In LA Love was already quite popular even before they got on the radio. This was during the "underground" movement in music, when word of mouth preceded a song on the radio; and in some cases no song on the radio like the Blues Project.
Love was a big influence on the Hollywood Punk-Power Pop scene 10 years later. You can really hear them in bands like The Plimsouls, The Last, and Three O'Clock.
Ken Forssi, bass; Brian MacLean, guitar; and Arthur Lee, vocals; are now dead. The drummer and Johnny Echols, double guitar; are currently still with us. Don't know if the drummer was Snoopy Pfisterer or another later one. Rare video from the pre-hippy, freak era in So.Cal. Whose Lenny Kravitz? LOL
Jim Morrison & The Doors, and many other bands of the era loved Arthur Lee and Love, sadly they never really made it commercially, but they are great!
Thanks for posting. I got to see Authur Lee tour about two months before he died. I never seen him in his prime. He's even got the DONUT BANDITS with him (the two jerk offs who started robbing Donut Shops when the money for the band ran low). After forever changes, Lee tried to ape the Beatles and leave Psychedellia in 1968. Big mistake. Making LOVE sound harder just when it was picking up itw audience killed off love. Then Lee hit bottom & went to prison...Still, one hell of a band, that!!
I respect your opinion, but always think of Kravitz as a silver-spoon dilettante, born into a show-biz family. And "American Woman"? Really?! I imagine he spends more time on buying shoes than he does making music.
@pouidg two decades trying to catch attention.. (1972-1992). ?????????????? Love were going in 1965....I saw them three years later, so don't know where you get your years of Arthur Lee's activity from.
Kravitz' name should not even be spoken in the same sentence with that of Arthur Lee. Lee is great. Kravitz is not great, not even close. Kravitz is a poseur. Look it up.
No..but Mono versions..especially from the 60s...are better. Even the Beatles worked much harder on the mono versions of some of their songs because most thought Stereo was a gimmick at the time. A lot of songs capture a much more powerful feeling in Mono anyway. Psychedelic stuff is better in stereo when used properly.
@Ldale11 :OK, he spent 12 years in prison .. But he had one tough life, spending more than two decades trying to catch attention.. (1972-1992). This guy was a genius, but so unfortunate . Nothing like Kravitz
@KyplayaZ4lyfe Ha! Same here. But I have to confess that I didn't appreciate this album until I recently got the remastered version that includes the mono mix. This is one album that I think works MUCH better in mono.
@SirHatchporch So it's not the SONGS that matter to you, but whether or not it's in mono or not? What a douchebag! It's ALWAYS about the songs first, schmucko.
In LA Love was already quite popular even before they got on the radio. This was during the "underground" movement in music, when word of mouth preceded a song on the radio; and in some cases no song on the radio like the Blues Project.
DoxiaGwynplaine 3 days ago
He wrote the most amazing songs. Nobody else was close.
jasemccormick 5 days ago
Love was a big influence on the Hollywood Punk-Power Pop scene 10 years later. You can really hear them in bands like The Plimsouls, The Last, and Three O'Clock.
BingsTV 6 days ago
Ken Forssi, bass; Brian MacLean, guitar; and Arthur Lee, vocals; are now dead. The drummer and Johnny Echols, double guitar; are currently still with us. Don't know if the drummer was Snoopy Pfisterer or another later one. Rare video from the pre-hippy, freak era in So.Cal. Whose Lenny Kravitz? LOL
DoxiaGwynplaine 2 weeks ago
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DoxiaGwynplaine 2 weeks ago
Jim Morrison & The Doors, and many other bands of the era loved Arthur Lee and Love, sadly they never really made it commercially, but they are great!
TheWanderers2 1 month ago
Thanks for posting. I got to see Authur Lee tour about two months before he died. I never seen him in his prime. He's even got the DONUT BANDITS with him (the two jerk offs who started robbing Donut Shops when the money for the band ran low). After forever changes, Lee tried to ape the Beatles and leave Psychedellia in 1968. Big mistake. Making LOVE sound harder just when it was picking up itw audience killed off love. Then Lee hit bottom & went to prison...Still, one hell of a band, that!!
Armydicked 2 months ago
@Armydicked how does your own story make it right? let his music be.
oatstao 1 month ago
Lenny Kravitz is to Arthur Lee what Joe Jonas is to John Lennon.
beowulven 2 months ago 3
@beowulven That's pretty harsh on Kravitz man....... He's no Arthur Lee but come on
professormacdeezy 2 months ago
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I respect your opinion, but always think of Kravitz as a silver-spoon dilettante, born into a show-biz family. And "American Woman"? Really?! I imagine he spends more time on buying shoes than he does making music.
beowulven 2 months ago
@beowulven HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Thanx for the best laugh I've had in days!!! I am still chuckling so much it is hard to type!
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dadzbluz 2 weeks ago
It sucks that there are not more vids of Love in their prime. I would have wished they played monterey pop.
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@pouidg two decades trying to catch attention.. (1972-1992). ?????????????? Love were going in 1965....I saw them three years later, so don't know where you get your years of Arthur Lee's activity from.
mothsinaspic 4 months ago
Kravitz' name should not even be spoken in the same sentence with that of Arthur Lee. Lee is great. Kravitz is not great, not even close. Kravitz is a poseur. Look it up.
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No..but Mono versions..especially from the 60s...are better. Even the Beatles worked much harder on the mono versions of some of their songs because most thought Stereo was a gimmick at the time. A lot of songs capture a much more powerful feeling in Mono anyway. Psychedelic stuff is better in stereo when used properly.
EmeraldFlowsion62 4 months ago
It's like Lenny Kravitz' dad
DocWyoming 6 months ago
@DocWyoming : Come on ! Lenny Kravitz is for little girl.. Arthur Lee has spent half his life in jail.
pouidg 5 months ago
@pouidg Half his life? What an extreme exaggeration! It's nothing close to that.
Ldale11 5 months ago
@Ldale11 :OK, he spent 12 years in prison .. But he had one tough life, spending more than two decades trying to catch attention.. (1972-1992). This guy was a genius, but so unfortunate . Nothing like Kravitz
pouidg 5 months ago
@pouidg love is one of the greatest bands of all time and kravitz is a bowl of decomposing ejaculate,72 is even after out there...
swingsetrecords 4 months ago
Im 15 I <3 Love and itz on my turn table right now! lol
themonkees1969 6 months ago
Love's first album is soooo amazing! it's been on repeat in my car! =D
KyplayaZ4lyfe 6 months ago 2
@KyplayaZ4lyfe Ha! Same here. But I have to confess that I didn't appreciate this album until I recently got the remastered version that includes the mono mix. This is one album that I think works MUCH better in mono.
SirHatchporch 6 months ago
@SirHatchporch agreed!
KyplayaZ4lyfe 6 months ago
@SirHatchporch So it's not the SONGS that matter to you, but whether or not it's in mono or not? What a douchebag! It's ALWAYS about the songs first, schmucko.
Ldale11 5 months ago
@Ldale11 You misunderstand me. I just think the album sounds much more powerful and cohesive in mono.
SirHatchporch 5 months ago
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EmeraldFlowsion62 4 months ago
A "Message to Pretty" you know who you are.
drtymrty 6 months ago
@drtymrty LOLZ!
cue commercial, Ms. Seymour "don't hate me because I'm beautiful"...
'cut' to Solitaire, "is there time before we leave, for lesson number three?"...
mythtree 6 months ago
p.s. don't mind me... I just... had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee...
mythtree 6 months ago
beautiful song... but what about those shades??! :)
Oscar301 9 months ago
Wonderful Track the first LP was one of the best debuts of our time...
thebyrdsmusic 10 months ago 2
Yeah I remember when music was boring too.
lightlittlebrownboy 11 months ago
reminds me of hullabaloo on the strip, C.66,,,, the best
coburnworld 11 months ago
And I don't need you to help me find my way
I can make it if I just don't see your face
fredatled 1 year ago
Southern California in the 60s. : )
Khultan 1 year ago