Forever Changes: Andmoreagain

[silentseason]

"Andmoreagain"
From: Forever Changes, side one, song three
-Running time: 3:15
-Recorded: June 9 and 12, August 11 1967 Sunset Sound
-Written by: Arthur Lee
-Lead vocal: Arthur Lee
-Lead guitar: Billy Strange, Johnny Echols
-Bass: Kenny Forssi
-Drums: Michael Stuart
-One of two songs on Forever Changes involving the Wrecking Crew controversy. In short, at the beginning of the album sessions the band was vastly underrehearsed and unable to produce a usuable track. After some discussion between Arthur and Bruce Botnick, a plan was hatched to bring in top LA session players (aka the Wrecking Crew) to record the instrumentals, while the vocals and some overdubs would be the band's contribution. This idea produced two album cuts before the whole band went back and got down to serious rehersal and finished the album themselves.
-Bruce Botnick claims the band was physically broken up by the Wrecking Crew being brought in, but both Johnny and Michael flatly and emphatically deny this.
-IMHO: The two Wrecking Crew cuts are excellent, but I really would have prefered that they used the band's versions instead of the Wrecking Crew. The electrified version of 'Andmoreagain' that survives via the deluxe disc is testamony to how good the band was.
-Quotable: Johnny gives some inside info on what went down with the Wrecking Crew controversy:

"Several members of the Wrecking Crew, played on Daily Planet, along with Kenny and I. A rhythm guitarist, joined Love on one other track. ( I'd have to listen to the cd, to remember which one, since the song titles were different at the time.) Don Randi also played piano on "Bummer in the Summer." Forssi and I were on all of the tracks. My favorite songs to play, were "A House IS Not A Motel," and "Your Mind and WE." If I had to choose one in particular, it would be "House" because Michael establishes a really "smoking" groove. The song sticks in my mind, because I played the second guitar solo, without being able to hear the first one. Yet it sounds as though the two guitars were playing off each other. It still amazes me to this day, how that young boy was able to pull that off. That's called playing outside one's self".

-Fun fact: The song titles on Forever Changes are the most potent and psychedelic of the bands career and more evidence to Arthur's imagination. Clear your mind and look at them and evelope the strangeness they exibit.

-Lyrics:

And if you'll see Andmoreagain
Then you will know Andmoreagain
For you can see you in her eyes
Then you feel your heart beating
Rum-pum-pum-pum

And when you've given all you had
And everything still turns out
Bad, and all your secrets are your own
When you feel your heart beating
Rum-pum-pum-pum

And I'm
Wrapped in my armor
But my things are material
And I'm
Lost in confusions
'Cause my things are material
And you don't know how much
I love you
Oh, oh, oh...

And if you'll see Andmoreagain
Then you might be Andmoreagain
For you just wish and you are here
Then you feel your heart beating
Rum-pum-pum-pum

[jamestkirk]

Arthur at Glastonbury....brilliant. Thanks SS.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YknaRmO ... 8FB333A35B

[silentseason]

Michael has stated in the Big Takeover Magazine interview that the drumming on this cut is him and that Kenny Forssi is solely responsible for the bass. Based on the explanations he gave I believe that his claims are legitimate and have thus changed the personel listing for this song.