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Love
Love, Da Capo-era. Left to right: Alban Pfisterer, Arthur Lee, Ken Forssi, Bryan Maclean and John Echols.
Background information
Origin	Los Angeles, CA, U.S.
Genre(s)	Folk rock, psychedelic rock, garage rock, baroque pop, protopunk
Years active	1966 - 1973, sporadically thereafter
Former members
Arthur Lee (deceased) Bryan MacLean (deceased) Johnny Echols Ken Forssi (deceased) Michael Stuart Alban Pfisterer Paul Martin

Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Arthur Lee and the group's second songwriter, guitarist Bryan MacLean. One of the first racially diverse American pop bands, their music reflected different influences, combining elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia. Today, the band's critical reputation exceeds the limited success they experienced during their time, their 1967 album Forever Changes being held in particularly high regard. The band's influence extends beyond the realm of 60s psychedelia to such punk and post-punk bands as Television Personalities and The Jesus and Mary Chain. William Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain wore a Love t-shirt in his band's video for "Head On" from their Automatic album. The Damned covered "Alone Again Or" on the album "Anything." Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Los Angeles and L.A. redirect here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Bob Dylans folk-rock album, Blonde on Blonde Folk-rock is a musical genre, combining elements of folk music and rock music. ... Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. ... Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. ... Baroque pop is a style originated in the mid 1960s as the flipside of sunshine pop. ... Protopunk is a term used to describe a number of performers who were important precursors of punk rock, or who have been cited by early punk rockers as influential. ... Arthur Lee (March 7, 1945 – August 3, 2006) was the frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles psychedelic band Love, best known for the critically acclaimed 1967 album, Forever Changes. ... Bryan MacLean (1947, Los Angeles - 1998, Los Angeles) was the guitarist of the influential rock band Love. ... Original guitarist for west coast psychedelic rock band Love, Johnny Echols was one of the key members of the original line up of the band and was crucial in their guitar driven sound. ... Ken Forssi was the original bass player for the rock group Love in the 1960s. ... Rock band (or rock group) is a generic name to describe a group of musicians specializing in a particular form of electronically amplified music. ... Arthur Lee (March 7, 1945 – August 3, 2006) was the frontman, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist of the Los Angeles psychedelic band Love, best known for the critically acclaimed 1967 album, Forever Changes. ... Bryan MacLean (1947, Los Angeles - 1998, Los Angeles) was the guitarist of the influential rock band Love. ... Rock and roll (also spelled Rock n Roll, especially in its first decade), also called rock, is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles. ... Garage rock is a raw form of rock and roll that was first popular in the United States and Canada from about 1963 to 1967. ... Folk song redirects here. ... Psychedelic rock is a style of rock music that attempts to replicate the mind-altering experiences of hallucinogenic drugs. ... Forever Changes (1967) is the third album released by the Los Angeles-based quintet Love. ... Punk rock is an anti-establishment music movement beginning around 1976 (although precursors can be found several years earlier), exemplified and popularised by The Ramones, the Sex Pistols, The Clash and The Damned. ... Post punk generally refers to the particularly fertile and creative period following the initial punk rock explosion. During the first wave of punk, roughly spanning 1976-1983, bands such as The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Ramones and The Damned began to challenge the current styles and conventions of rock... The Television Personalities are also an English rock group. ... The Jesus and Mary Chain are a Scottish alternative rock band that revolves around the songwriting partnership of brothers Jim and William Reid. ... This article needs cleanup. ... Automatic is the third album by Scottish alternative band The Jesus and Mary Chain. ... This article is about the band. ... Forever Changes (1967) is the third album released by the Los Angeles-based quintet Love. ... Anything was The Damned’s seventh studio album, released in 1986. ...

History

1963-1966

Lee, who had lived in Los Angeles since the age of five, had been recording since 1963 with his bands, the LAG's and Lee's American Four. He'd also produced a single, "My Diary", for Rosa Lee Brooks in 1964 which included Jimi Hendrix on guitar.^[1] A garage-outfit, The Sons Of Adam, which included future Love drummer Michael Stuart, also recorded a Lee composition, "Feathered Fish". However, after viewing a Byrds performance, Lee determined to join the newly minted folk-rock sound of the Byrds to his primarily R'n'B style. Soon after, he formed The Grass Roots with guitarist John Echols (another Memphis native), bassist Johnny Fleckenstein and drummer Don Conka. Byrds roadie Bryan MacLean joined the band just before they changed their name to Love, spurred by the release of a single by another outfit called The Grass Roots. Jimi Hendrix (November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American guitar virtuoso, singer and songwriter. ... Not to be confused with The Birds (band). ... R&B redirects here. ... Cover of The Grass Roots album Anthology: 1965-1975; (left to right) Warren Entner, Rick Coonce, Dennis Provisor and Rob Grill The Grass Roots were a highly successful U.S. rock and roll band that existed between 1965 and 1975 as the brainchild of songwriting duo P.F. Sloan and...

Love started playing the L.A. clubs in April, 1965 and became a popular act. At this time, they were playing extended numbers such as "Revelation" (originally titled "John Lee Hooker") and getting the attention of such luminaries as the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds. The band lived communally in a house once owned by horror actor Bela Lugosi, and their first two albums included photos shot in the garden of that house. Rolling Stones redirects here. ... Not to be confused with Yard Birds. ... Horror Movie redirects here. ... Bela Lugosi as Dracula United States stamp. ...

1966-1968

Signed to the Elektra Records label, the band scored a minor hit single in 1966 with their version of Burt Bacharach's "My Little Red Book". In the meantime, Lee had dismissed Conka and Fleckenstein, replacing them with Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer and Ken Forssi (from a post-"Wipeout" version of The Surfaris). Their debut album, Love, was released in May 1966, and included "Signed D.C" and MacLean's "Softly To Me". The album sold moderately well and reached #57 on the album charts. Elektra Records is an American record label owned by Warner Music Group, and today operates under Atlantic Records Group. ... Year 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display full calendar) of the 1966 Gregorian calendar. ... Burt Bacharach (IPA: ; born May 12, 1928) is an award-winning American pianist and composer. ... Love is the eponymous debut by the Los Angeles-based interracial quintet of Arthur Lee (vocals, harmonica, drums, percussion), Johnny Echols (lead guitar), Bryan MacLean (rhythm guitar, vocal), Ken Forssi (bass) and Alban Snoopy Pfisterer (drums). ...

In August, 1966, the single "7 and 7 Is" became their highest-charting at #33. Two more members were added around this time, Tjay Cantrelli (aka John Barberis) on woodwinds and Michael Stuart on drums. Pfisterer, never a confident drummer, switched to harpsichord. 7 and 7 Is is a song from the band Love, written by Arthur Lee and recorded on June 20,1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood. ...

Their musical reputation largely rests on two albums issued in 1967, Da Capo and Forever Changes. Da Capo, released in January of that year, included rockers like "Stephanie Knows Who" and "7 and 7 Is," and melodic songs such as "¡Que Vida!" and "She Comes in Colors". Gone were the Byrds influences and jangly guitars, replaced by melodically airy art-songs with predominantly jazz and classical influences. Some critics derided it as a one-side album, with the six songs on Side One contrasting markedly with the lack of focus displayed on the other side, which was devoted entirely to the rambling, unfocused, 19-minute "Revelation". Cantrelli and Pfisterer soon quit the band, leaving it as a five-piece once again. Da Capo is the second album by the Los Angeles-based rock group Love. ... Forever Changes (1967) is the third album released by the Los Angeles-based quintet Love. ... 7 and 7 Is is a song from the band Love, written by Arthur Lee and recorded on June 20,1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood. ...

Forever Changes, released in November 1967, is a suite of songs using acoustic guitars, strings and horns that was recorded while the band was falling apart as the result of various abuses. Producer Bruce Botnick originally planned to record the entire album with session musicians backing Lee and MacLean but after two tracks had been recorded in this way the rest of the band were stung into producing the discipline required to complete the rest of the album in only 64 hours. Writer Richard Meltzer, in his The Aesthetics of Rock, comments on Love's "orchestral moves", "post-doper word contraction cuteness" and Lee's vocal style that serves as a "reaffirmation of Johnny Mathis". Forever Changes included one modest hit single, the MacLean-written "Alone Again Or", while "You Set the Scene" went on to receive airplay from some progressive rock radio stations. By this stage, Love were far more popular in the UK, where the album reached #24, than in their home-country, where it could only reach #154. Forever Changes (1967) is the third album released by the Los Angeles-based quintet Love. ... Richard Meltzer (born May 11, 1945) was one of the earliest rock music critics. ... The Aesthetics of Rock is a book by Richard Meltzer (born May 10, 1945). ... John Royce Mathis (b. ... Progressive rock is a radio station programming format that prospered in the late 1960s and 1970s, in which the disc jockeys are given wide lattitude in what they may play, similar to the freeform format but with the proviso that some kind of rock music is almost always what is...

1968-2006

MacLean, suffering from heroin addiction, soon left the band, as did all the other members except Lee. Echols and Forssi also fell prey to the ravages of heroin addiction and disappeared from the scene. Arthur Lee and a reconstituted Love continued to record fitfully until the late 1970s before finally disbanding. The new version of Love, which included Jay Donnellan and Gary Rowles on guitars, Frank Fayad on bass, and George Suranovich on drums as well as Lee, played in a style very different from the band's previous line-up. Heroin or diamorphine (INN) (colloquially referred to as junk, babania, horse, golden brown, smack, black tar, big H, lady H, dope, skag, juice, diesel, etc. ...

After spending six years in prison in the 1990s for firearms offences, Arthur Lee began to play Love's classic songs in concert by reuniting with the members of Baby Lemonade. In the early 2000s, original guitarist Johnny Echols rejoined his partner, Arthur Lee, in this line-up and performed as "Love with Arthur Lee and Johnny Echols". This reformed group toured for several years, frequently performing Forever Changes in its entirety. Baby Lemonade is a band in the neo-psychedelic genre formed in Los Angeles. ... Forever Changes (1967) is the third album released by the Los Angeles-based quintet Love. ...

Bryan MacLean died in Los Angeles of a massive heart attack on December 25, 1998, while having dinner with a young fan who was researching a book about the band. He was 52. Arthur Lee died in Memphis, Tenn., on August 3, 2006, of complications from leukemia. He was 61.

Discography

Studio albums

• May 1966: Love
• January 1967: Da Capo
• November 1967: Forever Changes
• August 1969: Four Sail
• December 1969: Out Here
• December 1970: False Start
• 1975: Reel to Real

Love is the eponymous debut by the Los Angeles-based interracial quintet of Arthur Lee (vocals, harmonica, drums, percussion), Johnny Echols (lead guitar), Bryan MacLean (rhythm guitar, vocal), Ken Forssi (bass) and Alban Snoopy Pfisterer (drums). ... Da Capo is the second album by the Los Angeles-based rock group Love. ... Forever Changes (1967) is the third album released by the Los Angeles-based quintet Love. ... Track listing August Your Friend and Mine - Neils Song Im With You Good Times Singing Cowboy Dream Robert Montgomery Nothing Talking in My Sleep Always See Your Face Categories: | ... Out Here is the fifth album by the American rock band Love, released in late 1969. ... False Start is the sixth album by the American rock band Love, released in December 1970. ... Reel to Real is the seventh album by the American rock band Love, released in 1975. ...

Live albums

• 1980: Love Live - live, 1978 concert
• 1982: Studio / Live - second side live from a 1970 concert
• 2003: The Forever Changes Concert

The forever changes concert (2003) is the last album released by Love with Arthur Lee. ...

Compilations

• 1995: Love Story 1966-1972 - compilation
• 2003: The Best of Love - compilation

Singles

• March 1966: "My Little Red Book"/A Message To Pretty"
• July 1966: "7 and 7 Is" b/w "No. Fourteen"
• December 1966: "She Comes In Colors"/"Orange Skies"
• March 1967: "Que Vida"/"Hey Joe"
• December 1967: "Alone Again Or"/"A House Is Not A Motel"
• June 1968: "Your Mind and We Belong Together" b/w "Laughing Stock"
• 1994: "Girl on Fire" b/w "Midnight Sun"

7 and 7 Is is a song from the band Love, written by Arthur Lee and recorded on June 20,1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood. ...

Other

• 1992: Arthur Lee and Love

External links

• Love site by Torben Skott
• Complete Love discography - With track listings, personnel and lyrics.
• Love featured on Where The Action Was rock history tour
• in french [1]

Notes