The Forever Changes Concert

The Forever Changes Concert Artist: Love
Label: Import [Generic]
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 2


UPC: 636551286824
EAN: 0636551286824
ASIN: B00009AQNP


Release Date: 2003-09-30

The Forever Changes Concert


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Tracks:

  1. Alone Again Or [DVD]
  2. House Is Not a Motel [DVD]
  3. Andmoreagain [DVD]
  4. Daily Planet [DVD]
  5. Old Man [DVD]
  6. Red Telephone [DVD]
  7. Maybe the People Would Be the Times or Between Clark and Hilldale [DVD]
  8. Live and Let Live [DVD]
  9. Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This [DVD]
  10. Bummer in the Summer [DVD]
  11. You Set the Scene [DVD]
  12. 7 and 7 Is [DVD][*]
  13. Orange Skies [DVD][*]
  14. Listen to My Song [DVD][*]
  15. She Comes in Colors [DVD][*]
  16. Always See Your Face [DVD][*]
  17. [DVD] [Bonus Material]

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Album Description

The masterpiece performed at The Royal Festival Hall in London January 2003. Already being hailed by critics as matching the quality & importance of the original. Features 11 tracks on disc one & an enhanced bonus disc featuring concert footage of 'Alone Again Or' (taken from Love The Forever Changes Concert DVD), and four additional Love classics, '7 & 7 Is', 'Your Mind & We Belong Together', 'Signed DC' & 'My Little Red Book', along with extras (picture gallery & downloadable screensaver). Packaged in a double gatefold digipak. Snapper. 2003.

Album Details

This Two-disc Set features a Complete Live Recreation of Love's 1967 Album, "Forever Changes". The Set was Recorded at London's Royal Festival Hall on January 15th 2003 When Frontman Arthur Lee was Joined by a Full String and Brass Section. Disc Two features a Handful of Tracks which were Performed the Same Evening, Including a Version of 1969's "Singing Cowboy", featuring Former Blur Guitarist Graham Coxon.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Excellent. .......2004-11-26

I'm not going to bore you here.
I'll just say that, like Brian Wilson's new "Smile" release,
this album is MUCH better than it really had any business
being.

Good for you, Arthur.
Thank you for the great music.

5 out of 5 stars Finally LOVE is back.......2004-10-11

I'm not into Classic Rock or nostalgia. However LOVE is the one band that when they play live actually brings you as close to the Sixties excitement and all out vibe as possible. This performance seals it, the band made up of former members of Baby Lemonade are tremendous players. I will correct another review, someone stated that the current band is superior to the original lineup. First, they have had years to practice, we'll never know how good those guys were, its like comparing sports eras. Alone Again or should have been played on a an acoustic guitar, I agree, but the horns are awesome and bring the music alive. Old Man was well done, I think Arthur sang his heart out on it, and dedicated it to Bryan.
All in all an excellent Live album.

5 out of 5 stars Chillingly Good.......2004-07-26

I just bought this today. I bought the original FC lp in the mid '80s and loved it. Listening to the live recording literally gave me goosebumps. My god, what a talent. With a brain this fork-bendingly creative, it's almost no wonder Mr. Lee has led a checkered life. Someone excessively picky might complain that the live versions are too true to the originals, but I think that what makes this album so special.

If you do not truly love, love, LOVE, good music, stay away from this one. You won't get it.

5 out of 5 stars Lee Sets The Scene.......2004-03-05

It was the cover which caused me to give this CD a second glance. After all, I already own the original recording of Forever Changes, and though the colors and psychedelic style are similar to the original album cover, something was strangely different. On closer examination I discovered the happy news that the recently freed Arthur Lee is back on track with a grand new project.
OK, so I bought the DVD first and after viewing it, gave it my highest recommendation. So why did I buy this too? The extras made me open my wallet and as it turns out, the extras are well worth the additional money.
This CD features Lee and his new band in England performing music from the legendary sixties Forever Changes album. Often this sort of project flops. Not here. Lee's new band has learned the music inside out and plays it with astounding authority. Fans of the original should have no reservations about getting this. From the first notes of Alone Again Or to the fading sounds of You Set the Scene you will be mesmerized at the quality of this CD. The performance is inspired from start to finish.
My favorite cuts are A House Is Not A Motel, featuring some blistering guitar by Mike Randle;The Red Telephone, which energizes both the listener and the crowd; ...Between Clark and Hilldale, again with some great guitar work; the timeless Live and Let Live; and finally a command performance of You Set the Scene.
What about those extras? Well, a couple of the songs here are different from the extras that come with the DVD. The band's rendition of Signed DC alone makes it worth the extra cash. This is Lee's best take on a song he originally wrote back in 1965 and has reworked twice. The guitar and harmonica work on this arrangement are stupendous. There are some other extras that you can view on your computer, I have not yet sampled those.
You might think that with all these superlatives there would be at least one negative. If there is, I have not found it.
With his return to the stage, Arthur Lee has set the scene once again. Forever Changes In Concert is a recording that should one day attain the legendary status of its namesake. Get this one soon, you won't be sorry.

5 out of 5 stars I was at first wary..........2003-12-28

of listening to this redone iconic 'classic' of an album ái hate the term-
How do you improve upon an uncalculated masterwork?
How do you project the imagery and the feelings of that exciting and frightening time in our history?
Will this be a tired retread from an aging cult star?
Will it be 'jazzed' up to hook the ADD-addled listeners of today?

How could the complex arrangements and delicate nuances be recreated in a live setting?

The piece we are talking about, LOVE: FOREVER CHANGES, set the mood, and reflected it- for the 1960s culture as much as any band-and the forerunners all had their part in that 1966-68 period.
Which saw the mood of the at-first, underground youth movement stray from what is mistakenly looked at as naive- "love and peace"-
to a mood and outlook that saw in despair, that this seemed no longer possible, and that a brewing storm of Apocalypse was fast approaching on the horizon....
This music captures that, the mood of hope and fear of the coming personal, socail and National sense of armageddon that nearly, and necessarily, tore this country apart.

L:FC got little radio play, and you had to be 'with it' to pick up on this LP, as it stayed largely an underground cult item for some time.

The original album is largely recreated, sometimes note-for-note-only occaisionally straying in form.
The magic of the strings, horns, bass, and Lee's vocal inflections are 95-100% duplicated here. Somehow, lightning struck twice in the same spot...
-with the added magic of more clarity and punch, because of modern recording and mixing techniques.
Sorely missed is the magic of the specifinc fingerings of Bryan Maccleans 12 string, his sharp strumming, and especailly his neo-classical flamenco picking on ALONE AGAIN OR...
If only the young of today could see that this music is as relevant today, to them in particular-maybe even more so, than it was in its time frame 35 years ago.

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