In the 70s, Little Feat with their outstanding instrumental and songwriting skills perfectly mixed rock, country, blues and New Orleans funk, with some jazz and even fusion elements. They had a die-hard fan base, and were the music critic's darlings, and yet big commercial success proved (and still proves) elusive for Little Feat.
In 1978, Little Feat released their live opus, 'Waiting For Columbus', which is generally considered one of the finest live rock albums.
Recorded on the supporting tour for their 'Time Loves A Hero' album, 'Waiting For Columbus' captured the band reaching a musical peak
in a number of ways. The album featured much of their best catalog material,
honed to road sharpness, and was augmented in concert by the legendary
Tower of Power horn section and other guest appearances. The album also
made plain that live performance was an area where Little Feat could
really fire on all cylinders.
'Waiting For Columbus' (Super Deluxe Edition) is a four double-CD set.
CDs 1 and 2 are the original release, and have never sounded better.
CDs 3 and 4 were recorded at Manchester City Hall, Manchester, U.K. on July 29, 1977.
CDs 5 and 6 were recorded at The Rainbow, London, U.K. on August 2, 1977.
CDs 7 and 8 were recorded at the Lisner Auditorium, Washington, D.C. on August 10, 1977
CDs 4 through 8 have been widely bootlegged over the years, but not with this fidelity.
While the original 'Waiting For Columbus' itself has ever provided a
striking portrait of the band's dynamic range and adventurousness, these
additional shows provide an even wider picture that reveals just how adventurous Little Feat was as a live band. There are repeated songs throughout the additional concert sets, but they are
often played in varying fashions with varied arrangements, open-ended
solo spots and spontaneous sections surfacing from night to night.
'Waiting For Columbus' is a document of a largely underappreciated band at the unequaled, and unrepeatable height of their powers.
For the freeload, tell us about things you hate waiting for.
Dull but true answer. Life is mostly waiting, letting life do its stuff. It won't be rushed. But Deep Thinking aside, Thais know how to wait. They'll sit quietly and wait their turn, and that's one of their skills I've learned since moving out here. The latest opportunity to exercise this skill is standing behind someone using a phone to pay at a checkout. Me, I carry some Magic Tokens in my pocket which cast their spell every time.
ReplyDeleteI hate waiting for the electrician or someone like him. Actually, wait, no... I love it.
ReplyDeleteI'm not crazy about people who say they'll be there in ten minutes and then 45 minutes later you're texting them...
DeleteDoctors who disappear several times during a routine physical exam.
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ReplyDeleteEspecially when your naked butt is being laughed at by everyone who passes the open door.
DeleteI told you, I was laughing at rectal exam you were about to receive.
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DeleteThe bus!!!!
ReplyDeleteI once actually ran for a bus in Bangkok, spotting it at rest at Victory Monument. Got a seat, and waited thirty minutes for the driver. Never, ever, run in Bangkok. For anything.
DeleteNever, ever run!!! ... particularly at our age!!
DeleteWhat I hate waiting for? For the Trump nightmare to end!
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I don't actually hate it, but it is annoying AF, waiting to sleep. You're tired, you've had a full day, you've accomplished everything you wanted to, it's late and you know you need some sleep so you can have a repeat performance tomorrow. Laying in bed & your mind (seemingly moving at light speed) won't turn off or even slow down a little bit. These days I take night time medication to help, but several years ago, before I retired, trying to get to sleep could be downright brutal. Thanks for a great blog Babs, can hardly WAIT to hear Little Feat, love those guys.
ReplyDeleteNobody with any sense asks for or takes advice from the internet, but dealing with broken sleep patterns is one of the trickier parts of growing old. Medication does not help - the cost you pay in how you feel when waking isn't worth it. Also, trying or waiting to get to sleep isn't going to work, either. If you nap during the day, you're going to get enough sleep, it's just that habitual seven hours (whatever) of unbroken sleep is likely gone forever, and worrying about it is like worrying about hair loss, or those damned Old Person spots on your legs and hands. If you can't sleep, get up, sit down, read a book, fix yourself an Old Person beverage. In bed, distract your Monkey Brain with an old radio show on the internet. Stick your phone under your pillow and time it to switch off. Finding the show that works for you is part of the trick (from the thousands at the Internet Archive) - it has to be engaging enough to get the attention of your monkey mind, but not too interesting or exciting. Music may do the trick, too, but I found that the monkey mind can skate over it too easily. It's like finding something to keep a toddler occupied.
DeleteResearch shows that our ancestors, at least the ones in Elizabethan England, routinely slept in a couple of segments divided by an hour of two of anything from from puffing on a pipe to carousing to meditation. There's a scholarly paper about it that you might find a snooze, but I found it oddly captivating. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10404514/
DeleteI used to hate waiting for the tea kettle to reach the boiling point. Bought an electric kettle, and at first, I thought it was super fast. Now, I wait impatiently, tapping my foot, waiting for it to hit a boil.
ReplyDeleteAs above, I also hate waiting for my morning tea water to boil. Electric is faster than flame and both are faster than waiting for the media to call out the Orange menace on the many lies that permeate his existence.
ReplyDeleteBut now tea.
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The Man!
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DeleteMrDave's not home
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ReplyDeleteWaiting for parcels to arrive, especially fragile ones simply because delivery companies (eg Parcel Force in the UK) are about the most frustrating and often most incompetent organisations to deal with so the sooner the parcel has arrived safely the better.
ReplyDeleteAnd another one. Waiting for OpenReach to fix my broadband connection properly. For four years I suffered regular interruptions and below contracted speed levels with my broadband despite getting them out a dozen or more times and being told a load of nonsense about the problem. Finally this spring they fixed it and now not only have the interruptions stopped but I am averaging double the bandwidth I was previously experiencing.
ReplyDeleteYou live in the UK? try getting internet service provider response in Siam. It took three days from first request to connection, including running a unique cable out to my house. And in the dozen or so years it's been running, it's gone down twice, each time being fixed the same day. That's living in the Third World for you.
DeleteYep!! I never had to wait more'n a few hours for an engineer when I had the occasional problem!! (3BB)!!!
DeleteLast year we were in NO, we couldn't use the internet after 8pm. Every damn night it would go out about that time and not resume until early the next morning (4am). Only one company providing service then, so another provider was not an option. Cox (yeah, fitting name) had mostly 3rd party repair techs, but they finally sent out an inhouse guy. He fessed up and advised it wasn't going to get fixed anytime soon and it was an over capacity issue. Asked whae we could do, and he said, "Move." Well, we did. 3.5 years in Spain and not once have we had internet issues, even with 2 different providers.
DeleteI've about had it here in the "civilized" world. Can we move in next door?
ReplyDeleteIn spite of its manifest failings (beyond the reach even of the people) Thailand is so much better than anywhere else I've lived (U.S., U.K., France, Switzerland) I thank the Fates every day for making me fuck up two marriages so badly (to be fair, I had some help) I finished up here. The people (generally) are fantastic in ways that only become apparent after long association. I haven't been bored in the twenty-odd years out here, I've been amazed too many times to count, and Bangkok saved my life. To say I love the country is an understatement - my life truly started when I came out to what I still think of as the Far East. And everything is in Todd-AO Color™, where it was sepia and shades of gray before. I could have my throat slashed by a ya-baa crazy tomorrow and I'd still be laughing.
DeleteAnyone who wants to come out for a taster, Songkhla Steve, Koen and myself will be your welcoming party!
DeleteOK, but before I book a flight & get a realtor--is there an HOA involved?
DeleteOutside BKK, there's not only no HOA but no realtors, at least on the scale you're familiar with. My own experience is pretty normal:
Delete1 Marry Thai wife.
2 Find a vacant lot, buy it. Basically one official document associated with land purchase/ownership.
2 Build house. I gave my plans to a builder, he built it, with materials bought by my wife. There's a sketchy official approval procedure, but basically you can build anything you want. Again, one official document and one "inspection". If you want cheap, build cheap, and if it falls over you have no-one to blame but yourself. Nobody cares much what you do or how you do it. The house and land remain in your wife's name, but if you split up you should get half.
You can always just rent. Plenty of alternatives. Landlords are of course assholes, same as everywhere.
Oh yeah - local rates and utilities are crazy cheap.
Getting to the center of a Tootsie Pop
ReplyDeleteThe long-lost, legendary unreleased album from (fill-in-the-blank)...
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DeleteMy dad used to use slide film. Now I have inherited a bunch of slides with no way to project them. Luckily I have a handheld viewer. Most of my prints I lost in a wildfire.
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ReplyDeleteThank you for this, Babs. Had I had known of this album's existence, I would have hated waiting for it. Of course this applies to any upcoming Little Feat album.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy my friend!
ReplyDeleteWaiting for a toilet stall when you REALLY need it is grim....
ReplyDeleteAnd then there is the flip side of the toilet seat—so to speak. For many of us of a certain vintage, waiting for one's bowels to arise to their peristaltic duties takes the patience of Job.
DeleteI seem to have fewer scintillating stories, but I really enjoy reading those of others. I tried for a moment to work "Waiting For The Sun" into something...
ReplyDeleteI really appreciate this blog, and all the effort Babs and others are putting into it. Long may we (not) Wait!
D in California