I have no idea if it's his birthday or not. I just wanted to say that.
But somewhere on this thread, someone will say "Happy Birthday Arthur" anyway.
― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 17 June 2005 08:05 (twenty years ago)
i'm looking for an mp3 of "everybody's gotta live", if someone has it. i seem to have lost mine.
― jermaine (jnoble), Friday, 17 June 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)
For the record it's March 7, but I've missed the last 60 birthdays so I'll second the happy birthday here.
And I hope next time they let you across the border into Canada, Arthur. Grrr.
― Surfer_Stone_Rosalita (Surfer_Stone_Rosalita), Friday, 17 June 2005 11:22 (twenty years ago)
Hey - I was just thinking about him!. I've been growing my hair for the past 9 months - the first time in 20 years - what a curly/frizzy mess. Anyway, I just gave my barber carte blanche ... and I've ended up with an Arthur Lee c1969: best barnet I've had in ages!
Anyway, I bought the Forever Changes CD recently, just for the extra tracks. It was bizarre hearing Wonder People (great track imo) - another track that makes you feel the way only that album can. If you seen what I mean.
― Jez (Jez), Friday, 17 June 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)
Anybody here familiar with the song "The Everlasting First"? it's on one of the later Love albums, and is one of their best songs. It features an unbelievable guitar solo by Jimi Hendrix.
It would fit right in on Forever Changes.
― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Friday, 17 June 2005 14:05 (twenty years ago)
Spoke to Arthur at the end of March after the Uni gig and he assured me that a new album was very much in the pipeline. The problem is, as with most things in Arthurs life, things are never straightforward. All I've actually HEARD is 1 completed track which wasn't really much good to be honest. Amazing live though. Original guitarist Johnny Echols has rejoined the band who now have 4(4!) guitarists. Sounds most impressive especially on some of the Da-capo stuff like 7 and 7 is but even the Forever changes material is sounding great live...I prefer it this way to the orchestrated versions on the concerts the year before last as the band sound so much freer and unconstrained
― Formerly kris England!, Friday, 17 June 2005 15:11 (twenty years ago)
This from Mike P from a recent posting on the Love message board:
Great news if the documentary comes to fruition and the result gets an international airing. I hope so, and that it is soon. Current concert footage can do nothing but good, from what I've seen and heard. The recent appearances of Arthur on TV have been positive, but have only shown him as an articulate, cool 'talking head' and reminiscing. Getting across to as large an audience as possible what Love are like NOW is all important. I really hope that Love get some more major festival work ASAP, and that it is televised as
per Glastonbury.
Implicit on previous postings on this topic are concerns that the Love/Arthur renaissance may totally run out of steam through lack of 'product', ie. a proper album, and that such a record when it appears may not be of the calibre that we hope for, based on the new stuff that has been aired over the last couple of years. The officisl website's not been up to the job - almost essential in this increasingly net-based world, and some of the venues that Love have been booked into have perhaps been wastes of energy for little reward - Bisley, for example.
Arthur has had a rocky year or so, with deaths and partings and whatever he may have turned to to cope, and his sojourns in the City of Angels, it has been hypothesised, may not be doing him much
good. But Johnny's back - I hope for the duration - and if this re- ignites the creative muse, great. I reckon that they will have been doing more than chewing fat and talking about the weather. If there
has been a knock-on effect that recorded material is no longer thought of so highly, so be it. This may not be a bad thing.. as long as the funds are there to translate new ideas onto disc and get the result out soon. The current Love are a great band, but they need the best possible management, promotion, record deal etc.
As Randy California once sang, 'The clock on the wall is ticking for us all'. A documentary can do a great deal of good, as I'm sure that Arthur etc. can deliver the goods in this context, but the other factors must be in place if it is to be capitalised on. Send a warm vibe .. and yes, my last posting on this topic should not have been sent, being of questionable taste and humour. Got out of bed the wrong side, I guess..
― formerly Kris England!, Friday, 17 June 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)