For those curious in exploring Love, Forever Changes is the indispensible record, and Da Capo comes close. Love is also a good pick. For those looking for an overview, Rhino Records' double-disc Love Story, 1966-1972 is an excellent collection.
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1 - Jon Sobel
Great informative mini-history of a band I knew very little about, thanks!
2 - Eric Olsen
super job uao, love the is feature (no pun intended) - very frustrating band Love, greatness and a lot of filler. Teh reissues a few years back reminded me how overproduced much of it was. "Alone Again Or" and "7 and 7 Is" are two of my favorite songs, period. I love the Damned's version of "AAO" also
3 - Vern Halen
I used to hear rumours that Lee cut an entire album eith Hendrix, but it was all tied up in red tape. Anybody know if there's anything to this juicy tidbit?
4 - HW Saxton
Vern, I don't know too much about this
but I'll offer what I know.On Love's LP
"False Start", Jimi H. was supposed to
appear on several cuts.His(Jimi Hendrix)
playing CAN be heard on the Love tune:
"Everlasting First". But because of many
contractual and/or other legal reasons
his(JH's)contributions were either just
rerecorded over or just completely mixed
out of the session entirely.Why? is any
one's guess.But its most definitely both
Jimi and Arthur playing on "Everlasting
First".The LP is on Blue Thumb Records
and ended up being released in 1971. It
is not too hard to find if you don't
mind digging around in dusty old used
record stores(MY favorite hobby)and the
likes. It's not their best work but it
shows a pleasant and new direction for
Arthur and the band.I wish that I could
offer more info but that's all I got for
you. Hope it helps.
HW Saxton
5 - Evan
From: Black Gold - The Lost Archives of Jimi Hendrix
The Arthur Lee and Love False Start Session
"Although Hendrix is credited with playing on "Everlasting First," there is still more unreleased material from this session, as Lee revealed in a BBC radio interview on July 4, 1980. "We did a long jam as well as we did 'Everlasting First,'" Lee said. "We did about three versions of that. We did 'Ezy Ryder'... and a couple of other things." Crawdaddy magazine (June 1970) reported that 'Ezy Ryder' was once planned as a 1970 Love single on the Blue Thumb label, but was canceled.
I asked Lee what had become of these "lost" tapes. "The last I've seen of the audiotapes was when I gave the master reels to Bob Krasnow, who was then president of Blue Thumb Records," Lee responded. "I asked him to hold them for me and I never got them back. He was the one who was all jazzed about Jimi and I being together." Lee added that he had hoped to start a new band with Hendrix at the time.
STATUS: The 1970 Lee-Hendrix jams remain unreleased. False Start was released in December 1970 on LP (BTS 22) and later on compact disc (MCAD-22029). At one time, it was rumored that Hendrix played guitar on "Slick Dick" and "Ride That Vibration," two additional tracks from False Start, but the guitarist is Love band member Gary Rowles. Black Beauty, a bootleg of Love studio recordings, erroneously identified Hendrix as the lead guitarist."
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Date: March 17
Event: False Start Recording Sessions
Performer(s): Jimi Hendrix, Love
Song(s): Unknown
Location: Olympic Studios, London, England
In 1970, Arthur Lee asked Hendrix to be guest artist on the Love album False Start. During my interview with Lee in 1992, he stated that the recording session was videotaped: "Someone just told me that the session was videotaped, and they have seen the tape."
STATUS: Missing. So far, no videotape of this recording session has surfaced."
6 - Shark
Great stuff, thanks for the work you put into this.
PS: Forever Changes was great.
7 - Vern Halen
Thanks, everyone. Maybe the great lost whatever will show up one day.....
8 - Tron
If you ask me, Four Sail has aged better than Forever Changes and is the superior album... But, someone decided that Forever Changes was THE Love album (because it has strings?), and all the critics fall in line. Even De Capo is better, imho...
9 - bertolotti
expecting rain - bob dylan