Well you guys are all entitled to your opions and likes and dislikes. As for this old man I had the pleasure of spending time with these guys back in the 70s. I was traveling with a band and we played several venues with these guys and it was just unreal. Lowell is gone and no one can replace him, but I don't think he would want the music to die and I would like to think he is lookin down with a smile. We all die and life goes on, but the music never dies, it's forever!
As a feat fan since 1973, I only have one thing to say to anyone just getting into them. "If you like country with a boogie beat... they can't be beat... I say they can't be beat!" Their still always Willin'
I worked along side these guys for many years back in the 70's and 80's. Alley Studios, North Hollywood, Ca. A great band and exceptionally great musicians as well. Paul was fantastic on the guitar. Lowell, genius with song. I miss being with them. Lowell...rest in peace, my friend. May God continue to hold you in the hollow of His loving hands...
I had the pleasure to hang out with Paul and smoke endless amounts of weed with him. He was my best friends dad! And honestly like a father figure to me. What a Legend! I miss you Mr. Barrere!
Thank you 9erfandex ... the original Little Feat had a unique sound, a chemistry that has never been reproduced since then. Thank God for RU-vid for offering us that original sound.
What Lowell and Richie and the boys created way back when was fantastic but it in no way takes away from the Feat of today. I have seen them in many incarnations and they are always great. Basically, they are one of the origional JAM bands and continue the tradition now. For those who are offended by the girl I have three names for you - Linda, Bonnie and (of course) Emmilou. All sang with Feat and only ADDED dot the music.
" feat " music is timeless. Recently introduced my techno listening son. He loves their faster stuff but he walks around the house listening to them. I love it .
One of the best musician's bands ever! Never got to see 'em live, but I'm glad that I was the sound engineer for a band that had the talent (and balls) to do a live Little Feat medley that included this tune!
Paul has done a great job of stepping in as front man since Lowell's been gone. The guys have stuck together to play THEIR music. Shawn was a nice addition and then she moved on. No matter what, they have created some of the most awesome music of the last 40 years and they still grind it out, day in and day out. Still a live show worth seeing and still creating music worth listening to. I've met countless fathers at shows, with their sons and daughters, just to show them what a real band can do
Hoy hoy...as the archivist for Little Feat, I'm interested to know any more info you have about the LF show you have mentioned. Do you recall the month and year of this show?? also, keep your eye open for a workshop/concert event that Paul Barrere and Fred Tackett will be sponsoring later on this year.
What Lowell and Richie and the boys created way back when was fantastic but it in no way takes away from the Feat of today. I have seen them in many incarnations and they are always great. Basically, they are one of the origional JAM bands and continue the tradition now. For those who are offended by the girl I have three names for you - Linda, Bonnie and (of course) Emmilou. All sang with Feat and only ADDED ot the music.
Lowell George did a radio interview in 1979 that is here. He spoke of going on a "solo" tour, and as for whether the band was together or not, he had a laissez-faire attitude....Bill Payne was out playing on tour with Nicolette Larson. There was a lot of talent in LA at that time. To keep the band together, Lowell has signed a contract in 1975 to produce a solo album (I assume it was "Thanks, I'll eat it here." Little Feat was very eclectic, and fortunate that a major label took them. Lowell was playing the same small clubs that Little Feat started with. He seemed to accept it, some things work out, some don't, quoting Socrates. However, the "new" Little Feat just does not, in my opinion, have the same energy as the 1970s band. I recently bough a re-release of 5 albums on CD, and they didn't remaster it, so the vinyl albums sound better, with a few clicks and pops. I read an "authoritative" music commentator who said this was the best Rock and Roll band in America in the 1970s. I tend to agree, although the machinations of the Byrds was interesting and they made one of my favorite albums in 1968, "Sweetheart of the Rodeo". Lowell was a great songwriter, and in this radio interview with slide guitar he sings a solo song. He ad it all together, in my opinion. I would love to have talked with him, and tried to get him over the hump by which we lost him. But, he was 34, not one of those 27 year olds who OD'd in the 60s and 70s. Art Bell was born just 3 months after him, in 1945--just after the surrender of Germany. I recall testing speakers and amplifiers with Little Feat albums frequently in the 70s, and if they didn't sound good--well, the speakers didn't make it. I was in Germany in 1971 for 6 months. I really do understand why the Germans liked Little Feat--something very ephemeral....I saw a video where Lowell compared his style of slide guitar to Ry Cooder--he knew what he was doing and it was new and masterful. He was a great influence on my playing and performing.
i tink dis is da best lineup since Lowell - just wait till you hear Shawnee with Romance without Finance..... maybe the longest running and most prolific Rock band ever and based on the essence of the melting pot... NAR'LENS.
Don't pay any attention to the negative comments. I'm sure Lowell is watchin' and keepin' time with his "Little Feats." You guys and gal are great. Lowell is gone and surely missed, but he would want you to keep on keepin'on.
To young to catch original line up. Did catch them in Austin, TX about '98--they did Lowell justice...and the crowd knew the words. A timeless piece for sure.
Lowell George - you have it backwards. No he was not the band, he was only the lead singer, songwriter, lead guitar player and front man. But the whole band was tight. Still, the halcyon days are always the best. Case in point; Monty Python. I still wish we could stretch those days out; they never last long enough, ever. I agree with you on Duane Allman. Another one is Chris Howe from Yes. But like Little Feat, Yes without the original singer is not quite right even though he sounds same
Yes, his name was Lowell George. I'm dyslexic and prone to juxtapose. Too bad George's spirit of love and peace, politeness and the benefit of the doubt did not get through to some of his fans. I'm glad Little Feat remembered it, though, and carried that light on. Shame on you Heather. To everyone else, my apologies.
Thanks for letting me send you a rememberance of the miracle Mile high of little feat waiting for Columbus the eguanas onthe wall and all that Columbian music the night Lowell George died way back with a quarter lb a c4 under the porch adios Amigo's signed the Barron's mc
@boied01 i do respect what your saying and agree they have made amazing music, but please dont have that attitude towards lowell he is worth alot more respect than what you have given him the guy was truly amazing when he was alive, thats all i have to say no offence meant towards you in ur musical tastes boied,
>Hoy hoy...as the archivist for Little Feat Glad to meet you. One of the best bands ever. Though this one is after Lowell passed. Is this not his daughter singing? I have an MP3 which includes her live, it took the sting out of missing Dad. I miss Lowell, and I know Bonnie Raitt does too.
@boied01 I have to agree with your, albeit callous, sentiments. It's like all those people who always whine about "The Founding Fathers" of the U.S.A. A lot of amazing things have happened since then, the U.S.A. has weathered the storm and some of the people who have guided the U.S.A. since then have done some awesome things that leave me smiling. The Founding Fathers are dead - get over it.
bradspicks Did you find it important to make a similar comment to the many others that commented they miss Lowell too? Maybe you were just having a bad day and decided it was easy to pick on someone in cyberspace? There are many beautiful artists that have moved on and I miss many of them.
nothing beats the original band , sorry, they good thru 1990's, last time i saw them at Bummerfest. those DC days and southern venues, unforgettable as the great southern jazz/rock band , the 70's will never be replicated.
I remember the brilliance of Little Feat. What seems to remain are incredibly talented artists vainly trying to please a crowd. I might have sung along and continued to listen...until they interrupted the performance to tell me to sing. Shameless flogging of expectant memories like carney hawkers with the appearance of a band, but lacking heart. In retrospect, I'd guess the nosebleed seats turned out to be OK.
The promoters - the Music Industry types - can sell tickets to these dog and pony shows, and as long as people are willing to turn off their brains, shell out their money, and go out and pretend to be 22 again, they'll make money from it. I can remember the ugly drama that made Lowell George bail from Little Feat. The band was never the same without him. That spark of madness he had(Quaaludes and Twinkies, anyone?) created legendary swampy grooves and legions of deliriously happy fans. That's what the "sing-along" bit was about. I refuse to let greedy opportunists(and the band, which abets them) ruin my memories. I just won't go, and I don't feel bad at all.Those fans can spend their money any way they want.The band are mostly good guys and were always terrific musicians, but that spark is missing, and they probably miss Lowell George the most.
hey Dave, if i remember correctly Lowell died from an overdose after the last night of recording the live album "Waiting for Columbus" . tragic lose for sure.
Tehachapi to Tonopah.... I don't know what words I've used to sing along to that but it ain't been them two. 🤦🤷 I think I sang something like "you had to be the tone of ark" which meant absolutely friggin nothing to me and I always wondered wtf are they singing...only been about 40-50 years. 🤦 wait I think somebody told me what the words were way the freak back in like 1970 -71 or something. Standing in a driveway as somebody sang it. Can't quite remember but anyway. You ever notice if a cover sings a song they pronounce the words. But the originator slurs the hell out of it.
I remember when feat came to our area , would have been around 75or 76 . As a 14 ish lad I didn’t know much of them. Man would it love to go back and make that concert.
Little Feat died when Lowell George died. I can't even listen to this. It may as well be another band entirely. It's NOT 'LITTLE FEAT' it's a Little Feat TRIBUTE band. The woman singer kills it completely for me.
One of my absolute favourite bands, loved the early stuff with Lowell George, saw them play at an American air base in the UK for the release of Chinese Work Songs and was privileged to go back stage, had an interesting chat with Richie Hayward, a really nice guy, said a brief hello to Paul Barrere and the other guys, congratulated them on a great gig, and came away with a signed CD and a couple of inscribed guitar pics from Paul Berrere and Fred Tackett. Willin was one of the first Little Feat songs I learned to play and always gets into the mix when I’m jamin with my brother’s
Saw them in Oxford, UK, around this time. Went on my own. Small venue. I was a few feet from the stage. Got lost, completely, in the music. Probably my favourite band. In my dreams, Stephen Stills did a guest slot.
Not bad they are brilliant don"t listen then and stop keep going on about Lowell George he"s fucking dead end of story, all the idiots on this page who keep going on about Lowell George are not real little feat fans he wasn" the only singer you know or song writer
I guess Im just old school. Have seen them a time or 2.. (with Lowell).., I am SO a Lowell George fan it just makes me feel bad to listen to them w/o him. Call me weird. ;-D.
One of a kind song writer one-of-a-kind musician too much talent for one person he heard things in a different way any play things in the same way and erupt things in the same way they'll never be another Lowell George
re a woman's sound being wrong for the band, tell linda ronstadt, who sang with lowell, at least, a LOT, on little feat tunes (like this one). or listen to the backup singers on fat man in the bathtub with the blues. feats has ALWAYS had female singers! as for lowell, shunning the longtime remaining band won't bring him back. listening, however, may afford some pleasure. if it doesn't, for some, so be it, but the rest of us are glad they're still around. g
@SHAKEDOWN72 Look at it this way... it's the same as if Mick Jagger and Keith Richards left the Stones. Would it still be the Stones ? HELL NO !!! Once the members who the fans identify with because they MADE the sound of the band, the MOJO of the band, etc.... the band is NO LONGER the band. May be their songs, and some original members.. but it is NOT the same band and NEVER will be.
@PaMairi I completely agree w/you. It may as well not even be the same band. I absolutely HATE the addition of the woman to the band. I think she ruins the entire sound. Their MOJO died along w/Lowell IMO. The band has never sounded the same. Just can't get into them anymore.
Lowell and cocaine? If so he was just messing around playing 'cause his preferred drug of choice was smack, horse, mexican mud...in one word, heroin. It killed him. Then again who's to say it also it didn't open that door to all the great music he wrote. Lowell George was brillant.
@mikehattan 'cuz they didn't have bongs when Lowell died ;-) But really, the original has integrity that this just can't ever hope to match. Little Feat continues their career on Lowell's coattails, and that's just sad...
Lowell was Feat.Saw them two years ago in Amsterdam: a bunch of great musicians but no interaction with the public: Paul,Kenny,Bill on stage: such a shame,,,come back and do it over again: and please: GRINGO..bles Little Feat
