Drummer reacts to "Spill The Wine" by Eric Burdon & War

[@pip3124]

Saw them do this when I was 15 or 16 years old. Only now do I realise how lucky I was 😇

[@JimFlickinger]

This song has always brought a smile to my face!

[@827dusty]

The Bad boy Irish soul singer, joins forces with one of America's finest funk/soul groups. They go together like peanut Butter and Jelly. I was in 7th grade when this came out. This was what, 55 years ago? I'm getting old. Thanks man

[@barryderby]

Not Irish. He was born in Newcastle Upon Tyne. The band he originally found fame in was called the Alan Price Rhythm and Blues Combo, but fans called them the Animals, and the name stuck. Alan Price went on to have a successful solo pop career, while Eric became a musical giant!

[@tomroome4118]

I think you are thinking of Van Morrison.

[@robertlear2712]

I saw Eric Burden and War perform this song in concert in 1970 at Kansas City. They put on one of the best concerts I had ever seen.

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Saw him w/War @ the Fillmore in S.F. same year.

[@lisarainbow9703]

Next WAR song should be, "Slippin Into Darkness"....live version is mindblowing..

[@MatthewBerginGarage]

A one choice👍

[@michaelgray4964]

The entire "Slipping Into Darkness" album is FIRE. Highly reccommend.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Actually that is a great choice unlike this

[@alansmith7626]

and then Gypsy Man....or maybe Gypsy Man should be first? LOL I just hope he keeps goin, They dont get enough props...me and baby brother, Cisco Kid...lol, fabric of my life

[@pinkstarphoenix6182]

Doesn't anyone else love The World Is A Ghetto?

[@marymargaretmoore9034]

Happy Birthday to your little girl! Great reaction.

[@kenlawless7247]

Eric Burden is great in this. Though the best thing he does is introduce a lot of people to War that might have never heard them.

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Nope wasn't a great song to begin with

[@mitzifrancis9843]

More WAR!!! Great East LA band. Give a listen to Slipping Into Darkness, Cisco Kid, and Low Rider. Always funky.

[@Leightym]

Yes! Low Rider!

[@brewstergallery]

Ned from Spain again Dr Lee. These guys were pretty legendary with a unique sound mixing a deep Soul groove with Latin percussion, guitar, organ , harmonica, horns and woodwinds. Their jams are long simmering and smokey. Eric only stayed for a few LPs which are cool. When he left these guys continued writing great songs like Me and Baby Brother, Slipping into Darkness, The World is A Ghetto, Cisco Kid, Low Rider, All Day Music, Four Cornered Room....wait til you hear Lee Oskar's harmonica too.

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

Eric Burden was HUGE with the "Animals" I met WAR at BBQ at one members home in 70's. Great, fun people❤❤. Great L.A. Band

[@damienross5013]

Man, what a day you had CCR, Talking Heaads, J Geils, Eric Burdon and WAR..Great choices and great reactions...Damn, the 70's and some of the 80's were amazing! Front men like Peter Wolfe, David Byrne, John Fogarty, Joe Cocker and the Amazing Eric Burdon..One of my favorite voices...This song has such a vibe, hard not to get into the instrument and his voice!

[@genegarrett3372]

You can't miss this WAR percussion. Anyway brings back memories from years ago

[@AntonyFleck]

What a song! But seriously people if you haven't seen the live version from the German 70s tv programme 'Beat Club ', check it out, it's so Godamn amazing!!!.. Available on utube!

[@ericarachel55]

such a great tune at a trying time in America

[@MikeOstrowski-iq8wf]

Wow….reacting to true classics ❤️🔥😎

[@jamespopeko9557]

The songs “ Sky Pilot”, “San Franciscan Nights”, and “Monterey” are some more great songs from the Animals. “Monterey” is about the Monterey music festival from back in the 1960’s.

[@nancycleary9483]

Saw them in 1978. They were wonderful live

[@capt.k6554]

I crank this song when I have to vacuum the house. Makes housecleaning so much fun!

[@johnandrews3151]

Spill The Wine was the last Top 40 hit for Eric Burdon and the first Top 40 hit for War. Eventually, War would go on to having more Top 40 hits than Eric Burdon & The Animals with hits throughout the 1970's😮😊War/Me & Baby Brother

[@Semprini537]

GREAT BAND. GREAT SONG. GREAT SINGER. What's not to like?

[@wanderer0617]

I love all that you're reacting to today! Awesome :)

[@hopeklemann1]

ok so.... the girl that says the gibberish talk in the song was Jimi hendrix's girlfriend at the time. Trivia! lol

[@stephenstrudwick8095]

Awesome pick Gail!!!

[@glenndespres5317]

This song is such a groove and trippy as hell all at once. I love it. Digging that bass line?

[@Leightym]

Low Rider!

[@danapierson7207]

Love this song! There is a live version at The Beat Club you should watch or react , it is really good

[@spazimdam]

Cool reaction. Try Low Rider by War. It has more of that great latinesque percussion. I believe it was featured in a Cheech and Chong movie. It's a great song.

[@moniqueleroux2198]

War! So huge...very Santana-ish!

[@mattreynolds612]

War should be heavily played in 2024

[@WilliamWiest1959]

Why is that ?

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Absolutely not EXCEPT the song Slipping into Darkness

[@Asymmatrix]

Raised by wolves :)

[@paulehney4581]

Come on L33, ya got to admit this old stuff is good.

[@L33Reacts]

Of course it is. I can't believe it's taken Me this long to get here lol

[@dougca7086]

React to Eric Burdon and the Animals Monterey a song about the Monterey Pop Festival

[@tomrockwood851]

War put out a song called Ballero. if you can without getting blocked, check out the Soul Train Line Ballero video.

[@dean-i5x]

check out low rider

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

Check out THREE DOG NIGHT "MOMMA TOLD ME NOT TO COME" 👍🏼👍🏼😎😎✌🎸✌🎸😎❤👍🏼

[@camillelayonne97]

Check out the live version

[@72stones43]

Ignorant people cuss.

[@RockChick63174]

You know nothing.

[@gablen23]

Their 1972 album "The World Is a Ghetto" is a great one.

[@WillLlamas]

This song is for real music lovers.

[@ripvanwinkle2002]

Eric Burden is one of my fave vocalists of all time ( though he much more than that)

[@alrivers2297]

Glad you got to this so fast. More War songs are Cisco Kid, Summer, Why Can't We Be Friends, The World is a Ghetto and Low Rider

[@mikeross14]

Lee do--- War!" "Low Rider!" with video!

[@36karpatoruski]

For another video with Low Rider, it has to be the cut from Cheech and Chong’s movie Up In Smoke. One for the ages!

[@MaryM-xz5fs]

You NEED to see the video!!! Eric still sings today!

[@johnniekight1879]

"Sky Pilot" & "Monterrey" by Eric Burdon & The Animals are musts.

[@tomroome4118]

L33, after three albums Eric left War. You MUST listen to "The World Is A Ghetto".

[@ta2gypsy]

Hi Lee I hope this finds you well & in good spirits. We woke up today. That, in itself is a blessing. Looking forward to your reaction.

[@scotstevens5263]

I heard this on the radio back in junior high school. I thought this was one the best songs I ever listened to. The hall of the mountain king. Eric and War put together a great song. Now 65 years old and still love hearing this.🎶🎶🎶 Spill the wine, dig that girl.

[@chitownlee]

Eric is the epitome of cool 😎

[@VernonOdom-jw4ko]

Absolutely Love this song! could have been longer. War was one of the biggest bands of the 70's!

[@Lwize]

Groovy personified.

[@williamflinchum-qo6ch]

You should react to War Slipping into Darkness/ or me and baby brother

[@jollyrodgers7272]

Eric 'discovered' WAR in East L.A. and brought them to the world thru this hit. I'm sure you heard their LOW RIDER, and possibly SLIPPING INTO DARKNESS.

[@thescrewfly]

War was originally an L.A. band called Nightshift (or sometimes The Nite Shift). Eric Burdon hired them, added Danish harmonica player Lee Oskar who had been playing with South African trumpettist Hugh Masekela (name-checked in the song "Monterey") and changed their name. I love that this album has a track dedicated to Rahsaan Roland Kirk (even though they spell it wrong on the sleeve) a wild and wonderful saxophonist and flautist. Ian Anderson is either a total copycat or just deeply inspired by him. Kirk was one of the first sax players to use circular breathing to create seemingly impossible solos and was prone to play two saxophones simultaneously - without it being a gimmick in any way - because it was a sound he wanted to hear. He was also blind. Maybe try his 1965 album "Rip, Rig & Panic" with a killer band of Jaki Byard on piano, Richard Davis (he was the bass player on Astral Weeks) and Elvin Jones (Coltrane's long-time drummer). Or 1967's somewhat sweeter "Now Please Don't You Cry, Beautiful Edith" (for his wife).

[@JackSchitte]

By all means check out WAR "Slippin Into Darkness" and "All Day Music".

[@gpxo11]

. War also has a boatload of hits-ones not mentioned Summer and All Day Music. Other Eric Burdon and the animals hits-Monterey, Sky Pilot, when I Was Young, Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood, and When I Was Young.

[@annewoodard6803]

“Sex and Drugs and RocknRoll” wasn’t just a saying. Some made it out, some didn’t. The music during that time was undeniably genius though, RIP to all we lost.

[@panarchpete5637]

Great song in a Great Time... Kudos to Eric Burdon ...

[@lauraallen55]

Helping the algorithm. Such an unforgiving master! Oh man, not again. just wrote that about the algorithm, then went back to the video and then you talked about it too lol! Also, love Eric Burdon, and this song, like much of the 70s and 80s, is such a trip. :)

[@cynthiaschultheis1660]

WAR... "LOW RIDER" AND "OUTLAW"👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@Markrealguy51]

Great song,sounds like a drug trip he did when very young

[@gdubbya804]

Summer City Summer, good song. The world is a ghetto, another good one.

[@MatthewBerginGarage]

That was the short version, you need to hear the full version.

[@WilliamWiest1959]

Spilling the wine was a slang term for blood dripping after shooting up heroin and take that pearl referred to the pearl of the orient which is also heroin. Still a great song and I love Eric's vocals!

[@L33Reacts]

Talking bout that horse! That China white! 😆

[@GeoffCB]

The "pearl" is an anatomical female body part.

[@WilliamWiest1959]

@GeoffCB that's also true of course

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Definitely not way overrated

[@Looksue]

Heard this on my first acid trip

[@AP-gb3eh]

Yes odd fantastical musically wonderful. Always happy to hear it

[@L33Reacts]

Glad you enjoyed, my friend!

[@cindyshawver9986]

I would have subbed if you had done the video......the video is awesome !!!

[@L33Reacts]

Cool? 😆

[@P.Galore]

I've been hoping Duran Duran would cover this for 40 years

[@geob3963]

Other walkie talkie story songs. Chemical Brothers w/Flaming Lips - The Golden Path Marvin Gaye - Trouble Man Clash - Red Angel Dragnet Velvet Underground - The Gift J. Geils Band - No Anchovies Please

[@lisar.6670]

Story goes that Burdon's girlfriend at the time had spilled some wine in the recording studio while the guys were recording other music. Something like that. Someone spilled the wine. Anyway, the Spanish speaking chick in the background was/is allegedly Eric's girlfriend. Checkout the LIVE versions of #Spill the Wine and #TOBACCO ROAD .. Also do #LOW RIDER .. #CISCO KID .. #GYPSY MAN .. #THE WORLD IS A GHETTO .. #BAREBACK RIDE {think that is the title}.

[@XFLexiconMatt]

Eric Burton's time with the band was brief, but he gave WAR a platform, half their albums didn't have singles that charted, but I'd highly recommend "Slipping Into Darkness, All Night Music, The Cisco Kid, Low Rider, Why Can't We Be Friends", and the list goes on, great soul / funk / pop band.

[@kathybwell]

Perfect gateway song to WAR!

[@DENVEROUTDOORMAN]

Nope boring stupid song

[@RockChick63174]

​@DENVEROUTDOORMAN whatever, dude.

[@steveowens2505]

Drunk Eric heckled the original King Crimson in 1969 because they weren’t blues based.

[@brentjannereth3599]

I think their were drugs involved with this song

[@TheoZoffrok]

You think? 🤭

[@smffeb58]

This is the old Bay Area funk, rock, Latino, salsa, reggae, R&B musical mashup era. War, Sly and the Family Stone, Santana, Malo, all super bands that mixed all these musical genres (hate using that word) to create a sound that everyone understood as just eargasmic. Eric Burdon knew it, that’s why he did it.

[@bernhardfbuttner5694]

Like said on the first Burdon/Animals-Video: listen to "Paint It Black" or "Ring Of Fire" and then take a deep dive into the Burdonverse! - That's - of course - if you really want to!

[@FrankWirth-ij4rq]

Frank Zappas "Dont eat the yellow snow" is a great, and really fun song. "Apostrophe" album is very good.

[@kevjones5047]

Eric Burden has amazing voice, the chorus here is iconic. Sky pilot is my fav after HOTRS

[@jaycorby]

Higher Power, or God if you prefer, is present everywhere and fills all things. So, by that definition 'IT' is in a single doorknob, door key, atom of chewing gum, hair on a dog etc. If I am conscious of that incomprehensible Presence, then I worship it with every breath.

[@MJ1]

Spilling the Wine take that pearl refers to the blood that spills out of your arm when you’re shooting pearl….heroin.

[@elisabethaxelsson4736]

Good song but feels very trippy and drogs, listen to Tobacco Road whit Eric Burdon and war

[@davidcrowell3041]

I have always loved this song. Bruce Springsteen has covered it.

[@cspringer333]

Another great reaction! Check out the video...Excellent!

[@johnnyfrederick01]

A hit from my Jr. HS days….. Imagine!

[@GeoffCB]

This is the slightly shortened single version. And it's "Burdon"! 🙂

[@twalrus1]

"Dig that pearl" (think about it and you find out what the song is about.)

[@nancymjohnson]

Howard Scott is family friend

[@mftoms59]

Love your reactions, Sky Pilot next Please.

[@Chase57Tx]

This is the short version, and there's a live version that rules.

[@lesliedavis2185]

It’s kinda different but always been a favourite

[@waygone6657]

As long as you are going down this road you need to check out San Franciscan Nights

[@stevenwilliams1790]

House of the rising sun is a classic. Totally different from this song.

[@rachelpsmith3129]

Watch this live some time. Big D energy is bs but if it has ever been a real thing it's there in his presence onstage doing this song.

[@musicairplanes4884]

You should check out the live version.

[@peterdvideos]

Do “Mother” by John Lennon. Super deep.

[@stephenstrudwick8095]

Your "Doorknob being God" remark triggered a memory of one of my favorite Cat Stevens songs "Sitting" from his album "Catch Bull at Four". One speciflc lyric always sticks in my head: "Oh life is like a maze of doors And they all open from the side you're on Just keep on pushing hard boy, try as you may You're going to wind up where you started from"

[@johndbrandhorst4434]

As the song went on your head movement got more into it 🎸🎶

[@miked2445]

God I love this band.

[@RayEvans-j1q]

The live version is really cool!

[@GregLangley-j3g]

Gotta love these guys, what a groove!