As a result of this Podcast, and for the first time in decades, I dug out and played my original Mono copy of Love's first LP. What an astonishing album, even after all these years! Not one weak track. Had it been released in 1977 it would have been a strong contender for 'Punk Album of the Year'. Two further observations: i) Bryan Maclean needs to be added to your Brian Jones/Michael Clarke 'Hairstyles Role of Honour', and ii), 'Hey Joe' was then credited to Dino Valente, as it was on the early copies of the Byrds' 'Fifth Dimension'. A story worthy of a Podcast discussion itself?
I can't remember who exactly gave me Forever Changes on cassette but I know it was 1992 and I was eighteen. I still have a shitload of cassettes in a chest of drawers that I cannot, in all good conscience, throw away. I've thrown lots of old tat away recently to make more space but cassettes were quite small and don't take up an unreasonable amount of space....compared to VHS boxes, which have often filled my recyclable bins of late. I bothered my stubborn arse to get my first ever mobile phone recently and have enjoyed listening to music walking around and on buses for the first time since I had a Walkman with cassettes inside as a much younger man and had to make mixtapes manually instead of RU-vid saving you the bother. It's been over twenty years since I walked around with earphones in and I'm enjoying that part of twenty-first century life, if little else.
Like vinyl, tapes are making a comeback believe it or not. Mixtapes made for friends and girlfriends -- with artwork elaborately drawn with biros and coloured pens in my case -- were great fun. Personally, I wasn't keen on pre-recorded tapes after my favourite Fairport Convention album got 'eaten' by the car's tape player. Agree with you that modern life is generally inferior and soulless in most aspects when compared to the glorious pre-digital age of relative normality. Escaping back into good music is a way of avoiding the woeful 21st century.
Hearing the astonishing Alone Again Or -- mariachi horns and all -- on a late night rock radio programme in the 80s made me rush out the next day to buy Forever Changes on LP. It disappointed me as there weren't any 'tunes' to match the opener and some bizarre hippy dippy lyrics. It was a few years later that I dug the album out and gave it another listen -- and dug it, man. One of the great counterculture albums of the 60s. Some great tracks on Da Capo also.
Heard the whole of Forever Changes In favourite record store " Penny Lane" and detested it for its seeming lightness with the orchestrations.After years of reading reviews of how great the album and band were, greatest albums ever lists. I bit the bullet and bought it on cassette. First listen,not impressed,on and on. Fifth listen fell in love,something clicked,the cosmos aligned and one of my most beloved albums ever❤❤
Very enjoyable podcast. Don't forget, John Tobler was a great champion of Love, and astonishingly I still have my 'I'm a Zigzag Love Freak' T - Shirt somewhere. Was it at a Mojo Awards ceremony when Roger McGuinn and Arthur were both collecting awards?
I think there are some absolutely ridiculouls statments made by John & David in this, like most people they make it all about Arthur Lee and say very little about Bryan MacLean, remember him, he wrote Love's most known and popular song Alone Again Or ? To seemingly support a statement that Love (or Arthur Lee), Sebastian or Brian Wilson never got past 1967 and it was all downhill from there is a lazy and lacking in any foundation. Arthur Lee (and Bryan MacLean, but his songs were never released until much later) made some amazing music after 67, as did John Sebastian(especially the contractually delayed John B SebastianLP) to state that Brain Wilson didn't do anything after 67 is just unfounded and not based on any fact whatsover. Forever Changes is not even really featured here, it is almost just a passing reference and the core the usual filler about Arthur Lee, drugs and guns, even Johnny Echols gets more of a mention that Bryan ! If Love had made son of Forever Changes it would have been incredibly boring and unambitious, people need to get over that, as to the comments about Love, Sebastian & Wilson's music after 1967, it is more a case of clean your ears out as opposed to having a word in them. The video amounts to no more that poor quality click bait, I am a big fan of yours David Hepworth, but this is utter drivel, I am incredibly disappointed, I expect more.
Dave and mark do throw out a bit of opinionated drivel from time to time - like all old guys - but once you accept that, the podcast remains entertaining….
@@MrBrindleStyle I feel passionatley abiout the subject, it is not about attitiude or tone, obviously beyond your mental capacity to make any constuctive comment about the music and the points I was making? I note you comment on your own posts too, speaks volumes really.
@@karlcarpenter5528 Love was Arthur Lee. Like it or not. Bryan contributed a handful of great songs, notably "Alone Again Or", that have stood the test of time. But, don't forget, it's a Love track not a Bryan MacLean solo track. What makes that song so special is Johnny Echol's Spanish guitar flourishes and the string and horn arrangement by David Angel. A group effort.
