Question: R&P: What do you think of the band “Arthur Lee and Love”?
Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer, songwriter and guitarist Arthur Lee and the group’s second songwriter, guitarist Bryan MacLean. Their music reflected different influences, combining elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia.

Love started playing the L.A. clubs in April 1965. At this time, they were playing extended numbers such as “Revelation” (originally titled “John Lee Hooker”) and getting the attention of such contemporaries as the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds. After being signed to the Elektra Records label, the band scored a minor hit single in 1966 with their version of Burt Bacharach’s “My Little Red Book.”

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Their debut album, Love, was released in May 1966, and included “Signed D.C” and MacLean’s “Softly To Me” and reached #57 on the album charts. In August, 1966, the single “7 and 7 Is” became their highest-charting at #33.

Their musical reputation largely rests on two albums issued in 1967, “Da Capo” and “Forever Changes”. Da Capo, released in January of that year, included rockers like “Stephanie Knows Who” and “7 and 7 Is,” and melodic songs such as “¡Qué Vida!” and “She Comes in Colors.” Forever Changes, released in November 1967, is a suite of songs using acoustic guitars, strings and horns that was recorded while the band was falling apart as the result of various abuses. Forever Changes included one modest hit single, the MacLean-written “Alone Again Or”, while “You Set the Scene” went on to receive airplay from some progressive rock radio stations. Love were far more popular in the UK where the album reached #24, than in their home country where it could only reach #154.

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MacLean left the band soon after (later emerging as a Contemporary Christian artist) as did all the other members except Lee. Arthur Lee, as the only remaining member, convened a new lineup and continued recording as Love. The reconstituted version of Love played in a blues-rock style very different from the band’s previous line-up. Three albums were released by various permutations of this lineup: Four Sail (1969), Out Here (1969), and False Start (1970), the latter featuring a guest appearance by Jimi Hendrix. Arthur Lee released the solo album Vindicator in 1972, followed by a final official Love album, Reel to Real (1974), recorded by Lee and session musicians. Love was finally discontinued in the late 1970s.

Arthur Lee began to play Love’s classic songs in concert by reuniting with the members of Baby Lemonade in the early 2000s. Co-founder of Love and original guitarist, Johnny Echols, rejoined Lee in this line-up and performed as “Love with Arthur Lee and Johnny Echols.” This reformed group toured for several years, frequently performing Forever Changes in its entirety.

Arthur Lee died in Memphis, Tenn., on August 3, 2006, of complications from leukemia at age 61. In 2009, a reformed version of Love, featuring Echols (he and “Snoopy” Pfisterer are the only living original members), members of Baby Lemonade, and Probyn Gregory of the Wondermints toured the United States and Canada.

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Answer by Billy Rebel
They were one of my old favorites. I still play “Forever Changes” and my favorite song was “A House Is Not A Motel”.