The song was featured on the first compilation in the Lowrider Soundtrack series. The song was covered with the name "Me no fry" for a sunscreen commercial on Australian TV. An spanish version of mexican group Banda Pachuco was recorded in 1996 for the album with the same name. Jazz funk/ Contemporary jazz instrumental group Bona Fide covered the song from their 2001 album "The Poe House.". The song "Surfin Buena Park" by The Ziggens borrowed the main riff from "Low Rider". Sublime sampled the song in the bassline of Forman Freestyle on disc 2 of Everything Under the Sun. The song "Jorge Regula" by The Moldy Peaches borrowed the main riff from "Low Rider". War's "Low Rider" was also significantly sampled by The Beastie Boys for their track "Slow Ride" on the 1986 album Licensed to Ill. "Low Rider" was sampled by Tito & Tarantula on the track " Bullets From a Gun". "Low Rider" was sampled by The Offspring in the remix version of " Pretty Fly (for a White Guy)". Many P2P networks credit the War version of the track to ZZ Top, but the band has never recorded a version of the song. Warren Hill from his 2005 album PopJazz. Gary Hoey (this version is played at the start of the Greg and the Morning Buzz radio show each day). Earth Eatz Dog - on their album Sniff This!. Bona Fide on their album "The Poe House". The song has been covered by the following artists:. He was out of town police say his 60-year-old father came to the counter that day and was shot to death. are accused of going to Lowrider Hydraulics on March 3 under orders from Lopez to kill Steven Miller. That led to an open feud.″ĭaniel Johnson, William Wade and Fernando Arce Jr. ``But his rival wanted to open the competitions to the general public, without the manufacturers competing at the same level. Gary Kirby of the San Jose Police Department said Thursday. That could have have devastated Lopez financially. Police say the company owned by Miller’s son Steven _ Lowrider Hydraulics in San Jose _ was pushing for rules changes in lowrider contests that would allow other pump vendors to gain a foothold. ``As long as your car has a nice paint job, nice interior, rims and tires _ it qualifies.″Īt the center of this craze is the 39-year-old Lopez, the country’s main supplier of the hydraulic pumps that are the foundation for so many lowriders. They like to spend their money,″ Gomez said. 
``They just like to go check the cars out. Thousands participate in lowrider shows across the Southwest.Ĭontestants are meticulous and passionate about their vehicles, spending thousands of dollars to soup up a car for only modest prize money, said Oscar Gomez, a lowrider contest promoter from Mesa, Ariz. In addition to the doctored suspension systems, lowriders are usually decked out with top-of-the-line audio systems, miniature tires, polished chrome bumpers and highly detailed paintings. It gained attention in 1975 with the help of a Billboard top 10 hit, ``Low Rider,″ a catchy, funky song by War that glorified the cars. If the police are right, it would be a strange and tragic twist to a quirky street subculture that has been popular among Hispanics and blacks since at least the early 1970s. Lopez, the owner of Red’s Hydraulics in Long Beach, hasn’t been seen by police since early May. Three men have been arrested and charged in the March slaying of Leonard Miller.
Now he is being sought by police, suspected of plotting to kill one his business rivals in a botched crime that left the man’s father dead. Not because he drove the outrageously detailed cars, but because he has a virtual monopoly on the hydraulic pumps that make them jump. SAN DIEGO (AP) _ In the world of lowriders, Ruben Lopez is the king.
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