VIVA ZAPATA!
"I've never quit a band before and I want to do it right," said a breathless Corky Laing over the wire from his hotel room in Cleveland. He went on to spill his guts about his then-imminent departure from the Leslie West Band. "There's no hostility or anything.
VIVA ZAPATA! Corky's Seven Year Bitch
Susan Whit all
"I've never quit a band before and I want to do it right," said a breathless Corky Laing over the wire from his hotel room in Cleveland. He went on to spill his guts about his then-imminent departure from the Leslie West Band.
"There's no hostility or anything. The group is riding high and in the middle of a big promotion for the new album. I couldn't leave them at a down moment. So I'm finishing off the gigs Until they find a new drummer."
Corky explained that he was very unhappy with the management of the group; he feels that Leslie has been on the brink of superStardom for too long and something should be done about it. Musicians are lazy, he admitted, but not stupid as the business and management end of the record companies seemed to think. But he hastened to add that he wasn't tied in any way to the West management, so:
"I finally said, why am I busting my balls when it's Leslie's image, anyway."
Corky has been drumming with Leslie for seven years, from Mountain through West, Bruce and Laing to the