Love - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 11-23-1970 | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST

 Love - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 11-23-1970

Paul says: Here's a concert of Arthur Lee and Love in 1970. It's actually two concerts, and early and late show. Track 10, with an emcee talking, is the start of the late show.

In my opinion, "Forever Changes" by Love is easily one of the top 100 albums of all time. Many music critics have said the same. Unfortunately though, Love didn't play live much when the concert came out in 1967, actually never leaving the Los Angeles area, and when the did, it seems nobody was there to record it. As far as I can tell, it's not until 1970 that there are concert bootlegs. So I tried to find the best one from that year in order to post it here.

In 2015, an official live box set was released, called "Coming Through to You: The Live Recordings 1970-2004." But three out of the four CDs are from the 1990s or 2000s. The first CD is all from 1970, but it's two or three songs each from five different concerts. I wanted to hear a single concert all the way through. This Fillmore West concert was the best sounding one I could find. There's no overlap with the official box set, although it includes three songs recorded at that venue a couple of days prior to this concert. 

This is a soundboard recording, but not the greatest in terms of sound quality. The main issue is the vocals were very low in the mix. That probably explains why this hasn't gotten around much on bootleg trading sites. But that's something that can be easily fixed these days, so I fixed it (using the UVR5 audio editing program). I also cleaned things up, like extra low volume of banter, and song titles being wrong. It's a much better listen now, in my opinion.

One song, "Find Somebody," has "[Edit]" in its title. It was split into two files, with a gap in between. However, I managed to patch it back together in a way that hopefully should make the split totally unnoticeable. 

I assume the people who made the live box set mentioned above looked for live material prior to 1970, and didn't find any. So this is probably as close as we're going to get, chronologically, to hearing Love in 1967. (Along with the 1970 disc of the official box set.) Mostly, the band was playing different songs. In fact, there are only two "Forever Changes" songs here ("Andmoreagain" and "Bummer in the Summer"). But Love was still making very good music at least through 1970. All the songs here are solid.

By the way, three of the songs repeat between the early and late shows: "Product of the Times," "Stand Out," and "Singing Cowboy." I decided to keep both versions in each case.

This album is an hour and seven minutes long. 

01 Product of the Times 
02 talk
03 Stand Out 
04 Keep On Shining
05 talk
06 Andmoreagain 
07 Singing Cowboy 
08 talk
09 Good Times
10 talk by emcee 
11 Stand Out
12 Product of the Times 
13 Bummer in the Summer 
14 Find Somebody [Edit] 
15 Signed D.C. 
16 Slick Dick 
17 Always See Your Face 
18 talk
19 Singing Cowboy

Decent live Love in their prime is rare as . . . so this . . . .  

Muses, Spouses, Girfriends and Influencers | Iggy The Eskimo

 

Not an Eskimo, nor christened Iggy.

She used to spend a week with Syd Barrett, a week at Chipstead Street, a week with s'omebody secret' and then start the cycle again.

New Iggy picture found: https://atagong.com/iggy/archives/2026/04/middle-earth-beauty.html

From Ray Stevenson's book "Not Just Punk", p. 38.

Iggy

Beverley Martyn (24 March 1947 – 27 April 2026)

Beverley Martyn - GUARDIAN obituary

 «I’d already been singing in folk and jazz clubs in Coventry – and my sister was always volunteering me to take a floor spot in the local folk and jazz clubs. When I came to London, I already had a voice – but mostly it was just a way to meet people. I went to all of the pubs and clubs – like Les Cousins, Bunjies Coffee House, The Troubadour and so on. I started to play regularly with a 12 string guitarist called John Joyce, who lived in Putney. We met this guy called Matt McGann, who played the tiple and a six string guitar – and then we met our jug player, who we all called Henry because he looked like Henry VIII, I don’t think I ever knew his real name, but I did come up with the band’s name The Levee Breakers because I was singing When The Levee Breaks a lot at the time» – 

 

«There was love there with John. It was the drink and the bad drugs, the very heavy ones, that changed his disposition – and they made life unbearable for anyone around him. I wouldn’t stay with a man who was killing himself»

 

– Beverley Martyn (24 March 1947 – 27 April 2026) 

Beverley Martyn Band: When The Levee Breaks 

Photographers revealed

Now I knew the name for the longest time and was an early fan of the FSA and those working to document the project but had never seen images of Marion Post Walcott unlike a few of the other women photographers involved like Dorothea Lange. 

FSA photographer Marion Post Wolcott was one of several women hired by the Farm Security Administration Photo by Arthur Rothstein

Vincent Price plays Captain Beefheart! [Gary Lucas via Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band Facebook page]

 

 Legendary actor Vincent Price played "I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby" by Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band when he was the guest host on a BBC Radio 1 show called 'Sounds of the 70s: Sequence', broadcast in July 1973. John Cavanagh heard the show at the time and he posted a comment about it on this page yesterday. Here is John's comment:

'Hearing Vincent Price play I'm Gonna Booglarize You Baby when he was depping a BBC Radio One show called The Sequence. For reference to readers who are familiar with John Peel's name (and it pops up quite a bit in this thread), The Sequence was in the same strand on a Friday that had Peel's shows on Tuesdays and Thursdays at the time.

I was 8, I already loved horror movies, especially ones involving Price, Cushing and Lee, so the combination of this strangely wonderful record and VP playing it on the radio hooked me straight away!'

In 1980 Don Van Vliet did a vocal impression of Vincent Price on the Doc At The Radar Station track "Sue Egypt", saying "Bring me my scissors and those hot waters!" - i wonder if he knew that Vincent had played one of his tracks on the radio 7 years before?

Click on the first link to hear a recording of Vincent's comment after playing the Beefheart track! 

https://www.radiorewind.co.uk/sounds/price_70s_2.mp3

https://www.radiorewind.co.uk/.../sounds_of_the_70s_page.htm

https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e15112cc7f6040c886b8cdb9f1f9e03c

Gary Lucas

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - I'm Gonna Booglarize You, Baby (1972) 

Beat Club LIVE!

John explains . . . . . . .

 

Well that clears that up . . . . . I loved John’s early written work and the two books are prized possesions!

I sued to speak like John had written my dialogue and loved all that nonsense, Stanlney Unwin type blather

Robert Crumb revisited . . . . . . . .

 Confessions of Robert Crumb (1987)

"In 1987, Robert Crumb presents himself: raised by a Marine father, educated in Catholic schools, married at 21 in Cleveland where he worked for a greeting card company, dropping acid in 1965, heading to San Francisco and getting in on the formation of Zap Comix, gaining celebrity, loving old time jazz, starting a band, living in a commune, meeting Aline Kominsky who became his second wife and his partner in art, having a daughter, and developing a more realistic drawing style. The confessions include his loneliness, his obsessions with women, his bewilderment by fame, his sense of the disintegration of Sixties' subculture, his nervous breakdown in 1973, and his peace now."

Dylan of the Day : Bobby's dad!

 

This is a rare photograph, thought to be of Abe Zimmerman in 1938 [University of Tulsa Archives BD1938.04.01.344c] taking a ride on his last motorcycle before giving it up. He told friends that he sold it to save money. His wife of four years, Beatty, was wanting him to forget his bachelor-style days. They were planning to start a family, war was coming to Europe, and times were hard. It was with reluctance that Abe gave up his biker lifestyle. 

We can see on the bike the initials F.C. carved on the battery box. This stood for ‘Flying Cuyunas’ - a Motorcycle Club originally started by Duluth-based former miners from the (now inactive) Cuyuna Range, just Southwest of the Mesabi Range. 

The pennant on the handlebar says ‘Bay M.C.’ with a small beaver tail logo beneath. It is thought to be the colours from the ‘Beaver Bay Motorcycle Club’, as the Flying Cuyunas would often take weekend rides down the highway through Beaver Bay and on to places such as Two Harbors.

Well blow me down with a feather, it sure as heck looks like Bobby so guess it was his dad ?!

Linda Ronstadt - I’m Leaving It All Up To You [Silk Purse] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/815258887947190272/linda-ronstadt-im-leavin-it-all-up-to-you

David Byrne, Natalia Lafourcade & Mexican Institute Of Sound - "¿Cuál Es La Razón?”

 Someone posted this version . . . . . .so I thought I would too!

David Byrne, Natalia Lafourcade & Mexican Institute Of Sound - "¿Cuál Es La Razón?”

David Byrne