Little Feat by Steve Rose
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- Little Feat came out of Los Angeles in the early '70s and established a unique identity by merging New Orleans funk with country, jazz, and urban rock, resulting in a string of classic songs and albums that have a timeless quality and still remain contemporary sounding today.
At the forefront of their musical identity was their visionary leader Lowell George, whose groundbreaking style of slide guitar applied Southern Delta blues technique to R&B and mainstream rock. His influence has extended to a generation of musicians including Bonnie Raitt, Ben Harper, blues guitarist Roy Rogers, and bands such as the Radiators, and the Subdudes.
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Best damn band Never did I see Little Feat with Lowell, sad but still the most talented group of musicians ever. Bill Payne, Richie Hayward, Paul Barrere, Sam Clayton and Fred Tackett gave us so many awesome nights in Jamaica and the Beacon NYC.
Just saw them tonight, they were SUPERIOR ❤
Lowell George was a close friend and he told me that Zappa said, "Lowell,, you're a leader, I'm a leader, now get your own damn band!"
@Shawnjuan54 :
That sounds exactly as it is likely to have happened. Lowell definitely had his own thang.
PLEASE tell us more. PLEASE?!
@@NickNicometi I asked Lowel why he wrote all of his lyrics in lowercase? His response, "I want to remain humble." 🌹
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@Leandro Griffin I watch on Flixzone. You can find it by googling :)
Love Little Feat's first 2 albums!!
Love this band. No one comparable. It's a joke that there not in rock hall of fame. Many perfect albums including the Last Record Album. Not just 2 songs you mention. They are eclectic in there music unlike anyone I heard. Love the Allman Brothers, the Dead but The Feat were a musical smorgasbord
Little Feat was likely the most overlooked first rate band. Their musicianship was top notch. Lowell George was my favorite guitar player. BTW It's Ted Templeman.
The band was "overlooked" only by much younger, musically unaware people who routinely "overlook" every talented band.
Saw Little Feat with Lowel George new years eve 78 in Houston, Jerry Jeff Walker was the opening act, was a shocker to hear of his death months later, one of the best bands I have ever seen.
I’m Aussie and I listen to them daily,their music just lifts me out of a slump.
Imo Feats Dont Fail Me Now is their best, closely followed by The Last Record Album.
Disagree. They're all the best.
Feats don't fail me now is fantastic. I wasn't as big a fan of the last record album but long distance love is definitely one of my favorite feat songs
Me too, maybe the other way round tho...
Just about every track on Dixie Chicken is a classic. Definitely their best.
And every different live version of Dixie Chicken is its own classic.
Best band ever!
Lets also mention Lowell's memorable appearance on the 60's TV show F Troop -
superfuzzymomma vital trivia for the feat/george fan, to be sure.... i will be looking the f troop episode o. so. soon.
And Homer Pyle
Gomer
The Bedbugs!
Thank you for this valuable info. I loved it, you should do more.
A music lover from Finland Scandinavia. Lifetime LF fan. A great video, thank you!
I was at that show at the SJ Civic, it was my second chance to see them. 1976- I was a senior in High School... I remember standing 20 feet from the stage in front of Lowell and being transported.....
was fortunate to see them twice in london ,at the rainbow and charlton football ground - epic!
Saw them in London at the Rainbow on the Warner Bros tour, they literally blew the Doobie Brothers off the stage, they came back on for an encore after the DB's admitted defeat, my best ever gig!
OMG, this is almost exactly my experience! I saw LF in 1975 as the opener for ELO. They blew the roof off the joint, it was beyond awesome. This took place at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. The audience was still screaming 'FEAT! FEAT!'...well after they were gone and ELO was on stage. They were so good.
Little Feat has, by far, been my favorite concert (early ’76). Stood 10 floor rows back. Early on I got so 'energized' I managed to coax about 400 people behind me to get up off the floor and join the party. A newspaper article the next day stated how awesome LF was and how they out-performed the headliner, ELO. We left after their first song. As ELO sings “Don’t Bring Me Down”! Well they did! Sorry ELO fans. Just not a match. Outpunched. Grateful Feat fan.
I was a Feat head when they opened for ELO and went to that show specifically to see Feat, this in Seattle circa 2/1976. As most of the teeners were there to see ELO it was no problem for us to get to the front for Feat's set. Like you, there was no reason to stick around after their set & we left a couple of songs into ELOs. I have to add that I think Richie Hayward was the most intense drummers I ever saw, especially considering his outstanding harmony contributions.
@@maurellar yep, me too! Same experience.
Great work!! Thanks!!
Ha! I saw that tour with. ELO and had the same reaction..changed my life
Best band I ever saw, nice review Steve.
Seen the Feat many times,always fabulous even without Lowell.
Wow. Great. Thank you. I wanted to know - ALL OF THAT!!! 🙏🏻🤙🏻😎🍷🍄✨🍀⚡️
Best two albums Sailin Shoes and Dixie Chicken.
I love Little Feat, but listening to this could cure my insomnia.
I saw them open for Pablo Cruise. We left the concert early and made it to the record store in time to score three Little Feat albums. Best show ever!
The list of headliners who had folks leave shows opened by Little Feat is long. Bonnie Raitt refused their offer of opening for her.
I saw Pablo Cruise open for Little Feat n Buffalo. Couldn't wait for PC to get off the stage. Little feat did Waiting for Columbus without the horns but this was still the best damn show I ever saw.
Ted Templeman, not Templeton.
Timothy B Schmitt was in Poco, not Pure Prarie League. Im not sure what to believe except that I already knew that Little Feat was Peter Frampton’s favorite band.
Wow Steve Apolitical Blues was inspired by Howlin Wolf! He tells a story about a new guitar he had
Great info Steve but Taj Band w Ry was called Rising Sons I have CD has Statesboro Blues on it! I believe the one Duane listened to
Disagree with Doobie Brothers entry here as first album described as having one good tune! The whole lp was great. Tom and Pat were stellar in their musicianship.
I have then all have had for years
Good briefing about the best Live-Band ever .
Apolitical Blues was inspired by Howlin' Wolf, not Muddy Waters
And Wolf was inspired by the political songs of JB Lenoir - a great, but little known bluesman.
Right. Just that glaring mistake makes me wonder why this guy didn't triple check most of his lotsofholes "review".
Hold on 1 minute! No mention of the tremendous album, Feats Dont Fail me Now with Oh Atlanta, Spanish Moon, Skin it Back and Rock n Roll Doctor. and when he talks about Time Loves a Hero he never mentions the greatest Michael Mcdonald backing vocal on Red Streamliner. Why not, he mentions Doobie Bros at other times. He glosses over Last Record Album which is a masterpiece without a bad note. Lowell George's voice was at its peak. His silky vocals on Mercenary Territory on that record kills it. And how about mentioning that many many rock critics feel that Waiting For Columbus may be the greatest live recording ever made- with Rock od Ages by The Band close too. This guy is no Feat Fan. Long Live Lowell George and Little Feat!
YOU need to put together your own rockumentary about the band. They need a great producer to put together the right Rockumenary to get them into the R&R HOF.
I'm with you on this reviewer's lack of authority, but also with blastman, that someone needs to do something authoritative on Little Feat. It would be too great if they could get into to the hall of fame.
@@1blastman I seriously doubt Lowell would want to be in the "R&R" HOF.... with Madonna
@@bloozedaddy You're most likely correct, but for us still living and seeing less worthy bands inducted, it would be a small measure of satisfaction that a band that we've loved for over five decades is finally getting the recognition that it richly deserves.
@@1blastman it's just too political because of Jann Wenner as to who gets in. You'll never see Ted Nugent or Grand Funk Railroad (because of Mark Farner) get in because Wenner believes he's God and their politics aren't suitable for Ol' Jann. FEAT were so great. I knew Ed King from Skynyrd and did some studio demo work for him and I asked him if they'd done shows with them and he told me they were the one band the guys would sneak to the back of the hall to watch when Feat opened for them. That's quite the endorsement. 🤘
Thanks Steve, some new nuggets of info on a band I have grown to love in the 21st century. Interesting it pulling together bits and pieces from the depths of my collection. Love the Prairie League album I got given, have most of the Ry Cooders, will check my Zappa collection for Lowell on them.
Lowell was on an episode of a tv show called "F Troop" too if I recall correctly.
Great stuff!
I would like to disagree. I think the first Little Feat album is a great way to turn somebody onto the band who has never heard them. You might think that it sounds a bit inaccessible,but I found that to be totally untrue due to the fact that when the album was released I wasn't even born yet. The first Little feat record I ever heard was the first record they made. To this day it remains my favorite album by them it and I'm almost 50 years old.I think every song from the beginning to the end really flows very well into the next track. It's a great introduction of what the band sounds like. When you hear the sophomore, Junior,senior( their fourth record), they just got better and better.Louisville's guitar playing as far as sligo's has influenced my playing for my entire life and the only other slide player who was influenced me as much as him was Duane Allman & George Harrison.something about them they had their own slide style that you could tell them apart from other people right away. Lowell definitely fit that category
great stuff. never heard of them until “day at the dog races” was part of the song list for laser rock shows in salt lake city (1977?). beeeeezarre that the song that made me love the band sounds nothing like all their other classics. lowell may not have like it, but it was awesome for running intervals at track practice.
Cool man. Good info.
What's the point of this dispassionate recitation of the milestones of Little Feats journey? It's hard to imagine anyone thinking "Wow, that's a band I want to know more about." Little Feat with Lowell George were a force of nature. No band was their equal for talent and FUN. For anyone new to Little Feat, I suggest starting with very well produced live album "Waiting For Columbus". I saw Little Feat twice, the second time a few weeks before the shows that make up "Waiting For Columbus". WFC captures all that is great about Little Feat and especially L. George's singing and slide playing. Little Feat were uniquely American and I'm very lucky to have seen and heard them. But anyone can listen to Waiting For Columbus and capture almost all of that feeling. I still do.
Timothy Schmidt came from Poco, not Pure Prairie League.
When Ted Templeman showed Van Morrison the cover of Sailing Shoes Van said "How can you work with those guys?" Ben Fong Torres wrote Willin, an excellent book.
Yeah because Van Morrison's mug was so much more attractive than Neon Park's art. Pffffft. And Moondance is no Spanish Moon. What a twerpish remark, snide and wrongheaded.
Ted TempleMAN---- Temple M A N . How does he get so many things so wrong?
What is cringy is his authoritative tone on top of all of the misinformation.
Saw Feat open for ELO at the San Jose Civic Auditorium about that time (1975 or so). ELO was OK, but nobody before or since has done what needed to have be done compared to Lowell George.
Nay. Feats Don’t Fail Me Now is the best album
timothy b schmit was never in pure prairie league. little feat was a great band.
Correct...he was in Poco before the Eagles
Ted Templeman. Not "Templeton".
The Frank Zappa puppet show...now that is something I'd like to see.
There's a clip of him playing a bicycle on the Steve Allen Show: czcams.com/video/QF0PYQ8IOL4/video.html
This guy no soul. Lots of misinformation. LF were the BEST. LG was the man behind it all. Always an amazing live band until he was no more.
yeahman, i was at that San Jose Civic concert
Don't watch this video! It's banal, and sucks the "life force" out of the music!
Craig Fuller . Not Greg ,dude got so much shit wrong...
I saw the reformed lineup on Avila beach in California in the 90s. They could still hold down a groove like nobody else.
It's Craig Fuller not Gregg and Tim Schmitt had nothing to do with Pure Praire League. But Two Lane Highway is the most criminally ignored/underrated Country Rock album in history. Easily should be in Everyone's top 100 albums to listen to before you die list.
Only "ignored/underrated" by much younger, musically unaware people. Everyone else held the band in very high regard from the beginning.
flawless review.i know even more about little feat now.thank you mr rose.
There are many flaws in this review.
Really concise authentic and well done Bravo
Except he got a lot of facts wrong and left out a lot of very important information.
@@namcat53
Hey Bud,
You know what’s funny?
Despite being a Little Feat fan,
I think that I accidentally
mis-posted this comment,
which was actually meant
to compliment a drum cover
of Hearts Crazy On You
(the guy was the only one
that played the very difficult
final section passes properly)
In other words,
you’re probably right,
in that I have limited knowledge
of LFs lineup history,
and some poor drummer guy
never got his justified credit
My (unintentional) bad
Cheers
@@namcat53
PS
Update
Just had a quick look
and I can’t find the guy anymore
The roll in question
(a legend amongst pros)
happens at approximately 4:20
and other than that one guy
(who I swear that I saw play it)
I’ve haven’t heard anyone even come close to duplicating it since
czcams.com/video/OZuW6BH_Vak/video.html
Funny how one misplaced comment turned into a whole side investigation for a phantom drum cover
All to say, I appreciate you pointing out the error
that eventually led me
down this rabbit hole
Cheers
ELO couldn't hold a candle to Little Feat. Love the mention for an ultimate band, but your rhetoric is a tad on the pedestrian side. Cliche cliche cliche. Zappa played a bicycle on The Steve Allen Show.
What ! No mention of "Live at Neon Park ? One of the best live albums ever. Shame
too much precipitence, annoying. also i beleive that this type of review, with due respect of your intensions, is what sank the feat popularity wise.
Fer cryin out loud. Ted Templeman LF Sailin Shoes producer. Puh leez get your shit together.
im gonna have to disagree with most of this
Elaborate please