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article--not the same group that had top-selling albums and Top 40 and album-oriented FM radio hits in the '70's. When did this change, how, and why? Was it gradual, with some members departing, or was there a major rift that suddenly changed the line-up to something akin to Axyl Rose's current "Guns N' Roses?" It seems as if the "Lowrider" Band is War's "Velvet
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band, have played together straight through to the present day, more than 4 decades as an ensemble -- first as War, then after losing that brandname, as
Lowrider Band -- but they're legally forbidden to say or print the name War on any of their promotions, not even to plug their own back catalog to new audiences.
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American Bandstand. That is left off their history on their bio. page. Their 2nd hit was "Spill The Wine". Also, another big hit they had which is not on your list
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Lowrider Band IS War, in everything but name. The keyboardist & the manager & some high-dollar asshat lawyers colluded in 1981 to seize legal ownership of the name War from the band's founding members. Five or six of the original '60s members, including the two cofounders/leaders of the
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The article alludes to some history that is important, but needs elaboration. For example--what is the last album WAR recorded with the original line-up? How was one member able to wrest control of the copyright from the others? The group that tours now is--as is plainly acknowledged in the
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Wardrums one of the original members writer and preformer of all the major hits of the group War. We sholud have a picture of the original group with Lee Oskar, Charles Miller and Sylvester "Papa Dee" Allen on this main page. What steps are needed to change the photo? HB
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circle of hell reserved for the 2 bastards who hijacked the name War away from the musicians who REALLY composed & recorded World Is a Ghetto.
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In the sidebar where it says "Members" shouldn't it say "Original
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the title says "this article is about the funk band. for the funk band see...." something is wrong there, but im not sure what.
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