Little Feat - S&D, C/D

"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.

Willin4Ever

heard on the radio yesterday: nice piece about their visit to nz in '76

http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/nat-music/audio/201827361/under-the-influence-little-feat

"Long distance Love" is so good

"Mercenary Territory" on Columbus...wow

Anybody know if the sound on the Rad Gumbo set is better than that on the original Albums series?
I probably need the first couple of lps at least. So wondering what the best way to get them is.

Would love deluxe versions of the individual lps but looks like such things haven't happened and I'm not sure when the last time the lps were remastered was. Not sure if anybody could say for sure about the Rad Gumbo stuff from what I can remember reading at the time of release.

The first four and Time Loves a Hero are the Japanese remasters from the late 2000s. The Last Record Album is the original cd version. Waiting for Columbus is the Rhino expanded edition. Hoy Hoy, Let It Roll and Representing the Mambo are original cd versions.

The box sounds great. I have no regrets about upgrading from the original cds which are what is used in the Original Albums series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-GwdaKrn8

finger lickin' groove

good example of a band's most popular song being one of the ones I always skip

the way hayward turns the beat around after the huge slide solo

in mercenary territory, not dixie chicken

LG played on Robert Palmer's first album? Damn

he kills it on van dyke parks' discover america

LG (and most of the rest of the Feet) are on the first few Palmers.

Seems like this would be right in Ace Records' wheelhouse, but somebody ought to do Lowell George: Session Man Anthology.

That would be ace

No mention of LG on the - discover America - Wikipedia page

There is on allmusic though

LF also backs John Cale on Paris 1919, right?

Yup.

Put on your sailing shoes=light it up bro

"Long distance Love" is so good

― calstars, Sunday, December 18, 2016 1:41 PM (four months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the sweetest song. so many great sounds and melodies.

Yeah! It almost sounds like the blueprint for late 80s adult contemporary Bonnie Raitt. Which would make sense as she used to perform with LF.

Two degrees in bebop, a PHD in swing
He's a master of rhythm, he's a rock and roll king