No Small Feat
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Due to circumstances beyond my control, I missed my second opportunity to see The Bird and The Bee in concert. A week ago, the SoCal duo played the Independent, a cool joint here in San Fran; and I could not get around another important commitment. I’ve been waiting to catch them live for a while, and I know I’ll get my chance to witness the magic at some juncture, but, at the moment, I am frustrated to the max.I’ve previously categorized their sound as “French yé-yé girl vocalizing meets breezy bossa nova meets languid L.A. jazz meets electronic dream-pop meets post-mod irony on the battlefield of urban romance.” http://mog.com/Mike_the_Knife/blog_post/50641They are, as some might say, right up my alley.Stung by my scheduling problem, I brooded a bit, and listened to their debut album a couple of times. Then, while musing over my fondness for The Bird and The Bee singer Inara George, I was reminded of how much I revered her late father, singer-songwriter-guitarist Lowell George, and his phenomenal band Little Feat. At their height in the ’70s, Little Feat managed to mix and match rock and roll, folk, country, and jazz in the context of ear-friendly, outrageously clever, frequently heartfelt, sometimes wildly surreal material. Their second and third albums - Sailin' Shoes and Dixie Chicken - are nothing short of genius. And on stage, they would often fly into fits of virtuoso jamming that could leave the unaware slack-jawed in wonderment.I decided to poke around YouTube to find an example or two of Little Feat in action, and I came upon this little gem. Whether you’re unfamiliar with them or you happen to be a longtime fan, you may be as entertained by this clip as I was. Here are Lowell George and Little Feat, performing their rollicking number “Fat Man in the Bathtub” in 1975 on the British TV program “The Old Grey Whistle Test”:
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