Arthur Lee - Love

Post by **hourformagic** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:22 pm

Cool new part of the forum.

Maybe this thread could be just for Arthur's/Love's music?

Everybody's Gotta Live
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMTXHp2s0NM

Post by **The Freedom Man** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 8:24 pm

Yes, this is a thread ONLY about LOVE's music and offcourse Arthur Lee and other bandmembers.

Post by **BallroomDays67** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:29 pm

Very cool, Ed! Love is obviously no match for The Doors when it comes to commerical success, but IMO were every bit as talented.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 9:44 pm

Right, bally. and for me they had a double barrel talent pool, unlike the doors...with Arthur Lee and Bryan MacClean!

So great and at their peak...sadly ONLY three albums. AND NO video footage at all of them performing any concerts. Just some Dick Clark kind of appearances....lip-synced. They were considered the best live band in LA...bar none! Every show was a happening as the overflow-crowd would spill out onto the streets...the club providing outdoor speakers so all could enjoy! Of course the alley was blocked off for the "show" so ALL had to pay a couple bucks to have the privilege just to HEAR LoVE!!

LoVE forever!

Post by **BallroomDays67** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:05 pm

Like Bryan, Robby contributed one or two great songs per album. That includes a number one hit that became The Doors' signature song. I get what you're saying, though. Bryan was capable of much more than that, but was underutilized and out the group after only three albums.

Hopefully something will turn up in the Wolfgang's Vault archives, but I'm not holding out much hope.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Apr 21, 2010 10:34 pm

BallroomDays67 wrote:Like Bryan, Robby contributed one or two great songs per album. That includes a number one hit that became The Doors' signature song. I get what you're saying, though. Bryan was capable of much more than that, but was underutilized and out the group after only three albums.

Hopefully something will turn up in the Wolfgang's Vault archives, but I'm not holding out much hope.

Right...about Robbie. But somehow Robbie's work melded into the Doors catalog smoothly.

Bryan's work on the other hand was so distinctly different than Arthur's. It was more a complimentary but opposite blend of the two styles.....

Post by **Roughie** » Thu Apr 22, 2010 10:04 am

jamestkirk wrote: So great and at their peak...sadly ONLY three albums. AND NO video footage at all of them performing any concerts. Just some Dick Clark kind of appearances....lip-synced.

And we think we're hard done by with what little there is of the Doors!

Post by **jamestkirk** » Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:55 pm

I think I used to resent Arthur Lee and his attitude about LOVE. He always said that HE was LOVE and the rest were just musicians that he felt could help fulfill his vision.

Other bands were ONE...bands that could not have been, but for all their members...Beatles, DOORS, CSN......

And then we have LOVE (our favorite line-ups are there, true) but ever changing line-ups of LOVE...still, ALWAYS the core is there...Arthur, Bryan and Johnny...without whom the band was never as great.

But truth be told, LOVE was Arthur....even Bryan was Arthur's vision...someone who could contribute to Arthur's vision of what he wanted LOVE to be.

So now, I do believe that ARTHUR WAS LOVE, even if his choices (the individual pieces) for LOVE, made LOVE the great & unified band it was...

and yet..... as Arthur said....."I found out tha everybody is LoVE!
and I was just a part of love"

We LOVE you Arthur.

"Love is everybody's group". ---Arthur Lee

Post by **hourformagic** » Tue Apr 27, 2010 11:51 pm

Thanks for the replies.. but can I ask for this thread to be closed please?

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 1:17 am

Huh? You're kidding!

....right?

Post by **The Freedom Man** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 5:18 am

I think because of the first question hourformagic asked...

Post by **hourformagic** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 11:47 am

thefreed wrote:I think because of the first question hourformagic asked...

Yes, that's correct.

I meant 'just music' as in YouTube vids tho (sorry for not making that clear), but Scott has a sticky thread for that.

Post by **jamestkirk** » Wed Apr 28, 2010 12:58 pm

hourformagic wrote:
thefreed wrote:I think because of the first question hourformagic asked...
Yes, that's correct.

I meant 'just music' as in YouTube vids tho (sorry for not making that clear), but Scott has a sticky thread for that.

HA!

I never go THAT far back, magic!

I have a tendency to lose the "thread" that way!