Posted on 06/29/2016 8:54:12 AM PDT by simpson96
Hope you enjoy. ”Low Rider”
music *ping*
All my friends know the low rider.
It don’t use no gas now.
As a bass player, i just want to go on record that I hate playing 5hat song.
Saw them live at the old Valley Forge Music Fair in Pa.. Yep, this was their encore song.
You don’t like the Low Rider bass riff?
The most amazing thing in that video is that someone actually tricked out a Chevy Vega! (the legendary car that rusted in the showroom!) :)
Ever since George Lopez hijacked that song for his tv show am less fond of it But man oh man Angie Lopez is fine But my fav song from back then is “Be thankful for what you got”
The 70s were the crappiest years for domestic autos
Marketing mishaps - Chevy couldn't figure out why Chevy Novas were not selling in Latin America -
... until someone pointed out to them that in Spanish "no va" means "it doesn't go."
I like to listen to it. It’s a stamina thing to actually play. And no matter how you throw in a few slight mods, it just becomes tedious.
My fondest memory of this song playing was a cheerleader practicing her moves, while the song played.
I can see her face and everything else about her that excited me.
That was 8th grade and that girl was smoking hot or whatever term we used back then.
“All my friends...”
No, my Monte Carlo was the coolest car I ever owned.
Today’s cars are crappy. They all look exactly alike. Zero personality.
The dividing lines have to be moved a bit.
late ‘60s to early ‘70s is a peak. The oil embargo/epa/CAFE/CatConverters/poorly implemented safety stuff combined with labor union idiocy made for a bad period. Some of the most highly regarded U.S. cars are from the early ‘70s (e.g. 1970 Challenger with a six-pack can fetch $120K and up today).
The ‘70s Monte Carlos, Impalas and Caprices are THE picture of 1970s crime dramas. Try watching some old Rockford Files episodes and you’ll see what I mean. Who can forget Tom Selleck’s white Fairy Float full sized convertible in the same show? For smaller sized, there’s Rockford’s own Pontiac Firebird. The bad guys just wouldn’t be as menacing in a 1980s Caprice or a Cadillac Allante or even an Olds Toronado, a ‘90s Taurus would be worse still, even the SHO.
That said, the early ‘70s were a continuation of the ‘60s. How different are those cars from the Chargers (think ‘69 General Lee) and Pontiac GTOs of the late ‘70s?
That all said, the quality of the sheet metal itself was starting to go downhill, preventing me from keeping my ‘73 and ‘75 Dodge Darts operating in the salty midwest (My wife’s car, Desireé, a baby blue ‘73 with the white vinyl roof died from the front end collapsing as the torsion bars pulled out from the rusty frame. She was sent to a no crush salvage yard in Oregon, IL, where she remains an organ donor.)
Those giant chrome battering rams for bumpers that were mandated ruined the styling on most American cars in 1973. It took most of the decade to figure out how to handle that and still have styling that looked good. Then, there were the smog regs that choked the engines.
Great song! Thanks, simpson!
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