LONNIE JORDAN IS NOT THE FOUNDER OF WAR HOWARD SCOTT AND HAROLD BROWN ARE AND OUR MEMBERS OF THE REAL WAR '' THE LOWRIDER BAND '' !!!!! , LONNIE'S BAND IS A WAR TRIBUTE BAND
Truth be told, Lonnie Jordan doesn't even own the rights to the WAR name. Sad to say, he's just a puppet for the the thief/owner of the WAR name, producer Jerry Goldstein.
@@michaelsingleton9849 as a person who saw the original band in a 3500 seat hall, 3rd row center in 1974. I'm good. The shenanigans of Jordan and the rest for years doesn't concern me in the least. I couldn't care less.
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Lonnie has a huge ego. He is not completely responsible for original sound, but give him his due. Still standing after all these years. Agree this is not close to original band, but people need to make a living.
The four OriGinal artists of WAR at facebook.com/LowriderBand - Howard Scott, Harold Brown, Lee Oskar, BB Dickerson, need to make a living too. It's a travesty that one WAR original and six hired guns in this band called "WAR", live off the fame of the WAR name, while the WAR OGs of the Lowrider Band get forgotten, just because they refused to sellout to the thief of the WAR name, Jerry Goldstein. This band called WAR is so WARong.
I really hate when bands talk and jive-ass their way through a classic song, butchering it to pieces. This version of "War" can't compare to the Lowrider Band, so no wonder they chop it all apart.
The fact that some of the original members are gone makes some feel it's not the band they knew of and when too many of those are gone you gotta wonder why they're still going at it?
Lonnie lets the audience sing 'Cisco Kid' because the OriGinal singer/writer/guitarist of 'Cisco Kid', and many of WAR's other songs, the legendary Howard Scott, is not "allowed" to use the WAR name he and original WAR bandmates, Harold Brown/drums, Lee Oskar/harmonica, BB Dickerson/bass, of the Lowrider Band at facebook.com/LowriderBand made famous. Lonnie has fronted the WARong band for so long now, that a whole generation thinks he is the be all end all of WAR. This is a huge reason that WAR will probably never get in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame liked they deserved to be long ago.
This is the perfect example of “fake war”. Lonnie Smith is not war. He is unfortunately using the name to sell tickets to shows. He is an amazing part of the original War and I love him for that. But this is musical plagiarism anyone likes this try the real war with the original geniuses called The LowRider band. This band of Lonnie’s calling it war is like what Mike Love did to Bryan Wilson and The Beach Boys music Mike Love is a musical thief that stole One of the genius creators of the Beach boys Brian Wilson’s music rights and name touring under the name Fake Beach Boys. Lonnie bless our world like you did with the original War and make up apologize even if you don’t think you should. The music and the love this world needs with you getting back together and shining bright as the funk warriors you where and play together again But don’t think you have the ethical right to call this band War
I agree its to bad that lonnie and the original members fail out but they couldn't stop Lonnie because he is a original member so he had the rights to perform any songs created by war.
What they doin? They smile in the OG's face, all the time they wanna take the LOWRIDER BAND's place.....yup, backstabbers for sure! Low down, dirty! Hundreds more WAR fans getting brainwashed into believing this is WAR! SMH!
These guys are not the original members of war this is lonnie Jordan band technically. Its too bad that lonnie and and the original members fail out with each other.
Exactly. This is the sad rip off sell out band The LOWRIDER band is the real War Lonnie. Do the right thing for the sake of our music day you are sorry for trying to rip off your band mates. And funk will reign again
Lonnie was not the founder of WAR. WAR was started by Harold Brown and Howard Scott in 1962 as The Creators. The Creators were the first all black band to play on the Sunset Strip. That band ended around '64-65 when Howard got drafted and was sent to Vietnam. When he returned the band reformed with Harold as Nightshift and added Lonnie on keys, Charles Miller on sax, Papa Dee Allen on percussion, and Howard's nephew B.B. Dickerson on bass. They played a gig at the Whiskey and they jammed with Lee Oskar thinking it was Eric Burdon. Not long after that they added Lee into the band and hooked up with Eric, Jerry Goldstein, and Steve Gold. Steve gave them the bandname WAR, and the rest is history.
OK Lonnie here sounds better than low rider bands singer.He's the original guy But ..they have better instrumentation for the War songs. Reunion? ideal possibility? not high
How is this War? He said they wrote this? Where's Howard? This is a clown show and disrespectful of the band... Don't mind a group covering a song but impersonating a band and giving songwriter credit where it doesn't belong? You lost my respect, no cap.
Sorry yall..I know its Lonnie with new members but it sounds more like war then lowrider band. Just facts. My only loyalty is to the music. Their personal problems aint nunya.😎
