Boz Scaggs "Lowdown"

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Heard that breezy melody faintly playing in a bar last Friday...goddamn does that song rule.

Can I get a witness?

― James Jung, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:19 (twenty years ago)

ts: "Lowdown" vs "How Long"

I do like "Lowdown" a lot. The main little riff makes me want to rollerskate backwards, and I've never done that.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:23 (twenty years ago)

yeah, weavin' in 'n out of orange road cones clad in hotpants and rockin' an old school set of headphones.

― James Jung, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:26 (twenty years ago)

Everything but that ramped-up guitar part towards the end.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

What is that album Sylvia Robinson was involved in where they covered "Lowdown"? It's in the record collection, but I forget. It has "Automatic Lover" on it too.

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:31 (twenty years ago)

Sampled:

* "Lowdown"
Fresh Kid Ice - "Long Dick Chinese"
Leaders of the New School - "The International Zone Coaster"
Sparky D - "Throwdown"

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)

Fucking goddamned classic amongst classics. Especially the moment right before the bridge when he lifts the melody to the sky.

― pappawheelie II, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

love "lowdown." been listening to it fairly regularly lately, actually.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:37 (twenty years ago)

I just started a thread about this on another board.

I always thought this was song by some black 70s soul legend. I couldn't believe it when I found out it was Boz Scaggs. It's fabulous.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)

another board.

I refuse to believe there's another board in your life!

― Confounded (Confounded), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:43 (twenty years ago)

Larry King-approved stone-cold classic

― Andy_K (Andy_K), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:47 (twenty years ago)

I refuse to believe there's another board in your life!

"All Fishing Message Center"

― Magic Marissa, Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:48 (twenty years ago)

the good dr. bill's into runnin' round, hangin' with the crowd...

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

That part where the horns explode (the baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaweeaaaaaah [bow bow bow] part is among my favorite few seconds in all of music, but I can't really stand any of the rest of the dude's music.

― Jeff Reguilon (Talent Explosion), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:26 (twenty years ago)

Total classic, as is much of that album ("Lido Shuffle," "What Can I Say," "It's Over," "We're All Alone"). Bass pops by David Hungate! Jeff Porcaro on drums! Awesome.

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:41 (twenty years ago)

BACKING BAND = TOTO!!

― JAXON (jaxon), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:44 (twenty years ago)

total classic!

― ken taylrr has gone off the internet because of you (ken taylrr), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:48 (twenty years ago)

Sorry - not "It's Over" (though it's OK). I meant "Georgia."

― Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 7 September 2005 20:55 (twenty years ago)

This is a great track, but Ben Sidran scaled better heights.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 September 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

stormy, do you have any Sidran? my buddy's been telling me to pick up his album "Feel Your Groove" forever. he says it's that folky soul shit that i love, but i've never found it.

― JAXON (jaxon), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)

Didn't Sidran do "On the Cool Side"? That's one of the greatest crimes against music anywhere.

"Lowdown" however, like the entirety of "Silk Degrees," is completely awesome.

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, his two Blue Thumb lps! but only on LP though. If I ever work out how to digitize (um, been meaning to do this for like two years; oh well, weekend comes and me wanna get annihilated) I would put them up on noize ysi or something.

I mean, they aren't brilliant or anything, but there are definitely some reet blunted-out grooves on those things that you wouldn't necessarily associate with the name. *Especially* the great lenghty "Now I Live (and Now my Life is Done)" -- that's a tour de force. some crazy mug sampled it too, I think; I can't remember who. It's on Putting in time on the Planet Earth...

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)

Puttin' in time on Planet Earth: (Blue Thumb 1973)
* "Walking with the Blues"
Atmosphere - "It Goes"

Man, what the fuck is up w/gemm.com pricing? do people really not want to sell their records? 90$?! fuck that. (although there is a cheaper one, i'm not buying records right now)

― JAXON (jaxon), Thursday, 8 September 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

fourteen years pass...

low low low

― mookieproof, Friday, 22 May 2020 02:57 (five years ago)

Walter White approved

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Friday, 22 May 2020 03:09 (five years ago)

oooooooooooh ooooo-ooo-oo-oo-ooooooh I wonder, wonder, wonder, wonder whooooo-oo-oo-ooooh

― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 22 May 2020 03:13 (five years ago)

boz deserves a hall-n-oates-type renaissance

― mookieproof, Friday, 22 May 2020 03:47 (five years ago)

Hey bpy you better bring the chick around

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 May 2020 03:51 (five years ago)

Maybe this is well known, but I had no idea:

According to the DVD commentary for Saturday Night Fever, the producers intended to use the song "Lowdown" by Boz Scaggs in the rehearsal scene between Tony and Stephanie in the dance studio, and choreographed their dance moves to the song. [...] As John Travolta asserted, "The Bee Gees weren't even involved in the movie in the beginning ... I was dancing to Stevie Wonder and Boz Scaggs."

― j.o.h.n. in evanston (john. a resident of chicago.), Friday, 22 May 2020 13:36 (five years ago)

Nor I.

― Spocks on the Run (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 22 May 2020 13:41 (five years ago)

oh that would have been dope

i love the soundtrack & the Bee Gees too though

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 22 May 2020 19:46 (five years ago)

wish he'd danced to this tbh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xi-GDD8yFyo

― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 22 May 2020 19:49 (five years ago)

boz isn't selling his guitar playing very well there

― mookieproof, Friday, 22 May 2020 19:54 (five years ago)

I wonder if Joanna levesque or Joel Hailey knows that song? Jonathan Richman most likely would not care for it…

― veronica moser, Friday, 22 May 2020 20:06 (five years ago)

love... look what you’ve done to me

― brimstead, Friday, 22 May 2020 23:08 (five years ago)

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