Little Feat: Waiting For Columbus (Warner Brothers)
Peter Silverton, Sounds, 1978
WHOEVER started the vogue for double live albums (the Band?) has a lot to answer for. Whether pretty good (Bob Seger, J. Geils) or embarrassingly bad (Nils Lofgren), they all seem an excuse, a holding action or a sharpish business move disguising a greatest hits cash-in as giving the fans what they want.
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