Bill Payne - The Summer of Love, Lowell George, Little Feat (4 of 10)

[audiodoc68]

No one plays piano like this Man, Period.

Phenomenal, and one of a kind.

If you played me a hundred parts, I could pick out Bill's in a second.

[Curlybird998]

Bill Payne and all the rest of Little Feat deserve recognition by enshrinement in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. They have been going on like the energizer bunny and just keep evolving. Their repertoire is absolutely amazing.

My wife and I have followed them on their trips through the Northwest several times & every night it's a new show. They are all good people and more than willing to talk.

Bill Payne is immensely talented and he has worked long & hard to take that talent higher.

[surfric]

yah these are great intervies. I like edgar Winter as well. Great stories.

[grandwazooX]

...both were Frank Zappas Labels...  love it...

[FlipsidesBand]

The summer of love was 1967.

[SuperJohnnykay]

Just saw Little Feat here last night in Sydney at the State theatre.It was great.

[anonymusum]

Bill Payne is a real great keyboardist - sadly very underrated in public - and obviously the best instrument player in Little Feat, far better than Lowell with his bottleneck guitar

[rayjr62]

@anonymusum Bill played piano on the Doobie Brothers LP "The Captain and Me" - In fact, his piano work is heard on the track "Rockin' down the highway"

[GrooveDoctor77]

Little Feat really never got the credit they deserve for being one of most unique sounding bands for 4 decades ...they had and still have that funky cajun groove ,and besides losing Lowell George they kept going on without changing the core members ,I know Ritchie Haywards drumming style is what I tried (just tried) to emulate as a drummer ,Hayward is in a class by himself,and so are Payne and the others

[dkjayjay]

warped by the rain ---- driven by the snow ----

im drunk an dirty ---- dont you know

[dkjayjay]

Bill Paine i remember - sorry - from The Band..

And also from (warped by the rain, Driven by the snow....

Warped by the rain , driven by the snow i'm drunck and sirty, dont you know - and i'm still - oh im'm still - ive been from tochom to to to.....

I love You

[dkjayjay]

Bill Paine i remember - sorry - from The Band..

And also from (warped by the rain, Driven by the snow....

[dkjayjay]

Bill Paine i remember - sorry - from The Band..

[marvelousmarv51]

Love ya Bill. Thanks fer being true to Lowell sir.

[ZombiGrisGris]

This guy is the world's most underrated piano man, I think.

[journey46]

Good people, focus on the music and the music makers. Ignore the ignoramuses and the rabble rousers.

[NEntv58]

He strikes me as an honest guy, a good guy and just one hell of a keyboard man.

[samabinwatchin]

I can't believe that his remark about Castro meeting Che is even an issue, I had to go and look at the video again to see what the earlier posts were refering too. Only in America would a comment like that be an issue. Come on America, this is dinosaur talk.

[NORTHSORROW]

SKIN IT BACKKKKK

[StopStopStopStopStp]

Definitely '67!

[LaBrujaha]

Bill -- we never left square one.

otherwise -- thanks for the music!

[eyechord]

thought summer of love was 1967??

[LaBrujaha]

it was but he was probably concentrating on his music --

[123JDMilo]

What a joy to hear Bill and what he has experienced and learned over his sixty years. For those of you who whiffed Marxism, you are not realizing that Billy is giving you the years of his experience and intelligence free. Take it and don't read in to his words your own narrow labels.

[Nvg8r1]

But why would he throw that little remark?

[brillo421]

@Nvg8r1  Name dropper or what ? but I still love to watch him on youtube.....

[mempheel]

'67 was the summer of love... just sayin...

[StopStopStopStopStp]

@mempheel You're so right!

[sonnyboygumbo]

Tanx so much for this series!

Good to put the spotlight on cats who deserve more exposure.

Saw Little Feat a couple years ago in Montreal...

Bill Payne was phenomenal!!!!!

[tomthefunky]

Except when Che and Fidel met, they talked of things like Stalinism and how swell it is.

[KarlDaggerfield]

Yeah, love Billy, but can't help but detect a whiff of Marxism in his stories.

[pretorious700]

He's allowed his politics, it's almost still a free country.

[themancable]

@KarlDaggerfield

And perhaps a whiff of Nazism on your clothes?

[dougalmac54]

@KarlDaggerfield Crapola! It wasn't about the politics AT ALL. it was about how he and Lowell met and immediately bonded as people, it was an example of how two people meet and are simpatico. Marxism my ass.

[themancable]

@tomthefunky

Like when W and Killer Dick met and they talked about death camps and how swell Himmler was.

[tomthefunky]

@themancable: I'm no fan of either W or Cheney, but I know and you know that conversation never took place. You just make shit up, don't you?

[themancable]

@tomthefunky

Oh I was being mighty provocative. Just like yourself, wouldn't you agree?

Stalinism and Little Feat? What the f*#k were you thinking?

Stop bringing your narrow-minded political BS into this, he's a musician not a demagogue.

[dougalmac54]

@tomthefunky You and the others who object to this Che meeting Castro comment are so effing stupid. It wasn't about the politics AT ALL. it was about how he and Lowell met and immediately bonded as people, that's it. If you want to read some stupid right-wing political agenda into, go ahead, but you haven't a clue what you're talking about.

[tomthefunky]

dougalmac54: What I got from the comment he made was that it seemed to me that he kinda has a soft spot for ole' Che and uncle Fidel. It's not like he's alone if he does. There are plenty of American leftists would "go gay for Che" . Oliver Stone and Sean Penn have major boners for those guys. Face it, your hero, Bill Payne is probably a commie. Deal with it.

[dougalmac54]

@tomthefunky More like what you read into Bill's comment. Right-wing paranoia. Deal with it. American lefties? What an ignoramus. Go hang with Rash Windbag and your other right wing fascists, this is for the Feats.

[tomthefunky]

@dougalmac54: Wait a minute. You accuse me of right wing paranoia and then two sentences later you call me a fascist?? It's clear you are not only a hypocrite, but a buffoon as well.

[CopperKingKid]

Billy is an amazing individual and incredible keyboardist. He should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a sideman, if not with his band Little Feat. The people he has played with over the years is a who's who of Rock and Roll.

[itchyundies]

nothins changed to bloody true i digg bill

[concordjunction]

Magnificent!! These are just brilliant interviews!!!

[olivedrag]

Great, thanks! He's so right!

[EmmaSpires]

Huge thanks to LivingLedgendsMusic for these wonderful interviews with Bill Payne, beautiful words and sentiments from a beautiful person, beautifully told. Amazing!