Yeah, that live set totally rules, been enjoying it ever since I found it here.
― Mark Rich@rdson, Saturday, 26 July 2008 01:09 (fifteen years ago) link
"Waiting for Columbus best live album ever."
YES!
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 July 2008 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
i can't stress enough how great they all are live to this day. they fuckin' rule. if they are playing some club or county fair near you, GO!
― scott seward, Saturday, 26 July 2008 01:34 (fifteen years ago) link
if you've never seen the tv clip from 1975 then damn you are in for a treat... Rock & Roll Doctor
― that's not my post, Saturday, 26 July 2008 03:58 (fifteen years ago) link
and there is this one from the same show Fat Man in the Bathtub. Sizzling.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 26 July 2008 04:04 (fifteen years ago) link
dunno 'bout that. B.B. King- Live @ the Regal tops my live list; but the expanded Waiting for Columbus really improves on an already terrific live set. i agree w/ X'gau that Lowell George wrote more good songs than great songs, but on this set the band is on fire
― outdoor_miner, Saturday, 26 July 2008 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
this is dad rock in the most literal sense ... my dad was a big fan and put me on to them
― deej, Saturday, 26 July 2008 17:18 (fifteen years ago) link
dug this back out to play "Easy to Slip," and while it's perfect, it actually frightens me more and more every time i listen back, in a solipsistic way. as in yes, it is so easy to fall into nothing at all.
― beta blog, Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I love "Easy To Slip." That and "Dixie Chicken" were both on the playlist at my wedding.
― some dude, Sunday, 27 July 2008 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Fucking great band. I saw them in '90, long after their glory years of course, and they were incredible.
― Bill Magill, Thursday, 25 September 2008 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
They've done an awesome job reinventing themselves over the last two decades.
Search: Inara George's version of "Trouble" on the Feats' new album Join the Band.
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 25 September 2008 17:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I really like Last Record Album. But i kinda knew them feore i ever heared The Band. I don't know if it worked the other way around.
― Roy, Friday, 26 September 2008 09:50 (fifteen years ago) link
For me, they kill the Band. The Band is not really my thing at all.
― Bill Magill, Friday, 26 September 2008 16:19 (fifteen years ago) link
I heart Sailin' Shoes so much.
― Radiant Flowering Crab (Rock Hardy), Friday, 26 September 2008 16:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Don't know why I never posted on this thread - read it a few times over the years. Like everyone else said, Vornado's post about early 70s Americana myth-making OTM. Little Feat, to me, are the dank and dirty roots of it; leavethecapital's "Funky, weird and filthy" captures it wuite well.
What exactly was going on in the late 60s/early 70s with coutryfried-rock? The aforementioned Feat/Band/Dead, Tumbleweed Connection, the Stones, Parsons, Ronstadt, etc. Where did it all come from, exactly? Why then?
― EZ Snappin, Monday, 17 August 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
don't know if there is a thesis on this thread, but it's all right here:
Can we talk about early-mid70s West Coast post-psych/pop/rock/folk-rock/country-rock?
― scott seward, Monday, 17 August 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
holy shit, 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, I feel like I just stumbled on a box of records I never knew existed by one of my favorite bands.
― some dude, Friday, 22 January 2010 03:36 (fourteen years ago) link
Just got done listening the debut for the first time in a long time. It had never crossed my mind before, but is it just me or does "Crazy Captain Gunboat Willie" sound like a letter-perfect parody of The Band, especially the more mythological Robbie Robertson stuff ("The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" etc.)?
― Handjobs for a sport (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
never thought of it that way, if anything i thought of it as a vestige of Feat's wacky Zappa roots -- i love that song, though, i think i put it on a mixtape for a friend who's way into stuff like Primus
― barbaric ya'll (some dude), Wednesday, 27 April 2011 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
for personal record: CLASSIC (as fuk). dudes totally epitomized southern carefree-itude in the same way that a lot of rap spawn from the south is doing now. seems like a fun place, if everybody's constantly releasing music under that ~lifestyle mentality~. i think.
― kelpolaris, Wednesday, 27 April 2011 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
I would say "Crazy Captain..." is very, very Band sounding (albeit with George's unique twist).
Little Feat are from Los Angeles, not The South. Lowell George was born and raise din Hollywood.
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 28 April 2011 14:05 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but the number of references to southern towns/states in LF lyrics outnumbers California references probably at least 10 to 1, so i think they were courting that kind of (mis)perception
― hong does your geirden gro (some dude), Thursday, 28 April 2011 14:09 (twelve years ago) link
Very true! But I would say those references def make them uniquely Los Angeles and that city's tradition of cinematic imagination. George was a Californian who fell in love with New Orleans, it's culture and music. Lyrically, he exuded a rich sense of romance for New Orleans that only an outsider could truly muster. I would say George was more like a classical composer incorporating "folk" touches into his/her compositions. He was kind of like Aron Copland.
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 28 April 2011 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
(Aaron Copland)
― QuantumNoise, Thursday, 28 April 2011 14:26 (twelve years ago) link
Boogie Rock for the Common Man
― tylerw, Thursday, 28 April 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
that's kind of appropriate since my dad is a huge fan of both Feat and Copland
― hong does your geirden gro (some dude), Thursday, 28 April 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.littlefeat.net/news.html?n_id=3174
Will these be actual remasters?
― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 30 January 2014 18:09 (ten years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 30 January 2014 18:23 (ten years ago) link
cool, there are some of those i haven't heard. been meaning to get the similarly styled Ry Cooder box set too.
― tylerw, Thursday, 30 January 2014 18:44 (ten years ago) link
just got this a couple days ago, excited to jump into it: http://www.amazon.com/Willin-Story-Little-Ben-Fong-Torres/dp/0306821311/
― some dude, Friday, 31 January 2014 03:19 (ten years ago) link
I had no idea that existed. Let us know if it's good.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 31 January 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
Decent book. More of a Lowell George bio.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Friday, 31 January 2014 15:52 (ten years ago) link
anyone buy the box? Wondering about remastering and can't find squat online.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
^^Was wondering about this myself.
― Virginia, Plain and Tall (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:54 (ten years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:55 (ten years ago) link
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.
― he always came across as a great guy in Kerrang! in the 90s (some dude), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 01:12 (ten years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 6 March 2014 15:45 (ten years ago) link
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
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 6 March 2014 22:44 (ten years ago) link
These are definitely remastered. They sound good on cd for the first time ever.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 14 March 2014 19:39 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 April 2014 19:51 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 11 April 2014 19:58 (nine years ago) link
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.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 11 April 2014 21:34 (nine years ago) link
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.
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 11 April 2014 22:03 (nine years ago) link
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
― condo associations are people my friend (will), Friday, 11 April 2014 22:20 (nine years ago) link
for the curious, here 'tis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNw8U4aCgjE
― espring (amateurist), Friday, 11 April 2014 22:23 (nine years ago) link
that 1974 live Ultrasound Studio set aka "Electrif Lycanthrope" mentioned under the fold is so damn good
― sleeve, Friday, 11 April 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Friday, 11 April 2014 23:00 (nine years ago) link
just about everything concert they broadcast out of ultrasonic was great. worth searching. wlir was one heck of a radio station.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 11 April 2014 23:36 (nine years ago) link
"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.
― display name changed. (amateurist), Saturday, 24 May 2014 00:19 (nine years ago) link
'waiting for columbus' reissue w/three complete live shows...
anyone pick this up? just picked up the SS 2cd. haven't listened to all of it yet but disc 2 is delivering
― matcha man (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 1 November 2023 14:28 (four months ago) link