Arthur Lee & Love - Forever Changes (Glastonbury Festival 28 Juni 2003)Update

 

Arthur Lee, real name, Arthur Lee Porter of Arthur Taylor Porter (Memphis (Tennessee), 7 maart 1945 - 3 augustus 2006)

 Baby Lemonade had been performing as LOVE since 1993, once playing in a club where only three people, with one being the sound guy, showed up, so playing in the Glastonbury Festival was a very big deal...and Arthur knew it.   '


Alone Again 0r

 As mercurial as Arthur Lee could be, he showed no concern in playing before 65,000-and-growing Glastonbury concert-goers, who all came to see if Arthur Lee & Love could pull off Forever Changes in a festival setting.


A House Is Not A Motel

 The talent and abilities of each musician on that stage was unparalleled and Rusty, Love's musical director was the link between the amazing ensemble of Swedish string and horn players and this loud, kick ass, take-no-prisoners rock-and-roll outfit.


And More Again

 The blend was perfect. It was Mozart meets Thin Lizzy. After a really cool introduction, and with the sun squarely in their eyes, they hit the stage and rocked the crowd with ''Your Mind & We Belong Together.'' Somewhere in the middle of a guitar solo, one of the speakers blew, creating a noticeable drop in volume and tone. Guitarist Mike Randle simply asked the monitor dude to ''Crank the guitar in my monitor!'' and kept going.


 The band tore into that first A minor chord, echo fuzz bass, tremolo reverb, and machine gun snare like it was the end of the world. Arthur stepped to the microphone and spat out the words like it was the end of the world. Love came to Glastonbury with the hopes of just playing well and having a good time, but they left with so much more than that.




The Daily Planet

 Arthur introduced the Stockholm Strings & Horns and they went down the line, playing every song on Forever Changes, in the order it appeared on the Album, a 36-year-old album played with the energy of a new release. By the time we'd hit the last notes of that one, the sun was setting and left this beautiful orange and red trail of clouds in its dust. At the end of the set, Arthur thanked everyone and then said, ''This next song is called Seven... and Seven... and Seven...1! 2! 3! 4!'

 
 Arthur Lee - vocals, guitar, harmonica
Mike Randle - guitar
Rusty Squeezebox - guitar, vocals
Dave Chapple - bass
David “Daddy-O” Green - drums
- with Orchestra




Arthur Lee, echte naam Arthur Lee Porter of Arthur Taylor Porter (Memphis (Tennessee), 7 maart 1945 - 3 augustus 2006)

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)
 

 

Arthur Lee & Love - Five String Serenade/Somebody Watching You.

Arthur Taylor Lee (March 7, 1945 – August 3, 2006) was an American musician and singer, known as the frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles rock band Love, best known for their critically acclaimed 1967 album, Forever Changes.

                                          Five String Serenade

 This was the last major album Arthur made before taking a called third strike and finishing out the century behind bars for waving a gun about in public. Recorded in Los Angeles in 1992, released on the French New Rose label the following year, it contains some of Lee's most affecting work, from the minuet stateliness and melancholy of the title track — which has been covered by Mazzy Star and the White Stripes (Lenny Kaye)

  "Somebody's Watching You" frames Lee's look over his shoulder in a setting that's two steps down the Strip from the Seeds (Lenny Kaye)

                                    Arthur Taylor Lee (March 7, 1945 – August 3, 2006)
Finally released from jail after seven years, reunited with Baby Lemonade, he returned to the fore and gave rapturously-received renditions of his body of work before he passed on in August of 2006. He was no stranger to comebacks. "I never went away," he told me when we met. And still hasn't.

by Lenny Kaye

 Arthur lee & Love  live Glastonbury

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