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RIP Arthur Lee...


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What is happening and how have you been

Gotta go but I'll see you again

And oh, the music is so loud

And then I fade into the...

 

Crowds of people standing everywhere

'cross the street I'm at this laugh affair

And here they always play my songs

And me, I wonder if it's...

 

Wrong or right they come here just the same

Telling everyone about their games

And if you think it obsolete

Then you go back across the street

Yeah, street, hey hey

 

When I leave now don't you weep for me

I'll be back, just save a seat for me

But if you just can't make the room

Look up and see me on the...

 

Moon's a common scene around my town

Yeah where everyone is painted brown

And if we do get stuck away

Let's go paint everybody gray

Yeah, gray, yeah

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Oh, wow. I didn't even know he was ailing. A friend of mine saw the Love/Zombies tour a summer or two ago and said it was a blast. Now I wish I'd gone.

 

This is the time and life that I am living

And I'll face each day with a smile,

For the time that I've been given is such a little while

And the things that I must do consist of more than style

There are places that I am going

There'll be time for you to start all over

 

This is the only thing that I am sure of

And that's all that lives is gonna die

And there'll always be some people here to wonder why

And for every happy hello, there will be good-bye

There'll be time for you to put yourself on.

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:upset :cryin

 

I wanted so badly to go see one of those Forever Changes shows that Love played a few years back, and just couldn't get to one. That album had a major effect on me back in college, and it's still a favorite to this day.

 

 

Didn't he have leukemia? I thought I remembered reading that somewhere.

 

A towering talent. I can't believe he's gone, and that Bryan MacLean is too.

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i can't get 'Everybody's gotta' Live' out of my head...

 

Wow, I remember catching them in Crewe in 2002 (I think) and my friend couldn't make it to the show (he was a huge fan) I was pretty pissed but made my way to the front and rang my friend up. Arthur spoke to him on the phone for a few minutes MID-SET! He handed me back the handset and said "Man... you got a cool cat right there"... I shook his hand and the show went on after some applause.

 

My friend said it was the biggest honour of his life. I'll be raising a glass to the great man tonight - Forever Changes as my soundtrack.

 

What a sad day, :no

Alex

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Yes...he has been sick for awhile. Very sad.

 

Love was also what we listened to when I was in college. I guess they are kind of a college band.

 

LouieB

Really one of the better LA bands to almost/not quite/ make it big.

Scott

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Forever Changes was their YFH and Petsounds rolled into one. Great liner notes in the re-master I have. I am still trying to get my hands on the ones that came after - or at least Four Sail and one other one. I had never heard that album until not to long ago. I have a original pressing of their first album.

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