{{Multiple issues| {{Notability|music|date=July 2025}} {{Refimprove|date=July 2025}}}} {{Short description|US musical group}} {{Infobox musical artist | name = Lowrider Band | image = | alias = | origin = | genre = | years_active = 1990s–present<!-- {{start date|YYYY}}–{{end date|YYYY}} (or –present) --> | label = | associated_acts = War | website = {{URL|http://lowriderband.com}} | current_members = *Howard E. Scott *Lee Oskar *Harold Brown | past_members = *B.B. Dickerson (died 2021) }}
The '''Lowrider Band''' consists of three of the four surviving original core group members of the multi-platinum selling band War: Howard E. Scott, Lee Oskar, and Harold Brown. ==Background== The four original members lost the right in federal court to use and tour under the name "War" in the mid-1990s to Far Out Productions (producer and manager Jerry Goldstein). The band's original keyboardist Lonnie Jordan now tours using the name "War" under Goldstein's guidance.<ref>{{cite news |last = Johnson|first = Jeff|title = At War No More, Oskar Keeps Blowin' His Harp|work = Chicago Sun-Times|date = August 25, 2006|url = https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1640797.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20121023051720/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-1640797.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = October 23, 2012}}</ref> ==Career== In 2008, the band did a one-off performance in Houston with special guest Alice Tweed Smith.<ref>Classic Rock Bob, January 23, 2013 - [https://classicrockbob.com/2013/01/23/why-cant-they-be-friends-the-war-for-war-rages-on/ Why Can’t They Be Friends? The War for War Rages On… by Bob Ruggiero]</ref>
In 2009, the group performed in New Orleans at a benefit for the Save Charity Hospital organization.<ref>''The Louisiana Weekly'', 16th May 2016 - [http://www.louisianaweekly.com/the-beat-goes-on-at-the-bayou/ The beat goes on at the Bayou By Geraldine Wyckoff]</ref>
The band was booked to play at the Starlight Bowl, 1249 Lockheed View Drive, Burbank on Saturday, 25 July, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.<ref>''Los Angeles Times'', July 20, 2015 - [https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/entertainment/tn-gnp-still-riding-after-all-these-years-20150720-story.html Still riding after all these years By Jonny Whiteside]</ref>
The band was booked to play at the fifth annual New Blues Festival on Saturday of the 2018 Labor Day weekend. The event was in conjunction with the Long Beach Blues Society.<ref>''Long Beach Post'', August 31, 2018 - [https://lbpost.com/hi-lo/music/war-and-low-rider-bands-harold-browns-life-comes-full-circle/ MUSIC, War and Low Rider Band’s Harold Brown’s life comes full circle by Tim Grobaty]</ref> The line up for the event was, Howard Scott on guitar, Harold Brown on drums, BB Dickerson on bass, Lance Ellis on saxophone and flute, Pete Cole on keyboards, Chuck Barber on percussion and Tex Nakamura on harmonica. For that particular show, Tex Nakamura who had played with War for fifteen years, was filling in for Lee Oskar.<ref>''The LA Beat'', August 28, 2018 - [https://thelosangelesbeat.com/2018/08/long-beach-new-blues-festival-featuring-the-low-rider-band-will-make-for-a-great-labor-day-weekend/ Long Beach New Blues Festival featuring The Lowrider Band Will Make For A Great Labor Day Weekend - by Ed Simon]</ref>
== Band members == === Current lineup === *Howard E. Scott - guitars, vocals *Lee Oskar - harmonica *Harold Brown - drums, vocals *Lance Ellis - saxophone *Chuk Barber - percussion, vocals *Pete Cole - keyboards, vocals *Don Rousell - bass, vocals
=== Former members === *B.B. Dickerson - bass, vocals (died 2021)
==Discography== ===Singles=== * "La Playa" - Nuqik – LMS 0422 - 2014 ===Albums=== * '' Lowrider Band'' - Lee Oscar Productions - ???? * ''The Original Lowriders'' - Lee Oscar Productions - 2003
==References== <references/>
==External links== *[http://lowriderband.com Official website] * Discogs - [https://www.discogs.com/artist/5097830 Lowrider Band]
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