Forever Changes - Love (1967)

[DudeAsInCool]

Forever Changes - Love (1967)

"When I did that album," singer Arthur Lee said, "I thought I was going to die at that particular time, so those were my last words." Lee is still alive -- and currently playing this entire record live, with strings and horns. It's about time: Love's third record is his crowning achievement. A biracial cult band from L.A. that rarely gigged out of town in its 1960s heyday, Love were Lee's vehicle for a pioneering folk-rock -- paranoid, punky, like the Byrds morphing into the Doors -- turned into elegant armageddon with the symphonic sweep and mariachi-brass drama of "Alone Again Or," "Andmoreagain" and "You Set the Scene." And Lee -- recently released from prison -- now brings extra pathos to "The Red Telephone" onstage when he sings "Served my time, served it well."

Total album sales: Under 500,000

http://www.rollingstone.com/features/cover...en.asp?pid=2140

Peak chart position: 154

[DudeAsInCool]

There is a nice tribute post to Love recently at the Passion of Weiss where he reviews Arthur Lee's second album, DaCapo:

41 years ago, Da Capo was also the name of Love's masterful second album, a record often ignored by critics in favor of its follow-up, 1967's psychedelic masterpiece Forever Changes. While Forever Changes might be the better of the duo, thanks to its conceptual unity and increased lyrical and musical complexity, Da Capo is brilliant in its own right, a dazzling kaleidoscopic trip through stoned 1966 Los Angeles, a practically perfect pop record.

You can read the full review HERE

[Redneck4sure]

His music is easily found on the net but not at the local stores.

I found some of his albums adrift in cyberspace.