I’m a 60 something white lady. Grew up in a big city. My best friend from age 5-10 was a different color than me and we both knew that but it was nothing. I didn’t know there was a name to our difference until I was 9. Someone came to my home and we were playing together and this someone said” oh you have a colored girl as a friend”. Nothing mean just a statement. I just looked at this person and said” what’s a colored girl?”.... so baffled was I. My family had to move to a different part of city and my friend and I only got to see each other if my parents could drive me over to her house. Her entire family and mine had a great friendship for years. I wish the world would stop making people feel a certain way about about shades of skin!!
Same for me - still genuinely puzzled, especially with all the goings on in America. Music-wise, luckily our UK radio stations fully embraced black artists, got to hear all the great music MFSB!
I am your same age.. got a year on you, so I know exactly where you are coming from. Growing up, I had a friend across the street that I played with on a regular basis. I am an only child but my mother had brothers and sisters and my cousins came over quite often. I remember asking them if they wanted to go across the street and play with my friend, Donna. They told me that they could not because she was "mexican". This was news to me and it upset me.. In that group of cousins, three of us were very close in age and I was much closer to my cousin Greg, who was about a little more than a year older than me, much more so than his sister, who is only 6 months older than I am and, to this day, Greg and I are much closer than I am to his sister. Out of that family, Greg is the only one who has had relationships with people of all races and that to me is just sad.. I have relatives who have never had lunch with a person of a different race.. I truly hope this changes.. I know I raised my girls to look past color and to judge people by the way they acted, not by the way they looked. Have a great day and here's to rocking out and keeping great music alive with Jamel!
I'm with you. I didn't know there was such a thing as racism until I was in like 4th grade. I've always had friends with Mexican decent, African decent, and Asian decent. From before way before I ever started school of any sort. When I was informed. My friends a I were skateboarding around town (small town) and my friend Jamal (not the same dude. This was in New Mexico) ran into some guy walking out of a store. And the guy was calling Jamal all these words, names, I had never heard before. I shit you not. And of course I could tell these were very mean word worse than just explicit language. After we got away from there with tons of apologies I had to ask the meanings. And I was appalled that there was even a notion of such hateful and frankly moronic thinking. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE. We all bleed the same we are all of this planet. I am ashamed of what the European, Caucasian has done to this world in respect to others.
There's another video of that time that WAR time Why can't we be friends.. Like Elvis Presley once said lend your brother hand for the sane God that made you made him to. Again, I ask you why can't we be friends?? Why not¿
tbh, all through the 70s and 80s bands and friends were racially mixed and honesty nobody cared bc we cared about the music and about people we loved. the saddest part about what's happening now is that it's actually breaking lifelong friendships and taking us back the 1930s. it's sad, but all we have to do is ignore it.
Love this song. " Couldn't make it in the Maf-I-Ay" War and Three Dog Night brought some of the coolest sounds from the era. Both with pertinent messages.
Took my son to see War when he was 12 . he loves low rider . it was general admission. We were on floor about 8 deep . he said dad i wanna get closer . no its to crowed . he squeezed his way to the front of stag between six bikers hands in there air swaying with them to this song . never been so proud
A timeless song that still applies today. “We all bleed the same”. Absolutely agree with you, Jamel, and love this song. I was a baby 👶🏻 when this song came out! 🤪
I'm going to tell you one more time, Jamel. This is what the hippie's vision of the world we wanted to live in looks like. We still live this way. So we will keep on keeping on and praying more people will find their way to this kind of heart. Love you, bro!
There is no answer to this song.The people in power don't want everyone to be friends.They can't control you if that happens.Love the animated face on this one.Thank you.
See how close we were in the '70s? Kids now couldn't even imagine it. Positive music literally bringing us together. This does not even exist today. Positive music was the Majority in the '70s. I feel blessed to be able to remember my era. Like you said, back then we were interested in walking in another man's shoes.
Thank-you Jamel. I’m 54 and I’ve felt all my life this video was relevant, and wish it didn’t have to be. In a perfect world the song would be a relic of the past.
YES! Finally! WAR has a lot of great hits to listen to. 'SLIPPIN' INTO DARKNESS' and 'ALL DAY MUSIC' are incredible tracks. So glad to be here. Let the music play!
Ok, this is deep for me...... I married the love of my life on 6/11/94. War played that afternoon downtown and we were there celebrating with our friends. He hopped up onstage to lead the audience in an impromptu duet to this tune (written up in the paper, lol). We were an interracial couple and the message is crystal clear. The marriage lasted not forever; but a good 18 years and I stand by the message. Thank you for your this and all reactions! Keep good music alive. XOX. Sharon
Brother, I am so glad that I discovered you and your channel about a year ago. In what has been the most trying year of my 58 year-old life, you have opened a window of love, unity and just genuine goodness. And yes, I am sure we would be friends.
War was the definition of laid-back vibe in the 70s, lowrider is practically the anthem of that. I actually met Lee Oskar, their harmonica player, a few years back when I did a delivery to his house. Had no idea the guy lived in my hometown
The voice of the animated face at the end is J.J. Jackson (not one of those Jacksons). He was a legendary DJ in Los Angeles on KLOS,KROQ and KTWV (we'll forgive him for the last one. a man's gotta work!). He was also one of the original Veejays on MTV. Just a bit of minute trivia,and paying respects
It’s sad that we haven’t gotten any farther with getting along with each other than when this song came out. You hit the nail on the head, Brother Jamel, when you said we all bleed. We’re all born, we all breathe, we all live, and we all die. We have far more in common than we have different.
Honestly, I think as a whole, were doing better than we were even at the time of this video, it sorta changed around 2012 or so, every 20-30 years or so we do get along better, but the powers that be figure out a way to tear us all apart. With 24 hour a day news and social media, it's so much easier. I'm just glad folks like you keep bringing the love 24/7-365. Keep it up brother.
This song and video makes me happy and sad at the same time. I grew up listening to this song and many more by WAR. Yet the video shows how little we have changed in all these years. Love you Brother, keep spreading the message of Love. 'The World is a Ghetto' is another amazing song. I would love to see a reaction to that one.
There is a line in a song I wrote that goes "why is it hard for people to understand even though we all look different, we're all still part of the family of man". ✌️❤️👍
It Has Never Been Hard For Me To Understand,, Because I Am Native American (Navajo) & I Raised Myself Since I Was 9 With The Belief That,, The Earth Is My Mother & ALL Her Children My Brothers & Sisters..One World,, One Love,, One Race........Human.
@@Caperhere not yet because I haven't finished it, but it's called Before It Comes Crumblin' Down and it's about how screwed up things have been for the last 4 years. 🙌✌️
This song came out during a time of more social division and upheaval than today. There have always been positive calls for peace, love, and brotherhood.
@@rogerdodger6025 I lived through the sixties and seventies and the violence and divisions didn't stop at the end of the sixties. This decade and its problems have not reached the level of the sixties and seventies, yet. I have noticed that each generation thinks their challenges are the greatest ones. Time will tell... My point was simply that there are always those that stand for love and brotherhood, even in turbulent times.
@@rogerdodger6025 The chaos of the late '60s continued well into the '70s! It actually got worse as it metastasized throughout the country into the mainstream.
@@rogerdodger6025 You can't compare this past year of pandemic doom to any other year in current times. Were you an adult in the '70s? with double digit inflation, crumbling cities, rising crime, stagflation, high unemployment, soaring divorce rates, etc.....which was all occurring throughout the '70s decade, not just this past unique year we've had.
I never knew that there was a video of this! I grew up listening to War and on 8-track from the backseat as a child. They're still among my favourites . ❤
I worked with a Mexican dude who use to translate songs he listened to for me. Eye opener. I tend to just watch your reactions for songs I already know. Some groups have self interest in not getting along. Keeps the money coming in. Three letters.
Love these guys! They played in a tiny theater in San Antonio, inside of Fiesta Texas in the late '90's. My girls were kindergarten/first grade aged. When they played Cisco Kid, they brought several kids from the audience (including one of my daughters) onstage and taught them to sing along with the chorus. It was really neat.
i agree with you 100%...we could solve all of the world's problems if we could just get along. FIFTY-YR-OLD song and here we are. smh. You are a beacon of peace, Jamel, as well as most of the commenters. i am always welcomed warmly and it is a pleasure to hear you talk about your family. Peace out.
I love how they used a version of this song at the end of Lethal Weapon 4, while showing pictures of the cast and crew over the years of the franchise. It was a really touching, and great way to tie up all the years of that family and the movies they made.
Jamal, thank you ! I have come across some of the music I grew up on and this song.. I wrote to them and asked them to come out and lets sing the song together ! We need this now !! If we could stop screaming at each other and just sing to each other.. Could you imagine the music that can be made? Music speaks your soul, our souls are beautiful, everyone's soul ! Blessings to you !!
This song is so good! I had such high hopes for a better future for everyone back in those days and as a 58 yr old, I still don't understand why we still live in a world where we have to ask "why can't we be friends?" Much love to all the folks here in this awesome family of friends! 🙏💗🙏 Thanks Jamal for keeping good music alive and bringing together a whole community of like minded, loving people like you!
This was shot on 16mm film and there's a lot of detail there that previous video conversions did not render. Bravo to the artists who restore their original work, and to Jamel for his reactions to them.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Jamel ..you nailed it with this epic song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have heard this a million times and it never gets old!!!!!! and yes .. im laughing all the way thru this song .. its damn funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey yes I agree with that all right all right brother lowrider Lowrider come on now they got the that video of the Cheech and Chong movie all right why would that not be an excellent play all right
Great song for us! Im a native American Republican but I love all peoples..... people with the side that love people and peace, love and joy! My Father played with Edwin Starr. Star child opened up for Marvin Gaye 79-80 world tour
This band was my first concert at Selland Arena in Fresno. I believe it was 1973. They were touring the album All Day Music (great title song if you would like a recommendation).
When I think of early War the song SPILL THE WINE comes to mind with Eric Burdon, it was so hypnotic. This gem come out in the summer of 1975 and the meaning is just as true now as it was back then.
Hey gang, I grew up in Canoga Park in the 1970's, lived on a cul-de-sac with 12 homes. We were practically a mini-United Nations. Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Iranians, etc. I was friends with them all. My highlight at Cleveland High-School was playing keys in a one-off rock concert on the school quad with a couple of local white guys as well as two other guys, Lloyd on drums and Mike on guitar, who lived in downtown LA. I don't remember if we actually practiced all together before the show, but it was something to behold! Among the tunes from the set I recall were from Rush (YYZ), and something from the Michael Schenker Group. And yes, I'm still friends with Lloyd on social media 40 years down the road. This tune by WAR has always been one of my favorites and in light of the horrific crimes committed against US citizens of African and Far Eastern origin over the past year or so, the lyrics are even more valid today than when the tune was released back in 1975. The entire police force needs to be retrained and this song needs to be the mantra in that effort.
Been waiting for this one. War was such a great band. The stuff they did with Eric Burdon is golden. This track here remains just as significant as ever
Gosh I’m 69 and I’ve listen & seen the video and loved it. Growing up in the South I’ve seen it all. God wants us to friends cause we are all Gods children. Peace@ love to you Jamal❤️
I appreciate what you do with listening and analyzing all these songs. I have heard them before, but you give a new angle on them that makes them fresh and newish again.
My just died on April 14th... Lost both my parents within 6 months of each other... He loved WAR. We would laugh over these videos 💗 Edit: Mannnn... If people would expand their musical tastes... I randomly got into Arabic Trap Music... There's a band called 47Soul that is so great 🤣
Always loved that the group was named WAR but sang a song about "let's just be friends". Jamel we, you and me, need to get together to do a few of these. I lived that era, what an extra insight.
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I’m a 60 something white lady. Grew up in a big city. My best friend from age 5-10 was a different color than me and we both knew that but it was nothing.
I didn’t know there was a name to our difference until I was 9. Someone came to my home and we were playing together and this someone said” oh you have a colored girl as a friend”. Nothing mean just a statement. I just looked at this person and said” what’s a colored girl?”.... so baffled was I.
My family had to move to a different part of city and my friend and I only got to see each other if my parents could drive me over to her house.
Her entire family and mine had a great friendship for years. I wish the world would stop making people feel a certain way about about shades of skin!!
Same for me - still genuinely puzzled, especially with all the goings on in America. Music-wise, luckily our UK radio stations fully embraced black artists, got to hear all the great music MFSB!
I am your same age.. got a year on you, so I know exactly where you are coming from. Growing up, I had a friend across the street that I played with on a regular basis. I am an only child but my mother had brothers and sisters and my cousins came over quite often. I remember asking them if they wanted to go across the street and play with my friend, Donna. They told me that they could not because she was "mexican". This was news to me and it upset me.. In that group of cousins, three of us were very close in age and I was much closer to my cousin Greg, who was about a little more than a year older than me, much more so than his sister, who is only 6 months older than I am and, to this day, Greg and I are much closer than I am to his sister. Out of that family, Greg is the only one who has had relationships with people of all races and that to me is just sad.. I have relatives who have never had lunch with a person of a different race.. I truly hope this changes.. I know I raised my girls to look past color and to judge people by the way they acted, not by the way they looked. Have a great day and here's to rocking out and keeping great music alive with Jamel!
@@connieb4372 It just proves that children are innocent vessels & that people must be TAUGHT to hate.
@@moanman1776 Yeah, a number of years ago I saw a t-shirt with an infant, and it said "No child is born a racist'.
I'm with you. I didn't know there was such a thing as racism until I was in like 4th grade. I've always had friends with Mexican decent, African decent, and Asian decent. From before way before I ever started school of any sort. When I was informed. My friends a I were skateboarding around town (small town) and my friend Jamal (not the same dude. This was in New Mexico) ran into some guy walking out of a store. And the guy was calling Jamal all these words, names, I had never heard before. I shit you not. And of course I could tell these were very mean word worse than just explicit language. After we got away from there with tons of apologies I had to ask the meanings. And I was appalled that there was even a notion of such hateful and frankly moronic thinking. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE. We all bleed the same we are all of this planet. I am ashamed of what the European, Caucasian has done to this world in respect to others.
This song is so extremely serious they had to make it fun so people would listen. Thank you so much .
There's another video of that time that WAR time Why can't we be friends.. Like Elvis Presley once said lend your brother hand for the sane God that made you made him to. Again, I ask you why can't we be friends?? Why not¿
tbh, all through the 70s and 80s bands and friends were racially mixed and honesty nobody cared bc we cared about the music and about people we loved.
the saddest part about what's happening now is that it's actually breaking lifelong friendships and taking us back the 1930s. it's sad, but all we have to do is ignore it.
Damn right
If only it could be as easy as this video yall.
Ok we CAN be friends!
Was cool when I was 10 and still cool when I am 59.
I Have Been Listening To War Since Their First Album,, I Was 9 Then,, 60 Now & Still Lovin & Listening.
I was 17 and had the 8-track in high school! ☺
58 as well
Love this song. " Couldn't make it in the Maf-I-Ay"
War and Three Dog Night brought some of the coolest sounds from the era. Both with pertinent messages.
Yep.
Took my son to see War when he was 12 . he loves low rider . it was general admission. We were on floor about 8 deep . he said dad i wanna get closer . no its to crowed . he squeezed his way to the front of stag between six bikers hands in there air swaying with them to this song . never been so proud
Jamal, you should adopt this as the theme song for your channel, It's so you. LOL!
Iam in total agrrement with you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Good idea.
Wonderful idea!! JAMEL should consider it! It goes well with his "just be a good human" shirts!
i 4th that, Jamel!!! Peace out.
The 70s, Do your own thang.
"Why Can't We Be Friends?" Isn't THAT the Universal Question For The Ages??? War asked that. War did THAT!
Spill The Wine with Eric Burdon! Classic
Ya know I’m 66, and until today I always thought this was Sly and the Family Stone 🤷🏻♂️
@@niles006 LOL. Well, both groups WERE multi-cultural.
@@elysehfm8797 hahahaha. I have heard that before
People are choosing love more n more and rejecting all hate. My whole life has seen progress so dont despair, just keep loving.
"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for." Bob Marley. Sad but true...
Facts
@@dorothyparker8433 There is another version, where the word "suffering" is replaced by the word "fighting"
Eric Burdon turned 81 on the 11th of this month ☮️💜. He was an original member from 69 to 71
War was a band from Long Beach, Ca. They lived in the area near VIP Records. They were an established band before Eric Burdon joined them.
Spill The Wine...
@@stevenbrasch5307 not what I read ✌🏼
@@stevenbrasch5307 The original War was conceived by record producer Jerry Goldstein and Eric burdon (ex-lead singer of the British band the Animals).
As much as I love Eric Burdon he was not a founding member. Having said that The Black Man's Burdon classic record.😉
There are more of us who can live in harmony than those who cannot!
A timeless song that still applies today. “We all bleed the same”. Absolutely agree with you, Jamel, and love this song. I was a baby 👶🏻 when this song came out! 🤪
I'm going to tell you one more time, Jamel. This is what the hippie's vision of the world we wanted to live in looks like. We still live this way. So we will keep on keeping on and praying more people will find their way to this kind of heart. Love you, bro!
Indeed!
Yes, indeed!
Love your comment!!!!
I am a 62 yr. old white female, I have been a fan of War for a long time, I still have their Greatest Hits album.
There is no answer to this song.The people in power don't want everyone to be friends.They can't control you if that happens.Love the animated face on this one.Thank you.
See how close we were in the '70s? Kids now couldn't even imagine it. Positive music literally bringing us together. This does not even exist today.
Positive music was the Majority in the '70s. I feel blessed to be able to remember my era. Like you said, back then we were interested in walking in another man's shoes.
Haven't heard this in ages!
Sad to say its message is still relevant. Sung every word out loud until my dogs thought I having a seizure! Thanks!
😂👍
Poor Dogs!!!!!!!!!!!! rotflmao ..just kidding dear
But dogs are usually your best audience! No judgment! Maybe concern for your health, but they still love you and not tell you to shut up! LOL!!!!
Slippin into darkness HOW DID YOU MISS IT
YES!! Such a Groove!!
I completely agree, that was used in an episode of Mayans MC so appropriate for the scene
An absolutely awesome and amazing song, I love Slippen into Darkness!!!😊🙂🎶🎶
Bro!!
That's the track!!
@@kathybwell quite possibly their funkiest groove
Thank-you Jamel. I’m 54 and I’ve felt all my life this video was relevant, and wish it didn’t have to be. In a perfect world the song would be a relic of the past.
I had the 45 when I was a kid (6 or 7 yrs. old I played it over and over.
YES! Finally! WAR has a lot of great hits to listen to. 'SLIPPIN' INTO DARKNESS' and 'ALL DAY MUSIC' are incredible tracks.
So glad to be here. Let the music play!
!!!!!!
I remember this. Made me get up and dance once again. Still smiling. Thanks for the memory.
PERFECT!! 🤘This is a classic & a great "sing along at the bar" song!❤🙋
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Ok, this is deep for me...... I married the love of my life on 6/11/94. War played that afternoon downtown and we were there celebrating with our friends. He hopped up onstage to lead the audience in an impromptu duet to this tune (written up in the paper, lol). We were an interracial couple and the message is crystal clear. The marriage lasted not forever; but a good 18 years and I stand by the message. Thank you for your this and all reactions! Keep good music alive. XOX. Sharon
War has way to many Great Songs ... This is a Summer Song Vibe
I think that the lowrider video would be a excellent play
The one with cheats putting the shine on the lowrider all right all right
Great song
You know what else has a summer song vibe by War? Summer! 😆
CPR4LIFE 👍
Brother, I am so glad that I discovered you and your channel about a year ago. In what has been the most trying year of my 58 year-old life, you have opened a window of love, unity and just genuine goodness. And yes, I am sure we would be friends.
Such a great song! Like Rodney King said: "Can't we all just get along?"
They have so many great songs!!!
So much nostalgia here! This used to play during my family BBQ cookouts. Thanks again Jamal, you made my morning! 🎊🎉
War was the definition of laid-back vibe in the 70s, lowrider is practically the anthem of that. I actually met Lee Oskar, their harmonica player, a few years back when I did a delivery to his house. Had no idea the guy lived in my hometown
The voice of the animated face at the end is J.J. Jackson (not one of those Jacksons). He was a legendary DJ in Los Angeles on KLOS,KROQ and KTWV (we'll forgive him for the last one. a man's gotta work!). He was also one of the original Veejays on MTV. Just a bit of minute trivia,and paying respects
I think we need a little 70’s love and understanding in 2021!!!! Thanks Jamal ... great to hear that again!😊
It’s sad that we haven’t gotten any farther with getting along with each other than when this song came out. You hit the nail on the head, Brother Jamel, when you said we all bleed. We’re all born, we all breathe, we all live, and we all die. We have far more in common than we have different.
Honestly, I think as a whole, were doing better than we were even at the time of this video, it sorta changed around 2012 or so, every 20-30 years or so we do get along better, but the powers that be figure out a way to tear us all apart. With 24 hour a day news and social media, it's so much easier. I'm just glad folks like you keep bringing the love 24/7-365. Keep it up brother.
Love this song! Brings to mind Sly and the family stone, "Different strokes for different folks".
I was privileged to work in the studio with some of the members of War in the 80's. Such natural musicians with great instinct.
I love this group & this song.
It will always be Timeless...
Heard this song a million times but never seen this. What a video! Peace and love my friend.
This song was my anthem when I was growing up. Thank you for bri nging it back!
This song and video makes me happy and sad at the same time. I grew up listening to this song and many more by WAR. Yet the video shows how little we have changed in all these years. Love you Brother, keep spreading the message of Love. 'The World is a Ghetto' is another amazing song. I would love to see a reaction to that one.
There is a line in a song I wrote that goes "why is it hard for people to understand
even though we all look different, we're all still part of the family of man". ✌️❤️👍
Is the song on here?
It Has Never Been Hard For Me To Understand,, Because I Am Native American (Navajo) & I Raised Myself Since I Was 9 With The Belief That,, The Earth Is My Mother & ALL Her Children My Brothers & Sisters..One World,, One Love,, One Race........Human.
@@Caperhere not yet because I haven't finished it, but it's called Before It Comes Crumblin' Down and it's about how screwed up things have been for the last 4 years. 🙌✌️
@@happymethehappyone8300 AMEN !!!
@@doobiedave9686 Especially the last 3 months...
I was a 9 year old NYC child in 1975. This is one of the happiest memories of music at that time. Everything old is new. Praise the Lord.
This song came out during a time of more social division and upheaval than today. There have always been positive calls for peace, love, and brotherhood.
No, it's much worse today. The 70's were a time of healing.
@@rogerdodger6025 I lived through the sixties and seventies and the violence and divisions didn't stop at the end of the sixties. This decade and its problems have not reached the level of the sixties and seventies, yet. I have noticed that each generation thinks their challenges are the greatest ones. Time will tell... My point was simply that there are always those that stand for love and brotherhood, even in turbulent times.
@@rogerdodger6025 The chaos of the late '60s continued well into the '70s! It actually got worse as it metastasized throughout the country into the mainstream.
@@mowerdan8133 I had no such problems unlike today.
@@rogerdodger6025 You can't compare this past year of pandemic doom to any other year in current times. Were you an adult in the '70s? with double digit inflation, crumbling cities, rising crime, stagflation, high unemployment, soaring divorce rates, etc.....which was all occurring throughout the '70s decade, not just this past unique year we've had.
I love this song since i was a kid. Still saved it.
Slippin' Into Darkness, Cisco Kid, and Spill The Wine should be next. 🙌👍😁✌️
He did "Spill The Wine".
don't forget 'Me and baby brother'!
Cisco Kid...yes! That's a great one!
Deliver the word is a jam too
Also, “Don’t let no one get you down”, “All day music”, “Magic Mountain” with Eric Burdon.
Yes, it is 50+ yrs for this song. And it still sounds good as it did the day it came out.
I was 3 yrs old when this song came out, Ive NEVER seen this video.
THANK YOU FOR THIS REACTION!!💖✌
I never knew that there was a video of this!
I grew up listening to War and on 8-track from the backseat as a child. They're still among my favourites . ❤
There needs to be more songs like this! We need it.
War has such a unique sound. When the weather gets warmer, I love to roll down the windows in the car and crank up their song "Summer".
I worked with a Mexican dude who use to translate songs he listened to for me. Eye opener.
I tend to just watch your reactions for songs I already know.
Some groups have self interest in not getting along. Keeps the money coming in. Three letters.
I loved this song when it first came out. It forces you to listen to the lyrics. It's just as relevant today as it was back then.
Lee Oskar " Sometimes I don't speak right, and yet I know what i'm talking about."
Love these guys! They played in a tiny theater in San Antonio, inside of Fiesta Texas in the late '90's. My girls were kindergarten/first grade aged. When they played Cisco Kid, they brought several kids from the audience (including one of my daughters) onstage and taught them to sing along with the chorus. It was really neat.
I remember when this song first came out.... Yes I'm that old lol..... I loved it then and I love it now. 💖💖💖
One of the best quotes in history ❤️ **The color of your skin don't matter to me, as long as we can live in harmony** ❤️
YYYEEESSSSSS... IT'S WWAAAARR! "Don't Let No One Get You Down" "Heartbeat", aw hell... the whole album of Why Can't We Be Friends is worth it!
i agree with you 100%...we could solve all of the world's problems if we could just get along. FIFTY-YR-OLD song and here we are. smh. You are a beacon of peace, Jamel, as well as most of the commenters. i am always welcomed warmly and it is a pleasure to hear you talk about your family. Peace out.
Thank you, Jamel! Why can’t we all be friends? Why can’t we get it together as a race? Age old mystery...
The HUMAN race. No interracial. Wish that would drop out of the dictionary. 🌞
@@jesmarluk6635 I agree. We can be even better friends when systemic racism is dismantled which is on white folks.
@@jesmarluk6635 Not everyone feels the same as us, sadly. Until that time comes, we keep on pushing for it, right?
I love how they used a version of this song at the end of Lethal Weapon 4, while showing pictures of the cast and crew over the years of the franchise.
It was a really touching, and great way to tie up all the years of that family and the movies they made.
✌️ and 💖
Always loved this tune
Thank you for sharing. You are so right that after 50 years this is still relevant today. I have always liked this group.
Great reaction Jamel I love this song. We all should open our minds and our hearts. 50 years later and the messages is still the same😀👍❤️✌️🌼
Jamal, thank you ! I have come across some of the music I grew up on and this song.. I wrote to them and asked them to come out and lets sing the song together ! We need this now !! If we could stop screaming at each other and just sing to each other.. Could you imagine the music that can be made? Music speaks your soul, our souls are beautiful, everyone's soul ! Blessings to you !!
Oh man, so good to finally see this in proper resolution!
This song is so good! I had such high hopes for a better future for everyone back in those days and as a 58 yr old, I still don't understand why we still live in a world where we have to ask "why can't we be friends?" Much love to all the folks here in this awesome family of friends! 🙏💗🙏 Thanks Jamal for keeping good music alive and bringing together a whole community of like minded, loving people like you!
50th Anniversary special?!! I'd love to hear Summer or Slippin Into Darkness, and of course there's Cisco Kid.
Me too! Great suggestions! 👍😁
@@headbangingmama8907 tanks :D
This was shot on 16mm film and there's a lot of detail there that previous video conversions did not render. Bravo to the artists who restore their original work, and to Jamel for his reactions to them.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Jamel ..you nailed it with this epic song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have heard this a million times and it never gets old!!!!!! and yes .. im laughing all the way thru this song .. its damn funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey yes I agree with that all right all right brother lowrider Lowrider come on now they got the that video of the Cheech and Chong movie all right why would that not be an excellent play all right
Great song for us! Im a native American Republican but I love all peoples..... people with the side that love people and peace, love and joy!
My Father played with Edwin Starr. Star child opened up for Marvin Gaye 79-80 world tour
Slippin Into Darkness, the long version, is essential listening.I think it’s about 7 minutes long. They really bring the funk.
I have this on a 45 vinyl. I was 11 when I got it and I just liked the song. At 61 I now understand it also. Thanks so much for the video.
First for a great reaction as usual. These videos are great as long as the song is not shortened.
This band was my first concert at Selland Arena in Fresno. I believe it was 1973. They were touring the album All Day Music (great title song if you would like a recommendation).
One of my all time favs! So glad you listened to it!
“All Day Music” is another good one.
My dad had the whole album. Grew up listening to War. Next you should play War "don't let no one get you down"
@rib bit I will tell him thanks
What a song. I love it. I remember listening to this on the radio 50 years ago. I was 15
If you want another song with a similar message check out Everyday People by Sly and the Family Stone
When I think of early War the song SPILL THE WINE comes to mind with Eric Burdon, it was so hypnotic. This gem come out in the summer of 1975 and the meaning is just as true now as it was back then.
I remember this song in end credits of Lethal Weapon
Love WAR Saw Them Live In LA.
Yes this is a great song!
I have been listening to WAR when the group was still called Eric Burdon and WAR since the 1970s and their songs are timeless.
Great ? and an appropriate song for these times in which we live...
Hey gang, I grew up in Canoga Park in the 1970's, lived on a cul-de-sac with 12 homes. We were practically a mini-United Nations. Jews, Chinese, Japanese, Iranians, etc. I was friends with them all. My highlight at Cleveland High-School was playing keys in a one-off rock concert on the school quad with a couple of local white guys as well as two other guys, Lloyd on drums and Mike on guitar, who lived in downtown LA. I don't remember if we actually practiced all together before the show, but it was something to behold! Among the tunes from the set I recall were from Rush (YYZ), and something from the Michael Schenker Group. And yes, I'm still friends with Lloyd on social media 40 years down the road. This tune by WAR has always been one of my favorites and in light of the horrific crimes committed against US citizens of African and Far Eastern origin over the past year or so, the lyrics are even more valid today than when the tune was released back in 1975. The entire police force needs to be retrained and this song needs to be the mantra in that effort.
What a name for a band.... War!
You are so right 'Try to walk in someone else's shoes'. There is always a reason why someone is the way they are.
I actually first knew this song from the “Mr. Jaws” song!
@@elysehfm8797 Yes! Big boys don’t cry! My older brother had the 45 and I had it memorized! I think I was only 5 or 6?
Mr Jaws why are you grabbing my hand? No wait Mr Jaws this is not how the records supposed to end. Help Help! Going under water.........Great memory.
@@cherylreichardt Hahaha!
@@elysehfm8797 Yes! He should!
@@elysehfm8797 Maybe! When I was a kid, we used to make our own with a a tape recorder!
Yep, I was 14 when this came out, so yeah I'm 64 and proud of you bringing back the sounds of my youth.
This was Homer Simpson's entrance music when he was a boxer.
That was the first time I heard this song.
Been waiting for this one. War was such a great band. The stuff they did with Eric Burdon is golden. This track here remains just as significant as ever
This should be the official channel theme song!! LOL!!!
Hey, that's a great idea!
Gosh I’m 69 and I’ve listen & seen the video and loved it. Growing up in the South I’ve seen it all. God wants us to friends cause we are all Gods children. Peace@ love to you Jamal❤️
Mel my brotha! 🙌💯✊
This was a great "FEELIN' GOOD" song that got a ton of radio play back then. Was very good to hear it again!
You should check out “me and baby brother” by war. Love the reactions
I appreciate what you do with listening and analyzing all these songs. I have heard them before, but you give a new angle on them that makes them fresh and newish again.
My just died on April 14th... Lost both my parents within 6 months of each other... He loved WAR. We would laugh over these videos 💗
Edit: Mannnn... If people would expand their musical tastes... I randomly got into Arabic Trap Music... There's a band called 47Soul that is so great 🤣
Always loved that the group was named WAR but sang a song about "let's just be friends". Jamel we, you and me, need to get together to do a few of these. I lived that era, what an extra insight.