Waiting for Columbus | 
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| Artist: Little Feat
Label: Rhino / Wea
Category: Music
List Price: $24.98
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Rating:  64 reviews
Sales Rank: 5496
Format: Live, Original Recording Reissued, Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 78274
UPC: 081227827427
EAN: 0081227827427
ASIN: B0000631ED
Release Date: April 2, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: All products brand new and factory sealed.
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | 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 |
Disc 2
| • | 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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Amazon.com
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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| Customer Reviews:
Loose your other version and get remastered. October 8, 2008
Brother_Bill (Austin, TX.)
Waiting for Columbus [Live] [Original recording reissued] [Original recording remastered]
If you can't tell the diference this makes then get an up to date CD player. Wow, the best live album has a new standard. Man O Man get you some cuz it's a slap up grin and goes good with everything.
This monster gets a go through Oz and comes out shinny, bigger and mo edge. I like it low and LOUD and I think it likes me too.
Thanks for this recording remastered a treasure that brings up the spirit.
Cough up the coin now, it's nuthing but what you want anyhow.
jemason3 feat lover October 8, 2008
James E. Mason (baltimore)
this cd is pure heaven. the late lowell george was the coolest slide player. i love billy and the rest of the feats. this concert was taped according to bill and paul. why doesn't warner bros. release a dvd of this concert. anyway if you to get your foot tapping and enjoy good music buy this remastered version. miss you lowell...
 Feat Flashback August 29, 2008
G. Bane (Central North America)
"Waiting for Columbus" is so reminiscent of the '70's arena concert scene I could feel the press of bodies trying to get closer to the stage along with the sweet smell of weed being smoked throughout the arena. It's a great flashback to a now bygone era. Good quality live recording from the apex of Lowell George's Little Feat. Except for Lowell George the band is still together and spinning out that distinctive supertight jazzy rock-n-roll boogie groove the right way! And I know you know what I mean! Little Feat now allows recording of their concerts by fans. Many live recordings can be found in circulation on the net from recent shows. If you don't already own it, add this one to your collection.
WAITING FOR COLUMBUS...WELL WORTH THE WAIT ! (especially this expanded and remastered 2-disc version) July 31, 2008
ol' nuff n' den sum (the Virginia coast, USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Little Feat's classic Waiting for Columbus (1978) is one of rock music's most distinguished live albums, and deservedly so. The performances are enthusiastic and professional, and the song selection is everything that you would expect from this Lowell George fronted version of Little Feat. The musicianship is outstanding!
These performances were recorded in August of 1977 at The Rainbow Theatre in London and George Washington University in Washington, D.C. Although enough material was recorded for a 3-record set, Waiting for Columbus was originally released as a double album. With this reissued 2-disc edition, we get all of the original songs plus the unreleased archived recordings. It all sounds great, too.
The music of Little Feat is a mix of laid back and funky New Orleans piano blues and slide guitar dominated electric rock n' roll. They also incorporate a lot of jazz and a little of country into their sound, and vocalist and slide guitar legend Lowell George's wry and demented lyrics suggest a Frank Zappa influence leftover from his days as a guitarist with Zappa's Mothers Of Invention.
The Little Feat staples from this era are covered nicely here, including Fat Man In The Bathtub, All That You Dream, Time Loves A Hero, Spanish Moon, and an incredible 9:00 minute version of Dixie Chicken. They go hippie country and western with semi-unplugged versions of Willin' and the hilarious Don't Bogart That Joint. Most of the songs feature excellent solos from Lowell on slide guitar, Paul Barrere on electric guitar, and Bill Payne on piano and synthesizer especially, but the Tower Of Power horn section is smoking hot as well, and they add tremendously to the sound of the entire album.
Guest performances include ex-Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor on Apolitical Blues, and the Doobie Brothers' Michael McDonald and Patrick Simmons provide the backing vocals on Red Streamliner.
Unfortunately, Lowell George would die of a heart attack at 34 less than two years after these shows were recorded. While Little Feat has continued to record and tour with several different lineups since then, this album captures the classic band in peak form. Waiting for Columbus features the talents of many, but for much of the album, it's Lowell George who takes center stage, and his singing, songwriting, and legendary slide guitar playing is clearly the primary focus. He doesn't disappoint anybody, either. Waiting for Columbus is an essential live rock n' roll album that's in a class with the best live rock music albums of it's time.
"I'm Temporarily Qualmless And Sinking." July 1, 2008
Robert I. Hedges
"Waiting For Columbus" is one of the best live albums ever recorded, and this two disc packaging improves dramatically on what was already a classic. The album was recorded over several nights at the Lisner Auditorium at George Washington University in Washington, DC and at the Rainbow Theatre in London during August 1977. Tragically, Little Feat's dynamic frontman, Lowell George, would play his last concert at Lisner less than two years later.
This two CD set restores some great songs to the earlier abridged release, notably "Cold, Cold, Cold," "Rock and Roll Doctor," and "Teenage Nervous Breakdown." This album is one of the few live albums that stands the test of time, competing favorably with other greats like "Alchemy" from Dire Straits for my favorite live album of all time. For me the standouts here are "Fat Man in the Bathtub," "Mercenary Territory," Spanish Moon," "Dixie Chicken," and "Rocket in my Pocket." The live version of "Feats Don't Fail Me Now," is, like several other songs on the set, a poster child for improvisation, a staple of the live Little Feat experience. During these concerts the Tower of Power horn section contributed constructively to the overall sound of the live band, making an already great listening experience utterly sublime.
I normally don't buy "remastered" albums, but here I wholly endorse spending the money: the sound quality of this release is excellent, and the added material is a gift to Little Feat loyalists like myself.
I could not recommend any recording more highly.
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