April 15, 2013

Lowell Geoge's birthday was April 13.  In his memory here is my weekly blog.

Lowell George and his band, Little Feat, played in Milwaukee at the Oriental Theater in 1977.  It was a great show.

The amazing fact I discovered in doing this blog is that Lowell George was a former member of the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa's band!!  There are several ideas of why Frank dismissed Lowell from the Mothers and I like the one that Frank said Lowell was to good for the band.  Frank then helped Lowell out in forming his own band.  The Mothers of Invention drummer, Jimmy Black, gave Lowell the name of his new band Little Feat because he supposedly has little feet!  The changing of feet to feat is in homage to the Beatles I read in an article.

I have seen people play slide guitar before but at this show, I was watching the master at work!  Lowell George was amazing on his slide guitar.  I recently heard that he taught Bonnie Rait how to play slide guitar.  She learned from a very good teacher.

These images, give us a look at the master at work with his friend, Paul Barrere.

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Enjoy, and have a great week.

Thanks,

Rich Zimmermann