Set The Wayback Machine for the late 1970's.....! 

Stix Hooper was gracious enough to share a few photos from his private collection of an early trip to Pearl Japan.

The Crusaders are known worldwide due to releases like —The Second Crusade, Unsung Heroes, Southern Comfort, Chain Reaction, and Those Southern Knights, and Street Life and have become perhaps the most sampled jazz/soul bands in the world.  

Thanks to Stix for giving us a unique glimpse of that time at Pearl and for his many decades of support.