“Low Rider”
The band War shaped in 1969, in Lengthy Seashore, California. “Low Rider” is from their 1975 album Why Can’t We Be Friends? The track 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. Apart from 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 Conflict’s bandleader Lonnie Jordan, and their producer Jerry Goldstein. The 2 of them instructed me how “Low Rider” was made within the studio, by way of a mix of improvisation and meticulous enhancing.
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Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
For a transcript of this episode, click here.
“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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