Little Feat's live album , Waiting For Columbus , is one of the best live albums ever recorded. This version is from that album. Two other must do songs from this album are Oh Atlanta and Dixie Chicken. As a third song check out Fat Man In The Bathtub.
Waiting for Columbus is arguably the best live album ever recorded. Everything on it is great. "Fat Man in the Bathtub," "Rocket in My Pocket," "Dixie Chicken/Tripeface Boogie" medley, "Red Streamliner" and "Rock and Roll Doctor" from the extended edition. They are worth a deep dive.
Unfortunately, never got to see LF live, but I did get to see Steely Dan just b4 co-founder Walter Becker died. In my 67 years of life that show was the the best quality of instrumentation I have ever heard. Got all of LF's first 8 records, didn't listen after Lowell George passed in 1979 as the lead vocal just wasn't the same.
This 70 year old saw Little Feat on 8 different occasions and they were absolutely one of the 3 best bands I've ever seen and heard; the other two being the Stones and The Allman Brothers pre 1972. Little Feat sounded their best in small club venues with low ceilings.
I was at the DC concert where this album was recorded in 1977 (I may be off by a year or so). It's still the best concert I ever attended! I've been a Little Feat fan since 1972 and I'm going to their upcoming concert in August. The band broke up also because of Lowell George's death, but reformed in 1980 (or so) better than ever.
Little Feat definitely made an indelible mark in the music industry with the West Coast Funk/Soul with a Southern vibe. I had the pleasure of meeting drummer Richie Hayward on a couple of occassions by way of working with and being friends with his daughter Rachel. We worked together at S.I.R. ( Studio Instrument Rentals) sound stages in Los Angeles. She and I share the same birthday only a couple years different in age Little Feat is an underrated band that was not famous enough. The famous Laurel Canyon music scene, with all the famous musicians and singer songwriters included Richie Hayward and other members of the band. I've heard some amazing stories about the famous people who lived and partied in Laurel Canyon during the late sixties and 1970s. I can't tell those stories here, though.
comes off "Waiting for Columbus" live album (brilliant) which is a must on anyone's playlist. Really underrated band who i was fortunate enough to stumble upon in the 70's along with Doobie Brothers, Amazing Rhythm Aces, The Guess Who and The Eagles to name but a few. Great music, great times
The band, including original surviving members Kenny Gradney, Sam Clayton, Bill Payne, and long time member Fred Tackett, have been joined by Tony Leone and Scott Sharrard, and are probably playing somewhere tonight. They just released a new album, "Sam's Place," and are currently out on tour. Who knows, you just might get a chance to see these legendary performers before they're gone for good. I saw them last summer and they still rock. I saw them the first time in 1978 WITH Lowell George, and have seen just about every iteration of the band since. They never fail to bring it.
They were the band muscians listened to. In DC, they were always headliners, even in the beginning when they opened for acts in DC, everyone really came to see Feat.
This song is originally on the studio album Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, and every track on it is killer good. Musically speaking, I have always had Little Feat right up there with Steely Dan. Just different styles.
If you want some more New Orleans funk then you gotta check out The Meters. Also check out the one & only Dr. John. Both acts are legends of the New Orleans music scene.
Excellent reaction to Classic Live Little Feat. They toured + recorded their live masterpiece "Waiting for Columbus" w Tower of Power Horns and I highly recommend the song that follows "Spanish Moon", it's "Enemy Territory" and the horn + guitar interplay is incredible. Hard to distinguish one from the other @ the climax. While Dixie Chicken LP is killer.
Sales schmales. This is still one of my favorite bands after five decades. Of course I used to play trumpet, so horn bands are always appreciated. Fat Man in the Bathtub is fun as well as Dixie Chicken. Check them out
They were one of the best American rock bands touring in the mid to late 70's, but they didn't sell a lot of records. They were a California band who played a mixture of rock, blues, country, funk, New Orleans R&B, Soul, whatever. Helluva band. Lowell George was an elite electric slide guitarist, Bill Payne is a keyboard master, and the Richie Hayward/Kenny Gradney rhythm section was money. Just a great band who never was as well known as they should have been.
This is my favorite Little Feat song. The horns are Tower of Power. Lowell sounds like Noel. The Beatles spelled their name with an ‘a’ instead of two ‘ee’s, Feat instead of Feet. Baby, you need to buy a set of headphones. Your voice is over modulating. You could hear yourself better and I guarantee you could hear a cappella better. Still love youir reactions.
They are still touring to this day, obviously with a lot of different personal but still a great show, Waiting for Columbus is top 10 album all time in my book!
I also believe LG was not "willin" to bow down to industry pressures. So Little Feat success in some ways was grass roots but they didn't gain the success they certainly would have, had they decided to capitalize on the horrors of the industry. Like the current version of LF. My opinion
Loved this song, it tells it all. We had a 'Spanish Moon' bar in North Philly in the 70's... the 'enter at your peril' type. Once inside (I heard) you could get anything Ya want.
Low- el george was so talented...he was a musicians musician.I went to a show in chapel hill,nc right before LG died.You had to be high as a kite to get them.And i was...
Brilliant song and reaction. Check out Rock and Roll Doctor (a tribute to the great R&B songwriter Alain Toussaint) and Oh Atlanta, but every cut on the live Waiting for Columbus album is great.
There's a band called Was Not Was, started by Don Was, that was a couple white guys who did Beat Poetry (see Beatniks from the 1950s) backed by an amazing Soul/R&B band. Their albums were kind of schizophrenic, because you didn't know if they would turn to the beatnik music-backed poetry or to the pure deep-to-the-bone R&B or to an interesting mashup of the two (and ALL of it is amazing). When it was pure R&B, the band led and the white guys disappeared; they respected each other's talent. That said, I maintain their version of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" is as good (or better) than the Temptations' original. This is a must-react-to. (Use the studio version to start.) Trust me.
Lowell like stole, (my heart, years ago) Little Feat! Do the whole two album live album Waiting for Columbus. Epic. Also, see some live before Lowell died. They continue today!
Had the privilege and pleasure of seeing Little Feat on the "Waiting For Columbus" tour at the University of New Hampshire in 1978, with the late, great Lowell George. Of the more than 500 concerts I have attended, it is in my Top 5 of best shows. Unfortunately there was no Tower Of Power Horn section on this night, but the show was so amazing I forgave that omission. Saw Feat about ten more times over the years, but that was the only show with Lowell. Since then R.I.P. to Guitarist/Vocalist/Songwriter Paul Barerre and Drummer/Vocalist Richie Heyward.
I was at the same show at UNH. My buddies were all huge Little Feat fans. It was a spectacular show. I got to meet Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett at a show at the Flying Monkey in Plymouth, NH where I went to college. They were playing as a duo. They were the coolest, most down to earth guys. Had a great conversation with both of them and shared some laughs. Sadly, Paul passed away about a year later before I got to see them again. To this day, WFC is one of my all time favorite records. Their sound was unique to them, one of a kind.
Hey Steve- I was attending Plymouth State when I went to UNH for the show at Lundholm Gym. It was so, I hate this word but it fits, EPIC. I think it was my Sophomore year, I was living in Blair Hall. I haven't been back to PSC since 1980, but I have heard of The Flying Monkey, but of course, I've never been there. But my "buddy" Steve Kimock has played there a couple of times. I'm exaggerating, but I have met Steve about five or six times, and have a couple of posters that he signed. I saw Chicken Legs in Nashua, where I lived at the time at Headliners North, Paul, Kenny Gradney, Bill Payne, Richie Heyward and another guy I forget. I stood next to Kenny for the whole show, which was also great. I'm running on. Go Panthers!
@@bobschenkel7921 I was Blair, 2nd floor. Wow, small world. I missed the Chicken Legs show but several friends hung out with the band at the Stable across the street from Headliners before the show. The Flying Monkey is the old movie theater and is a fun spot to see a show.
Yeah Steve, I was Blair First Floor, wow crazy. I remember the movie theater, I saw "Close Encounters" and the first "Halloween" there. The Chicken Legs show was good and bad. Good, even great, on what they played, bad because Lowell had passed, and it was a reminder. All I can say is Feeeeeeat!!!
@@bobschenkel7921 The south end had the Dover boys and the north end had the Nashua and Keene boys. I was on the second floor. I hear you. I was in a funk for a while after Lowell passed. I lived in Ashland my junior and was lived over Dido's Pizza on Main St my senior year. Sid Lanier and I ran EPIC and booked all the concerts at Plymouth. UNH got acts we couldn't because we were off the major travel routes. We did get the Outlaws, Bonnie Raitt, Jonathan Edwards, Pousette Dart as well as bunch of other acts. I loved my time at Plymouth. It's so random that I watched this video and happened to see this comment. I don't often read the comments. Small world. Plymouth has grown up a lot since then. Lots of new buildings on campus and in town. Tenney Mountain Highway has changed a lot.
They’re currently on tour promoting their first blues album, Sam’s Place, featuring original member and percussionist, Sam Clayton, on vocals. Check their website, find a venue, and go…they’re amazing!!! Loved your reaction…especially when Tower of Power starts in. It makes me so happy to see this band get recognized by younger generations.
This was the last song of the show, and it is a little Feat thing that each member, one at a time, stops playing and leaves the stage, until drummer Richie Hayward is the last man on stage.
I stopped listening to Little Feat (1969-1979) after Lowell George passed in 1979. Lowell George actually quit the band just before his death as tensions grew within the band over creative differences. They later reformed in 1987 with Craig Fuller at lead vocals (Co-founder Pure Prairie League), but that Lowell George vocal CANNOT be duplicated in whole! Little Feat made 8 records with Lowell George: Little Feat (1971), Sailin Shoes (1972), Dixie Chicken (1973), Feats Don't Fail Me now (1974), The Last Record Album (1975), Time Loves A Hero (1977), Waiting On Columbus (1978), and Down On The Farm (1979) which was finished up after LG passed (RIP LG). After reforming, many more records were produced (1987-Present). The band fused broad styles of genres, Rock, Jazz, Country, and Blues into a very distinctive sound and produced some notable playlist jams within those first 8 records. Can't speak for the music post 1979. ....... not familiar with it. Some must-listens from the first 8 records: Time Loves A Hero, New Delhi Freight Train, Fat Man In The Bathtub, Spanish Moon, Dixie Chicken, and Willin. Great reaction, TY
Little Feat's live album , Waiting For Columbus , is one of the best live albums ever recorded. This version is from that album. Two other must do songs from this album are Oh Atlanta and Dixie Chicken. As a third song check out Fat Man In The Bathtub.
Litter Feat were their very own genre, totally unique
Tower of Power horns is another rabbit hole to go down. West coast funk.
Tower of Power is the best ever. like betweeb tower of power, mandrill and gil scot heron, oh my funk!
Waiting for Columbus is arguably the best live album ever recorded. Everything on it is great. "Fat Man in the Bathtub," "Rocket in My Pocket," "Dixie Chicken/Tripeface Boogie" medley, "Red Streamliner" and "Rock and Roll Doctor" from the extended edition. They are worth a deep dive.
"Sneakin' Sally thru the Alley" 😉
I have attended over 500 concerts in my 70 years. The 2 best sounding shows I ever heard hands down were both Little Feat. That is all.
Unfortunately, never got to see LF live, but I did get to see Steely Dan just b4 co-founder Walter Becker died. In my 67 years of life that show was the the best quality of instrumentation I have ever heard. Got all of LF's first 8 records, didn't listen after Lowell George passed in 1979 as the lead vocal just wasn't the same.
@@glennburch1081 Saw the original Steely Dan back in the day. They were great then, but started to lose me with Pretzel Logic.
One of my all time favorites. Glad you like them too.
Little Feat is great. Let It Roll and Dixie Chicken are the other two best-known songs by them.
They are top shelf. Never the same though when LG died. Waiting For Columbus album is rock n roll hall of famer.
This 70 year old saw Little Feat on 8 different occasions and they were absolutely one of the 3 best bands I've ever seen and heard; the other two being the Stones and The Allman Brothers pre 1972. Little Feat sounded their best in small club venues with low ceilings.
I was at the DC concert where this album was recorded in 1977 (I may be off by a year or so). It's still the best concert I ever attended! I've been a Little Feat fan since 1972 and I'm going to their upcoming concert in August. The band broke up also because of Lowell George's death, but reformed in 1980 (or so) better than ever.
What a badass song.
Next up, "Fat Man in a Bathtub". A classic Little Feat track.
Little Feat definitely made an indelible mark in the music industry with the West Coast Funk/Soul with a Southern vibe.
I had the pleasure of meeting drummer Richie Hayward on a couple of occassions by way of working with and being friends with his daughter Rachel. We worked together at S.I.R. ( Studio Instrument Rentals) sound stages in Los Angeles. She and I share the same birthday only a couple years different in age
Little Feat is an underrated band that was not famous enough.
The famous Laurel Canyon music scene, with all the famous musicians and singer songwriters included Richie Hayward and other members of the band. I've heard some amazing stories about the famous people who lived and partied in Laurel Canyon during the late sixties and 1970s. I can't tell those stories here, though.
You picked the right version. Good lawd I love this!!!
I was at the Waiting for Columbus recorded concert! ( Lisner Auditotium, Wash DC 197? )
SWEET! SO SO SWEET!
comes off "Waiting for Columbus" live album (brilliant) which is a must on anyone's playlist. Really underrated band who i was fortunate enough to stumble upon in the 70's along with Doobie Brothers, Amazing Rhythm Aces, The Guess Who and The Eagles to name but a few. Great music, great times
The band, including original surviving members Kenny Gradney, Sam Clayton, Bill Payne, and long time member Fred Tackett, have been joined by Tony Leone and Scott Sharrard, and are probably playing somewhere tonight. They just released a new album, "Sam's Place," and are currently out on tour. Who knows, you just might get a chance to see these legendary performers before they're gone for good. I saw them last summer and they still rock. I saw them the first time in 1978 WITH Lowell George, and have seen just about every iteration of the band since. They never fail to bring it.
They had a loyal following. It is Lowell. Low doesn't ride with cow. They weren't hit makers, but they were successful.
They were the band muscians listened to. In DC, they were always headliners, even in the beginning when they opened for acts in DC, everyone really came to see Feat.
I've loved this band since the mid 70's. Can't beat a bit of Little Feat. Also Steely Dan.
Best party band of the seventies (IMO). Love seeing the stankface when those filthy horns chime in.
This song is originally on the studio album Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, and every track on it is killer good.
Musically speaking, I have always had Little Feat right up there with Steely Dan. Just different styles.
My go to "Little Feat" driving in the car~
If you want some more New Orleans funk then you gotta check out The Meters. Also check out the one & only Dr. John. Both acts are legends of the New Orleans music scene.
"Tipitina"!!!
Also, The Radiators
This is one of the best reactions I've ever seen.
Excellent reaction to Classic Live Little Feat. They toured + recorded their live masterpiece "Waiting for Columbus" w Tower of Power Horns and I highly recommend the song that follows
"Spanish Moon", it's "Enemy Territory"
and the horn + guitar interplay is incredible. Hard to distinguish one from the other @ the climax. While Dixie Chicken LP is killer.
Little Feat is the sh$t!
Sales schmales. This is still one of my favorite bands after five decades. Of course I used to play trumpet, so horn bands are always appreciated. Fat Man in the Bathtub is fun as well as Dixie Chicken. Check them out
The whole album is worth a listen from start to end.
They were one of the best American rock bands touring in the mid to late 70's, but they didn't sell a lot of records. They were a California band who played a mixture of rock, blues, country, funk, New Orleans R&B, Soul, whatever. Helluva band. Lowell George was an elite electric slide guitarist, Bill Payne is a keyboard master, and the Richie Hayward/Kenny Gradney rhythm section was money. Just a great band who never was as well known as they should have been.
It's Lowell - first syllable as in Low. Bass player and percussionist from New Orleans.
Littlefeat were actually pretty huge in the 70s but by the end of decade Lowell's cocaine problem affected the music
This is my favorite Little Feat song. The horns are Tower of Power. Lowell sounds like Noel. The Beatles spelled their name with an ‘a’ instead of two ‘ee’s, Feat instead of Feet. Baby, you need to buy a set of headphones. Your voice is over modulating. You could hear yourself better and I guarantee you could hear a cappella better. Still love youir reactions.
first time I've ever heard this song. I would not have known Tower of Power was doing the horns.
Little Feat is well known in Nashville. Best album is Sailin Shoes. Best boogie beat band in the land!
Never tire of listening to Waiting for Columbus. Over the top good!
And if that don't kill you soon Little Feat will with this funky tune
Tower of Power Horns
They are still touring to this day, obviously with a lot of different personal but still a great show, Waiting for Columbus is top 10 album all time in my book!
The band you were looking for is Talking Heads, Tina Weymouth.
RIP Lowell, Ritchie, and Paul. Thank You!
Find the live album and go down that rabbit hole my friend .. have fun ...
It's LOW-ELL GEORGE PRON0UNCED.
Aren't they wonderful?!! Check out the live Midnight Special performance of Dixie Chicken with Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris singing backup.
I also believe LG was not "willin" to bow down to industry pressures. So Little Feat success in some ways was grass roots but they didn't gain the success they certainly would have, had they decided to capitalize on the horrors of the industry. Like the current version of LF. My opinion
Loved this song, it tells it all. We had a 'Spanish Moon' bar in North Philly in the 70's... the 'enter at your peril' type. Once inside (I heard) you could get anything Ya want.
Lol. Little Feat. Take a look...
and the best part is this is from a live album! They were actually better live than studio
Low- el george was so talented...he was a musicians musician.I went to a show in chapel hill,nc right before LG died.You had to be high as a kite to get them.And i was...
Brilliant song and reaction. Check out Rock and Roll Doctor (a tribute to the great R&B songwriter Alain Toussaint) and Oh Atlanta, but every cut on the live Waiting for Columbus album is great.
They just passed through town opening for Tedeschi Trucks Band....sadly unable to attend...
There's a band called Was Not Was, started by Don Was, that was a couple white guys who did Beat Poetry (see Beatniks from the 1950s) backed by an amazing Soul/R&B band. Their albums were kind of schizophrenic, because you didn't know if they would turn to the beatnik music-backed poetry or to the pure deep-to-the-bone R&B or to an interesting mashup of the two (and ALL of it is amazing). When it was pure R&B, the band led and the white guys disappeared; they respected each other's talent.
That said, I maintain their version of "Papa Was a Rolling Stone" is as good (or better) than the Temptations' original.
This is a must-react-to.
(Use the studio version to start.)
Trust me.
Lowell like stole, (my heart, years ago) Little Feat! Do the whole two album live album Waiting for Columbus. Epic. Also, see some live before Lowell died. They continue today!
I love seeing all the devoted Little Feat fans here! My people!
Bonnie Raitt was hooked in with these folks. Emmy Lou Harris. Little Feat with many original members plays today.
Had the privilege and pleasure of seeing Little Feat on the "Waiting For Columbus" tour at the University of New Hampshire in 1978, with the late, great Lowell George. Of the more than 500 concerts I have attended, it is in my Top 5 of best shows. Unfortunately there was no Tower Of Power Horn section on this night, but the show was so amazing I forgave that omission. Saw Feat about ten more times over the years, but that was the only show with Lowell. Since then R.I.P. to Guitarist/Vocalist/Songwriter Paul Barerre and Drummer/Vocalist Richie Heyward.
I was at the same show at UNH. My buddies were all huge Little Feat fans. It was a spectacular show. I got to meet Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett at a show at the Flying Monkey in Plymouth, NH where I went to college. They were playing as a duo. They were the coolest, most down to earth guys. Had a great conversation with both of them and shared some laughs. Sadly, Paul passed away about a year later before I got to see them again. To this day, WFC is one of my all time favorite records. Their sound was unique to them, one of a kind.
Hey Steve- I was attending Plymouth State when I went to UNH for the show at Lundholm Gym. It was so, I hate this word but it fits, EPIC. I think it was my Sophomore year, I was living in Blair Hall. I haven't been back to PSC since 1980, but I have heard of The Flying Monkey, but of course, I've never been there. But my "buddy" Steve Kimock has played there a couple of times. I'm exaggerating, but I have met Steve about five or six times, and have a couple of posters that he signed. I saw Chicken Legs in Nashua, where I lived at the time at Headliners North, Paul, Kenny Gradney, Bill Payne, Richie Heyward and another guy I forget. I stood next to Kenny for the whole show, which was also great. I'm running on. Go Panthers!
@@bobschenkel7921 I was Blair, 2nd floor. Wow, small world. I missed the Chicken Legs show but several friends hung out with the band at the Stable across the street from Headliners before the show. The Flying Monkey is the old movie theater and is a fun spot to see a show.
Yeah Steve, I was Blair First Floor, wow crazy. I remember the movie theater, I saw "Close Encounters" and the first "Halloween" there. The Chicken Legs show was good and bad. Good, even great, on what they played, bad because Lowell had passed, and it was a reminder. All I can say is Feeeeeeat!!!
@@bobschenkel7921 The south end had the Dover boys and the north end had the Nashua and Keene boys. I was on the second floor. I hear you. I was in a funk for a while after Lowell passed. I lived in Ashland my junior and was lived over Dido's Pizza on Main St my senior year. Sid Lanier and I ran EPIC and booked all the concerts at Plymouth. UNH got acts we couldn't because we were off the major travel routes. We did get the Outlaws, Bonnie Raitt, Jonathan Edwards, Pousette Dart as well as bunch of other acts. I loved my time at Plymouth. It's so random that I watched this video and happened to see this comment. I don't often read the comments. Small world. Plymouth has grown up a lot since then. Lots of new buildings on campus and in town. Tenney Mountain Highway has changed a lot.
Next Little Feat song: "Let It Roll Tonight"
were you thinking of Jeff Beck with gal on bass Tal Wilkenfeld?
That who first came to mind.
If you like bass solos, check out Weather Report.
We call it swamp rock. Try Mercenary Territory
Guitarist with a female bassist? Jeff Beck with Tal Wilkenfeld? That's memorable. Just a guess.
Talking Heads came to my mind.
They’re currently on tour promoting their first blues album, Sam’s Place, featuring original member and percussionist, Sam Clayton, on vocals. Check their website, find a venue, and go…they’re amazing!!! Loved your reaction…especially when Tower of Power starts in. It makes me so happy to see this band get recognized by younger generations.
Jeff Beck?
Tal Winklefeld with Jeff Beck
LOW-well
This was the last song of the show, and it is a little Feat thing that each member, one at a time, stops playing and leaves the stage, until drummer Richie Hayward is the last man on stage.
I stopped listening to Little Feat (1969-1979) after Lowell George passed in 1979. Lowell George actually quit the band just before his death as tensions grew within the band over creative differences. They later reformed in 1987 with Craig Fuller at lead vocals (Co-founder Pure Prairie League), but that Lowell George vocal CANNOT be duplicated in whole! Little Feat made 8 records with Lowell George: Little Feat (1971), Sailin Shoes (1972), Dixie Chicken (1973), Feats Don't Fail Me now (1974), The Last Record Album (1975), Time Loves A Hero (1977), Waiting On Columbus (1978), and Down On The Farm (1979) which was finished up after LG passed (RIP LG). After reforming, many more records were produced (1987-Present). The band fused broad styles of genres, Rock, Jazz, Country, and Blues into a very distinctive sound and produced some notable playlist jams within those first 8 records. Can't speak for the music post 1979. ....... not familiar with it. Some must-listens from the first 8 records: Time Loves A Hero, New Delhi Freight Train, Fat Man In The Bathtub, Spanish Moon, Dixie Chicken, and Willin. Great reaction, TY
It’s pronounced LOW - ell
This song and album are the 💩. Thats all you need to know.
Pronounce low. Add ell.
They were your favorite musicians favorite band back in the day.