LOVE - by the Los Angeles-based rock band "Love" RARE PRISTINE LP
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Description: LOVE - by the Los Angeles-based rock band "Love" RARE LP - Very Good Shape
EKL 4001 - Love - Love [1966] (5-66, #57) First album of well-known L.A. psychedelic band led by singer-songwriter-guitarist Arthur Lee and including Bryan MacLean. My Little Red Book/Can't Explain/A Message To Pretty/My Flash On You/Softly To Me/No Matter What You Do/Emotions//You I'll Be Following/Gazing/Hey Joe/Signed D.C./Colored Balls Falling/Mushroom Clouds/And More - The EKL 4001 is a rare mono version often sold for as much as $75 to $100!
LP CONDITION: Vinyl: Very Good - Looks like its been cleaned. Used but well cared for .
Cover: Very Good (Minor damage to lower left corner on back)
Love is the eponymous debut by the Los Angeles-based rock band Love. Twelve of the album's fourteen tracks were recorded at Sunset Sound Recordersin Hollywood on January 24–27, 1966. The remaining two tracks ("A Message To Pretty" and "My Flash On You") come from another, undocumented session.
One of the first rock albums issued on then-folk giant Elektra Records, the album begins with the group's radical reworking of the Burt Bacharach-Hal Davidsong "My Little Red Book", the title of which is likely a tongue-in-cheek reference to Mao Zedong's Little Red Book (which was first published by theCommunist Party of China in April 1964), and which features a guitar line that Syd Barrett altered considerably (although not unrecognizably so) in writing his own "Interstellar Overdrive", released on Pink Floyd's album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn. The album also features anti-drug anthem "Signed D.C." (allegedly a reference to one-time Love drummer Don Conka), and the poignant "A Message to Pretty". The stark instrumental "Emotions" is used uncredited in Haskell Wexler's 1969 film Medium Cool as a recurring theme.
"My Little Red Book" was featured over the final credits of the movie High Fidelity in 2000, and the Beverly Hills 90210 episode "Alone at the Top" in 1995.
All songs written and composed by Arthur Lee, except where indicated.Track listing
Side one No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "My Little Red Book" Burt Bacharach, Hal David 2:38 2. "Can't Explain" Lee, John Echols, John Fleckenstein 2:41 3. "A Message to Pretty" 3:13 4. "My Flash on You" 2:09 5. "Softly to Me" Bryan Maclean 2:57 6. "No Matter What You Do" 2:46 7. "Emotions" Lee, John Echols 2:01 Side two No. Title Writer(s) Length 1. "You I'll Be Following" 2:26 2. "Gazing" 2:42 3. "Hey Joe" Billy Roberts 2:42 4. "Signed D.C." 2:47 5. "Colored Balls Falling" 1:55 6. "Mushroom Clouds" Lee, John Echols, Ken Forssi, Bryan Maclean 2:25 7. "And More" Lee, Bryan Maclean 2:57
Personnel
- Arthur Lee: Lead vocals, percussion, and harmonica. Also drums on "Can't Explain", "No Matter What You Do", "Gazing", "Mushroom Clouds" and "And More".
- Johnny Echols: Lead guitar
- Bryan Maclean: Rhythm guitar and vocals. Lead vocals on "Softly to Me" and "Hey Joe".
- Ken Forssi: Bass
- Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer: Drums
This is a must for a serious collector.
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