Born To Rock & Roll

Without further ado, let’s dive head-first into the geek end of the pool.

On April 22, Rhino will release a 2 CD, 40th anniversary edition of Love’s Forever Changes. To the uninitiated, Forever Changes is one of those albums that you finally go out and buy because you’re sick of reading about how great it is. And then – surprise, surprise! – it turns out that all the hype is justified and then some. If nothing else, it documents the dark side of mid-’60s L.A. A-Go-G0, rather than the cartoonish mythology of fun, fun, fun until the Lizard King crashes his Mustang into a parked car. Largely the vision the late Arthur Lee (22 years old when the album was made and convinced he was going to die before the year was out), Forever Changes can best be described as acoustic, baroque garage rock with a touch of Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass and a heavy dose of paranoia, all under a light heroin sheen. Or something.

It’s dark, it’s twisted, it’s hilarious, it’s gorgeous and, in the very capable archival hands of Andrew Sandoval and Steve Hoffman (they’re the best in the biz, kids), Forever Changes is finally going to get the deluxe treatment it deserves. Mark your calendars for April 22nd.

On the off-chance that you have no idea in hell who Love was, check out the trailer for Love Story – I was lucky enough to catch a screening of this in Los Angeles last summer. Pray for a DVD release and, until then, dig:

And to offset the relatively heavy title of our first proper post, here’s Marvin Gaye duetting with David Lee Roth:

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