I just read on Matt Welch’s blog about the passing (at age 61 from leukemia) of musical genius Arthur Lee, front-man of the seminal psychedelic band LOVE, a Sunset Strip-based sixties Los Angeles band whose fame was what the Doors all agreed they would shoot for with their band (Welch links to a Densmore-penned memoriam, in fact).
I would put Love’s 1967 album Forever Changes up against any album, it is at times my favorite. I swear you can hear what it feels like to live in Los Angeles, even for a second feel like what it felt to live in the 60s in L.A. the album so perfectly captures a shared mindset. Arthur Lee was an almost-overlooked genius.