Comments on: Fred Tackett (Little Feat) interview/performance this Tuesday at 8 PM!

By: Unca

Unca — Tue, 23 May 2006 04:14:17 +0000

rock on, daniel

You coming for Wakarusa? AHT tent this year again?

By: J&D

J&D — Tue, 23 May 2006 03:29:32 +0000

As far as questions to ask Fred, how about starting out with questions about the Lowell George era. Then maybe he can take you through the Craig Fuller years, and now Shaun Murphy.

Fred was born in Arkansas, as you probably know; now he has moved back to Eureka Springs, AR. You may want to ask him some questions about that. Also, don’t forget to ask him about the upcoming Eureka Springs Big Time Festival September 15th & 16th with Dr. John & Little Feat.

Best Regards

By: Dgold

Dgold — Tue, 23 May 2006 02:21:23 +0000

Friend of Dgold, a music historian from Little Rock, and producer of the Arkansongs radio show — Stephen Koch — wrote a great article about Fred Tackett in the Arkansas Times newspaper. Here are a few excerpts:

Little Rock native Fred Tackett… started out on trumpet and drums before learning the guitar. Along Ninth Street, the business/entertainment district for the capital city’s black community, he listened and subbed in bands. “The law in Little Rock,” he said, “was white people couldn’t
play in the same bands as black people, and vice versa. Of course, I was in a band with two black guys and two white guys. We just were constantly getting in trouble.”

Tackett gave fellow Hall High alum Robert Palmer, who went on to write for the New York Times and Rolling Stone, his first nightclub gig. At the beginning of Palmer’s 1995 book “Rock & Roll: An Unruly History” — a companion to a PBS series to which Palmer was chief adviser — he wrote of Tackett and another musician, “They were vastly more experienced than I was, and seldom let me forget it.” Tackett describes playing a “funky little place” on Little Rock’s outskirts with Palmer: “You had to play all the different styles. [Palmer] was pointing out how that sort of became rock ’n’ roll. Trying to make people in the bar happy. … You went through different kinds of music and amalgamated them.”

After getting “saved from probably getting arrested in Little Rock by going away to college in Texas,” Tackett gigged his way to Hawaii and met successful songwriter Jimmy Webb in a club. Webb, then 21, asked him to come to Los Angeles and join his band.

Later in the article, Tackett draws out a surprising comparison between his homes in Topanga Canyon in L.A., and little-ol’ Eureka Springs, Arkansas:

Tackett said, “I live in the country in Los Angeles, because I live in Topanga Canyon … and I moved to Arkansas to live in the city. I can walk down to the galleries and the coffee shops. Where I live in California doesn’t have anything.” …“There’s just a soulful feeling about late at night out there in the woods in Arkansas, by the river and stuff. It’s hard to pinpoint; I think we captured some of that in the music.”

By: Meyer Lansky

Meyer Lansky — Tue, 23 May 2006 01:54:04 +0000

Dgold:

Meyer Lansky here. I go by this name over on Panicstream and we have a good repoir with one another.

Look here…if it wouldn’t be weird and too much trouble, I would like him to elaborate if he’d like on the story-line for the song ‘Willin’. Now if you are just focusing on music from his recent years, then that will suffice. Just my two cents. Your show rocks!!!! La’Chiam..,

Peace,
Meyer Lansky

By: tipi

tipi — Tue, 23 May 2006 00:45:52 +0000

hey Dgold, what a cool thing! Ask Fred if he’s gonna be adding Come Together to LF’s playlist [see if he doesn't smile and tell you about playing w/ Papa Grows Funk/Troy "Trombone Shorty" Andrews/ and one of the guys from Rebirth Brass Band @ The Maple leaf in New Orleans the day after JazzFest.]

You might have to nudge him that way … but I doubt it. Tell him Tipi (tee-pee) says hi.

And thanks for doing a groovy thing.
Peace,
T

By: Arkansas

Arkansas — Mon, 22 May 2006 20:57:19 +0000

Discussion threads about the Fred Tackett interview, on other forums: Central Plains Jamband Society forum MOheads for the Missouri area music fans Wakarusa Music Festival forum Tea Leaf Green off-topic board (by the way, TLG covers several songs that Fred Tackett has performed, such as "Willin'") PanicFreaks - Fred Tackett Radio Interview Thread PanicStream chat board Little Feat message boards thread started by the mods Jim & Darcy, Feat fans from Southeast Missouri

By: FanOfJah

FanOfJah — Mon, 22 May 2006 17:37:59 +0000

Hey man, i saw that Tackett is gonna be in the studio, thats AWESOME. I wanted to ask you if there is any way when you do the concert calender that you could add that our show (Markham Hill) this Wed at George’s will be a benefit for our friend and “dance captain” Jared Hickman — all proceeds from our show will go into his pocket to pay his medical bills.

Thanks a bunch if you can get around to it.

FOJ