{"product_id":"love-band-featuring-johnny-echols-the-are-we-ok-bw-tinsel-tears","title":"LOVE Band Featuring Johnny Echols, The - Are We OK b\/w Tinsel Tears","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"etv9c-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"etv9c-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"etv9c-0-0\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLimited edition of 500 numbered copies. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOriginally only available exclusively via UK Tour shows 2019. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"7hp9s-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7hp9s-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"7hp9s-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"bi0eu-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"bi0eu-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"bi0eu-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"bi0eu-0-0\"\u003eStream \"Are We OK\" over at Shindig! Magazine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"bi0eu-0-0\"\u003eSide A: Are We OK\u003cbr class=\"\"\u003eSide B: Tinsel Tears\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"cprf4-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cprf4-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"cprf4-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"8vqbv-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"8vqbv-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"8vqbv-0-0\"\u003e To coincide with the farewell UK tour The LOVE band featuring Johnny Echols will release a very limited 7” single featuring 2 songs from the aborted 2005 LOVE album. This release also marks Johnny Echols first recording since LOVE’s 1968 ‘Your Mind \u0026amp; We Belong Together’ \/ ‘Laughing Stock’ single which were the last recordings by the ‘classic’ LOVE line up that produced the landmark album Forever Changes.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"86n0v-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"86n0v-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"86n0v-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"7aa1s-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"7aa1s-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"7aa1s-0-0\"\u003e Guitarist Mike Randle takes up the story: “Back in 2004 Rusty and I started working with Arthur on about four of his song ideas. He had song fragments; a few things had melodies and words but no music and arrangements. Rusty and I also wrote four or five songs, just melodies and music on my 8-track, and sent them to Arthur. We didn’t hear anything for about a week but then the phone rang. It was Arthur. “Hey man, I heard ya stuff. Yeah man, it’s cool. I think we can get something going. The people want new tunes. They’re waitin’ for me, to lead them” I took that as a thumbs-up.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"1fvvl-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"1fvvl-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"1fvvl-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"62ef6-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"62ef6-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"62ef6-0-0\"\u003e “We did a fantastic US tour later that year with The Zombies; Arthur and Johnny were amazing. 2005 saw two LA shows that were the polar opposite. Arthur handed our demos over to a close friend as he wasn’t up for finishing the songs and didn’t want to contribute to them. What we didn’t know was that he was sick. I don’t even think HE knew. But it was getting harder for him to do stuff and no one knew what to put it down to. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"5ono8-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"5ono8-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"5ono8-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"4lp8i-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"4lp8i-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"4lp8i-0-0\"\u003e “Later in 2005 we played a LOVE band show at the Zodiac in Oxford, England, the day before the London King’s Cross bombing. This was the tour that Arthur was too ill to make. I sat at the bar with Rusty and (legendary record producer) John Leckie as he ran down his ideas of what a great Arthur Lee record would sound like. But we lost Arthur in 2006 and the demo’s and song ideas were forgotten about.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"n7cc-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"n7cc-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"n7cc-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"245ta-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"245ta-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"245ta-0-0\"\u003e “That was 14 years ago. After chatting with our manager and agent in the UK, we decided to pull two of the songs out and give them another look and after arrangement ideas and contributions from David Green, Dave Chapple and Johnny Echols, we had two finished songs. Johnny had me sing certain words a certain way: “This is how WE would sing THAT word!” Priceless times, folks! We also brought in Brian Wilson band member and multi-instrumentalist Probyn Gregory (who had served as an occasional touring member of LOVE since 1995) to play some trumpet on the recordings that were captured by Dave Chapple in his garage studio in LA. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"rbu2-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"rbu2-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"rbu2-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"f3mjn-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f3mjn-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"f3mjn-0-0\"\u003e “So, in a way, these tunes are a tribute to all of the friends and fans who were involved in the LOVE 2002-2005 comeback story, but especially to Arthur Lee and Gene Kraut, who are no longer with us but are absolutely and forever interwoven into the melodious fabric of these songs. We hope you like them.” Mike Randle, March 2019.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"22ab1-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"22ab1-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"22ab1-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"eci5p-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"eci5p-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"eci5p-0-0\"\u003eAre We OK by Mike Randle \u0026amp; Rusty Squeezebox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"9ecj8-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"9ecj8-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"9ecj8-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"d0urj-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"d0urj-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"d0urj-0-0\"\u003eJohnny Echols - Vocals \u0026amp; lead guitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"cp3is-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cp3is-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"cp3is-0-0\"\u003eMike Randle - Vocals \u0026amp; 12 string electric guitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"174g9-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"174g9-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"174g9-0-0\"\u003eRusty Squeezebox – Vocals \u0026amp; acoustic guitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"cl7qt-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"cl7qt-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"cl7qt-0-0\"\u003eDave Chapple – Bass guitar \u0026amp; harmonica\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"dhprr-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"dhprr-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"dhprr-0-0\"\u003eDavid Green – Drums \u0026amp; percussion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"egd9v-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"egd9v-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"egd9v-0-0\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"apmg-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"apmg-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"apmg-0-0\"\u003eTinsel Tears by Mike Randle \u0026amp; Rusty Squeezebox\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"fcj24-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"fcj24-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"fcj24-0-0\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohnny Echols - Lead guitar\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"4suve\" data-offset-key=\"f4e82-0-0\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"_1mf _1mj\" data-offset-key=\"f4e82-0-0\"\u003e\u003cspan data-offset-key=\"f4e82-0-0\"\u003eMike Randle – Vocals, 12 string electric guitar \u0026amp; 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