Willin'/Lowell George/Zappa
Ted Alvy
some info on the demo of the song WILLIN' from the LOWELL GEORGE
interview by Andy Childs in "ZIGZAG The Rock Magazine" (March 1975, Issue
#50) [London, England] which is LINKED to My *COSMOS TOPPER Home Page*
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[Before the end of Lowell George's stay with The Mothers, the seeds that
were to eventually grow into LITTLE FEAT had already been sown. Lowell
had been writing songs throughout this period, and he recorded a demo of
one of them, "Willin'" which featured Ry Cooder on bottleneck guitar.]
LOWELL GEORGE: Russ Titelman was starting a publishing company and he
asked me if I wanted to co-publish the tune ("Willin'") with him and see
what he could do with it. So I recorded it and went on the road the same
day with The Mothers and was gone for about five weeks I guess. Then I
came back and nothing happened, but somehow a demo of the tape got out
and it was the rage of the Troubadour. People like Linda Ronstadt heard
it and The Sunshine Company. All these people heard the tune and cut it.
Then we did "Truck Stop Girl" at some sessions, and Clarence White
covered that, and I thought he did a fantastic job. And so from some of
those demos we got signed to Warner Brothers and went and did the first
album.
[Roy Estrada was the last to join after Zappa disbanded The Mothers with
a stunningly eloquent flourish in October 1969. Estrada had been with The
Mothers right from the beginning and previous to that had spent ten years
playing in various Los Angeles r'n'b bands.]
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