Nov 6, 2009 | Monterey County Weekly
Long-touring WAR thunders into Carmel's Sunset Center.
The year 1969 was a time of anti-Vietnam war protests and civil rights marches, which made it a perfect platform for WAR, an eight-piece, Los Angeles-based band featuring a multicultural lineup of musicians playing songs popping with socio-political lyrics.
Animals guitarist at American Music Celebration
Remember The Animals? Remember jangly, arpeggiated guitar intro to "House of the Rising Sun," the bouncy, accented rendition of John Lee Hooker's "Boom Boom," the minor-key 12-string lick on "It's My Life," or the fuzzed-out riff on "Don't Bring Me Down?" Those guitar bits were at the heart of the bluesy side of the original British Invasion - and ...
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