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My Little Red Book - from the first album Love - Monaural vinyl LP http://youtu.be/PnFBZcsFQmQ Hey Joe - from the first album - Love http://youtu.be/wbr7vpIIb3I Forever Changes - Full album - Vinyl LP http://youtu.be/Q1L11Y0I5E0 Da Capo - Full album - Vinyl LP http://youtu.be/iz6VfFNLAlM Back in 1965 I saw Arthur Lee perform with his band "Love" at Bido Litos in Hollywood. Lee bought a house called "The Castle" across the street from where I was living on Lookout Mt. Road in Laurel Canyon. Lee was widely hailed as a musical genius with endorsements from Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton. Lee was a character every bit as colorful and unique as was his music. At the time I knew him, he was known as the "Prince of the Sunset Strip." His album "Forever Changes" is a seminal work with elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia. I still own their first first vinyl album and The Best of Love, on a Rhino CD. [image: Inline image 1] "Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer/songwriter Arthur Lee who wrote most material, though some of their best known songs were written by Bryan MacLean. While finding only modest success on the music charts, Love would come to be praised by critics as one of the finest and most important American rock groups of their era. Their third album Forever Changes (1967) is generally regarded as a masterpiece. Rolling Stone ranked the album number 40 on the list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time." Read more: Love: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_%28band%29> 'Forever Changes' by John Einarson Jawbone Press, 2010 On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > > On 12/13/2013 09:37 AM, s3raph...@yahoo.com wrote: > > > > Almost as interesting as playing the same bill with the Airplane at a > couple of concerts and hanging out with them. ;-) > > > What was your band called? > > > "Magic Fern". You've never heard of them unless you saw the movie > "Strange Wilderness" with Steve Zahn and produced by Adam Sadler's company > where our 1967 single of "Maggie" is heard on the soundtrack. We were a > regional band who opened for a lot of acts in the Seattle area and made one > foray to play California Hall in San Francisco during the "Summer of Love" > opening for the Youngbloods. We opened for the Airplane in Portland and > Vancouver BC. The Byrds were also on the bill in Portland. Roger McGuinn > had a cassette of the Sargent Pepper album the Beatles had given him > pre-release so we sat around listening to it with Grace Slick and Marty > Balin. > > > > > >
