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Speaker 1 (00:00):
It was I I knew it. Why do you listen
to me? I don't know every time?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You know, I did the same thing with my wife
in the car, Tell me turned left, and I'll go
I'm thinking, I'm not why would I turn left?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
But I turned left? And as soon as I do,
why did I turn left?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Him?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I just the wrong thing.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
So, speaking of driving, I want to say thank you
comedian Alex Rimundo, busy national touring comedian, president of a
tequila company, but yet gets his butt up super duper
early comes.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I don't know why I offered that, but I did.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I don't know. I don't know why you did either.
We jumped at it, took him to the airport, and
I'm on the phone. He goes, hey, how are you
getting the airport? And said uber, He goes, want me
to take you? So yeah, So he shows up to
my house at the seven thirty Yeah, well yeah, and
we get to the airport. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I realized when you mentioned you said something off air
earlier when Philippe was here. And you know, by the way, everybody,
I go to the airport every other week, right, right,
But I don't take people to the airport, and I
just offered to take you to the airport. And I'm
not sure why I did it, but you're my friend
and I love you, and you said that, and I said,
you know what, I'm gonna take you.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And uh but.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
When we were talking about it off air a while ago,
and Phelippe and when I lived in La actually picked
me up from the airport one time.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And so I'm like, I'm in the room with two
people that we've shared. So I thought I felt like
I passed on the what they paid it for me.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, I paid it for But I tell you, I
tell you, and Alex will tell you the truth. As
we're riding at seven o'clock in the morning to the airport,
I looked at him. I said, I said, uh, hey,
please don't ever expect me to return this favor because
it won't happen. But we get to the airport. Hey,
that's actually audio from our trip.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We get to the airport and uh so we go
to get our bags out of the back and we do,
and I had my backpack. I always to carry with backpack.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And I had my backpack in the car because I
all my backpack.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I didn't see it because when he picked it. When
he picked this up, it was.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Dark, there's snow on the ground.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It just starts. So the luggage goes in the back
of his hummer and then I just easy. So I
just throw my backpack in his back seat and we
get there, John, and the luggage comes out of the back.
I'll reach in. I grab a black backpack.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Why does it have to be about color, that's right,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I grab a backpack and I noticed, thank god, I
start walking in. I noticed has a luggage tag on it.
I'm like, did Susan put this on here? I look
at it and it was his backpack. For whatever reason,
we had both purchased the exact same backpack. That's very cute.
(02:47):
But thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's a nice way to say it, John Ohan.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
But but here's where Alex saved after mind, here's where
Alex saved my life.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Which makes him cute, not me, that's true.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'll let Alex tell as much as he wants, but
have Well, I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Glad we discovered that you had the wrong back We're
very glad. I was not traveling right, you were not traveling.
I was not prepared for In your backpack. You had
things that an inspection.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I was not prepared.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Paper.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I was not prepared for I got it. Would not
let Barry Switzer, you know, had your issue. We could
have had your issues. You could have had his.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Let's just put it this way that had I taken
his backpack, I'd be in jail right now.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But you have still gone to Mexico. They might have me.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm trying to find that gone. I gotta bring me
the good discoveries. What we're trying to say. Yeah, it
was a good here's a really dark topic.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And and Susan would have paid that price.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, Susan would have just went what said, I don't
know that guy. Your wedding came out of Congress. Let's says,
your name's Wining in Congress. That's an odd coincidence. This
is the same last name. Uh, here's an odd list,
but we'll do it nonetheless. Uh. If there were a
nuclear war, I'm sure pronouncing a war nuclear terms nuclear nuclear.
(04:14):
If there was electrified, if it went down, what are
the worst cities in the US to be in? I
got the top ten if a nuclear Yeah. If if
they decided, hey, we're going to attack America, what are
the top ten target cities. So coming tot ten is
Philadelphia just because of historic landmarks.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Hecks liberty Philadelphia. You already have New York so close. Anyway,
you'd be knocking out a couple of cities of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I really would, you really would.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Uh Number nine is Miami. They would hit that because
there's a major supply hug for the southern you know,
shipping right.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Any place near a large body of water would be
a problem. I thought Kentucky would be on here just
because of Fort Knox, But I guess no, that's there's
nothing there. I guess there's nothing there, right. I mean
if you well, I won't give any ideas to anybody,
but if you destroy Louisville and then there goes your
ups hub and all the you know the packages that
come in.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah that way. Yeah, I think it was a nuclear world.
Think I hope it would be going. Where were my slippers?
Sure would like a new bathrobe to survive this, apolipse.
Uh Number eight is Atlanta, they said because air travel,
travel and supply chains would be halted. I guess Atlanta
is the that's a huge.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Hub, right, It's the largest regular passenger airport in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, and I would imagine be a stop from Miami
to anything that's going to be distributed throughout that part
of the nation.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
To Number seven is Seattle because it would take out
our coffee. No, it's because it's another large tech park,
hub of tech out. It's coming, baby, it's coming, yeah,
the top. Yeah, and it's a port city Chicago just
because travel logistics. Houston gets taken out at number five
(06:08):
because of energy infrastructure makes it a prime target. Number
five Houston, Yeah, Houston. Number four is San Francisco because
the bath houses. No, that's not right. It's because it
would be a tech hit. I guess there's a lot
of tech companies based.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
A happy story. You picked, right, they got them get it,
satur and Sader.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well, it was either that, you know what.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
The Louisville would be the capital for what you're saying.
I know, right, everywhere's going.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Right, visit Louisville. Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Number we're fourteenth. Ouh, we're number one largest city in
the country.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
The largest. Number Number three is Los Angeles for economic
and cultural reasons. Number two is where you guys were
talking about, New York City for economic reasons, and then Washington,
d C. Obviously at number one.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So I guess if you've got this list of ten
and we're predicting where if they were choosing one of
those ten, what do you think is what do you
think where do you think would it be?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
D C?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Would it be where the President of the United States
is at? Is that the number one target? I think
they'd actually do that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, but I think they'd hit that as ten just
to say, you know, here's a punch in the right
in the mouth.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And by the way, I don't even like talking about
these things. It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
No, I don't. Why'd you bring it up?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I chose the content for today.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I think, uh, military bases. I didn't hear any, but
all those places kind of surround them. Bases are around,
But I would it feels like they're.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Going population not retaliation spots.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I just want to it seems like, yeah, it seems
like DC. You wouldn't be able to get close to anyway.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, there'd be so many security measures to like, if
you knew or if you could figure out that something
was coming towards DC, all the defense mechanisms are going off.
I mean, maybe it would still RECAVOC, but there'd be
some backfire. What was number ten Philadelphia?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Philadelphia saying is when that comes in, there's like no cares.
They just attention.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I think it's a bird?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That's a eagle fans I was trying to find.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I had the peaceful demonstration, I.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Had the I had the actual gone. I got a
new spot nick, and I'm still trying to I'm still
trying to learn how to work it. I had the
Twelve Days of Christmas and the actual cost broken down
by PNC.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Let me get this straight.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You're going from the nuclear blast sights to the Twelve
Days of Christmas?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Was that the segue? That's that baby you turned too to?
That is Alex Raymundo? Where is it at here? It is? Okay,
they do this every year, they do the Twelve Days
of Christmas. How much you would it actually cost if
you bought every one of the items we have, Donald,
we have time.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We can do it.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
If you can get through in a couple of two,
three minutes, four minutes, whatever, we can do it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Let's say people are rooting for you right now. No,
it's I don't want to be late for Wannie Jordan
for more. We can do this tomorrow we can do
this tomorrow. We need to well, how long do we
have Let's let's play ease. The more we talk about,
the less time we have to do it. We uh,
we need to probably go two or three more minutes regardless.
All right, let's let it go. Let's let's let it go, Alex.
(09:22):
Let me ask you something. When is your fine?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Put it on me?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Hey, I'm on doing the Elaine Boosler, Hey not doing
this for me? I literally I.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Looked at him again, one of the first Mexicans ever
in Saint Louis at the time, Ady, whatever it was,
And I look at that I had already in my
closing line, and I look at the crowd.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I realized I have to establish something, and I go,
did I tell you I was Mexican?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And they crack up and I do another and then
I see her in the back of the room going,
I'm sorry, like four minutes light, and so I introduced
her with please welcome a lady that needs no introduction,
Elaine boost Boom.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
How uncomfortable is it because you've had to do that
too open shows for major rock bands. I mean, you know,
you and the guys went out and you did the
Latino Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I've been blessed to be on a lot of great
stages and a lot of great experiences. I saw Todd
Rundgren in which, by the way, it is a great show. Everybody,
oh yeah, in Cleveland, because I mentioned I lived in
Cleveland for a while. I went and saw him with
my girlfriend at the time, and he was amazing. Right,
there was two thousand people.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It's like the Palace.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, this is a little bigger. But anyway, he's amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But between songs he would tell these just like every
three songs or five, he would tell this funny story
and he was very funny, but he was also very
bathroom humor.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Very yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And my girlfriend she.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Goes, he'd love your show, and again it was eighty nine,
and I was yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Cut to the next morning.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
We wake up and I get a call from the
comedy club in Columbus, Ohio and says, hey, man, Todd
Rundgeran is going to be in town tomorrow night. And
they said they want a comic to open the show.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Would you have to do it? And I was like, what,
I just saw him last night.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We were just and there was no comic in front
of him that night when I saw him, and I
was like, what, yes, of course we just and and
by the way, it was beautiful theater and it was
a great setting to do stand up well. When I
went to Columbus, it was a College of vomitatorium. It
was just an open hall. It was not the same
setting at all. And I went on there in front
(11:23):
of him and had one of the worst top three
sets I've ever had in my life of stand up comedy.
And at one time back in the day, I was
doing this joke about puking, so I'm on the ground
simulating me.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Ralph and I were just different stages of Ralph. Yeah again,
there's eighties.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And and and somebody this close to me goes, looks
at him and goes, I'm getting sick just watching you.
Went oh my god. But cut to I walk off
the stage humiliated. I'm just one of the worst times
in my life. Todd Rundinger looks at me and goes,
I thought you were really funny.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
People have it and it might not even be bad night.
It might be the crowd because they're there to see
to watch it was.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It was all the setup and it can be difficult.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's difficult because people want to see them. You're a
rock band.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, here's this dude talking.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
It was even on the Tattoo You tour where Rolling
Stones they had a great show. It was Jay Giles,
it was uh, it was George Thoroughgood and then the
Rolling Stones. This was all one show. But the very
first opener was a brand new kid by the name
of Prince. They boot him off stage and he went
back to Minnesota. There was a date at l A
(12:33):
this you know, the same venue two days later, and
he was They had to talk him come out and
give it another try, but he said, he said he
was done. He was done, all right, stick around on
the show. Next, we've got Lonnie Jordan from War. He
is the founding member, of course, the lead singer. We're
talking to him. Also Jerry Goldstein. Uh, who do we have?
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(12:56):
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Speaker 1 (13:03):
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joins the show next news Rady to wait forty whas Yes, yes, yes,
my friend ends. Yes it's Christmas Christmas song from War
they put out a couple of years ago. I think
(14:06):
it was last year. Let's bring it in right now,
Lonnie Jordan, and I believe legendary producer Jerry Goldstein may
be joining too. Are you guys there, Yeah, we're here. Hey,
good to hear from you guys. This has been a
year since I had you on and uh, last year
you guys were out on tour and the Louisville, Kentucky
(14:27):
date I had to miss because I was in Mexico.
But uh, Lonnie is, of course the founding member of War,
also the iconic front man, and uh Jerry Goldstein legendary producer.
I want to talk to both of you all, but
I want to find out first of all, why the
Christmas song? What? What? What calls you to produce this song? Uh?
(14:50):
And was it difficult? Is this one of these deals
where you recorded in the summer and you got to
get into Christmas feel what's the story behind the song?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yea, y Well, the record company has been trying to
get us to do this for years, you know, and
one day I was just sitting around thinking about it
and thought about, maybe take the song Summer, which was
the number one hit in nineteen seventy five all around
the world, and we read it and try some Christmas
(15:21):
lyrics with it, and it sort of wrote itself good.
As I was writing, you know, I was going, oh, wow, yeah,
this works, this works, you know, And that's how we
came I came up with it. I called Lonnie up
and I said, I think I got the Christmas concept
figured out. And I told him what it was, and
I sang him called his lyrics, and.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
That was a mistake.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
You know, she's singing, you know, and he wasn't quite excited.
Now I know that because it was me singing that.
So I said. So we were in the studio about
a week later and I said, so let's do this,
and he cleaned up some of the lyric and started
to sing it and sing it, and we listened to
(16:03):
the playback and we went, wow, this is really good,
this really works. And so I sent it to the
writing company and they flipped out. We made the video
and by the way, this year we made a lyric video.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
So we're all, it's.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So cool, Lonnie Jordans. So you know the song it's
It's It's also War's Summer turned into its Christmas. Was
it difficult seeing the new lyrics that Jerry came up with,
because there's you know, you get muscle memory of the brain.
I gotta think it's gonna be difficult because you would
slip back into the old lyrics of the song summer.
(16:36):
Did that happen or not?
Speaker 6 (16:38):
It happened and I'm just afraid that when I do
it at the YouTube Theater, I'm gonna flip in the
snub on the.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Twenties of December. We're playing the YouTube Theater, right, and
we're gonna sing it as the encore, I guess, and.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
It's gonna be interesting. The Bustle memory.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You're right if you have, if you have not heard
War's Christmas song, Yes it's Christmas, give it a spin.
You're gonna love it. Jerry Goldstein, I will. I want
to go back to you because I want to know
if this story is true or not. Listen, man, you
had tremendous success. I mean, come on, hang on, Sloopy,
your boyfriend's back, your work with Eric Burden and the animals.
(17:24):
But the story I get Lonnie Jordan and the gang
out there. You know they're they're they're a good they're
a great band, and they're so versatile, so many different
influences on this band. The story I get is and
if off on this, I apologize and please correct me.
You and Deacon Jones somehow wind up at a strip
(17:44):
bar and War and War's playing there, and somehow that
is that how you guys got connected? Or am I
off on that story or not.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Okay, they were, they were. I had this posted company
back in the day that was really very very successful
and we you know, representing Jimmy Hendrick and Rolling Stones
and the Doors, the Preme or whatever, and we basically
created the modern merchandising business by selling the posters and
(18:19):
the tour books on the tour. One of my sales
guys was one of my you know guys on the
road was the bass player of a group called the
Night Shift that was playing with Deacon Jones. Deacon Jones
the football players from Iran, you know, and they all way,
you know, the all Star, Giant superstar, and he was
(18:41):
singing the blues and they were behind him and he
was doing one handed push up singing, Oh Baby, don't
leave me. And Eric Burdon came into my office one
day and he was going to go back to Newcastle
because the last group of Animals just broke up and
he was given up on the music business. And I said,
(19:03):
you know, I found this band that's you know, that
I thought was really very interesting. They played Latin music,
funk music, rock music, pop music, Calypso Calypso and you know,
jazz whatever you know. But I didn't really know what
to do with him, and Peter made sure. Peter kept saying,
you gotta hear my band, you gotta hear my band.
So I actually listened to the band, and I thought
(19:25):
they were great, and I put it so they were
playing the rag Doll, this club in the valley, you know,
and rehearsing for a Las Vegas show that they were
going to do with Dicky Jones, I think. So I said, Eric,
come down to the show and watch this, you know,
and let's you know, and you'll.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
See if you like him or that.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
So Eric went and I said, Deacon Jones is playing,
you know, is doing one handed push ups, right, And
but so the feed ends and the guy start jamming
and Leosco, who was with Eric by the way, at
his house he was living there, up on stage and
started jamming with with the guys. They thought that he
(20:05):
was Eric Burdon, that Lee was Eric Burton because they
didn't know where Burton even was. Okay, So anyway, the
next day I call Eric and I go, so, what'd
you think of the band? And Eric said, we're rehearsing
at four o'clock. Okay. And a month later We did
a couple of local gigs just to you know, to
work at workout the Kings and our first gig, real
(20:29):
gig was the Devonishire Downs Pop Festival with one hundred
thousand people or this crazy you know, with Jimmy Hendrix
and the Doors, friend Zappa, Marvin Gay. I mean, this
was like huge festivals. It's our first gig. Is Eric
Burdon Moore never really voice together, and we followed Creedon's clear,
(20:55):
you know, and they got up and they started jamming
and they didn't and never did it animal song that
we were ever in the one, never did an animal
song animals with the past. For him, it was something new.
And we created this set and we played and we
tore it up. And when I watched that happen on
our first game, I went, this is really something. This
(21:15):
is going to be something unbelievable. And we went out
on the road for six months before we cut the
first album and came back and we're ready to cut
the album and we did Spill the Wine and you know,
the first album.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
And.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Let's talk about that second for play just a little
bit of spill the wine for us, love the song man,
so many great iconic war songs. Listen to this, and
I want to talk to Lonnie about this. Yeah, you
don't right, great song, legendary song, put you guys on
the map. But this song spilled the wine. It's because, uh, well,
(21:55):
Lonnie Jordan, you weren't paying attention in the studio and
you fried out an entire boar. Tell the story of
spill the wine.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Well, had I been in your studio right now, you
would be out of business level. I would have tore
up your boy just by accidentally pouring wine. And it's
the cups spilled over right into the board and the
board started smoke.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Well about a half hour later. You know, you never
said anything to anybody, right, it was on the right
hand side of the board, so you never said anything.
It just happened anyway. You grabbed it and you didn't know,
you know, And next thing we know, there's smoke coming
out of the top up right yep, and the board
goes and it's gone gone most dawn.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
You gotta like star Trek, you know, when you're their
instruments go up and smoke and crackle and bop. Yes,
and and thankfully well they had had just built a
new studio up there, a studio ce with a third studio,
because this is the studio all the Creed and clear
Water hits for a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
This is the hit that was the hit place, right,
So he put us in the new studio that you
know that nobody'd ever used yet. And it was very
live and was good for us actually, because we were
a live band and live jam band. Yeah, it worked
for us really well. And we all were laughing about
still the One, and so we came up with the
(23:20):
concepts of Still the One. Okay, what actually happened?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
And you imagine you mentioned you're a jam band. By
the way, Jerry Gostein the legendary producer manager Elanie Jordan,
frontman founder of the band War play a little Lowrider
for us, John, if you can get that handy real quick,
there we go. Listen. I mean, who hasn't heard this song,
Who doesn't adore this song? Who can't smile the second
they hear it? Here we go. Such a great tune
(23:46):
and the story I get on this, and I think
it's quite brilliant. What you do, Jerry, and correct me
if I'm wrong. You'll get the guys together and you'll say, okay,
I'm gonna hear record jam, and the band jams, and
they jam and you know there's no place, there's no
telling where they're going. But the song Lowrider, it became
(24:06):
out of a jam, and twenty minutes into it, the
horn section starts hitting this, and you say, that's something
right there, and then you take it off from there.
Is there truth to that story? Is that how Lowrider
came about? Just a jam?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Yeah? It was forty five minute jam, by the way, wow.
And it was called Harold and Charles because I put
tempt titles on everything I do, so at least remember
from one jam to another. Yeah, okay, we'd be in
the studio, they could do three or four at night,
you know, and who knows how many even more. All
the songs was jabbed, so basically, you know, but I
(24:48):
remember about an eight minute section of it that was
really kind of cool, you know. So I made a
cassette for everybody, and everybody took the cassettes home, you know.
And Charles came into the studio first that day, unusual
because Lonnie was generally there for so maybe Lannie was
there playing on the playing on the panel, down, sit down,
(25:09):
So Nannie always came to the studio first and left
lest you know, so seriously, because we were like, you know,
I would get there, and we get there and we
lived in the studio. Chaul comes in with this lyric
and Charlotte, I just brought a low writer Chevrolet and
came in with this lyric like and I won't ever
(25:30):
forget it, because he goes like, if you want to
do it right, do it in the morning. And I went,
I don't know that. I don't think that's really cool,
you know, And I think he was putting me on anyway,
But I said, you know, you got the Lowrider record,
Let's write it. This sounds like a Lowrider things, so
let's write us on about a low low writers, right,
(25:51):
And then everybody started coming in the studio and put
down what a Lowrider was. We all our ideas and
we put all the ideas down, and I sent Charles
out to sing it and he started to single the
different parts, you know, and they were all out of order.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
With a bottle of host.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
And salt, qubo goals, goals, and you know, and it
was cool, you know, and uh Lee and he put
that that that that that that on it and it's
still eight minutes of rambling and rolling, you know, and
I have to take this, you know, eight minutes. And
(26:30):
we mixed it, and I went to the studio and
you know, started to edit it. And at five o'clock
in the morning, starting at the seven in the evening,
I figured out the edit.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Wow, I edited ahead the single.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
I figured out the single edit, which we came by
the way, because usually I make a long album version
and a short single version, but this was three and
I thought that the three minute version of it was
good all the way for the album inn a single,
and you know, and that's how it happened, you know.
And I had five different other reddits of it, you know,
and finally at five o'clock in the morning, I said,
(27:08):
that's it.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
One five in the morning, Lonnie Jordan, I got a
question for you. I've been a fan for for for years.
You guys have been around with what SAD sixty nine,
I believe, and you use several different influences. I mean,
that's why I love about war the you know, you
can't put a genre on it. Uh, But you've admittedly
said Jimmy Hendrix, James Brown, but you also said Elvis.
(27:32):
I remember an interview, and if I'm misquoting you, correct me.
You said that Elvis was also an influence, but but
he was more of a holy influence on you. What
what do you mean about that?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Well, gospel gospel gotcha. You had like he Jax, Earl Grant, Yeah,
and uh uh and then you had like Uh, I
loved Joe Simon, Aretha, Franklin, Ray, Charles, uh, the Everly Brothers.
And I love country and western music, country and western country,
(28:06):
country and right because country and Western blues and gospel
pretty much had similar influences with wid and on each
other because of the stories and type of chords they
would play. And uh and and and that that was
pretty much me. That was all of that in the
bag of chips.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Wow, listen, Lonnie Jerry, thank you for so many decades
of music with war and and you guys, you don't
hang it up. You keep going and you still sound great.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I want to thank you for continuing, and thank you
for this Christmas song. If you haven't checked this out, War, Yes,
it's Christmas. You're gonna love it and you're gonna love
the video. Guys. I can't thank you enough. And Merry Christmas.
To you both. Okay, okay, God bless there you go. Uh, workaholics, baby,
do you own a business? Do you run a business?
(29:03):
If you do, workaholics they should be your best friend.
Let me tell you what they do. Yeah, they will
move your business from the old building to the new building.
That's a given. You see the trucks. But what else
do they do? Well? They do everything that you shouldn't
be doing to begin with, or your staff shouldn't be
doing to begin with. You should be concentrating on running
your business, growing those profits and keeping your customers happy.
(29:26):
Now your staff, they should be responsible well for keeping
your customers happy as well. Let workaholics do anything and
everything else. Moving cubicles, moving offices, assembling office furniture, need
extra storage, seventy two thousand square feet of extra storage.
That does for me. I will see you manyana or manana.
(29:47):
Until then, it's John Awden Dwight Witten saying I love
youa MA News Radio eight forty whas
It was I I knew it. Why do you listen
to me? I don't know every time?
Speaker 2 (00:09):
You know, I did the same thing with my wife
in the car, Tell me turned left, and I'll go
I'm thinking, I'm not why would I turn left?
Speaker 1 (00:14):
But I turned left? And as soon as I do,
why did I turn left?
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Him?
Speaker 1 (00:17):
I just the wrong thing.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
So, speaking of driving, I want to say thank you
comedian Alex Rimundo, busy national touring comedian, president of a
tequila company, but yet gets his butt up super duper
early comes.
Speaker 1 (00:32):
I don't know why I offered that, but I did.
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I don't know. I don't know why you did either.
We jumped at it, took him to the airport, and
I'm on the phone. He goes, hey, how are you
getting the airport? And said uber, He goes, want me
to take you? So yeah, So he shows up to
my house at the seven thirty Yeah, well yeah, and
we get to the airport. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
I realized when you mentioned you said something off air
earlier when Philippe was here. And you know, by the way, everybody,
I go to the airport every other week, right, right,
But I don't take people to the airport, and I
just offered to take you to the airport. And I'm
not sure why I did it, but you're my friend
and I love you, and you said that, and I said,
you know what, I'm gonna take you.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
And uh but.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
When we were talking about it off air a while ago,
and Phelippe and when I lived in La actually picked
me up from the airport one time.
Speaker 1 (01:20):
And so I'm like, I'm in the room with two
people that we've shared. So I thought I felt like
I passed on the what they paid it for me.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, I paid it for But I tell you, I
tell you, and Alex will tell you the truth. As
we're riding at seven o'clock in the morning to the airport,
I looked at him. I said, I said, uh, hey,
please don't ever expect me to return this favor because
it won't happen. But we get to the airport. Hey,
that's actually audio from our trip.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Yeah, there we go.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
We get to the airport and uh so we go
to get our bags out of the back and we do,
and I had my backpack. I always to carry with backpack.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
And I had my backpack in the car because I
all my backpack.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I didn't see it because when he picked it. When
he picked this up, it was.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Dark, there's snow on the ground.
Speaker 3 (02:06):
It just starts. So the luggage goes in the back
of his hummer and then I just easy. So I
just throw my backpack in his back seat and we
get there, John, and the luggage comes out of the back.
I'll reach in. I grab a black backpack.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Why does it have to be about color, that's right,
you know what.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I grab a backpack and I noticed, thank god, I
start walking in. I noticed has a luggage tag on it.
I'm like, did Susan put this on here? I look
at it and it was his backpack. For whatever reason,
we had both purchased the exact same backpack. That's very cute.
(02:47):
But thank you.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
That's a nice way to say it, John Ohan.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
But but here's where Alex saved after mind, here's where
Alex saved my life.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Which makes him cute, not me, that's true.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I'll let Alex tell as much as he wants, but
have Well, I'm.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Glad we discovered that you had the wrong back We're
very glad. I was not traveling right, you were not traveling.
I was not prepared for In your backpack. You had
things that an inspection.
Speaker 1 (03:12):
I was not prepared.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Paper.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
I was not prepared for I got it. Would not
let Barry Switzer, you know, had your issue. We could
have had your issues. You could have had his.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Let's just put it this way that had I taken
his backpack, I'd be in jail right now.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But you have still gone to Mexico. They might have me.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm trying to find that gone. I gotta bring me
the good discoveries. What we're trying to say. Yeah, it
was a good here's a really dark topic.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
And and Susan would have paid that price.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
No, Susan would have just went what said, I don't
know that guy. Your wedding came out of Congress. Let's says,
your name's Wining in Congress. That's an odd coincidence. This
is the same last name. Uh, here's an odd list,
but we'll do it nonetheless. Uh. If there were a
nuclear war, I'm sure pronouncing a war nuclear terms nuclear nuclear.
(04:14):
If there was electrified, if it went down, what are
the worst cities in the US to be in? I
got the top ten if a nuclear Yeah. If if
they decided, hey, we're going to attack America, what are
the top ten target cities. So coming tot ten is
Philadelphia just because of historic landmarks.
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Hecks liberty Philadelphia. You already have New York so close. Anyway,
you'd be knocking out a couple of cities of Philadelphia.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
I really would, you really would.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Uh Number nine is Miami. They would hit that because
there's a major supply hug for the southern you know,
shipping right.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Any place near a large body of water would be
a problem. I thought Kentucky would be on here just
because of Fort Knox, But I guess no, that's there's
nothing there. I guess there's nothing there, right. I mean
if you well, I won't give any ideas to anybody,
but if you destroy Louisville and then there goes your
ups hub and all the you know the packages that
come in.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Yeah that way. Yeah, I think it was a nuclear world.
Think I hope it would be going. Where were my slippers?
Sure would like a new bathrobe to survive this, apolipse.
Uh Number eight is Atlanta, they said because air travel,
travel and supply chains would be halted. I guess Atlanta
is the that's a huge.
Speaker 4 (05:35):
Hub, right, It's the largest regular passenger airport in the
United States.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
Yeah, and I would imagine be a stop from Miami
to anything that's going to be distributed throughout that part
of the nation.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
To Number seven is Seattle because it would take out
our coffee. No, it's because it's another large tech park,
hub of tech out. It's coming, baby, it's coming, yeah,
the top. Yeah, and it's a port city Chicago just
because travel logistics. Houston gets taken out at number five
(06:08):
because of energy infrastructure makes it a prime target. Number
five Houston, Yeah, Houston. Number four is San Francisco because
the bath houses. No, that's not right. It's because it
would be a tech hit. I guess there's a lot
of tech companies based.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
A happy story. You picked, right, they got them get it,
satur and Sader.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Well, it was either that, you know what.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
The Louisville would be the capital for what you're saying.
I know, right, everywhere's going.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Right, visit Louisville. Uh.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Number we're fourteenth. Ouh, we're number one largest city in
the country.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
The largest. Number Number three is Los Angeles for economic
and cultural reasons. Number two is where you guys were
talking about, New York City for economic reasons, and then Washington,
d C. Obviously at number one.
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So I guess if you've got this list of ten
and we're predicting where if they were choosing one of
those ten, what do you think is what do you
think where do you think would it be?
Speaker 2 (07:07):
D C?
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Would it be where the President of the United States
is at? Is that the number one target? I think
they'd actually do that.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Yeah, but I think they'd hit that as ten just
to say, you know, here's a punch in the right
in the mouth.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:18):
And by the way, I don't even like talking about
these things. It's horrible.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
No, I don't. Why'd you bring it up?
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I chose the content for today.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I think, uh, military bases. I didn't hear any, but
all those places kind of surround them. Bases are around,
But I would it feels like they're.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
Going population not retaliation spots.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I just want to it seems like, yeah, it seems
like DC. You wouldn't be able to get close to anyway.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Yeah, there'd be so many security measures to like, if
you knew or if you could figure out that something
was coming towards DC, all the defense mechanisms are going off.
I mean, maybe it would still RECAVOC, but there'd be
some backfire. What was number ten Philadelphia?
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Philadelphia saying is when that comes in, there's like no cares.
They just attention.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (08:11):
I think it's a bird?
Speaker 3 (08:12):
That's a eagle fans I was trying to find.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I had the peaceful demonstration, I.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Had the I had the actual gone. I got a
new spot nick, and I'm still trying to I'm still
trying to learn how to work it. I had the
Twelve Days of Christmas and the actual cost broken down
by PNC.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Let me get this straight.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
You're going from the nuclear blast sights to the Twelve
Days of Christmas?
Speaker 3 (08:39):
Was that the segue? That's that baby you turned too to?
That is Alex Raymundo? Where is it at here? It is? Okay,
they do this every year, they do the Twelve Days
of Christmas. How much you would it actually cost if
you bought every one of the items we have, Donald,
we have time.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
We can do it.
Speaker 4 (08:57):
If you can get through in a couple of two,
three minutes, four minutes, whatever, we can do it.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Let's say people are rooting for you right now. No,
it's I don't want to be late for Wannie Jordan
for more. We can do this tomorrow we can do
this tomorrow. We need to well, how long do we
have Let's let's play ease. The more we talk about,
the less time we have to do it. We uh,
we need to probably go two or three more minutes regardless.
All right, let's let it go. Let's let's let it go, Alex.
(09:22):
Let me ask you something. When is your fine?
Speaker 1 (09:24):
Put it on me?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Hey, I'm on doing the Elaine Boosler, Hey not doing
this for me? I literally I.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Looked at him again, one of the first Mexicans ever
in Saint Louis at the time, Ady, whatever it was,
And I look at that I had already in my
closing line, and I look at the crowd.
Speaker 1 (09:41):
I realized I have to establish something, and I go,
did I tell you I was Mexican?
Speaker 2 (09:45):
And they crack up and I do another and then
I see her in the back of the room going,
I'm sorry, like four minutes light, and so I introduced
her with please welcome a lady that needs no introduction,
Elaine boost Boom.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
How uncomfortable is it because you've had to do that
too open shows for major rock bands. I mean, you know,
you and the guys went out and you did the
Latino Kings of Comedy.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
I've been blessed to be on a lot of great
stages and a lot of great experiences. I saw Todd
Rundgren in which, by the way, it is a great show. Everybody,
oh yeah, in Cleveland, because I mentioned I lived in
Cleveland for a while. I went and saw him with
my girlfriend at the time, and he was amazing. Right,
there was two thousand people.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
It's like the Palace.
Speaker 1 (10:27):
Yeah, this is a little bigger. But anyway, he's amazing.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
But between songs he would tell these just like every
three songs or five, he would tell this funny story
and he was very funny, but he was also very
bathroom humor.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Very yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
And my girlfriend she.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Goes, he'd love your show, and again it was eighty nine,
and I was yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Cut to the next morning.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
We wake up and I get a call from the
comedy club in Columbus, Ohio and says, hey, man, Todd
Rundgeran is going to be in town tomorrow night. And
they said they want a comic to open the show.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Would you have to do it? And I was like, what,
I just saw him last night.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
We were just and there was no comic in front
of him that night when I saw him, and I
was like, what, yes, of course we just and and
by the way, it was beautiful theater and it was
a great setting to do stand up well. When I
went to Columbus, it was a College of vomitatorium. It
was just an open hall. It was not the same
setting at all. And I went on there in front
(11:23):
of him and had one of the worst top three
sets I've ever had in my life of stand up comedy.
And at one time back in the day, I was
doing this joke about puking, so I'm on the ground
simulating me.
Speaker 1 (11:35):
Ralph and I were just different stages of Ralph. Yeah again,
there's eighties.
Speaker 2 (11:41):
And and and somebody this close to me goes, looks
at him and goes, I'm getting sick just watching you.
Went oh my god. But cut to I walk off
the stage humiliated. I'm just one of the worst times
in my life. Todd Rundinger looks at me and goes,
I thought you were really funny.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
People have it and it might not even be bad night.
It might be the crowd because they're there to see
to watch it was.
Speaker 1 (12:05):
It was all the setup and it can be difficult.
Speaker 3 (12:08):
It's difficult because people want to see them. You're a
rock band.
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Well, here's this dude talking.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
It was even on the Tattoo You tour where Rolling
Stones they had a great show. It was Jay Giles,
it was uh, it was George Thoroughgood and then the
Rolling Stones. This was all one show. But the very
first opener was a brand new kid by the name
of Prince. They boot him off stage and he went
back to Minnesota. There was a date at l A
(12:33):
this you know, the same venue two days later, and
he was They had to talk him come out and
give it another try, but he said, he said he
was done. He was done, all right, stick around on
the show. Next, we've got Lonnie Jordan from War. He
is the founding member, of course, the lead singer. We're
talking to him. Also Jerry Goldstein. Uh, who do we have?
Oh we grow hair? Andy Listen. I used to look
(12:56):
like a sea monster from behind. I was scared children.
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Speaker 1 (13:03):
Ugly.
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joins the show next news Rady to wait forty whas Yes, yes, yes,
my friend ends. Yes it's Christmas Christmas song from War
they put out a couple of years ago. I think
(14:06):
it was last year. Let's bring it in right now,
Lonnie Jordan, and I believe legendary producer Jerry Goldstein may
be joining too. Are you guys there, Yeah, we're here. Hey,
good to hear from you guys. This has been a
year since I had you on and uh, last year
you guys were out on tour and the Louisville, Kentucky
(14:27):
date I had to miss because I was in Mexico.
But uh, Lonnie is, of course the founding member of War,
also the iconic front man, and uh Jerry Goldstein legendary producer.
I want to talk to both of you all, but
I want to find out first of all, why the
Christmas song? What? What? What calls you to produce this song? Uh?
(14:50):
And was it difficult? Is this one of these deals
where you recorded in the summer and you got to
get into Christmas feel what's the story behind the song?
Speaker 5 (14:58):
Yea, y Well, the record company has been trying to
get us to do this for years, you know, and
one day I was just sitting around thinking about it
and thought about, maybe take the song Summer, which was
the number one hit in nineteen seventy five all around
the world, and we read it and try some Christmas
(15:21):
lyrics with it, and it sort of wrote itself good.
As I was writing, you know, I was going, oh, wow, yeah,
this works, this works, you know, And that's how we
came I came up with it. I called Lonnie up
and I said, I think I got the Christmas concept
figured out. And I told him what it was, and
I sang him called his lyrics, and.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
That was a mistake.
Speaker 5 (15:42):
You know, she's singing, you know, and he wasn't quite excited.
Now I know that because it was me singing that.
So I said. So we were in the studio about
a week later and I said, so let's do this,
and he cleaned up some of the lyric and started
to sing it and sing it, and we listened to
(16:03):
the playback and we went, wow, this is really good,
this really works. And so I sent it to the
writing company and they flipped out. We made the video
and by the way, this year we made a lyric video.
Speaker 6 (16:14):
So we're all, it's.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
So cool, Lonnie Jordans. So you know the song it's
It's It's also War's Summer turned into its Christmas. Was
it difficult seeing the new lyrics that Jerry came up with,
because there's you know, you get muscle memory of the brain.
I gotta think it's gonna be difficult because you would
slip back into the old lyrics of the song summer.
(16:36):
Did that happen or not?
Speaker 6 (16:38):
It happened and I'm just afraid that when I do
it at the YouTube Theater, I'm gonna flip in the
snub on the.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Twenties of December. We're playing the YouTube Theater, right, and
we're gonna sing it as the encore, I guess, and.
Speaker 6 (16:59):
It's gonna be interesting. The Bustle memory.
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You're right if you have, if you have not heard
War's Christmas song, Yes it's Christmas, give it a spin.
You're gonna love it. Jerry Goldstein, I will. I want
to go back to you because I want to know
if this story is true or not. Listen, man, you
had tremendous success. I mean, come on, hang on, Sloopy,
your boyfriend's back, your work with Eric Burden and the animals.
(17:24):
But the story I get Lonnie Jordan and the gang
out there. You know they're they're they're a good they're
a great band, and they're so versatile, so many different
influences on this band. The story I get is and
if off on this, I apologize and please correct me.
You and Deacon Jones somehow wind up at a strip
(17:44):
bar and War and War's playing there, and somehow that
is that how you guys got connected? Or am I
off on that story or not.
Speaker 5 (17:59):
Okay, they were, they were. I had this posted company
back in the day that was really very very successful
and we you know, representing Jimmy Hendrick and Rolling Stones
and the Doors, the Preme or whatever, and we basically
created the modern merchandising business by selling the posters and
(18:19):
the tour books on the tour. One of my sales
guys was one of my you know guys on the
road was the bass player of a group called the
Night Shift that was playing with Deacon Jones. Deacon Jones
the football players from Iran, you know, and they all way,
you know, the all Star, Giant superstar, and he was
(18:41):
singing the blues and they were behind him and he
was doing one handed push up singing, Oh Baby, don't
leave me. And Eric Burdon came into my office one
day and he was going to go back to Newcastle
because the last group of Animals just broke up and
he was given up on the music business. And I said,
(19:03):
you know, I found this band that's you know, that
I thought was really very interesting. They played Latin music,
funk music, rock music, pop music, Calypso Calypso and you know,
jazz whatever you know. But I didn't really know what
to do with him, and Peter made sure. Peter kept saying,
you gotta hear my band, you gotta hear my band.
So I actually listened to the band, and I thought
(19:25):
they were great, and I put it so they were
playing the rag Doll, this club in the valley, you know,
and rehearsing for a Las Vegas show that they were
going to do with Dicky Jones, I think. So I said, Eric,
come down to the show and watch this, you know,
and let's you know, and you'll.
Speaker 6 (19:42):
See if you like him or that.
Speaker 5 (19:44):
So Eric went and I said, Deacon Jones is playing,
you know, is doing one handed push ups, right, And
but so the feed ends and the guy start jamming
and Leosco, who was with Eric by the way, at
his house he was living there, up on stage and
started jamming with with the guys. They thought that he
(20:05):
was Eric Burdon, that Lee was Eric Burton because they
didn't know where Burton even was. Okay, So anyway, the
next day I call Eric and I go, so, what'd
you think of the band? And Eric said, we're rehearsing
at four o'clock. Okay. And a month later We did
a couple of local gigs just to you know, to
work at workout the Kings and our first gig, real
(20:29):
gig was the Devonishire Downs Pop Festival with one hundred
thousand people or this crazy you know, with Jimmy Hendrix
and the Doors, friend Zappa, Marvin Gay. I mean, this
was like huge festivals. It's our first gig. Is Eric
Burdon Moore never really voice together, and we followed Creedon's clear,
(20:55):
you know, and they got up and they started jamming
and they didn't and never did it animal song that
we were ever in the one, never did an animal
song animals with the past. For him, it was something new.
And we created this set and we played and we
tore it up. And when I watched that happen on
our first game, I went, this is really something. This
(21:15):
is going to be something unbelievable. And we went out
on the road for six months before we cut the
first album and came back and we're ready to cut
the album and we did Spill the Wine and you know,
the first album.
Speaker 6 (21:27):
And.
Speaker 3 (21:31):
Let's talk about that second for play just a little
bit of spill the wine for us, love the song man,
so many great iconic war songs. Listen to this, and
I want to talk to Lonnie about this. Yeah, you
don't right, great song, legendary song, put you guys on
the map. But this song spilled the wine. It's because, uh, well,
(21:55):
Lonnie Jordan, you weren't paying attention in the studio and
you fried out an entire boar. Tell the story of
spill the wine.
Speaker 6 (22:03):
Well, had I been in your studio right now, you
would be out of business level. I would have tore
up your boy just by accidentally pouring wine. And it's
the cups spilled over right into the board and the
board started smoke.
Speaker 5 (22:18):
Well about a half hour later. You know, you never
said anything to anybody, right, it was on the right
hand side of the board, so you never said anything.
It just happened anyway. You grabbed it and you didn't know,
you know, And next thing we know, there's smoke coming
out of the top up right yep, and the board
goes and it's gone gone most dawn.
Speaker 6 (22:41):
You gotta like star Trek, you know, when you're their
instruments go up and smoke and crackle and bop. Yes,
and and thankfully well they had had just built a
new studio up there, a studio ce with a third studio,
because this is the studio all the Creed and clear
Water hits for a lot of people.
Speaker 5 (22:59):
This is the hit that was the hit place, right,
So he put us in the new studio that you
know that nobody'd ever used yet. And it was very
live and was good for us actually, because we were
a live band and live jam band. Yeah, it worked
for us really well. And we all were laughing about
still the One, and so we came up with the
(23:20):
concepts of Still the One. Okay, what actually happened?
Speaker 3 (23:24):
And you imagine you mentioned you're a jam band. By
the way, Jerry Gostein the legendary producer manager Elanie Jordan,
frontman founder of the band War play a little Lowrider
for us, John, if you can get that handy real quick,
there we go. Listen. I mean, who hasn't heard this song,
Who doesn't adore this song? Who can't smile the second
they hear it? Here we go. Such a great tune
(23:46):
and the story I get on this, and I think
it's quite brilliant. What you do, Jerry, and correct me
if I'm wrong. You'll get the guys together and you'll say, okay,
I'm gonna hear record jam, and the band jams, and
they jam and you know there's no place, there's no
telling where they're going. But the song Lowrider, it became
(24:06):
out of a jam, and twenty minutes into it, the
horn section starts hitting this, and you say, that's something
right there, and then you take it off from there.
Is there truth to that story? Is that how Lowrider
came about? Just a jam?
Speaker 5 (24:23):
Yeah? It was forty five minute jam, by the way, wow.
And it was called Harold and Charles because I put
tempt titles on everything I do, so at least remember
from one jam to another. Yeah, okay, we'd be in
the studio, they could do three or four at night,
you know, and who knows how many even more. All
the songs was jabbed, so basically, you know, but I
(24:48):
remember about an eight minute section of it that was
really kind of cool, you know. So I made a
cassette for everybody, and everybody took the cassettes home, you know.
And Charles came into the studio first that day, unusual
because Lonnie was generally there for so maybe Lannie was
there playing on the playing on the panel, down, sit down,
(25:09):
So Nannie always came to the studio first and left
lest you know, so seriously, because we were like, you know,
I would get there, and we get there and we
lived in the studio. Chaul comes in with this lyric
and Charlotte, I just brought a low writer Chevrolet and
came in with this lyric like and I won't ever
(25:30):
forget it, because he goes like, if you want to
do it right, do it in the morning. And I went,
I don't know that. I don't think that's really cool,
you know, And I think he was putting me on anyway,
But I said, you know, you got the Lowrider record,
Let's write it. This sounds like a Lowrider things, so
let's write us on about a low low writers, right,
(25:51):
And then everybody started coming in the studio and put
down what a Lowrider was. We all our ideas and
we put all the ideas down, and I sent Charles
out to sing it and he started to single the
different parts, you know, and they were all out of order.
Speaker 6 (26:06):
With a bottle of host.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
And salt, qubo goals, goals, and you know, and it
was cool, you know, and uh Lee and he put
that that that that that that on it and it's
still eight minutes of rambling and rolling, you know, and
I have to take this, you know, eight minutes. And
(26:30):
we mixed it, and I went to the studio and
you know, started to edit it. And at five o'clock
in the morning, starting at the seven in the evening,
I figured out the edit.
Speaker 6 (26:42):
Wow, I edited ahead the single.
Speaker 5 (26:47):
I figured out the single edit, which we came by
the way, because usually I make a long album version
and a short single version, but this was three and
I thought that the three minute version of it was
good all the way for the album inn a single,
and you know, and that's how it happened, you know.
And I had five different other reddits of it, you know,
and finally at five o'clock in the morning, I said,
(27:08):
that's it.
Speaker 3 (27:09):
One five in the morning, Lonnie Jordan, I got a
question for you. I've been a fan for for for years.
You guys have been around with what SAD sixty nine,
I believe, and you use several different influences. I mean,
that's why I love about war the you know, you
can't put a genre on it. Uh, But you've admittedly
said Jimmy Hendrix, James Brown, but you also said Elvis.
(27:32):
I remember an interview, and if I'm misquoting you, correct me.
You said that Elvis was also an influence, but but
he was more of a holy influence on you. What
what do you mean about that?
Speaker 6 (27:44):
Well, gospel gospel gotcha. You had like he Jax, Earl Grant, Yeah,
and uh uh and then you had like Uh, I
loved Joe Simon, Aretha, Franklin, Ray, Charles, uh, the Everly Brothers.
And I love country and western music, country and western country,
(28:06):
country and right because country and Western blues and gospel
pretty much had similar influences with wid and on each
other because of the stories and type of chords they
would play. And uh and and and that that was
pretty much me. That was all of that in the
bag of chips.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
Wow, listen, Lonnie Jerry, thank you for so many decades
of music with war and and you guys, you don't
hang it up. You keep going and you still sound great.
Speaker 6 (28:40):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
I want to thank you for continuing, and thank you
for this Christmas song. If you haven't checked this out, War, Yes,
it's Christmas. You're gonna love it and you're gonna love
the video. Guys. I can't thank you enough. And Merry Christmas.
To you both. Okay, okay, God bless there you go. Uh, workaholics, baby,
do you own a business? Do you run a business?
(29:03):
If you do, workaholics they should be your best friend.
Let me tell you what they do. Yeah, they will
move your business from the old building to the new building.
That's a given. You see the trucks. But what else
do they do? Well? They do everything that you shouldn't
be doing to begin with, or your staff shouldn't be
doing to begin with. You should be concentrating on running
your business, growing those profits and keeping your customers happy.
(29:26):
Now your staff, they should be responsible well for keeping
your customers happy as well. Let workaholics do anything and
everything else. Moving cubicles, moving offices, assembling office furniture, need
extra storage, seventy two thousand square feet of extra storage.
That does for me. I will see you manyana or manana.
(29:47):
Until then, it's John Awden Dwight Witten saying I love
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