Waiting for Columbus [Live] [Original recording remastered]

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Few rock concert documents can match this 1978 live album for sheer musicianship, or for its full-blooded representation of one of the best live bands ever. Little Feat's turbulent '70s pilgrimage had been studded with commercial detours when its second incarnation as a swampy, blues-rock sextet clicked musically, and these English and American dates, beautifully recorded by George Massenburg, capture the band in all its rowdy, precise glory. The late Lowell George's influence had been damped down in the studio, deferring to his bandmates' writing and singing, but Columbus is dominated by his gruff, lyrical vocal presence and the mercurial tang of his indelible slide guitar. With the Tower of Power Horns aboard to inject razor-sharp horn work, this romp through the Feat songbook of southern-fried rock represents a satisfying summation of the band's best works, every bit as engaging as their studio models. This is simmering, smart music measured by an honor roll of great songs with no lapses. The only caveat--and a minor one--is the deletion of two tracks to squeeze the original two LPs onto a single CD. --Sam Sutherland

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Waiting for Columbus [Live] [Original recording remastered]

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Little Feat: "Waiting for Columbus" Listener Review
Quintessential live concert with all the trimmings...
Waiting for Columbus
The BEST LIVE ALBUM I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!
Clyde's Tavern

Waiting for Columbus
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Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0000631ED
Release Date: 2002-04-02

Tracks:

Join The Band
Fat Man In The Bathtub
All That You Dream
Oh Atlanta
Old Folks' Boogie
Dixie Chicken
Tripe Face Boogie
Rocket In My Pocket
Time Loves A Hero
Day Or Night
Mercenary Territory
Spanish Moon

Tracks:

Willin'
Don't Bogart That Joint
Apolitical Blues
Sailin' Shoes
Feats Don't Fail Me Now
One Love Stand (Outtake)
Rock And Roll Doctor (Outtake)
Skin It Back (Outtake)
On Your Way Down (Outtake)
Walkin All Night (Outtake)
Cold, Cold, Cold (Outtake)
Day At The Dog Races (Outtake)
Skin It Back (Outtake first issued on "Hoy-Hoy!")
Red Streamliner (Outtake first issued on "Hoy-Hoy!")
Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Outtake first issued on "Hoy-Hoy!")

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This 1978 live album remains a serious contender for one of the best live rock albums ever etched, standing toe to toe with live classics from the Band, Allman Brothers, and the Who. Recorded during concerts in London and Washington, D.C., Waiting for Columbus vividly captures the L.A. sextet at a crossroads between its swampy mid-'70s fusion of blues, country, and New Orleans R&B, and the more eclectic jazz accents introduced later in the decade. If the late Lowell George's influence had diminished in the studio, his presence dominates here in rowdy, righteous vocals, the mercurial tang of his indelible slide guitar, and a set-list laced with his songs. While still riveting in its initial, abridged CD release, this remastered two-disc edition expands and resequences the songs into a full concert set, with encore. Two deleted tracks are further augmented by 10 additional performances to make this a definitive edition of a classic album that really will "boogie your speakers away." --Sam Sutherland

Album Description

Deluxe edition of Little Feat's classic 1978 live album plus 10 bonus tracks (7 of them previously unreleased). Disc 2 features the previously unissued outtakes 'One Love Stand', 'Rock And Roll Doctor', 'Skin It Back', 'On Your Way Down', 'Walkin All Night', 'Cold, Cold, Cold', 'Day At The Dog Races' & 3 outtakes first issued on Hoy Hoy! 'Skin It Back', 'Red Streamliner' & 'Teenage Nervous Breakdown'. Slipcase.

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Little Feat: "Waiting for Columbus" Listener Review.......2007-06-27

I write this review as someone who holds a music degree from the oldest music conservatory in California - which simply means I spent a lot of time and years of my life learning to perform and recognize good music. This album is good music. I learned of Little Feat from a business colleague, and I am hooked. It is blues, it is rock, it is country rock, it is cajun: take your pick - but these tunes are all well written and well performed in a live setting. As a huge Tower of Power fan, it doesn't hurt that the famous TOP horn section is prominent on several cuts, with tenor sax solos courtesy of Lenny Pickett (the wild-looking band leader on Saturday Night Live who hits all of those really high notes on sax!). Call it old school if you must, but as a guy who just edged his way into baby boomer territory, it is new, fresh and exciting. I love this band for the same reasons I still love to listen to the great classical composers...the music is relevent.

Quintessential live concert with all the trimmings..........2007-04-29

If you're a Little Feat fan, you already know what this is about. If you're discovering them for the first time, consider this a necessary listen. Little Feat found their own space with an approach that took the relaxed, earthy, and often humorous elements of southern rock and married them to R&B, progressive, even jazz like sophistication. The result in a live venue is a wildly exciting and just plain fun concert that captures Little Feat at their best. The live versions of their songs are supercharged and embellished with occasional detours that keep them fresh without ever detracting from their studio counterparts, perhaps even supplanting a few. The recording quality of the remastered/extended release is excellent. Close your eyes and consider this a front row seat to some superb southern cookin' by a band that had no equal at the time.

Waiting for Columbus.......2007-01-29

This recording is a MUST for Little Feat Fans...it reveals just how tight this band was with Lowell George in a live recording...

The BEST LIVE ALBUM I'VE EVER HEARD!!!!.......2007-01-18

I wasn't a "Feat" fan, back in '78 or'79. I won this album in a radio station giveway! They handed it to me & I thought: Who are these guys?
I put it on & couldn't believe my ears!!
5 stars!!??? That's 'way too few!
I was hooked immediately! There is nothing like the energy on this album anywhere I've heard. I now own around 3200 cds & a good number of them are "live" albums...NOTHING compares to this performance!
I used to shuttle cars across the country & this was my ESSENTIAL tape that HAD to come; everything else changed but this... This album is special!
It was originally a double album & they clipped off one tune to make it fit ( Apolitical Blues, I believe) Too bad. every song, every note on this album is pure excitement & joy!
They even have the TOWER OF POWER horn Section sit in on a few tunes & a few famous friends show up to sing backup.
Little Feat has gone on to produce umpteen fabulous albums, many since Lowell Goerge passed (again, TOO BAD- He was simply amazing!) Anyway, Little Feat still tours today with much the same lineup as in the days of old. They still rock & they still put out excellent studio & live albums I ought to know- I now own almost all of them. But friends... This is the album. THIS Is the LIVE album against with you will measure all others; and all others will pale by comparison!

Clyde's Tavern.......2007-01-03

During my five and a half year undergraduate career at Appalachian State this recording was played more than any other at Clyde's Tavern in Blowing Rock, NC. The addition of the second CD just makes the best live rock and roll recording twice as good.

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2 LOST SONGS ARE FOUND...
NO SMALL FEAT!
a live set of boogie rock magic, southern flavored
One Of The Great Live Albums Ever

Waiting for Columbus
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Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000002KI9
Release Date: 1990-10-25

Tracks:

Join The Band
Fat Man In The Bathtub
All That You Dream
Oh Atlanta
Old Folks' Boogie
Time Loves A Hero
Day Or Night
Mercenary Territory
Spanish Moon
Dixie Chicken
Tripe Face Boogie
Rocket In My Pocket
Willin'
Sailin' Shoes
Feats Don't Fail Me Now

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Few rock concert documents can match this 1978 live album for sheer musicianship, or for its full-blooded representation of one of the best live bands ever. Little Feat's turbulent '70s pilgrimage had been studded with commercial detours when its second incarnation as a swampy, blues-rock sextet clicked musically, and these English and American dates, beautifully recorded by George Massenburg, capture the band in all its rowdy, precise glory. The late Lowell George's influence had been damped down in the studio, deferring to his bandmates' writing and singing, but Columbus is dominated by his gruff, lyrical vocal presence and the mercurial tang of his indelible slide guitar. With the Tower of Power Horns aboard to inject razor-sharp horn work, this romp through the Feat songbook of southern-fried rock represents a satisfying summation of the band's best works, every bit as engaging as their studio models. This is simmering, smart music measured by an honor roll of great songs with no lapses. The only caveat--and a minor one--is the deletion of two tracks to squeeze the original two LPs onto a single CD. --Sam Sutherland

Customer Reviews:

Feats, Do Yo' Stuff.......2006-07-26

This is certainly one of the best live rock albums ever recorded, though I wouldn't say the best. (I don't think it knocks out Live At Leeds by The Who, The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East, or even Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out by The Rolling Stones - much less Hendrix at Monterey Pop.) Still, when you combine Little Feat at their peak (Lowell George above ground) with the Tower Of Power horns, you know you've got a red-hot evening on your hands. This CD delivers - and then some.

There's a lot of hand-wringing out there about two songs from the original 2-LP set being dropped to squeeze the concert onto one CD, Don't Bogart That Joint and A Apolitical Blues. Yikes. Don't Bogart That Joint was a cheap, embarrassing song when this was released, now it's just stupid. A Apolitical Blues is a great and witty number but readily available elsewhere if you need it that badly. Fans who require every squeal and stomp of this show should burn their bucks on the new, 2-CD reissue, complete with wave after wave of extraneous flotsam and jetsam.

The concert is fast out of the gate, Fat Man In The Bathtub was always one of Feat's best songs and it comes on so strong you can almost feel the audience lifting off the ground. Old Folks' Boogie grinds slow with a groove that really gets inside you. At this point the jams get longer and tend towards self-indulgence. Spanish Moon, Dixie Chicken, and Tripe Face Boogie are all great but the treatments here wander far and wee around the barnyard with inconsistent results.

Rocket In My Pocket is one of the absolute best while Willin' - though it's signature George - feels obligatory and out of place. Sailin' Shoes reads a little like one would need to be sailing to "get" it. Fortunately the show closes out in grand fashion with Feats Don't Fail Me Now, a real gottago kind of track. Despite these and other inconsistencies, Waiting For Columbus truly is a wonderful CD, and a great introduction to Little Feat.

2 LOST SONGS ARE FOUND..........2006-02-27

I agree that Waiting For Columbus is all the previous reviewers have said and then some. Concerning the original CD release, I was a little miffed at the idea of 2 great songs being left off to create a 1 CD package- but fear not my fellow audiophiles- you can find them as bonus songs on "The Last Record Album" by The Feats- along with a silly "Bonus Announcement". I also purchased the New Rhino CD upgrade of WFC back when it first came out. Has a lot of good extra stuff on it. Highly recommended listening pleasure. So there you have it- now quit your griping about left out songs. But I do agree- they should have put them on the original CD in the first place. Probaly had something to do with the 74 minute CD length at the time.

NO SMALL FEAT!.......2005-10-28

This is the premiere all around "live" or "greatest hits" collection by the original Little Feat, featuring the late and also great Lowell George. A crowd pleasing mix of folk, funk, country, blooze, boogie woogie, and rock, Feat was always at their bizarre best in a concert setting. From a nine minute "Dixie Chicken" jam, to rollicking workouts on staples "Oh Atlanta", "Fat Man in the Bathtub", and "Feats Don't Fail Me Now", you just won't find a finer party in a package. Kudos to the lead vocal work of guitarist Paul Barrere and pianist Bill Payne, proving Lowell George wasn't their only interesting singer and the righteous Tower of Power horn section, who joined in on the fun fest. A minor quibble: The short track "Don't Bogart That Joint" (an old Fraternity of Man ditty) and the funky "Apolitical Blues" from the original double LP have been omitted on this single CD. Even so, "Waiting For Columbus" stands head and Feat above almost all other concert recordings. RATING: FIVE FEAT UP

a live set of boogie rock magic, southern flavored.......2005-04-28

this cd might be obsolete with the introduction of the newly expanded version, but i don't have that one so I won't review it. This cd is intense and awesome, often cited as one of the greatest live albums ever recorded. And it does hold up since the 70's, with great tunes that are perfectly played and wonderfully arranged. this is boogie rock that is extremely polished, with synths and bongos giving it a party-rock atmosphere. A great live document to a very underappreciated band; just pop it in and enjoy. There isn't a weak moment on here.

One Of The Great Live Albums Ever.......2002-09-24

My cassette of WAITING FOR COLUMBUS is even better than the original CD because it features two songs not on the first CD version. I have the studio versions of many of the songs, but some of the live versions feature slightly different lyrics and arrangements. This, along with concert recordings by the Allmans, Outlaws, Skynyrd, Nugent, UFO, and some others, is one of the quintessential live albums of all time. A worthy addition to any rock fan's library.