..."excuse me, sir. Do you have soul?"...well that all depends...I've always loved that little exchange between Rob Gordon and a young customer in the film adaptation to Nick Hornby's book High Fidelity, it reminds me of some of the conversations I've had on here...hard to believe that we've circled the sun 365 times since I joined this thing but we have...a fekkin' year to the day...I've met a...
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Hey Moggers. I don't know how down you are with it but I've been having fun with Skype lately. My bestest bud in LA uses it for all phone now and I had the most lovely chat with The Boy Flood the other night. If I'm on give me a buzz. My user name is fistula_spume. Of course. Love to talk sometime with anybody who is willing. I'm up for it tonight if anyone is connected. Give me a buzz yo!
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Back in the pre-internet era, I used to ride my pet dinosaur to a job at a high school where I was the youngest person on the staff by a good ten years.One of the older staff members revealed one day, somewhat sheepishly, that he'd been a member of a one-hit psychedelic band back in the 60's. Needless to say, i thought this was unspeakably cool. I looked at the album cover in the store trying ...
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...yeah, thats a snap of the storied Whisky that I took the other day. It's where bands like Love, Led Zeppelin, the Doors and Janice Joplin niced it up back in the 60s...I've been there once in the ten years that I've lived here as the bands that are regularly on stage never really did anything for me...oddly, when I lived back in NYC I went to CBGBs on the regs but whatever's clever, yo...alt...
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This post is for "The Doorman" at Lupos Heartbreak Hotel (aka: Lupos at the Strand)Everybody knows a doorman; he's the one that tightens you up when you forgot to purchase tickets, introduces you to the band, and has a rock n' roll story for every occasion.Diggin' deep through "the doorman's" huge selection of vinyl yesterday, (my buddy Jim was searching for a Moby Grape), he shared this littl...
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Heres a post in tribute to Arthur Lee, the late great frontman of one of my all time favorite bands: LOVE. The album this song is off of (Four Sail) was made with a new group after the original LOVE lineup had disbanded. It might not be official LOVE, but its still a really nice song to take you into the weekend.
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When I was a boy, I thought about the times I'd be a man…I have to admit something- I'm getting rather annoyed at people shouting "fourteen" at me. I brought it upon myself- here in Michigan, anyone with the old white on blue plates had to exchange their plates two years ago and rather than getting stuck a random jumble of letters and numbers on the back of my car for another ten years, I made .
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So I grew up in California and they played "Little Red Book" alot on K-Earth 101 and I didn't really know too much beyond that . Until high school, which was for me 78-82, when I finally got the Rhino Best of Love lp. I fell in LOVE with that record right away. I realized that this was a secret of rock,these brilliant recordings of such imaginative songs by the forgotten Aurthur Lee. RIP I'm th...
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The only advantage to being poor is that it forces you to listen to albums you already have instead of new stuff. This allows for the opportunity to discover tracks that that can rock you like a hurricane that you might have passed over before.I went on a big Love kick several years ago and bought any of its albums that I came across in the record bins. Of course, the first three still get heav...
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Legend has it that the late Syd Barrett - yes, he actually was alive all these years, up until about a week ago - might have copped some heavy-ass riffage for 1967's "Interstellar Overdrive" from Arthur Lee and Love's punkified version of "My Little Red Book" (off their 1966 debut LP). Listen to them side b' side...decide for thine own self...and God bless the hell outta both those cats. RIP Sy...
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The late, very great Arthur Lee and Love's only music video:We LOVE you, Arthur! Rest in peace...
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As a West Coast rock band, Love provided Elektra Records a stepping stone out of the New York folk world, and served as the prototype for the label's breakthrough with The Doors. Love's first three albums for Elektra combined British Invasion, folk-rock, garage punk, blues, psych, pop, jazz and more, reaching a crescendo with 1968's "Forever Changes." Love's founder and mainstay, Arthur Lee, di...
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Arthur Lee, legendary singer-songwriter for the influential '60s psychedelic rock band Love, died of leukemia at Methodist Hospital in Memphis this afternoon. He was 61 years old. Several recent benefit concerts, including one at New York City's Beacon Theater featuring Robert Plant, Ian Hunter, Nils Lofgren, Yo La Tengo and Ryan Adams, raised money to help pay Lee's medical expenses. Lee was b...
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