On
Saturday, May 24th, 2003, from 5pm-7pm at Borders Book Store
located at 1360 Westwood Bl. in Westwood, CA.
Candy Zappa will
read from and sign her new book and event host Jim Cohen, will give readings
from Nigey Lennon’s revised book, “Being Frank: My Time With Frank Zappa”.
There will also be music featuring the “Once A Legacy” group.
The group consists of Leslie Baker on bass, Bill Fulton on keys, Marc Van
Aken on drums, Patrick DeHart on sax. We
are both pleased and privileged to have the excellent Ms. Baker and Mr. Fulton
with us again, as they have been for our two other shows, and welcome Mr. Van
Aken to our group. We are also very
honored to have Ike Willis with us. Ike’s amazing guitar playing talent and vocal gifts were
recognized by Frank Zappa, when Ike was twenty-one and was hired in 1978,
staying for ten wonderful, story filled years. The two leading members and
founders of “Once A Legacy” are Candy Zappa and Nolan Porter, on vocals.
Nolan Porter
recorded two albums in the early seventies, “NOLAN” and on “Nolan, No
Apologies” with three of the early Mothers of Invention: Jimmy Carl Black, Roy
Estrada and Lowell George. Nolan’s
music is being played in England and is a favorite in several dance clubs. His
rocking “If I Could Only Be Sure” is on a compilation CD, sporting
his young face on the cover, with other early soul hits from other R&B
groups of that time. His early
singing style was hard to peg because Nolan sounded more classical, but he
adapted to the rock sound easily. His
mellow soulful sound is a favorite with his audiences.