Arthur Lee & Love - Live in Copenhagen March 1970.

        Arthur Lee                          George Suranovich            Frank Fayad               Gary Rowles
 

                                                 Doggygone

It was strange and suspenseful to meet singer and guitarist Arthur Lee on Tivoli's concert stage. The leader of the legendary underground group, Love, whose former constellation has been disbanded and now continues with just Arthur Lee and three new members. Love was, together with the Byrds, the great American breakthrough band on the rock scene. They laid the musical foundation for all that is now called the hippie generation. Love chose to live in anonymity and to leave it to others to be world famous bands, and it's first today that Arthur has shown up to harvest some applause for his enormous contribution.

                         August

What one first looks for is what remains: what remains of the originally beautiful, fantastic, precise and incredibly sentimental tones that are to be heard on Love's first three records. The answer to what remains is not much. For Arthur tried to recreate the feelings and the atmosphere close to them. But time has moved on and his three new members seemed more interested in rocking.

                

                    Good Times

 It was as if Arthur Lee tried to remind himself as well as us of what once had been, but it remained most a show number. But a meeting with a new Arthur Lee was also impressive enough. He's a musical authority on par with Jimi Hendrix and he guides his group with incredible precision. His voice and his tones are much changed. The open and the naked have been replaced by wildness and a more rock inspired energy.

                                              

                                                           Love is more than words

                   Arthur Lee in Tivoli's Concert Hall - An Exciting Experience (review Politikan,Danmark)

Arthur Lee is still working on the edge. Where once it was sentimentality it's now a balancing act between wildness and ecstasy, and all his use of tones timed with a meticulous precision. However the music and lyrics of his new songs still revolve around his same main theme - love. Everything is either a nostalgic return, or an attempt to give the simple experience a renewal. He examines everything again and again in a new light but from the same focus as before. His new song, Better too Late Than Never in lyric and music goes back to his first songs, and it's here that Arthur Lee and Love show themselves to be one of our era's greatest rock bands - and as one of the few to create and express a new perspective. A lot of things in this concert could have been left out, but the new elements are well worth hearing again.

             Arthur Taylor Lee (born Arthur Porter Taylor; March 7, 1945 - August 3, 2006)