Live From Neon Park [Live]

Little Feat | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 18, 1996)
• Original Release Date: 1995
• Number of Discs: 2
• Format: Live
• Label: Volcano
• ASIN: B0000009B0
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #136,146 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Little Feat still A Live, September 7, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Live From Neon Park (Audio CD)

A double cd set that rivals and in many ways surpasses the groups earlier classic live album/cd Waiting For Columbus. An album recorded in 3 different venues that rocks from the opening chords of Two Trains to the closing of their now classic Let it Roll. The highlights of course being the virtuoso musicianship by everyone in the band along with the Joplinesque singing of relative newcomer Shaun Murphy. Bill Payne, Paul Barrere, and Fred Tackett all shine on their respective instruments and if there is another band with a better rhythym section of Richie Hayward, Kenny Gradney, and Sam Clayton, I've never heard them. Listen to Fred Tacketts son, Miles solo on Dixie Chicken and Lowell Georges daughter, Inara sing on Sailin Shoes. Everyone I've played this album for or convinced them to buy,has been blown away by the tightness of the band in the live setting. If you've never seen this incarnation of the band, RUN don't walk to their next concert in your area. Now if I could just get my original copy out of my wife's car CD player! If you get the chance check out their new studio release Under the Radar.

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Phoenix rising from the Ashes, August 19, 2002

By 

Steven Clem Haley "Steve is in Stillwater" (Stillwater, Oklahoma United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Live From Neon Park (Audio CD)

Yeah, most of us figured they couldn't top Columbus. Yeah, most of us bailed on Feat after the death of Lowell. Yeah they put out a few directionless albums soon after, but it seemed like the band, as well as the fans were still gasping for air and wondering what was going to happen next. Sadly, most of us fans turned our back on them and they were quickly relegated to the long list of great bands that had passed their prime.

Have you ever leaned into a left hook?

That is exactly what this cd felt like when I heard it the first time. I was walking down the street, popped into my favorite entertainment center where this was featured in a listening station. After hearing Shaun Murphy's version of "Changing Luck" and "You're taking up Another Man's Place", I had to literally go out to the curb, sit down, and catch my breath. The remakes of the older more familiar Feat regulars not only are the expected excellence, they are if anything even more excellent! The addition of Fred Tackett on guitar adds a completely new spark of creativity that doesn't overshadow Barrere, but allows him to play off of someone who is at least as creative as he. Billy Payne has not lost anything. Clayton, Kenny, and Ritchie still make up the heaviest rhthym section ever created.

If you, like me, had given up on the Feat, apologize to the Muses of the Dixie Chicken and pick up where you left off. This one will amaze. IT IS NOT Waiting for Columbus. Nothing ever will be. But neither is Barry Bonds a Hank Aaron.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Live "Feats Don't Fail Me" Ever, February 12, 2000

By 

Jim Schaughency (El Paso, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Live From Neon Park (Audio CD)

Has anyone else noticed the five star rating from everyone who reviewed "Neon Park"? There's a reason.

When I cranked this masterpiece up, I heard the best SOUND Little Feat ever produced. The CD quality is tremendous. Some live CD's are missing something and lost in tin can land. Not "Neon Park". The distinctive voices, music and arrangements of "Feat" really bring out the chills in "Willin", "Two Trains" and "Texas Twister". Wait 'til you get a load of 17 minutes of the mellow/beautiful/bluesy/full-out New Orleans horn jazz/honky tonk/hard drivin' rock guitar version of "Dixie Chicken". Pishaw, you say? You'll see.

If you don't know the sheer power of Shawn Murphy, you will on "Neon Park".

Forget the soundbites on-line. They don't cut it. The CD does. Buy this one. It's SO GOOD that you may find yourself buying it for a friend or two. I did.

Put this in you vehicle CD changer, put the windows all the way down, put on a ball cap, crank it way up, hit the highway and let "Little Feat" melt the miles.