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There are 25 messages in this issue.
Topics in this digest:
1. Re: Where's the party
From: Mike Rashkow
2. Boettcher and Calif. Music?
From: Bill Reed
3. FINALLY
From: Mike Rashkow
4. Re: Bonner & Gordon
From: A.Zweig
5. Re: Saturday Morning Playlist
From: Mike Rashkow
6. Bonner, Gordon, AND Grassroots!
From: unclemeatz
7. Re: Where Were You When I Needed You
From: Lee
8. Minuteman records
From: Ian Chapman
9. Arthur Lee & Love on tour
From: David Parkinson
10. Esquerita / Eskew Reeder
From: Rat Pfink
11. Love Generation/Stones
From: David Ponak
12. Archie Comics celebration
From: Laura Pinto
13. Re: Baby Lemonade (was Arthur Lee & Love on tour)
From: Rat Pfink
14. Arthur Lee & Love on tour
From: Stephanie Campbell
15. Arthur Lee & Love on tour
From: Andrew Hickey
16. The Tokens Exposed!
From: Leonardo Flores
17. Arthur Lee & Love on tour
From: David Parkinson
18. The Tokens Exposed!
From: Mikey
19. Re: The Tokens Exposed!
From: Ian Chapman
20. Archie Comics
From: Dan Hughes
21. Re: Arthur Lee & Love on tour
From: bryan
22. Merry-Go-round
From: David Parkinson
23. Re: The Tokens Exposed!
From: Stephanie Campbell
24. Re: Merry-Go-Round
From: Rat Pfink
25. Re: The Tokens/Chiffons Exposed!
From: Will Stos
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:07:48 EDT
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Re: Where's the party
> > Re: NY Party - I'm in Chatham, NJ just west of NYC (1/2 hour);
> > Mikey's in Manhattan, Marc's in the area, Jimmy B visits from
> > Boston. I know Mark F is in Cherry Hill.... I'm on vacation next
> > week and unavailable each weekend until mid-August, but afterward
> > maybe some of us could make contact.....
I've been out of the loop. What party? Jack Madani's in Princeton,
NJ, by the way and I can be wherever I want to be pretty much all
the time. Now in Saratoga NY where the racing is great.
Rashkovsky
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 27 Jul 2002 10:14:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Reed
Subject: Boettcher and Calif. Music?
Re: "California Music" by Curt Boettcher, which I have
recently purchased. I like this CD a lot and yet it is
hard to get a good solid sense of what actually went on
here.
Poptones go to the trouble of putting out historic reissues
that cry out for annotation, but usually I am left feeling
no better informed than before I read them. The liner notes
tend to be skimpy and in a typeface that's difficult to read.
Here are some things that faded youth would like to
know about "California Music"
* Are the tracks of the title tune "California Music"
and "Jamaica Farewell" the same as those released by
California Music on RCA?
* What is the difference between the mixes of the
earlier Japanese Dreamsville release and the Poptones?
* Who mixed the Poptones version?
* Brian Wilson is listed as a co-producer, but how
much input did he truly have in any of this? Same
thing with Terry Melcher, another alleged co-producer.
I really cannot hear much Melcher input. If Melcher
and Bruce Johnston are actually co-producers, why is
so little of their playing and singing and songwriting
heard here?
* Why isn't the truly wonderful California Music track
"New York's a Lonely Town" included on the CD?
* Who was the group contracted to, if anyone -
Together Records or RCA?
* Even though only Boettcher and two others are listed
as supplying vocals, it is clearly Bruce Johnston who
is heard on "Brand New Old Friends". How many others,
besides Johnston, are actually heard on the recording.
There are only four musicians listed. Clearly there
are many more. Who else? Or is it all overdubbing?
* What exactly was the release history of material on
this CD around the time the music was actually
recorded? How much of it appeared on Together Records
as singles? The notes author, who is pathologically
addicted to ellipsis and phobic about the use of
nouns and pronouns, states, "Disappointed that the
least adventurous mix had been chosen as the single,
Boettcher..." "least adventurous mix" of WHAT TRACK
ferkrisakes?
* Whose name was "Passionfruit", an alternate title
of the CD, originally supposed to be released under?
Boettcher or "California Music?"
* And, oh yes, recording date?
* And any other info that listers might have at their
disposal.
Thanks in advance.
Bill Reed
http://communities.msn.com/nickdecaro
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:07:52 EDT
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: FINALLY
A month or two ago I mentioned in this space that I owned a
Jean Thomas record titled "You're The Root Of My Evil".
It was written by Jean and her brother Don and possibly Bill
Szymczyk and produced by Szymczyk too - but I could
not remember the label - out of Boston, MA.
...and now, for whomever cares, I do:
Minuteman Records.
Rashkovsky
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 14:03:06 -0700
From: A.Zweig
Subject: Re: Bonner & Gordon
Glenn:
> When I wrote to the webmasters about the
> lack of response from Garry, they sent me e-mails like "we're
> really sorry, we're trying to get him to respond to you, we'll
> remind him again." And finally he wrote that one line response
> on the board.
> I don't know; people are different.So does this comparatively
> make Bonner a jerk? Well, I don't know him personally, but in
> my book it does.
People are different and some of them don't take compliments
well. And some of them don't mind a compliment but have trouble
responding to long gushing compliments. Especially if they're
expected to respond in kind. Or if they get the feeling that
the fan wants to be rewarded somehow for the compliments they
gave. He may be a jerk but on this evidence, the jury's still out.
I think it's cool that the web has given us access to so many of
our "heroes" but that doesn't mean they're all going to become
our new best friends.
It sounds to me like he read your compliments, probably enjoyed
them but didn't know how to respond to them. Maybe he got the
feeling you wanted a long response, telling little stories,
sharing details etc. Maybe he's not in the habit of doing that.
Maybe he feels that it's boastful. Maybe he's more humble than
that. Maybe he knew that you'd never be satisfied by a simple
thank you so he ended up writing nothing.
Maybe he doesn't like to focus that much on his past work. Maybe
he doesn't like writing long letters. Maybe he's done it in the
past but then what happens is the fan responds back with a long
letter and he's expected to do it again. And so on....
AZ
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 21:07:50 EDT
From: Mike Rashkow
Subject: Re: Saturday Morning Playlist
Simon writes:
> Green Door - Eskew Reeder
Holy God. Eskew Reeder. He was real? I thought it was just
some kind of dim memory of a nightmare I once had, you know -
this Little Richard wannabee who kept trying to get me to do
something unsavoury back in Studio C at Bell Sound when I was
young, cute and naive. Scared the da doo ron ron out of me.
Rashkovsky
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 20:15:07 -0500
From: unclemeatz
Subject: Bonner, Gordon, AND Grassroots!
A response to a few random things...
Firstly, the Repertoire Let's Live/Feelings twofer is really
outta site. I didn't even know it EXISTED until I stumbled
over it at a used CD store. Much cleaner sound on Let's Live
than the MCA disc, and in additional to Feelings (which, to
my surprise, includes a dubbed-over Sloan demo that late in
the game!) they include a few single sides from the period,
at least one of which (Depressed Feeling) can't possibly show
up on disc anywhere else.
Re. the Parrots, that's one thing I DID know about Bonner/Gordon,
or at least suspected; I keep getting conflicting stories as
to whether they're actually the Parrots. The big evidence in
favor of that version of the story, though, is that the one
Parrots song I have (on a Billy's Psychedelic Unknowns volume)
is "Put The Clock Back On the Wall," covered more famously (and,
IMO, in a much better arrangement) by the E-Types. If you don't
have that track, whether on Nuggets or elsewhere, seek it out;
it's an amazing song.
-D
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2002 22:08:34 -0400
From: Lee
Subject: Re: Where Were You When I Needed You
Glenn wrote:
> And by "officially released", he is contrasting it with the
> previous promo-only single sent to radio stations which
> unquestionably had Sloan's vocal, since Fulton's band hadn't
> even been considered at the time...
I'd love to get to the bottom of this myself. I have the MCA,
Rhino, and Varese CD releases, as well as the original Dunhill
stock 45 and LP, and they all sound like the same vocal to me
(and I pride myself on my dog ears!). It sounds to me like
someone doing a very good Phil Sloan imitation -- as opposed to
Phil himself. So I've always assumed it was Bill Fulton.
I've never had the opportunity to listen to a white label promo
of the single, but I've always assumed that the "promo only
single" referred to by Sloan in interviews was, in fact, an
acetate, likely given to a couple of L.A. radio stations as an
advance copy to test the waters. And when the single was
finally pressed (WLP and stock), it contained the version with
Fulton's vocals. I just assumed that "acetate" was translated
to "promo only single" for the sake of the average liner notes
reader that wouldn't know what an acetate was...
Hey Elliot K. -- you're our MCA/Universal connection! Can you
shed any light on this one???
Lee
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Message: 8
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:01:34 -0000
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: Minuteman records
Mike Rashkow wrote:
> A month or two ago I mentioned in this space that I owned a
> Jean Thomas record titled "You're The Root Of My Evil".
> It was written by Jean and her brother Don and possibly Bill
> Szymczyk and produced by Szymczyk too....Minuteman Records.
Mike,
The BMI site credits Jean and Bill as the writers, but doesn't
mention Don. I just saw a Minuteman label listing - it shows
that Jean's record was issued in '67, and also that the label's
first release was in fact by Don: "Turn Her Around"/"Do You
Wanna Know", in '66.
It seems the label only had ten releases, but some others sound
interesting, e.g. Aleta Diehl, "He's A Character"/"Jimmy Love",
and the Cadalinas, "Bad Girl"/"Back In Town". Does anybody know
these records? Recommended?
Ian
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 09:32:36 -0700
From: David Parkinson
Subject: Arthur Lee & Love on tour
I saw Love last night here in Seattle. If anyone out there is
considering seeing Love on this tour, but is worried that maybe
it'll be a sad event, with poor old Arthur trotting out the old
songs and soldiering through them... think again. His band is on
fire, and he is in top form. It was just a stunning, brilliant,
uplifting show.
Basically, they played everything from Forever Changes, except
Old Man (Bryan MacLean's song), plenty from Da Capo (Stephanie
Knows Who, Seven and Seven Is, She Comes In Colors, Orange Skies),
and My Little Red Book and Signed D.C. from the first album. Also
Your Mind And We Belong Together, Singing Cowboy, Everybody's Gotta
Live, and a couple others.
Does anyone out there have anything to say about Baby Lemonade?
They are apparently a pretty hot sh*t band. The guitarist was
able to reconstruct the sound and feel of those blistering Johnny
Echols solos, and filled in for missing string and horn arrangements
really well. Tight tight tight, and Arthur was so clearly grooving
on the energy. It was just excellent to see him looking so together
and happy.
David
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Message: 10
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:13:20 -0400
From: Rat Pfink
Subject: Esquerita / Eskew Reeder
Rashkovsky wrote:
>Holy God. Eskew Reeder. He was real? .......
>this Little Richard wannabee
Little Richard wannabee? Hardly. Esquirita was there
first. Mr. Penniman "borrowed" his wildman '50s persona
from Mr. Reeder.
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Message: 11
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 10:30:07 -0700
From: David Ponak
Subject: Love Generation/Stones
I have to respectfully disagree with the opinion that the Love
Generation material is sub-par. Maybe I'm reacting to the kitsch
factor (for which I do have a weakness), but the songs are very
inventive and the production and vocal arrangments are nothing
less than stunning. The fact that the LG are obviously a bunch
of "squares" trying to be very "hip" and "groovy" also enhances
the experience for me. This bunch is much stronger the The
Sunshine Company!
Also, I just got the 21 track "Rolling Stones Remastered"
promotional sampler released by Abkco in advance of the August
20 re-release of the catalogue. I may not a picky audiophile;
however, I can tell you with assurance that this material sounds
amazing! I can't wait to pick up the UK versions of "Between The
Buttons" & "Aftermath" as well as "Satanic Magesty's...". Wow!!!!
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Message: 12
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:42:39 -0000
From: Laura Pinto
Subject: Archie Comics celebration
Did anyone get to go to the big celebration in LA this weekend
for the 60th anniversary of Archie comics? Ron Dante was at
Pink's Hot Dogs to sing and sign autographs, and with him was
Toni Wine!!! The original "candy girl" on "Sugar, Sugar"
("I'm gonna make your life so sweet...") They sang it, of course.
I wish I could've been there, but LA is a little far from Florida.
I'll be watching the Golden Apple Comics site and the Pinks Hotdogs
site for photos!
Laura
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Message: 13
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:22:29 -0400
From: Rat Pfink
Subject: Re: Baby Lemonade (was Arthur Lee & Love on tour)
> Does anyone out there have anything to say about Baby Lemonade?
> They are apparently a pretty hot sh*t band.
I've got a couple Baby Lemonade CDs and they're both
quite good. If you're into any of the retro-pop bands
like Wondermints or Apples In Stereo, you'll probably
dig 'em.
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Message: 14
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 15:24:48 -0700
From: Stephanie Campbell
Subject: Arthur Lee & Love on tour
I read somewhere that Arthur had gone to jail for a little
while - is that true? Are there still a lot of Love fans
out there that go to see them? It's hard for me to think of
them as an oldies act....
Stephanie
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Message: 15
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:31:54 -0000
From: Andrew Hickey
Subject: Arthur Lee & Love on tour
> I saw Love last night here in Seattle. If anyone out there is
> considering seeing Love on this tour, but is worried that maybe
> it'll be a sad event, with poor old Arthur trotting out the old
> songs and soldiering through them... think again. His band is on
> fire, and he is in top form. It was just a stunning, brilliant,
> uplifting show.
I have to agree with this. I saw him the same week as Brian Wilson
came to town (you wait all your life for *one* eccentric Californian
psych-pop genius...) and my friend who attended both gigs actually
preferred the Arthur Lee one. While I disagreed with him, I thought
it was a justifiable opinion - which should tell you something about
just how astonishing these shows are.
> Basically, they played everything from Forever Changes, except
> Old Man (Bryan MacLean's song), plenty from Da Capo (Stephanie
> Knows Who, Seven and Seven Is, She Comes In Colors, Orange Skies),
> and My Little Red Book and Signed D.C. from the first album. Also
> Your Mind And We Belong Together, Singing Cowboy, Everybody's Gotta
> Live, and a couple others.
Sounds pretty much like the set I saw, where they did the three post
Forever Changes tracks you list (with the obligatory Instant Karma
section in Everybody's Gotta Live), all of Forever Changes except Old
Man and The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This (it was the
first time Arthur Lee had ever done The Daily Planet live),
everything off side one of Da Capo, and the songs you mention plus a
few more I forget from the first album. One of the best set lists
ever, and in my top 10 all time gigs.
> Does anyone out there have anything to say about Baby Lemonade?
> They are apparently a pretty hot sh*t band. The guitarist was
> able to reconstruct the sound and feel of those blistering Johnny
> Echols solos, and filled in for missing string and horn
> arrangements really well. Tight tight tight, and Arthur was so clearly
> grooving on the energy. It was just excellent to see him looking so
> together and happy.
Oh yeah - they're a fantastic band, but they *could* do with a
keyboard player to fill out some of the missing parts, particularly
from the Da Capo stuff.
Incidentally the support act for this tour is Stew from The Negro
Problem, and his set alone would be worth the admission - but Arthur
Lee is who Mick Jagger wishes he could be...
http://www.stealthmunchkin.com
The new album Tequila Car Crash coming soon
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Message: 16
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 19:34:22 -0000
From: Leonardo Flores
Subject: The Tokens Exposed!
On Sunday July 28th I had the honor of talking to Phil and Mitch
Margo of the Tokens at the Sequoia Record meet in Buena Park.
They were able to answer a lot of my questions concerning the
Tokens career as performers and producers.
Schoolhouse Rock: The song that the Tokens performed for the
Schoolhouse Rock children's educations show was "Gravity." But a
second unreleased song was also recorded, a song called "Metric"
but it wasn't used because of the US not converting to the metric
system.
Wheels: The Tokens third LP was a Hot Rod LP called "Wheels"
featuring one of the best LP covers of the era as well as some of
the best Hot Rod music. The entire LP was recorded in a week's
time! They were asked to record it on Monday and the LP was
finished by Friday.
RCA Reissues: Phil told me that much of Tokens RCA catalog is going
to finally be released on the Bear Family label out of Germany - so
I know it's going to be good!
Bass Sounds: Some of the best-recorded bass are on BT Puppy and
Tokens releases. Phil told me that most of the time they had two
basses on each track one playing the bass line, the other an octave
above. That's how they achieved such a full bass sound.
Denise: Randy and the Rainbows' track "Denise" is actually made up of
two different takes that were edited together to make the final
product on Rust. He also said they received $1,500 dollars to
record the song, which was a lot for the day. As they put their
own cash in the project, it was mostly profit. After a couple of
weeks the song went nowhere, but since Jubilee put so much money
into the project, the Tokens were able to put pressure on them to
keep the song promoted for another week. If it weren't for third
week of promotion, the song wouldn't have been a hit.
Intercourse: For those of you who didn't know, the cover of the
original release of the Tokens LP "Intercourse" had just the word
"Intercourse" printed on it with the definition underneath.
Back Catalog & Jubilee Records: Also didn't know that BT Puppy
was a partner label between The Tokens and Jubilee Records. Who owns
the BT Puppy Back Catalog? Other than the Happenings' catalog,
The Tokens still own the catalog, but on the downside of all this,
most of the tapes to all the songs recorded on the label are now lost
and cannot be located. The Happenings' catalog went to Jubilee as
part of the deal when The Happenings decided to leave BT Puppy and
self-produce on Jubilee.
Green Plant: The mildly psych Tokens song called "Green Plant" was
based on a real plant in the BT Puppy offices. Phil told me that no
one took care of the plant but by some miracle it stayed alive.
Somebody ask them if they could write a song about a plant, and Green
Plant was the result. Amanda Ambrose, who also did a version of the
song on BT Puppy, played the song at religious services as the words
of the song were very positive and went along with the doctrine of
her beliefs.
Phil and Mitch Margo are great and blessed people who performed some
of the finest and positive songs of the 1960s and 70s and
even perform up to today. These guys couldn't be more gracious ("pull
up a chair Leo...") - they signed all my Tokens and Cross Country LPs
(but dang! I forgot my Chiffons LP!...UG!!) and answered all my
questions as best as they can. A First Class act, as Mitch Margo
would say.
"Every second is a Miracle."
Cheers
Leonardo Flores
PS I have a phone number of a gent who was interested in reissuing
the Sundae Train LP on BT Puppy but cannot locate a copy. Please
email me privately if you have a copy of that LP, I would like to hear
it as well! Thanks LF
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Message: 17
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:06:28 -0700
From: David Parkinson
Subject: Arthur Lee & Love on tour
Stephanie asked:
> I read somewhere that Arthur had gone to jail for a little
> while - is that true? Are there still a lot of Love fans
> out there that go to see them?
Yeah, he was put away for about 6 years (of an 11-year sentence).
Supposedly he fired off a gun during a dispute with a neighbor.
This is causing him some trouble with the Canadian border authorities,
who prevented the band from getting to Vancouver the night before
the Seattle show.
I think they still have quite a good following; especially since
they continue to get more and more critical attention and exposure
as time goes on. Having Elektra do such a nice job with the
repackaging of the first three albums must be helping bring them
to the attention of new fans as well. It seemed to be a pretty
mixed crowd last night: definitely plenty of older folks, but quite
a lot of people in their 20s.
Anyway, I was worried that the show would be like one of those
self-congratulatory oldies shows (case in point: that terrible smug
Moody Blues Live At The Royal Albert Hall show that our local PBS
station keeps in heavy rotation). But Arthur Lee had the poise and
the attitude of a much younger man. In fact, if he has mellowed at
all over the years, it makes me wonder just how intense Love must
have been in 1965. Scary.
It occurred to me during the show that I was really just psyched
about the fact that Arthur Lee was free and able to tour again on
the strength of the old material. But he was putting on such a good
show that I started thinking in terms of new material... here's hoping.
David
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Message: 18
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 16:37:42 -0400
From: Mikey
Subject: The Tokens Exposed!
Leonardo Flores:
> On Sunday July 28th I had the honor of talking to Phil and Mitch
> Margo of the Tokens.......
I wish you would have asked them where the multitracks of the
Chiffons' tracks are. I've heard they have them, and I've
also heard they don't.
Your Friend,
Mikey
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Message: 19
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 20:41:18 -0000
From: Ian Chapman
Subject: Re: The Tokens Exposed!
Some great stories and useful fax 'n' info there, Leonardo.
Especially liked the "Green Plant" story - apart from Amanda
Ambrose's version, I remember that Lady Flash did it on their
"Street Singin'" LP in the late 70s.
But sad news about the loss of the BT Puppy tapes. I guess
this means no reissue of the Chiffons' "My Secret Love" album,
nor Beverly Warren and Andrea Carroll's "Back to Back" set.
Shame...
Ian
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Message: 20
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:47:06 -0500
From: Dan Hughes
Subject: Archie Comics
Laura, I'm on a group of old-time radio fans, and one of the
other members is the guy who played Jughead on the radio
version of Archie, back in the late 40's/early 50's. His name
is Hal Stone and he's quite a character. I'm sure he'd love to
hear from Archie fans. Contact me offlist for his email address.
(By the way, Archie on that show was played by Bob Hastings,
who later played Lt. Elroy Carpenter on McHale's Navy, and
Betty was played by Rosemary Rice. All three of these folks
still appear at old-time-radio conventions around the country).
Dan
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Message: 21
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:49:23 -0700
From: bryan
Subject: Re: Arthur Lee & Love on tour
Stephanie asked:
> > I read somewhere that Arthur had gone to jail for a little
> > while - is that true? Are there still a lot of Love fans
> > out there that go to see them?
David replied:
> Yeah, he was put away for about 6 years (of an 11-year sentence).
> Supposedly he fired off a gun during a dispute with a neighbor.
This has been discussed at length online, and those articles are
easy enough to find (links are provided to Love sites below), but
it was actually a friend of Arthur's, visiting from New Zealand,
who shot the gun, according to Arthur. His sentence was eventually
overturned and he was released from prison last year.
> I think they still have quite a good following; especially since
> they continue to get more and more critical attention and exposure
> as time goes on.
The shows seem to be selling out and garnering a lot of attention...
and I saw the band twice in L.A. and they were great!!
> Having Elektra do such a nice job with the
> repackaging of the first three albums must be helping bring them
> to the attention of new fans as well.
It was actually Warners' UK division that repackaged the first two
albums, and Rhino (working directly for the Elektra/Traditions
imprint) who did the 'Forever Changes' deluxe reissue. All are very
nice.
> It occurred to me during the show that I was really just psyched
> about the fact that Arthur Lee was free and able to tour again on
> the strength of the old material. But he was putting on such a
> good show that I started thinking in terms of new material...
> here's hoping.
Arthur plans on returning to the studio after the Summer 2002 tour, in
September, I think, to record new songs. He's been negotiating a new
recording contract since March or so.
For more info on the tour, and other Arthur Lee and Love info,
check out these websites:
http://www.lovewitharthurlee.com/ Official site
http://home.hetnet.nl/~doorsbootlegs/love/usadiary1.html (Mike Randle's tour diary)
http://home1.inet.tele.dk/tks/index.htm
http://www.indie44.com/love/lovelinks.html
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Message: 22
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 13:51:23 -0700
From: David Parkinson
Subject: Merry-Go-round
Is there some reason why no one has reissued the Merry-Go-Round
on CD? Except for 4 tracks on the Emitt Rhodes collection "Listen,
Listen", there seems to be nothing available. Criminal.
David
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Message: 23
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 18:06:27 -0700
From: Stephanie Campbell
Subject: Re: The Tokens Exposed!
Leonardo:
> On Sunday July 28th I had the honor of talking to Phil and Mitch
> Margo of the Tokens at the Sequoia Record meet in Buena Park.
Did they say anything about "Portrait of Our Love"? That is my
fave song by them.
Stephanie
PS I'm assuming they don't talk to the Chiffons anymore since
the royalty dispute
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Message: 24
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 17:55:14 -0400
From: Rat Pfink
Subject: Re: Merry-Go-Round
David Parkinson:
>Is there some reason why no one has reissued the Merry-Go-Round
>on CD?
Yeah, somebody definitely ought to. Even the Rhino
"Best of" reissue LP is long out-of-print and hard to
find these days....
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Message: 25
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2002 22:07:49 -0000
From: Will Stos
Subject: Re: The Tokens/Chiffons Exposed!
Stephanie Campbell wrote:
> PS I'm assuming they don't talk to the Chiffons anymore since
> the royalty dispute
Was this the original royalty dispute in 1964 or something more
recent? If it's the 1964 spat, I thought it was all resolved.
Did the Tokens continue to produce the Chiffons until they left
Laurie? And speaking of the Chiffons, since I absolutely adore
them, does anyone know if there are any unreleased tracks in
the Laurie vaults? "He's A Bad One" was released in 1986, but
I haven't seen anything not already available somewhere already
since that time. And, it is a shame to hear that the "My Secret
Love" master tapes are gone. Oh well, it'll just mean one of our
enterprising Spectropop reissue guys will have to use "pristine
vinyl" to bring it onto CD!!!
Will : )
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