This here’s a video posted for no reason other than the quality of the performance and the song’s sudden appearance in my memory banks last night. It’s Little Feat performing “Fat Man in the Bathtub” at a 1976 music festival in the Netherlands.

I glanced at the Wikipedia page on Little Feat lead singer and guitarist Lowell George this morning, and learned that his first band, The Factory, appeared on episodes of F Troop and Gomer Pyle USMC. Before forming Little Feat, George was briefly a member of Frank Zappa’s Mothers of Invention. I did not know these things. Anyway, enjoy.

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Ed Kilgore is a political columnist for New York Magazine; a longtime contributor to the Washington Monthly; and a former policy adviser to three governors and a U.S. senator from his home state of Georgia.