Everybody knows how Little Feat, one of the biggest on the map of rock, got band's well known own name.
But this case still lives under the speculations.
Lowell George met Bill Payne when George was a member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. According to Wikipedia Payne had auditioned for the Mothers, but had not joined. They formed Little Feat along with former Mothers' bassist Roy Estrada and drummer Richie Hayward from George's previous band, The Factory.
There are three stories about the genesis of Little Feat:
1) One has it that George showed Zappa his song "Willin'," and that Zappa fired him from the Mothers of Invention, because he felt that George was too talented to merely be a member of his band, and told him he ought to go away and form his own band.
2) The second version has Zappa firing him for playing a 15-minute guitar solo with his amplifier off.
3) The third version says that Zappa fired him because "Willin'" contains drug references ("weed, whites and wine"). George often introduced the song as the reason he was asked to leave the band.
Tales about that can keep true, but 2) anyone, who have played so longplaysolos, knows it couldn't possible with amplifier off.
On October 18, 1975 at the Auditorium Theater in Rochester New York while introducing the song, George commented that he was asked to leave the band for "writing a song about dope".
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