IMMACULATE 1966 MONO orig Arthur Lee LOVE 1st SUPERIOR 60's GEM ROCK PSYCH A+
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- ORIGINAL GOLD ELEKTRA PRESSING
1966 Fuzz Punk SHAKER - WEST COAST ROCK CLASSIC
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- USA ~ (GOLD) ELEKTRA ~ EKL-4001 (MONO)
SUPER CLEAN (MINT) =MONO= 1966 Collection Keeper!
Arthur Lee's STUNNING first LOVE album
BEAUTIFUL CRISP MINT = FINAL COLLECTION COPY !!
ORIGINAL 1966 MONO first press
Includes the lesser seen printed "Elektra 'guitar player' image & printed inner sleeve as pictured!
Yes, the famously collected GOLD Elektra label and printed 'guitar player' inner sleeve IS included...
LOVE's first LP is a psychedelic-garage-punk masterpiece. Influenced by the folk-rock sound of west coast groups like the Byrds(Love was based in Los Angeles), the album tore through manic rave-ups, waded through scary blues-harp dirges, introduced hallucinogenic jams and managed sometimes to sound like the Byrds, the Kinks and the Yardbirds, while maintaining a unique style accented by Arthur's impassioned vocals. The album also included LOVE's first and biggest hit, "My Little Red Book" (a moody, alienated deconstruction of a minor Bacharach tune which was a huge West Coast hit and peaked at #52 nationwide). Along with the Byrd's "Fifth Dimension", this LP was a major influence on Pink Floyd's Syd Barrett, who would record one of psychedelia's greatest album, "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" in early 1967.
The album also featured a wild punk-fuzz version of the not so folk song, "Hey Joe" which was later was recorded by the Byrds and The Jimi Hendrix Experience.
The song list is close to a set-list Love would play when they were the house band at the Whiskey during the 1966 youth-quake. The Sunset Strip riots became the harbinger of the social explosion of the Sixties and began at a club called Ciro's when police attempted to arrest under-aged youth for curfew violations. The Strip erupted as police and "freaks" battled for liberated turf. Of all of the bands playing the Strip in '66 Love had the largest following. Bands like the Doors, Mothers of Invention and Buffalo Springfield were opening acts when Love played. It was ground zero in the explosion of psychedelia and Love steered the course.The production quality sounds like a typical live "one-take/no remixes" rock album of that era, which has lead to the self-titled album being labeled as 'garage' rock. The opening cut "Little Red Book" shows why Love was not simply another one hit wonder from garage-land. The song starts simply enough, with a pulsating one note bass line and accompanied by a tambourine with reverb drenched guitar joining in. It's sounds like a garage band tune, but soon we are listening to a very complicated composition, with time signature changes at both the bridge and the chorus. There are rapidly changing chord progressions and a murderous key change toward the end of the song. It would crazy for a vocalist to attempt to coherently phrase the wordiness of the lyrics within this bizzare song structure. Arthur Lee not only does it, but does so with elegance and feeling. The Love version of the Burt Bachrach tune "My Little Red Book" became the definitive version of that song. Dionne Warwick (who was queen of the Bachrach interpreters) was so daunted by Lee's vocals, that she wisely never attempted her version of "Little Red Book."
The self titled Love 1st Lp is full of jewels. The Arthur Lee compositions are equals and superior of the Velvet Underground's dark, atmospheric tunes.
"Can't Explain" with impulsive rhythms and catchy bridge is an example, We see Love's early embrace of samba and calypso with Byran MacLean's "Softly To Me" and "And More". There is so much here indicating Love's musical sophistication and unique style which became so apparent in "DaCapo" and "Forever Changes" This first Lp is musical equal of any first Lp by great groups of the sixties. Love could play "Hey Joe" with any of others.
Love was a terrific group for far more reasons than "Forever Changes."
Jim Morrison took Arthur Lee's long stream of consciousness songs and fashioned them into rock epics like "The End" and "When the Musics Over." Jimi Hendrix appropriated Arthur's flamboyant style of dressing and moved from L.A. to London,and Hendrix's fashion style was almost as important as his brilliant guitar playing. The Byrds were already folk-rock stars on Columbia Records but their admiration of Love led to a shift from folk rock to psychedelia on "Fifth Dimension" and "Younger Than Yesterday." So Love's impact on music begins with this self titled first album and curiously enough, "Forever Changes" was not fully appreciated until long after Love's dissolution as a band.
Their self titled FIRST LP is one of the great albums of the sixties.
My Little Red Book
Can't Explain
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.
Coloured Balls Falling
Mushroom Clouds
And More
- CONDITION:
- The cover: rated: M- stiff solid and completely colorful, here is a prime example of a top preserved pgrade or first time gem to your private library... no faded areas, no delete marks, no split seams, no bends, and no writing ...KEEPER RELIC, if not agreed happy to take back :-))
- The vinyl: Rated: M- 1966 perfection plays clean as top level ...hsrd to beat - hall of fame sixties album (worthy) and both MONO gold Elektra labels are real clean
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
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