This version has the added bonus of no prototype Little Feat tracks (bundled as a sales incentive to the CD) which sound better - and right - on a Little Feat album. The CD release also had a below-par Neon Park cover, wrongly suggesting a below-par Little Feat album.
The group featured in a couple of TV shows, and I'll put the clips here if I (or you) can find them. EDIT: Yay!!!!!!
Sitarswami sent in a couple of super-precious B-sides, which I've seamlessly integrated into the whole, and added an improved cover redolent of the times. All this available at no extra cost in the comments. Note: The early Little Feat tracks are not included, because this ain't Little Feat. I'm finding a home for them - stay tuned, subscribers!
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ReplyDeleteI wannit, and I’ll have a teenage -- er, AARP-eligible-age -- nervous breakdown if I can’t have it!
ReplyDeleteWell, pals, if ever there was a lost classic in a genre super-saturated with "lost classics", this is it.
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And here I thought it aw about to git all artsy rocksy up in heah... Thought fer shure we were about to have something related to ANDY WARHOL served up to us... (Urp) Lou Red that write. I "surmised," "assumed" and "chicken counted," ALL before reading ANYTHING but the Foam-head-line. Who, moi?!
ReplyDeleteGood (missed) connection. I'll amend the text.
DeleteAmen to Tex?
DeleteWait.
Ne-e-e-e-ever mind (Emily Litella).
I think I need new glasses....
Well those unwashed hippies definitely give new meaning to the term "don't let the bed bugs bite". At least the cavallery man didn't accidentally shoot them, mistaken them for injuns.
ReplyDeleteGood lawd, F Troop and Gomer Pyle. 60s TV comedies come to the Isle of Foam. Where's my Slinky?
ReplyDeleteTh' Isle O' Foam© has a Lost Ark warehouse full of this stuff. It was here when we arrived - spooky!
DeleteHerewith the artwork for Lowell George & The Factory 's 1993 reissue as 'Lightning-Rod Man': https://we.tl/t-KIHXYaaMLy
ReplyDeleteLeiber & Stoller's 'Framed' is less frantic than The Sensational Alex Harvey Band's - but more chillin'
And here are the b-sides to the two Factory 45s, both from 1967. "When I Was A Apple" is the flipside of "Smile Let Your Life Begin, and "Bo Diddley" (not what you think) is the flip of "No Place I'd Rather Be" which are credited to Emil Richards & The Factory. It's a shame no one has turned up a Lowell George recording of his Gary Lewis & the Playboys single "Has She Got the Nicest Eyes" which was recorded around the same time as the Factory.
ReplyDeleteFactory b-sides: https://www94.zippyshare.com/v/7wXVULK8/file.html
This. Is. Amazing.
Delete*strews petals at Sitarswami's feet*
Martin F Kibbee! aka Fred Martin. Lyricist and, it seems, bassist.
ReplyDeleteNew version: https://workupload.com/file/8EMBnmv55ff
ReplyDeleteAdditional five tracks are included on Lowell George & The Factory "Lightning-Rod Man" album: https://bit.ly/3i6GSMX
DeleteViz:
11 - Candy Cane Madness (Live Version)
12 - Crack In Your Door
13 - Teenage Nervous Breakdown
14 - Framed
15 - Juliet
I should note that, on these extra tracks, the players include:
DeleteBass – Roy Estrada
Guitar – Elliot Ingber
Piano – Bill Payne
Saxophone – Ian Underwood
(for the completeists)
Also just realised that tracks dates are:
DeleteTracks 1+6: Fall '66
Track 2 : February/March 1966
Track 3 : January 1967
Track 4 : February 1967
Track 7 : Summer '67
Tracks 9+10+11 : 8/18/66
Track 12 : late '69
Tracks 12-15 are all Lowell George post-Factory
Only just read your "Note: The early Little Feat tracks"
Yup. As punishment for NOT READING THE POST (how hard can this be?) you are hereby sentenced to listen to an Ed Sheeran album.
DeleteWhich one? Is there a choice? Is life worth living thereafter?
DeleteNo, I imagine they all suck. Not that I would know many Ed Sheeran records. Rented an AIrBnB this July from a young guy with a hipster vinyl collection, only a handful of platters (Abbey Road, a David Bowie comp etc.) and an Ed Sheeran record. Thought I'd throw it on as a nice change of pace. Yeah, uh, nu-uh. Stopped before making it halfway through onee side.
DeleteSo, yeah, take your punishment and like it!
I bet that hipster had Kind Of Blue on vinyl, too. Kind Of White, you ask me ...
DeleteNo, he didn't, but what saved his tiny-ass, hipster record collection of ten or so platters was that one was a Sesame Street album he probably listened to when he was a kid and another was a self-published record of a Dutch bluegrass band whose lead singer (an American) was - judging from the note on the sleeve - his dad. Hipster redeemed!
DeleteWow, what a treasure trove has been presented for my amusement here -- thanks guys!
ReplyDeletePubic Seaweed Ann...hold on, from the top, Public Service Announcement:
ReplyDeleteWith all the swell Dillards stuff posted from Farq and SBG, I decided to make myself an extra swell Anthology, and then browsed youtube to see if I can add a track or two from albums I don't have, as one is prone to do these days. Turns out they have the "Tribute to the American Duck" album from 1973. With a title like that I expected a lark of an album, but it's actually top notch, up there with "Roots And Branches" as their most consistent. I'll put that up in the Dillards post for those that might want and don't have.
And since y'all are probably to lazy to browse through Farq's crazy-ass name old posts to find stuff, as he himself is, I'm gonna put the link here as well.
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https://workupload.com/archive/yPZszjdy
Thanks, OBG!
DeleteThanks for the swell proto-Feat tracks, Farq & Sitarswami!
ReplyDeleteYes, many thanks to Farq, Sitarswami and JJ Wombat for the baby Feat!
DeleteI've clicked on each letter or your comments and can't find the link. Please respond to my MySpace page...
ReplyDelete(thx!)