albums that I’m not familiar with to add to my listening list. Thanks Mazzy! ✌🏻

No Jefferson Airplane? 🤠

You might have left San Francisco but SF never left you RIP Orlando Cepeda

Hi Massey. Greetings from West Yorkshire UK. Just thought Id send you a message to say how much I enjoy your videos, which appear on a near daily basis. I enjoy them not just for your musical knowledge, but also your presentation style. Keep up the good work. Just watched your video on Funky music from San Francisco Bay Area (not Fresco, as you point out). Just wanted to point out that there was no mention of the cult soul singer Darondo whom I believe came from the Bay Area. He released numerous singles including Didn't I, and the album Let My People Go which I have ?. Best Wishes. Mel Leese. Huddersfield uk

Some super sweet selections! You've inspired my Funky Funk today! Loving the channel...

“Frisco”, wow you went there. Talked to a dude who said he was from Frisco. It was Frisco this, Frisco that. I almost chastised him but turns out he meant Frisco, Colorado. I know, cool story bro. When I was there, it was San Fran, maybe still is. Love those Cold Blood albums.

Fun vid. I might add the Betty Davis album that had a whole host of Bay Area funksters on it and the Herbie Hancock Chameleon and Thrust albums. You've got me wanting to check out some Cold Blood now.

The bay hasn't stopped bringing the funk! Especially here in the East Bay. So much great music over the last several decades. I believe you were in SF in the 90s, so perhaps he remember the whole acid jazz scene with the hub sort of being the elbow room in the mission where you lived. Great boy all stars, junk, etc.. That was a very vibrant scene with so many great acts sprouting out of it. Great labels too! Thanks for shining a little light on a sometime underappreciated part of the Bay Area music history! Oh, and thanks for clarifying for the "Uninformed" folks out there about the use of "Frisco" or even "San Fran" lol… Love it!

Great video Mazzy! I am definitely in agreement that Sons of Champlin were a hot San Francisco band!

Both Mic Gillette and Skip Mesquite played for Tower of Power and Cold Blood. Also, there was a Bay Area release “Lights Out” with Voco, where they paired Tower of Power with Lydia Pense and Raul Maute (keyboardist for Cold Blood) for several cuts. Also had TOP with Dusty Street adding in the “vocal” for Cleo’s Back. Weren’t both Cold Blood & Sons of Champlin originally Marin County bands? Great video and synopsis of Bay Area soul. I sat in with a band that opened for early Sly & Family Stone. They were off the chart!

A San Franciscan band that recorded some material at Golden State Recorders in 1969 was Gold - a mix of some rock but also Santana influenced material with some soul & funk moves as well - there is a reissue of these songs on vinyl

Mazzy, I just love your videos. Apart from the two pointer sisters albums I have all the others and listen to them frequently. San Francisco was such a hotbed of creativity from '65 to the early 70s. Amazing music. I am now off to investigate the 2 pointer sister albums.

Amazing knowledge. Keep ‘em coming mate.

Nice selection Mazzy. I've got to go back and listen to Cold Blood again. 'Kozmic Blues' sounded like Janis Joplin in thrall to Otis Redding, and she certainly would have been blown away by his performance at the Monterey Pop Festival th year before. I especially like the title track and 'Maybe' on this one...

A lot of great picks! Thanks for putting it together!

Mas... I got that Santana album on CD... The second disc is their complete Woodstock set... Fantastic...!

How about a mention of the passing of the wonderful Kinky Friedman.

Ok. I know that Ballin' Jack were from Seattle, relocated to Los Angeles, BUT, they played San Francisco a lot and should be in anyones "funky" collection.

I think that Boz Scaggs LP is from 1976, the 1974 original had a white cover with a photo of Boz in swimming trunks walking out of the water.

We need more white (Jewish and non Jewish) guys talking about funk music on KZfaq.

Great video! Santana, Sly Stone,.... That Sons Of Champlin sleeve looks reallly cool. Never heard of the band.

I'm very happy you gave Cold Blood some love. They are one of the great San Francisco bands, but sadly they are nearly forgotten. I try to rectify that whenever possible. (Sons of Every Name Variation too, but I dig Cold Blood more.)

Bay always at each other. Outsiders saying SF is dead and local media saying SF is back. Pinnacle being the Ben Again /Skrillex concert. Always the yin and yang here in the Bay.

Sly's There's A Riot Going On is as funky as it gets. Then, Stevie Wonder's All Day Sucker

Your new camera makes you look older maz 😎🇬🇧

Thanks for reminding me of the tsstier things

Cool video. I’m getting used to you using “Frisco”, but it still raises the hair on my neck…. I would like to add Kathi McDonald to your list. Insane Asylum features a ton of San Francisco musicians and is funky.

I love 1st Santana album. I like Family Stone but don't like 'Riot.'

Chicago 7 is very nice.

About Janis,I know cheap thrills was recorded in the studio but what about the Big Brother material on Joplin in concert? The songs are so much stronger than Big Brother 1968 at the Carousel and live at Winterland 68? To me you would never know that they are the same group?

You forgot the best bar band of the bay area The Hoodoo Rythum Devils

Frisco’s a “funky” crime riddin dump now innit?

thanks for your love of San Fran, I appreciate your hatred of tourists. I am the same way. What has concerned me is your refusal to talk about Big Brother. Their talent is perhaps not up to the highest levels but they were sort of a garage band that I love. I have always wanted to get music from them before Janis. That is almost difficult to do. I love the personalities of these guys. They were all part of the flavor of San Francisco of those days for those who lived far away. You have to understand that San Francisco was a dream for people around the world in those days.

People from Frisco are so sensitive.

I'm guessing Otis Redding gets a pass, heading for the Frisco Bay.

Tower of Power is the best and funkiest you showed and they’re from Oakland. The Pointer Sisters album outside of the opening track is more like a Manhattan Transfer album with scat vocals which I detest. When it comes to come funk, the east coast rules. ✊🏻

The city

You need an pkonoki

Zircus

can i say San Fransiskey ?

Dude, stop talkin' about the city. 'Ya got no clue. Saw Herb Caen play drums at the Saloon in a tux. Santana was the funk all the way through. Funky Folsom. Lydia Pense and Cold Blood. Pure funk. See 'em now. Even after her heart attack. Killlllssss. Sly, Larry Graham. Define funk. James, Sly, George 'n Misssy. 4 corners of funk Larry Grahams stuff is so good. All of it. Tower of Power n Cold Blood just battle of the bands. Funkyyy. Best Cold Blood is the live one! Funk was just in the air. Ohio was another hub. Like here. But it was everywhere. Then became disco. Read the book Funk. By Ricky Vincent. Then you'll get it

*Frisco?!* I only thought out of City folks called it that. 🤦🏽

You forgot the funkiest band-though not from San Francisco- GRAND FUNK! 😮😮😮😮😮😊😊😊😊😊

To see ee of power and s l y

I read some extremely perceptive commentary by a feminist social critic who said that Janis would have been smarter to have remained with Big Brother instead of seeking faming with the destructive corporate fantasies of material success which you seem to gloat on.

I’ve been to San Francisco twice. Really nice city until the bolsheviks took over! 😲 😲 😲 😲 😲 😂😂 😂😂😂

That was a good post. Another band with a funky horn section is The Loading Zone. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Loading_Zone