WAR, coming Saturday to the Riverside Casino Event Center, hit pop pay dirt with the funky 'Spill the Wine,' which features a passionate vocal from Burdon, who was with the band from 1969 to 1971 and from 1976 to 1977. We had a lot of things in common in terms of how we grew up and we connected musically.'
Eric came from Newcastle, (England) and we came from Compton and Watts.
'When he started performing with us, we started to play the blues and I hated the blues, but I eventually ‘’got' the blues. 'We learned so much from Eric,' Jordan said.
The Animals’ former frontman re-christened the band WAR and wrote and recorded with the versatile group, which melds soul, Latin, jazz and rock. War initially was called Nightshift but the name was changed when iconic vocalist Eric Burdon discovered the band.
