Little Feat - S&D, C/D

http://www.littlefeat.net/news.html?n_id=3174

Will these be actual remasters?

I have no idea. Only Waiting for Columbus has been remastered, right? The current discs aren't horrible, but I hope they take this chance to give them the once-over.

cool, there are some of those i haven't heard.
been meaning to get the similarly styled Ry Cooder box set too.

just got this a couple days ago, excited to jump into it:
http://www.amazon.com/Willin-Story-Little-Ben-Fong-Torres/dp/0306821311/

I had no idea that existed. Let us know if it's good.

Decent book. More of a Lowell George bio.

anyone buy the box? Wondering about remastering and can't find squat online.

^^Was wondering about this myself.

I streamed some of it on Rdio and it sounds better than my old cd rips, but I don't know what "loudness" button they insert in their audio chain.

yeah i dunno. may pick it up just because i don't have most of the albums on CD.

book was flawed but a great read. didn't feel it was anymore about Lowell George rather than the band than it inherently had to be to work.

From Stephen Erlewine on twitter: They seem to be remastered but I’m thinking it was done around the time of the Hotcakes box; individual CDs never were issued.

Guess I'm buying it.

Nice interview with Bill Payne on the Rhino site:

http://www.rhino.com/article/talkin-with-bill-payne-of-little-feat?eml=rn/030614/feat4

These are definitely remastered. They sound good on cd for the first time ever.

Got the (great-sounding) box last week. Been working through it--Let It Roll (the album) isn't very good, is it? Too much Craig Fuller.

i heard it a lot growing up and have a soft spot for "One Clear Moment" and "Listen To Your Heart." Representing The Mambo is the better of of the 2 big comeback albums, though.

one clear moment is nice.

i've been listening to a harry hosono box set a lot recently and I swear there are what sound exactly like hosono/little feat collaborations on there but the liner notes are in japanese.

i don't think LF made a record--at least not in the lowell george period--that didn't have at least one classic track.

how come nobody ever told me that Robert Palmer's first 4 albums are full of Little Feat covers and backing from members of LF? the "Sailing Shoes / Hey Julia / Sneakin' Sally Through the Alley" medley is incredible

certainly one of my favorite 10 minute stretches of music of all time

for the curious, here 'tis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNw8U4aCgjE

that 1974 live Ultrasound Studio set aka "Electrif Lycanthrope" mentioned under the fold is so damn good

one of the interesting things i learned in the recent LF bio is that Robert Palmer and Bonnie Raitt were among the singers they considered to front the new lineup. nothing against Craig Fuller, though, he was good, and apparently crossed paths with Lowell and the band a bit back in the '70s.

just about everything concert they broadcast out of ultrasonic was great. worth searching. wlir was one heck of a radio station.

"every concert"

woke up from an inadvertent nap with "spanish moon" at full blast and it sounded like the best thing in the world!

need to buy that box.

that song would make a great drop in a DJ set btw

the recent Live In Holland 1976 record is pretty enjoyable

I need to pick that up.

Out of curiosity, were the chorus bits about "Whiskey & Bad Cocaine" in "Spanish Moon" added especially for the Robert Palmer version, or were they always there, but just censored for the studio Little Feat version? I first knew the song (with the added lyrics) from Waiting For Columbus, so I mildly shocked upon finally hearing the tamer studio take.

good question, dunno. i don't feel like Warner Bros. was in the habit of removing drug references from records in the '70s, though, least of all with the band whose signature song was "Willin'."

yeah, I wish there was a seven-minute 12" version of that studio version

someone could probably make a great dub out of it

xp Yeah, and on an album with the lyric, "Wait 'till the shit hits the fan" in the midst of equally blatant drug talk. OTOH, "Spanish Moon" was released as single, but...who knows? Along with the single mix of "Spanish Moon", there's a neat outtake on the bonus disk called "Doriville" that George harvested the line about "The night the rain froze to the ground" from.

Wow cool track

It might have been cut for the studio. Here's the Ultrasonic studios version from '74 (in a medley with "Skin It Back"), which has the cocaine line (pun not intended), but at the only at the end of the song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wJRAjS3AGA

http://www.farces.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/lowell-george-linda-ronstadt.jpg

Somehow Willin made Atlanta 97.1 The River's top 500 Memorial Day countdown. Number 268 with a bullet. Literally never heard any song by little feat other than Dixie Chicken in classic rock radio.

I used to hear the live version of "Fat Man In A Bathtub" as a highlighted "deep cut"--same with "Spanish Moon", albeit not near as frequently. And when I was a kid, our area station would throw in "Let It Roll" alongside contemporary Petty, Stones, Floyd etc. under the umbrella of "It doesn't have to be old to be a classic!" Although oddly enough, I never heard the other two big reunion radio hits until I picked up the new box.

I had some friends over out by my pool and we had the River on. I was fucking jacked to hear "Willin" amongst the foreigner, heart, thorogood et al garbage that is on this ridiculous "countdown". Also, "blue sky" by the Allmans was like 276, which shows a lot of respect for one of Duane's last performances on wax. That ones in my personal top 5.

I was joking when I said it showed respect by the way. Yes, I'm drunk.

Friday Music just dropped a slightly expanded remaster of Thanks I'll Eat It Here. Have it in hand and it does sound sweet.

Also the list of Lowell's heavy friends on the sessions is mental: David Foster, Nicky Hopkins, Floyd Sneed (the drummer from Three Dog Night), Jeff Pocaro, John Phillips, JD Southern, Bonnie Raitt, Dean Parks, Stephen Bruton...

Shared by the band's FB page this morning, a rehearsal tape from the first lp's sessions: https://archive.org/details/lf1970-08-00.sbd.unknown.goody.131556.sbeok.flac16

niiice, thanks for posting that

"Crazy Captain Gunboat Willie" has long been one of my favorite 2-minute songs, it's really mindblowing to hear it as a 14-minute epic

Oh excellent. Thank you

I swear Rock and Roll Dr is their greatest track. At least until next week when I decide on another!

this week i was working a shoot and the camera guys started talking about Little Feat. always enjoy striking up a conversation with older folks and alarming them with my knowledge of the band.

Re-upping this great live version of Rock & Roll Doctor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9QxFWnUMCI

The versions of Fat Man in the Bathtub & Spanish Moon from Waiting For Columbus were staples of my classic rock radio station in the late 70s/early 80s. So good.

I think Richie Hayward really hit his stride on the Feats Don't Fail Me record. I love how he plays as _little_ as possible. So refreshing -- and the beat is just so relaxed and tight at the same time.

it's kind of amazing how many totally different styles he did so well, he adapted to so many changes in the band's sound over the years that you'd probably assume listening from album to album that they changed drummers at least once or twice.