loved this band.. i was in college and my boyfriend at the time turned me on to this band.. now when I play "she comes in colors' on my guitar....oh the memories!!
true, Philly has always been a music town....66-69 was a good time for rock in Philly but not many of the bands broke out nationally, unlike the LA/SF bands...
starting in 69, though, a lot of R & B hits came out of Philly...Gamble & Huff,
cont. played with Bongoes/Groovies for several months--a mix of many African styles,
reggae and American funk...then played with a bunch of Lebanese and British expats in Nigeria for a while...on return to States fell started playing with some guys for kicks--a mix of New Orleans R & B, reggae, blues, soul--and 30 years later Philly Gumbo is still playing in Philly, releasing a CD in 2011. A long way from the garage!
@rfgrass alot of bands came out of Philly. It's always been a music town .The LA/SF scene was really active 65-69 It started to lose momentum by 69. Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Love, Doors,Canned Heat, Quicksilver,Byrds all blew up out here. Buffalo Springfield, Big Brother, transplanted here. Crosby Stills Nash formed out of these groups.The West Coast sound was big.The nice thing about the 60's is the acceptance of other sounds.The Philly, Motown ,Southern, NOLA,, it was all out there.
cont. from below then joined The New Breeds (so-called to distinguish from the dozens of bands called "the New Breed")...morphing in UF Airporche in 1968
recorded some demos along the way; had some interest from small labels, the usual hype ("The Strawberry Alarm Clock wants to record your song!)...but nothing significant ever happened
I stopped playing in bands by my second year of college ....until I went to Nigeria
ini 1974 and hooked up with a band called Bongoes & The Groovies
true, jukebox johnny, we sure didn't discuss terminology back then...I moved
from SF in late '64 to the Philly area...started playing in bands late the next year...
wasn't in any well-known outfits....the first was a band called The Shadows, so called, because the rhythm guitar player had moved from Chicago where he said
he had been in Shadows Of Knight; and yes are theme song was "Gloria
well, jukebox Johnny I was there too back in the Sixties; I actually played, starting in 1965, in what came to be called garage bands and I know for a fact that we heard the term punk and occasionally used the term "punk" to refer to these kinds of bands...the term wasn't all that widely used then, so maybe that's why you didn't heard it (or maybe it was a regional thing) but i know that's when I first heard the term
@rfgrass One thing for sure rfgrass, we didn't argue about these things back then. It must be a regional term in the 60's. I was on the strip and in SF and the term wasn't alive yet. The Nasville Teens' Tobacco Road released in 64 and the Kinks in 64/65 had the embryotic seeds of punk as well. What bands were you in?
Fucker finished his life with like 12 years in prison and once he got out around 2003 he gets cancer and fights it for 3 years before dying around 2006? Big lost. Too bad he did what he did. I consider this the first professional level of Punk. This song right here. But some argue garage punk goes back to 57. Love for Arthur and LOVE
yes "punk" started out as a term for garage rock bands in the 60's...I know, I was
there and was in one...bands like Seeds, Count 5, etc we're called "punk"...
love had that vibe but were actually too wide-ranging and sophisticated musically to be just a "punk" band in that sense...but Arthur Lee's attitude and vocals were
@rfgrass I've read all these opinions about punk and what it it is and who started it etc. First of all I am qualified to discuss because I was there for one thing, and I was a record label exec on the west coast for number 2. We were constantly looking for talent. The statement that the garage bands were called punk in the 60's is not true. Punk became a common label in the mid 70's. I will agree that alot of the punk styling came from 60's bands but that is true in the evolution of all music.
I remember seeing Love on Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is" when I was a kid. They always played "My Little Red Book". Little did I know then what a tragedies would plague the life of Arthur Lee . . .
i fianally get 2 c " love" on film... ive been a fan for about 25 yrs, and they sound great here! my life seems a little more fulfilled now......extreme coolness here.....
Wiki isn't the answer to everything but it agrees with me that this is deffinitly protopunk. this is the birth of Punk, Not Ramones as first stated. Punk refers to punk garage bands going back to 1959 in eastern NY. there might be other bands who have punk like sounds but this song is actually the product of an angry drummer who lost it after 30 takes and went nuts and the band went with it. Allowing their frustration to channel through their song. thus Punk was born but not reconized until 74
CHUCKLOVES1969...you make some good points, the 60's was pops cultural revolution and Love one of its most underrated exponents the whole thing peaked then dipped and the Pistols picked up and ran with it almost to oblivion, they still rank as one of my top three bands of all time, but to say nothing has happened since is not giving credit to some very important bands that came much later, Guns n Roses were very important, mixing the sounds of the stones and the pistols in equal measure.
@punkoid76 The Sex Pistols were over rated suedo punkers. The clash, the Buzzcocks were punk.. Sex Pistols were just flatulant zit face teens pretending to be bothered by the system. They were like 17, 18 and 19 years of age. They didn't live long enough to be PUNK. Sorry man, but punk started in 59 in the US and first coined by a magazine doing a story about the Ramones.. though many were angry that it was the Stooges but the magazine changed it to Ramones because of their leather punk look.
it co-responds with the NUCLEAR EXPLOSION sound effect on the recording.
BOOM
The merit behind this style of lyrics, goes into the jazz idiom..something disregarded by the kids of today obviously , otherwise known as SKAT.
And the speed is essential for a live track such as this. Why does everyone crave to hear the ALBUM version live? I guess that's why Sun Ra wasn't a pop hit.
Anyone thinking this is too fast should listen to their version of "Hey Joe" on the 1st album. Legend has it that hendrix did and made it his own. I ain't gonna argue over the merits of either.
In the 70s, an album came out in shich Arthur diid record a more 'mainstream' version verson of 'Seven and Seven is'. I believe that's on the Rhino Compilation, 'Arthur Lee'. It sounds good enough, but pales in comparison to the original version. I can see how 'boom' would relate to the whole bomb thing, but I still don't get the Oop-Pip or Oop Bip bit...certainly he could have come up something more effective there. BOOM!!!
Badda Bing Badda BOOM, you bet your sweet BIPPY, Boom Bip Bip, Boom Bip Bip YEAA!!! Ever get flicked on the nose by someone who just said, "BIP" at you? Well, there ya go.
Comma comma down dubby doo down down, Sha Na Na every whoa o oh, still shines...every shing a ling a ling that they're starting to sing...Sa'll FINE.
Best song and band, EVER...trail blazers and that road is deep.
When you're playing a song "live" it's easy to get an adrenaline rush and what usually happens is, the tempo speeds up. I'm not complaining about the speed of this song...I like any performance which gives off energy. I still don't quite get the "oop-pip-oop-pip" thing; That's probably destined to always remain a mystery...
As I understand it, the first notes of music actually heard at Woodstock through the PA system was the Da Capo album. Bill Hanley pulled the sound truck up to the stage on Thursday and put that on to test the speakers. Thought that people looking at this would apreciate knowing that.
Concerning "Da Capo", I think the side-long "Revelation" is just plain old dumb. I can't stand it at all. So for me, "Da Capo" is a good "half-album".
ya got that right cdadave ... side two is an amateur garage band version of the rolling stones 'going home' from their album 'aftermath' ... side A of Da Capo is a great half album ...
I read that sometime around the 'Da Capo' album, Brian told Arthur that he had some songs for the back side, and I'm sure Arthur had some as well. I guess the whole 'Revelation' song came across better in concert than on record. It's such a bad cut that it's impossible to edit it down much at all. It's awful any way you slice it...
@Eesgrampa Actually, Love had been performing "Revelation" as early as 1965, and it was the Stones who saw Lee do it in that year and copped *their* song for Aftermath's "Going Home". Love's version is actually the less "garage band"-like, seeing as how it features a harpsichord intro and jazzy sax solo in the middle.
@mtopper66 Jagger copped a lot off of Arthur such as the use of tambourine and maracas, mike style, etc. The Stones song, "She's Like a Rainbow" comes directly from Arthur's song, "She Comes in Colors". When the Stones were in L.A. early on, Jagger used to always go to Lido Bido to see Love!!!
I don't care what the song's about; it's an awful song. It's not even a song, really. It's more like a bad rap over listless music. To me, "Da Capo" is only half-an-album. "Revelation" is one of the worst songs I've ever heard.
sorry the tempo is to fast 4 u ,,,why dont u go sit over there with the old ladies and wait for something a little more like a "waltz" for u to feel alittle more comfortable....what a yo-yo to say that...and the drummer's wailing drum's are incredible...or does it hurt ur softy ear's..ohh .i'm sorry...NOT!!!
@musikfanat when u say could be the first "punk" song!?...that's not as far-out of a statement that one may think. the whole tone and rapid-fire of this song, surely
makes it a fantastic launching pad for what a Darby Crash may have thought too.
@CHUCKLOVES1969 He and others of that time-MC5, Count Five, Music Machine, the Seeds, etc.- were called punk or garage rock. The long hair was a vital part of it. This is before the hippie explosion.
The second wave of "punk" was the New York Dolls, Ramones, Stooges. By the way, the Stooges were in the same group of revolutionary, anarchic musicians as the MC5. The third wave of punk were the English bands that were influenced by Love, MC5, Dolls and Ramones. It was a great time for music!!!
i saw the music machine n the seeds in a small club.
the 60's i was a teen, and it was a riot. all modern music started
with louis armstrong..and his first record which destroyed what was normal.
since then it got wilder an wilder, till the end of it all with the sex pistols, after that,,,everything is redo. rap's 1st song is wake-up nigger's by the last poets. punks first song to me..is dirty water.
@CHUCKLOVES1969 Wow! That's so cool. Dirty Water by the Standells was a cool hit! I am glad to know someone that knows the roots of the music! A tip of the hat to you! I agree with your analysis about after the Pistols, everything is redo...
@musikfanat don't get me wrong...i believe the sound the Pistols did on that one album, completely destroyed what was b4 it,,to the point of oblivion, and that destruction of what we were familiar and comfortable with,, ended. music does have generous great songs and stars today..Gaga for one. but sooo much territory was covered when we were younger..it's basically impossible not to find styles of today,,that we already did. music today is great, but not ground breaking....like b4.
@EffinSkeletor i just love it, when a guy 21 years old tries to tell me what's what, when i was in clubs in the 60's, finding the BEST music in the world, when his parents were in diapers. it sure puts me to shame. yea, ok,,,the pistols weren't nothing new,,,,ahhh yea i guess i have to bow to your expertise. (please, of course don't read my bio., and what i know about music, or the groups i've seen)
you may have "been around the block a few times", but that doesn't mean you know you're talking about. "The Pistols destroyed everything before them" is such an overused and poorly supported way of describing them. what about the pistols made that true? Sonically, they really weren't doing anything that hadn't already been done before. Culturally, yeah, they were really significant, but a good amount of that was from hype and exposure, not innovation.
@CHUCKLOVES1969 I don't care if you were there, it doesn't mean your reflections or insights are worth anything. For all anyone knows, you're just some guy who's dumber than a bag of rocks, but happens to be a certain age and happened to go to a lot of concerts. The fact that you get so uptight about me saying "psh" males me not want to put any credibility at all whatsoever, when it comes to rock 'n' roll music. because you seem like kind of a tool. just sayin'.
@CHUCKLOVES1969 for someone who knows so much about good bands like Love, The Seeds, The Pistols, etc., you sure do have a lotta videos of shitty 80's bands on your page.
@CHUCKLOVES1969 Also look on youtube for Music Machine's "Talk Talk", Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" and the Seeds "Pushin' Too Hard". The REAL punk!!!
I never figured out the 'oop-pipp-oop-pipp' lyrics on this song. I also think that Arthur Lee's creativity, at least in the lyrics department, just dried up at some point in the 70s, most of his songs after that consisting of one verse repeated over and over...that's gotta be why Arthur kept doing his pre-1967 songs over and over in concert. I admire him a lot, but at the same time, sometimes his music frustrates me.
This is a great band. Arthur never went away, did he? He is on form in every vid here; even a less-popular album like Vindicator is well ahead of its time in its prediction of pop styles for the decade to come.
The Weirdos and The Skulls both do covers (both early L.A. punk groups) Great song! I didn't know it was by Love until the fabulous Allan McGee told me via twitter...
Now I understand why Jim Morrison said he was infllunced by Lee.
Now I understan why Lee said Jim has copied his style.
Anyway I admire both and I know Morrison was another hero of Rock, with his own style, maybe with some influences of Love (the Doors opened the Love performances at Whisky a Go Go).
loved this band.. i was in college and my boyfriend at the time turned me on to this band.. now when I play "she comes in colors' on my guitar....oh the memories!!
ichaffee1 6 months ago
at his drugged out WORST !
gittahfiend 7 months ago
@gittahfiend You must be talking about yourself. Wtf is wrong with this performance? Than answer: NOTHING! Get a clue.
Ldale11 5 months ago
@Ldale11 You must be at YOUR drugged out worst
gittahfiend 5 months ago
You know, I don't really care which bands any of you were in. We can all agree this is a pretty god damn amazing performance by Love.
mharris0585 7 months ago
not enough treble.more treble arthur and melvan.
gittahfiend 7 months ago
Doesn't say, but I'm guessing this is from the early 90's, before he got involved with Baby Lemonade.
jab3785 8 months ago
alice cooper does this tune on his Special Forces LP
jeffyist 11 months ago
that was just about the hottest thing i ever saw
TheMaxlow 11 months ago
true, Philly has always been a music town....66-69 was a good time for rock in Philly but not many of the bands broke out nationally, unlike the LA/SF bands...
starting in 69, though, a lot of R & B hits came out of Philly...Gamble & Huff,
the PhillyGroove label, WMOT and others..
rfgrass 1 year ago
cont. played with Bongoes/Groovies for several months--a mix of many African styles,
reggae and American funk...then played with a bunch of Lebanese and British expats in Nigeria for a while...on return to States fell started playing with some guys for kicks--a mix of New Orleans R & B, reggae, blues, soul--and 30 years later Philly Gumbo is still playing in Philly, releasing a CD in 2011. A long way from the garage!
rfgrass 1 year ago
@rfgrass alot of bands came out of Philly. It's always been a music town .The LA/SF scene was really active 65-69 It started to lose momentum by 69. Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Love, Doors,Canned Heat, Quicksilver,Byrds all blew up out here. Buffalo Springfield, Big Brother, transplanted here. Crosby Stills Nash formed out of these groups.The West Coast sound was big.The nice thing about the 60's is the acceptance of other sounds.The Philly, Motown ,Southern, NOLA,, it was all out there.
jukeboxjonnyv 1 year ago
cont. from below then joined The New Breeds (so-called to distinguish from the dozens of bands called "the New Breed")...morphing in UF Airporche in 1968
recorded some demos along the way; had some interest from small labels, the usual hype ("The Strawberry Alarm Clock wants to record your song!)...but nothing significant ever happened
I stopped playing in bands by my second year of college ....until I went to Nigeria
ini 1974 and hooked up with a band called Bongoes & The Groovies
rfgrass 1 year ago
true, jukebox johnny, we sure didn't discuss terminology back then...I moved
from SF in late '64 to the Philly area...started playing in bands late the next year...
wasn't in any well-known outfits....the first was a band called The Shadows, so called, because the rhythm guitar player had moved from Chicago where he said
he had been in Shadows Of Knight; and yes are theme song was "Gloria
rfgrass 1 year ago
well, jukebox Johnny I was there too back in the Sixties; I actually played, starting in 1965, in what came to be called garage bands and I know for a fact that we heard the term punk and occasionally used the term "punk" to refer to these kinds of bands...the term wasn't all that widely used then, so maybe that's why you didn't heard it (or maybe it was a regional thing) but i know that's when I first heard the term
rfgrass 1 year ago
@rfgrass One thing for sure rfgrass, we didn't argue about these things back then. It must be a regional term in the 60's. I was on the strip and in SF and the term wasn't alive yet. The Nasville Teens' Tobacco Road released in 64 and the Kinks in 64/65 had the embryotic seeds of punk as well. What bands were you in?
jukeboxjonnyv 1 year ago
Punk rock!
Vorple 1 year ago
Arthur Lee was a MADMAN! Rip! Much Missed!
XweAp0nX 1 year ago
so much 80s punk was born from this one amazing song.
ERLynx 1 year ago
Wow, this is heavy. Arthur Lee and his entourage ROCKS. No surprise Morrison stole some of the antics Arthur Lee been possesed with..
KeepTheFocus 1 year ago
Fucker finished his life with like 12 years in prison and once he got out around 2003 he gets cancer and fights it for 3 years before dying around 2006? Big lost. Too bad he did what he did. I consider this the first professional level of Punk. This song right here. But some argue garage punk goes back to 57. Love for Arthur and LOVE
coptersoisoi 1 year ago
yes "punk" started out as a term for garage rock bands in the 60's...I know, I was
there and was in one...bands like Seeds, Count 5, etc we're called "punk"...
love had that vibe but were actually too wide-ranging and sophisticated musically to be just a "punk" band in that sense...but Arthur Lee's attitude and vocals were
right in there...
rfgrass 1 year ago
@rfgrass I've read all these opinions about punk and what it it is and who started it etc. First of all I am qualified to discuss because I was there for one thing, and I was a record label exec on the west coast for number 2. We were constantly looking for talent. The statement that the garage bands were called punk in the 60's is not true. Punk became a common label in the mid 70's. I will agree that alot of the punk styling came from 60's bands but that is true in the evolution of all music.
jukeboxjonnyv 1 year ago
I remember seeing Love on Dick Clark's "Where the Action Is" when I was a kid. They always played "My Little Red Book". Little did I know then what a tragedies would plague the life of Arthur Lee . . .
JohnnyCNote 1 year ago
i fianally get 2 c " love" on film... ive been a fan for about 25 yrs, and they sound great here! my life seems a little more fulfilled now......extreme coolness here.....
sunchilde68 1 year ago
Wiki isn't the answer to everything but it agrees with me that this is deffinitly protopunk. this is the birth of Punk, Not Ramones as first stated. Punk refers to punk garage bands going back to 1959 in eastern NY. there might be other bands who have punk like sounds but this song is actually the product of an angry drummer who lost it after 30 takes and went nuts and the band went with it. Allowing their frustration to channel through their song. thus Punk was born but not reconized until 74
lifepod2036 1 year ago
CHUCKLOVES1969...you make some good points, the 60's was pops cultural revolution and Love one of its most underrated exponents the whole thing peaked then dipped and the Pistols picked up and ran with it almost to oblivion, they still rank as one of my top three bands of all time, but to say nothing has happened since is not giving credit to some very important bands that came much later, Guns n Roses were very important, mixing the sounds of the stones and the pistols in equal measure.
punkoid76 1 year ago
@punkoid76 The Sex Pistols were over rated suedo punkers. The clash, the Buzzcocks were punk.. Sex Pistols were just flatulant zit face teens pretending to be bothered by the system. They were like 17, 18 and 19 years of age. They didn't live long enough to be PUNK. Sorry man, but punk started in 59 in the US and first coined by a magazine doing a story about the Ramones.. though many were angry that it was the Stooges but the magazine changed it to Ramones because of their leather punk look.
lifepod2036 1 year ago
thanks for this, a lively rendition of the classic Love single. line-up? location? date?
wordofgord
thewordofgord 1 year ago
this had to have blown people 's minds when it came out.
the tempo is so fast. it's funny that a band called love made what some consider to be the first punk song.
therealboyboy 1 year ago
Man, that whole album was an adventure. I love Signed DC. That song still gives me chills. I grew up with this band. So many good songs.
buckskinbuccaneer 2 years ago 7
@buckskinbuccaneer that was from the first LP. This was from the 2nd LP Da Capo.
Building529 1 year ago
I think Arthur Lee was totally crazy. But that don't mean I don't love him, 'cos I do.
cdadave83814 2 years ago 4
why is everyone transcribing OOP-IP-IP??
It's BOOM! BIP BIP! BOOM! BIP BIP! YEAH!
it co-responds with the NUCLEAR EXPLOSION sound effect on the recording.
BOOM
The merit behind this style of lyrics, goes into the jazz idiom..something disregarded by the kids of today obviously , otherwise known as SKAT.
And the speed is essential for a live track such as this. Why does everyone crave to hear the ALBUM version live? I guess that's why Sun Ra wasn't a pop hit.
Great video thanks
freqazoidiac 2 years ago
Anyone thinking this is too fast should listen to their version of "Hey Joe" on the 1st album. Legend has it that hendrix did and made it his own. I ain't gonna argue over the merits of either.
oldpeculiar 2 years ago
The Byrds and The Leaves also did "Hey Joe" at a similar tempo to Love. Hendrix took the song and slowed it down, 'tis all.
cdadave83814 2 years ago
In the 70s, an album came out in shich Arthur diid record a more 'mainstream' version verson of 'Seven and Seven is'. I believe that's on the Rhino Compilation, 'Arthur Lee'. It sounds good enough, but pales in comparison to the original version. I can see how 'boom' would relate to the whole bomb thing, but I still don't get the Oop-Pip or Oop Bip bit...certainly he could have come up something more effective there. BOOM!!!
cdadave83814 2 years ago
Badda Bing Badda BOOM, you bet your sweet BIPPY, Boom Bip Bip, Boom Bip Bip YEAA!!! Ever get flicked on the nose by someone who just said, "BIP" at you? Well, there ya go.
Comma comma down dubby doo down down, Sha Na Na every whoa o oh, still shines...every shing a ling a ling that they're starting to sing...Sa'll FINE.
Best song and band, EVER...trail blazers and that road is deep.
fullfrontaltubeity 2 years ago
When you're playing a song "live" it's easy to get an adrenaline rush and what usually happens is, the tempo speeds up. I'm not complaining about the speed of this song...I like any performance which gives off energy. I still don't quite get the "oop-pip-oop-pip" thing; That's probably destined to always remain a mystery...
cdadave83814 2 years ago
@cdadave83814
If I don't start cryin' it's because that I have got no eyes
My father's in the fireplace and my dog lies hypnotized
Through a crack of light I was unable to find my way
Trapped inside a night but I'm a day and I go
Oop-ip-ip oop-ip-ip, yeah!
b33rhans 2 years ago
I've just never heard anyone cry out "oop-ip-ip" before. The song is great, but I think "oop-ip" is actually kinda dumb.
cdadave83814 2 years ago
As I understand it, the first notes of music actually heard at Woodstock through the PA system was the Da Capo album. Bill Hanley pulled the sound truck up to the stage on Thursday and put that on to test the speakers. Thought that people looking at this would apreciate knowing that.
corgi4u 2 years ago 4
cheers!
KaylorMade 2 years ago
Concerning "Da Capo", I think the side-long "Revelation" is just plain old dumb. I can't stand it at all. So for me, "Da Capo" is a good "half-album".
cdadave83814 2 years ago
ya got that right cdadave ... side two is an amateur garage band version of the rolling stones 'going home' from their album 'aftermath' ... side A of Da Capo is a great half album ...
Eesgrampa 2 years ago
I read that sometime around the 'Da Capo' album, Brian told Arthur that he had some songs for the back side, and I'm sure Arthur had some as well. I guess the whole 'Revelation' song came across better in concert than on record. It's such a bad cut that it's impossible to edit it down much at all. It's awful any way you slice it...
cdadave83814 2 years ago
@Eesgrampa Actually, Love had been performing "Revelation" as early as 1965, and it was the Stones who saw Lee do it in that year and copped *their* song for Aftermath's "Going Home". Love's version is actually the less "garage band"-like, seeing as how it features a harpsichord intro and jazzy sax solo in the middle.
mtopper66 1 year ago
@mtopper66 Jagger copped a lot off of Arthur such as the use of tambourine and maracas, mike style, etc. The Stones song, "She's Like a Rainbow" comes directly from Arthur's song, "She Comes in Colors". When the Stones were in L.A. early on, Jagger used to always go to Lido Bido to see Love!!!
musikfanat 1 year ago
How can you hate on a 17 minute song about oral sex?
enorbet2 2 years ago
I don't care what the song's about; it's an awful song. It's not even a song, really. It's more like a bad rap over listless music. To me, "Da Capo" is only half-an-album. "Revelation" is one of the worst songs I've ever heard.
cdadave83814 2 years ago
@cdadave83814 Where's your record? I really abhor people that have not done anything in music and jealous amateurs that discount classic tunes.
Love is recognized as a great band! What have you done?
musikfanat 1 year ago
Burton Averre on (red) guitar and Bruce Gary on drums (both from 'The Knack').
Micktone 2 years ago
Tempo waaay too fast....but fun anyway...
crlguitar 2 years ago
sorry the tempo is to fast 4 u ,,,why dont u go sit over there with the old ladies and wait for something a little more like a "waltz" for u to feel alittle more comfortable....what a yo-yo to say that...and the drummer's wailing drum's are incredible...or does it hurt ur softy ear's..ohh .i'm sorry...NOT!!!
CHUCKLOVES1969 2 years ago 12
@CHUCKLOVES1969 The first "punk" song!
musikfanat 1 year ago
@musikfanat when u say could be the first "punk" song!?...that's not as far-out of a statement that one may think. the whole tone and rapid-fire of this song, surely
makes it a fantastic launching pad for what a Darby Crash may have thought too.
CHUCKLOVES1969 1 year ago
@CHUCKLOVES1969 He and others of that time-MC5, Count Five, Music Machine, the Seeds, etc.- were called punk or garage rock. The long hair was a vital part of it. This is before the hippie explosion.
The second wave of "punk" was the New York Dolls, Ramones, Stooges. By the way, the Stooges were in the same group of revolutionary, anarchic musicians as the MC5. The third wave of punk were the English bands that were influenced by Love, MC5, Dolls and Ramones. It was a great time for music!!!
musikfanat 1 year ago
@musikfanat go read my bio an u will see
.i have been around the block a few times.
i saw the music machine n the seeds in a small club.
the 60's i was a teen, and it was a riot. all modern music started
with louis armstrong..and his first record which destroyed what was normal.
since then it got wilder an wilder, till the end of it all with the sex pistols, after that,,,everything is redo. rap's 1st song is wake-up nigger's by the last poets. punks first song to me..is dirty water.
CHUCKLOVES1969 1 year ago
@CHUCKLOVES1969 Wow! That's so cool. Dirty Water by the Standells was a cool hit! I am glad to know someone that knows the roots of the music! A tip of the hat to you! I agree with your analysis about after the Pistols, everything is redo...
musikfanat 1 year ago
@musikfanat don't get me wrong...i believe the sound the Pistols did on that one album, completely destroyed what was b4 it,,to the point of oblivion, and that destruction of what we were familiar and comfortable with,, ended. music does have generous great songs and stars today..Gaga for one. but sooo much territory was covered when we were younger..it's basically impossible not to find styles of today,,that we already did. music today is great, but not ground breaking....like b4.
CHUCKLOVES1969 1 year ago
@CHUCKLOVES1969 psh, Pistols weren't anything new.
EffinSkeletor 1 year ago
@EffinSkeletor i just love it, when a guy 21 years old tries to tell me what's what, when i was in clubs in the 60's, finding the BEST music in the world, when his parents were in diapers. it sure puts me to shame. yea, ok,,,the pistols weren't nothing new,,,,ahhh yea i guess i have to bow to your expertise. (please, of course don't read my bio., and what i know about music, or the groups i've seen)
CHUCKLOVES1969 1 year ago
you may have "been around the block a few times", but that doesn't mean you know you're talking about. "The Pistols destroyed everything before them" is such an overused and poorly supported way of describing them. what about the pistols made that true? Sonically, they really weren't doing anything that hadn't already been done before. Culturally, yeah, they were really significant, but a good amount of that was from hype and exposure, not innovation.
EffinSkeletor 1 year ago
@CHUCKLOVES1969 I don't care if you were there, it doesn't mean your reflections or insights are worth anything. For all anyone knows, you're just some guy who's dumber than a bag of rocks, but happens to be a certain age and happened to go to a lot of concerts. The fact that you get so uptight about me saying "psh" males me not want to put any credibility at all whatsoever, when it comes to rock 'n' roll music. because you seem like kind of a tool. just sayin'.
EffinSkeletor 1 year ago
@EffinSkeletor to all good people out there...effinskeletor...
is no more...channel is closed
seems he self-destructed cause he finally got a few
brain cells to work correctly,,,
and he did the right thing....may he rest in peace...(lol)
CHUCKLOVES1969 1 year ago
@CHUCKLOVES1969 for someone who knows so much about good bands like Love, The Seeds, The Pistols, etc., you sure do have a lotta videos of shitty 80's bands on your page.
TomataGear 1 year ago
@TomataGear ..if u r so upset that i have a
great variety of musical tastes, and the fact that i do
have a very long history with the business of music...
why would ur inane comment mean anything to me ,,when ur page has ZERO of anything on it. i'm sorry,
but when ur mommy takes u out of your diappers,
and u've gone out an seen over a thousand bands,
then get back to me, and make some screwed stupid comment.
i might then think u have an ounce of credibility.
CHUCKLOVES1969 1 year ago
@CHUCKLOVES1969 Also look on youtube for Music Machine's "Talk Talk", Count Five's "Psychotic Reaction" and the Seeds "Pushin' Too Hard". The REAL punk!!!
musikfanat 1 year ago
Looks like Marky Ramones, might be early 90s since the Ramones did a cover and Arthur Lee liked it and asked him to play for him?
IanSchultz13 2 years ago
Not exactly Fred Astaire on his feet is he?
Geez, what a stumblebum.
jjdedalus 2 years ago
I never figured out the 'oop-pipp-oop-pipp' lyrics on this song. I also think that Arthur Lee's creativity, at least in the lyrics department, just dried up at some point in the 70s, most of his songs after that consisting of one verse repeated over and over...that's gotta be why Arthur kept doing his pre-1967 songs over and over in concert. I admire him a lot, but at the same time, sometimes his music frustrates me.
cdadave83814 2 years ago
beauty of the 'pop' song is repetition...from Glasgow, Scotland
soundsarama 2 years ago
What year? Great footage.
eljako123 2 years ago
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randyjrandyj 2 years ago
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randyjrandyj 2 years ago
This is a great band. Arthur never went away, did he? He is on form in every vid here; even a less-popular album like Vindicator is well ahead of its time in its prediction of pop styles for the decade to come.
puddleg 2 years ago
Is that Marky Ramone on drums ???
BopDaddy 2 years ago
Greatest band of all time, greatest story of sound makers, most influencial catalog
ArgusTasmania 2 years ago
The Weirdos and The Skulls both do covers (both early L.A. punk groups) Great song! I didn't know it was by Love until the fabulous Allan McGee told me via twitter...
zooperson 2 years ago
the ramones covered it too. love this early punk shit..
granola4thahighrolla 2 years ago
don't wanna be blaspheme but i love The Ramones cover better :°>
talissin 2 years ago
1967 baby
DWYLBTZLE 2 years ago
So far ahead of the posse.
minutegongcoughs 2 years ago
Now I understand why Jim Morrison said he was infllunced by Lee.
Now I understan why Lee said Jim has copied his style.
Anyway I admire both and I know Morrison was another hero of Rock, with his own style, maybe with some influences of Love (the Doors opened the Love performances at Whisky a Go Go).
Good song.
Goldendreamstorm 2 years ago
This is amazing ... I was lucky enough to see Arthur play live many times. He was an amazing talent. RIP Arthur
ArthurLeeMan 2 years ago 3
I think is the same show of " smebody's watchin you", so 90's..
cosmovitelli 3 years ago
awesome. thank you so much for this.
bidagrokedagen 3 years ago
Arthur Lee is kind of the coolest.
slopbucket74 3 years ago 2
When was this filmed? In the '80s?
zzzimbob 3 years ago