Drummer Played WRONG Beat so Vocalist Sang RANDOM Word as a JOKE..Became 70s #1 | Professor Of Rock
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- One of the most famous openings in music history came from the drummer playing a mistake. Low Rider by WAR became a 70s classic due to this happy accident. He was accidentally playing on the upbeat and when he realized his mistake he was about to change course when all of a sudden everyone else started playing on top of his mistake and the singer stepped up to the mic and said a random phrase and a 70s classic was born. We get the story of this classic From a founding member of one of America’s greatest Funk bands. When this one comes on the radio, we all turn it up to 11 and jam out, best heard when cruising down the freeway. The cool, laid-back hit of 1975 next on Professor of Rock.
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Hey music junkies Professor of Rock, always here to celebrate the greatest artists and the greatest songs of all time. If you ever got in trouble for recording hours of music videos over the top of your mom or dad's VHS tapes, you’ll dig this channel. Subscribe below right now to be a part of our community, and make sure to click the bell so you never miss out on the stories of the classic from the legends. We I the only one that got in trouble for that? I remember I recorded Friday Night Videos over top of my mom’s weekly taping of Dynasty or was it Knots Landing. Anyway,
the band War was a funk rock and soul revival that defined the 70s. Originally known as Eric Burdon and War, the band Eric Burdon was in after the Animals.. who had the memorable hit Spill the Wine. War was a fierce fusion of R&B, Rock, Latin, and Funk styles that made them a force to be reckoned with. The band went beyond racial and cultural barriers with a multi-ethnic combination that breathed new life into radio. They had so many classic songs, including their masterpiece #1 LP the World is a Ghetto that came in 72, that had the Cisco Kid along with the Title Track.
Awarded the best-selling album of the year by Billboard magazine. Today we go behind the classic rock radio staple and #1 R&B song and top 10 billboard hit, Lowrider... a crossover hit if there ever was one. War is definitely one of the most underappreciated bands of their time and was a virtual hit machine thought the decade. Lowrider was written by famed producer Jerry Goldstein, with its driving baseline by BB Dickerson, and iconic alto saxophone riff by Charles Miller who also provides the lead vocal the song starts off with its familiar, Cowbell beat by Harold Ray Brown, It all happened very magically as you’ll hear in this exclusive interview coming up.
Lowrider isn’t just a song for many it’s a lifestyle. I was fortunate to discuss the song at length with War founding member and original drummer Harold Ray Brown. What follows is a wonderful insight into the classic song.
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Poll: What is your pick for the greatest "CRUISING" song of the rock era?
....well, for the romantics, Smokey's 1980 smash "Cruisin'", is the One to beat, but, let me peek at me collection, and I'll give some choices, I'll be back....
I'm partial to "East Bound and Down" by Jerry Reed.
Radar Love by Golden Earring and Space Trucking by Deep Purple....
Born To Run
I know this is a strange pick, but other than todays song, for me it Robbie Robertson Somewhere Down The Crazy River. Takes me to a whole new world, and every time I hear it while I’m driving it takes me to a whole other world.
Other picks, Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car, or Marc Cohen’s Walking in Memphis. I just have to turn the music up and put the sunglasses on. Regardless of what time it is.
How can you not love "Low Rider"!? It such a classic groove. It's undiluted, pure, distilled, no artificial ingredients added, bona fide COOL.
I was in Army basic traing during the summer of 1975 and one drill instructor would sing songs to keep us in step during those grueling parade ground drills. Low Rider was one of the tunes he belted out and helped keep us going. Will never forget him, my comrades or the song. Fantasric interview!
It’s also a great choice for road trips.
One Hell of a Drill instructor.
“Why can’t we be friends” was a hit from the same album. WAR had dominated the charts in ‘75, such a great vibe because everything was so positive. Great sound and feel. Thanks for the share
I don't usually write a comment but I have never left 2 on the same video. but THIS MAN!!!!
He is so sweet and such a beautiful spiritual man. I could listen to his stories for DAYS!
Thank you, Adam, for such an amazing interview with such a beautiful man! Blessings always!
I'm not sure which song I love more: "Low Rider" or "Cisco Kid." They are both essential classics.
Cisco Kid is so good!
Cisco Kid is a great song too.
Didn’t they also do, Why Can’t We Be Friends? As a kid I thought it was funny for a band named War to sing it.
@@thesjkexperience Yes. The song reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in the summer of 1975.
Cisco Kid was a friend of mine 😎
I'm listening to this interview while home sick today. Hearing the joy in Harold Ray Brown's voice as he talks about his music and his time as a part of the band and the people he knew and knows is bringing a smile to my face☺ Great interview, Professor!
I agree...sometimes his gratitude just shined through him...we could all stand to do the same more often...
Awful feeling. Hang in there Linda!
Get well soon !
That unintentional drum intro gave Low Rider a special vibe that still works great today. Agree that War is a criminally underappreciated band, too. They had so many great hits in the 70s. If I recall correctly, in the recent segment with Randy Bachman, BTO and War were in adjacent studios in NYC at the time Low Rider and Takin’ Care of Business were being recorded. Ironically, BOTH hits were the result of happy accidents-the pizza delivery guy playing the piano on TCB and Harold’s upbeat timing mistake in LR. Some supernatural forces at work that week? Thanks, Adam!
Good memory Robster!
I wonder what would have happened if the pizza guy was hired to play on Low Rider…😂
They should be in the HoF for sure.
I love creative stories like this, greatness that emerges from mistakes. Another one is Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith, where they wrote the bass and guitar parts, and the famous drum drop at the top (and subsequent rhythm throughout) was the drummer Joey Kramer coming in on the wrong beat. The rest of the band was about to scream at him, but the producer told them to shut up and listen, and suddenly they realized they had magic. So much of great art is recognizing the beauty of our mistakes.
Whenever I want to explain what I mean by "Killer Groove", I point people to "Low Rider"
I attended a War concert at a small iconic Austin TX club in the early 90s-Liberty Lunch. Such a great concert! After the concert, I got in my car parked directly behind the club, rolled down the windows, opened the sunroof, and started blasting my War Greatest Hits cassette. Several of the band members heard it and looked at the back window of the club and shouted their approval. Good memory!
I hope you had fun.
You are lucky Professor, getting to hang out with cool fellas like Harold. I wonder just how long you guys talked because he is a straight forward down to earth story telling magician. I could listen to him talk about his experiences for hours. I love the way you let these guys talk.
as someone who has been a stage hand most of his life, it really means a lot to have him look us in the eyes and thanks us. like we say...First ones in, last to go. Crew runs THE SHOW
THAT is is exactly what is missing in music today. Everyone is in their basement on their computer or cellphone making music. Back in the day, we spent hours and hours - as a band - a whole unit - together - in each others presence - working on material. There is no words to describe being in the zone when you are jamming in a live setting and feeling the sound in your bones
Music was a social experience back then. The band rehearsed together, recorded together, toured together. Group of people listened to music together as it was played on the radio or on a stereo. No earbuds separated us from others. We’d sit together for hours, listened to music, discussed the news or politics or history or trends or classes and professors or an article from The Rolling Stone or (a perennial favorite) who-was-the-hottest of the opposite sex. Not so much loneliness or alienation back then.
For those of us that didn't play but spent days, hours, months and years listening to our friends jamming and learning, it was an amazing time for us, too. ❤
@@loriholloway5866Oh the good ol days of live music. Long Island , NY was the mecca of live bands back in the 60's, 70's, and 80's
@@javaskull88It sadly effects everything in today's world. Music, school, work etc. So much separation, isolation, distance. People are loosing their ability to connect with others and feel that energy between people. In doing so they're loosing empathy and compassion for one another. So much has become about self. It's been such a sad, terrible thing to witness.
Agree with the sentiment... but as someone who is isolated in society, all I have is myself and computer for music
As an auto mechanic for 35 plus years with a brother who is a drummer still playing gigs this interview hit a home run for me! It takes me back to the days when I had a 69 Chevelle SS and would cruise the backroads in my home county for countless miles with my brother and our buddies. We would have the stereo turned up with our favorite cassette tape singing, laughing, adrenaline pumping and burning the tires and roads up! Thanks Professor!
Those were the DAYS, buddy!
I too had a 69 chevelle... 17 years old.... 1984... good times!
War had such an unique sound for the 70s combining Latin rhythms, funk, jazz and progressive rock and multiple vocal harmonies these guys were incredibly influential and broke a lot of musical barriers in the 70s
They did. And yet they are so under appreciated today. Thanks George.
It’s truly amazing how many barriers music has broken. It is the one thing that has had the ability to bring people from all backgrounds together and inspire. Today’s youth has so much rich musical history to draw from and create new memories for those behind them.
@@trynsurviven2440 especially in this time period when sly and the family stone, Santana, earth, wind and fire and war were these bands over 5 decades later have unified all of us and taught us to respect and inspire each other
There were no musical barriers in the 70s. That’s the point
They’re so funky.
In retrospect I love and appreciate WAR now more than I did in 8th grade, when it was ubiquitous. "Why Can't We Be Friends" was such a happy upbeat song. "The World is a Ghetto" was somber and haunting, very poignant. Beautiful. Thanks for the memories Adam!
Good call!
Both great songs.
Same for me, although I was in 12th grade. I just heard LR on the radio a month ago, and marveled at how the sax breaks away from the riff at the end (kind of like Walk on the Wild Side by VU). We appreciate it now MORE because you just don't hear that type of group musicianship anymore, as Ray explains in this video.
Absolutely agree.
@@aquamarine99911 Yeah, I hear that!
Harold’s ghost notes on Spill The Wine were supernatural. Such a great feel. One of the most underrated of all time.
Fake!!!! Don't Message him Scam Alert
@@johnmcgarvey1297
Thanks, I was wondering about that.
The actual @Professor Of Rock has a check mark next to his comments.
He was an absolute trip! No one would meet him and think, "Wow, that guy must have been a famous rockstar!" Funny, and down to earth.
Ha ha. Awesome guy.
He’s a hoot.
Check out Adam’s interview with Dennis DeYoung of Styx. Same vibe.
Isn’t DDY the guy who ruined Styx?
@@SuziQ. Do you mean, "The guy without whom there never would have been a Styx?"
Also, the "sax" part is synced up with a harmonica, which, along with the staccato playing of both, create a unique hook...I learned about this while learning it on saxophone and not getting the same sound, despite playing the exact same notes...
You know your stuff my friend!
That part gets stuck in your head.
Thank you, for decades I've wondered what combination of things was making that strange and wonderful sound. Hearing it for the first time was akin to hearing Del Shannon's Runaway.
This is the second video he's done on this song and both times he fails to acknowledge Lee Oskar playing the harmonica riff. It's one of those "must know" riffs for harmonica players.
@@D-Fens_1632 Glad I could pass on the data...I believe my Pops told me about it, back in the pre-internet days...
As a harmonica player, this song has a special place in my heart because of that, "...iconic alto saxophone riff," is actually _doubled_ by Lee Oskar on harmonica.
Interesting Related Note: After the break-up and various restructuring(s) of the band, Lee Oskar's _current_ band (The Lowrider Band) has more original War members than War.
How do they have more original War members than War? That doesn’t make any sense!🤪🤪🤪
@@RayLeejrI got what they ment
@@RayLeejr War currently exists as a band, and according to trademark/copyright law, as long as _one_ founding member is still in the band, they can continue to claim the name. Thus, War (in its current form) maintains the trademarked band name, but _more_ of its original members have _left_ than remain, _and_ several of _those_ members are now in the more recently formed Lowrider Band. You're right; copyright/trademark law makes very little sense.
"All Day Music" is still a wonderful record. To me, what made WAR so good was that they were such a big band (lots of members) with no standouts. They were a true BAND.
So true.
They rode low together.
True, this was GOOD stuff!
I’m a fan of Cheech and Chong’s “Up in Smoke”, so I’m a bit biased!!
Slippin Into Darkness is a stone cold funk classic!👍✌✊
It was always a trip to hear it on the radio-- a song that had an immediate groove you recognized. What a great guy spitting all the history of his band's timeless classics. His energy is what we need now in our country-- optimistic and authentic.
My week has been shit so far so I needed you, Harold!
Have always loved WAR. "Slippin' Into Darkness" is a funk masterpiece. I was able to appreciate that unique deep growl of their bass in songs like "Cisco Kid" and "The World is a Ghetto" even through the shitty 3-inch speakers of my 1950s mono Philco radio in 1970s Havana, thanks to the AM radio stations from South Florida, like WQAM and WGBS.
yeh same here except 8 track friends 64 valient cassettee later i have a cool.version of sly and robbies taxi gang slipping into darkness instrumental sometimes dj friend would play in clubs 80s
Cisco Kid is always an entertaining song.
Ahhh such a chill song for sure! So comically fascinating how so many classics are the results of messing around!
It's cool when it happens that way. Makes for a great story!
The power of improv.
This is part of the magic of music. So much of it is totally random and organic. How different could it have been if just the smallest thing were different? It's amazing to think about.
One of the better interviews I've heard in a LONG time... thanks for this one! Geez, I remember when this one came out and my buddies and people at school were all buying this album up like crazy. It has not aged one bit. Nothing but love for WAR.
How fun was this!?🥰 What a wonderful spirit he is! I had a chance to see war this past summer here in San Diego and they are still such a vibrant group! They still sound amazing and actually should’ve been the headlining group as far as me and my friends were concerned👀 May he continually be blessed and thank you for this interview. Surely brings back wonderful childhood memories🥰🙏🏾💞
I can't think of a song that matches the feel of actually cruising on a sunny day than Low Rider! What a great interview with great insight into how this classic came about. If you haven't cruised with the windows down jamming Low Rider you haven't lived! I hope you have more of this interview WAR is a fantastic band
I had a long interview with this great guy! Many more to come.
I have done it multiple times. I remember I did it in 7th grade while eating Chick-Fil-A and putting my hand out the window, savoring the sun.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 low riding with chick-fil-a in the sun! Now that's a great day!
@@MyName-pl7zn Haha, is that just the most unlikely combo yet? 😝
Summer by War!!!!!!!
WOW! Great interview, Professor! He EXUDED authenticity and PURE JOY!
He proves the old adage true: "Find a vocation that you love, and you'll never work a day all your life!"
God bless ALL of us!
WWG1WGA
Great comment, except for the "Q" allusion. For God's sake, please leave cultish politics OUT of at least one subject matter!
Epic song !!! I know am not the only one who went down the road of funk after hear it :) So many cultural touch stones in this song and band. We are all better off for it being recorded for humanity to enjoy forever.
Amen!
Such an immortal band.
Just started community college in 1975 and Lowrider was being played in the commons area. My first day of 'real life' now had a theme song. Went to the record store and bought the album on 8-track. Everytime I hear War play Lowrider or Cisco kid, I'm synched immediately back into the 70's and my '62 Chevy Impala.
Thanks for the fine interview Professor!
What a great vibe and energy Harold brings! Fun hearing how Low Rider came together. 👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great episode! Could listen to Harold Ray Brown all day. What a great story teller!
He's an awesome guy for sure. thanks Jim.
Thanks for the story, Adam. I love how bouncy and melodic the tune is, and we can thank the drummer for making it the track we know and love today! 💕🥰
...I can STILL smell "Chico & The Man" when I hear that tune! ...I dunno if that's a GOOD thing, though, ha-HAAA!!
Trina, thanks for ALWAYS listening! you're a POR VIP!
Ha ha! Good one!
And the bouncy beat.
Grew up in the inner city of Detroit, so I got R&B in my blood. But WAR is by far my favorite band of all time. They play real instruments, and sing from the soul. "Low Rider" was my CB handle during that craze in the 70s. I had the privilege of seeing Lonnie Jordan play live with the band around 1999 or 2000 in Pensacola, FL. I was in tears through most of the set, cuz these guys helped me survive the gutter. Their records are the soundtrack of 70s urban culture. I had no idea Harold Brown was still alive (not sure where, but someone told me Lonnie was the last surviving member. Guess I should have done some research before I grieved, lol). What an honor it must have been to sit with him. Thanks for sharing!
War’s sound is very eclectic and I just cannot get enough.
One of my favorite bands, I was a kid in 70s and War's albums were always a go to in our house. So many powerful songs, they more than meet the criteria for Hall of Fame induction. And not too many people know that Jimi Hendrix's last stage performance was with them and Eric Burdon in London a day before his death.
Awesome group, awesome song and awesome interview! Great story behind the song! Thanks for sharing Professor and thanks for keeping the music alive!
Mitch! Thanks for listening
One of my favorite artists of all times!!! Anyone who drives long distances a lot has to have this track on their playlist. A true classic!!!
This is probably my favorite interview of all your really awesome interviews, Prof. What a cool guy and a great song story. You made my day a little bit better from watching. Shout back from New Orleans. 👍
What a joy-filled guy! Great song. Great interview. Great video....as usual.
Gone in 60 Seconds one of my favs....awesome scene.
Ah... Thanks Brian. He's a good dude!
That was an absolutely delightful interview. Thank you
This interview is a gem! Just like the right people at the right time at the first recording of Low Rider, so was the spirit in this interview. Thank you and congratulations!
The World is a Ghetto is in my top 5 favorite albums. Every track is a banger, and that melancholy sax solo on the title track is absolutely mesmerizing.
To me, Low Rider is one of those uniquely perfect tunes. Great interview. It kept me smiling through the whole thing.
Hey Adam,
GREAT INTERVIEW!!!!
I Love the interviews that aren't all about the industry business, and the interviewee is totally speaking with their heart, like Mr. Harold Brown just did. Truly a man who is still in love with music and all the great times he's had in life because of music.
I'm a Rock N Roll guy, but my foundations in music were Motown, Hank Snow, Bing Crosby, Beatles, Elvis, Paul McCartney basically a bit of the 60's, mostly the 70's, definietly the 80's and 90's, so this interview really resonates with me.
WAR was a band my dad used to listen to. I think because it incorporated so many different influences that all were soulful.
My dad like your's was a music lover. He always had the radio on in the car or at home, or wherever he was. I've often wondered what he would have been listening to in the years after he passed away in 1980. I truly believe that he would have been thrilled seeing me singing onstage during my years singing in rock bands where I sang a range of different kinds of music/ songs in cover bands, and soulful rock where I'd belt out verses like I was singing to whatever was out there listening in the cosmos. That's what this interview makes me think of, GREAT TIMES WITH MY DAD, AND GREAT TIMES I'VE SHARED IN MUSIC BECAUSE OF MY DAD's INFLUENCE ON ME MUSICALLY!
Thanks for bringing some of those memories of my dad back to mind with this interview.
Cheers!,
Keep Safe and Always Inspiring,
Matt - Toronto, Canada
"Nobody was greater or lesser" words to describe absolute humbleness as well as sister and brother hood. We are all connected in love and spirit.
I LOVE this man. 💖🤗🤗🤗🤗💖
As much as I love a great deal of 60s, 70s, and 80s rock, War was never really on my radar. I knew "Cisco Kid" and "Lowrider" but never really paid much attention to them. This interview changed all that for me. Yesterday, I checked out a lot of their albums and now I am absolutely hooked on War. I guess I wasn't ready for them at the time (I'm 53), but this interview ended up turning me into a huge fan. Now I'll have to buy copies of all their music. Thanks for this -- great program as always!
Such a great interview Professor! What a cool dude! Can’t help but love this song!🤘🔥
Thanks!
What a great interview! Awesome man, awesome musician! Thanks, Adam!
great interview and that is such a cool story! this man is a great ambassador for the great music of the '70s
This was about the time I discovered radio music. I was a classical music nerd. I listened to the early 20th century composer, Hugo Wolf. One day I heard my brother playing the album Abraxis, then he put on an album by War. I heard the same song forms that is in Wolf's compositions. I was hooked.
Thanks for sharing Ronald.
WoW lol very interesting
Santana and War. Great times.
Timeless classic and genuine and warm interview with a great artist, love it.
I'm getting chills just listening to Mr. Brown tell these AMAZING stories! OMG, I would love to hear more! And , wow, he still looks great!
See kids Drummers can write a song by hitting things. Love ya Prof! Makes us think as musicians not machines. Coolest drummer right here! The groove is in all of is
Yes, what’s missing these days is RRAL TALENT. AI and computer generated shit just doesn’t do it for me.
My earliest memories of this song, come from the time that my father took us to the fair. We were wandering all around the fair, and at the end of one loop, was the whirligig ride. And they were blasting out this song. And I thought it was so cool! So, every time I hear this song, now, I think about the fair and the whirligig ride.
I used to be afraid of those types of rides.
What a great interview! Thank you!
Professor, yet again, a video about a song, band, and man, that I had no idea I NEEDED to learn more about!
Thanks for covering this song and everyone should do themselves a solid and listen to The World Is A Ghetto album. ! A great heady mix of r'n'b , latin beats , progressive jazz and funk. A flat-out freaking awesome listening experience.
It's a great album. One of the best of its time.
My grandma loved that record.
War was a special band. Such a unique sound and rhythm to all their songs! Funny story... I was the lead singer of a Seattle classic rock band for years, and a friend would sit in with us on keys from time to time who was an old friend of Lee Oscar. I met Lee during this time and mentioned that his old friend played with us once in a while, and said, "If you ever felt like sitting..." Before I even finished he made it clear that this would never happen! Oh well...
Best interview yet. Thank you for such great content.
How refreshing to hear a musician interviewed without any ego, bragging, trash talking, criticism or drama toward fellow band members. War was truly music from the soul of each member.
One of the best guests ever. His excitement is infectious!
I love the guy.
OMG that is my favorite song ever...it's my ring tone on my cell phone. What a band and what a song. When my football team is playing and they are losing I play this song over and over again for luck LOL. Thank you, Adam you are the one and only *Professor Of Rock* Cheers from Ottawa, Canada 🍁
What a great ringtone! (I'm sure everyone around you is humming that song to themselves the rest of the day 🙂 More catchy than "My Sharona".)
Mind blowing interview, many thanks!!
Nice interview with a great and positive guest. Really fun listening to HRB. Thank you.
This song comes on, and everyone's is in a low rider. What a great story about how it was created.
Love WAR, still listen to them. Baby Brother, Slippin' into Darkness, 4 Cornered Room, Where was You at, all still sound great.
All great songs. You have great taste my friend!
Love Slippin’ Into Darkness especially.
You just reminded me of how I first got to see MTV. It hadn’t been on long and we didn’t have it yet in our town. Then my friend Sheri comes back from Dallas with two full videotapes of nothing but MTV!! We’d watch those videos all night long at slumber parties and dig the videos. You keep reminding me of some of the best times of my life and I thank you for it.
A lot of musicians used to know that music is spiritual, that we're connected to something greater than our individual selves. I love this interview, it's really a great one.
This was an interesting interview.....I was just a kid when this came out but I remember liking the song and the beat...who knew it was not going as planned...true inspiration taking place in the moment.
It's pretty dang cool when that happens!
They built something around it.
I am old enough to remember when this first came out, that it just fit perfectly with the laid-back life in that day in Phoenix. Everything was so much slower back then, and in that area everything is so spread out, that you had to just cruise a long distance to get anywhere. Lowrider was definitely a great cruising song!
Good times.
LOVE IT! I remember when that song came out, and as a drummer I also love hearing the back story and that the drum rhythm was actually a mistake that made history!
Loved it when you talked about recording over your mom's VHS tapes with Friday Night Videos, and I was immediately whisked right back to 1985!.. I accidentally did that so many times, I can't count, despite her yelling at me every time! Then there were the times I accidentally left my buddies Mtv Headbangers Ball tape in our VCR, the following Monday after school, and my mom's programmed show would wipe out hours of his hard work (It was also one of those soap opera shows lol!). I always looked forward to my buddies Mtv tape, after school, most Mondays, because my folks didn't have cable, and his let him stay up and record our favorite stuff.. I have fantastic memories of those days, and those methods us kids had to use to keep plugged into what was going on musically, back then.
Loved this interview! Love his energy.. And his sorties! Classic.. I remember blasting the Exodus version, when I was a rowdy high school metal head.. Aaaah, memories!
From one Idahoan to another, I love you channel, man! Don't ever stop doing what you do!
lesson of the day: Never be afraid to make mistakes
OMG I grew up with War right outside of Hollywood, so I knew all about the low rider life style! It wasn't really my thing, but I truly appreciate that world. The entire The World Is A Geto album was the soundtrack for my life!🔥🔥👍💯
LOW-RI-DER! rock on!
So many great songs from them.
What a great guy. Made me remember a great friend from the 80's I haven't thought about in a long time. RIP
You are the librarian of rock n roll... Your channel is so much fun to listen to... Thank you for your time and research of our youth...
We really did grow up in best time in music...
The 1st time I heard this song was on the Cheech and Chong " Up in Smoke " record album back in 1980. I was 12 years old at the time; in 1982, our neighborhood movie theater did a re-showing of Up in Smoke and the Warriors. When the movie began and it got to Cheech's intro, I recognized every beat of the song because by then I had listened to it a thousand times. To this day, when I hear this song, the scene from that movie floods my memories. Such and amazing song and movie. Thank you for this video and a BIG thank you to all of the amazing, wonderful people that made this masterpiece song possible; the world would be worse without it.
Cheech and Chong were pop culture staples.
Do you have any drugs in the car ? Not anymore lol
@@galeaiken3841 My name? Isn't there on the license? 😆🤣
@@Spartan77 His name was Raaalphh lol
I think that is a huge difference in music creation of yesteryears and today. Today parts are dubbed in - yesteryear recordings, everybody in the group was finding those incidental riffs and parts when the spirit is roaming freely.
Running on empty is a cruising classic
And you can easily make music with just a click of a computer mouse! 🙄
What an amazing guy. I feel like I'd be happy just sitting in a corner listening to him tell stories for hours.
What a cool guy! This dude is the real deal. Humble and super talented.
For the life of me I can't think of a better opening riff on any song than this.
Excellent.
Great post Prof!! War was a great band, one of my favorites back then. Their catalog is deep. Folks should delve into it and they would be better for it. Why can’t we be friends? Lol.
So true. Thanks Mark!
I agree. My mom loves them.
One of the best, coolest, most interesting and animated interview ever!!! I grew up with All Day Music - and The World is a Ghetto. Wonderful to revisit with Harold !!! Thank You Professor 🙏🏽.
"Low Rider" is a universal song, like "Bobby Mcgee"...no one ever is unhappy when it comes on...
Very true! So uplifting.
Yes it is! 🙌🏾
Uno! 🤣
Low Rider is one of the greatest cruising songs ever. And it must be cranked up to 10! Must!
And Christopher Walken would absolutely love this song. 😏😏
Thanks to Eric Burton for helping form this group. Love it.
Thanks for this one, Professor. You are our Cisco Kid! AND, a Friday Night Videos reference for the win!!
it needs to be played through an amp that goes up to 11
Thanks Roger! Always love seeing you on here!
Love it!
Friday Night Videos is cool as hell!
Hearing this song the first time was a moment that I literally turned around and went straight to the record store. Still have this and one of my favorites
Good episode highlighting an iconic song. One of the favourites from my teen years.
For my grand daughters it's the song that plays when they push the button on my Lowrider Santa car at Christmas time.
What an animated interviewee. He still has a lot of energy, and it was cool to hear him tell the history of the song, times, and area.
I used to think this was a weird ZZTop song because the vocals had the same tone as those guys, but the music never seemed to fit their style so I was confused. I really do enoy this song, as most people do. I'll always think of Cheech & Chong when I hear it.
Haha, ZZ Top wouldn’t dare venture out like that! 😆
You're thinking of 'Manic Mechanic' by ZZTop.
My first exposure to War was their 1976 single, “Summer”, which I got through one of my uncle’s girlfriends at the time (who was a local record promoter, so I had the single probably before the Radio Stations were playing it!), but didn’t know at that point their history…just that I liked what I heard on the record.
Love that song!! The summer of my first girlfriend!!
It’s a great song.
Summer is one of my favorite songs
Great video. I love it when people are able to interview the elders.
These history deep dives are the best! Thanks!!
"Low Rider" is up there with Steve Miller's "The Joker" when it comes to pure stoner music. Such a great, funky tune!
Ha ha. So true. thanks!
It’s the pompatus of “cruising to the funk.”
@mournblade1066-in my mind this song is forever linked to those memorable movies by a now aging pair of stoners🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. On a more serious note, I really enjoyed the interview. I was a kid in the 1970's and now I appreciate all of the musical styles I heard growing up.
What a nice guy and this is such a great song! Who doesn’t turn it up when driving?
I always do.
This is probably the best interview I've seen, mainly because I didn't know what an awesome dude Harold Brown is, and what WAR's music stands for. The world really needs to listen to their music and not just hear it these days. And Lowrider was probably my most requested song back in our cruisin' days, since I had the only truck in town with hydros. lol.
Such an incredible song. Remember going to Radio Shack in the 1970s and the salesman would play Low Rider, to show the virtues of the various speaker systems that came with their stereos. Such a wonderful sounding song. As fresh today, as it was when it was first released.
I'll always have fond memories of watching "George Lopez", and hearing this song in the opening credits, complete with the characters jumping in midair. What a time to be a 2000's kid, right?! 😂😉
90s was better for a teenager, 80s were great when I was a little kid.
Jumping up in midair!
Agreed!
God, I envy you guys. 😊
War in their time reminds me of the Cars as a group who could take a lot of different sounds and make themselves sound like no other group at that time.
That’s such a great comparison.
Great job Adam! I don't know anyone from the 70s that didn't just stop whatever they were doing and jam to low rider! Such great memories. Thanks!
Brilliant drummer and WHAT A HEART TO EVERYONE! Love it!!!
Back in the 70's, if anyone had much of a record collection, there was at least one War album in the bunch.
True. True. My dad had 3 of their records.
...DING-DING-DING!! ...everyone had a WAR Album...EVERYONE....no need to pilfer One, either!! ...ha-HAAA!!
Because they have tastes like THAT.
yep ghits record a must have