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[chl]

I think anything put out on Elektra records is also suitable...like...

The Doors, Paul Butterfield Blue Band, the Eagles, Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt, Metallica, Phish, Phil Ochs...

There was another obscure but good band. LOVE, with Arthur Lee. Forever Changes.

Oh yea!
They were big in the DC area when I was a teen, 7&7 Is was played on the radio a lot in 1966-67.

I saw Arthur Lee some many years later in Oct 21, 2003 at a local club in Alexandria (The Birchmere) when he was touring on The Forever Changes tour.

I took one of the first two Love albums I bought when I was 15 ("Da Capa") and a sharpie and had him sign it after the show.

This is the set list from the tour:


Setlist

Love With Arthur Lee setlist:

1. Your Mind and We Belong Together
2. Alone Again Or
3. A House Is Not a Motel
4. Andmoreagain
5. Old Man
6. The Daily Planet
7. The Red Telephone
8. Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
9. Live and Let Live
10. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
11. Bummer in the Summer
12. You Set the Scene
13. Rainbow in the Storm
14. My Little Red Book
15. Everybody's Gotta Live / Instant Karma
16. My Flash on You
17. Orange Skies
18. 7 and 7 Is
19. Singing Cowboy

https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/love-with-arthur-lee-39bb0e48-a5e9-4129-ba42-3980ae471de5

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[Tony Burgh]

Oh yea!
They were big in the DC area when I was a teen, 7&7 Is was played on the radio a lot in 1966-67.

I saw Arthur Lee some many years later in Oct 21, 2003 at a local club in Alexandria (The Birchmere) when he was touring on The Forever Changes tour.

I took one of the first two Love albums I bought when I was 15 ("Da Capa") and a sharpie and had him sign it after the show.

This is the set list from the tour:


Setlist

Love With Arthur Lee setlist:

1. Your Mind and We Belong Together
2. Alone Again Or
3. A House Is Not a Motel
4. Andmoreagain
5. Old Man
6. The Daily Planet
7. The Red Telephone
8. Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale
9. Live and Let Live
10. The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This
11. Bummer in the Summer
12. You Set the Scene
13. Rainbow in the Storm
14. My Little Red Book
15. Everybody's Gotta Live / Instant Karma
16. My Flash on You
17. Orange Skies
18. 7 and 7 Is
19. Singing Cowboy

https://www.concertarchives.org/concerts/love-with-arthur-lee-39bb0e48-a5e9-4129-ba42-3980ae471de5

Un-effen-believable.
I only ran into one person who even knew who they were. It was in a bar in Köln after work while talking about the Doors. Two American drunks beating the intro to My Little Red Book on the bar then singing it.
Thanks, brother. You brought back great memories.

 

[chl]

Un-effen-believable.
I only ran into one person who even knew who they were. It was in a bar in Köln after work while talking about the Doors. Two American drunks beating the intro to My Little Red Book on the bar then singing it.
Thanks, brother. You brought back great memories.

They were well known to the DC area, their first album had a song on it called 'Signed DC' and a local band called the Fallen Angels covered it. My older sister was in college at the time and Love was popular with her and her friends.



The Fallen Angels cover:

 

[Lightning Rod]

Ha ha, I think the gist of this thread is going over many heads in this thread lol.

 

[chl]

They were well known to the DC area, their first album had a song on it called 'Signed DC' and a local band called the Fallen Angels covered it. My older sister was in college at the time and Love was popular with her and her friends.



The Fallen Angels cover:

The Signed DC cover was the Fallen Angels extended jam song.

If I remember correctly, they open for a Rolling Stones concert in DC in the summer of 1966 in an indoor area that was not even 3/4 full, with another band the Standells that had a hit with "Dirty Water' - when the Stones came on there were screaming girls in the audience that drown them out, lol, little amps back in those days - Brian Jones playing dulcimer (or Zither) on Lady Jane - there is a long story about that Zither or dulcimer - it got stolen from the concert, but then returned...

"In 1966, Brian Jones had his electric dulcimer prototype stolen at a stop on tour in Washington, D.C., and it is claimed it was the only one in existence at that time. This seems likely as they did have to cut "Lady Jane" from the setlist for a few shows while he waited for the instrument to be recovered or another custom build to be completed. The whereabouts of this instrument were a longstanding mystery. However, in 2022 a former Washington DC record store employee told a story about a 15 year old kid who came in with an electric dulcimer and wanted to learn to play it. He said the boy didn’t hide where he got it from – claiming he took it from an open window in the band's equipment trailer. He said he convinced the kid to leave the instrument there so he could learn to play it and, in turn, teach the kid. He tracked down the Rolling Stones PR departments and they sent someone to the record store to retrieve the instrument and return it to Jones. This seems to make sense based on when "Lady Jane" returned to the setlist – long before another one could have been custom mode for him."

https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/art..._the_rolling_stones_legend_brian_jones-150308

 

[chl]

Un-effen-believable.
I only ran into one person who even knew who they were. It was in a bar in Köln after work while talking about the Doors. Two American drunks beating the intro to My Little Red Book on the bar then singing it.
Thanks, brother. You brought back great memories.

You know the Love version of Little Red Book was not liked by the composer Burt Bacharach, and he slammed it, lol. It was way better as an upbeat rock song than the way it was originally composed.

Apparently Manfred Mann recorded it too! Go figure.

"In 1966, "My Little Red Book" once again entered mainstream popularity after American rock band Love recorded it. Love's leader Arthur Lee and guitarist Johnny Echols saw What's New Pussycat? in the cinema, and being fans of Manfred Mann, they incorporated it into their setlist. The rendition varies from Manfred Mann's in tempo along with a more "tambourine-fueled rhythm". The chord progression was also changed, as Echols had forgotten several chords present in the original release. Recorded in January 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, California, together with producer Jac Holzman and Mark Abramson, the song was released as Love's debut single in March, 1966, through Elektra Records. The single reached number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 and has been considered a "standard" and archetype of garage rock. "

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Little_Red_Book

 

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