Forever Changes

[Sean Mannion]

I love that album; I always rue the fact that I missed the tour Arthur Lee 
put on a couple of years ago where the album was performed live from 
start-to-finish. That would've been something to see.

Though I'n not entirely sure I could've handled those last thirty seconds of 
'The Red Telephone' up close and personal.


>From: Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com>
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Forever Changes
>Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 07:06:00 -0800 (PST)
>
>Former student of Sacvan Bercovitch, wrote thesis on
>The Crying of Lot 49, much mention of Pynchon,
>puritanism, paranoia, prophecy, aPocalyPticism, et al.
>within ...
>
>Hultkrans, Andrew.  Forever Changes.
>   New York: Continuum, 2004.
>
>Conceived as the last testament of a charismatic
>recluse who believed he was about to die, 'Forever
>Changes' is one of the defining albums of an era.
>Here, Andrew Hultkrans explores the myriad depths of
>this bizarre and brilliant record. Charting bohemian
>Los Angeles’ descent into chaos at the end of the
>‘60s, he teases out the literary and mystical
>influences behind Arthur Lee’s lyrics, and argues that
>Lee was both inspired and burdened by a powerful
>prophetic urge.
>
>EXCERPT 'Forever Changes' may be thirty-six years old
>at the time of this writing, but its hermetic fusion
>of the personal and the political feels more relevant
>than ever. It speaks to the present in ways that, say,
>a Jefferson Airplane record never could, whatever the
>parallels between the late ’60s and our contemporary
>morass. For unlike most rock musicians of his time,
>Arthur Lee was one member of the ’60s counterculture
>who didn’t buy flower-power wholesale, who intuitively
>understood that letting the sunshine in wouldn’t
>instantly vaporize the world’s (or his own) dark
>stuff. For him, the glittering surface of the Age of
>Aquarius obscured an undertow of impending doom.
>
>Author
>Andrew Hultkrans
>Andrew Hultkrans is editor-in-chief of Bookforum
>magazine. Over the years, his writing has appeared in
>Wired, Salon, Artforum, Filmmaker, and Tin House.
>
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