{"id":405365,"date":"2017-01-13T21:04:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:04:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/?p=405365"},"modified":"2017-01-13T21:04:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T19:04:16","slug":"two-members-of-famed-rb-group-tower-of-power-hit-by-train","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nhub.news\/fr\/2017\/01\/two-members-of-famed-rb-group-tower-of-power-hit-by-train\/","title":{"rendered":"Two members of famed R&B group Tower of Power hit by train"},"content":{"rendered":"

$\"NewsHub\"$ Calling it an \u201cunfortunate accident,\u201d publicist Jeremy Westby said in a statement that drummer David Garibaldi and bass player Marc van Wageningen are \u201cresponsive and being treated at a local hospital.\u201d
Garibaldi has been with the group since 1970. Van Wageningen is substituting as bass player.
\u201cWe are monitoring their situation directly with the hospital,\u201d band manager Tom Consolo said. \u201cWe will update everyone tomorrow but for tonight we ask that you send your prayers.\u201d
Without identifying them, the Oakland Fire Department said that two pedestrians were hit by a passenger train at Jack London Square about 7:30 p.m. Thursday and taken to a hospital.
The accident was near Yoshi\u2019s, a jazz and R&B club where the group had been scheduled to play two shows Thursday night. Both were canceled.
Yoshi\u2019s General Manager Hal Campos told CBS San Francisco Bay Area he called 911 and stayed with the two injured men until help came. They were both unconscious and appeared to have broken bones, Campos said.
\u201cWe don\u2019t know if they didn\u2019t hear the train. We don\u2019t know how this tragedy happened but we\u2019re very, very sad about this. The band is emotionally destroyed \u2026 all of us worked with them for days now and many years, it\u2019s really sad,\u201d Campos said.
It wasn\u2019t clear why the men were on the tracks, but pedestrians often need to cross them in the area with trains running across and in between streets, including right outside Yoshi\u2019s.
Tower of Power, a band of about a dozen members, most of them horns, has been beloved members of the R&B and pop communities since forming in Oakland in 1968. The group and its rotating cast of musicians have recorded behind many far more famous names including Elton John, Otis Redding, Aerosmith and Santana.
They were also a national TV fixture in the 1980s with frequent appearances on \u201cLate Night With David Letterman.\u201d
Tributes and well wishes were quickly emerging on Twitter, including one from pop star and drummer Sheila E., who tweeted \u201cPleez pray for my frenz.\u201d<\/p>\n

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