LOVE S/T '66 LP EX Original Elektra mono SHRINK psych garage Arthur Lee

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Record: Very Good Plus (VG+) Side 1 is EX or better, Side 2 has two long superficial scuffs but plays fine and sounds great guaranteed! Cover: Very Good Plus (VG+) BB hole at upper left, some edge wear around the right side, Shrink is split back about 3" fron the opening  Labels: a few spindlemarks on Side 1, otherwise no writing marks or stickers Love Love 1966 United States Elektra 12" Mono LP SB-15858
Love

Love
1966 United States Elektra LP

Clean original press, plays strong EX or better, shrink 80% intact, complete with Elektra inner sleeve as issued RARE!

Condition
Vinyl: Very Good Plus (VG+) Side 1 is EX or better, Side 2 has two long superficial scuffs but plays fine and sounds great guaranteed!
Sleeve: Very Good Plus (VG+) BB hole at upper left, some edge wear around the right side, Shrink is split back about 3" fron the opening

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Love ?– Love Label: Elektra ?– EKL-4001 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono Country: US Released: Mar 1966 Genre: Rock Style: Garage Rock, Psychedelic Rock Tracklist Hide Credits A1 My Little Red Book Written-By – Bachrach-David* 2:30 A2 Can't Explain Written-By – Lee*, Echols*, Fleckenstein* 2:35 A3 A Message To Pretty Written-By – Lee* 3:10 A4 My Flash On You Written-By – Lee* 2:05 A5 Softly To Me Written-By – Maclean* 3:10 A6 No Matter What You Do Written-By – Lee* 2:40 A7 Emotions Written-By – Lee*, Echols* 1:55 B1 You I'll Be Following Written-By – Lee* 2:25 B2 Gazing Written-By – Lee* 2:40 B3 Hey Joe Written-By – Valenti* 2:38 B4 Signed D.C. Written-By – Lee* 2:44 B5 Colored Balls Falling Written-By – Lee* 1:50 B6 Mushroom Clouds Written-By – Lee*, Maclean*, Echols*, Forssi* 2:45 B7 And More Written-By – Lee*, Maclean* 2:56 Credits Engineer – Bruce Botnick Lead Vocals – Arthur Lee (tracks: A1 to A4, A6 to B2, B4 to B7), Bryan Maclean (tracks: A5, B3) Photography By [Cover], Design – William S. Harvey Producer – Jac Holzman, Mark Abramson Notes First pressing on ''tan/gold'' label.

LOVE S/T '66 LP EX Original Elektra mono SHRINK psych garage Arthur Lee Signed to Elektra records along with the Doors (who were influenced by them in their early days), Love were the kings of the Los Angeles psychedelic rock scene during the late sixties period - the "Forever Changes" album (1967) is regarded as one the greatest rock albums of all time. Arthur Lee continued to make music under the name Love after the original line-up split in early 1968, as well as working on solo material. He spent his last years touring the Forever Changes album with a new backing band following his release from prison in 2001. Arthur Lee died peacefully at Methodist Hospital in Memphis, a little after four in the afternoon Aug 3, 2006 with his wife Diane by his side. He was 61 years old. Lee was suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Several recent benefit concerts, including one at New York City's Beacon Theater featuring Robert Plant, Yo La Tengo, and Ryan Adams, among others, raised money to help pay Lee's medical expenses. Members: Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer, Arthur Lee, Bryan Maclean, Frank Fayad, Gary Rowles, George Suranovich, Jay Donnellan, John Echols, John Fleckenstein, Ken Forssi, Michael Stuart-Ware, Probyn Gregory, Tjay Cantrelli Love was an American rock group of the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were led by singer/songwriter Arthur Lee[2] who wrote most of the songs, although some of their best known songs were written by Bryan MacLean. One of the first racially diverse American pop bands, their music reflected different influences, combining elements of rock and roll, garage rock, folk and psychedelia. While finding only modest success on the music charts, Love would come to be praised by critics as one of the finest and most important American rock groups of their era. Their third album Forever Changes (1967) is generally regarded as their masterpiece. History 1963–1966 Arthur Lee, who was originally from Memphis, Tennessee but had lived in Los Angeles since the age of five, had been recording since 1963 with his bands, the LAG's and Lee's American Four. He had also produced the single "My Diary" for Rosa Lee Brooks in 1964 which featured Jimi Hendrix on guitar.[3] A garage outfit, The Sons Of Adam, which included future Love drummer Michael Stuart, also recorded a Lee composition, "Feathered Fish." However, after viewing a performance by the Byrds, Lee became determined to form a group that joined the newly minted folk-rock sound of the Byrds to his primarily rhythm and blues style.[2] Singer, songwriter / guitarist Bryan MacLean, who Lee had met when he was working as a roadie for The Byrds, joined the band just before they changed their name from the Grass Roots to Love, spurred by the release of a single by another group called The Grass Roots.[2] MacLean had also been playing guitar in bands since about 1963 but picked up music early. Neighbor Frederick Loewe, of the composers Lerner & Loewe, recognized him as a "melodic genius" at the age of three as he doodled on the piano. Also joining the band were another Memphis native, lead guitarist Johnny Echols, and drummer Don Conka. A short time later, Conka was replaced by Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer. Love's first bassist, Johnny Fleckenstein, went on to join the Standells in 1967. Fleckenstein was replaced by Ken Forssi (formerly of a post-"Wipe Out" lineup of The Surfaris). Love started playing the Los Angeles clubs in April 1965 and became a popular local attraction. 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. The band lived communally in a house called "the Castle" and their first two albums included photographs shot in the garden of that house. 1966–1968 Signed to the Elektra Records label, the band scored a minor hit single in 1966 with their version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "My Little Red Book." Their first album, Love, was released in March 1966. The album sold moderately well and reached No. 57 on the Billboard 200 chart.[2] In August 1966 the single "7 and 7 Is," notable for the exceptional guitar work of Johnny Echols and proto-punk styled drumming by Pfisterer, became their highest-charting single at No. 33 in the Billboard Hot 100.[2] Two more members were added around this time, Tjay Cantrelli (real name John Barbieri) on woodwinds and Michael Stuart on drums. Pfisterer, never a confident drummer, switched to harpsichord. Their musical reputation largely rests on the next two albums, Da Capo and Forever Changes. Da Capo, released in November 1966, included "7 and 7 Is" as well as the subsequent singles "She Comes in Colors" and "¡Que Vida! and MacLean's "Orange Skies." Cantrelli and Pfisterer soon left the band, leaving it as a five-piece once again.[2] 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 substance abuse problems and tension between Arthur Lee and Bryan MacLean, who wanted more of his songs on the album. The band recorded the album in only 64 hours, though many professional session players were utilized, including some who replaced the actual band members in some songs. Writer Richard Meltzer, in his book The Aesthetics of Rock, commented on Love's "orchestral moves," "post-doper word contraction cuteness," and Lee's vocal style that serves as a "reaffirmation of Johnny Mathis." Forever Changes included one hit single, Bryan MacLean's "Alone Again Or," while "You Set the Scene" received airplay from some progressive rock radio stations. By this stage, Love were far more popular in the UK, where the album reached No. 24, than in their home country, where it could only reach No. 154.[2] More recently the album has received recognition as one of the greatest rock albums of all time, appearing on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[4] being inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame and being added to the National Recording Registry.[5] 1968–2006 MacLean, suffering from heroin addiction,[citation needed] soon left the band, while Lee dismissed all the other members. MacLean later emerged as a Contemporary Christian artist. Echols and Forssi also experienced the ravages of drug addiction and disappeared from the scene. Echols eventually moved to New York and became a very busy studio musician. Arthur Lee, as the only remaining member, convened a new lineup and continued recording as Love. The reconstituted version of Love, which included Jay Donnellan and then Gary Rowles on guitar, Frank Fayad on bass, and George Suranovich on drums, played in a blues rock style, as opposed to the folk-rock and psychedelic styles of the band's previous incarnation. The new line-up never garnered the widespread acceptance or acclaim of the original group. Three albums were released by various permutations of this lineup: Four Sail (1969), Out Here (1969), and False Start (1970).[2] The latter featured a guest appearance by Jimi Hendrix. Another album by this incarnation of the band was recorded in 1971, but the material was not released until 2009 on the compilation album Love Lost. Arthur Lee released the solo album Vindicator in 1972. Another lost Love album titled Black Beauty was recorded by a new line-up in 1973 but Arthur Lee's record label went bankrupt before it was released. The album was released by High Moon records in 2012. These sessions were followed by a final official Love album, Reel to Real (1974), which was recorded by Lee and session musicians. Love was finally discontinued in the late 1970s, and various plans to reunite the original Love in the following years did not come to fruition. After years in obscurity, Lee re-emerged with the one-off single "Girl on Fire" in 1994.[2] Rock Garage Rock,Psychedelic Rock,Rock 'n' Roll 1st Edition,Still in Shrink,Label Sleeve 33 RPM  This is about as close to a live set from the original members of Love you'll ever get. 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. Love was the first rock band signed by Elektra Records, a New York based label primarily know for it's stable of folk artists like Tom Paxton, Judy Collins, Oscar Brand, Phil Ochs & Josh White. Elektra label president Jac Holtzman was so thrilled with signing Arthur Lee and Love he went on to sign cutting edge rock bands like the Doors and MC5 to his label. The production quality sounds like a typical live "one-take/no remixes" rock album of that era, which has lead some fans to erroneously refer the self-titled album as garage rock. The opening cut "Little Red Book" shows why Love was not simply another one hit wonder from garageland. The song starts simply enough, with a pulsating one note bass line and accompanied by a tambourine with reverb drenched guitar joining in. The album debut of Love is but a hint at the sophistication of their future musical efforts, but it holds up well. The self titled Love debut is full of jewels. Many of the Arthur Lee compositions are the equals of the Velvet Underground's for dark, atmospheric tunes. "Can't Explain" became a set stopping song for Boston's Mission of Burma during the early eighties. We see Love's early embrace of Brazilian influences with Byran MacLean's "Softly To Me" and "And More". There is so much here to indicate Love's musical sophistication and unique style which became so apparent in Da Capo and Forever Changes. This debut is musical equal of any debut by the great bands of the sixties but has been relegated to the garage rock ghetto by many critics. Not that there's anything wrong with garage rock...Love could play "Hey Joe" with the best of them. 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 debut and curiously enough, "Forever Changes" was not fully appreciated until long after Love's dissolution as a band. Love Love 1966 United States Elektra 12" LP Cover: Very Good Plus (VG+) BB hole at upper left, some edge wear around the right side, Shrink is split back about 3" fron the opening Record: Very Good Plus (VG+) Side 1 is EX or better, Side 2 has two long superficial scuffs but plays fine and sounds great guaranteed! Labels: a few spindlemarks on Side 1, otherwise no writing marks or stickers  SB-15858

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