Don't know why they lip synched, because I have many 60's videos with great sound, much better than todays live registrations. They didn't use PA systems back then so the live sound is always purer, warmer and better.
Thanks for posting this. I do wonder where folks find these old videos Great stuff here on Youtube. I also find myself wondering why this group didn't hit bigger than they did. I also wonder that about many groups and lean toward seeking out the lesser known bands from that era.
When I first Heard Love, in the 60's I was about 16 years old. I think it's wonderful that you want to find lesser known bands of Love's caliber!! We always took pride in finding good music/bands/artists. Fun as hell, so good for you!
I am older but don't feel I will ever outgrown good music, no matter how old it has become. I am always finding old music that I get off on.I would include Love's Forever Changes as one of my all time favorite albums. Check out a group called Phantasia. I posted several songs by them. they are great.
I saw the new LOVE ina small pub in Melbourne,Australia where I live in 2003-Greatest gig Ive ever seen!I nearly wet myself!I actually yelled out a request for song-"Robert Montgomery and they promptly played it.The Guitar solo on the recorded version by Snoopy Pfister,I assume is amazing! After the original line-up split I wonder what happened to him?? Is he still alive? Still playing?
AFAIK Snoopy never played guitar at the very least for Love. He was their drummer briefly and changed to harpsichord. He was a member for less than 2 years ending in '67. Robert Montomery originally appeared on the powerhouse "Four Sail" LP in 1969 where lead work was handled by Jay Donellan and he was indeed quite good. Google him. I think he's still alive and active. Snoopy is still alive but making odd claims.
I'm 62 and was a touring musician for 2 decades and Love was one of the very few bands of whom I bought every album they ever made. Always loved 'em, always will but I'm disappointed when I read comments that trash today's music. The biz is just bigger and more fractured now but the internet and digital recording are bringing back small eclectic bands. Bands need to be able to play preferably in front of people. If there's no scene, there's few good bands.
Well said,a lot are getting snuffed out because there's too much stuff.Stations should play stuff cause it's good not because of who the promoter is pushing.
Love are the most unappriecated talented rock group in American history, as well as one of the best bands ever. Great song, I wish they had more live footage that wasn't resynched to the album.
Amazing band. I bought my 1st Love album in 1966 and wore down he vinyl groves. Saw them at one of the clubs on Sunset in LA a year later. These guys were good!!
Anyone know what this clip is from? Rare seeing Love performances. What a great band! Get the "Love Story" double-CD. A bunch of great stuff, including the entire Forever Changes album! RIP, Arthur!!!!
So bad here in southern Cal I am now listening to AM Radio or Ipod though college radio such as WFMU in New Jersey is excellent at times playing Garage Rock (go Bill Kelly) - this station is on the net. Sirius and XMR stink as the bandwidth is a mere 128kbps which degrades the high end signal. Nothin worse that a "swishy" high end. Treble freaks would agree.
Love recorded some great songs but the many lineups did not give a great live performance. I know. I saw the original group and later Love groups live and they were not that good. If you listen to the 2003 Love performance now that was excellent..
That's right. The technology was not up to it, so lip-syncing was the easy way to get good sound and image. I'm appalled at how poorly my generation's music is documented. But that's the way it was. Before The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's on '67, the dominant LP release was in mono sound, if you even know what that is these days. Stereo was a revelation. These days everything is documented. For better or worse.
you mean on television, right! The 60s were full of brave, bold, righteous bands not afraid of taking chances, and taking it to the streets. Love live was a real challenge. Like Ray Charles, you didn't really know if Arthur would show ... when he did you were delighted as hell ... now whether he felt like performing ... well, that was another thing. He was wild, reckless, and just fantastic. Were unlikely to see his kind of raw talent mixed in with this mess the labels now call music.
That's true. I would have to say Forever Changes would have to be in my top 10 albums as well as about maybe 4 or 5 more from the 1960s. It's a shame alot of the them lip synched for TV, though. Especially Love because it so hard to find live performances. Alot of music is too commercial these days to be original in the USA. And LA is not a music inspired town anymore. The sad thing is I don't think music is getting any better and the last time I heard anything original is about 15 years ago.
I hear you, I'm with you, but, surprisingly, might I recommend Amy Winehouse. Forget all the hype, she's different in a Billie Holliday kind of way. Listen to her, not the media.
I've heard Amy Winehouse is talented. The UK has always been far ahead of the US in terms of music. I personally think the US is falling apart and Arthur Lee saw it then because just listen to FC and his word still speak to the US to this day. And Bryan turned to Christ because he knew fame was hollow. CA should be ashamed for sending a smart dude like Arthur to jail and at 60 was a product of modern society. In the words of Blur, Modern Life is Rubbish. In my word, LA sucks.
You use a fine British word,"rubbish." Yes, pub bands in England, for example, are so superior to their counterparts in America.I remember a long time ago going to my local London East-End pub near Bethnal Green and listening to a group of guys who turned out to be Keith Moon, on drums, Rod Stewart, on vocals, Peter Green on bass (yes bass), and Jeremy Spencer on lead. BTW, the "Green" in Peter comes from Bethnal and not Greenbaum. Still, what a combination of talent emerged on LA circa 1966-69!
I think the US had alot of talent at one point and I think it was the times that made the bands. Like in the 60s. But, today we don't quite have that revolutionary spark that drove alot of bands then. It's who wants to be the next American Idol. I think alot of bands from then lost that spartk also, but Arthur Lee was the exception to all that. To me, Love was one of the best bands of the 60s so it's too bad in way they never got big. We need a new revolution and not sensationalism.
Well there is an economics to touring and the pricing for bands. In those old days, you got Cream for ten grand for a gig, and it went down from threre. Ray Charles was low because of the good chance he wouldn't show. And Love's affordability was in direct association with Arthur's laid-back style. I don't think "big" is what they wanted. For that reason he recommended the Doors to his label. But even speaking like this takes away from the primacy of music so present then and so absent now.
You should check out the new deluxe version of Forever Changes. The different mixes of the album alone makes the CD worth getting. And I think you are right. I don't think they were looking for fame or they would have toured more out of LA. I read somewhere that Arthur wanted to be remember more for his albums and that's why he wrote good records.
Without a doubt, someone who looks into and reinvents Burt Bacharach is definitely looking to be a songwriter. I'm telling you: these guys were exciting on stage, a combination of educated energy with dispassionate contempt. I "loved" it!
Be sure to check out the Chesterfield Kings. They've been around since 1979 and are still together and touring and have kept that similar 60's/early 70s sound. Caught them on the Soprano's awhile back. They're keeping the candle lit for us fogies.
I disagree and would have to say that some of the best music came out in the 60s. But, not all as I didn't grow up then and dig some music today as well as the early 90s and mid to late 80s, and early 70s. I don't dig alot of music today, but that is OK because the band that are good today are not commercial. Commercialism is killing art, including music today. Love never sold out.
Sounds allright to me.... but then....
dogsbreath101 3 years ago
Don't know why they lip synched, because I have many 60's videos with great sound, much better than todays live registrations. They didn't use PA systems back then so the live sound is always purer, warmer and better.
sheltalmy 3 years ago
Was this at the Fillmore?
greenmatzoh 3 years ago
American Bandstand
66rules 3 years ago
genius
megalith6 3 years ago
Did any other song ever have such a killing final chord? Beautiful.
CultureJudge 3 years ago 3
EXACTLY! Ugh. heartbreaking!
greenmatzoh 3 years ago
love those sunnnys
taxism1 3 years ago
Arthur Lee, A master composer and brillaint lyricist. Bless Him
RebelMusicSoul 3 years ago
Thanks for posting this. I do wonder where folks find these old videos Great stuff here on Youtube. I also find myself wondering why this group didn't hit bigger than they did. I also wonder that about many groups and lean toward seeking out the lesser known bands from that era.
copywronged 3 years ago
When I first Heard Love, in the 60's I was about 16 years old. I think it's wonderful that you want to find lesser known bands of Love's caliber!! We always took pride in finding good music/bands/artists. Fun as hell, so good for you!
edb081904 3 years ago
I am older but don't feel I will ever outgrown good music, no matter how old it has become. I am always finding old music that I get off on.I would include Love's Forever Changes as one of my all time favorite albums. Check out a group called Phantasia. I posted several songs by them. they are great.
copywronged 3 years ago
this song is the best..perfect performance-I love Love.
cosmovitelli 3 years ago
I don't think I've ever heard this song in my life. But it's good.
Byrds1967 3 years ago
Put simply, effing beautiful.The best ever song for the lovelorn.Sounds corny,I know, but I can relate to this song soooo much
macandy1974 3 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
While I like the black hippy getting some air, I hate the wimpy music (that same folksy, Birds, Beegees stuff that so nauseates me).
Bet that guy got a lot of shit from his rockin' mates.
animalliberation0961 3 years ago
I saw the new LOVE ina small pub in Melbourne,Australia where I live in 2003-Greatest gig Ive ever seen!I nearly wet myself!I actually yelled out a request for song-"Robert Montgomery and they promptly played it.The Guitar solo on the recorded version by Snoopy Pfister,I assume is amazing! After the original line-up split I wonder what happened to him?? Is he still alive? Still playing?
monarohqv82doorcoupe 3 years ago
AFAIK Snoopy never played guitar at the very least for Love. He was their drummer briefly and changed to harpsichord. He was a member for less than 2 years ending in '67. Robert Montomery originally appeared on the powerhouse "Four Sail" LP in 1969 where lead work was handled by Jay Donellan and he was indeed quite good. Google him. I think he's still alive and active. Snoopy is still alive but making odd claims.
enorbet2 3 years ago
What freaks me out is how the musicians could not "air guitar" their own songs!
EspressoSolamente 3 years ago
What does that mean?
66rules 3 years ago
genius, simple as
pretty much anything from the first four love albums just grows and grows and grows...
best songwriter ever imo
ricardo2323 3 years ago 7
I THINK ARTHUR LEE AND LOVE ARE SIMPLY THE BEST, better than the stones and beatles.... they tramp them underfoot!
shaky, scotland
shaneshaky1 3 years ago 3
always were my favorite band ... like just about the rest of us marching up and down the Sunset Strip ... god, I miss these guys!
phddddd 3 years ago
I'm 62 and was a touring musician for 2 decades and Love was one of the very few bands of whom I bought every album they ever made. Always loved 'em, always will but I'm disappointed when I read comments that trash today's music. The biz is just bigger and more fractured now but the internet and digital recording are bringing back small eclectic bands. Bands need to be able to play preferably in front of people. If there's no scene, there's few good bands.
Jimmy
enorbet2 3 years ago 9
Thank
You!
homonculus9 3 years ago 3
I have a quesition about the song My Little Red Book,i read somewhere that the chords of that song are some of the most unique in music history.
royalfuzziness 3 years ago
Well said,a lot are getting snuffed out because there's too much stuff.Stations should play stuff cause it's good not because of who the promoter is pushing.
74sodapop 3 years ago 2
Love are the most unappriecated talented rock group in American history, as well as one of the best bands ever. Great song, I wish they had more live footage that wasn't resynched to the album.
jaysonvalentine 3 years ago 8
too right!
phddddd 3 years ago
ARTHUR LEE IS GOD!!!
BeatlesBrasil 3 years ago 6
Amazing band. I bought my 1st Love album in 1966 and wore down he vinyl groves. Saw them at one of the clubs on Sunset in LA a year later. These guys were good!!
tmichael1613 3 years ago 4
Anyone know what this clip is from? Rare seeing Love performances. What a great band! Get the "Love Story" double-CD. A bunch of great stuff, including the entire Forever Changes album! RIP, Arthur!!!!
rhodeisland95 3 years ago 3
Got to be American Bandstand. You can see Dick Clark at the end for a second.
PamK36 3 years ago
Excelent
yaiknowscrewme 3 years ago
What an amazing band, and an incredible songwriter.
threeby8887 3 years ago
the 'scene' in britain at the moment is dreadful. anyone with talent or personality is turned into a freakshow. is it like that in the states?
blatspanner 3 years ago
Yes, blatspanner, unfortunately it is. We still haven't learned a damn thing!
MattHatter 3 years ago
So bad here in southern Cal I am now listening to AM Radio or Ipod though college radio such as WFMU in New Jersey is excellent at times playing Garage Rock (go Bill Kelly) - this station is on the net. Sirius and XMR stink as the bandwidth is a mere 128kbps which degrades the high end signal. Nothin worse that a "swishy" high end. Treble freaks would agree.
revup67 3 years ago
Wish I kept my knee boots from Tom McCann
veloguy4 5 years ago
you mean the shoe store: Thom McCann..have not heard that name in years..used to go there all the time
revup67 5 years ago
Yes. Up on Hollywood Blvd.
veloguy4 5 years ago
Of course, the real cool deal was the Fairchild moccasin place on Ventura in Studio city
veloguy4 5 years ago
you got me on that one..raised in NYC back then, was 7 when this song was out but do remember my Fry boots and Beatle boots
revup67 5 years ago
Your probably right revup67
fatcatbuzz 5 years ago
Love recorded some great songs but the many lineups did not give a great live performance. I know. I saw the original group and later Love groups live and they were not that good. If you listen to the 2003 Love performance now that was excellent..
dlagrua 5 years ago
Arthur Lee and Love look weird, but in a cool way. Why did so many band lip sinch in the 1960s?
fatcatbuzz 5 years ago
most probably becuase they couldn't get a decent live mix or were afraid of live screw ups
revup67 5 years ago
That's right. The technology was not up to it, so lip-syncing was the easy way to get good sound and image. I'm appalled at how poorly my generation's music is documented. But that's the way it was. Before The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's on '67, the dominant LP release was in mono sound, if you even know what that is these days. Stereo was a revelation. These days everything is documented. For better or worse.
SFJonesy 4 years ago
you mean on television, right! The 60s were full of brave, bold, righteous bands not afraid of taking chances, and taking it to the streets. Love live was a real challenge. Like Ray Charles, you didn't really know if Arthur would show ... when he did you were delighted as hell ... now whether he felt like performing ... well, that was another thing. He was wild, reckless, and just fantastic. Were unlikely to see his kind of raw talent mixed in with this mess the labels now call music.
phddddd 3 years ago
That's true. I would have to say Forever Changes would have to be in my top 10 albums as well as about maybe 4 or 5 more from the 1960s. It's a shame alot of the them lip synched for TV, though. Especially Love because it so hard to find live performances. Alot of music is too commercial these days to be original in the USA. And LA is not a music inspired town anymore. The sad thing is I don't think music is getting any better and the last time I heard anything original is about 15 years ago.
fatcatbuzz 3 years ago
I hear you, I'm with you, but, surprisingly, might I recommend Amy Winehouse. Forget all the hype, she's different in a Billie Holliday kind of way. Listen to her, not the media.
phddddd 3 years ago
I've heard Amy Winehouse is talented. The UK has always been far ahead of the US in terms of music. I personally think the US is falling apart and Arthur Lee saw it then because just listen to FC and his word still speak to the US to this day. And Bryan turned to Christ because he knew fame was hollow. CA should be ashamed for sending a smart dude like Arthur to jail and at 60 was a product of modern society. In the words of Blur, Modern Life is Rubbish. In my word, LA sucks.
fatcatbuzz 3 years ago
You use a fine British word,"rubbish." Yes, pub bands in England, for example, are so superior to their counterparts in America.I remember a long time ago going to my local London East-End pub near Bethnal Green and listening to a group of guys who turned out to be Keith Moon, on drums, Rod Stewart, on vocals, Peter Green on bass (yes bass), and Jeremy Spencer on lead. BTW, the "Green" in Peter comes from Bethnal and not Greenbaum. Still, what a combination of talent emerged on LA circa 1966-69!
phddddd 3 years ago
I think the US had alot of talent at one point and I think it was the times that made the bands. Like in the 60s. But, today we don't quite have that revolutionary spark that drove alot of bands then. It's who wants to be the next American Idol. I think alot of bands from then lost that spartk also, but Arthur Lee was the exception to all that. To me, Love was one of the best bands of the 60s so it's too bad in way they never got big. We need a new revolution and not sensationalism.
fatcatbuzz 3 years ago
Well there is an economics to touring and the pricing for bands. In those old days, you got Cream for ten grand for a gig, and it went down from threre. Ray Charles was low because of the good chance he wouldn't show. And Love's affordability was in direct association with Arthur's laid-back style. I don't think "big" is what they wanted. For that reason he recommended the Doors to his label. But even speaking like this takes away from the primacy of music so present then and so absent now.
phddddd 3 years ago
You should check out the new deluxe version of Forever Changes. The different mixes of the album alone makes the CD worth getting. And I think you are right. I don't think they were looking for fame or they would have toured more out of LA. I read somewhere that Arthur wanted to be remember more for his albums and that's why he wrote good records.
fatcatbuzz 3 years ago
Without a doubt, someone who looks into and reinvents Burt Bacharach is definitely looking to be a songwriter. I'm telling you: these guys were exciting on stage, a combination of educated energy with dispassionate contempt. I "loved" it!
phddddd 3 years ago 2
Yes, but Blur is Rubbish.
homonculus9 3 years ago
Amy's ok, but, my favorite UK singer is PJ Harvey. Check out the albums 'Rid of Me' and 'To Bring You My Love' She is really
great to see live, too, if you ever have the opportunity.
kenliss 3 years ago
Be sure to check out the Chesterfield Kings. They've been around since 1979 and are still together and touring and have kept that similar 60's/early 70s sound. Caught them on the Soprano's awhile back. They're keeping the candle lit for us fogies.
revup67 3 years ago
Thanks for the tip.
willminkorea 3 years ago
Easier, faster, cheaper.
Plus a lot of bands back then could barley play.
66rules 3 years ago
I disagree and would have to say that some of the best music came out in the 60s. But, not all as I didn't grow up then and dig some music today as well as the early 90s and mid to late 80s, and early 70s. I don't dig alot of music today, but that is OK because the band that are good today are not commercial. Commercialism is killing art, including music today. Love never sold out.
fatcatbuzz 3 years ago
Thanks
LAZARZERO 5 years ago
AMAZING, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
curseddeath 5 years ago