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| Joe Morris |
Posted - 11/11/2009 : 05:31:34
One thing I was pleased to note in the new Love Lost cd is the mention of the year (2010) that the new Love biography is due out
Now, I understand the author has done good work in the past; personally though, I would be interested in a book that told the truth, that didn't whitewash what really happened
The best book I've read this year (on the Church/Steve Kilbey) - called No Certainty Attached - is great cos it doesn't shy away from, basically, the drugs. Particularly heroin. Kilbey was a functioning junkie for years, and it had to be dealt with
Like a recent biography on Douglas Adams I was watching (Life the universe and Douglas Adams) where they touched on everything but Douglas's radical atheism, which really defined him (his best joke in the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was where the Babel Fish proves the non existance of God as said fish's very existance is a logical impossibility and can't have come about by mere chance - vanishing God in a puff of logic, with Man getting killed on the next zebra crossing
Any biography on Love, particularly Arthur, will have to touch on some unsavory issues. By the end of Love most of the band were on drugs, and then you have the whole relationships within the band (Snoopy hating Tjay (cursing him out in Zigzag magazine)
Bryan's limiting of songs as they do not fit in with Love
and, essentially, the relationship between Arthur and Bryan, which really seemed to hold the band together creatively... going kaput
This John Einarson has got his work cut out for him! LOL
Might check out his Buffalo Springfield book - anyone read that?
I'm more intrigued by reading in the Love Lost liner notes that Bryan and Arthur sang "She comes in colors" at the Fillmore East in December 1970 live.. I guess Bryan was recording for Columbia at that time (another ill fated project - I THINK it was Columbia) |
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| ThomasGalasso |
Posted - 14/11/2009 : 04:36:40
Insane. With so much drama with Love it's impossible not to offend. |
| Joe Morris |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 22:11:28
Echols ever record after leaving Love? |
| BobbyFischer |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 22:01:03
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Originally posted by kdion11
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Originally posted by BobbyFischer
Im absolutely sure the dougnut bandit story is bogus but just found a pretty cool comic frontpage of Kenny and Johnny in "action" :
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wL-5bnm3pSM/SMYzp-bgjLI/AAAAAAAAAFU/ifiQjhsMrC8/s400/love+cover+3.jpg
KD: Hilarious ! Again, Bryan Maclean didn't think it was
bogus when he was interviewed for the Psychelic Sounds book.
Free the donuts !
Yeah,would love to have a big poster or t-shirt with that motive
The guy who drew it was actually planning a semi-fictional biography of Arthur Lee in the 80s,later the idea changed to a comic book project that unfortunally never was realised. http://dinlos.blogspot.com/2008_09_01_archive.html
I know Arthur and Bryan more or less belived the donut romour, but it was denied by both Echols and Forssi and Holtzman(indirectly,he meet Echols in New york in the early 70s when they were supposed to be in San Quentin..). |
| kdion11 |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 19:06:10
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Originally posted by BobbyFischer
Im absolutely sure the dougnut bandit story is bogus but just found a pretty cool comic frontpage of Kenny and Johnny in "action" :
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wL-5bnm3pSM/SMYzp-bgjLI/AAAAAAAAAFU/ifiQjhsMrC8/s400/love+cover+3.jpg
KD: Hilarious ! Again, Bryan Maclean didn't think it was
bogus when he was interviewed for the Psychelic Sounds book.
Free the donuts ! |
| Joe Morris |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 15:34:10
I understand people were pretty rude to him here so he won't post, unfortunately
The Brooks book on Love, Love Story, occasionally turns up on eBay, along with the CastleBlue cd & dvd releases. Otherwise you're stuck spending $200 or whatever Love Story's (the book not the breakfast cereal) going for on Amazon
Here in NYC there used to be Midnight Records which used to have issues of the Castle & Love books, but since they've closed their store on 23rd, I think theres only a site! |
| rocker |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 14:17:23
An as far as speculation I'd be surprised if Mr. Einarson doesn't take a look/see here after the book gets out. I mean Love's "constituents" are here,eh????? |
| caryne |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 08:47:01
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Originally posted by gatemouthmoore
My feelings are that there is only one person still with us who knows the whole truth
and so far he has chosen not to share the full extent of those truths with us!
We shall see, what we shall see. 
Exactly, it's very hard to discuss something none of us have read yet. As we have seen many times, speculation gets us nowhere.... |
| BobbyFischer |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 08:22:02
Im absolutely sure the dougnut bandit story is bogus but just found a pretty cool comic frontpage of Kenny and Johnny in "action" :
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_wL-5bnm3pSM/SMYzp-bgjLI/AAAAAAAAAFU/ifiQjhsMrC8/s400/love+cover+3.jpg |
| ThomasGalasso |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 04:35:59
I liked the Michael Stuart book quite a bit. I still want to get the Ken Brooks book. I cannot find it however. |
| Joe Morris |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 03:35:30
I understand Echols has been interviewed for the book
I love Michael Stuart's book - okay, he was just the drummer, but he saw a lot (Arthur reading books on songwriting, ol'Snoopy going out of his head in LA, the using)
An uproarious read - too bad he never revised it!
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| gatemouthmoore |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 03:15:34
I find the whole brou-ha-ha over the current "Love" book project, fascinating. We have gone from chastising the writer for possibly being unfair or unkind to the protagonists and now we're wondering if he will not be, too kind?
It seems to me, that when a writer is hired by the family of the person or persons he's writing about, said writer must necessarily be made of some pretty strong "stuff" lest the whole thing take on the appearance of a vanity project.
My feelings are that there is only one person still with us who knows the whole truth
and so far he has chosen not to share the full extent of those truths with us!
We shall see, what we shall see.
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| ThomasGalasso |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 01:56:03
I look forward to the book, and of course if it doesn't pull punches that is even better.
There is no need to try and gloss over things, or pretend that certain incidents never occurred. It is what adds to the mystique of Love and all of its mysterious band members from the original lineup to the later incarnations.
I am currently re-reading the MOJO Heroes book, which I know has lots of misinformation, but I am sure there is also some serious truths in there too. For many reasons I suppose there are members of this board that want to stray away from some of the less than desirable moments in the history of Love. This clearly lead to some of the craziness that ensued between myself and some members here. Many members here either were involved personally with the band, or knew people who were and in some cases were members of the band.
I look forward to the book, it should be a good read and maybe will shed some new light on this group of musicians and their true legacies. |
| Joe Morris |
Posted - 12/11/2009 : 01:15:15
Didn't notice that the lights had changed
Isn't that always the way ? |
| lemonade kid |
Posted - 11/11/2009 : 22:22:01
He blew his mind out in a car.....poor Paul.
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| Joe Morris |
Posted - 11/11/2009 : 20:59:44
Don't think they killed Neil, although they DID write a very jolly song about his death! |
