The Lowrider Band, featuring original founding members Howard E. Scott on guitar and vocals, Lee Oskar, Harmonica, Harold Brown, drums and vocals, and bass player B.B. Dickerson, perform at the Santa Monica Pier during the 25th Anniversary Twilight Dance Series on Thursday, August 27, 2009. The Lowrider Band sprung from its roots in Long Beach, with a hybrid sound born in the racially-mixed ghettos of Los Angeles. Their music crosses over and combines many styles and genres; funk, Latin music, R&B, rock and jazz. The band has always transcended racial and cultural boundaries with their musical melting pot and multi-ethnic line-up.They played all their million selling smash hits: Spill the Wine, Slippin into Darkness, The Cisco Kid, The World is a Ghetto, All Day Music, Me and Baby Brother, Why Cant We Be Friends and of course Lowrider, the universal anthem from which they take their name. These songs have provided an essential foundation for spreading their message of brotherhood and harmony, with the hip-hop generation building on samples of these songs to perpetuate the values of these brown-eyed soul pioneers.