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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