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 The Times: 25 Greatest Gigs Ever, Love RFH 2003
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mikeb
Old Love

United Kingdom
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Posted - 27/11/2012 :  14:48:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Prior to the Rolling Stones gig The Times on Saturday ran a feature The 25 Greatest Gigs ever, 8 of their writers contributed. It's not clear whether the list is in order or a just a list of 25, Love with Arthur Lee, Royal Festival Hall London 2003 is 21.

"Fresh out of jail (for threatening his neighbour with a gun) LA's most unlikely peace and love guru teamed up with the young band Baby Lemonade and a chamber orchestra to play his 1967 acid rock masterpiece Forever Changes. Looking cool in a fedora and headband Lee rose to the challenge, his quivering falsetto bringing out the elegance and beauty of one of rock's greatest albums.

Key moment: A clearly nervous Lee played the delicate introduction to Alone Again Or. The crowd erupts. He looks like he doesn't know what hit him.

Best song: The Red Telephone, with its line "Sitting on the hillside, watching all the people die. I'll feel much better on the other side." Lee died three years later."


Edited by - mikeb on 27/11/2012 14:48:34

lemonade kid
Old Love

USA
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Posted - 27/11/2012 :  15:01:43  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Thanks for this....I've always thought it the best live performance for my money, so I'm happy to see this!

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Dukie
Fifth Love

United Kingdom
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Posted - 27/11/2012 :  15:30:19  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I, and a few other members of this board, was there!
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Joe Morris
Old Love

3491 Posts

Posted - 29/11/2012 :  00:01:13  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Robyn Hitchcock play it?
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stewart
Old Love

United Kingdom
568 Posts

Posted - 29/11/2012 :  00:12:29  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
their 8 writers wont have been to that many gigs in last 50 yrs!and likely to mostly have been in London anyway. Have to disagree re RFH, it lacked any atmosphere cf to others on that tour, the standing only gig at Manchester Academy was the best of the tour by far, like being at the Olympics 100m final. The gig there the previous year was even better http://love.torbenskott.dk/tour/20020610_manchester.asp and Liverpool '92 was a cracking atmosphere too.

All up there along with my other alltime best - Captain Beefheart @ Middle Earth, London 20/1/1968 and at Newcastle Club a Gogo. The Doors/Jefferson Airplane @ the Roundhouse, and assorted appearances by Ed Kuepper, Archie Bronson Outfit, Low, Spain, Mazzy Star and Sparklehorse, Sex Pistols, The La's, Magnolia Electric Co, Morphine, Country Joe,REM,The Walkabouts and of course the Stones

Edited by - stewart on 29/11/2012 00:32:53
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Dukie
Fifth Love

United Kingdom
410 Posts

Posted - 29/11/2012 :  00:33:52  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I agree about the RFH. I was too far away for a start and much preferred the front view at Bristol two nights before.
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Joe Morris
Old Love

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Posted - 30/11/2012 :  01:12:18  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
didn't Arthur play this venue at a Hendrix tribute and end up playing the drums with his hands after falling backwards doing Your Mind & We?
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Dukie
Fifth Love

United Kingdom
410 Posts

Posted - 30/11/2012 :  14:24:31  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
It was at the Creation Records event at the Royal Albert Hall in 1994 that Arthur (allegedly) took a tumble over the drum kit. I didn't know about this show so did not attend, but did see Arthur the night before at The Garage where he was backed by the High Llamas.
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