CA Interview #37 Johnny Echols
Speaking with Johnny Echols original member and lead guitarist of Love on the eve of playing at one of The Whiskey's 60th Anniversary shows this evening!
Talking about the early days at The Whiskey; Starting off in Memphis and having been a childhood friend with Arthur Lee and then moving to LA to the same neighborhood Arthur's family had moved to earlier; The bands they had been in together in High School Days;
Being in a band with Billy Preston; the impact of the 10 Freeway dividing the West Adams Neighborhood and the influential people who lived there; His introduction to Guitar by taking care of a friend's guitar and his first guitar - a Stella; His influences - Johnny Guitar Watson, Barney Kessell, Adolph Jacobs (The Coasters) and the music of Jazz, Blues and Gospel;
Playing at Bido Lido's on Cosmo's Alley in LA across from Shelley's Mann Hole and meeting his Jazz Icon hero's Like Miles Davis and Elvin Jones;
The impact of Covid - time for projects like working on a book and a new album; Material from the proposed double album that Forever Changes was intended to be originally that will go into the new album;
The inclusion of Baby Lemonade as Albert's backing band for Albert & Love"s music to becoming Love Revisited and now just LOVE.
The meaning behind the song titled "If the People Would Be the Times (Or Behind Clark and Hilsdale)" and how "You Set the Scene" was formed.
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