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Fest Focus: SOB

May 1, 2000 by: Jonathan Tabak

SOB (Same Ole Band – original War members)

Music business is a funny thing. Sometimes you win every battle and still lose the war. Or worse, you form an enormously successful group and make lots of hit records, only to lose your band’s name, which in this case is “War.”

Sounds absurd, doesn’t it? But that’s the reality for drummer/vocalist Harold Brown, harmonica innovator Lee Oskar, guitarist/vocalist Howard Scott and bassist/vocalist B.B. Dickerson. They are...

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