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LOVE – ” Forever Changes ” 50th Anniversary Edition Box Set

Posted: February 6, 2018 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Released just months after the so-called 1968 Summer of Love, Forever Changes was the third studio album by the group simply and boldly called Love.  But more than just that four-letter word was on the mind of bandleader/songwriter Arthur Lee, who saw beyond sunshine and flowers that summer.  Love traded in the punchy electric guitar sound of the group’s first two albums (and successful singles like “7 and 7 Is” and a cover of Burt Bacharach and Hal David’s “My Little Red Book”) for a denser, more orchestrated style that incorporated strings and horns alongside acoustic guitars.  Despite the often beautiful sound, though, Forever Changes was a song suite that referenced war, violence, drug abuse, failed romance and racial tension in songs like “A House is Not a Motel” (playing off another Bacharach/David song, “A House is Not a Home”), “The Red Telephone” and “Live and Let Live.”  Bryan MacLean contributed the album’s single “Alone Again Or” which kicked off the album in a collision of AM-meets-FM styles.  Now, the seminal masterwork originally released in November 1967 will be getting the deluxe 50th anniversary treatment from Rhino on April 6th.

Forever Changes has always been better-regarded in the United Kingdom than in its United States birthplace; it went Top 30 in Britain but only reached No. 154 in America.  But that hasn’t stopped the album’s cachet from growing every year, and it’s been a CD mainstay since its very first release in the format in 1987.  For this super-sized outing, Forever Changes will arrive in a 12 x 12 hardbound book-style format, containing 4 CDs, 1 DVD, and 1 LP.  The original stereo album will be featured on Disc One in a new remaster by original engineer Bruce Botnick, while the original mono mix makes its official CD premiere on Disc Two.  The third disc has the alternate mix of the entire album that premiered on the 40th anniversary reissue in 2008 plus outtake “Wonder People (I Do Wonder)” in the mix first issued in 2001.  The fourth CD, Singles and Outtakes, has the unique 45 RPM versions as well as the original mix of “Wonder People (I Do Wonder),” demos, backing tracks, and more.  The contents of the 40th anniversary bonus disc are reprised here, alongside two previously unissued tracks: the backing tracks of “Wonder People” and “Live and Let Live.”  The DVD has Botnick’s stereo remaster in 96/24 high resolution, plus the rare 1968 promotional film Your Mind and We Belong Together.  Finally, the LP has the stereo remaster cut from high-res digital audio by Bernie Grundman.

The final album by the original Love line-up of Lee, MacLean, John Echols, Ken Forssi, and Michael Stuart, Forever Changes remains a benchmark of pop and rock.   Music historian Ted Olsen has provided new track-by-track liner notes and an essay for Forever Changes: 50th Anniversary Edition.  Look for it on April 6th from Elektra and Rhino.

Love. Forever Changes: 50th Anniversary Edition (Elektra/Rhino, 2018)

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LOVE – ” Reel To Reel ” Reissue

Posted: September 22, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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Love have unearthed four previously unheard Arthur Lee songs for a remastered deluxe reissue of their final LP, 1974’s ‘Reel to Real’ . Pioneering psychedelic band Love are reissuing their final LP, 1974’s Reel to Real, in remastered deluxe format with 12 bonus tracks (including four newly discovered Arthur Lee originals). High Moon Records – the same label responsible for last year’s limited-edition reissue of the band’s lost-then-found 1973 LP, Black Beauty – will release the first-ever CD/digital versions of Reel to Real on November 27th; vinyl editions, available for the first time in over four decades, will be available February 19th, 2016.
The CD version will be packaged in a deluxe custom Digipak with the full-color, 32-page booklet. The LP edition, pressed on “high-quality RTI vinyl,” features a 28-page booklet and download card for all tracks. The digital version comes with a 26-page PDF booklet.

The deluxe Reel to Real will include a booklet featuring an essay from Rolling Stone contributor David Fricke and unpublished photos. The set will also feature 12 bonus tracks, 11 of which are previously unreleased; these include alternate takes and mixes, live-in-the-studio rehearsal versions and four newly discovered Lee songs (“Do It Yourself,” “I Gotta Remember,” “Somebody” and “You Gotta Feel It”). A statement describes the tracks as “three fully-produced rockers and a spare, Imagine-era John Lennon-by-way-of Sly Stone studio sketch.”
The CD version will be packaged in a deluxe custom Digipak with the full-color, 32-page booklet. The LP edition, pressed on “high-quality RTI vinyl,” features a 28-page booklet and download card for all tracks. The digital version comes with a 26-page PDF booklet.

High Moon Records, the label behind the recent releases of Love’s Black Beauty and Gene Clark’s Two Sides to Every Story, has announced its next title. On November 27th, High Moon will reissue Love’s 1974 album “Reel to Real” as a newly-expanded Deluxe Edition in the following formats:

Expanded CD packaged in a deluxe custom digipak with a full-color, 32-page booklet;
LP pressed on high-quality RTI vinyl with full-color, 28-page LP-sized booklet;
LP includes download card for high-quality album plus bonus tracks; and
Digital Download includes full-color, 26-page PDF booklet.
Reel to Real was the first album from Arthur Lee’s groundbreaking rock band since 1970’s Blue Thumb album False Start. Originally released on Robert Stigwood’s RSO label and produced by Skip Taylor, it featured Lee alongside his Black Beauty band (drummer Joe Blocker, guitarist Melvan Whittington, and bassist Robert Rozelle) and presented a more soulful side of the frontman. He wrote or co-wrote every track on the album other than a cover of William DeVaughn’s “Be Thankful for What You Got.” Long the rarest item in the Love catalogue, Reel to Real has never previously been available on CD. Sweetening the pot, High Moon’s upcoming deluxe edition will feature 12 bonus tracks, 11 of which are previously unreleased.

These bonus cuts encompass alternate takes and mixes, live-in-studio rehearsals, and four newly-discovered Arthur Lee originals: “Do It Yourself,” “I Gotta Remember,” “Somebody” and “You Gotta Feel It.” Other bonus track highlights include an extended, alternate mix of “Busted Feet,” the single mix of “You Said You Would,” and an impromptu studio rehearsal of Forever Changes outtake “Wonder People (I Do Wonder).”

The album has been remastered from the original tapes, and the CD features a 32-page booklet with a new essay by David Fricke of Rolling Stone as well as a number of candid, previously unpublished photos. The CD edition is due on November 27, while the LP is scheduled for release on February 19, 2016. Both editions are currently available for pre-order at the links below!

Love, Reel to Real (RSO SO 4804, 1974 – reissued High Moon Records, 2015)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD

Time Is Like A River
Stop The Music
Who Are You?
Good Old Fashion Dream
Which Witch Is Which
With A Little Energy
Singing Cowboy
Be Thankful For What You Got
You Said You Would
Busted Feet
Everybody’s Gotta Live
Do It Yourself [Outtake]
I Gotta Remember [Outtake]
Somebody [Outtake]
You Gotta Feel It [Outtake]
With A Little Energy [Alternate Mix]
Busted Feet [Alternate Mix]
You Said You Would [Single Mix] (RSO single SO-506, 1974)
Stop The Music [Alternate Take]
Graveyard Hop [Studio Rehearsal]
Singing Cowboy [Alternate Take]
Everybody’s Gotta Live [Electric Version]
Wonder People (I Do Wonder) [Studio Rehearsal]
Tracks 12-23 are previously unreleased except Track 18 as indicated above

LOVE – ” Black Beauty ” Re-issued

Posted: September 22, 2015 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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The late, great, self-proclaimed “first black hippie” gets a deluxe reissue. “Black Beauty”, the never-before-released masterpiece by Arthur Lee’s legendary band Love is making its first-ever official release in any format, anywhere! Chosen as one of Time Magazine’s most anticipated releases, critics are hailing the album as an instant classic. ‘Black Beauty’ is that rarest of rock artifacts: an unreleased, full-length studio album, from an undisputed musical genius. It represents the missing link in a catalog that also includes ‘Forever Changes’, the seminal 1967 Love album the New York Times called “one of the most affecting and beguiling albums of all time. With ‘Black Beauty’, Arthur Lee manages to combine searing ’70’s rock with gorgeous melodies and stellar songwriting – topped off by his most distinctive, snarling, soulful vocals ever. With unparalleled sound, and a wonderfully eclectic collection of songs, the album offers Love fans a rare glimpse into a previously undocumented phase of Arthur Lee’s career, while shining a light for new fans to discover the unique genius that is the music of Arthur Lee and Love. David Fricke wrote about the album in Rolling Stone: “Black Beauty” might have been received as a strong comeback for Lee, a turn to steamy R&B, with heavy-guitar punch – if it had come out.” High Moon Records is honored to finally grant Arthur Lee’s wish for ‘Black Beauty’ to be available to music fans worldwide.

Before his untimely death in 2006, Arthur Lee claimed that without him, there’d be no Jimi Hendrix or Sly Stone. Sure enough, the extended Black Beauty rocks loud and funks hard. By 1973, Love was a vacuum-tight all-black band. Vestiges of their early psychedelic sophistication surface in “Lonely Pigs.”

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ARTHUR LEE and LOVE – ” The Forever Changes Concert ” Live in 2003

Posted: May 29, 2015 in MUSIC
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The legendary Love perform their most celebrated album Forever Changes at the Royal Albert Hall in 2003.
Originally released in 1967, Forever Changes  album a fusion of acid-folk and psychedelia has mesmerised generations of musicians and fans.
Packaged in a deluxe rigid digi-book, this CD features the entire album plus 8 additional Love classics, while the DVD features the entire concert, plus an exclusive Arthur Lee interview and tour documentary.

‘It’s almost impossible not to be blown away. Even the ushers get the shivers.
‘From the mariachi fanfares of Bryan Mclean’s Alone Again Or through to a devastating version You Set The Scene, perfectly reproduced.

Tracklist

1. Alone Again Or
2. A House Is Not A Motel
3. Andmoreagain
4. The Daily Planet
5. Old Man
6. The Red Telephone
7. Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale
8. Live And Let Live
9. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
10. Bummer In The Summer
11. You Set The Scene
12. Orange Skies
13. She Comes In Colors
14. Listen To My Song
15. August
16. Seven and Seven Is
17. Your Mind And We Belong Together
18. Signed DC
19. My Little Red Book

Disc Two DVD:

1. Alone Again Or
2. A House Is Not A Motel
3. Andmoreagain
4. The Daily Planet
5. Old Man
6. The Red Telephone
7. Maybe The People Would Be The Times Or Between Clark And Hilldale
8. Live And Let Live
9. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
10. Bummer In The Summer
11. You Set The Scene

EXTRAS :-
Bonus Tracks :-
Seven & Seven Is
Orange Skies
Listen To My Song
She Comes In Colours
Always See Your Face

– Arthur Lee Interview
– Tour Documentary

 

 

 

WES WILSON – The Fillmore Posters

Posted: April 12, 2015 in WE LOVE
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More classic psychedelic lettering by our good friend here in “Posterville”, and acclaimed father of the style and legendary BIG FIVE artist, Wes Wilson. WE have poster #61 in the old Fillmore poster series. This poster dates back 46 years ago. On this date in 1967, Buffalo Springfield, The Steve Miller Band and Freedom Highway played for a revved up audience at the Fillmore Auditorium here in the city by the bay. There are several variation of this poster due to the fact that the colors of inks were changed during the press run. I wish I could put up a few of the different colored posters as they are all really beautiful. This one is my favorite though.
The image here is of a fantasy face of a figure with a long head dress which forms the lettering. In one way,it is very unfortunate that Wes was about to have a dispute with Bill Graham which led to him no longer producing posters for the Fillmore concerts because most of the designs he created at this time were some of the most brilliant works of graphic artistry created in the 20th century. I truly believe that …..wouldn’t you agree? Alas, he went onto create a vast amount of posters long after that, and continues to this day producing some incredible pieces. Look up his website to see just what he’s been up too.

In spite of artistic differences, Family Dog’s “Top Dog” Chet Helms and Master Big FIve rock artist, Wes Wilson collaborated on the beginnings of what led to a revolutionary explosion of creativity in Psychedelic Poster Art. Both Helms and Wilson are credited with the artwork on this poster. The image on this piece certainly screams at the viewer… “Strange things are going to happen at this concert advertised on this Poster”! This is probably exactly was Chet wanted, and is one of the main elements of psychedelic art, …an appeal to weirdness.


It was 49 years ago (holy crap) on this day back in 1966, that Love, The Sons of Adam and The Charlatans played at the Fillmore Auditorium for the last Family Dog event to take place there. After that it was mostly ALL Avalon Ballroom with a couple of exceptions. Lights that night provided by Tony Martin’s Light Sights. This “Poster From The Past” is Family Dog poster #4 in the original series. It was printed three times.

Wes Wilson (Robert Wesley Wilson). Grateful Dea, Junior Wells, Chicago Blues Band, and The Doors. 1966. Offset Lithograph, 22 3/4 x 14" (57.8 x 35.5 cm). Gift of Joseph H. Heil; Wes Wilson (Robert Wesley Wilson). Jefferson Airplane / Grateful Dead. 1966. Lithograph, 20 x 14 1/4" (50.8 x 36.2 cm). Gift of the designer

Consider the design work of  Wes Wilson, the unofficial father of the 1960s concert poster: the Jefferson Airplane / Grateful Dead concert at the Fillmore, or The Grateful Dead, Junior Wells, Chicago Blues Band, and The Doors concert. Wilson, who dropped out of school for forestry, found himself in the right place at the right time—San Francisco, just before the “Summer of Love” working for a printer. His only formal design training was a few night school art classes and trips to the library for inspiration from the likes of Alphonse Mucha, Gustav Klimt, and Alfred Roller—excellent choices by anyone’s standard. Making the scene brought him in contact with concert promoters Chet Helms and the Family Dog and Bill Graham, and one thing led to another.

ARTHUR LEE and LOVE feat JIMI HENDRIX – ” Everlasting Love “

Posted: April 4, 2015 in MUSIC
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Jimi Hendrix and Arthur Lee met in 1964 or 1965 at the Gold Star Studios in Los Angeles, where singer Rosa Lee Brooks was recording Lee’s song “My Diary”
the session was Jimi Hendrix’s first time in a recording studio, though it seems likely Hendrix had already cut “Testify” with the Isley Brothers.

The two men remained friends, and on St. Patrick’s Day 1970, after Love had finished a European tour, Hendrix had joined the band at London’s Olympic Studios. There, Lee says Jimi and the band all ate mescaline (or “Huxley’s hooch,” as we used to call it in the San Fernando Valley).

Lee’s recollections of the Olympic session: Boy, did we have fun at the Olympic recording studio. The band and Jimi all took mescaline. Although they didn’t know it, I was as straight as Cochise’s arrow. Somebody had to steer the ship One of the ways I got Jimi to do the session in the first place—or how I got his attention, anyway—happened one night at the Speakeasy. He and I arrived together. The guy at the front door told me I could come in but Jimi couldn’t. When I asked him why, he said that Jimi had been fighting in the club on an earlier occasion and they didn’t want that happening again. So I told him that Jimi was cool, the entourage that was with us was cool, and I didn’t think any fighting would be going on that night. He finally agreed. I said to Jimi, “Look, man, neither one of us is going to be around much longer, anyway; so while we’re here, we might as well do something together.” When I said that, whatever we were talking about, or he was thinking about, just seemed to stop and I had his full attention. He really went into some deep thought as he looked at me from across the table. He was looking into my eyes and I knew he could only be thinking about our early deaths.

The session went completely differently from the way I was used to recording. I thought it was to be a private session. I don’t remember telling anyone to come, except the band; but, to my surprise, there were people all over the place. There were girls I’d never seen before and faces popping out from where you would least expect a person to be. I was in a state of shock, but Jimi said, “It’s OK, let them stay.” More than once, Jimi thought we were done and went to pack everything up. Then he would come back into the studio while we were playing and say, “What key?” Once, when we were learning a song I wrote, called “Ride That Vibration,” Jimi came walking back in during the middle of it. He asked me, “What did you just say in that song?” I said, “Ride the vibration down like a six foot grave / Don’t let it get you down.” Then he said, “I gotta go; it’s getting too heavy.” He called a cab, took [drummer George Suranovich’s] girlfriend, and was out the door. George just looked at me as if to say, “That’s Jimi.” After a while, Jimi came back and suggested that everyone jam, and were my band members ever happy!

On that session in London, we managed to lay down a few tracks, among them “E-Z Rider,” “The Everlasting First,” and a jam that I would later add lyrics to. Jimi sang on “E-Z Rider.” I gave the master reel to [Blue Thumb Records president] Bob Krasnow. He never gave it back. At the time, I wondered if someone was filming us, although I never saw a camera. I found out, in the early 90s, they had been.

Back in the studio, it was almost daylight, so I signaled to H to start wrapping it up. I don’t think Jimi was ready to quit, but it had been a long night for me. The tour we were doing was over with; I just wanted to get back to Studio City in California. As we were walking out of the building, Jimi asked, “Where are you going?” I said, “Man, I gotta get back to LA; to my woman, dogs, and pigeons.” Jimi said, “Come here, I want to show you something.” We walked back inside the studio. He pointed to his guitar case on the floor. Then he opened it up. I thought he had a stash in there, but as he stood up, he pointed to it again and said, “This is all I have.” I couldn’t figure it out at first, but then it hit me. He was telling me that the white Stratocaster guitar in the case were his only possessions. I felt kind of sad for him.
Of the three songs Hendrix cut with Love at Olympic, only “The Everlasting First”—the single from Love’s False Start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvqDs6lIUrY

AMEN DUNES – ” Lonely Richard “

Posted: February 14, 2015 in MUSIC
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Hazy New York psych project Amen Dunes released a new album earlier this year, and have just shared a video for “Lonely Richard,” a song that features vocals from Iceage frontman Elias Bender Rønnenfelt. It’s a grainy slo-mo video consisting of shots of an idyllic-looking New York City and the nature that surrounds it. It was shot on 16mm film by director Kenneth Zoran Curwood, who told Fader that the video is meant to “channel the land from which [the song] flows.”

AMEN DUNES – ” Song To The Siren ” This Mortal Coil Cover

Posted: January 12, 2015 in MUSIC
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From the forthcoming new EP “Cowboy Worship” out January 20th, 2015 on Sacred Bones Records.

New York-based Amen Dunes’ has announced news of a companion EP to follow the release of his critically acclaimed album ‘Love’, which came out earlier this year via Sacred Bones. Entitled ‘Cowboy Worship’, the forthcoming record is an attempt to give life to some of the music that played a crucial part to the creation of ‘Love’. It’s set for release on Jan 19th and new track ‘Song To The Siren’, taken from the EP,

AMEN DUNES – ” Love ” Best Albums Of 2014

Posted: December 20, 2014 in CLASSIC ALBUMS, MUSIC
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This is one of those albums that comes out of a songwriter meandering in lo-fi productions for years and finally writing “the album” where all the diamonds in the fuzzy rough from before come through.
While the previous Amen Dunes records have all been largely improvisational first-take affairs, recorded in a matter of weeks at most, this full-length album “Love” is the product of close to a year and a half of continuous work by Damon McMahon. Unlike McMahon’s earlier Amen Dunes recordings, which were almost always a solo affair, the music on Love was performed by a variety of musicians, including his longtime collaborators Jordi Wheeler on guitar and piano, and Parker Kindred on drums.

McMahon chose to hold the main recording sessions for “Love” in Montreal with Dave Bryant and Efrim Menuck of Godspeed You! Black Emperor. In addition to recording the sessions that McMahon produced, members of Godspeed also played on several of the songs. So did saxophonist Colin Stetson and Elias Bender-Ronnenfelt of Iceage, who duets with McMahon on two tracks.

This project has always seen McMahon guided by traditional song and sound, but Love is the first work in which this clearly shines through. The result is definitively the most substantial Amen Dunes record to date. These are elemental songs about time, love and memory, as much about the listener as they are about the writer: pure, open, and beautiful.
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Amen Dunes – ” Lilac In Hand ” and ” Lonely Richard “

Posted: October 6, 2014 in MUSIC
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Amen Dunes aka Damon McMahon and his fourth album entitled “LOVE”, the sound evokes past times of the Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter period, influenced by the sounds of Velvet Underground  his rough and raspy vocal with some superb songs. the album “Love” is on Sacred Bones Records out now.

 

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