{"id":2859,"date":"2012-08-19T05:19:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-19T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=2859"},"modified":"2012-08-19T05:19:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-19T09:19:21","slug":"bootleg-bin-love-10-24-93-north-hampton-ma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2012\/08\/19\/bootleg-bin-love-10-24-93-north-hampton-ma\/","title":{"rendered":"Bootleg Bin: Love &#8211; 10-24-93 North Hampton MA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having paid his debt to society, convicted felon <strong>Arthur Lee<\/strong> surprised all interested parties by returning to the music scene in the 90s more musically focused than he&#8217;d ever been. Having led the critical darlings <strong>Love<\/strong> in mid 60s Los Angeles, Lee had established a mystique around the band. Their music ran the gamut from punky anthems to airy psychedelia. &#8220;7 and 7 Is&#8221; was an assault on the senses, yet the tracks on the legendary <em>Forever Changes<\/em> LP evoked the sound of <strong>Herb Alpert&#8217;s Tijuana Brass<\/strong> tour bus colliding with a <strong>Buffalo Springfield<\/strong>. Yet the mercurial Lee refused to tour, even to play outside of L.A. in the group&#8217;s heyday. His erratic personality, coupled with the unbending &#8220;three-strikes and you&#8217;re out&#8221; laws meant a prison sentence for him, and most onlookers figured that would be that.<\/p>\n<p>But Lee discovered LA popsters <strong>Baby Lemonade<\/strong>, a group with two parallels to Love: the group was multiracial, and they played muscular hooky pop with an arty bent. The BL duo signed on as, essentially, the new Love, thus assuming a role quite similar to another 90s LA pop group backing another troubled 60s legend from LA (<strong>Wondermints<\/strong>, <strong>Brian Wilson<\/strong> respectively). This collaboration has endured into the 21st century: the reinvigorated Love has toured Europe and the USA, performing <em>Forever Changes<\/em> in its entirety (the parallels continue: Brian Wilson wheeled out the complete <em>Pet Sounds<\/em> LP, and more recently the great lost 60s masterwork, <em>SMiLE<\/em>). But this set, a good-to-very-good audience recording from 1993, shows what can only be called an embryonic version of the new Love, running through their material. There&#8217;s a good selection from the first four Love albums (the ones that matter) plus a bit of new material that fits in well. The band is in top form, albeit without the later embellishments of strings and horns; this North Hampton show is more of a &#8220;club date&#8221; sort of gig. Well worth checking out.<\/p>\n<p><em>Difficulty to Locate: 7 out of 10<br \/>\nGeneral Listenability: 8 out of 10<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/the_musoscribe\">Follow \u201cthe_musoscribe\u201d on <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/musoscribe.com\/images\/icon_twitter_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"18\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"1\" vspace=\"0\" \/> Twitter<\/a> and get notified<br \/>\nwhen new features, reviews and essays are published.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having paid his debt to society, convicted felon Arthur Lee surprised all interested parties by returning to the music scene in the 90s more musically focused than he&#8217;d ever been. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bootleg","category-review","cat-11-id","cat-65-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}