Forever Changes

[John BAILEY]

Brilliant album, but the book sounds disappointing. Any idea what the
Pynchon ref is?

Lee came out here a few years ago on his Forever Changes tour, and the
album still held up live. Played a reasonably small venue, too. 

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From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On
Behalf Of Dave Monroe
Sent: Monday, 28 May 2007 6:32 AM
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Subject: Forever Changes

Andrew Hultkrans: Forever Changes

After almost 40 years, Love's Forever Changes remains an album that is
widely regarded as one of the benchmarks of '60s psychedelic rock. Yet
the album's texture remains synonymous with mystery, uncertainty, and
chaos.

The album has influenced everyone from Julian Cope to The Damned to Neil
Young. Love's much-lauded, much-interpreted masterpiece, Forever
Changes, has once again been put under the critical microscope. This go
'round, though, the exposition is often excruciatingly
philosophical.Hultkrans' thesis is simple: Forever Changes' greatness
lay in the fact that vocalist Arthur Lee was a paranoid genius,
convinced he was going to die. He argues that Lee, a citizen of L.A.
at the height of the racially tense Summer of Love, lived a life of
isolation propelled by intense paranoia. Depression, drug use, and
social conflict are also suggested as possible causes for the
temperamental and ultimately fatal relationship between the members of
Love.

Overall, Hultkrans has penned an enjoyable, quick read about one of
rock's enduringly charming albums. However, he spends way too much time
exploring the motives and psyche of Arthur Lee and quoting outside
sources, such as Virginia Woolf and Thomas Pynchon. In return, there are
hardly any details about how this record was written and created, nor is
there much on the four other members of Love. In the end, the album
Forever Changes remains a brilliant psychedelic enigma, shrouded in a
veil of paranoid hallucinogenic isolation. Rob Levy

http://www.playbackstl.com/content/view/5991/162/

Hultkrans, Andrew.  Forever Changes.  NY: Continuum, 2003.

http://www.continuumbooks.com/Books/detail.aspx?ReturnURL=/Series/defaul
t.aspx&CountryID=2&ImprintID=2&BookID=120395

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0603&msg=100219

Love, Forever Changes (1967)

http://www.rhino.com/store/ProductDetail.lasso?Number=76717

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