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ARTHUR LEE

Prior to forming Love, Arthur Lee was a Los Angeles hustler, desperately searching for the formula that would make him a star. In the early mid-'60s, Lee recorded some unsuccessful singles including one as the American Four on Selma, a subsidiary of Del-Fi, "Luci Baines"/"Soul Food." He also recorded a session for Rosa Lee Brooks that featured Jimi Hendrix as a session guitarist. Lee found his niche at last when he founded one of the '60s seminal garage/folk/psychedelic bands, Love, in 1965. He recorded more unsuccessful albums as Love, recorded a solo album, Vindicator, in 1972, and began to fade away. Lee would regularly tour and recordings were made of these shows, but he rarely returned to a studio or wrote new songs...

1972     LP     A&M RECORDS      SP 4356

PRINTED IN USA    ORIGINAL PRESSING    PROMO COPY

GATEFOLD COVER

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LABEL: A&M - WHITE LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: SP 4356      

Catalog on labels: SP-4356  (SP-4611) / SP-4356 (SP-4612) 

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched. Circled MR Stamped): A&M SP4611-M1 MR △16976 [2]

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched. Circled MR Stamped): A&M SP4612-M1 MR △ 16976-X (1)

On labels: March 7, 1945 - 4:40

All tunes written and arranged by...........

Production Co-Ordination by Allan McDougall

Produced by Arthur Lee

℗ 1972 A&M Records, Inc.

On front cover: With the group Band-Aid    A Dr. Hyde World-Wide Production

On inside panels: Photos + Notes + Tracklist + Credits

On back cover: Tracklist

A&M Records, Inc., P.O. Box 782, Beverly Hills, California 90213

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RECORD EX but (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG+ but (please, see pictures and read above description)

While Love's debut album pushed folk-rock into an overdrive that resembled punk, Lee's first solo set, 1972's Vindicator, was a muscular set of guitar-fueled hard rock laced with blues, showing the clear influence of Lee's late friend Jimi Hendrix. With Charles Karp's powerful guitar leads dominating the arrangements and Lee's vocals strutting with maximum rock star swagger on tunes like "Love Jumped Through My Window" and "Sad Song," Vindicator boogies with a cocky confidence that belies the fact Lee's career was in need of a clear direction at the time, and while there are no signs of the delicacy of Forever Changes, three decades on this sounds like mid-'70s guitar rock at its best. Lee was able to bring a soulful edge to songs like "Everybody's Gotta Live" and "He Knows a Lot of Good Women," and he connects with a sly blues shuffle on "He Said She Said," but it's when Lee and Karp crank up their guitars and the rhythm section of Don Poncher and David Hull turn up the heat that Vindicator really takes off, inviting the spirit with the kiss-the-sky spirit of "You Want Change for Our Re-Run" and laying out some thick Marshall-stack crunch on "Every Time I Look Up I'm Down." And anyone wanting a dose of Lee's well-documented eccentricity won't be at all disappointed with the brief spoken word fragment "You Can Save Up to 50% But You're Still a Long Ways from Home" and the anti-fast food tirade "Hamburger Breath Stinkfinger," both of which confirm Lee didn't turn away his muse when he cut these sessions. While Arthur Lee could create music of simple and fragile beauty, that doesn't change the fact he was a rocker at heart, and he rarely rocked harder or with more passion than he did on Vindicator...(AllMusic)