Harold Brown (music)

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Harold Ray Brown (born March 17, 1946 in Long Beach, California) was a founding member of War, an American funk band in the 1970's and 2002s. Harold had a number of roles over the years, acting as drummer, percussion, vocalist and band leader. He started the “Creators” in 1963 in Long Beach, California, while going to Long Beach Poly High School to play for High School sock hops and car shows. Then in 1967 toward the end of the Vietnam war he and Howard Scott re-started the band with a new name Night Shift. Brown had been working as a machinist on the Night Shift. In February of 1969 while playing a show at the Rag Doll Night Club in North Hollywood, California Eric Burdon and Lee Oskar jammed with the Night Shift. The band changed its name to War.

Brown, left the band to attend college in 1983, majoring in computer science and music. Then moved to New Orleans, in 1986. In 2001, Brown went back to school to pursue his life time hobby; he is now a Historian and professional Tour Guide in New Orleans and has recently formed a new band called the “Lowrider Band” with four of the Original members of War (Howard Scott, Morris “BB” Dickerson,Lee Oskar and Harold Ray Brown). http://www.Lowriderband.com

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