niiice, thanks for posting that
― some dude, Thursday, 23 October 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
"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
― some dude, Thursday, 23 October 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Oh excellent. Thank you
― calstars, Thursday, 23 October 2014 18:04 (nine years ago) link
I swear Rock and Roll Dr is their greatest track. At least until next week when I decide on another!
― calstars, Saturday, 15 November 2014 02:00 (nine years ago) link
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.
― nakhchi little van (some dude), Saturday, 15 November 2014 03:01 (nine years ago) link
Re-upping this great live version of Rock & Roll Doctor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9QxFWnUMCI
― that's not my post, Saturday, 15 November 2014 06:15 (nine years ago) link
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.
― that's not my post, Saturday, 15 November 2014 06:30 (nine years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Sunday, 18 January 2015 03:59 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Sunday, 18 January 2015 04:09 (nine years ago) link
Willin4Ever
― calstars, Saturday, 13 June 2015 19:56 (eight years ago) link
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
― no lime tangier, Sunday, 18 December 2016 05:55 (seven years ago) link
"Long distance Love" is so good
― calstars, Sunday, 18 December 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
"Mercenary Territory" on Columbus...wow
― calstars, Saturday, 7 January 2017 00:55 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Saturday, 7 January 2017 12:44 (seven years ago) link
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.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 7 January 2017 16:23 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-GwdaKrn8
finger lickin' groove
― KitevsPill, Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link
good example of a band's most popular song being one of the ones I always skip
― calstars, Saturday, 7 January 2017 22:20 (seven years ago) link
the way hayward turns the beat around after the huge slide solo
― calstars, Tuesday, 10 January 2017 02:10 (seven years ago) link
in mercenary territory, not dixie chicken
LG played on Robert Palmer's first album? Damn
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:29 (six years ago) link
he kills it on van dyke parks' discover america
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:32 (six years ago) link
LG (and most of the rest of the Feet) are on the first few Palmers.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:53 (six years ago) link
Seems like this would be right in Ace Records' wheelhouse, but somebody ought to do Lowell George: Session Man Anthology.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
That would be ace
No mention of LG on the - discover America - Wikipedia page
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:09 (six years ago) link
There is on allmusic though
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:10 (six years ago) link
LF also backs John Cale on Paris 1919, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:25 (six years ago) link
Yup.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 22:18 (six years ago) link
Put on your sailing shoes=light it up bro
― calstars, Saturday, 13 May 2017 21:28 (six years ago) link
― 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.
― Spottie, Monday, 15 May 2017 16:39 (six years ago) link
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.
― calstars, Monday, 15 May 2017 17:56 (six years ago) link
Two degrees in bebop, a PHD in swingHe's a master of rhythm, he's a rock and roll king
― calstars, Thursday, 15 June 2017 13:38 (six years ago) link
love the rock n roll doctor.... looking back up thread i see i posted this almost ten years ago. still great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1AWV3F8muI
― that's not my post, Friday, 16 June 2017 01:44 (six years ago) link
LG talks a little technique with some German dudes, ya
https://youtu.be/sDF4x1ICbkY
― calstars, Friday, 16 June 2017 02:39 (six years ago) link
The reason Rock and roll doctor is so great is cause it's a shuffle. Embarrassingly late realizing this.
― calstars, Saturday, 17 June 2017 20:59 (six years ago) link
I guess the "if you like the sound of shuffling feet" line should have tipped me off
― calstars, Saturday, 17 June 2017 21:03 (six years ago) link
this is still the best. peak. all cylinders. the definition of rollicking. anarchy in the u.k.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXsFZjfNCDY
― scott seward, Saturday, 17 June 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
Appreciate your opinion but respectful disagree : )75 gets my money.
― calstars, Saturday, 17 June 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
When LG still had his "fighting weight" as some YouTube commenter put it.
I mean slide players weigh in here but ... I find it very interesting that LG doesn't mute the other strings when he plays. I was taught that you should. I play with the slide on my ring finger and my index and middle muting the others. Kind of blown away to see LG playing with the slide on his pinky with no regard for muting.
― calstars, Saturday, 17 June 2017 22:50 (six years ago) link
Mercenary on Columbus is still my fave thing of theirs tho
― calstars, Sunday, 18 June 2017 00:37 (six years ago) link
booming post from vornado upthread
The thing that makes me really appreciate LF, besides the pure chops aspect and George's songwriting and slide-guitar wit, is the weird fiction-making that they were engaged in. They shared it with The Band, and Credence Clearwater Revival, and The Grateful Dead (version 1970), and, to some extent, Dr. John (when he was The Nightripper): There was this imagination and invention of an American musical tradition to which they were the natural successors, but which never actually existed. In LF's case, something like a Disney version of New Orleans, in which Robert Johnson come down from the Delta sat in with Professor Longhair. It was a cousin to Shangri-La or Macondo, a magical source of all stories.
― People like Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Sunday, 18 June 2017 01:36 (six years ago) link
This page has some interesting info on a couple of side projects, including akiko Yano's album and "Chico - the master." Anyone heard this stuff?
http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/little-feat-playing-on-japanese-girl.474402/
― calstars, Wednesday, 28 June 2017 02:29 (six years ago) link
4 hour road trip with the family and LF will be in heavy rotation. What shouldn’t I leave out of mix?
― calstars, Sunday, 24 December 2017 23:52 (six years ago) link
Put Spanish Moon on there three times in a row.
― Johnny Fever, Monday, 25 December 2017 00:10 (six years ago) link
that'll do er
― calstars, Monday, 25 December 2017 00:22 (six years ago) link
Rock n roll doctor. Willin’. Two trains.
― that's not my post, Monday, 25 December 2017 06:13 (six years ago) link
Stuff from the Lowell solo album ("Easy Money", "Cheek To Cheek", "Honest Man" etc.)
― Never Learn To Mike Love (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 25 December 2017 06:56 (six years ago) link
Kind of amazed to discover last night that LG plays on a couple tracks on Kate & Anna McGarrigle.
― ...some of y'all too woke to function (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 25 March 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
So it seems that the world keeps on turning but so what
― calstars, Sunday, 27 January 2019 02:28 (five years ago) link
Was always intrigued by their first two albums--they started out as mostly ex-Mothers of Invention, right? Pictured them as living not that far from Beefheart's trailer in the desert. Think some of them played on Bonnie Raitt's excellent version of Chris Smither's "I Feel The Same," and she appeared on at least one of their albums, and there was some talk of her joining the band (a post-LG line-up of LF did very eventually hire a female lead singer, but I don't know how that worked out).
― dow, Sunday, 27 January 2019 02:57 (five years ago) link