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Lowell Thomas George:(April 13, 1945 - June 29, 1979)
This is a tribute page to the late, great Lowell George. He was born on April 13, 1945 and, sadly, passed away on June 29,1979. Guitarist and lead singer with Little Feat, he also could play harmonica, flute, saxophone, and sitar. He is best known and remembered, however, for his outstanding ability on the slide guitar. Although he experimented earlier with playing slide, an injury to his hand involving a model airplane propeller (see Neon Park's cover for Little Feat's "Under the Radar") during the recording of Little Feat's first album prompted him to pursue the style. Instead of the traditional glass or steel slide, Lowell used a Sears & Roebuck 11/16ths spark-plug socket wrench. Lowell's first band, The Factory, formed in 1965. Members included future Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward and Martin Kibbee (a.k.a. Fred Martin) who later co-wrote several Little Feat songs, including "Dixie Chicken" and "Rock & Roll Doctor". Frank Zappa produced two tracks for The Factory. After The Factory, Lowell was briefly a member of The Standells and later Zappa's band, the Mothers of Invention. Lowell and Little Feat enjoyed popularity throughout the 1970's, releasing a series of highly regarded studio albums: "Little Feat", "Sailin' Shoes", "Dixie Chicken", "Feats Don't Fail Me Now", "The Last Record Album", and "Time Loves a Hero". The group's 1978 live album "Waiting For Columbus", hailed by some as one of the greatest live recordings ever in rock music, became their best-selling release. 1979 saw the release of a solo album, "Thanks I'll Eat It Here". Lowell played his last show on June 28, 1979 at the Lisner Auditorium in Washington D.C. After falling ill in his room, he died on June 29, 1979. An autopsy revealed the cause of death to be a massive heart attack. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean from his fishing boat. Jackson Browne memorialized Lowell in the song "Of Missing Persons", written about Lowell and addressed to his daughter, Inara George.
This is a tribute page to the late, great Lowell George. He was born on April 13, 1945 and, sadly, passed away on June 29,1979. Guitarist and lead singer with Little Feat, he also could play harmonica, flute, saxophone, and sitar. He is best known and remembered, however, for his outstanding ability on the slide guitar. Although he experimented earlier with playing slide, an injury to his hand involving a model airplane propeller (see Neon Park's cover for Little Feat's "Under the Radar") during the recording of Little Feat's first album prompted him to pursue the style. Instead of the traditional glass or steel slide, Lowell used a Sears & Roebuck 11/16ths spark-plug socket wrench. Lowell's first band, The Factory, formed in 1965. Members included future Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward and Martin Kibbee (a.k.a. Fred Martin) who later co-wrote several Little Feat songs, including "Dixie Chicken" and "Rock & Roll Doctor". Frank Zappa produced two tracks for The Factory. After The Factory, Lowell was briefly a member of The Standells and later Zappa's band, the Mothers of Invention. Lowell and Little Feat enjoyed popularity throughout the 1970's, releasing a series of highly regarded studio albums: "Little Feat", "Sailin' Shoes", "Dixie Chicken", "Feats Don't Fail Me Now", "The Last Record Album", and "Time Loves a Hero". The group's 1978 live album "Waiting For Columbus", hailed by some as one of the greatest live recordings ever in rock music, became their best-selling release. 1979 saw the release of a solo album, "Thanks I'll Eat It Here". Lowell played his last show on June 28, 1979 at the Lisner Auditorium in Washington D.C. After falling ill in his room, he died on June 29, 1979. An autopsy revealed the cause of death to be a massive heart attack. His body was cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Pacific Ocean from his fishing boat. Jackson Browne memorialized Lowell in the song "Of Missing Persons", written about Lowell and addressed to his daughter, Inara George.
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"I wrote this tune (All That You Dream) during one of our many breakups...I played it for Lowell and he barely listened to it the first time through. Had it not been for George Massenburg humming the hook a thousand millions times over the year, Lowell probably would still never have heard that tune, but when he finally did hear it, he liked it a lot."
-- Paul Barrere
"Lowell was determined to make "Rock and Roll Doctor" musically complicated, which made it a quite difficult process. Most songs are written in a quite straightforward formula, you know -- A, B, C, section, chorus, bridge. But Lowell used to talk in terms of the "cracked mosaic"...and I think that song is a prime example of intentional irregularity."
-- Fred Martin, co-author of "Rock and Roll Doctor"
"China White has been around for a very long time--certainly since the early '70s, possibly even earlier...there are certain tunes that Lowell wrote but that he never felt could be rendered properly with the band. This one he attempted to do on his own, yet still didn't release it himself (on Thanks I'll Eat It Here). I think it was probably rather easy for him to write, if you know what I mean."
-- Elizabeth George
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Hi, thanks for the add!
"Music is life".
Rock on!
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R.i.p Richie and thanks so much for the music.we miss ye bro.
Dear Lowell,
on August 12 was a heavenly jammin amazing time.We all miss you and Richie, One day we will all jam together at the BIG show in the sky, till then Missin you........tell ya true it hurts the way were missin you two!!
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Hoy Lowell...I discovered you early on from the foothills of the San Bernardino Mts. in Waterman Canyon early in the am hours via KLOS FM...I spent most of the next day in Los Angeles music stores searching for a band Strawberry Flats and a song called Little Feat!.. we were pretty much incoherant from the smokeout and I was pretty much the only one still able to stay awake enough and hear your work... when I finally came upon a savy independant record store distributor he informed me that the band was "Little Feat" and the song was Strawberry Flats....btw still one of my very favorites from my very favorite bands from that period...period. I learned "Will'in on my own and when I did it better than my instructor on my first and only guitar lesson, I decided then that I would not need any more help. I finally perfomed that song a couple of weeks ago for the first and most likely only time at Roosters Blues Festval here in Eugene, Oregon....and anounced that I did it for Richie Hayward
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Guys! Coming to see you in August in London!
All the best! Keep it alive!