Forty-five years ago, Little Feat traveled to the U.K. and set up shop for a four-night stand — Aug. 1-4, 1977 — at the Rainbow Theatre in London. The Los Angeles rock act then quickly returned to the U.S. where it would play three shows — Aug. 8-10 — at George Washington University’s Lisner Auditorium in Washington, D.C.
And the tape machines were most definitely rolling as the band — which vocalist-guitarist Lowell George, keyboardist Bill Payne, bassist Roy Estrada and drummer Richie Hayward formed in 1969 — rolled through such numbers as “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now,” “Oh Atlanta,” “Spanish Moon” and, of course, “Dixie Chicken.”
The result was Little Feat’s first live album, the 1978 double-LP “Waiting for Columbus,” which went on to become the most commercially successful outing of the band’s career.
