The Cisco Kid - War | The Midnight Special

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October 19, 1973
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@vangoghny2k 4 ай бұрын

The world is still a ghetto, thanks for posting this classic!

@jomamma1750 4 ай бұрын

Only because you keep putting the ghetto masters, the democrat party, in charge. Lol

@Oklahoma-Dreaming 4 ай бұрын

Funny. I had to look it up but the album this song came from had those words in the title. When I first read your comment I was stumped so I had to look it up. But I don’t know if this is the only song I’ve heard from that album.

@vangoghny2k 4 ай бұрын

@@Oklahoma-Dreaming it's a great album, give it a listen!

@KittyGrizGriz 4 ай бұрын

@@jomamma1750🙄 🤐

@williambenner701 4 ай бұрын

@@Oklahoma-Dreaming Low Rider, Why can't we be friends?

@marklanier8657 4 ай бұрын

Loved this song in the day and Slipping into Darkness. A great band that deserves more recognition.

@charlesking5328 2 ай бұрын

I seen them open for Cheech & Chong a few years back , 6 or 7 maybe and they were awesome. Chong was jamming with them toward the end of the show.... Man 😊✌

@kristennoelle9447 Ай бұрын

My dad's absolute favorite... he'd be dancing around the house getting ready for work @ BART station Concord..miss u pops!💜Ty for faith & funk!🙏

@josephroman8568 4 ай бұрын

Such a fabulous and funky song ! Gypsy Man and Why Can’t We Be Friends are great also! 😃🎶👍🏻

@Oklahoma-Dreaming 4 ай бұрын

On a somewhat related note - ha, get it? - this song has a bit of a funk-slash-reggae vibe to me. I’m not sure what genre it’s listed under. But it made me think of a new Bob Marley movie that I think just released. I kind of like Reggae but I’m really interested to watch that film. It’s called maybe, “Bob Marley.” But I want to at least get a 30-thousand foot view of his life as I don’t really know his history.

@paisleyprincess7996 Ай бұрын

Musicianship on point!

@dougg1075 4 ай бұрын

Love The Midnight Special! What a historic archive of music legends.

@TheMisterGriswold 4 ай бұрын

B.B. Dickerson on bass. 🎶

@SingularlyNaked 3 ай бұрын

That bass line is simple enough that even I can play it, but it’s got more funk than human beings should be allowed to experience! How he do that??

@lowriderbandfan 3 ай бұрын

Happy 78th Birthday, Howard Scott, singing lead. This WAR fan is so honored you're a friend of mine.

@treybasquiat 3 ай бұрын

Damn, the musicianship was on point! Simply amazing.🤩

@franksliwa362 Ай бұрын

Awesome!! I grew up with this music! WAR was and still is awesome!! Great groove!!!

@wmrustycox 2 ай бұрын

One of my all time favorite songs !!! War was such an epic influence to the music of the era.. and still worth listening to today

@DrTomoculus 4 ай бұрын

THANK YOU MIDNIGHT SPECIAL!!!! WAR RULE

@craiganderson3462 3 ай бұрын

As good as it gets.

@KittyGrizGriz 4 ай бұрын

He was a friend of mine, too. ❤❤❤

@stevegagnon2687 Ай бұрын

Love war

@BIZARBIES 4 ай бұрын

My Baby Brother and I love this song!

@PicoRiveraCalifornia 4 ай бұрын

Recently heard this album the other day, and I gotta say, it is one of the best albums I've ever heard.

@awboat 4 ай бұрын

Have you heard their live album, War Live? One of my all-time favorites.

@bklee2720 2 ай бұрын

One thing I really loved about War is that several of the guys sang lead vocals depending on the song. Charles Miller, the saxophonist, sang lead vocals on Lowrider.

@jimrebr 4 ай бұрын

War hold a very special place in my heart, I saw Eric Burdon on The Animals last tour in December 1968, in 1969 we saw Eric Burdon with War, they had just started and Eric Burdon helped make them Stars! Every morning when I was 17, my AP Dance class did our warmup’s to War!! Really fun to wake and dance at 8:00 am Monday-Friday, I love dance and I love War, they were fantastic, still have their debut album!!!!

@bennyscissorhands6477 4 ай бұрын

maaaan "eat the salted peanuts from the can" and "blasting drinking port" has stuck with me all my life for some reason😂😂😂

@asafaust8869 Ай бұрын

I made up words when he sang eat peanuts out the can.😅😊

@ronde7180 Ай бұрын

UNDERRATED PARTY BAND!!!! AWESOME

@thecaveofthedead 2 ай бұрын

Still no one could put War in a genre. I never saw a band that looked more fun to play in.

@paisleyprincess7996 Ай бұрын

This is a Chicano band if there ever was one

@stephenadkins9883 2 ай бұрын

Loved ❤it then,Love❤it now !!

@scottamori3188 3 ай бұрын

This channel is invaluable at keeping a high quality archive of the era’s jaw-dropping acts like War. Thanks!

@unkolawdio 3 ай бұрын

I love these guys,,,watch drummer,,he good

@rebeccawagner4167 2 ай бұрын

I love this 🎵 🎶, kudos to the Midnight Special for putting this band on,you have excellent taste🎉🎉

@danielmiller210 Ай бұрын

I remember listening to this on AM radio they were no categories on AM radio they played it all FM radio come along and ruined it 1 minute they play war the next minute they played Johnny Cash those days were good to be alive

@clevebaker8399 4 ай бұрын

Mandrill/War 1973!! Wow ! What a vibe!! None better! Thank you 🙏

@darrenrunning5415 4 ай бұрын

Lee Oskar, who plays harmonica, lives here in Seattle area, and does (or did) own a music shop and taught music lessons. He was a frequent guest on the Bob Rivers show and would occasionally make guest appearances with Bob's band Spike and the Impalers.

@dwaynejessome1728 4 ай бұрын

He looks like he's loving' life & he should be!! & It's clear you know yer stuff because I see that Stupertramp avatar

@KittyGrizGriz 3 ай бұрын

I LOVE Supertramp band, too! Saw them on their ‘78 “Breakfast in America” tour, a top concert for sure! Interesting back story on Lee Oskar, thanks for sharing with us here, like to read about the musicians from their fans.

@curtisphilumalee1447 4 ай бұрын

This has to be the first time I’ve ever heard a lead singer call out ( The Bridge ) in a song. He did it in a unique way. Both times too. He’s to flipping cool.

@10000jims 4 ай бұрын

James Brown did that all the time. 😂

@mikecaetano 4 ай бұрын

Check out "The Crunge" by Led Zeppelin.

@bocapete88 3 ай бұрын

Thrilled to see this stuff on youtube..Smart fellow who bought the rights to this shit!

@Gatorbaitress 29 күн бұрын

After seeing War on The Midnight Special, I became a fan right then and there. I hardly ever missed an episode (Except for those nights I left after coming in for curfew! Mama never told me that I couldn't leave again.....) So happy to see these shows again!

@agape4tube Ай бұрын

The Midnight Special always had a great sound system and accustics(sp).

@BIZARBIES 4 ай бұрын

Lee Oskar had some wild hair!

@curtisphilumalee1447 4 ай бұрын

Late in the song he changes out harmonica’s to finish out the song.

@HoldenMuhKnutz 4 ай бұрын

Good way to start my workday. Jammin

@Oklahoma-Dreaming 4 ай бұрын

I think this song released maybe 50 years ago but I’d have to look it up. I vaguely remember it from when I was really young. I don’t know if it would be listed as “Reggae” but it has that vibe, maybe a fusion with funk? But it was really popular back then.

@wilcox660 4 ай бұрын

1972 if memory serves.

@Merylstreep1949 4 ай бұрын

I forever associate them with Cheech and Chong ❤

@vincentwhite2572 Ай бұрын

Growing up I remember watching midnight Special on t v when I came one seeing all the good groups

@AccurateCrabLegs 4 ай бұрын

I sing this when I eat salted peanuts out the can

@Oklahoma-Dreaming 4 ай бұрын

Funny lyric. I laughed when I finally picked it up tonight. I think it was because I could see the lead singer and I can kind of read lips. But I never knew the lyrics until I read them while pausing this video.

@thatgirl7609 27 күн бұрын

Wow! Men were so slim back then

@CthulhuWaitsDreaming 4 ай бұрын

One of the most vital important channels on youtube delivers another precious gem today. Thank you again.

@StephanieJeanne 4 ай бұрын

One of their best!😎💥

@jmach2409 8 күн бұрын

show de bola!

@user-de1ts3ju6h 4 ай бұрын

Great band. Great song

@camvillar8177 2 ай бұрын

GREAT!

@SteveKraus 4 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing this classic.

@adamc1966 4 ай бұрын

Yes they were great live and on vinyl 👍

@wadewheelingtonii7690 2 ай бұрын

Love This Thanks for Sharing!

@panatypical 12 күн бұрын

I wish the harmonica stood out more for this performance, like on the record. Lee's Ronald McDonald hairdo ROCKS!

@bradleytygard3593 4 ай бұрын

Freaken Bad-Ass! Can we go back in time to be at that show? Awesome

@joannasunday 3 ай бұрын

Oh man i love War! And I'm a white girl from the burbs! Ok no longer a "girl" I'm 64 but hey who's counting? It's War!!!!!❤

@adamlindquist4854 3 ай бұрын

One of the best live performances of all time! Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah

@rideon1956 4 ай бұрын

So cool

@edmarsh5836 3 ай бұрын

Gotta love the bass drum with the blanket falling out, and the double-headed toms with only the top heads!

@Alekx-gq2vt 4 ай бұрын

Super

@davidscott3820 Ай бұрын

I remembering watching this on the midnight special at delta-1 missile site, minot afb, ND (sac)😊

@stevensheegog3942 2 ай бұрын

Why Can’t We Be Friends is my favorite song by WAR.

@dwaynejessome1728 4 ай бұрын

That's it right there!! -this performance is second only to Joe Walsh in the rich Midnight Special history - oops - I forgot about ACDC Sin City - this is top 2 or 3 all time

@johnwagner1259 Ай бұрын

Cisco=whiskey. Poncho= wine. In pittsburgh we drank thunderbird and Mad Dog 20 20

@gazoontight Ай бұрын

Ey, Cisco!

@rgs4x 4 ай бұрын

A AM radio staple back in the day. Look kids real musicians.

@Oklahoma-Dreaming 4 ай бұрын

It’s really funny because I’ve heard this song so many times although it’s been awhile. But it’s the first time I heard the lyric, “Eat the salted peanuts out of can,” or something like that so I had to go peek at the lyrics for the first time to verify. It’s like the lyric in the Steely Dan song, “Is there gas in the car?” and my wife didn’t believe it when I repeated it. But I think there was a Cisco Kid from history but I’m hazy on that. Funny lyrics although I’m not quite sure of meaning. (I did a quick peek and I guess the Cisco Kid was a fictional character from a book over 100 years ago, and then there were movies and TV shows. Maybe I watched them when I was a kid. A Cisco Kid I suppose.)

@johntobin3235 4 ай бұрын

Cisco Kid was a 50’s tv show and his sidekick was Pancho

@Oklahoma-Dreaming 4 ай бұрын

@@johntobin3235thanks. Yeah, I just looked it up and edited my comment. I think I had maybe seen it on a TV show but I would’ve been really young back then. I guess I was about nine when this song released which means I’m a Boomer ;-)

@mikecaetano 4 ай бұрын

A reference perhaps to "Salt Peanuts" by Dizzy Gillespie, sometimes considered the first bebop song. But probably just something Pancho and Cisco did on the TV show.

@Da_Publick Ай бұрын

What I thought it was: a Melodica What it turned out to be: a Harmonica + a Soprano Saxophone

@Darkmatter666-j8y 4 ай бұрын

Smoke Sesh

@davidscott3820 Ай бұрын

I saved it

@iknowimright4037 3 ай бұрын

That damn Lee Oskar...BADD MAN!!!! This was a serious group!!!

@rwfrench66GenX 4 ай бұрын

😂 even the white boy got an Afro

@SingularlyNaked 3 ай бұрын

You gotta have an afro to play that music! Except for B.B. Dickerson, who can do whatever he wants, cause damn that’s how you do it on the bass.

@hartleycwhite 19 күн бұрын

Excellent( but I didn't see Papa Dee Allen on percussions).

@gogonog 4 ай бұрын

what a great band ! nothing as good in today's music !

@Reyajh 4 ай бұрын

But he liked those salted peanuts in his jam :P

@WilmerCook 29 күн бұрын

Le Oskar!

@mikestand714 Ай бұрын

no lip syncing crap back then

@ThomasGarcia-mh7yf 2 ай бұрын

Last band Jimi Hendrix toured with .

@eewillyte6162 2 ай бұрын

Dude in the green must be at least 6’9”.

@ronaldlane1597 2 ай бұрын

Where is Papa Doc?

@MoisesSalcedo-ks7mt Ай бұрын

Where is papa Dee Allen?

@mattdylan664 4 ай бұрын

I'd be remiss if i didn't recommend PDBass' 'WAR's Greatest Bass Line' kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdJ8oruWuLe3c4U.html and you might never know just how brilliant this band were/are if you don't see it

@SingularlyNaked 3 ай бұрын

Heh! Next on my list!