So happy Phish decided to honor Lowell George and Little Feat last night. An incredible band that is amazingly not known by as many people as they should.
For those looking to hear the evolution of the band from 1971 through to 1977's live performances that made Waiting For Columbus, you can click here:
On Nov 1, 12:08 pm, Jack Stanley <jackstanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So happy Phish decided to honor Lowell George and Little Feat last > night. An incredible band that is amazingly not known by as many > people as they should.
> For those looking to hear the evolution of the band from 1971 through > to 1977's live performances that made Waiting For Columbus, you can > click here:
I once emailed Paul Barrere citing LF as more pronounced influence on the Phish sound than the GD. He dug that. Still, Phish pales compared to Lil' Feat. It's the singing and the songs..not just the guitar.
> On Nov 1, 12:08 pm, Jack Stanley <jackstanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So happy Phish decided to honor Lowell George and Little Feat last > > night. An incredible band that is amazingly not known by as many > > people as they should.
> > For those looking to hear the evolution of the band from 1971 through > > to 1977's live performances that made Waiting For Columbus, you can > > click here:
> I once emailed Paul Barrere citing LF as more pronounced influence on > the Phish sound than the GD. > He dug that. > Still, Phish pales compared to Lil' Feat. > It's the singing and the songs..not just the guitar.
How sweet is it that the hottest band around right now just covered one of the great live albums of all time? I was at the WFC Lisner Auditorium shows in 1976 and I sure wish I was in Atlantic City last night.
> So happy Phish decided to honor Lowell George and Little Feat last > night. An incredible band that is amazingly not known by as many > people as they should.
> For those looking to hear the evolution of the band from 1971 through > to 1977's live performances that made Waiting For Columbus, you can > click here:
> On Nov 1, 12:08 pm, Jack Stanley <jackstanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > So happy Phish decided to honor Lowell George and Little Feat last > > night. An incredible band that is amazingly not known by as many > > people as they should.
> > For those looking to hear the evolution of the band from 1971 through > > to 1977's live performances that made Waiting For Columbus, you can > > click here:
> I once emailed Paul Barrere citing LF as more pronounced influence on > the Phish sound than the GD. > He dug that. > Still, Phish pales compared to Lil' Feat. > It's the singing and the songs..not just the guitar.
Is there a lot more to these songs than being fun, quality, rocking tunes? Seems *perfect* for the Phish Musical Costume segment, to me . . . I mean, we're not asking Trey to channel Jerry in "China Doll," here. I've got last night's show sitting at home, that Taylor Caine dude is one dedicated Mike Foxtrot - didn't have time, this morning, to burn the 'Waiting For Columbus' segment to have in the jeep, today, but it'll be fun to play it, tonight!
> On Nov 1, 1:48 pm, Olompali4 <olompa...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Still, Phish pales compared to Lil' Feat. > > It's the singing and the songs..not just the guitar.
> Have you listened to the tapes from last night's show yet?
> You might want to do that, before opining as to how badly Phish may > have or may not have botched the vocals.
> If yould like the show for free, really good quality AUDs can be found > at phishshows.com (I'd look for taper420's copy)
> If you'd like the show in perfect matrix mixed SBD quality, go here: > livephish.com 9.95 for 256kps mp3s or 12.95 for FLACS
> Of course the usual suspected places probably have the SBDs available > for DL for free, but I don't play that game, so I can't help you with > that.
I'll admit, I knew nothing of Little Feat before last night. I knew of Lowell George from Zappa and the Mothers, but that's about it. Without having the chance yet to listen to the original record and having no preconceived notion of what it was meant to sound like, I can say that it was a lot of fun, and, at least where I was sitting, it was very well received. The music was very much in the vein of Phish and you could certainly hear the influence of the Mothers. In some ways, it fills a missing link between modern jazz/Zappa/et cetera and straight ahead rock and roll.
Bottom line was that it was a great time. Going in to the show, I wanted to hear something I knew, but now I'm glad it wasn't. I couldn't critic it from and insider's perspective. I only had to listen and judge on the spot whether or not I liked it.
On Nov 1, 1:51 pm, marcman <marcmanstud...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Nov 1, 1:48 pm, Olompali4 <olompa...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > Still, Phish pales compared to Lil' Feat. > > It's the singing and the songs..not just the guitar.
> Have you listened to the tapes from last night's show yet?
> You might want to do that, before opining as to how badly Phish may > have or may not have botched the vocals.
Yeah..uh ya' see I wasn't comparing one particular night to Litlle Feat..I was comparing the two bands and their catalogs of song. and the ability to sing. Phish is dorky bop Feat's got grit. I can dig Phish in concert but as far as anywhere else forget it. Very poor out of context (except that guitar) Feat sounds good pretty much anywhere. Btw, I've seen Feat w/Lowell and I've seen Phish ca. 91-98 I'll be boogin' my speakers away many times more than I'll ever jiboo.
> On Nov 1, 3:13 pm, "dr.narcolepsy" <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Nov 1, 4:00 pm, Olompali4 <olompa...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > On Nov 1, 2:29 pm, "dr.narcolepsy" <jmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Nov 1, 3:19 pm, Olompali4 <olompa...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > > I'll be boogyin' my speakers
> > > > *Ewww.*
> > > Er...Trip Face Boogie lyric > > > A cool tune by Little Feat. > > > Guess ya' didn't catch that.
> > No, I know *tripe* face, the thing is, you didn't say "boogyin'" - you > > said "boogin'" - and *that's* why I said *Ewww.*
> nitpicking? > Well then, I didn't "say" anything. I typed.
Nice job taking a funny joke, then totally screwing it up by fixing the original typo on which the joke was riff'in, then taking offense and going on the offensive.
On Nov 1, 1:08 pm, Jack Stanley <jackstanle...@gmail.com> wrote:
> So happy Phish decided to honor Lowell George and Little Feat last > night. An incredible band that is amazingly not known by as many > people as they should.
> For those looking to hear the evolution of the band from 1971 through > to 1977's live performances that made Waiting For Columbus, you can > click here:
As previously reported, Phish covered Little Feats 1978 live album Waiting for Columbus in its entirety last night at Atlantic Citys Boardwalk Hall. The seminal releasewhich is also Little Feats most successful albummarks the first time Phish has covered a live album on Halloween. Like Phishs Halloween shows in 1996, 1998 and 2009, the evenings musical costume was revealed to fans via an official Phishbill program as they entered the venue. In a Phishbill essay written by David Fricke, the members of Phish admit that they hoped to recreate the experience of a classic Little Feat concert rather than cover the live album note-for-note.
Frickes essay emphasizes the importance Little Feat had on the members of Phish individually before the bands formation, as well as during its early years. We may have learned more from Little Feat than any other band, Trey Anastasio says. Mike Gordon adds of the bands early days, I liked that Treys originals were getting strange, but I said I wanted to balace it with some gutsy bluesy music. And the example I gave was, Id like to play a Little Feat song from time to time. Phish regularly covered Little Feats Skin it Back, Time Loves a Hero and the groups arrangement of Allen Toussaints On Your Way Down during its early years. The members of Phish revived both Time Loves a Hero and On Your Way Down in the late 90s.
Like Phishs other official Halloween Costumes, Waiting for Columbus feels inline with the bands current sound. Little Feat shares a similar DNA with early Phisha mixture of jazz, rock and roll country, New Orleans boogie and blues. The group also has a direct connection from one of Phishs earliest influences, Frank Zappa, via the bands roots in the Mothers of Invention. As Phish actively digs into its own back cataloge and relearns of many of its earliest songs, it makes sense that the band opted to play one of its original inspirations. Phishs current more refined, shortened improvisational style also recalls Little Feats refined, song-driven, boogie style of rock jamming.
In addition to faithful rendition of classic Waiting for Columbus numbers like Oh Atlanta, Spanish Moon and the aforementioned Time Loves A Hero, Phish made its own imprint on several of the double albums songs. The band switched instruments on Willin, with Page McConnell picking up the bass, Mike Gordon moving to piano, Trey Anastasio playing drums and Jon Fishman singing lead vocals. The four musicians then moved to the front of the stage for an a cappella arrangement of Dont Bogart That Joint. In addition, the band took the stage to a recorded version of Join the Band while Higher Ground club owner Kevin Statesir introduced Phish as Little Feat. Recalling the secret language of Phishs early 90s period, audience remembers were instructed to shout the letters P, H, I, S and H as Statesir shouted the letters F, E, A and T.
Throughout most of the set, the members of Phish were backed by percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo. The noted Latin jazz musicians has performed with the likes of Dizzy Gillespie, Paul Simon, Sammy Hagar and Mickey Hart, among many others. A horn section featuring members of the interconnected collectives Antibalas (Aaron Johnson, Stuart Bogie, Eric Biondo) and the Dap-Kings (Michael Leonhart, Ian Hendrickson) also augmented the band at various points throughout the night. Phish also utilized members of the Dap-Kings on Halloween last October.
Phishs other two sets also contained numerous highlights. The band opened with a Halloween-themed sequence featuring Frankenstein, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Ghost and the first cover of Spooky since 1993 (Phish also opened its 1994 Halloween show with Frankenstein). The bands third set also featured an extended Gotta Jibboo, Camel Walk and a lengthy You Enjoy Myself. Hidalgo and the five-person horn section returned for the lone encore of Julius.
Heres a look at the setlist via Phish.net
Sun, 10/31/2010 Atlantic City Boardwalk Hall, Atlantic City, NJ
Set 1: Frankenstein1, Big Black Furry Creature from Mars, Ghost -> Spooky, The Divided Sky, Roses Are Free > Funky Bitch, Boogie On Reggae Woman, Stash, Character Zero
Set 2: Fat Man in the Bathtub2, All That You Dream2, Oh Atlanta2, Old Folks Boogie3, Time Loves a Hero4 -> Day or Night3, Mercenary Territory3, Spanish Moon3, Dixie Chicken3 -> Tripe Face Boogie2, Rocket in My Pocket3, Willin[5], Dont Bogart That Joint6, A Apolitical Blues2, Sailin Shoes2, Feats Dont Fail Me Now3
Set 3: Down with Disease > Back on the Train > Gotta Jibboo, Camel Walk, Suzy Greenberg, Wilson > Harry Hood > The Horse > Silent in the Morning, You Enjoy Myself
Encore: Julius4
[1] Page on keytar [2] Phish debut; Giovanni Hidalgo on percussion [3] Phish debut; Giovanni Hidalgo on percussion and Aaron Johnson, Stuart Bogie, Ian Hendrickson, Michael Leonhart and Eric Biondo on horns. [4] Giovanni Hidalgo on percussion and Aaron Johnson, Stuart Bogie, Ian Hendrickson, Michael Leonhart and Eric Biondo on horns. [5] Phish debut; Page on bass, Mike on piano, Trey on drums and Fish on vocals. [6] Phish debut; A cappella
Notes: Page performed Frankenstein on keytar. Spooky was performed for the first time since 4/14/93 (751 shows). The second set musical costume was Little Feats 1978 Waiting for Columbus. Join the Band (the first track of Waiting for Columbus) was played over the PA before the start of the second set. Subsequently, Phish was introduced as Little Feat before Fat Man in the Bathtub. All of the songs in the second set other than Time Loves a Hero were Phish debuts. All of the songs in the second set, other than Dont Bogart That Joint and Willin, featured Giovanni Hidalgo on percussion. A five piece horn section consisting of Aaron Johnson, Stuart Bogie, Ian Hendrickson, Michael Leonhart and Eric Biondo joined the band for Old Folks Boogie, Time Loves a Hero, Day or Night, Mercenary Territory, Spanish Moon, Dixie Chicken, Rocket in My Pocket and Feats Dont Fail Me Now. Willin featured Page on bass, Mike on piano, Trey on drums and Fish on vocals. Prior to the piano solo at the beginning of Willin, Fish remarked, That should be Paul Barrère. Dont Bogart That Joint was performed a cappella. Trey introduced the guest musicians before Feats Dont Fail Me Now. At the conclusion of the second set, the entire band marched the perimeter of the floor. Disease was initially botched and had to be restarted, prompting Fish to declare, This ones off our album. Julius featured Giovanni Hidalgo and the Waiting for Columbus horn section.
> On Nov 1, 1:51 pm, marcman<marcmanstud...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Nov 1, 1:48 pm, Olompali4<olompa...@comcast.net> wrote:
>>> Still, Phish pales compared to Lil' Feat. >>> It's the singing and the songs..not just the guitar.
>> Have you listened to the tapes from last night's show yet?
>> You might want to do that, before opining as to how badly Phish may >> have or may not have botched the vocals.
> Yeah..uh ya' see I wasn't comparing one particular night to Litlle > Feat..I was comparing the two bands and their catalogs of song. and > the ability to sing. > Phish is dorky bop > Feat's got grit. > I can dig Phish in concert but as far as anywhere else forget it. Very > poor out of context (except that guitar) > Feat sounds good pretty much anywhere. > Btw, I've seen Feat w/Lowell and I've seen Phish ca. 91-98 > I'll be boogin' my speakers away many times more than I'll ever jiboo.
> Get used to it. > Get over it. > Get real.
I'm w/ya Olo,Phish did Exile also but nowhere near as soulful as the albums.Lowell was awesome and I also had the pleasure of seeing LF and how can you even compare them.Phish picks good albums to replicate I'll give em that.G
> Of course the usual suspected places probably have the SBDs available > for DL for free, but I don't play that game, so I can't help you with > that.
> I'll admit, I knew nothing of Little Feat before last night. I knew > of Lowell George from Zappa and the Mothers, but that's about it. > The music was very much in the vein of > Phish and you could certainly hear the influence of the Mothers. In > some ways, it fills a missing link between modern jazz/Zappa/et cetera > and straight ahead rock and roll. > -Steve O.
Good lord....you hear Zappa in Little Feat? I think you heard a Zappa influence in Phish.... Those clowns aren't exactly breaking any new ground. I wonder how many kids last nite had no idea what album Phish were covering? Did they break out the trampoline during "Dixie Chicken"? I'll bet Lowell G spun around in his grave a few times last nite.
> > I'll admit, I knew nothing of Little Feat before last night. I knew > > of Lowell George from Zappa and the Mothers, but that's about it. > > The music was very much in the vein of > > Phish and you could certainly hear the influence of the Mothers. In > > some ways, it fills a missing link between modern jazz/Zappa/et cetera > > and straight ahead rock and roll. > > -Steve O.
> Good lord....you hear Zappa in Little Feat? > I think you heard a Zappa influence in Phish.... > Those clowns aren't exactly breaking any new ground. > I wonder how many kids last nite had no idea what album > Phish were covering? > Did they break out the trampoline during "Dixie Chicken"? > I'll bet Lowell G spun around in his grave a few times last nite.
Steve, don't mind Sweets here, he's old, crotchety, lonely and hasn't listened to any new music since Bing Crosby.
Hey Sweets, here's the thing about Phish . . . you're constantly trying to (negatively) compare them to other artists/bands . . . that's your mistake ya see, Phish ain't the best at what they do, they're the *only* ones that do what they do . . .
Oh man, ya gotta love it when a thread is cross posted to RMGD/ RMP!!! :)
> > I'll admit, I knew nothing of Little Feat before last night. I knew > > of Lowell George from Zappa and the Mothers, but that's about it. > > The music was very much in the vein of > > Phish and you could certainly hear the influence of the Mothers. In > > some ways, it fills a missing link between modern jazz/Zappa/et cetera > > and straight ahead rock and roll. > > -Steve O.
> Good lord....you hear Zappa in Little Feat? > I think you heard a Zappa influence in Phish.... > Those clowns aren't exactly breaking any new ground. > I wonder how many kids last nite had no idea what album > Phish were covering? > Did they break out the trampoline during "Dixie Chicken"? > I'll bet Lowell G spun around in his grave a few times last nite.
Yeah, I did hear some Zappa in there. Plays against time, much in the way Zappa used to; some, not breakdowns, but, while playing with time and structure, two or four bars of orchestrated chaos with no back beat, resolving on the one of a new eight bars (much like Mingus' "collective improvisations," though those usually didn't resolve on one); some interesting time signatures. While in no way exclusive to Zappa, I could hear the influence.
As I prefaced, I went into this blind, only knowing of Lowell George from Weasels Ripped My Flesh. I still haven't listened to Waiting for Columbus and haven't listened over last night's show. My first impressions: take them or leave them. Like I mentioned, I know of Phish's more sophisticated influences and those that are straight ahead rock. This filled a gap for me.
Phish isn't perfect, far from it, but they beat the hell out of the vast majority of rock acts touring in recent years.
If Phish are clowns and they seem to insult you, why listen?
> > > I'll admit, I knew nothing of Little Feat before last night. I knew > > > of Lowell George from Zappa and the Mothers, but that's about it. > > > The music was very much in the vein of > > > Phish and you could certainly hear the influence of the Mothers. In > > > some ways, it fills a missing link between modern jazz/Zappa/et cetera > > > and straight ahead rock and roll. > > > -Steve O.
> > Good lord....you hear Zappa in Little Feat? > > I think you heard a Zappa influence in Phish.... > > Those clowns aren't exactly breaking any new ground. > > I wonder how many kids last nite had no idea what album > > Phish were covering? > > Did they break out the trampoline during "Dixie Chicken"? > > I'll bet Lowell G spun around in his grave a few times last nite.
> Yeah, I did hear some Zappa in there. Plays against time, much in the > way Zappa used to; some, not breakdowns, but, while playing with time > and structure, two or four bars of orchestrated chaos with no back > beat, resolving on the one of a new eight bars (much like Mingus' > "collective improvisations," though those usually didn't resolve on > one); some interesting time signatures. While in no way exclusive to > Zappa, I could hear the influence.
> As I prefaced, I went into this blind, only knowing of Lowell George > from Weasels Ripped My Flesh. I still haven't listened to Waiting for > Columbus and haven't listened over last night's show. My first > impressions: take them or leave them. Like I mentioned, I know of > Phish's more sophisticated influences and those that are straight > ahead rock. This filled a gap for me.
> Phish isn't perfect, far from it, but they beat the hell out of the > vast majority of rock acts touring in recent years.
> If Phish are clowns and they seem to insult you, why listen?
Steve, that's the thing . . . he *doesn't* listen! He just likes to read what he writes. Oh sorry, that's right, he did say that he listened once, back in 1992 I think it was . . . ::sigh::
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> Yeah, I did hear some Zappa in there. Plays against time, much in the > way Zappa used to; some, not breakdowns, but, while playing with time > and structure, two or four bars of orchestrated chaos with no back > beat, resolving on the one of a new eight bars (much like Mingus' > "collective improvisations," though those usually didn't resolve on > one); some interesting time signatures. While in no way exclusive to > Zappa, I could hear the influence.
Oh my GOODness...dont try and get all academic on us, MF'er!.... MINGUS!...<LOL>...you best quit this shit before I have to drop some game on ya ass, Junior!
> If Phish are clowns and they seem to insult you, why listen? > Fuck off, > Steve, OH!
I DONT listen to Phish...I TRIED!...many times... Now run along...I've wasted enough time on someone who attended a couple weeks of "Jazz Studies" classes in community college!
