Love - Forever Changes (w/ guest Neil Sabatino)

The Great Albums

Bill Lambusta

Albums, Music Commentary, Criticism, Billlambusta, Brianerickson, Music

4.3 • 749 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2017

⏱️ 127 minutes

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Summary

Musician, producer, and label guru Neil Sabatino (mint400.com) joins Bill and Brian to discuss Love's third album Forever Changes (1967, Elektra). Neil talks about how the band's early garage sound drew him in after a friend got him listening to Love's first couple albums, but then he was blown away by the maturity of the psychedelic and folk tones produced on Forever Changes. Bill, Brian, and Neil then get into the band's legacy, Bryan MacLean's genius guitar playing, how producer Bruce Botnick deftly motivated the band after bringing in some ringers from the Wrecking Crew, the band's influence on the Doors, a little on Arthur Lee's influence on Jimi Hendrix, production styles and the technology available for listening, the album’s place amongst the other classic albums of the time (such as Pet Sounds, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and the Piper at the Gates of Dawn), and much more as we make our way through the album track by track!

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Great Albums podcast. I'm Bill.
0:02.7	And I'm Brian.
0:03.4	And what are we talking about today, Brian?
0:05.2	November 1967's Forever Changes by Love.
0:13.3	Well, I remember when you used to look so good, and I did everything that I possibly good for you.
0:25.1	What we do here every week on the podcast is take an album of music and talk about what makes it
0:32.4	great. We try to have the conversation around the music that fans do and we eventually get into a track-by-track review where we talk about the things we love about
0:42.1	the songs and the things we think about when listening to the album.
0:45.0	Ooh, I like it.
0:46.6	Let's do it.
0:47.5	And we're not going to be doing it alone today, Brian.
0:49.6	No, Bill.
0:50.3	Today, in studio, in just a minute, we're going to have Neil Sabatino from the New Jersey-based record label, Mint 400 records, and a band that he is in called Fairmont.
1:02.6	Yeah, he came down from North Jersey. He actually took quite a bit of a drive, and it was very thankful. We were very thankful that he joined us because he was a great guest, gave a lot of great
1:12.9	insight about this music.
1:14.9	Because I don't think love is a band that Brian and I particularly were like overly familiar
1:21.3	with.
1:21.7	Yeah.
1:22.6	It was one of those bands.
1:23.7	I was like, oh yeah, I kind of know who they are.
1:25.6	They're that racially integrated rock and roll folksy band. Yeah, exactly. And then it was kind of like, okay, yeah, they were from the
1:34.6	60s. And other than that, I wasn't that familiar with them. And so, uh, kind of listening to
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