Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lee Oskar (born 24 March 1948) [1] is a Danish harmonica player, [2] notable for his contributions to the sound of the rock-funk fusion group War, which was formed by Howard E. Scott and Harold Brown, [3] his solo work, and as a harmonica manufacturer. [4]
Lee Oskar doubles the alto sax line on harmonica. [7] Beginning in 1996, "Low Rider" featured for several years on British television in adverts for Marmite, as part of their 'Love it or hate it' campaign. [8] [9] The song was covered by nu metal band Korn on their 1996 studio album Life Is Peachy. [10]
Linda Hamilton of Deseret News praised Oskar's performances, noting that it had "retained much of War's sound". [4] SleepyJack praised the album's sound design, stating that it was "straight-forward and stripped-down" and "put the harmonica in a role typically reserved for sax sounded fresh. [5]
Lee Oskar and Papa Dee Allen later joined as well. They all shared a love of diverse styles of music, which they had absorbed living in the racially mixed Los Angeles ghettos. The Creators recorded several singles on Dore Records while working with Tjay Contrelli, a saxophonist from the band Love.
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. These 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).
Before the Rain (Lee Oskar album), 1978 "Before the Rain", harmonica piece by Lee Oskar "Before the Rain", a 2010 song by Duran Duran from their album All You Need Is Now
"The Cisco Kid" is a song performed by War, and written by Thomas Allen, Harold Brown, Morris "BB" Dickerson, Charles Miller, Howard Scott, Lee Oskar and Lonnie Jordan, all members of War at the time. It is the first song on their 1972 album The World Is a Ghetto, and is the group's highest-charting song on the Billbo
Most living original members appeared on the album, B.B. Dickerson (bass) being the only exception; but Lee Oskar (harmonica) is not credited as a group member, and only makes a guest appearance on two songs. Another former member Pat Rizzo (saxophone) also makes a guest appearance on the same songs where Oskar appears. Some of the official ...