{"id":278,"date":"2006-08-05T00:30:37","date_gmt":"2006-08-05T00:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sketchbooks.com\/invis\/wordpress\/?p=278"},"modified":"2016-03-31T10:22:57","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T14:22:57","slug":"arthur-lee-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/2006\/08\/arthur-lee-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Lee Has Died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"sketch072506.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/sketch072506.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"268\" \/><br \/>\nA few nights before Christmas in 2002 I had the great fortune to see Arthur Lee and his band Love perform at Brookyn&#8217;s Warsaw.  They tore headlong through 21 songs, including the entirety of Love&#8217;s brilliant album Forever Changes.  Arthur had recently been freed from a 6 year prison sentence due to an erroneous gun charge and the lost time seemed to have instilled a burning intensity within him.  It seemed like he wanted to keep playing untill dawn.  A couple years after that show he was diagnosed with leukaemia and it ended his life yesterday in Memphis.  It was very sad hearing the news and I remembered seeing that battered legend blowing the place out on a cold Brooklyn night.  Here&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OpLEAPGowNY\"target=\"new\">ancient clip of Love performing on Dick Clarke&#8217;s show<\/a>.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"sketch072506b.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/sketch072506b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" \/><br \/>\nRIP Arthur.  Recent sketches above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few nights before Christmas in 2002 I had the great fortune to see Arthur Lee and his band Love perform at Brookyn&#8217;s Warsaw. They tore headlong through 21 songs, including the entirety of Love&#8217;s brilliant album Forever Changes. Arthur had recently been freed from a 6 year prison sentence due to an erroneous gun [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1684,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions\/1684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/invisibleman.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}