Little Feat "Easy To Slip" (1972)
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- Опубликовано: 19 фев 2013
- Track from Little Feat's 1972 album "Sailin' Shoes".
Written by guitarist/singer Lowell George and his frequent collaborator Martin Kibbee. Kibbee had the original idea, then played it for George, who added the guitar part.
This is probably the song that convinced Warner Brothers not to drop the band because it showed their commercial potential. Ironically, neither the song nor the album charted.
Kibbee and George started their own publishing company around this time called Naked Snake Music because they had lost the rights to their earlier songs.
It's so easy to slip
It's so easy to fall
And let your memory drift
And do nothin' at all
All the love that you missed
All the people that you can't recall
Do they really exist at all
Well my whole world seems so cold today
All the magics's gone away
And our time together melts away
Like the sad melody I play
Well I don't want to drift forever
In the shadow of your leaving me
So I'll light another cigarette
And try to remember to forget
It's so easy to slip
It's so easy to fall
And let your memory drift
And do nothin' at all
All the love that you missed
All the people that you can't recall
Do they really exist at all
Thumbs up if you think Little Feat should be in the Rock and Roll HOF. Put aside the fact that the HOF is a POS, but LF needs to be recognized as one of rock music's greatest bands.
Absolutely.
Yeah , but first Lady GaGa and Jay-Z need to be inducted . 😏😒
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I have visited the HOF and registered my vote for their induction, and persuaded a number of people to do likewise. There are hundreds of crap acts already enshrined that would be blown off the stage by the Feat. A travesty.
Such a stunning piece of music. Its absurd how obscure this lp remains. NO BAND in California could touch these guys back then. They blew away The Eagles, Poco and all the rest on every level. George's songs were so much more creative and lyrically sophisticated than the rest of the California scene at that time. Richie Hayward was one of the greatest drummers in the history of rock and roll. Folks miss Gram Parsons and I get that. But I miss Lowell George even more. It was a terrible loss. Nonetheless, while he was here he burned brighter than a magnesium candle and left behind a trove of amazing, uniquely American music. I saw them twice in NYC supporting Feats Dont Fail. Lucky me!
Absolutely. No CA band in the 70s came close to Little Feat.
Great comment. I remember seeing articles in music magazines heaping all kinds of praise on bands like Marshall Tucker, Lynyrd Skynrd, Ozark Mt. Daredevils, and some others, and I'd always think, ok, these are bands whose work I can appreciate, BUT, if you're simultaneously staying nearly silent about such rarely seen high artistry as that of Lowell George & Little Feat, there's a serious deficiency in your ability to pay attention to music, and culture in general.
I put the blame on Warner Brothers Records! They chose to promote acts like the Doobie Brothers and Tower of Power, both bands associated with Little Feat, and they had the hits while Feats were left in limbo/cult band status... Too bad there's no "Rewind" button to hit!
You ain’t lyin’.
Ha, no band can touch them today.
When you watch Little Feat play, look at Lowell's and Richie's facial expressions when they are deeply in the groove/soul of the music -- big, wide beautiful smiles. Their deeply happy place. Probably a place they couldn't access in real life. RIP, you brilliant men. Thanks for taking me to my happy place since I was 19.
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Little (?What is that?) Feat's been a constant for over 50 years EeEspecially Sailing Shoes, Dixie Chicken and New Delhi T.rain
I’m just so grateful thatLowell George even existed at all. Inimitable, lyricism rhythm soul music.
I'm english and was hooked from the first hearing on old grey whistle test! I was 14, now 64 and never regret!
"I miss Little Feat more than I miss being 8 years old." -Bonnie Raitt
Little feat are still going one man dont make a band
The best tightest band ever ......THE LAST RECORD ALBUM.....A STONE COLD CLASSIC
The Feat are so good they bring me to tears. They are top shelf, to be sipped and savored.
I saw Little Feat open for Bonnie Raitt at Max's Kansas City in NY and by the end of her set the whole band was onstage playing with her.
@@robertwilletts4122 Lowell George was the big toe on Little Feat. Without him ...
Should have been their first hit record. Absolutely phenomenal playing by Lowell. Likely the most underrated band of all time. R.I.P. Lowell!
Yes. Some fabulous harmony singing, too.
yup
@@ranjitdighe7690 Richie handling the high harmony - makes my ears smile it does.
Underrated by whom? The idiots who don't appreciate great music are overrated. This band is not underrated.
Slide guitar solo at 1:20 says everything you need to know about Lowell George. Beautifully understated yet powerfully driven across with pathos, fury and melancholy..unrecognized by the masses back in the day but the heartbeat of life for the rest of us...
Still prefer the Eagles
"The heartbeat of life for the rest of us . . . " Nicely said.
@@thomascavender1344 Saw both in 1976 and even though I didn't know any Little Feat music at the time LF blew me away..... unlike the Eagles who I merely enjoyed
Easy to slip is a magical song which certainly could turn anyone into a Little Feat fan!! Lowell George was a treasure and incomparable in so many ways.
great point about this tune.
Lowell George was, and is, without comparison. We really miss him.
40 years ago today Lowell George died June 29, 1979
Absolutely. An understatement for sure. He was without comparison.
He wasn"t the only talent in the band, one man don"t make a band they"re all great musicians loved every album
@@robertwilletts4122 Well said and my sentiments exactly..
lowell was a major, massive talent , and the early , mid albullms , most of the classic songs , low ell, [made some fine albums after, but magic was with lowell, [the first five albums classics to me [tho i like all,
Never understood why they were not more commercially successful. I heard music as a child and grew up in the 70s, so all the good stuff and I consider Feat to be right up there with the best.
You and me both! The Feat are still on my road trip playlist to the Colorado Rockies.
I remember LG on the 'Old Grey Whistle Test' with LFeat, hooked ever since and I'm now '64!❤
In 1970 in Paris I met Martin Kibbee. He taught me a song called "Willin", which he said he had co-written with Lowell. He wasn't credited publicly for years, but his credit did finally show up on the Little Feat website.
That's awesome.
He's been credited on Little Feat's first 2 albums for aa long as I can recall as the tune is on both of the LPs.
Those songs were so densely packed with brilliant playing, lyrics, and singing. I've been in bands that tried to cover them. Very often, it was impossible.
no doubt. i think it’s mainly the drumming being so unorthodox. and then the rhythms matching those unorthodox beats. Little Feat it by far one of the most interesting and complicated bands to ever grace our ears.
My favorite😃all time rock n’ roll band. RIP Lowell
Me Too....
I'm here because I'm reading Ted's book. Yes, this should have been a hit. It's a shame the Little Feat isn't recognized as a top tier band of the 1970's.
in 2021, Lowell's lyrics still fit the times ---- R.I.P. Paul, Richie and Lowell ---- We miss ya'
Damn right for those of us in the generation that came of age with the Feat in their heyday of the early 70s.
This song just makes you fricken happy!
Lowell, my favorite triple threat. singer, songwriter and one mean slide player.
George was such an awesome song writer. It hurts to hear the pain he was feeling in many of his song.
Yet another absolutely brilliant musician that got his start with the mothers of invention... Zappa was a genius for many reasons but, most notably, in the fact that he surrounded himself with amazing musicians!
Yeah, that song and "Trouble." They're both so exhilarating musically that it's easy to overlook the pain inside those lyrics. I can only imagine how many more great songs he'd have written if he'd been with us for the past 40+ years.
Been listening to the feat for forty years. Have all the albums on vinyl. Best band ever
Vinyl and CD. And occasional download.
Me too. Music of this period cannot be duplicated. Die Hard Feat Fan!!
Just 'discovered' this band at 40 years of age.....life was empty without them 😐
I played waiting for columbus so much i had to buy another one...many years later I got all the studio stuff....still, to this day they speak to me....
Damn they were frighteningly good. Nobody like 'em. This is what truly original band chemistry sounds like.
Paul Barrere passed today - October 26, 2019..."say Hi! to Lowell for us" & R.I.P.
God bless you Paul !
As always, beautiful slide guitar work from Lowell George.
Lowell George , a real shining talent ! r.i.p.
Absolutely perfect song.
The line, "So I'll light another cigarette
And try to remember to forget"
just makes me want to cry... beautiful, sad and remorseless - Thank you Lowell and Little Feat; I will never try to forget, no matter how hard it hurts to remember.
Yes. If there were Grammys for "best rhyming couplet in popular music," those lines would be enshrined now.
One of my all time favorites from Tiny Toes. Oh to be 16 again. Great memories!!
Amen to that!
Love this song, It ranks in my top five feat songs.
Can you list your top 5 feat songs?
@@grifftrain
Willin'
Easy to Slip
New Delhi FreightTrain
Rock'n Roll Dr.
Fat Lady in the Bathtub
Dixie Chicken
Easy to Slip
Easy to Slip
Time Loves a Hero
Rocket in my Pocket
Spanish Moon
Oh Atlanta
is that 5?
@@blmrgtr 11 is better than 5!!
Gringo
The Black Crowes cover Little Feat. Lowell George a big influence on TBC. Their new EP, 1972, Easy to Slip, Rich singing & playing guitar of course👏
All I can say is: RIP Lowell and Richie. You are both greatly missed
sadly, Paul recently passed as well
This band keeps the dark side from eating me alive. They are without peer - a special thing - it's so hard to find.
If they let me take something when I go, it will be all the recordings this band made with Lowell George and crew.
I will long for nothing else.
I miss this band and real music. So inspiring still.
Saw them twice but in 75 in Austin now that was amazing 😎👍
Saw them a couple times back in the early-mid 70s in Little Rock. They were packaged with other Southern rock bands like Marshall Tucker and the CDB. They were so good and us being stupid teenagers had no idea we were watching history in the making.
Awesome. Listen to that beat being shifted around. This is the album that Mick and Keith had on heavy rotation during downtime on the Stones '72 US Tour. It's the greatest Stones album the Stones never made!
Did not know that, but it makes perfect sense that Mick & Keith would have been fans.
@@ranjitdighe7690 It’s the album they should have made at that points Next time you hear it, imagine it’s The Stones. It beats the shit out of Its Only Rock And Roll!!
Hayward's beat shifting is mesmerizing.
My theme song in early recovery, way back when.
My favourite song/recording with them. What a drummer..!
Ain't that the truth! Richie Hayward. One of the greatest drummers in the whole dang history of R&R. He was one of those guys whose power simply could not be captured on a recording. You had to see them live to really understand how intense he was. In performance he elevated the band to a whole 'nother level.
The side guitar solo on its own is legendary.
I'm embarrassed to say I'm 60 years old and just found this amazing song through a cover by The Black Crowes! It's great, and as a guitar player it's nice to hear a clean guitar chiming through at the end. Too cool!
I have only one album by Little Feat called 'Representing the Mambo', that came out long after Lowell George passed, (1987?) but it's a really good record, and the guitar playing on it is genius.
Hoy Hoy
Heard that BC cover… thought they were better than what they laid down. Somebody here said though, that tryin’ to cover Lil’ Feat is somethin’ close to impossible. Again however, BC shouldn’t have released their version - they tried to to copy too close it seemed… and boy did they ever miss.
Been a fan since '72 when I saw them open for either Elton John or Rod Stewart, can't remember which that far back. Have the "Sailin' Shoes" album on vinyl. This one, "Dixie Chicken" and "Feats Don't Fail Me Now" helped me survive college. Great memories!
The sense of loss never really goes away. My youth passed with Little Feat and the other great music makers of the 70s.
Just keep livin'---David Wooderson
It's so easy to slip
It's so easy to fall
And let your memory drift
And do nothin' at all
All the love that you missed
All the people that you can't recall
Do they really exist at all
Well my whole world seems so cold today
All the magics's gone away
And our time together melts away
Like the sad melody I play
Well I don't want to drift forever
In the shadow of your leaving me
So I'll light another cigarette
And try to remember to forget
It's so easy to slip
It's so easy to fall
And let your memory drift
And do nothin' at all
All the love that you missed
All the people that you can't recall
Do they really exist at all
RIP Lowell, Ritchie, and Paul. Thank You.
One of my all-time favorites, thank you. 😍
RIP...Lowell George. You are dearly missed.
I heard two trains and i was hooked from then on !!
First time I heard this, it was jaw droppingly good. Saw them live in Boston, and they sounded exactly like this. Awesome.
God I loved this band.
Timeless recording, true genius.
Does make me cry
Just exceptional the best there, was, 6Kisell George n Little, Feat the best ever band musically! The Band n The Allman Bros n later The Amazing Rythm Aces were great bands but it was Lowell George n that great vocal that separated them, x! And his great songwriting with his Co songwriter Billy Payne! Best modern day music ever
One of my Favorite songs from a great great band lubs me da feat.
Awesome pics thanks
Simply f****** stunning! That's what I said!
Who gives a thumbs down. They slipped
As a tale, this song stings us all. I love it's hope, it's mighty heart. What a terrible tragedy Lowell left so soon. A beautiful man and a hot hot player. What is that saying... only the good.....
Lowell, you beautiful man. RIP.
A guitarist friend of mine once was perusin the RR HOF. He looked at the Hendrix stuff, and the Beatles stuff and lots of the other stuff. He turned a corner and in a glass case under lights, he saw a wood grain Strat on a stand with an 11/16 socket next to it. He told me that was the only time during his RR HOF walkthru that he had to stop and catch his breath. GET LF INTO THE HALL FOR REAL.
Absolutely.
Agree 100%!
Make it so, Universe!!
Amen!
The HoF has no criteria. Great bands; like Feat, Los Lobos and The Doobs should have been inducted before crap bands that Jan Werner and his little clic celebrated. How can Rap music be in the Rock n Roll HoF? That is why it is not valid.
Emmylou and Bonnie behind Lowell. Sirens
Lowell George lives!
Like many a tune that's become a part of my playlist, I came across this gem via the Grateful Dead and their many side projects (this particular one from Bobby and the Midnights). When I first heard this song live by Bob Weir I immediately searched out the original. They're both great but I wish I could have seen Little Feat perform it.
Yes , and Lowell produced
'Go To Heaven' .
I was familiar with the original and just heard the Bobby & Midnights version. Decent cover
Once in a lifetime THANKYOU LITTLEFEAT!
Such good music. I miss Lowell George and the gang.
Tablas in a pop song! Years before 'World Music' became a thing. Also Billy's harmony vocals are gold.
Well the Beatles were doing it 5-6 years before this, but I see your point
Keeps old friends that are gone alive for me
Amen brother !
What I wouldn't have given to be on a stage with them just once. Heavens.
What a song
Music just keeps saving my life
Mark Cameron. I wish I had said it, but kudos on best comment ever
Her life was saved by rock and roll
Oh, yes. Every moment of every day.
I remember being a kid in overalls in the third row and the rest were all college age students all preppy. They opened with this and sang it to me. Life has been a dream to me.
Very cool. I saw Feat on their last American tour in 1978 - Fox Theater, Atlanta, GA - at least the last Lowell-Feat tour. Was a kid then, but remember it as being one of the best live shows I've ever seen!
I was at Lowell's last concert- (Lisner Auditorium- D.C.) It blew me away when I read of his death the next day. I'm honored to have seen him and the band.
My older brother tried to take me to that show and I said no, sounded too twangy to my diseased teenage brain, big mistake 😭
Yes, Lowell, all the magic has gone away.
First heard Bob Wiers version & it was beautiful so I had to find the original & hear Lowell sing it, did not disappoint at all.
Easy to Slip is my favorite Little Feat song, just above Fat Man in the Bathtub ! ! ! Just love the high guitar notes ....
Willin!
Little Feat? BIG FOOT. SASQUACH.
Lowell George był wielkim artystą 💗🕊🎸
Saw the Feat live shortly before LG passed away. Special band they were for sure.
This is probably my favorite song of theirs, depending upon which week you ask me ;) There's just a lot of really cool, sometimes subtle, little things going on here, beyond the great harmonies in the voices, that guitar solo, lyrics, and and just that groove.
Like the harmonic at 2:07 , the organ comping at from 2:12-2:50 and in particular 2:12-2:18 (bringing back the line introduced in the intro) and 2:43-2:50 , the kick drum hanging with the bass throughout much of the tune.
This is a well constructed tune. If you ain't movin' some part of your body to it, take your ON button in for a service checkup;)
Lowell's quirky, surrealist funk was too offbeat for the mainstream but this track should have been top 10. Genius and no mistake...
Totally agree Philip. All the ghost-notes in the drumming, beat/rhythm changes, is it country or rock or...? The guitar solo is one of my all-time favourites. Perfect song.
Doesn't get any better than this. The first LF song I heard and I was hooked!
Yep.
Yes, yes, yes! The ghost notes in the drumming. Just slays me. @@filobloomz
Bad case of Featitis tonight. Feats do your thang ....Hoy Hoy!!!
This is more alt country much before that genre was conceived. Awesome country blues song
Mostly disagree. It's not that you're 100% wrong (both remarks), just that those characterizations obscure more than they illuminate.
Featus, don't fail us now! They never did!
I agree with Templeman...this should've been a hit.
I thought it was a hit??
One of my favorite songs ever
I saw them live a few years back,they still put on a great show.
Spring time is Little Feat time!
Any day with a y at the end of it is Little Feat time. Serotonin for the soul...
oh god he was an angel of music
Hot dam! 🎹❤️🎸
RIP: Lowell. RIP: Richie.
RIP Paul :(
Genius. Genius song. Sandy's version is amazing too.
Well said. They certainly should've/could've been better promoted. But, hey, those of us who got it, well - we got it...
One of my ALL TIME favorites🎉 including ALL Bands😅
Time Loves a Hero my fave
LOVE the Feat, but this is my all time FAVORITE!!
Mine too. Such an amazing song.
Yup!
They have so many I had to list top five. In fact, Waiting for Columbus is filled with their greatest stuff. The later years in the late 80's with Craig Fuller and Shawn Murphy were great too. These days; Bill Payne tours with the Doobies! I had seen this band 8 times. I'm a die hard fan.
all their tunes had an upside; my favorite is what we call "the anthem'- rock'nroll doctor
There's a great little article on Lowell George at Blues Guitar Insider titled simply, "Lowell George". It has a few embedded videos, and one of them includes the interview in Germany in which he talks about his slide technique ("...Craftsman 11/16 socket, ja?"). That snippet appears on the Hoy-Hoy! album.
In the group photo at 1:59 all you can see of Richie is his hand on his wife Pam's waist. Pam is the blonde at the far right. Elizabeth George is in the white shirt standing next to Lowell. Bill Payne and his wife Fran Tate are on the ground behind and next to the older woman in the chair. This is possibly 1975 because Lowell wore the black sweater all during that tour. Also, the woman with her arm wrapped around Kenny Gradney is not Josje, whom Kenny married in 1976 (I believe).
Love everything from the Feat
You could imagine when he was really trying stellar!!!! Spanish Moon! Red steam liner? Please roll us George!
My favourite band ever, well them or Free. It's such a cool song. The late, great Sandy Denny does a great version of this one.
I will have to check out the Sandy Denny version - thanks for the input!
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