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seamus
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 01 2007 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 300 |
Topic: Love Posted: October 26 2007 at 08:19 |
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LOVE (the Arthur Lee band) in the ProgArchives?
Give me your opinion.... |
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Mellotron Storm
Prog Reviewer Joined: August 27 2006 Location: The Beach Status: Offline Points: 12952 |
Posted: October 26 2007 at 08:27 | |
I really like that band,i've got 2 or 3 of their cds.RUSH covered one of their tunes on the "Feedback" album. I would have to listen to them again to see how proggy they are though.
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seamus
Forum Senior Member Joined: January 01 2007 Location: Italy Status: Offline Points: 300 |
Posted: October 26 2007 at 08:31 | |
I "LOVE" all their albums and i think that FOREVER CHANGES is really a great MASTERPIECE of "psychedelic-acid-pop-folk"......
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proger
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 03 2005 Location: Israel Status: Offline Points: 944 |
Posted: October 26 2007 at 11:13 | |
I allready open a thread about this in the past...
yes great uniq band from a uniq time... |
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Man Erg
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: August 26 2004 Location: Isle of Lucy Status: Offline Points: 7456 |
Posted: October 26 2007 at 11:18 | |
Although their album, Da Capo isn't their best IMO, it does include the side-long proto-prog Revelations.
If they are included it would have to be proto-prog as they were one the main influences on Jim Morrison/The Doors who are included under proto-prog. BTW.Forever Changes is my favourite album. Edited by Man Erg - October 26 2007 at 11:19 |
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Moogtron III
Prog Reviewer Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616 |
Posted: October 26 2007 at 12:01 | |
I wouldn't call it proto prog or prog related myself, but Forever Changes is a great album.
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Sean Trane
Special Collaborator Prog Folk Joined: April 29 2004 Location: Heart of Europe Status: Offline Points: 19628 |
Posted: October 27 2007 at 13:19 | |
I guess they could fit in proto-prog between LA bands like The Doors, Iron Bitterfly, Spirit etc....
not really prog, but not any less thanThe Doors were, either. Edited by Sean Trane - October 29 2007 at 04:01 |
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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The Lost Chord
Forum Senior Member Joined: June 23 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 1907 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 16:09 | |
Yes, Love should be in there next to The Doors, Spirit etc...totally agree, Forever Changes good album
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jammun
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 14 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3449 |
Posted: October 28 2007 at 21:57 | |
Given that Jefferson Airplane has a spot here, why wouldn't Love, Spirit, and the Zombies (Odyssey and Oracle) be included? And as an aside, I don't think this diminishes the site. These are all bands that laid the foundation for what we know as prog.
Now if only my beloved XTC could find a place in someone's heart...
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mystic fred
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 13 2006 Location: Londinium Status: Offline Points: 4252 |
Posted: October 29 2007 at 05:16 | |
Arthur Lee's Love (proto-prog) are on our list in the section headed
"3) Proposed and disputed artists (to be debated/possibly voted on later)"
Edited by mystic fred - October 29 2007 at 05:16 |
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yoel?
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 19 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 160 |
Posted: October 31 2007 at 06:33 | |
forever changes is one fo my all time favourite albums
yeah lets put them in
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Raff
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Posted: October 31 2007 at 06:42 | |
Spirit are already here: http://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=2643 |
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yoel?
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 19 2007 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 160 |
Posted: October 31 2007 at 06:46 | |
As it goes i think the zombies are doing a one fof anniversary gig in london somewhere soon
i should probably get tickets
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Dick Heath
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Posted: October 31 2007 at 07:26 | |
John Tobler*, the great and informed rock writer, and perhap the major promoter of Love in the UK in the last 40 years, always said, if you check out the lyrics on Forever Changes, there is a large element of 'been there, done it, now got the psychosis because of it', wrt psychedelia and the drug culture, that marks the album as the first post-psychedelic album.
*For instance he managed to get the forgotten tail end to 7& 7, tagged on for the first compilation album Edited by Dick Heath - November 01 2007 at 14:52 |
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jammun
Prog Reviewer Joined: July 14 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3449 |
Posted: October 31 2007 at 22:32 | |
Uh oh, more to review. Don't know how I missed them...
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Bilek
Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: July 05 2005 Location: Turkey Status: Offline Points: 1484 |
Posted: January 16 2008 at 11:08 | |
Just found an opportunity to listen to Forever Changes and I agree with the with the proto-prog suggestion. Besides, FC are usually included in the same basket with Sgt. Pepper, Piper, Days of Future Passed etc., as masterpieces of the heyday of psychedelia...
(btw, I really can't see how this band might have influenced Morrison & The Doors, given that they debuted more or less around the same time... I don't know Love's exact formation date -must be '65-, but Doors were also beginning to show up in '65, and in '66 they were already doing notorious gigs...) I hope my first impression won't change after I hear other albums (surely not if they bear that Doors similarity, Doors is among my all time fave bands) |
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Listen to Turkish psych/prog; you won't regret:
Baris Manco,Erkin Koray,Cem Karaca,Mogollar,3 Hürel,Selda,Edip Akbayram,Fikret Kizilok,Ersen (and Dadaslar) (but stick with the '70's, and 'early 80's!) |
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