![]() A founding member with Hayward of the pre-Feats group The Factory (an offshoot of George’s brief stint in Frank Zappa & The Mothers Of Invention), Payne has dealt with the painful issues of what he calls “the elephant in the room”.ĭuring their initial eight-year career, Payne and George were frequently at loggerheads. Speaking from his home in Montana, keyboard player Bill Payne sounds like a man who has had time to ruminate on both sides of the story. Since the recordings feature guest friends as vocalists – Dave Matthews, the Black Crowes’ Chris Robinson, country smoothies Brooks and Dunn, Vince Gill and George’s daughter Inara (who he can barely have known), old ghosts have been awoken with New York Times acerbic rock critic Jon Pareles questioning the validity of the project. In 2008, their new album, Join The Band, majors in classic Lowell songs like Sailin’ Shoes, Willin’, Dixie Chicken and the autobiographical Fat Man In The Bathtub. ![]() He succumbed to a massive heart attack in 1979 at the Twin Bridges Marriott Hotel in Arlington, Virginia, after a final show playing material from his highly regarded solo album Thanks I’ll Eat It Here. “That’s how this group operates.”įast forward to 2008, 30 years later, and Lowell George has been dead for most of them. “Anyhow, they’ll probably sack me when I get home,” he mutters darkly. Happens all the time.” He releases my neck and is suddenly calm. Yeah, we’ve sacked him and yeah, he’s come back. “This ain’t just Lowell’s group and we ain’t his backing band. “How many more times do I have to say…” he splutters. A man with an infamously short fuse and a propensity for mood-swinging, Hayward leans across the desk and grabs me by the throat. Increasingly exasperated by my line of questioning regarding George’s status, Hayward eventually snaps. Once again diehard followers have demurred, citing the superiority of certain bootleg discs – Electrif Lycanthrope, Rampant Syncopation, and If You Got It A Truck Brought It. ![]() ![]() By now Little Feat are set to release their double live album Waiting For Columbus. Lowell George and Little Feat, circa 1975 in Los Angeles (Image credit: Ginny Winn/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)Īlmost eight months later I meet Hayward in the same place, and we conduct a fraught interview sitting on either side of a disused recording console in the basement. ![]()
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