Arthur Lee and LOVE-Live Interview!

greatest band - finest album of all time-forever changes

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[gittahfiend]

7 and 7 is......14

[Pumper4]

Arthur Lee and Love were the most underrated band in rock history. But then it was their own fault. RIP Arthur, Bryan, Ken.

[phillyshell94]

what arthur lee said is true about jimi hendrix and the beatles unless your arrogant sure his songs are great but like he said once you heard one song the rest sound the same as in the style never changes which is boring i used to be a big doors fan listened to there songs for hours but than i got tired and wanted to find better music anybody that knows music would know underrated bands make better music than those of mainstream not all of them but some

[raddmann99]

tone sound style whatever there is a similarity . You missed the entire point of my post and are either deaf or argumentative - I'd guess the latter. Many critics back then said the exact same thing and I never said it bothered me - to the contrary I found it pleasing.

[pffft63]

@raddmann99 Tone of the guitar huh? In 1965 there were no stomp boxes of any variety for anyone to really have any kind of personal tone. All except for cases like Ray and Dave Davies stabbing their speaker cones with shivs before recording ''You really got me''., prompting Jimi H. to ask them how they got that tone. Byrds tone tends to be pretty free of any effects. Just turned up amps. ???

[librarianeric]

@imjustpassinthru As I understand it, Lee didn't want to tour (much) outside of CA, which, among other things, impeded their national success.

[BigBishop1]

@durgaaa i think what he meant was you knew it was hendrix immediatly

[raddmann99]

The truth is that nearly every group ripped stuff off from other people including the Beatles. Some reviewers back then thought LOVE was copying the Byrds on their first album. Bryan Maclean was a roadie for the Byrds before he joined LOVE and you can notice the tone of his guitar on some of the songs sounds very much like them. I doubt many could say the same about the Forever Changes album though. I prefer to call it an influence rather than ripping off though.

[vincit30]

I don't know what to believe about Arthur Lee and Love. I have read that he was influential to all the people he mentions and thus, they ripped him off and became famous. I have also read that he was himself a trend follower and has made outrageous claims that others have ripped him off. Some of these include Jimi Hendrix and The Doors. I really don't know what to make of Arthur Lee.

[imjustpassinthru]

Underrated? Their fault? I don't think so. Love was on the cutting edge of an evolutionary process that took time to catch on. Those of us who experienced those times and lived in California where the movement originated appreciate the contribution Love made not only to the music scene but to the cultural changes that followed. In 1966, Love was the forerunner of the Peace and Love movement. Their music transformed a generation.

[11xzxzxz]

@Pumper4 Yeah you called it.

[JustAFocus]

@gittahfiend And "No. Fourteen" is the B-side of "7 and 7 Is." No kidding. I have the 45.