“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 tune was a success as quickly because it got here out. It went to #1 on the Billboard R&B charts, and it’s simply had large 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 coated by Korn, and it was the theme tune 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 informed me how “Low Rider” was made within the studio, by means of a mix of improvisation and meticulous modifying.
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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 within the film Dazed and Confused
Crystal Studios
Jerry Goldstein’s prior credit included “Hang on Sloopy” and “My Boyfriend’s Back”
Tito Puente
Lowrider vehicles
Stevie Wonder
Sound City Studios
“Low Rider” is sampled on “G.D.F.R.” by Flo Rida
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