• Finally, did you or Tim ever meet Frank Zappa, when Tim's records were being
released by his imprint? What was Zappa like during the period and what did he think of
your work?
• Tim knew Zappa from the beginning, as Frank and Tim were both managed by
Herb Cohen. We were on the same bill with Zappa in New York in 1966, and performed
several other concerts with Frank along the way.
• Frank didn't think much of Tim's folk music efforts early on, because Frank was
an extremely sophisticated composer, rooted in complex modern classical music. But he
ultimately came to respect Tim when Tim recorded the avant-garde music on Starsailor.
After performing and recording with Tim, Lee Underwood became a well-known
music journalist. He wrote for dozens of publications throughout the 70s and 80s,
including Down Beat (West Coast Editor), Rolling Stone, L.A. Times, Soul, and L.A. Weekly.
He co-authored Inside Paul Horn with Horn in 1990 and published Blue Melody: Tim
Buckley Remembered in 2002/03 (honoured by Uncut music magazine as one of the ten
best music books of 2003).
Underwood's web site features several of his published poems, many of his
photographs, and numerous essays. Blue Melody is available at Amazon.com.
Autographed copies can be ordered by contacting the author directly through his site at
http://www.leeunderwood.net .