Towerhead

English

Etymology

From tower +‎ -head.

Noun

Towerhead (plural Towerheads)

(fandom slang) A fan of the American R&B and funk band Tower of Power.
- 1997 June 5, Jon Keller, “A boomer band keeps the faith”, in The Boston Globe, volume 251, number 156, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page A25, column 5:
  “Our roots are very American,” notes [Emilio] Castillo. And their attitude is classic boomerese. “If you listen to Tower of Power,” Castillo says, “you’ll notice we don’t fit so well with what’s going on in the industry, and you know what? We don’t want to fit.” / “It’s tough to label them, and it’s been tough to market them, and maybe that’s why they appeal to people like us,” says Jack Silva, a fortysomething officer at a New Bedford bank. Towerheads are acutely aware of the generational connection.
- 2000 June, Charles Levin, “Thirty years of throw-down soul”, in DownBeat, volume 67, number 6, Chicago, Ill.: Maher Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 50–51:
  Towerheads don’t just come to stroll memory lane. They sing along with the band’s […]
- 2012 April 30, Tony Sauro, “Farewell, festival”, in The Record‎^[1], Stockton, Calif.: Stockton Newspapers, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2025-02-28:
  Lopez-Takhar, 60, and 29 of her Vikette friends have been extraordinarily devoted Towerheads. She said they've seen "10,000" Tower of Power shows since their high-school days.
- 2015 September 11, Jared Keller, “Our Fandom Could Be Your Life: How Fandom Became the Modern Cult”, in Pacific Standard‎^[2], Santa Barbara, Calif.: Miller-McCune Center for Research, Media and Public Policy, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2017-10-04:
  I didn’t really understand the scope of my Towerhead status until a few years later, when (ironically) I read a book on 1980s American alt-rock.