"Call on Me"'s '65 demo is pretty straight Byrds-style folk-rock. Barney Hoskins' book on Arthur Lee suggests that Bryan MacLean had more to do with Love than Arthur would've liked to have let on. Dunno. I've heard the Bryan MacLean solo stuff collected on that album--he had something, for sure. Kinda like the efforts to debunk Beefheart.
― Edd Hurt, Sunday, 11 September 2016 18:00 (seven years ago) link
"Come Softly to Me" definitely feels like a step towards Da Capo/Forever Changes.
"Message to Pretty" (maybe my favorite Arthur Lee song) does, too, I guess, although there is a variety of approaches in that first album which really bodes well for the kind of syntheses that happen in the next couple albums...
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 11 September 2016 18:29 (seven years ago) link
Errr, "Come Softly to Me"...
There's lots of interesting connection throughout the first few albums, though. The way the chord progression at the end of "Mushroom Clouds" is (I think) recycled in "Seven and Seven Is" to ramp up that song towards the A-bomb climax...
― Drugs A. Money, Sunday, 11 September 2016 18:39 (seven years ago) link
"Call on Me"'s '65 demo is pretty straight Byrds-style folk-rock.Barney Hoskins' book on Arthur Lee suggests that Bryan MacLean had more to do with Love than Arthur would've liked to have let on. Dunno. I've heard the Bryan MacLean solo stuff collected on that album--he had something, for sure. Kinda like the efforts to debunk Beefheart.
I always saw parallels with Chilton/Bell tbh.
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 September 2016 20:00 (seven years ago) link
Makes sense.
― The Wind Cries Miri (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 11 September 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
Arthur Lee's been gone 10 years. Died the day after my mother passed in 2006. I wrote this obit for him for the alt-country mag.
― Edd Hurt, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:22 (seven years ago) link
can believe you guys arent into four sail smh
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 00:25 (seven years ago) link
Have we ever discussed the '70s remix of Forever Changes? Really bizarre. It seems like it's attempting to make the acoustic guitars carry the songs in a way that...I don't know. Seems very '70s. I don't like it at all.
― timellison, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 02:04 (seven years ago) link
kurt, I love "Robert Montgomery"
Edd, great work on that obit. Thanks a lot for sharing it here.
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 03:43 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmTkBB5yxr0
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 03:44 (seven years ago) link
Jay Donnellan aka Jay Lewis is a great guitarist, I also dig his post-Love band, Morning
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKphtDVWo6Q
― velko, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 05:24 (seven years ago) link
About as much as Arthur loved "Eleanor Rigby"
― Bottlerockey (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 10:02 (seven years ago) link
Just that one phrase though
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 16:22 (seven years ago) link
'Singing Cowboy' is my favourite from Four Sail, and one of my favourite Arthur Lee songs full stop!
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 16:27 (seven years ago) link
whoa morning is tight thanks!
― kurt schwitterz, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 16:51 (seven years ago) link
I never realized Love Story was on Vimeo. Had only seen the trailer before.
https://vimeo.com/80188255
― timellison, Thursday, 23 March 2017 03:11 (seven years ago) link
Did anybody mention the John Einarson bio/compiling of Arthur's own memoir that got put out as Forever Changes? Pretty interesting stuff.
Also Michael Stuart Ware's memoir which I have as Behind The Scenes at The Pegasus Carousel, but may have a different name on the later update.
&I did mention Johnny Echols interview in Ugly Things #37 which is in depth and revelatory.
― Stevolende, Thursday, 23 March 2017 07:28 (seven years ago) link