War - Low Rider
The band War formed in 1969, in Long Beach, California. \u201cLow Rider\u201d is from their 1975 album Why Can\u2019t We Be Friends? The song was a hit as soon as it came out. It went to #1 on the Billboard R&B charts. And it\u2019s just had tremendous lasting power ever since. Besides being in Dazed and Confused, where I heard it, it\u2019s 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\u2019s bandleader Lonnie Jordan, and their producer Jerry Goldstein. The two of them told me how \u201cLow Rider\u201d was made in the studio, through a combination of improvisation and meticulous editing.
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