I just discovered these fantastic videos. Thanks so much for posting these performances of the great Arthur Lee and Love. Their Forever Changes album is one of the greatest of all time. I miss this kind of music. Thank you, thank you!!❤❤❤❤
How many albums where every single song you loved? Forever Changes one was a biggie on my turntable. And how about these, too? "Child Is Father To The Man" "Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere" "Late For The Sky" "Elton John" (before he turned into a freaking clown) My fellow Boomers you are welcome to add your most favorite albums where every song is a hit in your memory. It's got to be every single song on the album though.
@Colby Renfro WOW...Usually don't have young people acknowledge music of this era. No showmanship..strictly talent was needed. Very very few successful groups without talent.
@@BaahBen Don't forget Brian Wilson's "Pet Sounds" the classic LP from a true genius and what I believe was the inspiration for "Forever Changes" and "Sgt. Pepper"
@@IvyMike777 The story of the latter years of his life is so incredibly sad. He should have been spending his later years writing more classics and reaping the rewards of his incredible talent. Just so unjust and sad.
… never gets old, even 45 years after I first purchased "Forever Changes" on LP, this All-Time "sleeper" Classic is STILL at the very top of my own personal Playlist. Arthur Lee is (and always will be) a true Musical Genius.
A music genius who inspired many of our known ‘greats’. Love set the change & Im so grateful for Arthur & Love’s work. This track, in particular expresses the enjoyment of life & the acceptance of the inevitable. God Bkess You, Arthur, you were so quietly spoken but a musical force celebre. Jane Russell
Just SO wonderful seeing Arthur Lee play these three marvelous songs off the Forever Changes album. Thank you Tom Macan for posting them. Arthur Lee and Love lives on!!
+Dave Parlet You can imagine what a privilege it feels like to have been able to play this small part and the unexpected reward of seeing all the responses that echo my feelings about how great this music is and the part it has played in my life over these many years.
I can not put into words what this music means to me. It gave me life-hope-and Love! It was my photo used at his memorial service. Yes I got to meet him twice. We miss you Arthur so much! R.I.P. The photo was taken 2004. Glastonbury Festival UK.
How right you are ... Arthur Lee was actually singing about the Sunset Strip, which was also the block between Clark & Hilldale. Love was a 'Hollywood Band'. When he sings 'Crouds of people standing everywhere (Strip), 'cross the street I'm at the Slop Affair, and there they always play my songs ...' he is talking about the 'Eating Affair' on Hilldale (the 'Whiskey' is on Clark). He was right; they played soul (his music), rather than psychedelic music ... What a gas it was!
This indeed is a wonderful performance & a beautiful song. The horn section makes the song stand-out. In the 60's and 70's some bands had horn sections. Other horn sections were studio musicians that wasn't part of the band. That's the way it was done in those days. I have the CD ON LOVE & this song reflects the times of the 60's. It certainly is a wonderful song. Thanks for sharing this concert with us.
This man inspired both Jimi Hendrix and the Muppets and Jim Morrissey who in turn inspired Arthur Miller's "Death of a Radical Salesman" . I think Lee is paying homage to Whiskey a Go Go or places on the LA strip. If Love had only tour more they would have been more popular, like i was in high school. One of the Best bands ever and this song is one of the best Art has written because Bryan wrote Alone Again Or and a few others Art sang . Bryan couldn't hit some notes or Art hit him hard and stole the singing duties.
Fantastic hearing this song.....bridging 1967 to today, transporting a million sunny memories from an epic time. The horns affirm a celebration! Love, definitely touched by the Muse!!
I saw him live in Liverpool around this time, and it was one of most gloriously joyous gigs I've ever been to. He seemed like a good, humble man. He made mistakes in his life, no doubt - we all do - but what an incredible songwriter, performer and presence he was.
Wonderful. I didn't see this when it went out live so it's a real treat. Of course Forever Changes was an unlikely masterpiece - even at the time it was released it didn't sound like anything else around at the time. It still sounds astonishingly original in conception. Must get the DVD of the tour. RIP Arthur Lee, you were a great talent.
Very much like Brian Wilsons "Pet Sounds", which I believe was the inspiration for this record, sounding like nothing Brian's done before, didn't sell well and only later would it come to be one of the greatest pop/rock LP's of all time.
Just reading the list of the greatest albums from the psychedelic era. Forever Changes number ONE! Yet the music goes beyond that. Into so many other categories. I plain to make a Facebook page. To honor Love and Arthur. Have a lot of special photos I want to share. One taken from the Glastonbury Festival. Was used at his memorial service. I feel so lucky I had a chance to see Arthur live. Playing the album Forever Changes. With horns and strings. Arthur you are missed greatly!
Thanks for the post, Tom Macan, look at this, Arthur Lee disappears for 20+ years, shows up as a 50+/- man and blows our collective minds. they have a word for this person: GENIUS.
The First Time I saw they they were billed As The Anmoreagains Right after Arthur got out of jail it was at Spaceland in Silver Lake which is now called the satellite it was unquestionably one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen and Arthur’s voice sounded like Sam Cooke and Nat King Cole it was something from another universe
grew up in the 80's and we got into the 60's instead of the cheezy new romantics and LOVE still stand out as one of the greatest discoveries of our searches... FOREVER CHANGES is so much better than St. Peppers, much as i love the beatles, it has to be one of the greatest albums in what was a golden age for pop music... saw Arthur live in Glastonbury playing the whole album and it was fantastic!
great album...i like the music during this era much more than the 80's...I agree. However, this comparing one 60's classic to another...you lost me there. I've never been a Rack N Stack sort of listener, so if this one floated your boat more, more power to ya. I prefer both myself...
@@@Anything4adollar Yes I feel the same. Love was priceless- and Forever Changes a masterpiece but- I don't understand the need to rate- in "my top albums" I do not rate them against each other simply have a general list. I The MOVE is on my list, and at least 1 Johnny Rivers album, and many more of course.
Heh. Ask the members of Love how humble he was. Snoopy had to drag one single 1000 dollar payment out of Arthur Lee for 2 years of work and after quitting his education for them and Lee arrogantly told him he should be grateful for that thousand..
It took such along time for Arthur & his band to be the recognisable groundbreakers they were,;giving of a generous heart to groups. which Arthur thought musically worthy, ie, the Doors (he wasn’t wrong there, Jimi Hendrix). As his lyrics go in this song, I do weep for him, what a Captain of Music! God bless you, Arthur, keep them singing in heaven - see you one way. LOVE & JaneR
Bought an early pressing of the LP yesterday from a record fair. My fave album ever made, so glad to add the vinyl to the CD versions I already have :)
fyi.. John Echols (the original guitarist) has assembled a version of Love since Arthur's passing. There's a very good biography of Arthur Lee available called "Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love" and, of course, some good websites.
Inspirational Arthur Lee, & his band: Johnny Eccles/Love - from 1960’s through 21st Century. Save a seat for them - the band that was LOVE. God Bless. JaneR
Strangely, even though I grew up in the 60's and was a huge Love fan I never realized for many years that Clark and Hilldale were the streets on either side of the Whiskey a gogo; a club on the Sunset Strip they often played in those days.
Love, on the plateau of Forever Changes, is untouchable, in some sort of mystical realm that so far at least, has been well beyond the reach of everyone else. And remember the brilliant and too often unmentioned Bryan Maclean, without whom there would've been a lesser, more diminished Love.
Simply The Best !!!!!!!!! Forever Changes is truly a Masterpiece Album that Forever Changed One ☝️ who gets The Other Underrated American Poet, who IMHO, is just as Great as Morrison of The Doors Was. It Changed me forever. Incredible Music by an Incredible Group. Even Morrison knew how special Love was.
Where is Johnny Echols, now best know for commenting on Charlie Manson and after Lee's death in 2006, Echols continued to perform with Baby Lemonade, billed as "Love Revisited" (2016) or "The Love Band featuring Johnny Echols" (2019)
FYI - Mobile Fidelity has a limited edition hybrid sacd version of Forever Changes available now. I just ordered one (~$30). It'll be a week or so before I receive it.
@coolestguylike -they had been playing together as Baby Lemonade before becoming the final version of Love. They started to be his regular backup band starting around '93. In the later part of Arthur's career the name he used for the backup bands he assembled varied between "Love", "Love with Arthur Lee", and "Arthur Lee and Love".
Bought Forever changes when it came out and I was 18. That and Brian Auger Oblivion Express where always my favorites... I add Townes Van Zandt to this group too.
My favorite song on the greatest album of all time.
May history not forget Arthur Lee and his brilliant career of music.
I just discovered these fantastic videos. Thanks so much for posting these performances of the great Arthur Lee and Love. Their Forever Changes album is one of the greatest of all time. I miss this kind of music. Thank you, thank you!!❤❤❤❤
Love this guy. What a great songwriter and I love how he sings. Arthur Lee & Love, my generation!
From one of the greatest albums ever
That album hits hard
How many albums where every single song you loved? Forever Changes one was a biggie on my turntable. And how about these, too? "Child Is Father To The Man" "Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere" "Late For The Sky" "Elton John" (before he turned into a freaking clown) My fellow Boomers you are welcome to add your most favorite albums where every song is a hit in your memory. It's got to be every single song on the album though.
@Colby Renfro WOW...Usually don't have young people acknowledge music of this era. No showmanship..strictly talent was needed. Very very few successful groups without talent.
@@BaahBen Don't forget Brian Wilson's "Pet Sounds" the classic LP from a true genius and what I believe was the inspiration for "Forever Changes" and "Sgt. Pepper"
Thanks appreciate all the information as well
genius at work
One of the most underrated performers of his generation. His death felt like a personal loss...
I couldn't agree more. When he died a little crack ran through my heart. I swear even a tree cried.
Amen!!!
THE ALBUM !!!!
Legend!
@@IvyMike777 The story of the latter years of his life is so incredibly sad. He should have been spending his later years writing more classics and reaping the rewards of his incredible talent. Just so unjust and sad.
1967, 2003, 2020 or 2099 - this will still be stunning kids upon first listen.
… never gets old, even 45 years after I first purchased "Forever Changes" on LP, this All-Time "sleeper" Classic is STILL at the very top of my own personal Playlist. Arthur Lee is (and always will be) a true Musical Genius.
A music genius who inspired many of our known ‘greats’.
Love set the change & Im so grateful for Arthur & Love’s work.
This track, in particular expresses the enjoyment of life & the acceptance of the inevitable.
God Bkess You, Arthur, you were so quietly spoken but a musical force celebre.
Jane Russell
Just SO wonderful seeing Arthur Lee play these three marvelous songs off the Forever Changes album. Thank you Tom Macan for posting them. Arthur Lee and Love lives on!!
+Dave Parlet You can imagine what a privilege it feels like to have been able to play this small part and the unexpected reward of seeing all the responses that echo my feelings about how great this music is and the part it has played in my life over these many years.
I can not put into words what this music means to me. It gave me life-hope-and Love! It was my photo used at his memorial service. Yes I got to meet him twice. We miss you Arthur so much! R.I.P. The photo was taken 2004. Glastonbury Festival UK.
Sooo freaking awesome
How right you are ... Arthur Lee was actually singing about the Sunset Strip, which was also the block between Clark & Hilldale. Love was a 'Hollywood Band'. When he sings 'Crouds of people standing everywhere (Strip), 'cross the street I'm at the Slop Affair, and there they always play my songs ...' he is talking about the 'Eating Affair' on Hilldale (the 'Whiskey' is on Clark). He was right; they played soul (his music), rather than psychedelic music ... What a gas it was!
Great to hear. I have a foto with him. Many years ago. I was like a star-struck teener.
👍
I've only recently discovered Arthur Lee & Love but I'm definitely a fan. This has become one of my all time favorite songs!
R.I.P. Arthur. An under-appreciated genius of the music industry.
Makes me cry with pure joy x
El guitarrista es un tremendo
What a treat! All you need is LOVE and Arthur Lee!
Great performance by the late great Arthur Lee . A masterpiece album that was so ahead of its time and still sounds like nothing else
This indeed is a wonderful performance & a beautiful song. The horn section makes the song stand-out. In the 60's and 70's some bands had horn sections. Other horn sections were studio musicians that wasn't part of the band. That's the way it was done in those days. I have the CD ON LOVE & this song reflects the times of the 60's. It certainly is a wonderful song. Thanks for sharing this concert with us.
Check out the Glastobury concert. Forever Changes in all it's glory!!
Brilliant
" When I leave now don't you weep for me,
I'll be back just save a seat for me,
And if you just can't make the room,
Look up and see me on . . . "
A musical genius, R.I.P. Arthur, you left us way too soon.
This man inspired both Jimi Hendrix and the Muppets and Jim Morrissey who in turn inspired Arthur Miller's "Death of a Radical Salesman" . I think Lee is paying homage to Whiskey a Go Go or places on the LA strip. If Love had only tour more they would have been more popular, like i was in high school. One of the Best bands ever and this song is one of the best Art has written because Bryan wrote Alone Again Or and a few others Art sang . Bryan couldn't hit some notes or Art hit him hard and stole the singing duties.
This man made his peace with our Lord
Fantastic hearing this song.....bridging 1967 to today, transporting a million sunny memories from an epic time. The horns affirm a celebration! Love, definitely touched by the Muse!!
yes, thankyou so much. A genius who was unfairly dealt with. LOVE the man .
Agreed the greatest come back since Lazarus, I saw the forever changes concert in Dublin Ireland, awesome.
Ive always loved the trumpets on this track..bloody brilliant!!
This song is PROFOUND! It is time travel! An ocean of sound coming to take us back to what LA once was again.
I like the way Arthur Lee steps back during the guitar solos. "You go ahead, mate. Enjoy the spotlight. It's not all about me."
Great solo too.
Ego-less, he knows the overall sound and texture is as important.
Mike Randle on 🎸 !
@user-pv8jy1nt8fwasn't it just AL on Jools? He did write the music. I take it you don't like Jools either
@user-pv8jy1nt8f I forgot he was in the band Squeeze. Been a long long time since I've heard them. I'll check them out again
@user-pv8jy1nt8f I don't remember that but I'll check that out too
Was fortunate enough to see Love twice once in the 60's at the Hullabaloo in Hollywood and once in 2004 at the Ebell Theater on Wilshire in LA ~
Rock Singer in the summer of love ?
I saw him live in Liverpool around this time, and it was one of most gloriously joyous gigs I've ever been to. He seemed like a good, humble man. He made mistakes in his life, no doubt - we all do - but what an incredible songwriter, performer and presence he was.
Beautiful sentiments and yes, I agree.JR
Micheal Head and the Red Elastic Band played at the Florrie last Saturday and done Forever Changes . What a night .
Amazing performance..What a track..What an album!! RIP Mr Lee
Oh Arthur , I weep when I think you're gone . What a great songwriter and performer . ❤❤❤
When I leave now don't you weep for me. I'll be back, just save a seat for me. Let's go paint everybody grey yeah.
Wonderful. I didn't see this when it went out live so it's a real treat. Of course Forever Changes was an unlikely masterpiece - even at the time it was released it didn't sound like anything else around at the time. It still sounds astonishingly original in conception. Must get the DVD of the tour. RIP Arthur Lee, you were a great talent.
Very much like Brian Wilsons "Pet Sounds", which I believe was the inspiration for this record, sounding like nothing Brian's done before, didn't sell well and only later would it come to be one of the greatest pop/rock LP's of all time.
My Dad really really really likes this song and has all their albums from the 1960s.
Just reading the list of the greatest albums from the psychedelic era. Forever Changes number ONE! Yet the music goes beyond that. Into so many other categories. I plain to make a Facebook page. To honor Love and Arthur. Have a lot of special photos I want to share. One taken from the Glastonbury Festival. Was used at his memorial service. I feel so lucky I had a chance to see Arthur live. Playing the album Forever Changes. With horns and strings. Arthur you are missed greatly!
Unique that mix of brass and strings. I think only Curtis Mayfield did it often enough.
Forever Changes-wow what an album
The greatest forgotten band and album of all time. I never understood the lack of fame. His impact on the 60s was seminal.
Arthur was always so generous with the spotlight the way he would step aside and feature Mike Randle’s great lead solos when he wasn’t singing.
I was very lucky to see this tour in San Francisco,his backing band called baby lemonade was excellent
Thanks for the post, Tom Macan, look at this, Arthur Lee disappears for 20+ years, shows up as a 50+/- man and blows our collective minds. they have a word for this person: GENIUS.
The guitarist with dreadlocks sure is good!
One of The Greatest returns in Rock History Arthur Lee & Love / Baby Lemonade
Really the Best.
I saw them a couple of times....MAGIC! So devastated when Arthur passed. Saw them play Forever Changes at Royce Hall at UCLA. I LOVE THEM!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@ilenestarr9770 I was at That Show
@@CosmoToppers88keys wow, just wow
The First Time I saw they they were billed As The Anmoreagains Right after Arthur got out of jail it was at Spaceland in Silver Lake which is now called the satellite it was unquestionably one of the greatest shows I’ve ever seen and Arthur’s voice sounded like Sam Cooke and Nat King Cole it was something from another universe
grew up in the 80's and we got into the 60's instead of the cheezy new romantics and LOVE still stand out as one of the greatest discoveries of our searches... FOREVER CHANGES is so much better than St. Peppers, much as i love the beatles, it has to be one of the greatest albums in what was a golden age for pop music... saw Arthur live in Glastonbury playing the whole album and it was fantastic!
great album...i like the music during this era much more than the 80's...I agree. However, this comparing one 60's classic to another...you lost me there. I've never been a Rack N Stack sort of listener, so if this one floated your boat more, more power to ya. I prefer both myself...
Well there was a post punk revival with the Church, the the and REM. Then came the Boo Radleys
And Echo & the bunnymen
And XTC
@@@Anything4adollar Yes I feel the same. Love was priceless- and Forever Changes a masterpiece but- I don't understand the need to rate- in "my top albums" I do not rate them against each other simply have a general list. I The MOVE is on my list, and at least 1 Johnny Rivers album, and many more of course.
Manzarek wrote a obit for the LA times, he said he and Jim would sit outside the Troubadour and wish they would someday be as good
So, so good!!
Absolutely brilliant I love this. I could play it a thousand times and never tire of it xx
Has THAT effect
Brilliant & sublime
Love this song so much
Wow you have made my day!
Incredible. Off one of my top ten EVER albums.
Arthur was brilliant! Don’t forget Bryan McClean who wrote some great songs for Love! Byrds were my favorite LA band!
Thank you for mentioning Bryan, ex-Byrds sound director, writer of "Alone Again Or" and another musical genius well ahead of his time.
THIS is a KILLER tune 💯💯💯
I saw Arthur in 1970 at the Waikiki Shell. He opened for Delany and Bonnie. Followed him since 7 and 7 is. Great innovative band
My brother introduced me to their music.
One of the greatest 60's bands.
Fkn Kool man.. he was awesome
One word,,,,,,,,,,,Class
Brilliant...great band
Wow! Thanks for posting.
I’m ashamed to say iv only just found this & im 53 … superb stuff
He lives among us!
Arthur was a humble, creative and talented man. One of a kind.
Heh. Ask the members of Love how humble he was. Snoopy had to drag one single 1000 dollar payment out of Arthur Lee for 2 years of work and after quitting his education for them and Lee arrogantly told him he should be grateful for that thousand..
It took such along time for Arthur & his band to be the recognisable groundbreakers they were,;giving of a generous heart to groups. which Arthur thought musically worthy, ie, the Doors (he wasn’t wrong there, Jimi Hendrix). As his lyrics go in this song, I do weep for him, what a Captain of Music!
God bless you, Arthur, keep them singing in heaven - see you one way.
LOVE & JaneR
This is music! I got the chills every goddamn time!
Simply wonderful
Rest In Peace Arthur
Wonderful performance, rip arthur x
Bought an early pressing of the LP yesterday from a record fair. My fave album ever made, so glad to add the vinyl to the CD versions I already have :)
The Albums 'Da Capo' & 'Forever Changes' ; just listen to them ( perhaps just the once),and you'll get a window to a past world,you won't regret {>
Legend!
fyi.. John Echols (the original guitarist) has assembled a version of Love since Arthur's passing.
There's a very good biography of Arthur Lee available called "Forever Changes: Arthur Lee and the Book of Love" and, of course, some good websites.
Inspirational Arthur Lee, & his band: Johnny Eccles/Love - from 1960’s through 21st Century. Save a seat for them - the band that was LOVE. God Bless. JaneR
BRILLIANCE !! Fifty-three years down the calendar !!
Strangely, even though I grew up in the 60's and was a huge Love fan I never realized for many years that Clark and Hilldale were the streets on either side of the Whiskey a gogo; a club on the Sunset Strip they often played in those days.
El guitarrista es un monstruo
Love, on the plateau of Forever Changes, is untouchable, in some sort of mystical realm that so far at least, has been well beyond the reach of everyone else. And remember the brilliant and too often unmentioned Bryan Maclean, without whom there would've been a lesser, more diminished Love.
Great horn section!
Simply The Best !!!!!!!!! Forever Changes is truly a Masterpiece Album that Forever Changed One ☝️ who gets The Other Underrated American Poet, who IMHO, is just as Great as Morrison of The Doors Was. It Changed me forever. Incredible Music by an Incredible Group. Even Morrison knew how special Love was.
Arthur Lee was just the most mesmerising genius ever!!!! 😎👌 Way cooler than any other band from the 60s!!! 🔥🌺💖🌺🔥🎺🎶🥁 Simply cool as fuck!!! 😉👉🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🥂🍾
@jab3785 Yeah, I just drove there tonight and realized the Whisky is smack dab in the middle of these two streets. Makes this song even cooler.
Makes me sad that I'm no longer on the same planet ...... genius!
Where did you go? Mars?!😜
Where is Johnny Echols, now best know for commenting on Charlie Manson and after Lee's death in 2006, Echols continued to perform with Baby Lemonade, billed as "Love Revisited" (2016) or "The Love Band featuring Johnny Echols" (2019)
FYI - Mobile Fidelity has a limited edition hybrid sacd version of Forever Changes available now. I just ordered one (~$30). It'll be a week or so before I receive it.
Where are you?, have not seen you post in a long time, wondering.
Tom Macan Hi Tom! Please be in touch! Have many photos of Arthur. And more!
As the years pass, the more I listen to Love, the more I LOVE Love
so glad i saw them....
@coolestguylike -they had been playing together as Baby Lemonade before becoming the final version of Love. They started to be his regular backup band starting around '93.
In the later part of Arthur's career the name he used for the backup bands he assembled varied between "Love", "Love with Arthur Lee", and "Arthur Lee and Love".
This is a man who knew he was dying... even in 1967 when he wrote this. He knew... 5 or 50 years, time is short and suddenly you're not here anymore.
He always said he "thought he would die at 26 years age"...
This is great! I wish the musicians were credited.
Pure genius
Michael Tidy epic iconic
Bought Forever changes when it came out and I was 18. That and Brian Auger Oblivion Express where always my favorites... I add Townes Van Zandt to this group too.
love
This song really captures the the whole 60s American freedom vibe...beautiful.
Sound ecstasy. One of those genus.
true, feel good music.
This guy was making music same time as beatles, musically and spiritually he was in a different league to them
they don't make em like they used to
Agreed.
If I'm not mistaken, the lyrics for this song (and the album Forever Changes) was about the "bad" times of the 60s.
About drugs and whatnot.