The Rise and Fall of Love

The first recordings by Love actually didn't feature Arthur Lee at all. The group had a friend, Vince Flaherty, who would sometimes sit in with them on vocals and harmonica. Those tracks are the only studio recordings in existence of Love with Don Conker on drums though. More and more often, Ken Forcy's flatmate was called on to sit in with the group instead. Albin Fistera, who went by the name Snoopy, was younger than the band, and a trained keyboard player who could play the drums reasonably well. But neither Eccles nor McLean liked him as a person. He seemed like this straight kid. He wasn't hip and didn't look