OMG! I'm Uncle Dave's idol?!

Yep, the Tower of Power Band is a legend , especially here in the San Francisco Bay Area as they hail from Oakland,CA. Interestingly enough though, I've just learned from a local musician who remembers the 70's, who told me that one prominent band member from the original Tower Of Power Band definitely couldn't be there to sign Uncle Dave's guitar, yet he was the lead vocalist on TOP's hits: "You're Still A Young Man" and "Sparkling In The Sand". The TOP lead vocalist was Rick Stevens (aka: Donald Stevenson). In addition to his musical accomplishments, Rick Stevens was also known for committing one of the most notorious crimes in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Seventies, in which he and an accomplice murdered three drug dealers to whom he had owed money. He was given a double life sentence, in which he had to serve a 25-year minimum. Interesting to note that he was high on drugs (I assume supplied by those drug dealers) when he committed that act. It's been several years since he served the 25 year minimum, and the authorities haven't let him out. Ironic that Rick Stevens is 'no longer' a young man. Here are the articles I found on the subject:

East Bay Express (2002) begins: 3rd paragraph

Rick Stevens The Double Murderer