Tower of Power & Average White Band Performed at Ameristar Casino in Kansas City, MO on August 25, 2018
Soul, funk and R&B groups Tower of Power and Average White Band performed live in concert at Star Pavilion inside of Ameristar Casino Hotel Kansas City on August 25, 2018. Scotland’s AWB took to the stage first featuring its founding members Alan Gorrie (bass/vocals) and Onnie McIntyre (guitar/vocals) followed by San Francisco’s Tower of Power featuring founding members Emilion Castillo (tenor and alto saxophones/vocals) and Stephen ‘Doc’ Kupka (bariton saxophone/vocals). The horned bands dazzled a packed KC crowd with their best hits of the ’70s before heading across the Pacific for a string of shows in Japan, including songs such as “Pick Up the Pieces” and “Cut the Cake” by AWB and “So Very Hard to Go” and “You’re Still a Young Man” by Tower of Power.
Setlist for Average White Band in Kansas City:
“I Just Can’t Give You Up,” “The Jugglers,” “Work to Do,” “A Love of Your Own,” “Walk On By” (Dionne Warwick), “School Boy Crush,” “Cut the Cake” and “Pick Up the Pieces”
Setlist for Tower of Power in Kansas City:
“Stroke ’75,” “Sould with a Capital “S”,” “You Ought to be Havin’ Fun,” “Only So Much Oil in the Ground,” “On the Soul Side of Town,” “You’re Still a Young Man,” “This Time It’s Real,” “So Very Hard to Go,” “What Is Hip?” and “Knock Yourself Out”
