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  • Manfred Mann with Paul Jones is a better version

  • Oh yeah, forgot to say that the song "Little Red Book" was actually written by Burt Bacharatt!

  • When a writer from LA Weekly did an article calling them the best LA band ever a few years ago, I had to go get the greatest hits, and cruise LA. Best thing I ever did.

  • Pre punk is right. Johnny Rotten borrowed a little from Arthur's look. And many '1st wave' late 70's early '80's alternative bands borrowed from their sound

  • That is the smallest double neck guitar i have ever seen.

  • Maybe the greatest band that didn't make it big.

  • @harwicke yeah love and the nirvana band from the 1960s pretty sad they didnt make it

  • The 60s were one of the most musically creative decades in history,happy to have been growing up in that era.

  • I LOVE Black History Majors---they are so easily hustling drinks from them. Next time you in a bar and thirsty/no money, walk up to the nearest Howard University Grad and ask them to name the three BLACK HIPPY BANDS of the 1960's a.)Jimi Hendrex Experience b.) Sly and the Family Stone c.) Arthur Lee and Love. Forever Changes was America's answer to SGT Pepper---nothing else comes close. I got to see Lee just before he died; the man was more genius than Brian Wilson and just as fucked up..sad!

  • WOW, what a blast from the past . I remember this song from when I was a little kid. Driving home last night I was listening to a local radio station here in LA that play nothing burt records and they played this whole album. When I got home and turned on last nights SOA on TV they freekin opened up the show with this - Blew my mind MANNNNNNNNNNNNN

  • @Adamrub1 What radio station is that? I live here in L.A. County.

  • Pre-Punk!

  • the guitarist looks like thurston moore

  • A trip to Joshua Tree National Monument back in the day, listening to 'LOVE' all the way (both ways), all I can tell you - it was a trip. It was quite bizarre. They were one of my fave bands prior to that but after that trip, it gave a whole new meaning to what life was about.

  • A very underrated band from L.A.. Da Capo was such a great album. I wore out my first copy.

  • Yeah! Timeless tune! 1966 I was a senior in High School. A rockin group!!!!

  • Oh hell yes!

  • I dated Ken Forssi in 1962, Sarasota, FL. (Guitarist on far left in this video). He said he'd be famous. He moved, Lost touch.....I ended up in L.A. became a student and a DJ. I instantly fell deep for this tune when it was released in 66. It wasn't until after I bought the album I realized it was Ken. How was I to know he'd move there too? Ken has passed away, but this song remains tops...with Saxon and Syndicate of Sound and a few others. Hullaballoo club on the strip ruled then.

  • @SpeegBJ - That's cool that you knew Ken. What an innovative bass player!. Sorry that he,

    Bryan, & Arthur are all gone. Ken's playing was very ahead of his time,

  • @SpeegBJ Wow, that is wild. I loved this band. I went to see The Doors and Love was the opening act. I was 13. Good times!

  • This sounded like it was ahead of it's time for '66. Great Song.

  • gone too soon.

  • Written by Burt Bachrach and Hal David!!

  • @lottagone And I read somewhere that Bachrach actually hated this song, but at least it went somewhere!

  • Hollywood 60's Bido Lidos LSD Nuff said

  • I had the privilege of seeing Arthur Lee perform in the 90's in a smallish club in NYC, he sounded just like the records and the backing band was just great.

  • Obvious inspiration for the Doors' Back Door Man

  • @brucedraken04 im pretty sure howlin' wolf was the inspiration for that song

  • @accelerando34 It's a Burt Bacharach-Hal David song.

  • @brucedraken04 Back Door Man was written by Willie Dixon for Howlin' Wolf

  • 1:33 thurston moore ?

  • Love was very inspirational to Syd Barrett. This tune was his inspiration for "Interstellar Overdrive." Take a listen to it and you'll hear.

  • @09jackstraw Wow... I'm ashamed that I never heard that before. Thank you!

  • @MelissaYeuxdoux You are welcome, Melissa.

  • @09jackstraw Ah so you've the documentary too

  • @HeseQ Well, a book anyway--Dark Globe--Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd. 10 years in the making, the definitive bio. I highly recommend it!

  • @HeseQ st.christopherthelast@yahoo.co­m for John Evers

  • This is a cool tune!

  • ...this is a Bacharach & David tune !!

  • @baldur1377 Don't know if Mann himself wrote anything, but their 2nd lead singer, Mike D'Abo was a prolific writer, see "Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James" a brilliantly sarcastic bit of mellotron-driven power-pop (if that's not a contradiction). I still wonder if Bachrach ever appreciated the fact that he composed what was one of the first real punk records; I heard he hated this version when he first heard it.

  • @lrd9999 mann had jazz instrumentals they wrote before they had hit covers bacharach seemed to like manfred manns version of my little red book better love changed the chords and the tempo

  • According to a documentary on Arther Lee, he never wanted to tour to promote his music and so most people didn't see them live and the band never received the acclaim they so deserved. And was this band ever ahead of their time.

  • Amazing clip ! I never knew this exsisted. Thanx for the upload !

  • LOVE THIS SONG!! SO TRUE!

  • thanks for putting it back. they too k the sound out before it was removed.

  • The godawful kermit the frog soundalike that is the bastard Ronan Keating has covered this on album entitled When Ronan Met Burt. Burt are you really that hard up? :(

  • fuckin a..

  • Thanks for posting this video. I am old enough to remember Love (Lee). He was so ahead of his time that it was apparent even back then. Great memories. Thanks again

  • Odd as he was, had Lee been white I suspect the band would have fared better.

  • @rdw7300 Really? I guess that's why Motown had no success huh.

  • @overbrookXXX Motown produced soul acts in the 60's, not rock acts with black frontmen. Apples and oranges. You know that. If you think Lee didn't have to deal with racism in the industry, do some digging. The facts are out there. Take care.

  • in the what's new pussycat film it was done by manfred mann

  • @moxie96 done better in the movie

  • How is Love playing at Schuba's when Arthur Lee is dead?

  • Watching What's New Pussycat with Peter Sellers last night and they played this song in the movie. I used to love this song and forgot all about it. I LOVED the 60's. Feel privileged to have lived in that era!!!!

  • This is the group I remember back in the 60's at a little pizza joint down in hollywood.

    We were all on acid and Love had us dancing like head bangin' fools.

  • love how they turned this song inside out

  • thanks to burt bacharach for writing such an awesome song! and apologies to all the friends i have bored over the past 40 years by going on and on about love (THE most under-rated band of all time, really guys, really).

  • Thanks for posting this as it's especially cool in the last part to see Johnny Ecols with the rare Gibson double-neck--and I think it is most likely a vintage 1959 Gibson EMS-1275 (the upper neck is a short-scale guitar neck tuned a octave higher), dontcha think my fellow guitar freaks?

  • t6his year it will be 5 years ago he died...mr. Lee...

  • this song rocks?!! love it!! me and my dads favorite!! i love u dad!! rip 4-18-09

  • Great to see this rare little time capsule of Love. Reminds me when, as a kid in the 60s, we would scoff at "live" lip-sync performances on TV where you see the guitars weren't plugged in. (Even Hard Day's Night made that same mistake).

  • I had this 45 in 1966 and saw Love at the Fillmore West the next year.

    I am fortunate to have met Aurther Lee at the Whisky a gogo in Los Angeles 15 years ago as he opened for my brother Dave who sings for the Doors tribute band Wild Child..and Mr Lee was still "spot on". Too bad he is gone now...and yes, he should have had more success but for trouble with drugs (what esle?)

  • @ahmosis123 A bit ironic as Love used to open for the Doors back then. As a huge Doors fan who never got to see them live when I was in my teens, I finally got to see Wild Child. I have several DVDs of Doors concerts and your brother (and the whole group) are amazing and quite spot on.

  • I believe Love were invited to Woodstock and turned it down. Yes, they were there own worst enemies. This is an amazing video, there can't be much in existence of Love performing live. A racially-mixed group performing before a racially-mixed audience was quite revolutionalry in the USA for the time.

  • @Gazolba

    Actually, Love turned down an offer to play at the Monterrey Pop Festival in 1967.

    That was a bad decision. Things could have turned-out better, if they accepted it.

  • This amazing new group, LOVE, ushered in, musically, the psychedelic movement. They preceded THE DOORS, the Summer of Love and everything that followed. Little Red Book was a great song that should have made it to number one.

  • Nice to hear & see all this old stuff again. Interesting and humorous to hear all the truth, half truths and flat out lies you people write. If you're intersted where Hendrix got a nudge for his version of Hey Joe, try Tim Rose's earlier version.

  • fucking brilliant. arthur lee was the man. no question. there's a real edge of danger to his music, but it's wrapped up in exquisitly crafted harmonies and songwrititing skills that to my mind have never been surpassed. play this next to the beatles or stones (who are both great too) and to me it stands out. arthur lee was true genius.

  • Thanks for finding this gem. I is rather amusing to see the era of lip synch. That drummer trying to look serious with just a snare drum is hilarious. What they had to go through to get some air time was pretty demeaning. Love was popular in my group of friends in L.A. area in 1967-8. Their version of Hey Joe esopecially.

  • it took me forever to find this original - ty vm!

  • 1966. incredible. this band and arthur lee invented it. invented it.

  • Arthur was a gift to the world.

  • I´m amazed how talented LOVE was! and so In shock to this day to Learn they´re just a Cult classic, Most people don´t even know the Band They Deserved same or More Status than their famous peers! Forever changest one of my Top 5 albums ever, No joke!!!!!

  • Good version, but the chords are wrong, not Bacharach's original chord progression.

  • Didn't they do "Hey Joe" long before Jimi Hendrix/

  • @njva17420

    They sure did and before the "Leaves" version too. Their version was the best.

    We used to head bang on acid to these guys at Bido Litos. Arthur Lee with his granny glasses and guitar rocked the pizza joint.

  • Love played at a dinky club called Bido Lito's in Hollywood, down Cosmo Alley. I was 19 years old and underage to be there (21 years was the minimum age in California) but I snuck in and out and avoided the cops. Music and dancing were all that was important then to most our age, while we were blind-eyed to the Vietnam War. Hollywood was still a town of hope and discovery. The horrors of the Family and Charles Manson were three years in the future.

  • Peter Jenner was trying to hum a song he couldn't remember the name of (most commonly identified as Love's cover of "My Little Red Book"). Barrett followed Jenner's humming with his guitar and used it as the basis for the principal melody of "Interstellar Overdrive."

  • what a movie whats new pussycat was and what a great music score by burt

  • Arthur was a complete original ... as usual in history, before a big scene breaks, there is always some band or person that is ahead of everybody else - these people never get the recognition but they are always the ones most responsible for what followed. As far as the West Coast rock music scene goes for the 60's ... that man is Arthur Lee. The Doors cribbed on LOVE in their early days at the Whisky.

  • I have high regards for this band. Although it has a dark side, very few band realistically can compare to Love in terms of non-commercial musical achievements. They were also the first ethnically mixed music outfit to be publically exposed in the heigth of the civil rights movement. Echols and MacLean, I think, were the tighest guitar duo ever and Forssi and Stuart made a legendary rhythm section.

  • those are some funky glasses.

  • This song was so far ahead of its time. 1966???? It should have at least made top 10!!

  • I saw Atrthur In Birmingham a year or so before he died. He played Forever Changes album from start to finish and then carried on with more. It were bloody great! AND the brass section played Alone Again Or note perfect!

    He'll be sadly missed.

    God bless Arthur.

  • This has to be from "Where the Action Is". Dig the shades man - far out!

  • @JohnnyCNote I doubt it, WTI was shot on location.

  • It's unbelievable to me that this song only reached No. 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 (in the spring of 1966). And further that, after "7 And 7 Is" (which subsequently reached No. 33), a group this good never attained more popularity than it did.

  • @vandywilliam I was thinking race, but then Sly, Jimi, The Chambers Brothers and the Buddy Miles Express all made it. I did some research and it turned out Arthur Lee was his own worse enemy. He pissed off the pressat a time when that was not a good idea and got hooked on Horse pretty quick.

  • @vandywilliam back in 66 cars came with an AM radio...FM was like underground...you were lucky if there was even one FM station in your town that would play real rock and roll...in detroit it was WABX [95.5?]...viewed through that prizm it occurs to me that dick clark [this vid is from his show] wasn't such a sell out and really did a lot for rock and roll...i just rediscovered this song and i play it about 12 times per day...

  • @vandywilliam ... A very powerful song, I agree. The group "Love" was on the cutting edge of the NEW ROCK movement, the psychedelic era, or whatever you want to call it. The group "Love" preceded the DOORS. In the Morrison biography "No one gets out of here alive," Morrison reportedly said, before the DOORS became famous, that his ambition was to become "bigger than Love."

  • @vandywilliam TRUE, but it is also true that Love like Death, Stooges and Velvet underground influenced three generations of artists after them. Their music was ahead of the time and is still resonating on young people today. I love LOVE :P

  • @vandywilliam Word. This band is awesome. I found a vinyl copy of Da Capo in a record store a couple years back. Amazing. 7 and 7 is flat out breathtaking every time i hear it, and really, it's odd because no other love songs are like it. i wish they had done more in that direction. a friend of mine pointed out that 7 and 7 is, is like a very early punk song. perhaps even the first punk song? interesting.....

  • I feel priveliged to be watching footage of this. This is what history is made of and I just am so grateful that footage of these guys remains in tact. And before Forever Changes. To think that there was a point in music history where Forever Changes hadn't been thought of...

  • @seviwesuohetarepsed

    I couldn't have said it better!

  • @seviwesuohetarepsed Was lucky to catch Arthur with the new band in the early 00's. Amazing performance. RIP Arthur Lee

  • Love will always be one of my top favorite bands of all time. Criminally underrated.

  • An outrageously talented musical outfit! Baroque Rock at its finest

  • Maybe the greatest band that never made it in rock history.

  • I saw this when it was first on TV, 1967. It changed my Life...

  • The only good one out there - thanks!

  • Who's that blonde dude on the guitar? Yea Bryan Maclean thats who!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @C0NTR4B455 Yeah and I think that's Snoopy Pfisterer on drums!

  • yesssssss!

  • head shop shades, a dollar dose and day glo slurpee ....made in the shade

  • Probably the most rocking rendition of a 1960s Burt Bacharach/Hal David song.

  • Very sexy song.

  • I remember when cool sunglasses were like that in all sorts of shapes...

  • Great driving around song back then. Wish I could find the damn thing! Lost it a long time ago!

  • FANTASTIC

  • my band covers this. such a good song

  • Excellent!

  • Groovy glasses!

  • excellent upload! thanks!

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