Arthur Lee has died

[johnnie]

"LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Arthur Lee, the eccentric singer/guitarist with influential 1960s rock band Love, has died in a Memphis hospital after a battle with leukemia, his manager said on Friday. He was 61.


"His death comes as a shock to me because Arthur had the uncanny ability to bounce back from everything, and leukemia was no exception," Mark Linn said in an email to Reuters. "He was confident that he would be back on stage by the fall."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060804/en_nm/arthurlee_dc_2


I thought this would have been posted already, I searched but nothing came up.

[asthmaticeog]

1. Fuck.

[johnnie]

2. No

Love

[Magrittes Pipe]

3. Shit.

Fuck.

:cry:

[redqueen]

4. *sigh*

:cry:

[jpgray]

5. Kick

:(

[enigmatic]

6. FUCK!

Arthur, you were a genius; you made "Da Capo" and "Forever Changes"; nobody will ever take that away from you.

RIP

[progmom]

7. Oh no.

:cry: This is sad.

[Kajsa]

8. Oh no!

This is really sad.
He was fantastic!!!

:cry:

[flamingyouth]

9. Oh man, that sucks

:cry:

[VOX]

10. I am so sorry to learn this. If you were around L.A. in the 1960s...

Arthur Lee's Love was *the* band to see. Love's albums are very uneven, but there some brilliant songs on those.

He will be missed!:cry:

[brentspeak]

11. "I'll feel so much better on the other side."

[Floogeldy]

12. "Boom bip bip boom bip bip yea!"

[datasuspect]

13. oh the snot has caked against my pants

it has turned into crystal
a bluebird is sitting on a branch
i guess i'll take my pistol

[bridgit]

14. Arthur ~

Arthur ~ :cry:
I just got out my little red book
The minute that you said goodbye
I thumbed right through my little red book
I wasnt gonna sit and cry
And I went from a to z
I took out every pretty girl in town
They danced with me and as I held them

All I did was talk about you
Hear your name and Id start to cry
Theres just no getting over you... oh, no...

There aint no girl in my little red book
Who could ever replace your charms
And each girl in my little red book
Knows youre the one Im thinkin of
Oh wont you please come back
Without your precious love I cant go on
Where can love be I need you so much

Oh wont you please come back
Without your precious love I cant go on
Its haunting me I need you so much

All I did was talk and talk about you
Hear your name and Id start to cry
Theres just no getting over you
All I did was talk and talk about you
Hear your name and Id start to cry
Theres just no getting over you... oh no

[otherlander]

15. Rest in peace...

he was a chaotic and brilliant man...

they're locking them up today
they're thowing away the key
i wonder who it'll be tomorrow,
you or me?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

16. sad news

I'll just add some links.

The Washington Post's appreciation of Arthur Lee was written by Tim Page, whose usual task is reviewing operatic performances and classical music concerts.

Appreciation
The Everlasting 'Forever' Of Arthur Lee

By Tim Page
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, August 5, 2006; Page C01

Arthur Lee and his off-again-on-again rock group Love made only one great album -- a brooding, opulent and improbable dream called "Forever Changes," released in the fall of 1967. Still, such devotion has this single disc inspired over the decades that the news of Lee's death from leukemia -- on Thursday, in Memphis, at age 61 -- affected his more ardent listeners as a personal loss.

"Forever Changes" is one of those works of art that are not for everybody but are very much for some people, along the same lines as Malcolm Lowry's novel "Under the Volcano" (which generally bores and annoys those it fails to bowl over) or Alain Resnais's "Last Year at Marienbad" (which is regularly chosen as both one of the best and one of the worst films ever made). It was never a "hit" -- there were dozens of records in 1967 that outsold "Forever Changes" many times over. But it never quite went out of print, either, and, year after year, devotees passed on copies to new listeners with evangelical fervor, with the result that its legion of fans is notably multi-generational. And so my 19-year-old son and his musician friends love "Forever Changes" just as much as I did at their age, and for many of the same reasons, few of which have anything to do with nostalgia.

One of Arthur Lee's biggest advocates is Little Steven, of Little Steven's Underground Garage. Surely he'll have much to say about this on his show, which is usually heard on Sunday evenings.

This is sad news.

[robertpaulsen]

17. "all that lives is gonna die"

You Set the Scene
by Arthur Lee

Where are you walking, I've seen you walking
Have you been there before?
Walk down your doorsteps, you'll take some more steps
What did you take them for?

There's a private in my boat and he wears
Pins instead of medals on his coat
There's a chicken in my nest and she won't
Lay until I've given her my best

At her request she asks for nothing
You get nothing in return
If you want she brings you water
If you don't then you will burn

You go through changes, it may seem strange
Is this what you're put here for?
You think you're happy and you are happy
That's what you're happy for

There's a man who can't decide if he should
Fight for what his father thinks is right
There are people wearing frowns who'll screw you up
But they would rather screw you down

At my request I ask for nothing
You get nothing in return
If you're nice she'll bring me water
If you're not then I will burn

This is the time and life that I am living
And I'll face each day with a smile
For the time that I've been given's such a little while
And the things that I must do consist of more than style
There are places that I am going
There'll be time for you to start all over
This is the only thing that I am sure of
And that's all that lives is gonna die
And there'll always be some people here to wonder why
And for every happy hello, there will be good-bye
There'll be time for you to put yourself on

Everything I've seen needs rearranging
And for anyone who thinks it's strange
Then you should be the first to want to make this change
And for everyone who thinks that life is just a game
Do you like the part you're playing

I see your picture
It's in the same old frame
We meet again...

You look so lovely
You with the same old smile
Stay for a while...

I need you so, oh, oh, oh, oh
And if you take it easy
I'm still teethin'
I wanna love you, but
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh...

This is the time and life that I am living
And I'll face each day with a smile
For the time that I've been given's such a little while
And the things that I must do consist of more than style
There are places that I am going
There'll be time for you to start all over

This is the time and this is the time and
It is time, time, time, time, time, time, time, time, time...