Thursday, November 9

War - Live

SIDE ONE
Introduction by E. Rodney Jones Of Radio WVON, Chicago, Ill.
Sun Oh Son
The Cisco Kid
(Intro) Slippin Into Darkness

SIDE TWO
Slippin Into Darkness
Slippin Part. 2

SIDE THREE
All Day Music
Ballero
(Intro) Get Down

SIDE FOUR
Get Down

Produced by Jerry Goldstein, Lonnie Jordan & Howard Scott for Far Out Productions / United Artists Records
Recorded November 25th, 1972 at the High Chaparral, Chicago, Ill.

With :
Lonnie Jordan (kb, voc., g., perc)

B.B. Dickerson - (b., perc., voc)
Harold Brown - (drums)

Howard Scott - (g., perc., voc)
Charles Miller - (clarinet, fl., perc., sax., voc)

Lee Oskar - (harmonica, perc., voc.)
Papa Dee Allen - (perc, voc.)

This album is for me the best of War. Because it is their best period (72/73), the energy is really intense and their mastery on stage is incredible. All the tracks are over-boosted. The set includes Slippin' Into Darkness, All Day Music and Get Down in their original long form, as well as the previously unrecorded Ballero, a superb latin jam session that reached #33 on the pop and #17 on R&B singles charts.
But the track that makes me crazy is The Cisco Kid with the funkiest wahwah guitar I have ever heard!!

Audio Sample

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello...

I am Harold Brown. The Original Drummer and writer of a lot of War songs.

I should be in your line up. Not Charles Green...he was at home with his parents while I was recording and writing these songs.

I am on the entire recording:

www.Lowriderband.com
www.Myspace.com/lowriderband

Harold Brown

Anonymous said...

My name is Harold Brown. I am on all the major recording of the group War. You have Charles Green in the line up. He was not there.

Check out your information.

www.Lowriderband.com
www.Myspace.com/lowriderband

Harold Brown