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OAKLAND — Two musicians performing with the award-winning soul group Tower of Power were hit by a passenger train in Jack London Square on Thursday night, according to fire officials.

Friends of the band identified the victims as bassist Marc Van Wageningen and drummer Dave Garibaldi. They were going to perform with Tower of Power at a pair of Thursday night concerts.

Please pray for my frenz,Bassist Marc Van Wageningen, drummer Dave GARIBALDI for tower power hit by a train in front of Yoshi's in Oakland — SheilaEdrummer (@SheilaEdrummer) January 13, 2017

Emilio Castillo, the leader of Tower of Power, visited his band members in the hospital last night. He said that Garibaldi’s “head and face were pretty swollen and bruised but he was lucid and expected to recover. He said doctors were “cautiously optimistic” about Van Wageningen after he underwent surgery to stop internal bleeding.

“We appreciate the responses and prayers from our former bandmates, friends, and fans and we all remain hopeful and in prayer.”

Van Wageningen was supposed to fill in for regular bassist Frank Rocco Prestia, according to band spokesman Jeremy Westby.

Tower of Power was scheduled to play two shows at Yoshi’s nightclub Thursday night, said Victor Pamiroyan, a friend of the injured men. They had reportedly been heading to the show from a nearby hotel when they were struck.

“I’m really devastated by the news,” said Pamiroyan, who is the manager for musician Pete Escovedo. “I’m shook up, like all our people in our industry.”

The pedestrians were crossing near the intersection of Clay Street and Embarcadero when they were hit by the Amtrak train, said Oakland police Officer John O’Reilly.

A spokesperson for Amtrak could not be immediately reached for comment.

Further details about the accident were not immediately available.

Garibaldi was one of the original members of the classic horn band, one of the purveyors of the sound known as Oakland Funk in the 1970s.

A 2012 inductee into the Percussive Arts Society Hall of Fame, Garibaldi is credited with redefining funk drumming, according to Drum Magazine, using the “complexities of James Brown’s rhythm section as a starting point, and taking syncopation to its most outrageous extremes.”

He returned to Tower of Power in 2013, after 18 years of playing with a variety of other artists, including Patti Austin, Natalie Cole, The Buddy Rich Orchestra and Boz Scaggs.

Returning to the band, Garibaldi said they have been playing a lot of gigs and even writing new material. “But mostly we’re just playing the music, doing a lot of the older songs and resurrecting some of the ones that the band hasn’t played in a long time.”

Check back for updates.

2 patients taken to area hospital from train incident. Command terminated. — Oakland Firefighters (@OaklandFireLive) January 13, 2017