Music Musings and Miscellany (Free subscription) | 11/10/2008
Here’s the fourth batch of Music Musings and Miscellany’s unapologetically subjective selection of the twentieth century’s best 1000 singles. Nearly through the A’s. VELVET UNDERGROUND – All Tomorrow’s Parties / I’ll Be Your Mirror (Verve 10427 1966) If you’ve got a copy of the first Velvets single then the beers are on you – replete with [...]
Leaky Sparrow (Free subscription) | 10/15/2008
Alone Again Or is the opening track of Love's genuine classic Forever Young (1967). It was written by band member Bryan MacLean was also do the vocals - not Arthur Lee – and was covered by people like The Damned, The Boo Radleys, Calexico, Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs... Singer-songwriter Marc Pilley is not alone, together with guitar-player Ross Edmond, Al Denholm (Bass) and Iain Bruce (Drums),...
Losanjealous (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Following a mid-90’s-early-00’s resurgence in popular interest in Love—a period that more or less bittersweetly corresponds to main man Arthur Lee’s imprisonment—the band’s rightful resting place in the upper echelons rock’s pantheon grows more secure day by day. Since then, output by, about and inspired by the man and the band has been [...]
prefixmag.com (Free subscription) | 07/02/2008
Love Story, this long-awaited tribute and chronicle of the band, was indeed made only after Lee’s release from prison, his most recent (and longest) stint. The film fills in some gaps in band history, airs grievances, and renews the tragic sense of what could have been, a sentiment that has shown up in tandem with any praise the band has received through the years. Told mostly by talking heads, with...
Electric Roulette (Free subscription) | 03/27/2008
A new documentary, Love Story will tell the tale of Arthur Lee and his band Love. The film will feature extensive interviews with Lee, band members Johnny Echols, Michael Stuart, Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer, Bryan Maclean, Elektra Records boss Jac Holzman,...
