Monday, June 15, 2009

Tucson to Tucumcari, Tehachapi to Tonapah



Little Feat - Willin' [buy]

Something funny about this brilliant song, from Wikipedia:
There are three legends about the genesis of Little Feat. One has it that Lowell George showed Frank Zappa his song "Willin' ", and that Zappa fired him from The Mothers of Invention, because he felt that George was too talented to merely be a member of his band, and told him he ought to go away and form his own band. The second version has Zappa firing him for playing a 15 minute guitar solo - with his amplifier off. The third version says that Zappa fired him because "Willin' " contains drug references ("weed, whites and wine") - George often introduced the song as the reason he was asked to leave the Mothers.
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