Bill Payne has offered an update on his onstage fall while performing at Thornville, OH’s Dark Star Jubilee this past weekend. The Little Feat keyboardist was reaching for his phone to take a picture while members of Dogs in a Pile were sitting in when he had his accident.

Payne posted the following yesterday:

I want to thank everyone for their concern over my untimely fall onstage last weekend. I appreciated hearing from you and can assure you that I am quite well. The aches and pains usually reveal themselves the next day and there wasn’t even a twinge. I spent many years cross-country skiing some rather large hills and learned how to fall. I was pleased to remember those skills when the time came! After what seems like a lifetime of bouncing around the narrow confines on a bus, I’ve developed an aptitude for careening off walls in the middle of the night as we roll down the proud highway; although I have seen evidence of bruises the next day and forgot where they came from.
In Ocean City, MD, I was surprised by a response following my solo in “Willin’.” Scott introduced me as I finished and there was warm recognition from the crowd, which I gave a wave of my hand to. As Fred began his solo on mandolin, the cheers and applause continued, rising in what felt like an orchestrated crescendo to the point of my wondering if something had happened in the hall—was someone running around naked in the crowd? It took me a second to realize that I was the object of attention and the love that accompanied it.
I’ve spent a good deal of my life onstage in all types of settings, which include playing piano at elementary school assemblies, recitals in Ventura as a student of Ruth Neuman, later in high school rock and roll bands, and on and on. I have never heard an ovation directed to me like the one in Ocean City. Fred was given a mighty cheer as well. I can only say thank you for touching my heart. There is a lot of road left, a lot of fields to plow. I look forward to all of it. Thanks for accompanying me on this journey.

The keyboardist’s post follows his previous social media update:

Little Feat played an early evening show Sunday at the Legend Valley – Dark Star Jubilee, in Thornville, OH. Some storms threatened to upend the schedule. Mid-afternoon we had a rehearsal to go over “Tennessee Jed,” which I would sing with Tony Leone. Joining us were Jimmy Law on guitar and Jeremy Kaplan on keyboards from Dogs In A Pile. During the rehearsal Jeremy told me that when he and Jimmy were at Berklee they played Waiting For Columbus for one of their classes with a horn section that patterned themselves after Tower of Power. Not long after performing our album they dropped out of school. I told him, “If you could do justice to that album, you were beyond staying in school.”

By the time we went on to play, the weather cooperated. It was a light rain and then it stopped for most of our show. A few weeks ago we hit a home run in New Orleans at Jazz Fest. We did it again Sunday evening. It was all going well until the guys came up to play the “Dixie Chicken” “Tennessee Jed” medley. Jeremy and I had a great weave of solos going back and forth, bringing us back to the second verse of “Chicken.” Then I had the brilliant idea to take a photo of Jimmy, Fred, and Scott during their solos. While reaching for my iPhone in my right pocket, I had moved too far to the left on the bench, tipping it over. There was no way to stop it. I was going down! I took a slow-motion roll towards Tony’s drum riser, mindful to miss the “V” of it with my head. I hit the ground and rolled to my left on my back and pointed both my legs to the heavens. Jeremy got up to help me, but I waved him off good naturedly. I rolled again onto my knees so I could stand up, showing the iPhone to the crowd, holding it high in the air with a big smile on my face. I then proceeded to take the shot that had brought on the calamity. All in a night’s work. The band didn’t see any of it—some friends in the audience told them. I will try not to make it part of the show!

Little Feat will perform in Fairport, NY this evening.