When they get too high to cut their hair, most folks just sit back and giggle. But for their latest effort, Strike Up the Band, Little Feat chose to tackle the incident head-on: they made a snarky, rollicking video about the incident in a New Orleans hotel room where guitarist Fred Tackett and his wife Patricia got the idea for “Too High To Cut My Hair.”
For the video, a vape-puffing stylist wreathed in clouds of smoke hits on everybody in the band for a trim and is rebuffed, until finally bassist Kenny Gradney, with an explosive '70s-era Afro wig, consents to let her coiffe him. Gradney emerges looking as he really is today, grey-haired and distinguished, but his image in the mirror shocks him as he mouths to the camera, “I'm not ready for this.”
Feat fans are ready for this offering, an ongoing chapter in the group that built a loyal cult following starting in the late '60s with their blend of boogie, jazz, blues, rock, country, R&B, and whatever else that was passing by at the moment, which they snatched out of the air to put their inimitable spin on.
