“Low Rider”
The band Struggle fashioned in 1969, in Lengthy Seashore, California. “Low Rider” is from their 1975 album Why Can’t We Be Pals? 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 super lasting energy ever since. In addition to being within the film Dazed and Confused, the place I heard it, it’s been sampled by the Beastie Boys, it was coated by Korn, and it was the theme track for all six seasons of The George Lopez Present.
For this episode, I talked to Struggle’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 mixture of improvisation and meticulous modifying.
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Illustration by Carlos Lerma.
For a transcript of this episode, click on right 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 within the film Dazed and Confused
Crystal Studios
Jerry Goldstein’s prior credit included “Hold on Sloopy” and “My Boyfriend’s Again”
Tito Puente
Lowrider automobiles
Stevie Marvel
Sound Metropolis Studios
“Low Rider” is sampled on “G.D.F.R.” by Flo Rida
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