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Tower of Power took to the Alameda County Fairgrounds stage June 26 and immediately commanded the audience’s attention.

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Sly Stone, the multitalented musician whose psychedelia-laced funk enraptured Woodstock Nation in the late '60s and early '70s, has died. He was 82.

Twenty years ago, Fred Funk proved to be the ultimate example of how the Players Stadium Course favors to style, except a winning one.

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