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johnnylovejoy
Second Love
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 Posted - 27/10/2009 : 03:50:28
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There is in fact a "lost" Love album!
About six months before we signed with Elektra we recorded most of the songs
that were on the first album plus John Lee Hooker which later became "Revelation"!
These sessions were recorded at Gold Star studios, and were produced by writer
Jerry Hopkins.
The Quality of these recordings were amazing, the sound and production values were world
class, far better than that which was achieved with Bruce Botnick at Sunset Sound.
Gold Star was a fantastic studio, with great engineers who actually listened to the
musicians, and Knew how to get the best sound and performances from them!
The other reason things went so well was the drummer, we had the great Hal Blaine
keeping time, just having someone like him in the room improved the level of everyone's
playing.
Jerry took the tapes to several Record Companies, most were interested but would not
budge when it came to the biggest obstacle, publishing rights to our songs. (Elektra was
the only company that would allow us to maintain total control of our songs.)
This was almost unheard of at the time, even groups like the Beatles and the Stones
didn't own the "Publishing" rights to the songs they wrote.
After running headlong into this seeming road block time and time again... Jerry decided
to throw in the towel, and as the years became decade's...forgot about, misplaced, or
just plain lost track of those tapes!
Several Record companies including Elektra, Rhino, MCA, and a few others have offered
substantial sums of money for the "Lost" or missing tapes, but as of now, where they are
remains another one of the intriguing "mysteries" of the group called Love. 
PS:I forgot to mention...Don Conka also played on several songs, when he could
make it to the session! 
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bob f.
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 05:15:41
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MAN, that tape is sitting somewhere, the box all dusty, ready to be discovered! At least we have a quest to keep us focused good stuff.
.....Speaking of tapes, Johnny, do you think there might be any film of classic LOVE concerts? In fact, there is that mystery of virtualy NO live love audio or film (except the lip-synch teen TV shows we've seen). Thanx for the heads- up on the Gold Star tapes! ...and what a great legacy to that historic studio!!! 
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John9
Old Love
United Kingdom
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 10:24:26
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We can only hope.....but things like this do have a habit of turning up eventually...especially when their market value becomes apparent. I can remember some time in the early 80s, Johnny Rogan writing about a much earlier and very different version of The Byrds' Eight Miles High/Why single that allegedly had been recorded at RCA in late 1965. Many people believed this to be no more than a fanciful rumour.... until RCA decided to investigate for themselves. After a quick trawl, they found it and handed it over (presumably at a handsome price) to those who wanted to release it. Of course it is now available in all its remastered glory on the expanded Fifth Dimension CD......and it still sounds strange and otherworldly.... as though it has come up from the underworld.  |
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rocker
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 14:53:22
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| You know I have to say this might turn out like these people who I've read about that with just plain absolute luck have been finding Picassos and Pollock pictures on their "shopping" trips! Perhaps there's a box of tapes out there in a LA warehouse just waiting to be picked up?? |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 16:26:23
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quote:
Originally posted by rocker
You know I have to say this might turn out like these people who I've read about that with just plain absolute luck have been finding Picassos and Pollock pictures on their "shopping" trips! Perhaps there's a box of tapes out there in a LA warehouse just waiting to be picked up??
How great was it, finding those tapes in Bryan's Mom's garage decades later for ifyoubelievein...we can only hope!! Thank god (or Mom) they weren't thrown out-- like all OUR Moms did with those ol' baseball cards & comic books!!
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
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rocker
Old Love
USA
3606 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2009 : 17:21:01
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| It could happen lk it could happen. Maybe one day we'll be able to hear this "lost" record. Wouldn't that be something? |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 18:14:22
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it'll probably turn up on eBay, eventually..
don't knock it - stranger things have popped up in recent monthes (a Lee/Hendrix Blue Thumb acetate, Syd Barretts Brother Copier (!)
I'm holding out for the live Whisky reel to reel myself
Love with Conka - don't think there are any tapes of that occurence, unless hes on one of the live Castle Blue releases with "Revelation" being rehearsed, and so forth |
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ruxprncd
Fifth Love
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Posted - 27/10/2009 : 22:04:38
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| Fascinating stuff - Johnny, thanks a ton for sharing this nugget! |
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lemonade kid
Old Love
USA
9873 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2009 : 22:26:50
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Would dearly love to hear Conka...has he ever actually appeared on a record?
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Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might,
and when you laugh, laugh like hell,
and when you get angry, get good and angry.
Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
--william saroyan
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3491 Posts |
Posted - 27/10/2009 : 23:14:52
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| not unless hes on some American Four or LAGs record (with Fleck!) |
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3491 Posts |
Posted - 28/10/2009 : 15:16:57
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good old Fleck !
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Joe Morris
Old Love
3491 Posts |
Posted - 28/10/2009 : 15:17:56
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Joe Morris
Old Love
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caryne
Old Love
United Kingdom
1520 Posts |
Posted - 28/10/2009 : 15:25:58
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| Why three posts when one would have done it, Joe?!!!! |
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ThomasGalasso
Old Love
USA
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Posted - 29/10/2009 : 21:14:04
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Well here is hope that it comes out. Maybe the good folks at Rhino will find it somewhere much like the master of Forever Changes, that was used to make the two-disc edition.
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Joe Morris
Old Love
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Posted - 29/10/2009 : 22:47:23
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there are outtakes from Real to Reel as well, I was reading in an old Castle
Of course Real to Reel being reissued with bonus tracks is not on anyones urgency meter
People are more interested in the original Love, I figure
Of course, this explains me playing endlessly the Stay Away b/w You I'll Be Following single! |
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LOVE: the "Lost" album
