Summary of Ben Fong-Torres's Willin'

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#1 Lowell George, the leader of Little Feat, was interviewed on the radio station WHCN in Hartford, Connecticut. He was promoting a local club gig, which in turn would promote his solo album. He spoke about the pressures of meeting his record company’s demand for Little Feat product, and how he’d never been able to prepare himself for it.

#2 George died in his hotel room in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. He was thirty-four. The initial cause of death was heart failure. But few believed it was that simple. After all, the guy was thirty-four.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822537125

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 14

Insights from Chapter 15

Insights from Chapter 16

Insights from Chapter 17

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Lowell George, the leader of Little Feat, was interviewed on the radio station WHCN in Hartford, Connecticut. He was promoting a local club gig, which in turn would promote his solo album. He spoke about the pressures of meeting his record company’s demand for Little Feat product, and how he’d never been able to prepare himself for it.

#2

George died in his hotel room in Arlington, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, DC. He was thirty-four. The initial cause of death was heart failure. But few believed it was that simple. After all, the guy was thirty-four.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

Laurel Canyon was the seat of the beat in Los Angeles in the mid-1960s. It was there that seemingly an entire generation of hipsters lived, worked, and played music.

#2

The world into which Lowell George was born was the land of making people believe, and his family was in the middle of it. His father, Willard Hampton George, was widely known in the movie industry as the furrier to the stars.

#3

Hampton and his brother, Lowell, had many pranks and hobbies together. They would often scare strangers on the street, but they also had ordinary interests like studying World War II aircraft and building model and remote-controlled airplanes.

#4

George was extremely intelligent, and it wasn’t just his brother saying so. His first wife, Patte Stahlbaum, said that George favored