ORIG 1970 Arthur Lee LOVE False Start + JIMI HENDRIX Hard To Find CLEAN Psych

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     *CLEAN* 1970 ORIGINAL With JIMI HENDRIX

                          Arthur Lee

                                             L O V E

                           False Start

\                                                                      USA - BLUE THUMB bts 8822

CLEAN = HARD TO FIND CLEAN 45 year old ORIGINAL....

1970 first pressing vinyl in thick gatefold cover...The second and final Love album for Blue Thumb Records saw bandleader Arthur Lee heavily influenced by his friend, Jimi Hendrix, even going so far as to coax Hendrix into appearing on the opening track of the album, "The Everlasting First"

After Four Sail, Love’s final Elektra album, the band moved to Blue Thumb Records, and promptly released the double album Out Here in 1969, and the ten-track False Start a year later.

False Start is perfectly serviceable, diverse even. Lee’s more pessimistic inclinations are masked, or chemically suppressed, with a hollow, up-with-people mentality. The man who once warned of water turning to blood and shooting bluebirds now sings of riding vibrations and sunshine. “Open up your heart and let the sun come shining in”, he suggests, a far cry from the fire-and-brimstone sermons he once recited. For finger-wagging sage advice, Lee still advises “You’re gonna reap just what you sow / I’m here to let everybody know / If you don’t do your best, you’re gonna find yourself in an awful mess”. “Stand Out”, a cool track from Out Here, is duplicated in an impressive live version, and jaunty tunes like “Slick Dick” (where Lee even admits “I know what it sounds like but it ain’t”) and “Gimi a Little Break” (note the Hendrix-fied spelling) further glorifies the album.

Throughout, the band is tight and funky, the melodies are generous, and Lee is a versatile beautifully gifted singer, even more versatile & melodic than Hendrix. It’s just that Lee is or was capable of so much more than simplistic vocal exercises. The double meaning of Love (hey, it’s an emotion, and it’s also the band name) is toyed with repeatedly, as on the eleven-minute “Love is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never” and “Love is Coming”, which might as well be a Monkees-esque self-referential theme song. At the end of “Keep on Shining”, Lee repeatedly shouts the word “love”, as though it’s imprisoning him, keeping him from shining, in fact.

And perhaps that’s the lesson of these albums. Forever Changes is a work not simply of prophecy, but finality, digging the grave for ‘60s idealism before the movement even peaked.

• "The Everlasting First" — 3:01 "Flying" — 2:37
• "Gimi a Little Break" — 4:10
• "Stand Out" (live) — 3:35
• "Keep on Shining" — 3:50
• "Anytime" — 3:23
• "Slick Dick" — 3:05
• "Love is Coming" — 1:24
• "Feel Daddy Feel Good" — 3:15
• "Ride That Vibration" — 3:34

CONDITION: The Cover:  thick gatefold cover and finding this gatefold without shelf wear is impossible = the dark cover is almost 99% ALWAYS found with a lot of shelf wear (usually bad) after 45+ years. This copy is a survivor, the upgrade at VG++ hardly any wear, barely, and VG++ lite wear only! = is all solid with no split seams, no bends, no writing and NO delete marks ...overall nice rarely found THIS clean first printing ....

The Vinyl: is all glossy clean and clear M- play graded TOP LEVEL with clean Blue Thumb labels

keeper!

A GREAT ADDITION TO ANYONE'S COLLECTION !

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