| Little Feat | |
| Date: 11/01/1968 (November 1, 1968) | Location: Lowell was with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention |
| Setlist: Lowell was with Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention November 1968 - May 1969 In November 1968, George joined Zappa`s Mothers of Invention as rhythm guitarist and nominal lead vocalist; he can be heard on both Weasels Ripped My Flesh and the first disc of You Can`t Do That on Stage Anymore, Vol. 5. During this period, he absorbed Zappa`s autocratic leadership style and avant garde-influenced conceptual/procedural- oriented compositional methods. He earned his first production credit (in conjunction with Zappa and Russ Titelman) on Permanent Damage, an album recorded by "groupie group" The GTOs. George later asserted that "he performed no real function in the band" and left the group in May 1969 under nebulous circumstances. GTOs member Pamela Des Barres has claimed that George was fired by the abstemious Zappa for smoking marijuana, while he claimed at a 1975 Little Feat concert that he was fired because he "wrote a song ["Willin`"] about dope."[3] On the other hand, biographer Mark Brend asserts that Zappa "liked the song" but "thought there was no place for it in the Mothers` set"; George himself alternatively claimed that "it was decided that I should leave and form a band" by mutual agreement. | |
| Comments: Lowell George was in Frank Zappa`s band from November 1968 to August 1969 - this
needs to be verified | |
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