1970 Orig Arthur Lee LOVE False Start + HENDRIX
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CLEAN* 1970 ORIG With JIMI HENDRIX
LOVE
False Start
USA - BLUE THUMB bts 8822
HARD TO FIND TOP CLEAN ORIGINAL....
1970 first pressing vinyl in thick gatefold cover...The second and final Love album for Blue Thumb Records saw bandleader Arthur Lee heavily influenced by his friend, Jimi Hendrix, even going so far as to coax Hendrix into appearing on the opening track of the album, "The Everlasting First"
After Four Sail, Love’s final Elektra album, the band moved to Blue Thumb Records, and promptly released the double album Out Here in 1969, and the ten-track False Start a year later.
False Start is perfectly serviceable, diverse even. Lee’s more pessimistic inclinations are masked, or chemically suppressed, with a hollow, up-with-people mentality. The man who once warned of water turning to blood and shooting bluebirds now sings of riding vibrations and sunshine. “Open up your heart and let the sun come shining in”, he suggests, a far cry from the fire-and-brimstone sermons he once recited. For finger-wagging sage advice, Lee still advises “You’re gonna reap just what you sow / I’m here to let everybody know / If you don’t do your best, you’re gonna find yourself in an awful mess”. “Stand Out”, a cool track from Out Here, is duplicated in an impressive live version, and jaunty tunes like “Slick Dick” (where Lee even admits “I know what it sounds like but it ain’t”) and “Gimi a Little Break” (note the Hendrix-fied spelling) further glorifies the album.
Throughout, the band is tight and funky, the melodies are generous, and Lee is a versatile pop singer, probably more versatile than Hendrix even. It’s just that Lee is or was capable of so much more than these simplistic exercises. The double meaning of Love (hey, it’s an emotion, and it’s also the band name) is toyed with repeatedly, as on the eleven-minute “Love is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never” and “Love is Coming”, which might as well be a Monkees-esque self-referential theme song. At the end of “Keep on Shining”, Lee repeatedly shouts the word “love”, as though it’s imprisoning him, keeping him from shining, in fact.
And perhaps that’s the lesson of these albums. Forever Changes is a work not simply of prophecy, but finality, digging the grave for ‘60s idealism before the movement even peaked.
- "The Everlasting First" — 3:01
- "Flying" — 2:37
- "Gimi a Little Break" — 4:10
- "Stand Out" (live) — 3:35
- "Keep on Shining" — 3:50
- "Anytime" — 3:23
- "Slick Dick" — 3:05
- "Love is Coming" — 1:24
- "Feel Daddy Feel Good" — 3:15
- "Ride That Vibration" — 3:34
CONDITION: The thick gatefold cover without the usual shelf wear = the dark cover is almost 99% ALWAYS found with shelf wrar and usually bad after 40 years...this copy is the exception, the upgrade at "EX" (excellent) = and solid with no split seams, no writing and only a very small (minor) delete at bottom left ...overall nice copy....
The vinyl is all glossy clean and clear NM play graded TOP LEVEL
A cool addition to anyone's music library!
Shipping Costs per LP
First- class Mail International
International 18 Euro
Europa 12 Euro
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