Lowell George

[Rudi]

Lowell George died on June 29, 1979. He was the founder of Little Feat and had a distinctive slide style & sound.

On a snippet of an interview on the Hoy Hoy album, Lowell can be heard saying "I use specifically this, Craftsman 11/16th socket wrench, because you can go most anywhere...." (at this point the sound has faded out). He was refering to the slide he used.

I checked and it seems he used this: Sears & Roebuck 11/16ths spark-plug socket wrench

He also used an odd tuning (one of several probably) an open G tuning raised to A. In other words he raised the string tension rather than lowering them.

This is a good interview with LG http://www.lynx.bc.ca/~jc/lowell.html

I couldnt find a picture of the specific spark plug spanner (wrench) but this is likely similar

Sears.com site

Mostly he used a standard stratocaster. His was a bright guitar sound, with incredible sustain. A good example of this is to be heard on 'Tripe Face Boogie' on the 'Feats Dont Fail Me Now' album.

Edit: I fixed your link. It wasn't working because of the expired Session ID.

Didier