Come along and ride on a "Fantastic Voyage" with the legends of funk, the "ORIGINAL LAKESIDE BANDโ, celebrating 50 golden years in the music industry with their most anticipated return to Yoshi's Oakland. With hits like "Your Love Is On The One", "RAID", "Something About That Woman" and their all-time classic "Fantastic Voyage", this event is sure to be "All The Way Live" with their electrifying stage show, classic pirate attire, and infectious grooves guaranteed to make you move! So get your ticket early and join us in the land of funk where the treasures of old-school jams and classic soul music can be found....
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Come along and ride on a "Fantastic Voyage" with the legends of funk, the "ORIGINAL LAKESIDE BANDโ, celebrating 50 golden years in the music industry with their most anticipated return to Yoshi's Oakland. With hits like "Your Love Is On The One", "RAID", "Something About That Woman" and their all-time classic "Fantastic Voyage", this event is sure to be "All The Way Live" with their electrifying stage show, classic pirate attire, and infectious grooves guaranteed to make you move! So get your ticket early and join us in the land of funk where the treasures of old-school jams and classic soul music can be found.
50 Golden Years of Funk & Soul Series brought to you by Mark Elliott & The A-List Musiq Circle
VIP Artist Meet & Greet (Q&A) Hosted by Steven Parker of KDYA Radio.
BIOGRAPHY โ Lakesideโs Fantastic Voyage has entered its fifth decade, and the Dayton, Ohio-based, funk group is unquestionably one of the most enduring musical forces to capture the publicโs eclectic fantasy. Reminiscing the exciting earlier years, the group made noise for the first time in 1977 with the ABC Records release of their self-titled debut album and first single on the project โIf I Didnโt Have You.โ From that point forward, their star continued to rise and in the same year led to their soulful rendition of โShine On,โ which was performed on the hottest-running dance shows on music television, Soul Train and American Bandstand. They Quickly entered partnership with Solar Recordโs Dick Griffey, who was enjoying success with a number of headlining acts and, in 1978, released the album Shot of Love, a saucy smorgasbord of tunes written by band-members with the smash โItโs All The Way Live.โ The tune charted at #4 on R&B Charts and can be heard on air-waves to this day. In the early days, band-members included Fred Alexander, Marvin Craig, Fred Lewis, Steve Shockley, Norman Beavers, Otis Stokes, Mark Wood, Tiemeyer McCain, and Thomas Shelby. Happily, in 2019, the band can boast six original members(!) , thus settling any rumor that the group is a replacement or contrived group. No other funk, rock, or R&B band can boast as man original members over such a long stretch of time. After having played together for a number of years, the band jelled so effortlessly that all members were essential to maintain the level of funk juice evident in each of their recordings. However, the publicโs attraction to the funkified band was not only their music; their costumes (pirates, cowboys, and Robin Hood, etc., were nostalgic and awakened the publicโs longing for decades when the music of Lakeside (before Lakeside) would also have special meaning for funk lovers everywhere. Members of the group have observed that visual effect was another feature separating the group from other contemporaneous musical brigades. But if that wasnโt enough, in 1980, their multi-platinum, super-hit โFantastic Voyage,โ rocketed to the top of the R&B Charts.
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