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| From | Career Records <eldeluxe@mcn.net> |
| Subject | Re: Leeless Love |
| Date | Thu, 11 Aug 2005 12:52:58 -0600 |
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I thought it might be irresponsible for who ever was in charge, to put Arthur
Lee out on the endless tour. I was afraid it would come to this. Why not take
a break and see that Arthur gets the help he might need. i would think that
far more important that "honoring the gig commitments".
Yeah, no reason BL and Johnny E.. couldn't make new music together. But
calling it Love isn't right in my little red book
RS
Andrew Hickey wrote:
> On 8/11/05, Christopher Kouzes <Christopher.Kouzes@btol.com> wrote:
> > I just saw this posted on the official Love site. Sad. Strange. There
> > used to be an old Saturday Night Light clip of Elvis' coat going out on
> > tour by itself. Suddenly, it doesn't seem so funny...
>
> *Sigh*...
> Baby Lemonade are a perfectly good band in their own right. An
> extremely good one in fact. Why on Earth reduce themselves to the
> level of a tribute act? This is like if the Wondermints got Al Jardine
> to tour with them if Brian stopped touring, and called themselves 'the
> Beach Boys band'.
> I could understand, and applaud, their honouring their previous
> comittments because of Arthur Lee's unprofessional behaviour. But
> Arthur Lee was the reason for going to those shows, and he was the one
> who had used the name Love for his various bands for decades. He was
> the songwriter and lead vocalist. Why not just continue making records
> and performing as Baby Lemonade, rather than use the Love name? They
> could still perform many of those songs, but this seems to me to be a
> very sad decision.
>
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