Nothing like it. I lived Rock and Roll. This got a bad beat of it's own. Groove is deep as Santana yet the sound is like the Johnson Bros Funk. It's LARGE...
This song is literally backed by an entire culture of amazing people, no one cares what sex, color or religion, just low riders.. that’s our commonality. Much love
Their harmonica player, a Danish guy named Lee Oskar, was amazing in the way he used his instrument as an inside voice of the "War" R&B fusion horn section. Nobody else has ever really done that, and it absolutely makes so much musical sense. Once you mic the "harp", the sound can be colored in many ways, but the breathiness is always there in the background. Every once in a while, it peeks up out of the inner texture, but he seldom has it in your face as a constant solo instrument, the way that most blues harp players do. Through most of their songs, you'd swear it was a saxophone. Sometimes you really hear it more as a harmonica, but it always serves the needs of the song! (see him doing his thing at 2:00 ) A real musician's musician, as all of these hit-making guys tended to be! It's all about the groove!
Can you imagine when they wrote this song they probably never imagined how much of an Iconic song it would become. And still be loved so many years later
@@happyme3376 Yeah for real. That's a damn shame. Looks like to this day, no one has been arrested or prosecuted for his murder. Fortunately his music will live forever. Stay safe.. peace.
This has to be one of the most laid-back songs in the history of music. You can be having the crappiest day of your life until you hear this song. The feel good factor of this song is off the scale.
@@melancholiac you are Right on😁👍‼️ I play that alOT too ironically! You have great taste obviously 😃🎵🎶📀📻🎷🎧 PS also *Dancing in the Moonlight🌓* by King Harvest And * Miracles* by Jefferson Starship🎵📻🌜✨🌖🌠🌛
I'm 78 my MAN is 80 and to this day this is one of our favorites. When we're riding the Texas Hill Country on our Harley we have this blaring. We may be old, but damn we aren't dead yet. 😂😂😂 Be safe everyone, be happy and be kind. Life is to short to be old and grumpy. 🙏😊
Cruising down Whittier Blvd in ELA. So blasting fun. Even the cops cruising down this street you could tell they where having fun right with all of us back then. 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
My brother and I used to go to the gym early, like 6 a.m. by 7, there would be 30 or 40 people, shuffling around, quietly exercising while the radio played.. I'll always remember one morning this incredible song came on, and suddenly the whole place was pumping! Who can be dull when they hear "Lowrider?" Noone!
I think there's only one member of the original group still in it; they're still managed by Jerry Weintraub who kept it alive. Saw them in Chicago @ the House of Blues early in the 2000s...
@@bananka4905, and that was beauty personified. Just people coming together and making great music that still sounds fresh and solid nearly a half century later.
@@happyme3376 oh yes!! I can name so many bands .. when i hear that music it brings me joy.. and the intstruments that they all shared and played to the max was unbelievable. I would sit and listen.. to say.. sly and the family stone over and over.. pretending i was playing bass guitar.. then i would play again and pretend i was one of the vocalists... and so on. Just as when i listened to sister sledge. I pretended i played bass in We are family' and sang. And all the blues bands that had no colour...i tried to play on my piano accordion by (we didnt have the room for piano) and i could take it anywhere i wanted to strapped on my back like a napsack riding my bike. I jammed with my brothers who loved the band 'war' along with the Doors.. so many memories. I was so into funk as well.. because i loved the bass . I ended up playing bass for a while because of the funk bands.. and Robin Trower was a rock band but played funky stuff. All the lyrics were something we shall never hear again. Love .. peace.. togetherness. Music had a reunion of people.. i love Gospel. Black gospel i was the only white girl besides my mom , that was around who respected and loved Mahalia Jackson. Andre crouch. I did a school report on Mahalia . Amazing voice. I sat and listened to her album over and over.
'70's dope culture, with Chicano Low Riders meet with a comedy duo of Cheech and Chong to cement a time and place and culture. THIS is the west coast in the late 1970's captured in one song.
I ain't got a low rider but I got a low car , and I can feel the spirit when I'm in that car. I ain't kiddin,every time I hear this tune in that car I think of times I was a little too young for and how cool the car scene was back then. (I'm only 48)
My Dodge Stealth RT sits about 8 inches off the ground. It don't bounce but this song sounds great and I get the looks when driving to this song!! I'm 50
It was pretty fucking uptight when this song came out. Vietnam. Race wars (yeah segregation was still a fucking thing in '75). No such thing as legal weed anywhere. Cleaning up after Nixon. Oil shortages. USSR. Batamax. Assassination attempts. So much nuclear testing...
This is music. The amount of soul put into that sax at the end is immeasurable. Young musicians should study this masterpiece.... it's not about how many notes you play, or how fast you play them. It's not about how technically difficult it is. It's about rhythm, sound, and feeling. At it's core that's what music is, rhythm, sound, and feeling.....
WAR definitely belong in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, just for this record alone. An absolutely timeless classic that never fails to put a smile on your face.
it looks really nice, but nothing like modern film. Too much grain, and it's in 4:3, too. If you really want to see a music video that looks like it could've been filmed last week, take a look at The Who's performance at Shepperton studios in 1978.
This video is such pure fun. No discord, no feuding, no problems. Everyone's having a good time making good music and showing off their rides. This video always makes me happy.
You said it. And to think Charles Miller was murdered in a botched street robbery 2 days after his 41st birthday… To this day, there have been no arrests. What a shame.
Yep. By 1975 the raw edge of funk was beginning to be replaced by the less funky, less syncopated and more produced sound of disco. But this song here is still pure funk.
@@melchizedekful Pure unadulterated funk. You can tell because a] it's a full, live band, b] there are actual lyrics [no 'ooh-ooh oogie-oogie' nonsense], c] the words 'disco' are nowhere to be found, and d] the stunning lack of polyester in the video. As you might surmise, I really do hate disco and I really enjoy funk.
Had the privilege to see them in Las Vegas many years ago. They have a huge catalog familiar to most but do not know it is War. They do belong in the RRHOF!
Is there anyone on earth who doesn't at least like this song a hell of a lot? I was at a 7-11 a few days ago and this started playing on the radio and the whole waiting line started bopping to it! True story!
Excellent Tribute to how COOL your DAD was! R.I.P. !!!!!! So happy to hear you did this for him - You will rock on with your DAD - FOREVER for doing that!!!! Love & Peace !!!
Yep, me too! It transports me in to the car with with Guy Mariano, Rudy Johnson, Jason Lee, and Mark Gonzales, or I'm transported in to the car with Cheech and Chong, and we are all having a great time.
What I love about WAR and this song, is that they joined two cultures together and will for generations to come. It might not always be cookouts going on between the two, but for the most part, we did more than just tolerate each other, we learned to live together.
Amen im mexican I love my black familia . Growing up it was always black and brown. Got nothing but love for the black community I hate when people say mexicans are racists towards a said individual group , every race is gonna have its bad apples but doesnt make the whole bunch bad . Just want everyone to get along stop always bringing race into it start moving forward as the human race.
I'm 71 and this takes me back to the early 70's and cruisin' Whittier Blvd. Where you were either low and slow or a hot rod! Great times and great music!
@@DeepDeepSpace technically it was first called "rock and roll" a slang term for s%x in the black neighborhoods so ... rock was black peoples music period at first in the racist u.s. it was even called "n*gro music" by white people at first until the "cross over' white rockers came and began doing it e.g. elvis presley and the of the famous british rockers
I remember when this song was released. I was in 6th grade. I was at school doing something for a teacher out in front of the “office”. This song came on while I was taking care of my task. I started to hum, sing along and bob my head to this song. I happened to look up a see a teacher frowning at me for digging this song. I just smiled and kept doing my thing. I loved this song back then and still love it today!
@@geneva760 Thanks, mate. Love all the Aussies🦘🦘🦘 from Down Under. You all are a people of Honour and Due Respect. Your Cousins from America. * Beware the Chinese Government, they speak with fork tounge.here they are entrenched in the Solomons. Scary, like the Japanese of Old Tymes. Cheers.🍻
They play the music they want to play. No corporate executive telling them what to do. That is the way music should be. No corporate interference. If they made a new Blues Brothers movie war should be in that movie along with living color doing cult of personality. I got to see them do that song in Victoria as well.
@@billcox8870 Mr.Cox, for you for responding to my comment. I am not sure if the group War had the musical freedom you said they had? Still, to this day, very few artists have the musical freedom to record whatever they want. It is also why Prince had problems with the Warner brothers company decades back. It is why I stated they were authentic and did not go any further. Overall, I have no doubt that you are a TRUE FAN of the group WAR!
I think it was released in 1975. I'm 60 yrs of age as well so this was before common core mathematics. I was in 9th grade and the song is still timeless.
@@Shel230 I don't even know what you tryna say fool. But this much I do know tho - that ain't NO funk music. It's a Latino street sound! And WAR captured it.
The song may not be in your genre taste, but if you appreciate the bass line of this song, you might appreciate the one from T-Rex's "20th Century Boy." ua-cam.com/video/t2fyB6ctDi0/v-deo.html Placebo did a more modern cover of it which sounds almost exactly like the original, but the instruments are punched up quite a bit and the bass hits a little harder.
@@meredithinserra4670 Glad I thought you might be on the same page with T-Rex. If you haven't heard the Placebo cover (without David Bowie) I suggest giving it a listen. It is pretty amazing how on point the music is, and the lead singer while not sounding exactly like Marc Bolen, does a pretty good job. They did the song for a movie called Velvet Goldmine...which has some other interesting covers....like Thom Yorke of Radiohead covering Roxy Music's 2HB.
I agree 100%. I play the drums/percussion(im much better at this than the other) and keyboard percussion(think like a vibraphone or xylophone) and I absolutely love the percussion in this song. Also I feel the melody is so concrete yet flexible that there could also be a marimba or vibes solo in there. Brilliant. BTW, what do you play?
@@ajm2303-n5h The xylophone adds such a great dynamic to songwriting, I have a fisher price one, I definitely need to upgrade and get myself a PROPER one, those harmonic dings add so much punch to a song. Guitar and bass mainly, various genres.
This is fascinating! In 1975, some of the cars they were using were from the 30's and 40's, which mirrors today pretty well, as far as modding cars from the late 60's and 70's. But I had no idea they put hydraulics in them that long ago. It's amazing looking at how things were different then - this is a slice of America I've never seen.
The Mexican American community in Southern California started putting hydraulics in cars in the late 1950s . They used old inexpensive cars that were from the 30s 40s and 50s
Before hydraulics, it was the family piled into a high mileage car having saggy springs. My HS buddy's family in mid-60s had a 4-door '58 Impala with Continental kit spare on rear bumper, in Marina Blue, with chrome wheels that was the BOMB around town. The whole family rode along, so it was a tail dragger.
@@jerroldkazynski5480 My dad had an '81 Olds Custom Cruiser with faux wood paneling. When we went on road trips, two of us would sit in the rear facing back seat and it would grind over speed bumps. On a trip to King's Dominion, the muffler ripped off when we pulled in to the parking lot. Not nearly as cool as a '58 Impala throwing sparks.
Ya know what the haters say today are lies cause songs like would not even been created - America is the greatest country cause of us Americans citizens.
Big kudos to whoever decided to remaster this and post on UA-cam! I remember when this song was new, and to me it's just as cool now as it was then. I still turn up the volume every time it comes on, which is usually on my iPhone now.
Absolutely these are real rock and rollers! I love all their tracks even as a millenial, you boomers were so lucky to have the era of great tunes you had! I envy you so deeply for the creativity and honest showmanship and downright skill musicians had back then! I know plenty of greats from my time, but in your era, everything was gold!
Tell me in 50 years a young man won't find this tune. Slow down to 10 mph , roll down the windows and blast this down the boulevard! I did it today, rolling down the job site and all the boys taking it in. The smiles! The smiles! It just grabs me.
So so smooth & what a great vibe - I just need to put this on repeat and play it at low volume in my office all week - I bet all the cool people will stop by to say “hi” - life is good
I remember to this day going to the Street Machine Nationals circa 1981 and seeing the baddest black on black on black '75 Lincoln Mark IV on the ground with flawless paint and a louvered hood and this was blaring on a tape loop from the open doors! I stood and stared, I was in love.
This song was on the first mix tape I ever made. I got my first cassette recorder in 1975 for Christmas and this was a big hit in the UK. Still sounds so fresh. Many years later I went to California for the first time (San Francisco), I took a cab from the train station to my hotel, the driver asked me if I minded if he put some music on. I said go ahead and this was the first track.' Low Rider'! Just a quintessentially cool moment and the start of a wonderful holiday.
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it’s crazy to think that this song is almost 50 years old, and it doesn’t sound dated. It’s just a classic song all around!!!
It's timeless nice
Are they black or are they Mexican? What are you?
Nope, it never will faded period!
@@evinhanning7585?????
not even the weed.
I'm sorry but this is my favorite song on the radio in GTA San Andreas
Only god can forgive you
@GrapeOtter Amén. Jesucristo te da la bienvenida.
Why are you sorry?
The saxophone at the end is iconic
Its going down for real!
The whole song is mate!
So iconic that Flo Rida got sampled it
@@MONSTERKILLERMFLEXJRyes sir
@@JarodTheThunker I am flo rida
Black guys and whites guys groovin, making great music. Thats whats we need to heal the world!
until you throw prapagonda the meedea into the mix
@@kevinsedwards TRUE love will alwasys win, good music and good vibes bring people together
1 white guy 😂
I think it's always been that way in the music world for the most part
@@terriecotham1567 yeah, not really in the rest of the world, that's why people love music, it brings people to together no matter what race
I’ve always considered this song a masterpiece of rhythm.
Nothing like it. I lived Rock and Roll. This got a bad beat of it's own. Groove is deep as Santana yet the sound is like the Johnson Bros Funk. It's LARGE...
@@bullitt7544 lol don't forget Cheech and Chong lost due to incompetence ,that's a badass jam too
Aaaaannnnd COOLNESS
It is. The melody rides atop it like a wave. It's great
I play this song before I do anything challenging hahaha 🤣
One of the greatest grooves in the history of music.
Can't stop listening
You got that right
Foo shoo
Cisco Kid & 4 Cornered Room Zoom Zoom Zoom
A floor-filler to this day. Dancin' shoes ON🕺💃🕺💃🕺
The coolest song ever with just the right amount of cow bell.
I gotta tell ya... I could use more cowbell.
The real O.G. music
Damn right boy!
The drummer always blows my mind.
luv those cow bells
Learned this song from the Lopez show. Used to wake up in the middle of the night to the cast jumping on the trampoline while the song played
🤣💯💯💯
This song is literally backed by an entire culture of amazing people, no one cares what sex, color or religion, just low riders.. that’s our commonality. Much love
Mexican power is low riders 💪🏼🤌🏼🇲🇽
@@elgrangadsby bean
Yes big up the black peoples for starting it!
@@elgrangadsby
Culture vulture talk
Oook it's a Mexican made this song it would be about Mexican power 😆 funny actors
THE ORIGINAL WAR BAND DESERVES TO BE IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME
Chubby Checker before anyone else!
💯
You mean they're not. Hold on. Gotta get this.
That's crazy, they're legends, should've been in there
Absolutely No Questions asked
Their harmonica player, a Danish guy named Lee Oskar, was amazing in the way he used his instrument as an inside voice of the "War" R&B fusion horn section. Nobody else has ever really done that, and it absolutely makes so much musical sense. Once you mic the "harp", the sound can be colored in many ways, but the breathiness is always there in the background. Every once in a while, it peeks up out of the inner texture, but he seldom has it in your face as a constant solo instrument, the way that most blues harp players do. Through most of their songs, you'd swear it was a saxophone.
Sometimes you really hear it more as a harmonica, but it always serves the needs of the song! (see him doing his thing at 2:00 ) A real musician's musician, as all of these hit-making guys tended to be! It's all about the groove!
❤🎼❤🕶💋
This is very insightful. Lee Oskar's harmonica was an essential part of the original War sound.
Can you imagine when they wrote this song they probably never imagined how much of an Iconic song it would become. And still be loved so many years later
Hopefully all the band members are getting royalties.
Vamos a dar la vuelta en el lowrider.
Are these cars lowrider? is a survey for a video about lowrider ua-cam.com/video/jGuNRnswdWg/v-deo.html
Yep they used it up and smoke And in gone in 60 Seconds
How is it iconic?
A hundred years from now, this will still be a beloved classic.
it alr is
George Lopez
Almost there
60 years to go
It already is to me
and hopefully never lost to time
considering I had to whistle the music at 1:01 to my mother to find out the name though, that might sadly change.
I listened to this in 75. No tune's ever stood the test of time like this one.
If you don't like Low Rider, we can't be friends.
I see what you did there!
@@happyme3376 👍👍
@@azpowerphxaz1237 , seriously though, great jams, and what a shame for all of us that Charles Miller was murdered. Such a loss!
@@happyme3376
Yeah for real. That's a damn shame. Looks like to this day, no one has been arrested or prosecuted for his murder. Fortunately his music will live forever.
Stay safe.. peace.
It’s just perfect
The drummer tells a story on how accidentally drummed a synchopated rhythm and it ended up being what was used. No wonder he's smiling 0:33
Who else thinks WAR belongs in The Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame!
F The RARHOF
They should've been in decades ago. What a bunch of crap.
the r&r hof is *NOT WORTHY* of WAR!!!
You said this on a George Benson song too and your right.
Rock n Roll should be just called music hall of fame .
This has to be one of the most laid-back songs in the history of music. You can be having the crappiest day of your life until you hear this song. The feel good factor of this song is off the scale.
this.....💯💙
Hell yes to that!!!!
As a laid-back song it ranks with It's A Family Affair by Sly Stone
@@melancholiac you are Right on😁👍‼️
I play that alOT too ironically! You have great taste obviously 😃🎵🎶📀📻🎷🎧
PS also *Dancing in the Moonlight🌓* by King Harvest
And * Miracles* by Jefferson Starship🎵📻🌜✨🌖🌠🌛
@@DianeChick-tv2ot You too, Diane! 🎵🎵🎶🎶
His voice will always be the epitome of cool.
✌️🥀✌️
@@overthenever4262 today
It's so sad that he was murdered five years later.
@@marknc9616 i Didn't know he was Murdered what Killed him
@@Loverboy7789. Please refer to the Wikipedia article for Charles Miller (musician).
They make this "low rider" figure seem like a mysterious figure, and this song is the legend of him.
I'm 78 my MAN is 80 and to this day this is one of our favorites. When we're riding the Texas Hill Country on our Harley we have this blaring. We may be old, but damn we aren't dead yet. 😂😂😂 Be safe everyone, be happy and be kind. Life is to short to be old and grumpy. 🙏😊
👍❤
Wholesome
Cruising down Whittier Blvd in ELA. So blasting fun. Even the cops cruising down this street you could tell they where having fun right with all of us back then. 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓
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Rock it!
The fact that this was made nearly half a century ago and is still one of the boppiest songs in history really shows how ahead of their time WAR was.
They are not ahead of time, we just live in a more degenerat moment and it aplies to music as well.
You have a black guy singing about Mexican cars published by a white record company. Equality people
Hola alguien sabe. Que banda de regional la toca en español
The fact that this was made nearly halfa century ago and there's a trollface at 1:44
Boppiest! What a fabulous word 😊
This song will never go out of style
🔥💯
Never ever.
@@bobbyricigliano2799 💕💕💕💕💕
You're beautiful Sophia
@@maneevent1508 thank you for compliment
My brother and I used to go to the gym early, like 6 a.m. by 7, there would be 30 or 40 people, shuffling around, quietly exercising while the radio played.. I'll always remember one morning this incredible song came on, and suddenly the whole place was pumping! Who can be dull when they hear "Lowrider?" Noone!
RIP Charles Miller (saxophonist/vocalist) , Morris 'BB' Dickerson (bassist) and Papa Dee Allen (percussionist)
May they rest in peace
👌👌👌👌👌👌👌👌
Life is short
@@Group_Anonymous Agreed
I think there's only one member of the original group still in it; they're still managed by Jerry Weintraub who kept it alive. Saw them in Chicago @ the House of Blues early in the 2000s...
An American treasure. A band that represents the diversity of America and our music.
Truth!!
There was no division when it came to music back then..
@@bananka4905, and that was beauty personified. Just people coming together and making great music that still sounds fresh and solid nearly a half century later.
@@happyme3376 oh yes!! I can name so many bands .. when i hear that music it brings me joy.. and the intstruments that they all shared and played to the max was unbelievable. I would sit and listen.. to say.. sly and the family stone over and over.. pretending i was playing bass guitar.. then i would play again and pretend i was one of the vocalists... and so on. Just as when i listened to sister sledge. I pretended i played bass in We are family' and sang. And all the blues bands that had no colour...i tried to play on my piano accordion by (we didnt have the room for piano) and i could take it anywhere i wanted to strapped on my back like a napsack riding my bike. I jammed with my brothers who loved the band 'war' along with the Doors.. so many memories. I was so into funk as well.. because i loved the bass . I ended up playing bass for a while because of the funk bands.. and Robin Trower was a rock band but played funky stuff.
All the lyrics were something we shall never hear again.
Love .. peace.. togetherness. Music had a reunion of people.. i love Gospel. Black gospel i was the only white girl besides my mom , that was around who respected and loved Mahalia Jackson. Andre crouch.
I did a school report on Mahalia . Amazing voice. I sat and listened to her album over and over.
diversity and politics has poison yo mind, it's just an awesome song, listen and enjoy
'70's dope culture, with Chicano Low Riders meet with a comedy duo of Cheech and Chong to cement a time and place and culture. THIS is the west coast in the late 1970's captured in one song.
Going low in East L.A.
I ain't got a low rider but I got a low car , and I can feel the spirit when I'm in that car.
I ain't kiddin,every time I hear this tune in that car I think of times I was a little too young for and how cool the car scene was back then.
(I'm only 48)
My Dodge Stealth RT sits about 8 inches off the ground. It don't bounce but this song sounds great and I get the looks when driving to this song!! I'm 50
kids today aint got on nuthin!70s were the BOMB!
My dachshund loves this song- she's the OG lowrider!!!😅
Those lyrics are therapy for the masses
200 years from now this song will still be popular
LBC
IT IS ETERNAL. And a true American cultural icon.
Han Solo wannabes will be flying to Mars on this one.
Got that right
No doubt about that
If you ever feel miserable, listen to that song!
It's a masterpiece! ❤
Cures the sadness, hatred, depression, and negative feelings ALL in one song.
YES
Yeah, but it has to be on a high quality stereo.
Dance your anger away
Why has America become so uptight? We need to loosen up with more music like this. This was such a groove!
Because of big money!
Ole school back in the day when black and brown where down for each other. We all rolled together.
The information age. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. - Ecclesiastes 1:18
It was pretty fucking uptight when this song came out. Vietnam. Race wars (yeah segregation was still a fucking thing in '75). No such thing as legal weed anywhere. Cleaning up after Nixon. Oil shortages. USSR. Batamax. Assassination attempts. So much nuclear testing...
@@BigDaddyDunes true, i am an old guy that grew up in the barrio, true statement you just made.
This is music. The amount of soul put into that sax at the end is immeasurable. Young musicians should study this masterpiece.... it's not about how many notes you play, or how fast you play them. It's not about how technically difficult it is. It's about rhythm, sound, and feeling. At it's core that's what music is, rhythm, sound, and feeling.....
WAR definitely belong in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, just for this record alone.
An absolutely timeless classic that never fails to put a smile on your face.
I'm 55 years old and I finally know who sang this tune! Thank you UA-cam!!!
Right. I always thought the singer was Hispanic/Latino 😆
Haha yeah, same!
I always thought it was ZZ Top for some reason
Carlos Miller 😁🤙
His voice + the instrumentation is just… wow. What a masterpiece.
Great!!!!!
It's a shame the main vocals and saxophonist (Charles miller) was stabbed to death in 80 and no killer had ever been identified
They have a magic mountain of masterpieces. Unfortunately most people just know this this song.
understated, clean, clear, that trumpet,
so cool that they caught the vibes on tape, almost sounds live.
@@mindsigh4 it's not a trumpet. it's harmonica and sax. i always thought it was a trumpet, too.
One of the coolest American songs ever produced.
I can safely bet that this was playing in all the colourful vans during the 70's.
Haha l see what u did there 😂
Remember from the movie, Dazed and Confuzed
Double meaning 😂
absolutely, undoubtably one of the finest pieces of music in history.
💯💯💯💯💯🔥👌
🤣🤣🤣
Beethoven,Bach,Mozart.War
Iconic.
@@TheHiredGun187 incomplete list, but solid start
THIS SONG IS STILL A TIMELESS CLASSIC AFTER 46 YEARS.
It Is.
Without a doubt that the 70s & 80s were the best of times in music!
60's as well without even mentioning.
@@Sarvagya4 You ever listened to some 40's/50's swing & juke box music
70’s better than 80’s,just another person’s opinion 😁
I literally lol'd at this comment.
100%
I've always loved this sing. When I turned 21 and could enter a bar legally, this song started playing when we came in. Perfection! ☺️
When the song and video looks like it could've dropped last week. The magic of 4K is surreal.
So magical
it was shot on actual film negative 4k just brought out the magic of film
Nah..it is nice but think you sheep..it wasnt filmed in 4k! Let that sink in 4k Fad boy
it looks really nice, but nothing like modern film. Too much grain, and it's in 4:3, too. If you really want to see a music video that looks like it could've been filmed last week, take a look at The Who's performance at Shepperton studios in 1978.
The magic of timeless music is unreal.
One of the most underrated bands that ever played
With 9 gold and 2 platinum albums, I wouldn't say they were underrated by any means.
I don't think so.....
This video is such pure fun. No discord, no feuding, no problems. Everyone's having a good time making good music and showing off their rides. This video always makes me happy.
🔥🔥🔥🔥
You said it. And to think Charles Miller was murdered in a botched street robbery 2 days after his 41st birthday…
To this day, there have been no arrests. What a shame.
no discord from mlp 😢
Greetz from Germany..... wrenching in the garage on my MoPars....this song is playing non-stop...... thanks to all of ya!!!!
And THIS, boys and girls, demonstrates the difference between funk and disco.
Down South, we call this "greazy."
Yep. By 1975 the raw edge of funk was beginning to be replaced by the less funky, less syncopated and more produced sound of disco. But this song here is still pure funk.
and which one is this?
@@melchizedekful Pure unadulterated funk.
You can tell because a] it's a full, live band, b] there are actual lyrics [no 'ooh-ooh oogie-oogie' nonsense], c] the words 'disco' are nowhere to be found, and d] the stunning lack of polyester in the video.
As you might surmise, I really do hate disco and I really enjoy funk.
@@carlhicksjr8401 thx!
War is one of the most incredible group of musicians ever, period.
the only band I've been to see multiple times, each concert better than the last! love them still!
There's something about the drums and percussion that make this amazing tune completely unique. Pure magic.
You forgot the COWBELL
The drummer accented the upbeat instead of the downbeat. He said he made a mistake but the mistake was AWESOME!
Had the privilege to see them in Las Vegas many years ago. They have a huge catalog familiar to most but do not know it is War. They do belong in the RRHOF!
How in the hell can you not like this song?! -- Still freaking awesome all these years later. I was 3 when this hit the airwaves.
How old are you now mann???? I was born in 1999 and i like it
Great memories of hotboxing a car in the 90's to this tune as a teenager lol.
So...is this still rock? Or a hot jazz.
no one wants to know your 0ld A$s. But thanks for sharing your opinion!
Es la mejor😍
The opening riff, you know exactly what song is coming on the air.Iam 67 and we played this in class in junior high, we had a cool teacher.
Is there anyone on earth who doesn't at least like this song a hell of a lot? I was at a 7-11 a few days ago and this started playing on the radio and the whole waiting line started bopping to it! True story!
Fucking love this song! I wish it was six minutes long!
My bar band covered this song. EVERYBODY loves this song. More cowbell? You got it, baby!!!!!
This song reminds me of good times with my father. R.I.P Dad.
Lovely song.. lovely story.. the world needs more grooving, jiving ✌🏼
Love it but it's NOT rock .. AMEN
No one ever says it needs more cowbell about this groove 😊
2:12 I love that utility belt full of harmonicas
Lee Oskar was THE MAN for blowing harp. Now he owns his own harmonica company.
Iron on his hip
He may need more then one !
@@chrispile3878 Unfortunately he's also a first class egotistical asshole.
Lee Oskar Harmonicas, I bought one, my daughter LOVES it
These guys are among the coolest bands ever. The fact that Deacon Jones was somehow involved at the beginning, makes them even more fantastic.
Also Eric Burdon from the Animals
B.B Dickerson gave me the money to buy my first drum set. I made my living performing around the world thanks to him. R.I.P BB
No shit? Cool beans brother
@@nozzledrich I wanna hear more! Very cool, Helsinki
That's awesome ❤
Cruising down Whittier Boulevard bumping this classic
Where is that? What city, country?
@@peteford2434East LA
@@peteford2434It’s in California.
@@peteford2434 East Los Angeles,
Thanks. I'm in Toronto, Canada. So wasn't recognizing it. Ha.
Such a great bass line. Dude has great energy too.
Fieldy from KoRn massacred it 😂
My dad loved this song so much we played it at his funeral
your dad had good taste 🙂
Excellent Tribute to how COOL your DAD was! R.I.P. !!!!!! So happy to hear you did this for him - You will rock on with your DAD - FOREVER for doing that!!!! Love & Peace !!!
Rip
Rest In peace to your dad he had good taste.
Rocks!
This is transport music. It transports me into a better mood, even when I'm down. Love WAR.
Fact
Yep, me too! It transports me in to the car with with Guy Mariano, Rudy Johnson, Jason Lee, and Mark Gonzales, or I'm transported in to the car with Cheech and Chong, and we are all having a great time.
Low rider rides a little slower...... Take a little trip. Top ten songs of all time, and I'm a die hard metal head.
One of the best most fun concerts ever that I've experienced was War, Gladys Knight and the Pips, and Sly and the Family Stone. What a lineup!
Awesome lineup!
What a lineup! About to was dishes to this! Then get in my ride for a cruise.
What I love about WAR and this song, is that they joined two cultures together and will for generations to come. It might not always be cookouts going on between the two, but for the most part, we did more than just tolerate each other, we learned to live together.
Amen im mexican I love my black familia . Growing up it was always black and brown. Got nothing but love for the black community I hate when people say mexicans are racists towards a said individual group , every race is gonna have its bad apples but doesnt make the whole bunch bad . Just want everyone to get along stop always bringing race into it start moving forward as the human race.
This band definitly belongs in the R&R hall of fame.
Most definitely! 💯
You bet! Much more deserving than the rap crap they’re letting in.
They aren’t a rock band
The Rest & Relaxation Hall of Fame? Because this song is the epitome of chill.
Absolutely❤
I'm 71 and this takes me back to the early 70's and cruisin' Whittier Blvd. Where you were either low and slow or a hot rod! Great times and great music!
Low and slow in east la hot rods in Whittier
@@gonzalopantoja2276 They'd be jumpin' a Tall Boy in Whittier, too...
This tune is a timeless rock anthem. Still love it after all these years.
Uu
Here in the hospital home it's all crappy but goodie oldie song bring me happiness and go with the flow 😊
Are you off your meds? This isn’t a rock song.
@@EresirThe1st depends on how you define rock.
@@DeepDeepSpace technically it was first called "rock and roll" a slang term for s%x in the black neighborhoods so ... rock was black peoples music period at first
in the racist u.s. it was even called "n*gro music" by white people at first until the "cross over' white rockers came and began doing it e.g. elvis presley and the of the famous british rockers
I remember when this song was released. I was in 6th grade. I was at school doing something for a teacher out in front of the “office”. This song came on while I was taking care of my task. I started to hum, sing along and bob my head to this song. I happened to look up a see a teacher frowning at me for digging this song. I just smiled and kept doing my thing. I loved this song back then and still love it today!
I'm from Northern England & can relate. Love you Bru
See Muh reply. I'm with you brother.
Inspiring 🙄
HA - that was a neato memory - thanks for sharing. CHEERS from AUSTRALIA.
@@geneva760 Thanks, mate. Love all the Aussies🦘🦘🦘 from Down Under. You all are a people of Honour and Due Respect. Your Cousins from America.
* Beware the Chinese Government, they speak with fork tounge.here they are entrenched in the Solomons. Scary, like the Japanese of Old Tymes. Cheers.🍻
The group War was AUTHENTIC ARTISTS!
Everybody dug these cats and their sound.
They play the music they want to play. No corporate executive telling them what to do. That is the way music should be. No corporate interference. If they made a new Blues Brothers movie war should be in that movie along with living color doing cult of personality. I got to see them do that song in Victoria as well.
@@billcox8870 Mr.Cox, for you for responding to my comment. I am not sure if the group War had the musical freedom you said they had? Still, to this day, very few artists have the musical freedom to record whatever they want. It is also why Prince had problems with the Warner brothers company decades back. It is why I stated they were authentic and did not go any further. Overall, I have no doubt that you are a TRUE FAN of the group WAR!
MAN YOU AIN'T KIDDING, I KNOW HE AIN'T LYING. ... THE BLOOD OF MY LIFE
@@tms-fx9zs I don't know anything about the business side of music I just know that I enjoy the music.
perfect song for when you're partying on the last day of school in '76
That movie made me like War back in 1994.
❤
10 years old when this came out and still Loving it as a 60 year old
14
I was 12 AND still say it's in the TOP 20@!!!
I think it was released in 1975. I'm 60 yrs of age as well so this was before common core mathematics. I was in 9th grade and the song is still timeless.
11 for me. I bought the greatest hits album the following year (I think) which had my favorite, Summer.
I'm 57, but I feel you brother.
How these dudes captured a Latin sound and culture is genius. It's like trying to capture the wind.
No wtf it's similar to black music and this is funk and latin rock rock music is black music
@@Shel230 I don't even know what you tryna say fool. But this much I do know tho - that ain't NO funk music. It's a Latino street sound! And WAR captured it.
@@foxycarm1 bruhh look up the song u clown
@@foxycarm1 it's funk mixed with Latin rock music
@@Shel230 Keep wtching anime weaboo we dont need your foolish opinion .
This one and Cisco Kid (was a friend of mine) are two of the absolute classic BEST!!!
Why Can't We Be Friends and Galaxy, as well as Slipping into Darkness
When I was 8 yrs old in 1973 I would walk around our neighborhood w/ my little handheld am radio waiting for Cisco kid to come on :)
@@moderntreasure1828 Cool
Slippin
Galaxy
Great song! Great sounds and arrangements! Great vibe... just a Great band!
It's that funky, syncopated bass line that drives this song forward. Awesome!!
Bass is thumping
Exactly. I have this song on an ipod shuffle playlist when ai go to the gym. That bass line in my ear buds is unmistakable.
The song may not be in your genre taste, but if you appreciate the bass line of this song, you might appreciate the one from T-Rex's "20th Century Boy." ua-cam.com/video/t2fyB6ctDi0/v-deo.html
Placebo did a more modern cover of it which sounds almost exactly like the original, but the instruments are punched up quite a bit and the bass hits a little harder.
@@eduardopena5893 I love the band T-Rex and rock is my first love.
@@meredithinserra4670 Glad I thought you might be on the same page with T-Rex. If you haven't heard the Placebo cover (without David Bowie) I suggest giving it a listen. It is pretty amazing how on point the music is, and the lead singer while not sounding exactly like Marc Bolen, does a pretty good job. They did the song for a movie called Velvet Goldmine...which has some other interesting covers....like Thom Yorke of Radiohead covering Roxy Music's 2HB.
I was lucky enough to have had a chance and see them in studio when they were working on this song, it was a great experience!
Wow!
Your name sounds familiar, what were you working on in the studio when they played?
Nice. I bet that was an incredible experience.
That's great!
liar
This is so old and yet perfectly timeless sounding.
Such a great voice! Bet those guys didn't know they were making a timeless classic that would be loved for generations.
Dude with the harmonica belt knows the meaning of life .
Lee Oskar - the man behind the great brand of quality harmonicas! B)
Marcos invented that belt. Marcos is a friend of mine --- the Hollywood "Call" harpist.
As a musician myself, freaking A+ creativity, what a unique sound.
I agree 100%. I play the drums/percussion(im much better at this than the other) and keyboard percussion(think like a vibraphone or xylophone) and I absolutely love the percussion in this song. Also I feel the melody is so concrete yet flexible that there could also be a marimba or vibes solo in there. Brilliant. BTW, what do you play?
@@ajm2303-n5h The xylophone adds such a great dynamic to songwriting, I have a fisher price one, I definitely need to upgrade and get myself a PROPER one, those harmonic dings add so much punch to a song. Guitar and bass mainly, various genres.
Thanks
Cisco Kid as well.
@@crookedzebrarecords If you ever get enough dough, organize a marimbaphone. Would do this style justice.
This is fascinating! In 1975, some of the cars they were using were from the 30's and 40's, which mirrors today pretty well, as far as modding cars from the late 60's and 70's. But I had no idea they put hydraulics in them that long ago. It's amazing looking at how things were different then - this is a slice of America I've never seen.
The Mexican American community in Southern California started putting hydraulics in cars in the late 1950s . They used old inexpensive cars that were from the 30s 40s and 50s
Before hydraulics, it was the family piled into a high mileage car having saggy springs. My HS buddy's family in mid-60s had a 4-door '58 Impala with Continental kit spare on rear bumper, in Marina Blue, with chrome wheels that was the BOMB around town. The whole family rode along, so it was a tail dragger.
@@jerroldkazynski5480
My dad had an '81 Olds Custom Cruiser with faux wood paneling. When we went on road trips, two of us would sit in the rear facing back seat and it would grind over speed bumps. On a trip to King's Dominion, the muffler ripped off when we pulled in to the parking lot. Not nearly as cool as a '58 Impala throwing sparks.
Ya know what the haters say today are lies cause songs like would not even been created - America is the greatest country cause of us Americans citizens.
This is the America I wish Id live in. Its the America we were promised as kids but were robbed of by disgusting D.C. politicians.
1:20 Big smoke
Big kudos to whoever decided to remaster this and post on UA-cam! I remember when this song was new, and to me it's just as cool now as it was then. I still turn up the volume every time it comes on, which is usually on my iPhone now.
48 years later and this song is still a banger.
Freakin Ted has this song stuck in my head more than ever before
This song never gets old!
Absolutely these are real rock and rollers! I love all their tracks even as a millenial, you boomers were so lucky to have the era of great tunes you had! I envy you so deeply for the creativity and honest showmanship and downright skill musicians had back then! I know plenty of greats from my time, but in your era, everything was gold!
This song is a classic masterpiece
The best song ever
No contest
Ikr
This was War's "You can take that to the bank" sound.
This song is funny 🤣🤣🤣
It's not even the best song on the Dazed and Confused soundtrack.
Found this by chance, never knew who sung it nor seen the vid, so TY
Is anyone else still jamming out to this awesome song in 2024? ❤
Absolutely!
Of course!
Dude I'm practicing for the old folk karaoke!
@@oliversmith9200 I hear ya!! 👍
Yes!
Tell me in 50 years a young man won't find this tune. Slow down to 10 mph , roll down the windows and blast this down the boulevard! I did it today, rolling down the job site and all the boys taking it in. The smiles! The smiles! It just grabs me.
Yes. It grabs you. It's so cool.
Driving your 2012 CRV
I can "picture" this being played in "airborne cars" or in "no-driver" vehicles.....🤪
@angrysilence1234.... wow, like the Jetsons, be cool !
Far-out
admit it every 70s and early 2000s kids woke up hearing this classic either by tv or by radio
And here I thought The "Low Rider" was a Mexican thing?
Beim gaming😂
@@hahnpeggy7034 lol
@Ballen1182 lol it could be
George Lopez XD
So so smooth & what a great vibe - I just need to put this on repeat and play it at low volume in my office all week - I bet all the cool people will stop by to say “hi” - life is good
0% crime apology
0% drugs
0% violence
100% low riding.
0% bitches and whores
0% obnoxious bling
It was more crime, drugs, and gangs in the 1970’s then there is now. It just seems like there is more because of social media and propaganda.
Maybe ~5% drugs...
@@Max-yo4cz Is mary jane a drug???
@@17fourU Consulting Afro-man Magic 8 ball: "Reply hazy, try again (and again and again and again...)
All these years I never knew there was a video for one of my favorite songs ever. Masterpiece of a jam. I used to bump this in my 1986 Toyota Supra.
I remember to this day going to the Street Machine Nationals circa 1981 and seeing the baddest black on black on black '75 Lincoln Mark IV on the ground with flawless paint and a louvered hood and this was blaring on a tape loop from the open doors! I stood and stared, I was in love.
Great Bass line. Cmon it has a groove.
This song was on the first mix tape I ever made. I got my first cassette recorder in 1975 for Christmas and this was a big hit in the UK. Still sounds so fresh.
Many years later I went to California for the first time (San Francisco), I took a cab from the train station to my hotel, the driver asked me if I minded if he put some music on. I said go ahead and this was the first track.' Low Rider'! Just a quintessentially cool moment and the start of a wonderful holiday.
One of the COOLEST & most BADASS songs ever recorded! 👏🏼😎 WAR was a great band!
👍🌟🌈🙋🏼♀️💕✨ja und alles handgemacht
To Funky to be Rock to hard to be Funk..... So yeah man its just the coolest!
The smoothest and coolest song ever written. Absolutely iconic.
This is the way we cruised the streets