posted 01-25-2006 12:56 PM         

"TV dinner by the pool, I'm so glad I finished school...baby baby baby!"

posted 01-25-2006 03:29 PM         

they all worked at Joes Garage ???

none of them wore brown shoes, cause brown shoes don't make it ???

posted 01-25-2006 03:52 PM         

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Originally posted by prowlrman:
All 3 bands recorded "Dirty Water"??????

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posted 01-25-2006 05:14 PM         

all three groups appeared on the Munsters ???(Standells did)

Lowell George ???

posted 01-25-2006 06:44 PM         

Lowell George played with each of these bands at one time.

Lowell George (April 13, 1945 - June 29, 1979) was an American musician, singer and guitarist, with the rock group Little Feat and as a solo artist.

He is best known and remembered for his outstanding ability on the slide guitar. Although he experimented earlier with playing with a slide, an injury to his hand involving a model aeroplane propeller (see Neon Park's cover for Little Feat's Under the Radar) during the recording of Little Feat's first album prompted him to pursue the style. Rather than the traditional glass or steel slide, George employed a Sears & Roebuck 11/16ths spark-plug socket wrench.

George's first band, The Factory, formed in 1965. Members included future Little Feat drummer Richie Hayward, and Martin Kibbee (a.k.a. Fred Martin) who would later co-write several Little Feat standards, including "Dixie Chicken" and "Rock & Roll Doctor". Frank Zappa produced two tracks for The Factory.

Following the demise of The Factory, George briefly joined established hit band The Standells, although by this time (1968) they were past their prime, and soon to split. There followed a few months in late 1968 / early 1969 where George was a member of Zappa's band, the Mothers of Invention. According to George's recollection, he was kicked out of Zappa's group after proposing the song "Willin'," ostensibly because it was about drugs. (The song about a truck driver contains references to drug and alcohol use.) "Willin'" and "Dixie Chicken" are his most well known and frequently recorded songs.

posted 01-25-2006 07:02 PM         

...I must admit I had to do some research on this one....I know nothing about Little Feat(can't tell you one song they ever did)....I was looking for a common thread and still barely found it with all the help the internet had to offer...I have seen the Standells on the Munsters several times in the last few months...and Frank Zappa was one of my favorites in the early seventies....one of my best buddies in the USAF and I called every hot chic we saw "Suzy Creamcheese"......RIP Frank

good question, 3 very different groups from different eras...sorry I had to resort to digging up clues...

posted 01-26-2006 08:42 AM         

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Originally posted by Bob Miller:
At one point I owned every LP Frank Zappa and the Mothers did. I especially liked Freak Out and Ruben and the Jet.

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And at that time of our lives nobody new or cared what the rest of the world was foing.