Posted January 02, 2010 12:41PM by Robert Smith
Tagged: WHCN, Radio
AV Genres: Radio
I know I have a cleaner copy of this somewhere but till I find it, this is still one of the greatest things a classic rock fan could hope to hear. It's Lowell George's last radio interview, wonderfully done by Ed O'Connell on WHCN on June 22nd, 1979 before George did his show at the Hard Rock Cafe in West Hartford.
Just seven days later Lowell George was found dead of a heart attack in his hotel after a gig down in in D.C.. You *do* want to hear this one even with my first-found copy's slight phasiness. But don't tell any of the surviving members of Little Feat that it's here, they HATE what Lowell says about their parts of the Little Feat breakup... truth hurts, and this is a big Ouch for them.
Now, these days some folks might not recall right quickly why Lowell George was so important in that, like many other bands, Little Feat didn't always test very well so outside of pockets of smarter stations airplay wasn't great... but give this a listen and perhaps not just the Feat's popular tunage will strike a memory chord, but also you may get a kick out of the stories of the friendship between George and Jackson Browne (who cried at 'HCN when we gave his a dub of this years later). Then there's the off the wall details of his time with Zappa, and his weird way of mentioning his relation to the Standells (yeah, the "Dirty Water" Standells). Plus, some things that a lover of the Grateful Dead may find totally new, including his observations of the Dead's famous "security team" (of course he also has insights on the oddnesses of producing the Dead's 'disco album' Shakedown Street -and the Dead themselves - that I'd never ever heard articulated so well before this interview.).
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