Ever hear of a band called "Little Feat?"

[Archae]

I'm recording albums for my sister, and one of the records is from a band called "Little Feat."
Never heard of them until today.

While they aren't nearly as bad as Steve Miller, they still suck. (IMO, of course.)

[Tobin S.]

1. I think you might have just picked a fight

[liberal N proud]

2. I have several albums from Little Feat

All on vinal.

[Archae]

4. The one I'm recording...

"Feats Don't Fail Me Now."

And the one I'm recording is on vinyl, not vinal.

[liberal N proud]

11. Mine too.

[pintobean]

3. Living under a rock must suck

Doing it with bad taste must really suck.

[Archae]

5. I could do this one next.

I'll do "James Gang Greatest Hits" instead.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. you need to make a Frisbee out of that one. Your sister won't mind, honest.

[Mopar151]

14. Novice skeet. n't

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. ah, yeah. Skeet. Much more fun and very appropriate.

[Archae]

16. My sister wouldn't mind.

But her husband likes that album.

Otherwise I'd turn it into a cat toy after using it as a frisbee.

[Mopar151]

23. Start with Ted's notebook

With catch phrases and the latest sayin' - basically to turn into hooks. Start after Breakfast - Do some random jamming, consolidate recent occurring licks from backstage warmup jamming, flip through the book to see if any of the ideas match up with the poetic meter of the hooks. Write a short intro, repeat the hook./lick Ad Nauseaeum with either a double entendre or "a manifesto of badass" verse, Call the manager and wake up the band. Burn lunch. Cut 9 songs in 7 hours, courier master tape to record label.

[lexx21]

57. Are you honestly saying

that you don't like "Free for all"?

[Tuesday Afternoon]

58. Never Did Like Nugent. Nope. Not Ever.

Black Sabbath
Grand Funk Railroad
even
Black Oak Arkansas

but.

Never Nugent.

[pintobean]

36. If you'll be my Dixie Chicken

I'll be your Huckleberry.

[Flaxbee]

34. lol

a little mean, but funny

Archae - I have heard of (and even listened to!) Little Feat. They're not my favorite by any stretch of the imagination, but they're not as bad as many.

[pintobean]

48. I was shooting for funny

It looks like he took it well - he threatened me with Nugent's Cat Scratch Fever.
Now, that's mean.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Yes, I have, from the early 80s. nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

7. One of my favorite bands ever... look for their live album, "Waiting for Columbus".

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I never saw them live, but once I saw Bonnie Raitt with a backup band simply called
"Chicken Legs", was bowled over by them but didn't realize until AFTER the show that
they were "Little Feat" minus the departed Lowell George.
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Maybe the best show I've ever seen.
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"Oh, the fights."
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[graywarrior]

9. Saw them live in Boston

They were good.

[GReedDiamond]

10. The late Lowell George still has a lot of fans out there...

...his first band, The Factory, included a guitarist named Warren Klein. Warren also played with Lowell in Little Feat.

(BTW, The Factory appeared as a frontier psychedelic rock band on an episode of the 1960s sitcom, F Troop.)

In 1987, Warren came to my recording studio in Pasadena and recorded a nice sitar track for a song called Bronson Caves, from an album called Mute Lament, by my band The Hundredth Monkey.

More significantly, Warren was a guitarist with The Fraternity of Man (Easy Rider movie/soundtrack: Don't Bogart Me, the song with the line "Don't Bogart that joint, my friend, pass it over to me&quot , and The Stooges (featuring Iggy Pop), in 1973.

Besides guitar and sitar, Warren also plays tamboura and dulcimer.

Anyway, I wouldn't be dissin Little Feat around here.

[Archae]

12. I just didn't like 'em.

There are people who like Ted Nugent and don't like the Beatles on this board.

Everyone's likes and dislikes are different.

[Mopar151]

19. Don't mean they know anything

or had any taste. When other respected bands./musicans give them props, they are universally beloved by critics, and , to my ear, were awesome songwriters (Dixie Chicken, Willin', Spanish Moon), great arrangers, and players who stood out for their contributions to ensemble playing.

[Archae]

20. At least they aren't Nickelback.

Now watch, the Nickelback fans will jump all over me.

[KamaAina]

54. ...

[GReedDiamond]

24. I hear ya, but, there are all sorts of bands and "solo" artists...

...which I do not care for, but, I don't start negative threads about them.

If anything, at least I'm not backwards-promoting them by complaining about them.

Ted Nugent is the worst "musician" I've ever had the displeasure of hearing.

Plus, he probably has very few defenders here at DU.

Personally, I think The Beatles are kinda overrated, but I still love em.

[Mopar151]

28. Ted's grades:

Showman - was a solid "A" in the late 70's, long decline since. Musican - B+, depends on attitude - far better as an ensemble player than a frontman - look at the video for Amboy Dukes "Journey to the center of the mind" vs. his "Wang Dang" period, or, more recently, his Damm Yankees work vs his solo FailFest. Human being - D-, in danger of failing course. Under the yearbook picture, his mantra for success : "Peter Frampton sounds great - on my friggin' stereo! If I'm drivin' a hundred miles and payin' $50 bucks to get in, I wanna see some wild fucker go nuts!"

[Teamster Jeff]

15. +++

[Baitball Blogger]

13. No. But I remember Little River Band.

[hobbit709]

18. If you never heard of them then your musical education is sorely lacking.

[dawg]

21. The Dixie Chicks ...

named themselves after a Little Feat song.

[hay rick]

22. Less sucky than Little Feat.

[Archae]

25. There is a fan of Little Feat here!

[Populist_Prole]

26. Heard OF them. Never heard them till now. Meh

Listened to the youtube links posted here. Way too mellow for my taste. Watched a few more youtube videos of them live; Better, and not at all bad to listen to; but still too mellow for my taste.

[harmonicon]

27. Did you somehow miss out on classic rock radio growing up? (or as an adult - I don't know your age)

No one else in the thread mentioned that they were the backing band for Robert Palmer's early stuff, which was fantastic - better than their own records, I think.

[Scuba]

29. A classic band. I saw them in Madison last fall, have several of their albums....

... their "style" is hard to pin down, as different influences have emerged in their various works. If you didn't like what you first heard, I recommend further listening.

[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

30. Dude!

April Fools Day in 6 months away..........

[Paladin]

31. Trashing Little Feat---AND Steve Miller?

Shame on you. Why not dump on the Flying Burrito Brothers as well, and make it a trifecta?

[nolabear]

32. How the hell old are you? And btw them's fightin' words!

But I'll agree with you about Steve Miller.

Feat! Feat! Feat! Feat! Feat!!!!

[KamaAina]

35. They do not suck so stop saying that!

Also, early Steve Miller doesn't suck. He started out in the SF blues-rock scene. "Livin' In The U.S.A.", for instance, doesn't suck.

[Archae]

39. Steve Miller's biggest hit was "Rockin' Me Baby."

Stupid lyrics, bad music and I saw an interview with Steve Miller himself, the guy has a negative IQ.

But how many times have I said I enjoy a lot of KC and the Sunshine Band, or Bee Gees, and people yell "Disco sucks!"

My Dad only liked *ONE* kind of music, his whole life.
Polkas.

His Dad only liked ONE kind of music.
Church hymns.

We all have different tastes in music, I just don't like Steve Miller, or Little Feat, or Bruce Springsteen.

[Paladin]

43. Too Much Information, But Thanks Anyway.

And Steve Miller was in business decades before "Rockin Me Baby." Give a listen to "Your Saving Grace" and see what you think.......

[Archae]

46. What happened to him?

Too much brown acid?

[Scuba]

50. I saw the Steve Miller Band (and Dave Mason) at the Wisconsin State Fair last year ...

... or maybe two years ago (getting old).

They can still rock and Steve's connection to Wisconsin, Les Paul, etc is a nice touch too.

[KamaAina]

55. Oh right, you're the Bruce-hater.

That explains everything.

[pintobean]

61. There are a lot

of us. Not really hate, just don't care for him. If he's on the radio, I change the station.

[bluesbassman]

37. Wow. Surprised on two levels. First that you've never heard of Little Feat before...

And second that after listening to "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" you can actually say that LF sucks. Now I understand that different music appeals to different people and rightly so, but at bare minimum I would think you'd appreciate LF's song writing, arrangement skills, and overall musicianship.

[Taverner]

38. I couldn't stand "2112" or "Moving Pictures"

Or anything else Rush did

Most other musicians think I'm crazy

[Archae]

41. I can't stand Rush either.

Now the Rush fans will jump all over the two of us.

[Ikonoklast]

45. Being a musician has nothing to do with thinking that you are crazy.

(cough)

[bluesbassman]

47. I noticed you didn't say Rush sucks though.

Not being able to stand a certain band or genre of music is not the same. There are songs by virtually every artist I can think of that I do not care for. There are bands and genres that I don't care for too, but a band has to be pretty devoid of talent to warrant a "suck". In both of these examples (Rush and Little Feat), it's unquestionable that these band are superior musicians, whether one "likes" their music or not is simply a matter of personal taste IMO.

[Taverner]

49. As far as playing goes, they do not suck

They can play their axes well

I just can't stand the music

[Ikonoklast]

40. Ah! To be young and so totally unaware yet once again!

Little Feat has influenced so many different musicians in so many different genres as to almost be a cliche of a seminal influence in modern music.

[Archae]

42. Young?

I'm 52, almost 53!

[Ikonoklast]

44. Punk kid! Get Off My Lawn!! GRRRRR!!!!

With your skateboards and walkmen and...stuff!

[Scuba]

51. That's young from here.

[driver8]

52. "Waiting for Columbus" is one of the greatest live albums, ever!!

Man, these guys could play!!

[kurtzapril4]

53. They're my husband's fav band

And you are correct, sir.

[lexx21]

56. Ahh the ignorance of youth today

They were one of the best things about the 70's (excepting water beds of course). Also Steve Miller Band's "Frankenstein" was AWESOME.

Now while I know that as a young person raised in the MTV era, you probably think that Britney Spears just "rocks out", and she apparently gives Bob Dole a woodie. However 70's rock is where it is at considering the bands (yes, actual bands) who didn't "lip sync" to music had actual talent.

Sit down with a few of those "sucky" albums, a bottle of good single malt, put on a black light and give it a chance. Preferably with a female companion named "candy" or "Sapphire" ...........

[whistler162]

59. Are they a Chinese band?

[OmahaBlueDog]

60. Why, why do you want me to put you on Ignore?

and why, why didn't you double down and mention Rush?

[AlecBGreen]

62. IF YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD LITTLE FEAT

you owe it to yourself to listen to this show:

http://archive.org/details/lf1975-10-31

you can stream it or DL it. Great classic bluesy rock. My fav from this show is definitely On Your Way Down. If you dont want to listen to the whole show (and you SHOULD want to listen ) just give that track a spin.

[davidb19766]

63. uhh no

pretty interesting name tho.