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Jerry Goldstein's speech at the unveiling of War's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
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Film producer and singer-songwriter Jerry Goldstein's speech at the unveiling of War's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Thursday, June 5, 2025, at 6212 Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles, California, USA.
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Our first speaker is a co-writer, producer, co-manager, and one of the
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creative forces behind WAR. Please welcome, Jerry Goldstein!
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So, so Lonnie Jordan and I have been doing many, many, many, many, many
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just newspaper, magazine interviews, TV interviews, and the one question that
00:38
everybody asks is, how'd this all happen? You know, how did WAR become WAR? So that's
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what I'll do today. I'll tell everybody how this happened, okay? In 1969, back a few
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years, we had a poster company, a very successful poster company, a guy named
00:57
Steve Gold, and myself, and we represented Jimi Hendrix, and the Rolling Stones, and
01:04
Led Zeppelin, and the Doors, and the Cream, and 50X, and we decided that we should sell
01:10
the posters on the road. You know, we'll go out on the road, we'll sell the posters,
01:15
we made little tour books, we sold those also. We basically put together the modern
01:20
merchandising business that exists today, with the t-shirts, etc., and the hats. One
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of our poster salesmen was a guy named Peter Rosen, who kept saying, you got to hear my
01:31
band, you got to hear my band, I'm really a bass player, we have this band, The Night
01:35
Shift, and they're really fantastic, you got to hear my band, I mean, a hundred times a
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day. So finally, I said, okay, I'll hear your band. So I booked Studio Instrument Reynolds,
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which is down the street on Santa Monica Boulevard in Argyle, and they showed up, I showed up,
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they played their music, it was way different than anything I'd ever heard. They could play
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rock, they could play funk, they could play jazz, they could play blues, they could play
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Latin, and they were in every genre, and it really threw me back, because I just really
02:09
didn't know what to do with a group that could do all of that. And then they played the Rolling
02:15
Stones Painted Black, they did a Latin version, that was just like, stunned me, okay? And I went,
02:22
you know what, you guys keep rehearsing here, I'll come out every once in a while, we'll
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write some songs together, come up with something, let's, I don't know what to do yet, but we'll
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do something. And so they told me that they were playing behind this football player named
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Deacon Jones, this great Rams, you know, superstar, Hall of Famer, right? And he was doing a Las Vegas
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show, and they were the backup group, and they were going to play the rag doll in North Hollywood
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in about a week. And I said, yeah, I'll go out and check it out. As fate would have it,
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Eric Burden from the Animals shows up at one of my acts on the poster world, shows up very despondent
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in my office going, my current group of animals just broke up, my manager took all the money,
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I'm going back to New Castle, and I'm retiring from the business, I can't do this anymore. So it took me
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about two hours to get them off the floor, and we convince them that, look, just that's, you know,
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you're too talented for that. And by the way, I found this band that I don't know what to do with,
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but maybe you'd like them. And they're playing the rag doll tonight. So why don't you come down?
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Okay, so we meet at the rag doll. And Lee Oscar is living with Eric at the time, I think, right?
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And so Lee shows up with Eric. And there's Deacon Jones doing his show. He's doing like one handed
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pushups with the mic in the other hand going, Oh baby, don't leave me. You know what I mean?
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And it was quite interesting and quite different. And I went, Oh, okay. And, but after he did his
04:00
thing, the band jammed that night for about an hour and Lee got up and jammed with the band. But of
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course the band thought that Lee was Eric Burden cause they had no clue who Eric Burden was. Okay.
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But everybody had a good time and I called Eric the next day and he said, and I said, so what'd you
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think of the band? So Eric goes, we're rehearsing at three o'clock at SIR. I went, Oh, that's a good sign.
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And so we got to SIR and there were four, there were five horn players. He fired four of the five horn
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players right away. And he kept Charles Miller and put Lee Oscar together with Charles Miller.
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And that was the horn section. I went, that's interesting. I'd never seen that before,
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but we'll see what happens. So they rehearsed for about a month. We did a couple of local dress
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rehearsal gigs and clubs. And the first real gig that we played was the Devons Downs Pop Festival,
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three day festival, a hundred thousand people, um, starring Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Frank Zappa.
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And we played and followed Creedence Clearwater revival, which was huge at the time. And this
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is their first gig in front of a hundred thousand people and didn't play one animal song, a new
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repertoire of rock jazz and blues and tore it up. Everybody loved it. We couldn't believe it.
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Everybody was happy. So we figured this is going to happen. So Eric and I, and my then partner,
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Steve Gold met in the office a few days later when we formed this company called Far Out,
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which is pretty far out and still here. And we figured that we got to give this group a name
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because the night shift just doesn't work for us. And so we mulled it over. And it's like,
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if you remember 69 was like peace and love and the Vietnam war was happening or whatever.
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So we decided to call these guys war. Okay. Figuring it would create a reaction and nobody would ever
05:57
forget the name. Okay. And in reality, here we are 55 years later, and it seems like nobody forgot the name, huh?
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So I would like to thank the original members, the current members, which Monty will introduce you to.
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Um, our families, our friends, all of the musicians that have played in war over the years. And there's
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been many, many musicians that have come in and played with us. The lowrider clubs, our fans,
06:41
and most of all, the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce for giving us this fantastic honor of the star
06:53
on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Thank you.
07:06
So thank you.
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