I was doing jury duty in LA, waiting in the lobby to see if I'd have to serve when I struck up a conversation with the woman sitting next to me. We talked long enough that she told me she was the sister of a guitar player who played in a little known 60s band called Love. I said "I know Love! Great band that never got their due". Her brother was Bryan MacLean. Thanks for the riffs Bryan. Living in LA can be interesting that way sometimes.
Maria McKee (Lone Justice) For some reason she severed ties with Bryan for several years before his death & refused to play any of the songs he wrote, he was saddened. After Bryan's death she recorded a few.
@@jefffinn1105 Wow, I’m a Lone Justice fan and didn’t realize Maria and Bryan were related. Anyway the sister I met was not Maria McKee and unfortunately I don’t remember her name. Speaking of Lone Justice I saw them open for U2 in the 80s and they rocked. They should have had a bigger career too.
@@jnagarya519 no they didn’t. Bigger in the UK. Love got Electra to sign the Doors and then Electra promoted them instead. Arthur also would not tour outside of LA and San Francisco
@@jnagarya519 yes but mostly I think it was Electra records. Electra threw everything behind the Doors and Love got very little if any. I think their singles and the Forever Changes album would have been big hits but the band basically broke up right after finishing forever changes so there wasn’t really a band to promote.
@@Hartlor_Tayley The founder of Elektra Records -- Jack Holzman -- wrote a book about the label: _Follow the Music_. Elektra was originally one of three independent folk music labels -- the other two being Folkways (Moe Asch), and Vanguard (associated with Newport Folk Festival). Folkways is now owned by the Smithsonian Institution. Elektra had such Judy Collins, Vanguard had such as Joan Baez. Folkways was 'way Left, politically, and had some pre-Columbia Dylan tracks as "Blind Boy Grunt". And Folkways had much of what today would be called "world" music; it's a fascinating catalog. The first "Paul Butterfield Blues Band" was released in, I believe, 1965, so they would have been the first electric band on Elektra.
Love these guys, haven't heard them since the 60's!! Thanks Lee, that was so much fun. I grew up in L.A. in the 60's and it was a blast, except for the smog. ✌️🤙
Arthur Lee would give the song "Signed D.C." a new life on the album "Out Here" a few years later, adding more electric guitar and the duration of the song would be twice as long - 5 : 05. A masterpiece in both cases.
"Seven and Seven is" and "My Little Red Book" got a lot of airplay on LA AM Radio (BOSS Radio) in 1966. Author Lee claimed that Jimi Hendrix got his style from him. The band lived in a castle up in Laurel Canyon.
Signed DC is about Don Conka, the original drummer for Love, and apparently a very good one. Unfortunately, he fell prey to junk and was fired from the band. He managed to kick his addiction and lived until 2004. He's also mentioned (along with Love lead guitarist Johnny Echols) in the song You I'll be Following: "I went to Johnny, I went to Conka/One of them told me that he was holding". There was a lot of drug use in Love, and it eventually blew the band apart. There's an urban myth that is untrue but certainly reflects the band's drug use: two of the band members were rumoured to have held up a doughnut shop to get drug money.
I remember hearing the first two songs on the radio. I became a fan of Love several years ago. Forever Changes is one of my favorite albums now. Yeah, they had a house just off the Sunset Strip and were the house band at The Whiskey. They also helped The Doors get signed by Electra. Arthur was quite a character. More LOVE 😎
Yay! So glad you reacted to Signed DC, my favorite Love song. It is a song mostly neglected by reactors. DC was thought to be Don Conka, Love's original drummer, who left the band before they recorded their first LP. My Little Red Book, written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, is a cover of a Manfred Mann record.
I once got their album from an LA radio station. What's interesting, the back cover says the explosion at the end of Seven and Seven Is was an actual nuclear explosion.
Ned from Spain sayin Thank you x 1000000 for reacting to these ! From what I heard 7 and 7 had Arthur Lee taking over the drums because the other guy couldn't keep up the pace. Little Red Book was by Burt Bacharach and Hal David for the film "What's New Pussycat?" performed by Manfred Mann, Bacharach was not into Love's version unfortunately. Signed DC is one of his greatest and bitterly beautiful. Miss you Mr Arthur Lee.
When I was a kid this was one of the hardest songs my band would play, for the explosion part I would kick my reverb unit and it sounded like an explosion.. lol
my sister was a dealer and user, for many years, i despised her dealing. she finally got clean and got a job helping veterans. smack didn't get her, cancer did. she passed 3 years ago'
LOVE: one of the GREAT unappreciated 60's bands (Altho in Britain they were/are much more famous). "7&7 is" & other LOVE songs was noted by Johnny Ramone as very inflential to his style. I still play LOVE albums 60 years later, not many from that era are listened to at all. #2: Hey... another great & unappreciated band from then is Moby Grape, Jerry Miller just died this weekend, obit said Clapton thought he was one of the best guitarists. He also wrote the sweet ballad "8:05" as well as rocker "Omaha". Dig it.
I traded my CSN album for Love de capo thinking I will always be able to replace the CSN album but maybe it wouldn’t be easy to find de capo in the future. Remember that in the 60’s our access to different genres of music was limited.
Such a shame that Love wouldn't tour, I think Arthur was afraid of flying ( I think it was Arthur ). This stopped this band being the mega stars they should have been. Preceeding The Doors at Elektra, they were left on the shelf whilst The Doors were given the full nine yards. In the UK Love were always held in high regard, I missed seeing Arthur touring Forever Changes just weeks before he passed a major regret. Awesome band.
Love was the best. They might have been more popular if they toured outside of LA. As far as I remember, Love helped The Doors get signed to Electra. 👍
I know seven from Alice Cooper and little red book from golden earring, I like those covers better but I’m just used to those being ingrained in my brain
There was some one-ups competition in the drug scene -- "You're doin' acid!? That's nothin' compared to smack!" Many of those I knew who were doing a lot of acid agreed that anyone who did heroin was an asshole. Then they turned to heroin, apparently because the continuing flood of ideation became exhausting.
Thumbnail doesn’t match and in the description it should be Arthur Lee not Alvin Lee who is the guy in Ten Years After. Gremlins no doubt. Looking forward to your Love reaction
Arthur claimed that he was playing drums on 7 & 7 Is because Alban couldn’t hack it. By the second album Alban was demoted to harpsichord and Michael Stuart took over the drums.
Anti-counterculture. I think it was Rolling Stone who stated that thie band would've been better named Hate. Thats going way too far. They were just not peace and love, which was the norm at the time. But perhaps the broken vase picutred on the back of the Forever Changes album sleeve says it all.
