Comments from Lanier: "It's just me, Billy Gibbons and Dan
Mitchell playing on both
sides of that record (SALT LICK/MILLER'S FARM)...we did it all at
Robinhood (Bryan's studio in Tyler)...I played bass on the B3 with my
foot (krumar pedal attachment) and left hand...(lower keyboard) and
upper keyboard organ with my right hand on the basic track...then Billy
overdubbed electric bass. I think we did it all in one night...then got
arrested on the way back to Houston in a dry county for possession of a
case of beer...lol!! Hamm was driving...they took us all to a
courthouse with a ceiling fan and a coondog in the corner with an
infected ear...when the judge came out wearing a sleeveless
undershirt...he said 'GET THE HELL OWTA MAH TOWN BOYS!!...now gowon fo
ah change ma mahn!'"
Shindig magazine interview with Billy
Gibbons, including his comments about Lanier Greig as an original
member of ZZ Top
Listen
to
several 1970's KLOL radio spots with Lanier Greig as various
characters!
Clip
1
- Montrose Lemus, Jr. (9:35)
Clip
2
- R.C. Banion / Montrose Lemus, Jr. (3:17)
Clip
3
- R.C. Banion / Angus McMurphy / Mogamba Mugumbe (4:35)
(Many thanks
to Joe Baiardi of THE FAB 5 for
sharing these - Joe digitized them from Lanier's original aircheck
tapes)
E-mails from Lanier:
Q: Hi Lanier!
A: Well ...yes, I know that I'm slow returning E-mails...and I
apologize.You see I have a totally dedicated "Music computer" (not on
line) and I have to send Emails on a teeny ..tiny...itty-bitty ..(it's
very small) cell phone.Anyway tell me wassup ("MODERN SLANG FOR WHAT'S
UP)..hOW CAN i HELP THE haNDICAPPEd (me 4 one).We need to all join
together (literally) and form one GIANT organism (no egos) and then
...take over the worl...uh..uh OK I'll get back to you on the second
part to the multi-part plan. P.S....PLEASE...please don't let my DR.see
this email .I would rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal
lobotomy..But seriously boys and girls... RECYCLE!!!
YES!...EVERYTHING!...now. Remember "Soylent Green"..."Soma"?? Well
that's where we're going. In fact...that's where we are! Help me
to help myself to help you to help others to "pay forward". As
John Lennon said: "I am you and you are me and we are all together"
(but ...who was the"Eggman"?? AND which came 1st the "Chickenman" or
the "Eggman".) I will end with a bit of trivia...how many grooves
are on a record?...1.write back while there's still gas in the
electrical generator ...otherwise i will be limited to Morse code or
"Dixie cups and a string") (Pss..I CAN be serious)...Later,
Lanier.
Q: Have you traced your family tree back to one of my favorite
composers - Edvard Grieg (Greig)?
A: YES!...that is as a matter of fact he is (Edvard..Edward in
English).Well now you've opened a can of worms!!...well in the since
that that is another one of those things in my "resume" that is a
"Yeah...Right...and I suppose you knew the Beachboys, Jimi Hendrix,
Sonny and Cher, The Animals, 3 Dog Night, Kenny Lee Lewis (guitar for
Steve Miller Band...MONSTER player), B.J. Thomas, Rascals, Edwin Starr,
Chubby Checker, 13 floor elevators, Billy Gibbons/ZZtop/Bill
Ham(stein), Frank Beard....ooops! sorry...it's adhd..ANYWAY...Alexander
GREIG (Scotland...Aberdeen/Banff) was a clipper ship designer (also a
musical family) who built specially ships to transport lobsters between
Norway and Scotland. He meets lovely Norwegian girl, falls in love/lust
gets married, becomes British "Consulate" to Norway has a son (Edvard)
who becomes the "Chopin of the North" (I hate that...it should be
Chopin was the "Grieg of the South"..ha!). Oh, yes the
spelling...GREIG...GRIEG...OK. In English..ei is "long ee"..in
Norwegian ie is "long ee". Sometime Edvard's manuscripts were
signed with Greig...sometimes Grieg. The Greig men were quite fond of
Norwegian women and there are graves in Scotland and Norway with both
spellings within one family plot....I bet you never ask me a question
again!..But feel free 2 anytime .Later, Lanier.
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