Anyone remember the first time you heard War? For me, it was on the 1970 release "Spill the Wine", with Eric Burdon. War had formed the previous year and featured:
Howard E. Scott: guitar, vocals
Harold Brown: drums, vocals, percussion
Lee Oskar: harmonica, vocals
B. B. Dickerson: bass, vocals
Lonnie Jordan: keyboards, vocals
Charles Miller: saxophone, flute, clarinet, vocals
"Papa" Dee Allen: percussion, vocals
They were my favorite "street band" then, with the possible exception of Santana. War's music was long on groove, with lots of room for band members to stretch out. It's almost 80 degrees today where I live, so I thought we'd pretend that it was summertime, that we were all hanging out on the front stoop of someone's apartment building, sipping on a few cold drinks, watching the traffic go by and listening to tunes on the radio.
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