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Little Feat With Special Guest Hot Tuna Acoustic
August 15, 2022 @ 8:00 pm - 11:00 pm MST
Little Feat Waiting For Columbus 45th Anniversary Tour With Special Guest Hot Tuna Acoustic
Danny Zelisko Presents welcomes Little Feat and their “Waiting for Columbus 45th Anniversary Tour” with very special guest Hot Tuna Acoustic at 8 p.m. on Monday, August 15, 2022. Tickets go on sale this Friday, December 12th. For tickets and the venue’s Covid-19 policy, please visit celebritytheatre.com
It’s time to lace up your dancing shoes. After two years of Covid-enforced silence, Little Feat has big plans for its return to the stage. Hard on the heels of their November “By Request” tour, they are planning a March-April 2022 tour that will celebrate the 45th anniversary of the legendary Waiting for Columbus, replicating the album at every stop.
Jerry Garcia once said that making a studio album was like building a ship in a bottle; with skill and oceans of patience, you could make something beautiful. But playing live and recording it was like being on a ship in a raging storm. Feat’s trademark blend of California rock, funk, folk, jazz, country, rockabilly, and New Orleans swamp boogie rested on a base of improvisational skill and jazz-based chops that made their live shows special, and on Columbus those abilities are on triumphant display. In August 1977, the band brought along a recording team to four shows in London and then three in Washington, D.C., and they captured sonic gold. Backed by the Tower of Power horn section, with whom they’d recorded Feats Don’t Fail Me Now, they romped through extended versions of a stellar song selection that included “Fat Man in the Bathtub,” “Spanish Moon,” “Dixie Chicken,” “Sailin’ Shoes,” and “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now,” as well as the iconic truck driver’s lament, “Willin’,” the song that got the late Lowell George out of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention and gave birth to Little Feat. Generations of listeners have worn out the original vinyl, and the digital world will carry that heritage forward. Hearing it again is something every Feat Fan looks forward to. Sadly, 50 years on the road cost the band George, then Richie Hayward and Paul Barrére. Little Feat 2022 features original member Bill Payne (keyboards, vocals), along with Kenny Gradney(bass), Sam Clayton (percussion and vocals), Fred Tackett (guitars and vocals), Scott Sharrard (guitars and vocals), and Tony Leone (drums).
“Hot Tuna is a Psychedelic-Blues Institution,” according to Rolling Stone Magazine. What started as a side project during Jefferson Airplane days, eventually became the full-time focus of founding members Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen. The longtime bandmates perform with a well-honed and solid power – always in the groove from their years of experience and mutual inspiration. From their days playing together as teenagers in the Washington, DC area, through years of inventive psychedelic rock in San Francisco (1996 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees), to their current acoustic and electric blues sound, no one has more consistently led American music for the last 50 years than Hot Tuna. At the 2016 Grammys, Kaukonen and Casady were honored with Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Doors open at 6 p.m. Tickets ($47, $77 and $97) go on sale at 10 a.m. this Friday, December 10th at celebritytheatre.com. All tickets are subject to sales tax, facility and ticketing surcharges. All ages welcome. Celebrity Theatre is located at 440 N. 32nd St., in Phoenix.
About Danny Zelisko Presents: Danny Zelisko has been bringing shows to the Southwest since 1974. He founded the legendary Evening Star Productions in 1976, helping make the Southwest a viable stop on most contemporary tours, producing thousands of shows over the years. Danny proudly partnered Grateful Dead shows with Bill Graham Presents in Phoenix and Las Vegas in the ’80s and ’90s.
About Celebrity Theatre: Celebrity Theatre is one of Phoenix’s most intriguing historic landmarks. The venue opened in 1964 with the musical “South Pacific” starring Betsy Palmer. In the years since, it has hosted such stars as George Carlin, Joe Cocker, Carol Channing, Billy Joel, Def Leppard, Smashing Pumpkins, Louis CK, Chris Rock, David Bowie, B.B. King, Nat King Cole, Roger Daltrey, Don Rickles and Fleetwood Mac among many other legendary performers. For more than 50 years, the facility has provided patrons with the ultimate in entertainment viewing featuring an extremely rare revolving stage and no seat is more than 70 feet away from the stage!