Johnny Echols, co-founding guitarist of the group , returns to the UK next month with the members of Baby Lemonade, the longest-serving band of late, great Love vocalist . Fans can expect hear ’s classic 1967 album in its entirety, and Echols tells us what's up, below. We’ve been back a couple of time since then, and the band is now playing larger Academy venues, which makes things much easier business-wise.
There’s such demand, we have decided to keep on playing until people don’t want to see us any more. It will. There are several songs that we worked on with Arthur [Lee, who died in 2006].
We have removed everything but Arthur’s ethereal lead voice, and we are playing along with that. One is called . Those songs will form the basis of a new album to be released some time next year.
I know that for a fact, because Arthur asked me to keep the band going. We had been lifelong friends, and I visited him several times in hospital during his final days. He said: “Why don’t you guys do this until I’m ready to continue?” That was Arthur’s way of articulating that he wanted Love to continue even after he passed.
Sign up below to get the latest from Classic Rock, plus exclusive special offers, direct to your inbox! That isn’t what happened at all. During the recording of there was a lot of discord. We had been promised a double album, so that Bryan [MacLean, guitarist], Arthur and myself would have a side each.
We were tired of being in Arthur’s shadow and no.
