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>>By scrambleboost22 (Sunday, 12 Jan 2003 04:04)

I was under the impression that this would be about the band Love. So, here goes. Love was among the most brilliant and little known bands of the 1960's. The original base members (Arthur Lee, Bryan Maclean, Johnny Echols, Michael Stuart, and Snoopy Filsterer, with a nod to Don Conka) made three albums. All three are classics. They combined raw rock n' roll ('7 and 7 is' covered by many, including The Ramones), latin-flavored pop/rock ('Que Vida', "The Castle') and orchestral pop/rock ("Forever Changes") that rivaled The Byrds as American bands with great diversity of style and sound. Arthur Lee was the principal songwriter, with Maclean writing beautiful songs like "Alone Again Or" and "Old Man", and Lee's lyrics were anything but obvious. Very poetic, but written often in a hazy, surrealistic manner, so much of it had a southern California context. But there's also songs like 'Daily Planet', where the horrors of war are mixed our daily lives, thus the play on words in the title with the "Daily Planet" of comic book fame. Essential listening for fans of psych, poetic rock, Beatles, Byrds.

>>By exile103 (Tuesday, 16 Dec 2003 03:57)

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