“Low Rider”
The band War shaped in 1969, in Long Beach, California. “Low Rider” is from their 1975 album Why Can’t We Be Friends? The music was successful as quickly because it got here out. It went to #1 on the Billboard R&B charts, and it’s simply had great lasting energy ever since. Besides being within the film Dazed and Confused, the place I heard it, it’s been sampled by the Beastie Boys, it was covered by Korn, and it was the theme song for all six seasons of The George Lopez Show.
For this episode, I talked to War’s bandleader Lonnie Jordan, and their producer Jerry Goldstein. The two of them advised me how “Low Rider” was made within the studio, by way of a mixture of improvisation and meticulous modifying.
You should purchase or stream “Low Rider” here.
Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
“Low Rider” personnel: Lonnie Jordan, Papa Dee Allen, B.B. Dickerson, Charles Miller, Harold Brown, Howard Scott, and Lee Oskar
“Low Rider” as seen in the movie Dazed and Confused
Crystal Studios
Jerry Goldstein’s prior credit included “Hang on Sloopy” and “My Boyfriend’s Back”
Tito Puente
Lowrider cars
Stevie Wonder
Sound City Studios
“Low Rider” is sampled on “G.D.F.R.” by Flo Rida
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