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Product Details:
Actors:
Bruce Botnick, John Densmore, Johnny Echols, John Fleckenstein, Bobby Gillespie
Director:
Chris Hall
Format:
Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Language:
English
Number of Discs:
1
Studio:
Start Productions
Run Time:
110 minutes
DVD Release Date:
August 05, 2008
Average Customer Rating:
based on 10 reviews
Description:
Love's DVD Love Story is a feature length documentary recounting the story of the quintessential L.A. band Love and their singer Arthur Lee. The DVD includes one hour of bonus features as well as liner note from Bobby Gillespie making this the definitive Love DVD. The film includes rarely seen TV performances from 1966 & 1970 plus rare and unseen archive photographs. Love Story premiered at the 50th London Film Festival and features interviews with band members Arthur Lee (sadly his last ever interviews), Johnny Echols, Bryan Maclean, Alban "Snoopy" Pfisterer, Michael Stuart, John Fleckenstein and Robert Rozelle, as well as Elektra Records head Jac Holzman, producer Bruce Botnick, The Doors' John Densmore and arranger David Angel.
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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Where are the music parts?Dec 12, 2008 I purchased this DVD hoping that it would provide some live music performances of Love during its heyday but was I ever disappointed!!!! This is just a bunch of interviews with former members of Love including Arthur Lee. Any music performances shown are short clips-- what a rip!!!!!
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
LOVE LEEOct 29, 2008 I HAVE BEEN A LOVE FAN SINCE 1967. I AM THRILLED THAT EXPENDED EDITIONS OF THE VARIOUS LPs HAVE FINALLY BEEN RELEASED. THIS DVD HAS SOME VERY DETAILED AND INFORMATIVE INTERVIEWS , WHICH FILLED IN MANY BLANKS FOR ME ABOUT THE HISTORY OF LOVE. I GUESS THE ONLY SHORTCOMING FOR ME WOULD BE THAT THEY LARGELY PASSED OVER THE PERIOD FROM "FOUR SAIL" ON. I PERSONALLY LIKED THAT EDITION OF LOVE. APPARENTLY AT LEAST TWO OF THE MEMBERS ARE STILL ALIVE AND COULD HAVE BEEN INTERVIEWED. OVERALL , IT IS A WORTHWHILE EFFORT.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
LOVE was quite possibly one of the best.. r.i.p. arthur leeOct 26, 2008 I grew up with LOVE and forever changes is a cd I listen to every couple of weeks. I bought Love albums as soon as they were released. Arthur Lee and his band were ahead of their time. I love all the LOVE albums and urge everyone to listen to them and watch as many dvd's on them as possible they were great! Charlie
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
informative and uplifting...Sep 12, 2008 Firstly,I've given this dvd 4 stars because it lacks sufficient band footage to illustrate the special something Love had.However,this is not really a criticism of the product itself,as very little material is available(only 2-3 video's from Love's heyday),but it would have been nice to see the full renditions of "My Little Red Book"and "Message to Pretty".What this dvd does do,is evoke a time and place(1960s,Los Angeles,Sunset Strip)with informative,humourous recollections.The participants in Love Story explain the group's rise and subsequent fall with mostly sadness and not bitterness,acknowledging the mistakes made,but rejoicing in the fact that for a short time,Arthur and the boys were the kings of the scene.Particularly insightful are the reminiscences of Johnny Echols:he recalls the good and bad with a sense of balance and maturity.Arthur comes across as slightly wigged out:no acid casualty,but operating to his own rules and impulses;the scenes of his post prison re-emergence are genuinely uplifting and gratifying,especially in light of his death 2 years ago.Also entertaining is Arthur's return to "the castle",the band's communal home in the sixties:he seems to really enjoy remembering the fantastic "experiences" they had there;a guided tour that you know only touches the surface of what occurred 40 years earlier.In all,this is an excellent music documentary that will please the die hards(like myself) and serve as a great educator to newer fans(who maybe should view this in conjunction with the "Forever Changes" live concert dvd).Thoroughly recommended.
5 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Love - Love story dvd (documentary on Arthur Lee, Bryan etc)Sep 05, 2008 Superb film. I FINALLY was able to find it in NYC at Virgin (its sold out twice at Rocket Scientist in the Village on St Marks)
WAY too much for an import dvd at Virgin tho. I had to pay $50. OUCH!!
absolutely heartbreaking film. Oh god.. the one band that should've made it, had all the talent, but just burned out..
The film ends at Four Sail, dead. Which may be unfair. But then, how was one to follow up Forever Changes? It really is the best album ever recorded (in my humble opinion!) and if this film can nudge the average Joe to check this album out (or at least Alone Again Or - wisely sequenced by Elektra's Jac Holzman to start the disc) that is not necessarily a bad thing
The film is almost 2 hours - lots of Love, interview. Absolutely heartbreaking. Arthur Lee did get his due, but it was to be much later after a jail term - nice to see UK's Parliament like the album (Forever Changes I mean of course) as well (they put it to a vote in the Parliament, declaring it the best album of all time and pressing people to check out the live Forever Changes tour!)
Video interviews with the late Bryan Maclean from the late 90s (from BBC TV I assume) and audio interviews with the late Kenny Forssi from the early 90s
Extras include Snoopy going solo and Arthur, Johnny interviews, as well as the Parliament guy who did a petition that deemed FC the best album ever made. Right on guys! At least the album did better there in the States (it made the top 30 in the UK - made the top, oh, 160 in the US!)
Snoopy and Johnny are working on albums (H.O.M.E. and FC follow up Gethesemene, respectively). Indeed, you can listen to Snoopys album (and message!) on CDBaby, but, really, this is a celebration of Love in its heyday (the first 3 albums). Nice to hear from "Fleck" (co-writer of "Can't explain" from the first album) after all this time (he was bassist before he opted out for a film career, and the late Kenny Forssi joined from off the Sufari's tour in time for the first Elektra album (simply titled Love)
Arthur is pretty honest here. In fact, sometimes he comes off as a jerk. Hes honest about Revelation too (which most Love fans are pretty tolerant of, curious considering it takes up a full side!) He thinks its the worst thing hes ever recorded (probably true - its certainly longer than some of the dreck on Vindicator or Out Here) and that there was a terrible vibe between the band members on that particular track
Michael Stuart covers FC for us (the band couldn't get it together due to lack of rehearsals, and the first 2-3 tracks (Daily Planet, etc) cut for the album didn't have them playing at all (Stuart notes that while 7&7 Is took 40 takes to get thru, they got nowhere near as many tries to get the material right
Arranger Angel is talked to (hes very kind about Arthur, and seems honored to have been involved in the album). Echols is probably the star of the film, as hes never really been talked to before and a lot of what he has to say about the background of the group (him and Arthur's parents knowing one another in Memphis, him and Arthur playing a great deal in bands during weekends while still in high school - at fraternities parties and the like, his own feeling in holding a guitar at the school for the first time (which seems to have sparked Arthur, who saw him so)
I understand that the filmmakers were limited in using video footage of the band, so theres no full footage of the band on Where the action is, American Bandstand (this was even a problem in the excellent Beatles Anthology, which had talkovers over Hey Jude on the Frost show
That quibble aside (it would be nice to see Love footage from the 60s on dvd, at least the excellent Your Mind And We film, which originally surfaced on a Love Story (2cd) promo of Rhino's
Indesribably essential if you're a Love/Arthur Lee (RIP)/Bryan Maclean (RIP)/Kenny Forssi/Bobby Beausoleil/John Fleckenstein/Don Conka (RIP) and Baby Lemonade fan!
based on 10 reviews
