Willin': The Story of Little Feat [Kindle Edition] Author: Ben Fong-Torres | Language: English | ISBN:
B00E257T4E | Format: PDF, EPUB
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The saga of the legendary Los Angeles band Little Feat is one of rock ’n’ roll’s great stories. Formed in 1969 by ex-members of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention, Little Feat created groove-heavy music that was an irresistible mix of rock, blues, R&B, country, jazz, soul, and funk.
Fronted by the charismatic but doomed vocalist and brilliant slide guitarist Lowell George, the band recorded such classic studio albums as Sailin’ Shoes and Dixie Chicken, as well as Waiting for Columbus, which many consider to be one of the best live albums of all time.
Acclaimed journalist Ben Fong-Torres—working with Little Feat’s surviving members, their friends, and associates—wrote Willin’ based on hours of brand new interviews with the key players. The result? The first definitive biography of this beloved rock ’n’ roll institution.
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- File Size: 1357 KB
- Print Length: 298 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0306821311
- Publisher: Da Capo Press (November 12, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00E257T4E
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #98,399 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I am a die-hard Little Feat fanatic, but was immensely disappointed with this book. Given Ben Fong-Torres' undoubted reputation as a legendary Rolling Stone journalist and the fact that he had access to the band and Lowell George's immediate family, it is amazing how little his book reveals in the way of insights or even new information.
He sketches over vital moments such as Little Feat's coming together and the recording of highlights such as 'Dixie Chicken' and instead seems to tell the story of this much-loved band through judicious use of already available sources. Passing and coy references to substance abuse won't suffice when drugs played a key part in the music and it's story.
Fong-Torres gives credit to at least two editors, so why are there whole blocks of writing that appear word for word twice within a few pages of each other.
I felt that this was altogether a slapdash and lightweight book - not entirely without merit, but the definitive story of Lowell George and Little Feat is definitely still waiting to be told.
By harpyface
Ben Fong Torres' book on LF is full of factual errors, laboured prose and inconsequential, lurid stories. Granted, they need to be told, but he tells them in a gossipy kind of way. Too much second- or third hand stories of their (particularly Lowell's) infidelities and general misbehaviours, too few, if any, attempts at looking at what made them tick musically.
If a regular music fan gets a John Lennon song title wrong, no matter, but when a journo makes it "Jealous Kind," and actually doesn't discover that while proof reading, then you know he's no proper music man. I had a few a laughs while reading it, but that was due to the subject matter, not the work of Mr Torres. Shameful
Two stars for uncovering a couple of autobiograpical facts on the guys, zero stars for Mr Torres.
By Eilert Ottem
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