There's another video of that time that WAR time Why can't we be friends.. Like Elvis Presley once said lend your brother hand for the sane God that made you made him to. Again, I ask you why can't we be friends?? Why not¿
tbh, all through the 70s and 80s bands and friends were racially mixed and honesty nobody cared bc we cared about the music and about people we loved. the saddest part about what's happening now is that it's actually breaking lifelong friendships and taking us back the 1930s. it's sad, but all we have to do is ignore it.
I’m a 60 something white lady. Grew up in a big city. My best friend from age 5-10 was a different color than me and we both knew that but it was nothing. I didn’t know there was a name to our difference until I was 9. Someone came to my home and we were playing together and this someone said” oh you have a colored girl as a friend”. Nothing mean just a statement. I just looked at this person and said” what’s a colored girl?”.... so baffled was I. My family had to move to a different part of city and my friend and I only got to see each other if my parents could drive me over to her house. Her entire family and mine had a great friendship for years. I wish the world would stop making people feel a certain way about about shades of skin!!
Same for me - still genuinely puzzled, especially with all the goings on in America. Music-wise, luckily our UK radio stations fully embraced black artists, got to hear all the great music MFSB!
I am your same age.. got a year on you, so I know exactly where you are coming from. Growing up, I had a friend across the street that I played with on a regular basis. I am an only child but my mother had brothers and sisters and my cousins came over quite often. I remember asking them if they wanted to go across the street and play with my friend, Donna. They told me that they could not because she was "mexican". This was news to me and it upset me.. In that group of cousins, three of us were very close in age and I was much closer to my cousin Greg, who was about a little more than a year older than me, much more so than his sister, who is only 6 months older than I am and, to this day, Greg and I are much closer than I am to his sister. Out of that family, Greg is the only one who has had relationships with people of all races and that to me is just sad.. I have relatives who have never had lunch with a person of a different race.. I truly hope this changes.. I know I raised my girls to look past color and to judge people by the way they acted, not by the way they looked. Have a great day and here's to rocking out and keeping great music alive with Jamel!
I'm with you. I didn't know there was such a thing as racism until I was in like 4th grade. I've always had friends with Mexican decent, African decent, and Asian decent. From before way before I ever started school of any sort. When I was informed. My friends a I were skateboarding around town (small town) and my friend Jamal (not the same dude. This was in New Mexico) ran into some guy walking out of a store. And the guy was calling Jamal all these words, names, I had never heard before. I shit you not. And of course I could tell these were very mean word worse than just explicit language. After we got away from there with tons of apologies I had to ask the meanings. And I was appalled that there was even a notion of such hateful and frankly moronic thinking. PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE. We all bleed the same we are all of this planet. I am ashamed of what the European, Caucasian has done to this world in respect to others.
Love this song. " Couldn't make it in the Maf-I-Ay" War and Three Dog Night brought some of the coolest sounds from the era. Both with pertinent messages.
I'm going to tell you one more time, Jamel. This is what the hippie's vision of the world we wanted to live in looks like. We still live this way. So we will keep on keeping on and praying more people will find their way to this kind of heart. Love you, bro!
A timeless song that still applies today. “We all bleed the same”. Absolutely agree with you, Jamel, and love this song. I was a baby 👶🏻 when this song came out! 🤪
There is a line in a song I wrote that goes "why is it hard for people to understand even though we all look different, we're all still part of the family of man". ✌️❤️👍
It Has Never Been Hard For Me To Understand,, Because I Am Native American (Navajo) & I Raised Myself Since I Was 9 With The Belief That,, The Earth Is My Mother & ALL Her Children My Brothers & Sisters..One World,, One Love,, One Race........Human.
@@Caperhere not yet because I haven't finished it, but it's called Before It Comes Crumblin' Down and it's about how screwed up things have been for the last 4 years. 🙌✌️
See how close we were in the '70s? Kids now couldn't even imagine it. Positive music literally bringing us together. This does not even exist today. Positive music was the Majority in the '70s. I feel blessed to be able to remember my era. Like you said, back then we were interested in walking in another man's shoes.
There is no answer to this song.The people in power don't want everyone to be friends.They can't control you if that happens.Love the animated face on this one.Thank you.
Thank-you Jamel. I’m 54 and I’ve felt all my life this video was relevant, and wish it didn’t have to be. In a perfect world the song would be a relic of the past.
YES! Finally! WAR has a lot of great hits to listen to. 'SLIPPIN' INTO DARKNESS' and 'ALL DAY MUSIC' are incredible tracks. So glad to be here. Let the music play!
Took my son to see War when he was 12 . he loves low rider . it was general admission. We were on floor about 8 deep . he said dad i wanna get closer . no its to crowed . he squeezed his way to the front of stag between six bikers hands in there air swaying with them to this song . never been so proud
The voice of the animated face at the end is J.J. Jackson (not one of those Jacksons). He was a legendary DJ in Los Angeles on KLOS,KROQ and KTWV (we'll forgive him for the last one. a man's gotta work!). He was also one of the original Veejays on MTV. Just a bit of minute trivia,and paying respects
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH Jamel ..you nailed it with this epic song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have heard this a million times and it never gets old!!!!!! and yes .. im laughing all the way thru this song .. its damn funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey yes I agree with that all right all right brother lowrider Lowrider come on now they got the that video of the Cheech and Chong movie all right why would that not be an excellent play all right
Brother, I am so glad that I discovered you and your channel about a year ago. In what has been the most trying year of my 58 year-old life, you have opened a window of love, unity and just genuine goodness. And yes, I am sure we would be friends.
It’s sad that we haven’t gotten any farther with getting along with each other than when this song came out. You hit the nail on the head, Brother Jamel, when you said we all bleed. We’re all born, we all breathe, we all live, and we all die. We have far more in common than we have different.
Ok, this is deep for me...... I married the love of my life on 6/11/94. War played that afternoon downtown and we were there celebrating with our friends. He hopped up onstage to lead the audience in an impromptu duet to this tune (written up in the paper, lol). We were an interracial couple and the message is crystal clear. The marriage lasted not forever; but a good 18 years and I stand by the message. Thank you for your this and all reactions! Keep good music alive. XOX. Sharon
This song and video makes me happy and sad at the same time. I grew up listening to this song and many more by WAR. Yet the video shows how little we have changed in all these years. Love you Brother, keep spreading the message of Love. 'The World is a Ghetto' is another amazing song. I would love to see a reaction to that one.
This song came out during a time of more social division and upheaval than today. There have always been positive calls for peace, love, and brotherhood.
@@rogerdodger6025 I lived through the sixties and seventies and the violence and divisions didn't stop at the end of the sixties. This decade and its problems have not reached the level of the sixties and seventies, yet. I have noticed that each generation thinks their challenges are the greatest ones. Time will tell... My point was simply that there are always those that stand for love and brotherhood, even in turbulent times.
@@rogerdodger6025 The chaos of the late '60s continued well into the '70s! It actually got worse as it metastasized throughout the country into the mainstream.
@@rogerdodger6025 You can't compare this past year of pandemic doom to any other year in current times. Were you an adult in the '70s? with double digit inflation, crumbling cities, rising crime, stagflation, high unemployment, soaring divorce rates, etc.....which was all occurring throughout the '70s decade, not just this past unique year we've had.
i agree with you 100%...we could solve all of the world's problems if we could just get along. FIFTY-YR-OLD song and here we are. smh. You are a beacon of peace, Jamel, as well as most of the commenters. i am always welcomed warmly and it is a pleasure to hear you talk about your family. Peace out.
Honestly, I think as a whole, were doing better than we were even at the time of this video, it sorta changed around 2012 or so, every 20-30 years or so we do get along better, but the powers that be figure out a way to tear us all apart. With 24 hour a day news and social media, it's so much easier. I'm just glad folks like you keep bringing the love 24/7-365. Keep it up brother.
When I was a kid, my Dad's buddy used to just randomly sing the line "I know you're workin' for the CIA..." and I had no idea where he'd gotten the line from! It wasn't until I was probably 12 or 13 that I finally heard this song in its entirety and was like "OH! That's where he got it from!" 😁😅
War was the definition of laid-back vibe in the 70s, lowrider is practically the anthem of that. I actually met Lee Oskar, their harmonica player, a few years back when I did a delivery to his house. Had no idea the guy lived in my hometown
This song is so good! I had such high hopes for a better future for everyone back in those days and as a 58 yr old, I still don't understand why we still live in a world where we have to ask "why can't we be friends?" Much love to all the folks here in this awesome family of friends! 🙏💗🙏 Thanks Jamal for keeping good music alive and bringing together a whole community of like minded, loving people like you!
I worked with a Mexican dude who use to translate songs he listened to for me. Eye opener. I tend to just watch your reactions for songs I already know. Some groups have self interest in not getting along. Keeps the money coming in. Three letters.
One of the best groups of their time!!!!!! Great song for now and before and we should all be saying it over and over again… We should all be friends. So important to this world! We don’t have to love each other but we should respect and Like each other
Gosh I’m 69 and I’ve listen & seen the video and loved it. Growing up in the South I’ve seen it all. God wants us to friends cause we are all Gods children. Peace@ love to you Jamal❤️
I get really frustrated with the algorithms because Screwtube only allows me to see the same videos every day with few exceptions. I try to get around it, but its not easy. I'm so tired of Big Tech telling me what I want to see. How I wish the killionaires would get a life and quit making us their experiments and hobbies! Dad blame control freaks! 😤
I love how they used a version of this song at the end of Lethal Weapon 4, while showing pictures of the cast and crew over the years of the franchise. It was a really touching, and great way to tie up all the years of that family and the movies they made.
@@problyzuited9828 NO. It's because Jamel's a west coast 40-year-old guy & I'm an east coast 62-year-old gal. His Mom is probably about my age because he is the oldest in his family. I grew up in the Woodstock era because I had older sisters. Most of my contemporaries were the oldest in their families. Our music choices were way different. Most of my friends never even heard of the entertainers that I grew up listening to.
@@dee_dee_place thanks many of our musical journeys begin in the home. Mine was around 3 dancing around the living room with my mom and aunt to Chicago, Moody Blues, etc. They’d have wine and funny smelling cigarettes, we’d laugh and dance for hours. Thought it would be cool if he shared his experiences.
@@josepharmsberger7633 My musical upbringing was Big Bands & religious music from my folks, heavy metal from my middle sister, & everything else from my big sister. I was thinking about the comment from @probly zuited, & I realized that before the advent of TV (our 1st Black & White was bought just before the Beatles played on Ed Sullivan) most musicians had regional following fan bases. Once TV started airing their music, they went national & international.
My just died on April 14th... Lost both my parents within 6 months of each other... He loved WAR. We would laugh over these videos 💗 Edit: Mannnn... If people would expand their musical tastes... I randomly got into Arabic Trap Music... There's a band called 47Soul that is so great 🤣
Jamal, thank you ! I have come across some of the music I grew up on and this song.. I wrote to them and asked them to come out and lets sing the song together ! We need this now !! If we could stop screaming at each other and just sing to each other.. Could you imagine the music that can be made? Music speaks your soul, our souls are beautiful, everyone's soul ! Blessings to you !!
Love these guys! They played in a tiny theater in San Antonio, inside of Fiesta Texas in the late '90's. My girls were kindergarten/first grade aged. When they played Cisco Kid, they brought several kids from the audience (including one of my daughters) onstage and taught them to sing along with the chorus. It was really neat.
Christmas.Truce of 1914 At the first light of dawn, many of the German soldiers emerged from their trenches and approached the Allied lines across no-man’s-land, calling out “Merry Christmas” in their enemies’ native tongues. At first, the Allied soldiers feared it was a trick, but seeing the Germans unarmed they climbed out of their trenches and shook hands with the enemy soldiers. The men exchanged presents of cigarettes and plum puddings and sang carols and songs. There was even a documented case of soldiers from opposing sides playing a good-natured game of soccer Sir Paul wrote a song Pipes of peace
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