"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 (seven years ago) link
he kills it on van dyke parks' discover america
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 20:32 (seven 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 (seven 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 (seven years ago) link
That would be ace
No mention of LG on the - discover America - Wikipedia page
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:09 (seven years ago) link
There is on allmusic though
― calstars, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
LF also backs John Cale on Paris 1919, right?
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 21:25 (seven years ago) link
Yup.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 22:18 (seven years ago) link
Put on your sailing shoes=light it up bro
― calstars, Saturday, 13 May 2017 21:28 (seven years ago) link
"Long distance Love" is so good
― 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 (seven 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 (seven 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
xpost "Long Distance Love" always seemed like a crucial influence on Isbell.
― dow, Sunday, 27 January 2019 03:01 (five years ago) link
Mike McDonald super backing vox on the funky Red Streamliner...late period greatness
― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2019 03:15 (five years ago) link
I thought the revive might be about the first Akiko Yano record getting a reissue.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 23 March 2019 09:13 (five years ago) link
Oh, that’s a good one
― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2019 12:39 (five years ago) link
Here's a curious artifact
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2jgIQBzQZk
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 23 March 2019 16:09 (five years ago) link
and this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsSl7xOK2Qs
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 23 March 2019 17:18 (five years ago) link
Cool!
While we're sharing vids, here's live in the rehearsal studio one the band made for "Long Distance Love" to air on The Test...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeHlrS-FLH4
― a large tuna called “Justice” (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 23 March 2019 18:26 (five years ago) link
Is that the really drugged out one? The boys look tired
― calstars, Saturday, 23 March 2019 19:07 (five years ago) link
How did you wind up getting Lowell George, Bill Payne and Richie Hayward of Little Feat to play on Paris 1919 ?I loved that album Dixie Chicken. That tone on [George’s] guitar was very sweet. It was the grooves that he had. And after playing me an early cut of that record, [producer] Ted Templeman at Warner Bros. said to me: “Why don’t you use Little Feat as a backup band for Paris ?” He organized it.one of lots of good tidbits here:https://relix.com/articles/detail/the-shifty-adventures-of-john-cale/Somewhere else JC mentioned that Wilton Felder, who played bass w the Feats on this occasion (in a studio line-up billed as Penguin), read or at least had the Bible on his music stand during the sessions.
Read more: https://relix.com/articles/detail/the-shifty-adventures-of-john-cale/#ixzz5j8gYBxb4
― dow, Monday, 25 March 2019 00:43 (five years ago) link
oops dunno why the link is in there twice oh well
― dow, Monday, 25 March 2019 00:45 (five years ago) link
Wilton Felder? Who knew?
― Theorbo Goes Wild (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 25 March 2019 01:33 (five years ago) link
"long distance love" is an amazing song, the album it's from gets pretty lethargic in spots though.
half of them have little beady eyes in that vid. v. sad consdering george's fate.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Monday, 25 March 2019 04:36 (five years ago) link