Lowell George - Revision history

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Quote by Zappa about Lowell George

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	[[Lowell George]] (April, 13th, 1945 - June, 29th, 1979) was an American rock singer and guitarist, best known as a member of Little Feat.		[[Lowell George]] (April, 13th, 1945 - June, 29th, 1979) was an American rock singer and guitarist, best known as a member of Little Feat.

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 [[Lowell George]] first encountered [[Biography|Frank Zappa]], as youngsters, when they appeared on the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV - [[Lowell George|George]] performing on harmonica in a duo with his brother and [[Biography|Zappa]] giving a puppet performance.  Neither won.
-In the mid 1960's [[Lowell George|George]] joined [[The Factory]] along with school friend [[Martin Kibbee]]. They made some [[Lightning-Rod Man|demos]] with [[Biography|Zappa]] but never achieved much successs. While the other members of [[The Factory]] evolved into [[Fraternity Of Man]] [[Lowell George|George]] joined [[The Standells]] as lead vocalist. [[The Standells]] had enjoyed some success during 1966 and 1967; appearing in, and providing the theme song for the film [[Riot On Sunset Strip]], but by now were waning and [[Lowell George|George]] only stayed with them for a couple of months.
+In the mid 1960's [[Lowell George|George]] joined [https://www.discogs.com/artist/1185480-The-Factory-7 The Factory] along with school friend [https://www.discogs.com/artist/861593-Martin-Kibbee Martin Kibbee]. They made some [[Lightning-Rod Man|demos]] with [[Biography|Zappa]] but never achieved much successs. While the other members of [https://www.discogs.com/artist/1185480-The-Factory-7 The Factory] evolved into [[Fraternity Of Man]]. [[Lowell George|George]] joined [[Wikipedia:The Standells|The Standells]] as lead vocalist. [[Wikipedia:The Standells|The Standells]] had enjoyed some success during 1966 and 1967; appearing in, and providing the theme song for the film [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0062203/ Riot on Sunset Strip], but by now were waning and [[Lowell George|George]] only stayed with them for a couple of months.
 He then joined up with [[Fraternity Of Man]], who now had [[Elliot Ingber]] on guitar, and contributed to their second album produced by [[Tom Wilson]].
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 From an interview in the March 1975 issue of Zigzag - [[Lowell George]]:<blockquote> ''"I got into [[The Mothers]] to replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]] - an impossible job, because no-one can replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]]. He's a singer par excellence and has a sense of humour that I couldn't hope to get near. He did amazing things, very very funny things. Well I wound up playing more guitar than singing. I was initially hired to be the singer because I guess Frank thought I could sing, but I really ended up playing more guitar than singing. We wound up doing a lot more instrumental stuff. I appeared on a couple of albums although I didn't get credited for the albums I appeared on, I got credited on other albums, because at that period everything was sort of in a state of flux that those moments were never chronicled. No-one ever scribed who did what and when. I sang on [[WPLJ]] [a song not (from 'Weasels') but on [[Burnt Weeny Sandwich]]], and I played on [[Hot Rats]], and I sang something else. I wasn't on [[Uncle Meat]] although my photograph was. Very strange things occurred at that period. I'm also on the [[The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention|12-album set]] that Frank planned to release. I think I have half a side. I do a border guard routine. I'm a [[German Lunch|German border guard]] interviewing people as they cross the border. And I think I play one long relatively lame guitar solo, almost half a side. One of these days Frank will put that thing out - the Xmas album – that was when it was supposed to be for awhile. But nobody will take it. Nobody wants a 12-album set. It'll probably cost 30 bucks or something, and not many people will want to spend 30 bucks on a 12-album set of the history of [[The Mothers|The Mothers Of Invention]]. What he might do is make it a limited edition."''</blockquote>
-After leaving [[The Mothers]] he formed [[Little Feat]] with [[Roy Estrada]]. [[Lowell George|George]] a fan of [[Neon Park]]'s work since ''[[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]]'' had him create the covers for [[Little Feat]]'s albums.
+After leaving [[The Mothers]] he formed [[Wikipedia:Little Feat|Little Feat]] with [[Roy Estrada]]. [[Lowell George|George]] a fan of [[Neon Park]]'s work since ''[[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]]'' had him create the covers for Little Feat's albums.
 ==Zappa about Lowell George==

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 ==Biography==
-[[Lowell George]] first encountered [[Biography|Frank Zappa]], as youngsters, when they appeared on the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV - [[Lowell George|George]] performing on harmonica in a duo with his brother and [[Frank Zappa|Zappa]] giving a puppet performance.  Neither won.
+[[Lowell George]] first encountered [[Biography|Frank Zappa]], as youngsters, when they appeared on the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV - [[Lowell George|George]] performing on harmonica in a duo with his brother and [[Biography|Zappa]] giving a puppet performance.  Neither won.
 In the mid 1960's [[Lowell George|George]] joined [[The Factory]] along with school friend [[Martin Kibbee]]. They made some [[Lightning-Rod Man|demos]] with [[Biography|Zappa]] but never achieved much successs. While the other members of [[The Factory]] evolved into [[Fraternity Of Man]] [[Lowell George|George]] joined [[The Standells]] as lead vocalist. [[The Standells]] had enjoyed some success during 1966 and 1967; appearing in, and providing the theme song for the film [[Riot On Sunset Strip]], but by now were waning and [[Lowell George|George]] only stayed with them for a couple of months.

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 ==Biography==
-[[Lowell George]] first encountered [[Frank Zappa]], as youngsters, when they appeared on the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV - [[Lowell George|George]] performing on harmonica in a duo with his brother and [[Frank Zappa|Zappa]] giving a puppet performance.  Neither won.
+[[Lowell George]] first encountered [[Biography|Frank Zappa]], as youngsters, when they appeared on the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV - [[Lowell George|George]] performing on harmonica in a duo with his brother and [[Frank Zappa|Zappa]] giving a puppet performance.  Neither won.
-In the mid 1960's [[Lowell George|George]] joined [[The Factory]] along with school friend [[Martin Kibbee]]. They made some [[Lightning-Rod Man|demos]] with [[Frank Zappa|Zappa]] but never achieved much successs. While the other members of [[The Factory]] evolved into [[Fraternity Of Man]] [[Lowell George|George]] joined [[The Standells]] as lead vocalist. [[The Standells]] had enjoyed some success during 1966 and 1967; appearing in, and providing the theme song for the film [[Riot On Sunset Strip]], but by now were waning and [[Lowell George|George]] only stayed with them for a couple of months.
+In the mid 1960's [[Lowell George|George]] joined [[The Factory]] along with school friend [[Martin Kibbee]]. They made some [[Lightning-Rod Man|demos]] with [[Biography|Zappa]] but never achieved much successs. While the other members of [[The Factory]] evolved into [[Fraternity Of Man]] [[Lowell George|George]] joined [[The Standells]] as lead vocalist. [[The Standells]] had enjoyed some success during 1966 and 1967; appearing in, and providing the theme song for the film [[Riot On Sunset Strip]], but by now were waning and [[Lowell George|George]] only stayed with them for a couple of months.
 He then joined up with [[Fraternity Of Man]], who now had [[Elliot Ingber]] on guitar, and contributed to their second album produced by [[Tom Wilson]].
-[[Lowell George|George]] was hired by [[Frank Zappa|Zappa]] to replace [[Ray Collins]].
+[[Lowell George|George]] was hired by [[Biography|Zappa]] to replace [[Ray Collins]].
 [[Lowell George]] provided guitar and/or vocal for:
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-From an interview in the March 1975 issue of Zigzag - [[Lowell George]]:<blockquote> ''"I got into [[The Mothers]] to replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]] - an impossible job, because no-one can replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]]. He's a singer par excellence and has a sense of humour that I couldn't hope to get near. He did amazing things, very very funny things. Well I wound up playing more guitar than singing. I was initially hired to be the singer because I guess Frank thought I could sing, but I really ended up playing more guitar than singing. We wound up doing a lot more instrumental stuff. I appeared on a couple of albums although I didn't get credited for the albums I appeared on, I got credited on other albums, because at that period everything was sort of in a state of flux that those moments were never chronicled. No-one ever scribed who did what and when. I sang on [[WPLJ]] [a song not (from 'Weasels') but on [[Burnt Weeny Sandwich]]], and I played on [[Hot Rats]], and I sang something else. I wasn't on [[Uncle Meat]] although my photograph was. Very strange things occurred at that period. I'm also on the [[The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention|12-album set]] that Frank planned to release. I think I have half a side. I do a border guard routine. I'm a [[German Lunch|German border guard]] interviewing people as they cross the border. And I think I play one long relatively lame guitar solo, almost half a side. One of these days Frank will put that thing out - the Xmas album – that was when it was supposed to be for awhile. But nobody will take it. Nobody wants a 12-album set. It'll probably cost 30 bucks or something, and not many people will want to spend 30 bucks on a 12-album set of the history of [[The Mothers Of Invention]]. What he might do is make it a limited edition."''</blockquote>
+From an interview in the March 1975 issue of Zigzag - [[Lowell George]]:<blockquote> ''"I got into [[The Mothers]] to replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]] - an impossible job, because no-one can replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]]. He's a singer par excellence and has a sense of humour that I couldn't hope to get near. He did amazing things, very very funny things. Well I wound up playing more guitar than singing. I was initially hired to be the singer because I guess Frank thought I could sing, but I really ended up playing more guitar than singing. We wound up doing a lot more instrumental stuff. I appeared on a couple of albums although I didn't get credited for the albums I appeared on, I got credited on other albums, because at that period everything was sort of in a state of flux that those moments were never chronicled. No-one ever scribed who did what and when. I sang on [[WPLJ]] [a song not (from 'Weasels') but on [[Burnt Weeny Sandwich]]], and I played on [[Hot Rats]], and I sang something else. I wasn't on [[Uncle Meat]] although my photograph was. Very strange things occurred at that period. I'm also on the [[The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention|12-album set]] that Frank planned to release. I think I have half a side. I do a border guard routine. I'm a [[German Lunch|German border guard]] interviewing people as they cross the border. And I think I play one long relatively lame guitar solo, almost half a side. One of these days Frank will put that thing out - the Xmas album – that was when it was supposed to be for awhile. But nobody will take it. Nobody wants a 12-album set. It'll probably cost 30 bucks or something, and not many people will want to spend 30 bucks on a 12-album set of the history of [[The Mothers|The Mothers Of Invention]]. What he might do is make it a limited edition."''</blockquote>
 After leaving [[The Mothers]] he formed [[Little Feat]] with [[Roy Estrada]]. [[Lowell George|George]] a fan of [[Neon Park]]'s work since ''[[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]]'' had him create the covers for [[Little Feat]]'s albums.
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 * [[Wikipedia:Lowell George]]
-[[Category:Bandmembers|George, Lowell]]
+[[Category:Bandmembers|George]]
-[[Category:Rock Artists|George, Lowell]]
+[[Category:Rock Artists|George]]
-[[Category:Singers|George, Lowell]]
+[[Category:Singers|George]]
-[[Category:Harmonica players|George, Lowell]]
+[[Category:Harmonica players|George]]
-[[Category:Guitarists|George, Lowell]]
+[[Category:Guitarists|George]]

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 After leaving [[The Mothers]] he formed [[Little Feat]] with [[Roy Estrada]]. [[Lowell George|George]] a fan of [[Neon Park]]'s work since ''[[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]]'' had him create the covers for [[Little Feat]]'s albums.
-==Quote by Zappa about Lowell George==
+==Zappa about Lowell George==
 ''"There's another guy who shouldn't use drugs."'' - Zappa in [[The Frank Zappa Interview Picture Disk, pt.2]].
 ==See also==

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-(April, 13th, 1945 - June, 29th, 1979)
+[[Lowell George]] (April, 13th, 1945 - June, 29th, 1979) was an American rock singer and guitarist, best known as a member of Little Feat.
 [[Lowell George]] first encountered [[Frank Zappa]], as youngsters, when they appeared on the Al Jarvis Talent Show on KLAC-TV - [[Lowell George|George]] performing on harmonica in a duo with his brother and [[Frank Zappa|Zappa]] giving a puppet performance.  Neither won.
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-From an interview in the March 1975 issue of Zigzag - [[Lowell George]]:<blockquote>I got into [[The Mothers]] to replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]] - an impossible job, because no-one can replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]]. He's a singer par excellence and has a sense of humour that I couldn't hope to get near. He did amazing things, very very funny things. Well I wound up playing more guitar than singing. I was initially hired to be the singer because I guess Frank thought I could sing, but I really ended up playing more guitar than singing. We wound up doing a lot more instrumental stuff. I appeared on a couple of albums although I didn't get credited for the albums I appeared on, I got credited on other albums, because at that period everything was sort of in a state of flux that those moments were never chronicled. No-one ever scribed who did what and when. I sang on [[WPLJ]] [a song not (from 'Weasels') but on [[Burnt Weeny Sandwich]]], and I played on [[Hot Rats]], and I sang something else. I wasn't on [[Uncle Meat]] although my photograph was. Very strange things occurred at that period. I'm also on the [[The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention|12-album set]] that Frank planned to release. I think I have half a side. I do a border guard routine. I'm a [[German Lunch|German border guard]] interviewing people as they cross the border. And I think I play one long relatively lame guitar solo, almost half a side. One of these days Frank will put that thing out - the Xmas album – that was when it was supposed to be for awhile. But nobody will take it. Nobody wants a 12-album set. It'll probably cost 30 bucks or something, and not many people will want to spend 30 bucks on a 12-album set of the history of [[The Mothers Of Invention]]. What he might do is make it a limited edition.</blockquote>
+From an interview in the March 1975 issue of Zigzag - [[Lowell George]]:<blockquote>"I got into [[The Mothers]] to replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]] - an impossible job, because no-one can replace [[Ray Collins|Ray]]. He's a singer par excellence and has a sense of humour that I couldn't hope to get near. He did amazing things, very very funny things. Well I wound up playing more guitar than singing. I was initially hired to be the singer because I guess Frank thought I could sing, but I really ended up playing more guitar than singing. We wound up doing a lot more instrumental stuff. I appeared on a couple of albums although I didn't get credited for the albums I appeared on, I got credited on other albums, because at that period everything was sort of in a state of flux that those moments were never chronicled. No-one ever scribed who did what and when. I sang on [[WPLJ]] [a song not (from 'Weasels') but on [[Burnt Weeny Sandwich]]], and I played on [[Hot Rats]], and I sang something else. I wasn't on [[Uncle Meat]] although my photograph was. Very strange things occurred at that period. I'm also on the [[The History And Collected Improvisations Of The Mothers Of Invention|12-album set]] that Frank planned to release. I think I have half a side. I do a border guard routine. I'm a [[German Lunch|German border guard]] interviewing people as they cross the border. And I think I play one long relatively lame guitar solo, almost half a side. One of these days Frank will put that thing out - the Xmas album – that was when it was supposed to be for awhile. But nobody will take it. Nobody wants a 12-album set. It'll probably cost 30 bucks or something, and not many people will want to spend 30 bucks on a 12-album set of the history of [[The Mothers Of Invention]]. What he might do is make it a limited edition."</blockquote>
 After leaving [[The Mothers]] he formed [[Little Feat]] with [[Roy Estrada]]. [[Lowell George|George]] a fan of [[Neon Park]]'s work since [[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]] had him create the covers for [[Little Feat]]'s albums.
+==See also==
 [[Category:Bandmembers|George, Lowell]]
 [[Category:Musicians|George, Lowell]]