Okay, so I'm finally getting a little tired of the J-pop I'd discovered at work a few years back. Went to the big box music store to look around for something. I'm getting older, and it seems that although I still love music, it's becoming increasingly tough to find something that knocks me over like it used to.
I don't know why, but when I saw the little plastic divider card with the name "Little Feat" on it, I picked through to see what they had. There was a copy of their wonderful live record "Waiting for Columbus" there. `Hey, I remember that one,' I thought..so I picked it up. And I kicked myself for not realizing it was 22 dollars when I reached the checkout. After unwrapping it and loading it up, I ain't kicking myself anymore.
Seems I accidentally bought the Rhino/Warner reissue. Wow. All the goodness of the original record (which I once owned, but was stolen at a party I threw in college), and much, much more. All the leftover stuff that was put on "Hoy-Hoy!" is there, and also a few alternative versions discovered by the guys at Rhino while they were researching the history of the original record. Amazing stuff. If you're a Feat fan, you gotta go get this thing.
And if you younger folks are into "roots" music, you gotta hear the Feat:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8V1olWt8I0
Yes, that's a socket wrench the guy's using to play slide guitar. His name is Lowell George, and in contemporary interviews he said it was a Craftsman 11/16th. He'd injured the nerves in his hand on a gas model airplane propeller, and the socket was the only thing tough enough to use as a slide without breaking it.
