{"id":164,"date":"2011-08-06T18:04:31","date_gmt":"2011-08-07T01:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2011-08-06T18:04:31","modified_gmt":"2011-08-07T01:04:31","slug":"music-little-feats-waiting-for-columbus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/music-little-feats-waiting-for-columbus\/","title":{"rendered":"music: Little Feat&#8217;s Waiting for Columbus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: 1em;\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/7\/7e\/Little_Feat_-_Waiting_for_Columbus.jpg\" alt=\"Waiting for Columbus album cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" align=\"left\" \/>I had this live double album and sold it because I wasn&#8217;t that big a fan. But I heard a friend&#8217;s copy and had to buy it again. &#8220;All That You Dream&#8221; has one of the greatest intros ever (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S8V1olWt8I0\">video of another live version<\/a>, not as crisp). Bill Payne&#8217;s synthesizer lines (<del datetime=\"2011-08-07T00:14:24+00:00\">ARP<\/del> Oberheim, I assume) on &#8220;Time Loves a Hero&#8221;-&#8220;Day or Night&#8221;, though they sound dated, sear and soar. Another great pair of songs is &#8220;Tripe Face Boogie&#8221; and &#8220;Oh Atlanta&#8221; There&#8217;s tension between the down-home Southern boogie, New Orleans sophisticated funky vibe, jazz-rock jams (Lowell George left soon after over the usual \u201cmusical differences\u201d) but out of that tension between the musicians came some phenomenal music.<\/p>\n<p>Reading about the album and band on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Little_Feat\">Wikipedia<\/a> makes me appreciate it even more<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>it is considered by many rock music critics to be one of the best live albums of all time, even though significant portions of George&#8217;s vocals and slide work were over-dubbed later in the studio.<\/li>\n<li>Little Feat were the backing band for <a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_Palmer_%28singer%29\">Robert Palmer<\/a>&#8216;s album <em><a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pressure_Drop_%28album%29\">Pressure Drop<\/a><\/em>, which featured his cover version of Lowell&#8217;s song &#8220;Trouble.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ahh, when live albums captured bands at their peak, with the mobile truck rolled up and months spent remixing and re-recording to perfect the presentation. Besides this, I have some other greats: <a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frampton_Comes_Alive!\">Frampton Comes Alive<\/a>, <a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Welcome_Back_My_Friends_to_the_Show_That_Never_Ends..._Ladies_and_Gentlemen\">Welcome Back My Friends&#8230; (ELP)<\/a>, and <a title=\"Wikipedia article\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yessongs\">Yessongs<\/a>. Now most concert DVDs are a cheaply-made capture off the PA board, at best a slightly embarrassing memento.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had this live double album and sold it because I wasn&#8217;t that big a fan. But I heard a friend&#8217;s copy and had to buy it again. &#8220;All That You Dream&#8221; has one of the greatest intros ever (video &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/music-little-feats-waiting-for-columbus\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.skierpage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}