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An Interview with Bill Payne of Little Feat

[I mentioned this in a post back in July, but neglected to post the actual interview]

It was my pleasure and honor to interview Bill Payne, keyboardist and founding member of the iconic American band, Little Feat. They have just wrapped up celebrating the 45th anniversary of one of the great live albums, Waiting for Columbus, and will soon start The Albums tour, coinciding with new releases of Sailin’ Shoes and Dixie Chicken, doing one night of each per city.

Thanks to David Holloway (and Paul Bindig, whose absence allowed me to fill in) of https://keyboardchronicles.com for letting me participate in this interview. I’ve been a fan of Little Feat and Bill since my college days, which coincided with their reunion. Since then, I’ve both gone forward with them as well as back through their earlier catalog and loved every minute of it, so getting to interview Bill was a huge deal for me. Fortunately, I seemed to have kept my cool and didn’t go “Chris Farley” on him.

You can find these episodes of The Keyboard Chronicles wherever fine podcasts are streamed, as well as on YouTube where I have provided the links below.

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Every time I think, “I wish they’d do a modern version of the old Mission: Impossible TV series,” I remember and go, “duh, we’ve been watching Leverage for years.”

Yeah, the tone is different, but they also have a lot of one-for-one parallels.

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I purchased a new product, did my first unboxing video, hooked it up, recorded some of the steps, was going to do a review, and it didn’t work. At first, it was definitely my fault for connecting it incorrectly, but since then I’ve discovered other issues that I’m working with their support on. It’s a great product and I’m excited to get it working, but bummed that these issues are holding me back both from using it fully as intended and recording the review.

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Every year, Formula One produces opening titles with all the drivers, and they make them all look serious and hard.

Then in the middle of the 2023 season, there was a driver change…

(Yes, I changed the order for the better punchline. No disrespect to the title contenders intended.)

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I will continue to call him Teflon Don until something sticks.

I’m not holding my breath.

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As far as these old politicians, I know some think they’re just holding on to power and that’s what it’s all about. But, a big part of the issue is that there isn’t really a system or method to help them out of office. Impeachment is for misconduct, that isn’t the case here. If they don’t see their own inabilities (and those with cognitive declines usually don’t, and too often stubbornly say they’re fine), then what? Outside of waiting until the next election, what can be done? I don’t think there’s a good answer.

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Our old house is for sale again. I was in the area and since it’s not currently occupied, I had a quick look around. The current owners changed a number of things, but overall, it’s very similar to when we owned it a couple of years ago. However, I had to keep telling myself, “it’s not my house!” as I briefly walked around on the property. After owning it and living there for over 20 years, it was weird to not act like I owned the place!

We know the current owners and I’m sure they would have had no problem with me being there. That wasn’t the issue. It was just not my thing anymore. But part of me felt like it was. I don’t feel bad about it, it’s just funny how part of me was trying to revert to old ways.

https://www.har.com/homedetail/750-sue-barnett-dr-houston-tx-77018/7931089

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Of all the information a modern automotive dashboard provides, why is temperature even a thing? Also, while it may be A temperature, it is not THE temperature. The temperature inside a metal box in direct sunlight isn’t how it’s properly measured.