Today's Spatial Addition© Box Set FoamFeatures™ everybody's most favoritest rock band, Little Feat! We get the whole ball o' wax rollin' with something I ain't yet done at th' time of typing screed, an idea what occurred to me whilst
[pretentious, toi? - Ed.] cleaning gecko shit off a windowsill, like, ten minutes back.
Jackalope Jesus "The Best Of The Shaun Murphy Years" is, er ... the best of the Shaun Murphy years? Yep! Oboy! It's way better than you might expect, for reasons you might guess.
Almost as good is my Spatial Addition©
Thanks I Ate It Here, AF-F©, which, with my signature editing flair and unerring good taste, todally transforms a slightly under-performing album into the freaking monster we always wanted from ol' Vanilla Grits.
THIS JUST IN! Realised the Factory album qualifies for this post. It's a fantastic piece a work later disowned by snobby band members ashamed of psychedelic roots (a typical stance of bands who suffered Th' Kurse O' Th' Kaftan - search box is yer pal here). It's the real first Little Feat album, L.A. candy-cane madness, and there ain't a duff track on it. I stripped out the xtry trx on the official release, because they're familiar early Feat songs, rather than late Factory, and they're comped elsewhere. This is
a album.
These swell long-playing elpee rekkids are the ideal accompaniment to poolside brunch, conversation pit cocktails, or getting rimmed by a Lithuanian crack whore in your project Econoline!
What have I got to do to earn this lavish serving of refried feats?
ReplyDeleteWe're all set to receive the "goods".....
ReplyDeleteIlene & Ben Dover
Let the poor guy sleep for a bit. 'Spect something will fall into our laps after his yummy breakfast.
ReplyDeleteYour teeth, probably.
DeleteThis is a lavish offer: who do we need to blow?
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DeleteI am as surprised as youse bums to see this here, having inadvertently pressed the "publish" button before retiring last night. I beg your indulgence and vow to provide linkage at my earliest opportunity. Please hum selections from H.M.S. Pinafore, accompanied by casting shadow puppets on the wall, until such time as normal service is resumed. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteJackalope Jesus is a double album of enjoyable country-funk-rock, with the kind of playing you only get from seasoned perfeshnials. The songs have one thing in common, but apart from that never cross the line into greatness (that was Lowell's job, th' lazy slob), or even memorability. But that won't prevent you from shufflin' yer slippers to th' sawdust swing n' barnyard backbeat o' th' mighty Feat!
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Cool, now I can stop humming 'The Hours Creep On Apace'.
DeleteGee, Babs! This is like we're on the phone! Uh ... what you wearin?
Delete*rattles handset cradle* Hello? Operator?
DeleteI spent my time waiting watching the geckoes chase each other up and down and round and round the walls & ceiling of my humble abode here in da' Sarf!!! Thanks Farq for this abundance of Feat goodies!!!
ReplyDeleteIn addition to the wall jewellery, we have a BFG in the attic which crashes about occasionally, catching mice. He's jake with me.
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I remember watching The Factory (as The Bedbugs) on TV's F Troop.
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Thanks Farq for this Feat package, never realized the Jesus 'connection' before, great artwork as usual!
ReplyDeleteLittle Feat - 1977-07-23 - Rockpalast, Essen, Germany - Video mkv file.
ReplyDeleteI also have the soundcheck from this show if anyone wants it.
https://workupload.com/file/JqecjAfDyyt
Ooh! Don't think I have this - fengkyew!
DeleteHere's the soundcheck. Not essential, but interesting to see.
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Always loved Little Feat. First heard them down in Oz in 1976 with their Feats Don't Fail Me Now album. Cruising along as Lowell's backing band, they got to 1977, when Bill and Paul started to tire of Lowell's song writing control and began composing jazz influenced pieces. Thank God! Maybe the band could have carried on into the Eighties with the grudgingly democratic One, but even if he hadn't kicked the bucket, I don't imagine it would have worked out, as he was caught up in a time warp of cowgirls and drunken truckers in some cantina down on the border. Great musician, missed by many and he was the maker of Little Feat, but a change had to come, and round about every decade it seems to me.
ReplyDeleteAs I understand it, which may be inadequately, Lowell's increasing drug intake left no room for his muse. His creativity, never prolific, dried up, leaving the rest of the band obliged to step up to take his place. I think they'd have been as happy as the band's fans if he'd continued writing the great songs responsible for the band's success, and it's unfair to guess they'd have been stuck in a cowgirls and drunken truckers rut if he hadn't drugged himself to death.
DeleteIncidentally, nobody's commented on the guiding philosophy behind this comp - anybody played it yet? Discussion potential.
Although it's well documented that Lowell wasn't interested in the musical direction that the band wanted to take, and when performing tracks such as Red Streamliner and Day At The Dog Races, he refused to play. Instead, he only wanted to play their earlier recordings (his own) on tour. Judging by the quality of Lowell's 1979 album, I don't see it as unfair to "guess" the continued direction in where the band would be heading.
DeleteHave you heard this version? It's a legit alternative with added tracks that could (should) have been included. It's also worth repeating that at this time he was on drugs wherever he was, in or out of the band, so if in some alternate universe he got off the drugs, instead of died, it's impossible to say if his songwriting abilities would have returned and the direction they might have taken. Moot, indeed. But you're being way too hard on the guy. Barrere and Payne are more than capable musicians (fantastic arrangers, too) and decent lyricists, but coming up with a tune as strong and as characterful as Lowell could at the top of his game has always been beyond them.
DeleteIf you still think Thanks I Ate It Here is sub-par in any way, you're going to have to fight Babs and me. The album's full of the soul that Barrere and Payne couldn't summon up to save their lives. And I speak as one who likes their later recordings (particularly this set - and still no comments).
Just a bit more of his signature slide playing on TIEIH and we'd all be saying it was Lowell's masterpiece. That there isn't as much as some people would have liked says something about his approach to the album. He didn't just want to put out what could have been another LF album in all but name.
DeleteRowan, have you heard a Sydney band called "Chasin' the Train"? Very Featsish and covered a few Feats songs on their only album.
DeleteNo Steve, I haven't but I'll check 'em out. Cheers.
DeleteI didn't mean to be hard on him, only on the issue when those who claim "ownership" and attempt to deny progression on the other band members, and then take the Mick out of the ones whom he perceives as "threats" ( Bill 'n Paul). Whenever I inquire about anything Little Feat, Lowell's mug appears. says something.... innit!
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