Wandered in here and saw the posts about Little Feat. One of my all time favorite bands and perhaps the best live band I saw in the 70s. Every single member was amazing. Lowell was an amazing guitarist, had loads of charisma on stage and wrote great songs with really quirky rhythmic twists, it is not easy to properly cover Little Feat. Little Feat's "Sailin' Shoes" is the only record I can remember buying based on a record review (Rolling Stone). I turned everyone I knew onto the band since nobody was aware of them. I finally got a chance to see them in 1973 at Max's Kansas City in NYC, tiny club, they were opening for Bonnie Raiit. Most of LF sat in with Bonnie, at the time she was touring only with Freebo (bass player). Feel incredibly lucky to have seen LF 18 times before Lowell passed and also went to two of his solo shows at The Bottom Line about a week before he died. Forrest George, Lowell's son, has been lobbying the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame to nominate his dad and Little Feat, so far no luck, criminal they have been passed up. All of the 70s Little Feat albums are classics. The revamped Little Feat was still a great band but I never truly got over them losing Lowell.
Lowell definitely had a stratoblaster installed in his Strat and like Bonnie Raitt used Howard Dumble amps which have a nice overdrive characteristic of their own. During the later Lowell-era Kenny Gradney was using an F2-B in his bass rig and I thought it sounded way better than the Sunn amp he used previously.
