Star Trek fan-tasy
Rick Vosper
maxrad at mail.cruzio.com
Tue Jun 10 16:54:46 CDT 1997
The "leaders" of the T of P horn section (as well as co-authors of What Is
Hip? and many other fine ditties) are/were Steve ("The Funky Doctor") Kupka
and Ernesto Castillo. Other regulars were Mick Gillette and Lenny Pickett.
Any of these dudes ring a bell for you Leno/Letterman fans?
--rick
(who definitely remembers T of P but still ain't too terribly hip)
At 07:18 AM 6/10/97 -0400, you wrote:
>>
>>
>> >>Jules wrote:
>>
>> >What is "hip,"
>>
>> "Tell me, tell me/ If you think you know..."
>>
>> Hey Jules, Remember Tower of Power? Now THAT would be hip.
>>
>
>Not hardly. Isn't the former leader of the East Bay Horn Section now
>Letterman's or Leno's pit band leader?
>
>(Hey, it's a paying gig and you get scale, I reckon...) (;-)
>
>tejas at infi.net
> "Eat some blackeyed peas and fried banana,
> smoke me a seegar from Havana,
> I'll be the King of Louisiana"
> (It's gonna be) PAYDAY Porter Wagoner
>
>.-
>
>
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