Love - Arthur Lee: Out Here 12" double LP on Harvest Blue Thumb label NM
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Description
EX Condition / Double Gatefold LP - This copy was owned by Malcolm Jones, the label manager of Harvest Records at EMI.
Arthur Lee & Love - Out Here
Blue Thumb 1970
Nice condition gatefold with original sticker on front
Tracks:
1: I'll pray for you/Abalony/Signed DC/Listen to my song/I'm Down
2: Stand out/Discharged/Doggone
3: I still wonder/Love is more than words or Better late than never/Nice to be/Car lights on in the day time blues
4: Run to the top/Willow willow/Instra-mental/You are something/Gather round
From Wikipedia:
The new Love featured a lineup consisting of Lee on vocals and guitar, Jay Donnellan on guitar, Frank Fayad on bass, and George Suranovich on drums despite a few tracks featuring The Crazy World of Arthur Brown drummer Drachen Theaker. Lee signed a record deal with Bob Krasnow's Blue Thumb label during this time, but without mentioning to Krasnow that he was technically still signed to Elektra Records. Lee had wanted out of his Elektra deal since 1966 (the year the self-titled debut was released). Elektra founder Jac Holzman did not want to let Lee out of his contract because he admired his talents so much, but he also did not want to keep an artist who did not want to be kept, so a deal was worked out that allowed Lee could record for Blue Thumb with Holzman getting his choice of ten of the resulting songs to fulfill the Elektra contract of a fourth album. That album would become Four Sail (1969), Lee's pun on his original title "For Sale". A mere three months after the release of Four Sail, Blue Thumb records released their Love album titled Out Here using remaining tracks from the sessions.
Out Here featured the same musicians as Four Sail except guitarist Jay Donnellan who was replaced with Gary Rowles. Lee felt that Donnellan was getting a little too egotistical for his tastes. The new lineup contained of musicians who were not fans of Forever Changes, resulting in a harder-edged rock sound. During the initial Four Sail/Out Here sessions, Krasnow approached Lee about the possibility of rounding up the original members of Love. Krasnow felt there was some magic missing with the new line up. Lee obliged him, and started rehearsing and even recording some with original members Echols, Forssi, and Stuart (MacLean had turned him down). Heroin proved to be too dominant in the lives of Echols and Forssi. Both men were constantly pawning off the rented equipment for drug money and were eventually let go yet again. Love also toured both Four Sail and Out Here for their first trip to Europe, where they were always more popular, and went on to do a nationally televised performance on Dutch television which also featured promotional videos for older songs from the Elektra years. Out Here managed to chart at #29 in the UK in May 1970.
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