Sad, though in the end I guess it wasn’t so much his trials and tribulations as just the body giving out as it is want to do…
I saw a 90’s show at Tramps and it was kind of sad, the guy had clearly suffered some sort of damage and what was left was mostly the audience’s nostalgia for some perfect moment of 60s psychedelia. In the end I’m not so sure Love really was very influential; they were an exemplar of the era because they embodied many of its significant idioms, but I don’t think the decade would have sounded much different without them.
It would have been poorer though.
Forever Changes really is a great album, and the other early records have a handful of masterpieces, even if the side-long Revelation fails to transcend. At their best Love was achingly beautiful and super heavy when it counted.
They have given me much pleasure.
Thank you, Arthur Lee, I love you.

- alex 8-05-2006 4:46 am [add a comment]

great post aw. be-dazz haz posted some video.


- bill 8-05-2006 10:54 pm [add a comment]

a nice obit with some more nice vids.


- bill 8-06-2006 3:55 pm [add a comment]

bill berger remembers
- bill 8-11-2006 7:26 pm [add a comment]