george

Watched music videos of artists I never saw as young people which led to viewing Lowell George who I never got into, which led to discovering he played on Harry Nilsson’s Son of Schmilsson and then finding his daughter, Inara George’s music. Never heard of her but now I feel like we’re fiends. My old cat was also a George, as in Madame George. About a thousand people met that cat, but hardly anyone ever asked “like the Van Morrision song?”. She was named by Sam Larkin while I was recording him in my old house (which coincidentally I bought from him). The recording equipment was on the top floor and the recording space below. Had to yell through the floor to command start! stop! The cat was then a no-name kitten. Sam yelled what’s the cat’s name? I yelled through the floor “no name yet” which he heard as “Madame George” and it stuck. George, (favourite Beatle of the mystics), wrote at least two songs which I thought should be massive but never were. The first was Wah Wah. The musical hook is what impresses me there, strong as Satisfaction or Day Tripper. The other is That Is All, especially the Harry Nilsson version, the one without Lowell George.

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