Thursday, December 18, 2025

Little Feat with Tower of Power - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: In Concert, L'Olympia, Paris, France, 2-3-1975

Here's a BBC concert album from the band Little Feat. It took place when they were at or near their musical prime, in 1975. It also contains a short opening set by the band Tower of Power.

This concert was a popular bootleg for a long time, ever since people recorded it off the radio. In 2024, the Little Feat portion was finally officially released, as extra tracks on the deluxe edition of the band's 1974 album "Feats Don't Fail Me Now." I used that recording for that portion of the concert. However, I was surprised to discover that recording has a serious flaw (and one not shared with the Tower of Power section), in that the vocals were quite low in the mix. So I brought the vocals back up to where they should have been, to match the Tower of Power section, using the MVSEP program. So now this should sound better than it ever has sounded before.

The Tower of Power section is 20 minutes long, while the Little Feat portion is 55 minutes long. The Tower of Power section is still unreleased. The sound quality is excellent throughout.

There's been some contradictory information about when this concert took place. I've seen some sources say February 1st, while others say February 3rd. When I first posted this, I had it as February 1st. But then I was sent some more information by a commenter, and that swayed me to change it to February 3rd just one day later. 

Note that I found a second BBC concert Little Feat did much later, so this is "Volume 1." I hope to post "Volume 2" soon as well.

This album is an hour and 15 minutes long. 

01 Only So Much Oil in the Ground (Tower of Power)
02 talk (Tower of Power)
03 Don't Change Horses [In the Middle of a Stream] (Tower of Power)
04 So Very Hard to Go (Tower of Power)
05 Knock Yourself Out (Tower of Power)
06 On Your Way Down (Little Feat)
07 Skin It Back (Little Feat)
08 Fat Man in the Bathtub (Little Feat)
09 talk (Little Feat)
10 Rock and Roll Doctor (Little Feat)
11 Oh Atlanta (Little Feat)
12 Cold, Cold, Cold - Dixie Chicken - Tripe Face Boogie (Little Feat)
13 Willin' (Little Feat)
14 Teenage Nervous Breakdown (Little Feat)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Mjp1qfbw

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/2prYxhk5LhIkhFm/file

The cover photo is from a TV show appearance in 1974. All I know it took place in Los Angeles. For the text, I found the band name logo with the font and colors shown here. I then used Photoshop to mimic the text for all the other writing.

3 comments:

  1. I believe the Paris show should be dated 2/3/1975. Per FeatBase (http://www.featbase.net/setlists?year=1975), on 2/1/1975 Feat were in Brussels: http://www.featbase.net/featsetlist?ID=3458 Polypheme

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    1. I'd seen some contradictory things. But you made me look into this some more, and I have to agree with you. So I just made the change. Thanks.

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  2. Thank you, I've never seen this boot before!

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