War ~ Low Rider 1975 Funky Purrfection Version
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- Опубліковано 19 тра 2017
- As part of 60's group The Animals, Eric Burdon sang lead on the #1 hit "The House Of The Rising Sun" and thirteen other Top 40 tunes. In 1970, he left the Animals and recorded "Spill The Wine" with War, a Latin band from Long Beach, CA who backed him until 1971. Producer Jerry Goldstein had seen the band at a gig in Hollywood and became enamored of their distinctive sound.
The original members were Howard Scott, Lee Oskar, Lonnie Jordon, Charles Miller, Thomas Allen, Morris Dickerson and Harold Brown and all shared lead vocals. After the success of "Spill The Wine", Eric left and the band soldiered on to spread their message of brotherhood and harmony and spoke out against social inequalities and gangs.
"Slippin' Into Darkness" was issued in 1973 and became a #16 hit and then "The World Is A Ghetto" peaked at #7 in early 1973. "The Cisco Kid" single peaked at #2 for two weeks, becoming their most popular single ever. "Why Can't We Be Friends" LP was issued in 1975 and held two top 10 singles, the title track and second single "Low Rider" both peaked at #7, but then "Low Rider" did one better by taking the #1 spot on the R&B chart for one week.
Howard explained that the song came about from the low rider culture, "We went to school with all the low riders and it seemed like a natural thing to write a song about the low riders". During the 50's and 60's, young Chicanos created a car style that expressed the pride and playfulness of the Mexican American culture by installing hydraulics that lowered the car's body closer to the ground and also allowed the car to bounce up and down. The style reached its peak in the mid 70's and became a symbol of Mexican/American pride, the cars decorated with rims with spinners, superior paint jobs, custom interiors with specialized steering wheels made of chain and extensive paint details.
At the jam session Charles Miller began singing about low riders after the band found a groove and played it until they felt it was solid, then edited it. The band finished the song adding the horn line and creating an enduring classic 70's tune that has transcended the years.
Cool cool cool! Hot hot hot! The world is a ghetto, but there are some bright spaces in it, like this cat's YT-channel ;-)
Marc Jacobs Baby, believe me when I say it's both cool and hot. DJ Disco Cat has done it again!!!
....Old school a la madre.
vraiment mon vieux
Cat you are the man beautiful job ,Thanks a bunch 🐸🐸🐸3frogs up !!!
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I'm 68yrs. old. This song brings back good memories. Going to grab my pipe and put the good stuff ing it. Smiling, remembering.............😊😮
I'm 63 and I'll load my pipe too
Well met, fellow old skool person! I'm no spring chicken either, but you know what?! Bollocks to all that, and just in the spirit of solidarity, I too am going to grab my pipe, pile it high and sod it, you only live once! Bottoms up!! 😎
Party on brother.
Did the same thing,✝️🥰☝️😎😎
😂on now🚬😵
Best driving song ever, I'm 64 years old and I crank it up and lower the windows and my wife says grow up" she doesn't feel the Timbales and congas and bass.
I hear that "grow up" also every now and then. (preferable after a little smoke...) I do not know, why wifes say that, they should be glad not to have an old man on their side.
I love it! Stay young, growing up is so over-rated.
I relate at 64
Cambiala brother!!! 😂😂😂
She sounds like a drag man
Got my black 1995 Lac. The wood is jammin this tune. The spliff is being hotboxed. The streets are in The Rock. Little Rock AR march 2024.
Perfection ....
my mom gave me and my brother a dollar each and said we could go to the record store (remember those?) and buy whatever song we wanted. 45s cost 99 cents back then. my brother bought love rollercoaster and i bought this!!! i still have it 45 years later!!!
Yes, I remember thumbing thru singles & albums in the record store, usually some shabby place with the greatest music around
And I'd say you & your brother both got your money's worth!....
Awesome.
This song is so unique I can Recognize it right away & it's the long virgin too!!!
@@andrewaevaliotis8769 your storry makes me happy 63 and yes
I was 10 yrs old when this played on the radio. I was in 5th grade in Santa Anna California. Lot's of Low Riders in my neighborhood. We would go to the Drive in Theater across from my Elementary school and watch cool movies 1975! I'm 56 now.
My Ring Tone!!!!!!! I'm 70 still Rock n Roll!!!!!!!!!! Cali4nia!!!!!!
I toast to the good old days of funky loving music them were great days!!!🍻🇺🇸🗽💙👍🥂
🎶🗽🥂🥁😋👍🏼
68 years old I love this song
72..... ditto
@@SaraP.-mi8gg 79 ! dance with stick !
I taught high school art for 37 years - whenever this song came on the radio or the internet, the kids would sing along - no matter what year it was - 1985 - 1995 - 2005 - 2015. GREAT SONG!!!
The true test of time!!
GR8 commentary
Thank you.....
Wondering if the art was any different when the song played...
😎
I am 75 and was in the 1% that didn't use drugs ever. But, this is fantastic music!! 💕
That's unlikely but sounds good
Im 563 years Old 🗝️🧩🌱 , Thv Music 🎵🎶🎶 from The 1970s is thv Golden Age Of Modern pop Music 🎵🎶
One of THE best bass lines EVER! EVER!
Also on the drums my friend.
I'm 72 and I crank itup
66 and loving this so much, got this when I was 15 ………
RIP B.B. Dickerson. Still one of the funkiest bass lines ever laid down!
Oh how I loved this song & the whole album & still do! I’m 69 & this was one of my first albums I bought that I saved my allowance for. My Dad used to ask me if he could borrow it to practice drumming to. He was a musician. He knew good music too. ❤
another reason i am so glad i was a 70's teen!!..🎶🎵🎼🎧🎷🎺🎸🎙
I second that....
Me too.😂
70s . Undisputed most progressive decade in music. Unparalled so far
me too
When first saw "Up in Smoke" the moment Ceech comes out the house and the track came while he gets in the car, the perfect song and the perfect moment. I live in the South Side of Tucson in the late 70s, the low riders were everywhere...
OMG, Up In Smoke! Watched it stoned to the bone and laughed so hard I thought I might split my sides. Those were the days my friend!
This song never gets old.
Fifty years and growing.
Peace.
You're right about that
Nope, don't.
Never so geile Mucke
Can't go by it when it's recommended gotta listen.
This song reminds me of my best friend who had a low voice that sounded like the lead singer of this song. I think of him often he passed away at 28 from cancer. I played this at my wedding in his honor.
Beautiful man
This is such a nice thing to do to pay respect for your friend, big respect man❤️💪✨
Sorry for your loss.
The cancers they slip into our food, water, air and medicines is aiding and abetting murder at the least.
Cancer kills more than Covid, yet we should trust doctors who hide the cures to give us vaccines?
Talk about insanity.....
My son had cancer when he was 7. He barely survived their "cure".
Most doctors are sadists with no SINCERE respect for any life.
@@christinecallanan8389 Dr Budwig opened my eyes to the insanity
Respect and Love to you and your fam from UK
I played this for my fish and now he's a shark
😂😂😂😂
War Takes Me Back to a Simpler Time... So Many Excellent Memories!!!
remember is to live again ! and I love to remember!
0:28......!
Even today 2022, and forever, the kids hear this, they'll love it too.
It’s my sanity…go to song when feeling low
All My Dads friends drove the LOWRIDERS
@@DarlaKroupaALL MY DADS FRIENDS AND MY AD DROVE THE
@@DarlaKroupaLOWRIDERS
THIS song smoked all my weed.
Hahahaha 🤣 right
Currently...😁✌️
The smoker you look the player you get...
@@broznkyra4853 Us 70s Brats had it sooo sooo good ,,,
I named my bong war.....
To my baby girl....... You make jamming with very cool & fun, even though your a adult now, dont let the tunes get away from you... This music is a good place to come to today, tommorrow, next week, and to other moms out there unconditional love goes far....... YOUR BLOOD..... They are your heart beats !!!!!!!
Every last one of them
The Low Rider is a real goer , 50 years and counting, epic
Still wrecking shop
right on.
Lowriding isn't for Everybody
Low Rider , Cisco Kid and We Can’t We Be Friends? were part of my boyhood memories. WAR was and still is one of the greatest bands. Period. They were a band that was all about the music. Ego was not included.
Why Can’t We Be Friends.
☄️
Heavy into Desegrigation it's serious people . This quarantine has put me in my car. I lived in Cali back in the day.Pomona E School Roosevelt everyday I had to fight just because I'm white.them boys seemed to hate me.I felt a little better when the school Coach took us all to Dodger Stadium. Many times we all went there and did not fight me or talk stupid..to make it all happen:War
War helped me get through those ugly things that I felt Why cant we be friends?
Music is the ever present friend that is always there for us during hard times. The music of composer John Williams got me through high school.
White guy 63 grew up in East LA in the 60s. All my friends knew the lowrider!
This song would be heard EVERY time I stepped outside. "Take a little trip, take a little trip, take a little trip with me" So I did. 45 minutes laters and we went around the same block 3 times! And yeah, the car had the little bobble head dog facing out the rear window! It even had a little fabric headband!
Hell Yeah!! This is my Ringtone!!!!! Cali4nia, Viva Los Low Riders!!! Rock n Roll !!!! Up In Smoke!!!!
Ahhh this song is so awesome, that even almost 50 years later, it has that feel good value as you drive, and makes you smile, top song of all time from L.A.
“To BE TRULY HAPPY MEANS TO BE WITH NOTHING AT All” B.
Hehe😂
Ive achieved this balance . Its powerfull within walls..hehe
I have nothing to loose..do you hear mme
WOW, this was the groove back in the 70's awesome 👍😍🎼 ALOHA from Hawaii 🌺 mahalo nui Braddahh 🤙😎🤣🇺🇸 loving it!! Oooooommmmiiiiii on the beach hanging out! Awesome 👍😊🎼🎶🎼 ALOHA from Hawaii 🌺😎 Braddahh.
I've been listening to this since it came out in 1975, when I was 11!
ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME
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Add Slippin by WAR
@@pepper13111 many are and will be "silippin' into darkness" for good.
It's the end of the zombie apocalypse 😜
Woot woot!!!!
One of the greatest comments of all time.
@@nowayhoses8079 hilarious name. Thanks. I needed that 😹🚬
His lead vocal is wonderful such a deep voice that commands attention! R.I.P. Charles William Miller 6/2/39 ~ 6/4/80, he also plays the sax on this here banger of a song! ♥️🎧♥️
While driving thru Detroit listening to this my mom asked who the low rider was.
Haha great memories
Love ya mom
TAKE A LITTLE TRIP
TAKE A LITTLE TRIP
TAKE A LITTLE TRIP
BACK TO THE '70'z"
Weed Me
I remember hearing this on the jukebox one lunchtime in the Kelly Arms in Surbiton with my new 1975 Triumph T160 Trident parked outside. I went home with a lovely Spanish girl whose name I can't remember.
We heard it again on the radio while we got to know each other in the afternoon. Happy days.😊
Nice... Now I need a 1995 Fleetwood on wires and smashed to the ground 😎🙌
Absolutely one of the Best "Unity" Bands - EVER!!!
What’s a “unity” band?
Im 65 and im cranking it up with my new JBL headphones!
“What STRENGTH from what BEAST Behind This Man is Kept”. B.
This song reminds me of The couple of years I spent as a teenager in San Pablo, CA. The years were 1978-1980. I lived on 18th street, one of the dead ends that stopped at Davis Park. A town loaded with crazy culture and every weekend 23rd street bumper to bumper with low riders bouncing up and down driven by polished decked out Vatos, some of them my pals. I sported a pompadour and made sure it was perfect before I stepped into the night… This song was one of the tunes that regardless of heritage, everyone loved..
Most people don’t know that the rhythm is played with a harmonica. The guy who’s playing it is named Lee Oscar. Hohner Harmonicas made a
signature series with a plastic body making them the easiest and least painful to play for long periods.
I had a honer..there wicked
sounds like drums and electric bass
What the world needs now more than ever is More Cowbell!¡
Are you talking Texas am. or Mississippi state football 🤔😀 R T R 🐘 ! 🙏Donald Woodall
I gotta have more cowbell baby!
Brilliant!
Yeah and what about Cheech and Chong!!! God they were funny!
Ha ! I like it !
I think of Cheech and Chong when I hear this song! ❤️
Charlsey Bradford Sargeant Stardenko.....and the class
When Cheech & Chong hear this song, they think of ME !!
Yes!!!!! Lol
hey pendejo !!
60 second gone and cheech and chong
War is legend. Absolutely one of the best bands to come out of America, War rules.
👍🇨🇦
If it's one thing America has hands down, it's WAR!
I know I heard of them " WAR," and, heard their songs. Never listened enough to remember the band was "WAR," My Uncle Mike and Aunt Helen liked them; I was born in 1965.
@@Gallowsgauge yea right?lol
Love Eric Burgdon.
Bad Ass Bass ,Great song will live on forever ✌️
Was war das für eine geile Musik.
70 auf 80 bessers kamm nie nach
Great traveling music.
I was 8yrs old when my elder Brother of 20yrs brought this Album home...I Loved every Song...he would let me play it over & over...but I was Mystified by the Cover...I would study it for hours and found New things everytime... something that always stuck with me❣
Alrato las pongo alas damaspachucas
I remember in the early to mid 90's my cousins had low rider trucks. We'd Cruise down Whittier BLVD in Eastlos Cali.. The best days ever.. My Uncles and Dad would Cruise back in the Days like late 60's early 70's..
1975 - graduated high school, turned 18, summer of 75 was a blast
Love this song and all WAR recorded.
Play it for the kids on my team to let them know we had "THE Music" back in the day!
Ditto
I remember being in California in 1976. Seeing it in real time. So cool 😎
Same. East side San Jose.
orale' holmes! lol
West end girl.
That's the year I would have graduated but in 10th grade my teacher told me if I had $250,000 ignorant country with educated me what country do I live in this country is no good they like taking advantage of their own people especially when they tell you they won't educate you just sick evil world
@@Jr-qo4ls East L.A.!
War is/was such a great musical group! :-)
Beautiful Bassist Line
Latino Salas / African Groove
And Dazzer Jazzy zBeat Smasher
Beat . Low Rider 1972 73 2021
War Band Amazing Truth.
I'm 69 and still look it!!! ❤❤❤
Just found this version didn’t think it could get better 👍👍👍👍
Last 20 years on up.... the kids can't believe this was late 60's/early70s music
Im not 72, but will be oneday soon. This is one of my all time favourites
Their song...So...means a lot to me..rest in peace my hubby of 33yrs 💔xxx
The feeling of a whole generation is hidden in this song! So tasteful, so mature! Wow! Those days we didn't know what we had for a luck to be part of that garden of eden! We rode so low!❤️❤️❤️
Well stated!
I solo 2
One of the greatest songs to open a movie ever!!! Remember Cheech Marin checking out his ride in Up in Smoke after waking up on a friends couch after a hard night partying!
Even in MY SUFFERING CONDITION ~ MY LOVE HAS NO RESISTANCE, UNSHAKEN UNFALTERING AND UNWAVERING
At 61 my eyes aren’t as good . The body is a bit slower. Thank god ✝️, my ears are still good and my libido is still with me .....”Take a little trip”. ❤️loving it. Remembering surfing holidays on north coast, NSW , Australia 1978- 1985.❤️❤️ ....oh , those mushrooms😍🤣🤣
Who could dislike this? This is such a good song and this version is perfect, I listen to it all the time
I still blast old school tunes on CD’s while cruising in my mustang convertible! Still love the memories this music invokes. Thank you
Pick me up...i'll bring a six pack!
its called what it is so thats just has to be some funky grooves its so far out it was out of site it was groovy tunes cruzin the strip down town blvd and the to smooth the groove hollywood and sunset
Ford Fastback....oh yeah!
So true! I do the same thing ( but in my Toyota rave, lol)
I LOVE "War".
WAR knew the importance of “more cow bell” before Christopher Walken in that SNL skit with Will Ferrell! Rock On ✊🏼
I thought the same!!!
You've got to recognise the contribution of Walken , it's like "Funky for dummies".
@@MrEparis Christopher Walken is a genius , I’m just saying WAR knew it’s importance before him 1975, Hugh Masekela knew before WAR with “grazin’ in the grass” 1968, etc. When the cowbell starts, you know something good is coming 😎
@@sensidima9822 Late seventies Grateful Dead, specifically Mickey Hart, maximized the awesomeness of the cowbell. When you heard that cowbell come in, you knew Jerry was about to melt your face.
😂🤣😅😆
Another group that should be in the R&R HALL OF FAME.
Shows you what a poser organization the RRHOF is.
My Covid Blues were away taken by this awesome classic, and a little Jack helped...Peace and stay Smart. This shit aint over yet, be Cautious People...
Music is a mind vacation. Right
an arranged flimflamdemic Y0 !
A little jack, eh?
@@davidwalsh4628 No such thing as a little Jack.lol.
Brandy here.E&J
Ahh.. This song always reminds my of my wayward youth of 1967, cruising up & down Colorado Blvd. in Glendale, California in my 1950 Ford, it was lowered, with a “chain” steering wheel & painted candy blue. I was 17 years old & having a blast. Then I got drafted, & while I was in Vietnam, my damn dad sold my car! To this day I’m still in mourning, for the car, not my dad. lol
This is my favorite jam
“LOVE IS A DRUG OF WHICH ALL THE WORLD IS A FIEND “. B.
Happy song gets me in dancing mood like now ❤❤❤😂❤❤❤❤😂😅😊
There are certain songs that evoke time travel memories. This one of those. Half a century - gone for a few minutes. Thank you.
@Stan Davidson
And, thank YOU.
Time travel memories...
that's exactly what they are.
And, they can never be taken 'em away from us.
Amen brother....
YOU HEARD CAPTAIN BEYOND?
Big 53 today... chilling in the sun and traveling back...
I really appreciate your comment. I had a chance to see War with the B-52's in Up State New York the Summer of 81. I was visiting my Aunt and Uncle who had a house on Lake Mahopac. My cousins were little. I should have talked em into getting a Babysitter that night! On the serious side of Time Travel, check out Andrew Basiago on UA-cam. Particularly Project Pegasus and the Chronovisor (developed by a Priest at the Vatican)
I grew up in East Tacoma, Washington ... can't get much blacker than that place... I really loved the Rythem and Blues music and Motown Sound, even had a few Bee Gees albums with my Tavares and Earth Wind & Fire. Music helped me through the 70's
I went to Stewart Jr High, Graduated '72 Lincoln.
@@papabagh lol, I had brothers and sisters who went to Lincoln High. I went to Mt. Tahoma class of 81'😎
Life was so sweet back then!💯🎼🎶
Yep
Yep 2
Blasting it for my man BB! Rest in paradise!
💝💝💝💝💝💝
One of the baddest bass lines in history!
I had a 53 chevy lifted when this came out and would blast it cruzin the Main but the best album they made was All Day Music s all the songs meld into one another making it a solid gotta play the whole album thing always reminds me of the summer time back home in Richmond Calif
I bout this on45. Way back. Yea. I listen to.all my 45s on 78 sometimes😂❤
Their lyrics and beat take me back to a simpler time and place....
Yep
A much better time and place.
Best Time of my life. My Mom loved it also.Our Yellow Impala.
Classic that will never die. Love this jam.
Had a flight engineer plug it in on flight in a 47 over the So. China. I can feel that flight every time I hear it
This is the first time in 47 years that I have heard this song version.👍🏻🇨🇦🇺🇸
One of coolest songs of 1970s!
COLLEST PERIOD Its from the 70s The 70s were very COOL
Izzy loves cool funky music 🎸 🎶 💘 Enjoy 1975.
Best bike song your all aware of who you are God bless
One of the best songs ever, sound so good, War was good too.
I fondly remember blasting this with my 8-track player in my 69 Chevy Impala. Great memories!
Love it. When music was about partying, fun fun and more fun. Just peace Love and happiness. 😎
Lived on the coast & NYC in 60a 70s had the vinyls from NYC before the coast was a remarkable state of mind. Ty4sharing
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥all 8 cylinders and glasspacks down the Boulevard shooting out sparks nothing but rear bumper taildraggin....just like my tios and and primos taught me back in the day....
I just realized this is almost 9 minutes long....
not long enough.
One of the funkiest sounds of all time. Right up there with James Gang's
"Funk 49" and The Spinners' "Rubber Band Man".
Being in the USMC and stationed MCAS El Toro from 74 to 78 I saw many Low Riders. Never really understood the concept of the low riders but they were fun to watch. Semper Fi everyone!
I remember my dad giving me a tricked out dodge red ram limited 79 edition racing stripes , roll bars , small tires on the front, isky cam shaft, and a bad arse stereo system inside, roll down the window, sit down low tilt the steering wheel down as low as it will go driving 5 miles per hour, those were golden days.
Yeah! Every time ⏲️ our friend, Sig, and her friend, Lou, threw another one of their ripping parties, Lou would put Low Rider on and we would dance 💃 our buttons off!
One of the only 8+ minute songs I've ever heard that doesn't get boring by the end, love it
It was late October 1975 my first day to drive my first car to school in the 11th grade. 1964 Pontiac Catalina. At lunch time some friends and I cruised around the school and turned on the AM radio and this song was on and then we rolled down the windows, cranked up the 20 amp radio and leaned low in the seat and drove slowly and enjoyed every beat of the song! And I can still remember it as vividly as it was just the other day!
Somehow I can hear you’re first ride!!
Cheers from a young 21 boy Pontiac fan!!🔥😇