Consumer Guide Album

Love: Out Here [Blue Thumb, 1969]
Arthur Lee has made a good career out of anticipating and capitalizing on ideas that were natural to other people. Sometimes, as on his best Jagger imitations and most of the Forever Changes studio effects, he has seemed an almost transcendantly pop figure, and he has always written interesting songs. This time, unfortunately, he has chosen to play off the super session idea, larding the two-lp set with some of the most witless instrumentals in recording history. Har, har, Arthurly. C-