European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 5, 1990, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Little feat Little feat today a a Little older a Little Wiser and a whole lot straighter lets the music by . Considine Baltimore Sun Paul Barrere admits that one of the biggest differences Between the old Little feat and the version currently on the Road is that things Aren t As crazy As they used to be. Frankly he likes it better that Way. Why because it makes the music better for one thing. Quot a in to the fact that everybody is a Little older a Little Wiser and a whole lot straighter. The band tends to play with More consistency Quot he said. Speaking Over the phone from a tour Stop in Toronto the guitarist Singer songwriter said that the excesses of old Hurt the band As often As they helped it. Quot there used to be some really great shows with the old band but then there d be some shows where Peoples consciousness was maybe a Little too altered. There d be some heavy duty train wrecks on stage Quot he said. Eventually that kind of confusion began to take its toll and the group disbanded in 1979. A few months later Lowell George a Little feats founder and chief songwriter a died while on tour behind a Solo album the victim of Ando the talking apparently drug related heart attack. It took almost nine years for the surviving members to reassemble a time enough for Barrere and his band mates to gain a Little perspective on the Rock in Roll lifestyle. Quot i think everybody s attitude has changed a bit Quot he said. Quot when you re younger you have this feeling of immortality. And artists a whether they a re musicians or actors a tend to feel that their life is their work. So you re trying to do so much All at once. Quot but when you Start adding up the years experience tells you that there Are a whole lot of other things in life that you need to take notice of. So now its not such a do or die situation. The music is important and All but its not the Only thing in our lives. Everybody has families and taxes to  Barrere thinks that today s Little feat has More Quot team feeling Quot than Ever. Quot we be been touring since late april with Only one 10-Day break at Home a he said. Quot and i can remember trying to do this kind of stuff years and years ago and we were just trudging around the country Quot but now the two hours that we spend on stage a that s the game. It s like let s go out and have a great time and win one for the  Quot typically the band keeps the emphasis on the music rather than resorting to the sort of visual dazzle a lot of younger acts employ. Quot i mean we do have lights but Little feat s not the most visual of bands Quot Barrere said. Nor does he think it should be. Quot somewhere Back in the 70s or something the image aspect in Rock a no Roll took greater precedence than the music which is kind of Bass backwards Quot he said. Quot and then with the Advent of videos it s almost like you better have a better Hairdresser than a music teacher. Quot its an interesting concept and i think i there a room for both. But i think its Nice that people Are starting to recognize Good music  and Little feat definitely prefers to let its music do the talking. Quot lets face it we re All 40 years old Quot a said. Quot we Don t want a lot of stuff jamming around on stage at Alt other than our instruments. Little feat has always based its claim to Fame on the  releases Stevie Ray Vaughan so family style by Robert Hilburn los Angeles times All five of the albums that the late Stevie Ray Vaughan made with his band double trouble Are available in compact disc but the cd package that will probably be in most demand among fans of the blues Rock guitarist in the coming months won t be in stores in the United states until sept. 25. That s when epic records releases family style the Long awaited project featuring Vaughan and his older brother Jimmie Vaughan who was the guitarist with the fabulous to undergirds until he left that band in june. The release Date was set before the younger Vaughan was killed Early last week. But fans of the heralded bluesman will get a Sample of the album on sept 17 when epic releases a single tick Tock. The socially conscious song a written by Jimmie Vaughan Nile Rodgers and Jerry Lynn Williams a is framed As a dream about a More caring and compassionate age. Sample lyrics the sick the hungry had smites on their faces the tired and the homeless had family All around the streets and the cities were All Beautiful places and the Walls came Tumblin Down. But the warning in the song s chorus adds a sad ironic Edge in View of Vaughan s death remember that tick Tock tick Tock tick Tock people times ticking away. Some of the songs on Vaughan a last album with double trouble 1989 s in step also assume an extra emotional dimension in View of the crash. After going through a drug treatment program in 1986, Vaughan spoke frequently about How much More he enjoyed life and music without drug and alcohol dependence. He also wrote about the years of struggle in such songs As Tightrope and Wall of denial on the in step album. In a rolling Stone Magazine interview earlier this year Vaughan spoke about the years of addiction. Quot i was just really lost. I could t keep going and i Dindl know How to Stop. I had gotten so far out that i did t know what was real and what was  the Vaughan Brothers developed a love of the blues As youngsters in Dallas. Jimmie moved to Austin Texas in the mid-�?T70s and started the fabulous thunderbird while Stevie Ray followed eventually forming his own group double trouble. The groups debut album Texas flood broke into the National top 40 in 1983, followed by such other hits As  stand the weather soul to soul and live alive. The Brothers had Long spoken about doing an album together a a dream realized in family style. Quot this was maybe the happiest period in Stevie a life Quot Glen Brunman vice president of Media and artist development for epic records said. Quot i saw him in new York in july when we played the new record for the company. He was completely at ease with himself completely Happy. There was just this big smile on his face. He was looking Forward to every Day every  crashes in music history Many prominent musicians met Early deaths in air accidents. Here is the list a aug. 27, 1990 grammy winning blues guitarist Sievie Ray Vaughan 35, was killed when a helicopter crashed into a Hill in East Troy. Wis., after departing from a concert. Vaughan had a Platinum album with his band double trouble in could t stand the weather released in 1984, that year he won a grammy for Best traditional blues recording for a song called flood Down in Texas. This year he won a grammy in the contemporary blues category for in step. A dec. 31,1985 Rick Nelson died in a new year s eve plane crash near de Kalb Texas. Nelson 45, achieved Rock n Roll stardom in the late 1950s and Early 60s with hits like in a Walkin a and Travelino Man. He was featured along with the rest of his family on the Long running to series the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet. A oct. 21,1977 Lead Singer Ronnie Van Zant and guitarist Stevie Gaines of Lynyrd sky nerd which carved a Niche in the Rock world with its image As hard drinking hell raising southerners were killed in a plane crash in Mccomb miss. A sept 20,1973 Jim Croce died in an air crash near Natchitoches la., at age 30. He put together a string of Rock hits such As time in a bottle in the 1970s. A dec. 10,1967 rhythm and blues artist Otis Redding died in a plane crash in Wisconsin along with members of his band the bar Kays. He was 26. His greatest hit sifting on the Dock of the Bay was released just three Days before the crash. A july 31,1964 country music Singer Jim Reeves known for hits Tike Welcome to my world and hell have to go died at age 39 in a Light plane crash near Nashville along with his manager Oean Manuel 30. A March 5,1963 Patsy Cline whose country hits included crazy and she s got you died in a plane crash near Camden Tenn at age 31. Also killed were grand Ole opry stars Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins and Pilot Randy Hughes Cliness manager. Her life was dramatized in the movie Sweet dreams starring Jessica Lange As Cline. A feb. 3,1959 a plane carrying singers  the big bopper Richardson buddy Holly and Richie Valens crashed near Mason City Iowa in route to a show in Fargo . The big bopper whose big hit was Chantilly lace in 1958, was 29, Holly whose hits included Peggy sue was 22. Valens famous for songs like la Bamba and Donna was 18. A dec. 15,1944 big band Leader Glenn Miller was in a plane flying Over the English Channel in route from Bedford England to Paris where he was to give a show. The plane never arrived. Two members of the British Royal air Force said the musician s plane might have been hit by bombs jettisoned Over the English Channel by Raf bombers. Page 16 a a a the stars and stripes wednesday september 5,1990