Robben Ford Discussion

[nineacres]

I just heard about this here at work. Here's all I could find on the Web so far:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1129822006
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[Daved]

9,

Thanx for the post.

It's broken my heart and today will be a tough day for me to get thru, but I DO appreciate the news.

Aurthur was, as Robben and almost everyone who has ever been close to me knows, my alltime musical hero... "the man"! (Robben appreciatively refers to the early Love material as "Austin Powers music", after I played him a recording of the song She Comes In Colors, awhile back.)
Arthur was credited with a phenominal amount of R&R 'firsts'... including breaking his good friend, Jimi Hendrix, into the business.

I knew he was ill and that benefits were being held all over the country. But the general feeling had been that he would pull thru.
I am very thankful that Dal (knowing what a fan of Arthur I was) managed to pull strings, getting me in on the guest list in San Francisco, and I got to see him on his highly praised "Forever Changes" tour a couple of years ago after his release from prison.

At least, like everything else he did, he exited this world on an extraordinarily high note.

If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend the "Forever Changes Concert" DVD filmed at the end of the tour in London, complete with string section. During the nearly 40 years since the classic "Forever Changes" album was released, arthur performed very few of the songs from that album live, because the technology and musicianship was never fully available to him until recent years, culminating in the aforementioned tour, during which (to the extreme pleasure of fans like me) he would perform the album, in it's entirety, from beginning to end. Awesome!

Tears were shed for John Lennon.
Today they are being shed for Arthur.
May he go on to a peaceful (finally!) reward and take his highly deserved place in the rapidly growing celestial rock band, along side all the other fallen R&R greats.

The Arthur Lee & Love catalogue will be in my players exclusively for the coming week.

I loved you, Arthur... you were the musical 'sun' for most of my life.
RIP
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I loved Love...
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