Little Feat "Self-Titiled" First Lp Original PROMO with Original Cover RAREMINT
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This is the First Little Feat Lp with the Rarer Cover which came out on the first 50,000 copies...after this first cover a series of other covers came out without the photo's of the band members on the back. Album is considered to be a Collectible and is very rare to find. A White Label PROMO version of this lp is even rarer with the rare promo strip on the front . Record appears to be unplayed and in Mint condition A Classic LP in very Nice shape. Buyer to pay $4.00 s/h Thanks for looking Lowell George met Bill Payne when George was a member of Frank Zappa'sMothers of Invention. Payne hadauditioned for the Mothers, but had not joined. They formed Little Feat along with former Mothers' bassist Roy Estrada anddrummer Richie Hayward from George's previous band, The Factory. Hayward had also been a member of the Fraternity of Man whose claim to fame was the inclusion of their "Don't Bogart Me" on the million-selling Easy Rider film soundtrack. The name of the band came from a comment made by Mothers' drummer Jimmy Carl Black about Lowell's "little feet". The spelling of "feat" was an homage to the Beatles.
There are three stories about the genesis of Little Feat. One has it that George showed 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 band. On October 18, 1975 at the Auditorium Theater in Rochester New York while introducing the song, George commented that he was asked to leave the band for "writing a song about dope".[3]ntroducing the song, George commented that he was asked to leave the band for "writing a song about dope".[3]
The band in 1975In any version, Zappa was instrumental in getting George and his new band a contract with Warner Bros. Records. The eponymous first album delivered to Warner Bros. was recorded mostly in August and September 1970, and was released in January 1971. When it came time to record "Willin'," George had hurt his hand in an accident with a model airplane, so Ry Cooder sat in and played the song's slide part.
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