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War: Delivering the Ghetto

Review and Interview by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, November 1995

GIVEN THE CHOICE that exists in the Golden Earring department, it's scandalous that we've been forced to wait this long to hear War on CD. ...

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War (1976)

Interview by Cliff White, Rock's Backpages audio, Summer 1976

Howard E. Scott and Harold Ray Brown of the funk formation War on their two-year recording hiatus; collaboration with harmonica player Lee Oskar; commercial success versus be-your-natural-self approach; the American economic ethos: investment versus bank savings, capitalist society and its effect on War, and the dreams and myths it triggers; the necessity of cooling your mind on tour, and Baptism and salvation.

File format: mp3; file size: 79.5mb, interview length: 1h 22' 47" sound quality: ***

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Eric Burdon & War, Elyse Weinberg: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 11 December 1969

Eric Burdon Back on Scene With War Band ...

Eric Burdon & War: Hyde Park, London

Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 19 September 1970

BURDON AND WAR: BEST LIVE BAND WE'VE EVER SEEN ...

John Sebastian, Canned Heat, Eric Burdon & War et al: Hyde Park, London

Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Melody Maker, 19 September 1970

JOHN SEBASTIAN brought a little sunshine into a gloomy Hyde Park, London, on Saturday. ...

Eric Burdon & War: Felt Forum, New York NY

Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 27 September 1970

Eric Burdon Bows with New Group. Singer's Band, War, Proves It's a Magnificent One ...

The last Hendrix interview

Report and Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 3 October 1970

RECORD MIRROR EXCLUSIVE BY KEITH ALTHAM ...

War: Carrying A Heavy Burdon For Peace

Interview by Roy Hollingworth, Melody Maker, 3 October 1970

EIGHTEEN MONTHS ago in Los Angeles, Eric Burdon, six coloured guys, and a Danish harp player declared war on everything detrimental to mankind, except flesh ...

Canned Heat: The People Leave Hyde Park Slowly

Report by Robert Greenfield, Rolling Stone, 29 October 1970

LONDON — Rain is sloshing down all the streets and windows, and when Bob Hite of Canned Heat wakes up in his hotel room in ...

Eric Burdon & War: U.S. campaign to "Curb the Clap!"

Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 2 January 1971

THAT WELL known Transatlantic commuter Eric Victor Burdon was in town last week with the news that a little light is entering the heavy world ...

Burdon Led The Wildest War Party In Paris

Report and Interview by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 23 January 1971

FOR ONCE, the fashion writers have got it right — women's shorts are catching on, in Paris at least. And while the birds are gettin' ...

Burdon Back With Black Band

Profile by Mike Jahn, Baltimore Sun, 24 January 1971

ERIC BURDON and the Animals, along with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, was one of the most impressive of the early British rock groups. ...

Eric Burdon & War: The Black-Man's Burdon (Liberty stereo LDS 84003/4. 69s)

Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 January 1971

Burdon whips up a storm ...

War: Big Apple, Brighton

Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 13 February 1971

OVER THREE hundred fans queued for their money back at Brighton's mammoth Big Apple on Saturday night when promoter Brian Mason announced that War would ...

Papa's gone to War

Interview by Max Jones, Melody Maker, 27 February 1971

SOON after meeting Dee Allen (real name Thomas Sylvester Allen), and comparing him quickly with the rest of War, you are likely to guess why ...

Eric Burdon: War Was Too Soft For Me!

Interview by Ann Moses, New Musical Express, 7 August 1971

ERIC BURDON ANSWERS QUESTIONS FOR ANN MOSES IN HOLLYWOOD ...

The Black-Latin-Jazz-Rock-Vocal Bands

Profile by Vernon Gibbs, Soul Sounds, November 1972

THERE SEEMS to be a definite increase of interest among young Black and Third World musicians, who are either not technically equipped or deeply enough ...

War: The World Is A Ghetto (LA LAS 29400)

Review by uncredited writer, Blues & Soul, 16 February 1973

'The Cisko Kid'; 'Where Was You At'; 'City, Country, City'; 'Four Cornered Room'; 'The World Is A Ghetto'; 'Beetles In The Bog' ...

Roberta Flack, War: Shea Stadium, Queens, New York NY

Live Review by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 6 July 1973

Harmonica Turns Concert Into 'Party' ...

War, Roberta Flack, Freddie Hubbard, Jimmy Witherspoon: Shea Stadium, New York NY

Live Review by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 21 July 1973

War declared at Shea Stadium. ...

War: The Battle Against 'Unlove'

Interview by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 21 July 1973

THIS IS the story of war declared but not yet unilaterally. Approximately two years ago, when the American 'jazz-rock-blues-soul' band appeared in the U.K. with ...

Declaring War

Interview by Michael Watts, Melody Maker, 8 September 1973

It's a long way from San Diego street corners to gold records. But War are still street people playing street music. MICHAEL WATTS reports... ...

The Pointers: Sign of a Wasted Rock Culture

Profile by Vernon Gibbs, New Musical Express, 29 September 1973

ANYTIME THE American media welcomes a new act with such an overt display of scraping and bowing for superlatives, it's time to be suspicious. ...

War: Deliver the Word (United Artists)

Review by Wayne Robins, Creem, December 1973

WAR IS A people's band, the black urban counterpart of Grand Funk's white midwest. Like Funk, or the Grateful Dead, they have their fingers on ...

War: War Games

Profile and Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Black Music, April 1974

Vernon Gibbs in New York reports on the band who hit Britain in April ...

Harold Melvin & The Bluenotes: Hammersmith Odeon; War: Rainbow Theatre; Jr Walker, Edwin Starr: Rainbow Theatre, all London

Live Review by David Nathan, Blues & Soul, 7 May 1974

The thrill is gone ...

War: War Live (United Artists UALA193-J2); Earth Wind & Fire: Open Our Eyes (Columbia KC 32712)

Review by Vernon Gibbs, Crawdaddy!, July 1974

THE TRUE TEST of any band is in live performance. Prima donna "entertainers" can escape with sickly back-ups and pass muster simply on the force ...

War: A Street Rod on the Boulevard of Soul

Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Rolling Stone, 4 July 1974

"SOMETIMES I TELL myself: I'm B.B. Dickerson and I'm in War so I'm going to pull up in front of the Continental Hyatt House in ...

Hard Rock in Hawaii: "Like an Army Zone"

Report by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 10 October 1974

HONOLULU — BACKSTAGE violence erupted before an August 31st concert at Hawaii Raceway Park which starred War, Black Oak Arkansas, Billy Preston and Brownsville Station. ...

Van McCoy and the Soul City Symphony: Hustling Up The Charts

Interview by Vernon Gibbs, Essence, 1975

EVEN THOUGH he has been writing, arranging and producing hit records since 1961, Van McCoy is still technically a newcomer. He is of that breed ...

War: War and Peace

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 29 April 1975

THE QUESTION that every B&S reader has been asking of late has been: Where is War? Correct me if I'm wrong, but the last War ...

A Walk On War's Wild Side

Interview by Steven Rosen, Sounds, 10 April 1976

FAR OUT Productions, besides being War's Hollywood headquarters, seems to be a favourite hangout for streetwalkers. They seem to think that all the black gentlemen ...

War: California Ballroom, Dunstable

Live Review by Tim Lott, Melody Maker, 19 June 1976

CLICK, WHIRR. This isn't a group, it's a living disco. The Jukebox is War. The dive is the California Ballroom, Dunstable. Burly evening-suited men flanking ...

War & The Ohio Players: Say It Loud, I'm Black an' My Bank Manager's Proud

Profile and Interview by Cliff White, New Musical Express, 3 July 1976

WAR and THE OHIO PLAYERS fall into a similar category –- two flash, young(ish) outfits with artistic and financial freedom and an interesting line in ...

The Latest News From The War Front

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 11 October 1977

John Abbey talks to War's keyboard maestro, Lonnie Jordan, about their recent signing with MCA. ...

War: Youngblood (MCA)

Review by Davitt Sigerson, Melody Maker, 20 January 1979

WAR WAS a multi-platinum album act in America with such classic Top 40 streetfunk singles as 'All Day Music', 'Cisco Kid', 'The World Is A ...

Luther Rabb: War's new bass man...

Profile and Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 8 May 1979

War's newest member is rarin' to go...as part of a very enthusiastic band, and as a solo act ...

War Effort

Interview by John Abbey, Blues & Soul, 1 January 1980

John Abbey talks to the Music Band's harmonica ace, Lee Oskar ...

War: Rainbow Theatre, London

Live Review by Lloyd Bradley, Blues & Soul, 22 April 1980

WAR(RIORS) COME OUT TO PLAY-AY ...

War: Slippin' Back to Darkness...

Interview by Lloyd Bradley, Blues & Soul, 22 April 1980

JOHN MILTON (1608-1674), probably ranked among England's top five poets, once said "For what can war, but endless war, still breed?" I don't think me ...

War, the Plugz: Country Club, Los Angeles CA

Live Review by Don Waller, Los Angeles Times, 6 May 1982

GOING TO WAR FOR AN L.A. SOUND ...

War: Life (Is So Strange) (RCA)

Review by Lloyd Bradley, New Musical Express, 8 October 1983

THERE IS a shroud of controversy over this release. Rumour was that the group were far from satisfied with it, didn't want it put out ...

War: Jazz Café, London

Live Review by Paul Sexton, The Times, 15 October 1993

MANY OF the audience at this first of five London shows would have been at primary school when War last came to town. The Rainbow, ...

Eric Burdon's Good Intentions (Don't Let Them be Misunderstood!)

Interview by Bill Wasserzieher, Blues Revue, May 2006

THERE'S NO ESCAPING the formative years. Just ask Eric Burdon. As an 11-year-old, he had an audience with Louis Armstrong. Three years later, he helped ...

The War Story: An Interview with War's Original Drummer Harold Brown

Interview by Carl Wiser, Songfacts, 20 March 2007

AS DRUMMER FOR THE BAND WAR, Harold Brown was part of the vibrant music scene of the late-'60s and early-'70s that included Jim Morrison, Jimi ...

The Lowrider Band

Report and Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 23 April 2008

WHILE THE NAME "Lowrider Band" may not be familiar, their set-list certainly is, as a sweet harmonica riff wafts through funky material like 'The Cisco ...

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